The London Album

[Men At Work]

I don't care whether it's mellow or punk but I need to put together a CD of London-based songs for a friend who is in Australia for an indeterminate amount of time. I've already got the obvious ones such as 'London Calling', 'Baker Street', 'Up the Junction' and anything from Carter USM. Vaughan Williams's 'London Symphony' won't be on there. What else is there?

[Psychokiller]

At the chime of a city clock - Nick Drake
Memories of a free festival - David Bowie

[west country boy]

The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

[TAK]

The Clash - Guns of Brixton
Elvis Costello - I don't want to go to Chelsea
Captain Sensible - Croydon
The Clash - White man in Hammersmith Palais
Madness - Driving in my car

Ralph McTell - The streets of London:rolleyes:

[Exiled in Zante]

How about Gald all Over by the Dave Clark 5. Beentold that quite a lot of South Londoners often like singing it

[paf]

Lochi:London - Acid City, top acid trance track.

[Neil the Eagle]

Only put that Captain Sensible track on if you really dislike the person - its awful!

Sound of the Suburbs - Members (about Staines)
London Times - Gary Numan (a v. cheesy 80's pop collab with one of his pals - superb!)
My Old Man - Ian Dury (about his Dad a London busdriver/chaffeur - Plaistow Patricia's quite good too, but only if its not for a laydee!)
EastEnders - I, Ludicrous
A Bomb in Wardour Street - The Jam

[Scoot]

Down in The Tube Station ......... The Jam
Strange Town ......................... The Jam
Hersham Boys ......................... Sham 69

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner
The Lambeth Walk

[David Murray]

Knees up mother brown
Roll out the Barrel
Maybe it's because I'm a londoner
Waterloo


I'll forget the coat then !

[Scoot]

Where Eagles fly :o

West End Girls .............. Pet Shop Boys
God Save The Queen ..... Pistols/madness
Inner London Violence .... Bad Manners = Top Track
Razor Blade Alley ........... Madness

[Steve in Phoenix]

London Loves - Blur

[Psychokiller]

Suggs - 'Camden Town'

[Neil the Eagle]

Originally posted by Scoot

Hersham Boys ......................... Sham 69



Must have been a feckin' strong wind to blow the sound of the Bow Bells all the way down to deepest Surrey...

Cockernee Cowboys, my arse

[Neil the Eagle]

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Murder on the Dahlberg Road - Abdoujaparov
Crystal Palace - The Bible
Nelly the Elephant - Toy Dolls (...as in Elephant & castle ... oh please yourselves)
A fantastic dub raggae track by Aswad that repeats the line Brixton Brother over and again. Dunno the title tho' (not much help in hindsight)
New thing from London Town - Sharpe & Numan

[Daddy Long]

Its a London Thing, Its a London Thing, Its a London Thing, All up in ya Massive Bassya! Or whatever:)

[west country boy]

Anything by the Londonboys!

[will hung]

Eastenders - I, Ludicrous

[Men At Work]

Thanks for the suggestions, people. I'll have to buy a few CDs and borrow Neil's entire collection and I should be about right :)

[The EEEAAAGGGLLLEEE!!!]

London Girl - The Jam
Greatest Cockney Rip Off - Cockney Rejects
East End - Cockney Rejects
Picadilly Circus - Stiff Little Fingers
A Bomb In Wardour Street - The Jam
Capital Radio- Stiff Little Fingers

[NRM the 2nd]

London Calling...The clash (I think)

[Tony]

Originally posted by The EEEAAAGGGLLLEEE!!!

Capital Radio- Stiff Little Fingers

Eh? by the Clash, surely

'Give you all the hits to play… to keep you in your place all day…'

Capital Radio – in tune with nothing, which is as it ever was and will be

How about…
In the City by the Jam (doesn't mention London by name, but that's the place Weller was talking about)

Razzle In My Pocket by Ian Dury and the Blocks… 'In my yellow jersey I went out on the nick, South Street Romford, shopping arcade, got a Razzle magazine, I never paid, inside my jacket and away double quick…'

London by The Smiths (absolutely essential)

[Men At Work]

Finally got around to doing this thanks to getting my CDs out of storage, borrowing some and getting a couple out of the $3 bargain bin. I decided only one song per artist (otherwise it would have been 23 Carter songs) although two people crop up in two tracks each with different acts. The songs follow a bit of a story which is fairly familiar to the long time overseas traveller. Paul Kelly's 'Every F*cking City' just missed out and 'Where Eagles Fly' was a contender until the last few days :)

Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
London Town - JDS
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
A London Thing - Scott Garcia featuring MC Styles
London's Brilliant - Wendy James
London Acid City - Lochi (Liberator DJs)
The Only Living Boy In New Cross - Carter USM
Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
London Calling - The Clash
'A' Bomb In Wardour Street - The Jam
White City Fighting - Pete Townshend
Murder On Dalberg Road - Abdoujaparov
Up The Junction - Squeeze
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Streets Of London - Ralph McTell
London Still - The Waifs
Return To Waterloo - Ray Davies

[firesign]

I'm surprised that some record company hadn't thought of this before as an idea for a compilation - they seem to have covered every other angle under the sun.

[Nelson Muntz]

Originally posted by Men At Work

Single Handed Sailor - Dire Straits
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Good shout

[Tim of the 80's]

Solitary confinement - The Members
London Luck and Love - Hall and Oates
Native Boy - Animal Nightlife (sound like it's about London)
London Town - Bucks Fizz (I'll get me coat)

[TAK]

You forgot park Life, Blur

[Gosling]

Originally posted by Men At Work
Vaughan Williams's 'London Symphony' won't be on there. What else is there?

What about Franz Josef Haydn's London Symphony (No 104 in D Minor)?

[ElwissAtMemphis]

London Song by Ray Davies. (It namechecks Crystal Palace as well)

[Psychokiller]

London Belongs to Me - St Etienne

Namechecks areas such as Pollards Hill and Tooting.

[The Doctor.]

Barry Andrews - Rossmore Road

[Men At Work]

Took note of TAK and stuck in 'Parklife' and decided to add 'Every F*cking City' as well as it fits the theme near the end. Also changed 'A Bomb' for 'Down In A Tube Station At Midnight' as it ties in better with the songs following it. Not very many happy ones in that list :)

[Mat ov CPFC]

What no Squeee songs ? Ok, they where not your angry young men brigrade but then again neither where most of us.

Even if its only 'Up the Junction' surely the best London band ever.

[Men At Work]

Originally posted by Mat ov CPFC
What no Squeee songs ?

Read the list again, Mat. See, your mother told you if you didn't stop it you'd go blind :)

[Mat ov CPFC]

Originally posted by Men At Work
Read the list again, Mat. See, your mother told you if you didn't stop it you'd go blind :)


Doh !

I knew all those years of single handedly ( phnar, phnar ) keeping Kleenex in profit would come back to haunt me.

:moo:

[Gavin Axten]

London Lady- The Stranglers

[Gavin Axten]

Kiss me deadly- Generation x.
Midhight on the murder mile- Carter USM. Song about the mile between Tulse Hill to West Norwood.
There are also a couple of Nine Below Zero tracks that feature London heavily but cannot remember the titles off the top of my head.

[Skin Up]

Dunno if it fits the criteria but 'Saturday Night' by Suede and 'Ernold Same' by Blur are two songs which always make me think of London.

Ohhh and 'Bar Italia' by Pulp thats a good un which conjures up images of a London hangover.

[Richard]

What, nothing by Chas and Dave ?!

I'll get my Pearly King jacket ....

[Men At Work]

Originally posted by Richard
What, nothing by Chas and Dave ?!

There ain't no pleasing you :hmph:




:)

[Pidster]

London, Luck and Love - E Costello