Let’s play the legendary game of skill and judgement with songs titled or featuring Tube stations in their lyrics
I’ll start with
Baker Street
Mornington Crescent – The Album!
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Victoria
Here’s a few, albeit some closed. Godawful shrillness from Cathy LeSurf, from the Daytrip to Bangor hit makers
Somehow I found myself down at the dockside
Thinking of the old days of Liverpool and Rotherhithe
Elvis Costello – New Amsterdam
(I know, its an Ovderground Station, so may not count – but, hey, rules are there to be broken (or in this case bent a bit))
Sisters of Mercy – Temple Of Love
Seven Sisters of Mercy
From the man who invented the underground (and probably dug it as well)
Donovan Sunny Goodge Street
XTC’s River Of Orchids;
‘I heard a dandelion roar in Piccadilly Circus’.
Carter USM – The Final Comedown
I’ve looted and I’ve begged
On the tubes of the Bec and Broadway
On the Overground but on the current Tube map:
Carter USM: The Only Living Boy in New Cross
Fairport’s possibly Parsons Green
Possibly
with a capital P
Warwick Avenue
Abba had two Tube related tracks
1. Waterloo
2. Take A Chancery Lane On Me
you forget Charing ring Cross
Finchley Central
(New Vaudeville Band to save you looking it up)
Pet Shop Boys – Kings Cross
Canonbury Light My Fire
Let My Love Holborn the Door
Leyton Rifles
Head, Shoulders, Neasden Toes
Let’s See Acton
Archway to Paradise
Wansted Man
Christmas Wapping
Sydenham the Dock of The Bay
Harrow (Is It Wealdstone You’re Looking For)
Brockley Amadeus
Clash – Bankrobber
Pete Townshend – White City Fighting
Sweet – Acton
Elton John – Ealing Hands
Elton John – Camden in the Wind
Wamdue Project – King of my (Elephant &) Castle
Dagenham Dave – Moz
The Jam – Down In The Tube Station At Midnight
They don’t actually specify which one, so that should cover off any that are missing when the thread runs out of steam.
Likewise, Going Underground
Clash – Guns Of Brixton
Ian Dury: Upminster Kid
More Dury: Bus Driver’s Prayer
Our Father,
Who art in Hendon
Harrow Road be Thy name
Thy Kingston come
Thy Wimbledon
In Erith as it is in Hendon.
Give us this day our Berkhampstead
And forgive us our Westminsters
As we forgive those who Westminster against us.
Lead us not into Temple Station
And deliver us from Ealing,
For thine is the Kingston
The Purley and the Crawley,
For Iver and Iver
Crouch End
Our Little Angel – EC & The Confederates
All Saints
C’mon, that is full of WIN!
It’s on the DLR but we’ll allow it
Belsize Park from England 2 , Columbia 0 by the great Kirsty MacColl
So we went to a pub in Belsize Park
And we cheered on England as the sky grew dark
Belsize Park is also mentioned in Kayleigh by Marillion.
White City – Thomas Dolby (The Flat Earth)
Yet another White City, this time by The Pogues.
Pete Townshend out of The Who too
I was going to say “don’t go there”, but it’s too late.
Your Arsenal – Morrissey
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais – The Clash
‘from Park Royal to North Acton’ – Hoover Factory, Elvis Costello
Every single one of you is a bastard who is going to hell. One by one you are going to disappear, one by one.
Ah, Mr henpetsgi, I’ve been expecting you………….
And you are first..see that shadowy figure outside, that’s me that is. First Mr Bunny, next…
Methinks you doth protest too much.
Go on. You know you want to.
Go on.
Morn . . .
Dury again – Plaistow Patricia
More Morrissey – Vauxhall and I
And Dury again:
I could be a writer with a growing reputation
I could be the ticket-man at Fulham Broadway station
It’s Leyton the Evening – Paul Simon
‘Sten guns in Knightsbridge’ – 1977, The Clash
Or “No Justice in Knightsbridge” – Robb Johnson
Two I have not seen:
Blue Room In Archway by The Boo Radleys
Seven Sisters by Joyrider
also Archway Towers by New Model Army
Manfred Mann had an album called
Angel Station. It also had the hit song You Angel You.
and Angel by Massive Attack!
You didn’t have any plans for the next 11 minutes, did you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snwZ36EH6L4
Ladbrooke Grove: London’s Brilliant – Wendy James \ EC
Revolutionary days were sadly over
And a cool profile down Ladbroke Grove
Won’t make it no more
Hallelujah – (take yer pick)
I’ve seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Viv Stanshall;”Well, here we are in Willesden Green and brr, yes it is a bit chilly…”
Don’t actually think the rules stipulate it has to be the London Tube.
Gawd bless ye!
Queens Street
If Glasgow is allowed then, the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange.
Sorry Huebby, that one needs explained?
Because the colour orange was used for the train livery, and the system is a loop. Then the Glasgow system has been known as the Clockwork Orange (though usually in just guide books, etc)
First we take Manhattan (the Clue played a game of MC there)
Lexington 125 – dead or alive (Velvet’s Waiting For The Man’
Are we playing the 1937 Grand Tournament Rules, which allow the use of closed stations when straddling?
If so, I’ll Do The Strand – Roxy Music, which I believe trumps the diagonal.
Except Strand was renamed Aldgate, and is now closed.
So, possibly, the diagonal remains unroken
or even Aldwych
Maybe I was right first time – can’t remember. Its name was changed to something beginning with ALD
ALDI?
Probably is now (either that or a Tesco Metro)
But then another station called Strand got spliced with Trafalgar Square to become Charing Cross. I am available for pub quizzes on Tuesdays only.
Bobby Vee – Morden I can say
Danny Wilson – A Girl I Euston-oh
I’m only going for song titles only and non puns
Camden Town – Suggs
Swiss Cottage Manoeuvres – Al Stewart
Angel – Goldie
Bond Street – Burt Bacharach
Do The Clapham – Kipper
London Victoria – Frequent Traveller
Grange Hill – Alan Hawkshaw
Doing The Lambeth Walk – Noel Gay
I Fell In Love With A Female Plumber from Harlesden NW10 – Splodgenessabounds
London Bridge Is Falling Down – Trad/arr
The theme to Paddington – Alfred Bradley, Herbert Chappell and Brenda Johnson.
Pimlico – David deviant And His Spirit Wife
Piccadilly Palare – Morrissey
A Bop Wapping Loo Bop, A Wop Bam Boom!
Duckworth Lewis Method – The Age of Revolution
“Stormont to the Oval, we’re all going global.”
Mark Knopfler – Junkie Doll
“Turnpike Lane, Turnpike Lane
You spiked my arm…
….Turnham green, Turnham green
You took me high”
Rush – The Camera Eye
“Mist in the streets of Westminster”
Crass – Have A Nice Day
“Westminster’s full of psychopaths with blood clots ‘stead of brains”
Ian Matthews, Journeys from Gospel Oak
There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Arsenal)
Genesis – Gants Hill
Not to mention Epping, whose forest had a battle.
Morden Love (Mind the gap please) / Morden Love (Change at Temple) / Morden Love gets me to Bow Church on time
um… I Will Always Mudchute by Putney Euston?
Incidentally, I’ve just noticed that the station next to Shepherds Bush and Goldhawk Road is named after two Faces.
If You’re Happy And You Know Clapham North
Eagles – “There’s Gunnersbury A Heartache Tonight”
Love 0f the Clapham Common Man ~ Todd Rundgren
*creak…* Hainault No Sunshine
Homeward Bounds Green
I Can’t Stand the Rayners Lane
(in Barry Cryer fake-triumphant tone:) Morning Morgantown Crescent!
Always on my Mind (the gap)
Stand Clear of – The Doors
The end of the Carriage – Oyster Men
And so it ends
Mornington Crescent
Soz, mate! We’re already into One Song To The Tune Of Another!
Or….
Ah @dogfacedboy and @ivylander. The Watkins-Glen pincer attack has been brought in to play. culminating in a stand-off. Can we have an adjudication please.
Well at least we can say this thread ended on a Hainault.