Was listening to the excellent Tim Buckley complete album collection and in particular the song Pleasant Street which lead me to think how many songs have street names in?
There must be 100’s. They can have a made up name or an actual name and I will accept roads, avenues and boulevards as long as they have names. So for example Van Morrison’s On Hyndford Street and Elvis Costello’s Rocking Horse Road are allowed but most definitely not U2’s Where the streets have no name.
So over to you guys.
Where the streets have names
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Kinks: Dead End Street
Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street
DONOVAN: Sunny Goodge Street
Bruce: 10th Avenue Freezeout
Drifters: On Broadway
Eddy Grant: Electric Avenue
Beatles: Penny Lane
Everybody: Route 66
John Otway – A413 Revisited
Iron Maiden – 22 Acacia Avenue
Iron Maiden – Murders In The Rue Morgue.
Van Morrison- Cyprus Avenue
Dominion Road (Mutton Birds, kiwi band)
Ventura Highway
Road To Nowhere
Up for mutton birds 🦅
Levellers – Hope Street
Stiff Little Fingers – Hope Street
Jake Burns – On Fortune Street
Bleeker Street – Simon and Garfunkle
2120 South Michigan Avenue – Rolling Stones
Soho Square – Kirsty McColl
Haven’t heard that Levellers song for yonks – must dig it out.
This should give you a start on London https://www.presentindicative.com/products/a-song-map-of-london-town-1
Rossmore Road by Barry Andrews (with plenty of nearby roads referenced). Great song.
Absolutely fantastic song! All humming now!
Excellent call, Mr Blue, sir. I wonder if there is still a DHSS in Lisson Grove?
Respectable Street by XTC.
Have this on.my wall alongside music artists tube map
me too!
I’ve got that one too! Framed for £10 via eBay from a sad sack whose ridulously hot Brazilian girlfriend had obviously told him to get rid of his pop crap
Hang on – he kept the ‘ridiculously hot’ Brazilian gf and palmed his cast off poster onto you, and he’s the sad sack 😂😂😂
We’re through the looking glass
A13 Trunk Road To The Sea – Billy Bragg
Tobacco Road – Nashville Teens or Lou Rawls
Anywhere Road – Bill Frisell
Blue Jay Way – The Fabs
Celestial Road – Sun Ra & His Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra
Copperhead Road – Steve Earle
Freedom Road – Josh White
Long Promised Road – The Beach Boys
The Road To Morocco – Bob Hope & Bing Crosby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_w3UG6C_Mo
“Like Webster’s Dictionary, we’re Morocco Bound”
‘Galbraith Street’ – Ron Sexsmith
‘Charlotte Street’ – Lloyd Cole
Really about Upper Street when he was living in Islington, but Charlotte Street sounded better in a song
Joni – ‘In France They Kiss on Main Street’
Unbelievably, this was played on the in-store music thingy while I was eating ham, egg and chips in a Sainsbury’s cafe yesterday.
I’d have an outer body experience if that happened to me
Telephone Road – both Rodney Crowell (on The Houston Kid) and Steve Earle (on El Corazon) have songs about this place. Their songs are completely different.
James McMurtry – Fireline Road and Valley Road
Whiskeytown – Faithless Street
Danny & The champions of the World – ‘Swift Street’
Counting Crows – ‘Sullivan Street’
I was going to post this! Good song, good band. My fave being European Rain, which they hated and wrote under sufferance form their record company.
Scott Street
https://youtu.be/-dFvrdKeDIE
How about an actual address in a Bristol street? 32 West Mall to be exact.
Spirogyra’s first LP is named St. Radigunds after the house where the musicians met – 5 St. Radigunds Street in Canterbury. According the band’s Martin Cockerham other musicians that turned up to party included Steve Hillage, Ian Dury plus members of Caravan & Soft Machine.
Aztec Camera – Killermomt Street
Poalo Nutini – These Streets (not sure this counts)
Andy White: Six String Street
Sweet Thursday: Gilbert Street
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Basin Street Blues
The Deep Dark Woods: West side Street
Ocean Drive by The Lighthouse Family.
A true Afterword favourite
Was there this very more morn – Warwick Avenue (Duffy)
“Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale”
Love
Brass monkeys here today, so a stroll down Atlantic Avenue with some funky Scots hits the spot very nicely.
Another funky Rio avenue courtesy of Azymuth.
Weller has form in this:
Carnaby Street
In The Street Today
Sounds From The Street
‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street
Friday Street
Stanley Road
John Cooper Clarke, of course:
“People turn to poison
Quick as lager turns to piss
Sweethearts are physically sick
Every time they kiss
It’s a sociologist’s paradise
Each day repeats
On easy, cheesy, greasy, queasy
Beastly Beasley Street”
Keith Joseph smiles …
If ever I’m invited on Desert Island Discs this will be among my choices. “Outta dis rock shall come a greener riddim, even more dread than what the breeze of glory bred.”
LKJ – Street 66
https://youtu.be/1ploIlurVZ8
Nowhere Road – Steve Earle
Cedarwood Road – U2
more Steve Earle
Copperhead Road
And if it hasn’t already been mentioned, I’ll add in
Jubilee Street – Nick Cave
Kula Shaker – 303
A paean to the joys of travelling between Basingstoke and Honiton
Allison Road: The Gin Blossoms
Ghosts of Cable Street: The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Telegraph Road: Dire Straits
Life on Bleecker Street: Willie Nile
The Day I Saw Bo Diddley on Washington Square: Willie Nile
I’ll add Fairport’s Throwaway Street Puzzle (may not be an actual street)
The nashville teens – Tobacco Road
Afghan Whigs – Fountain and Fairfax
Thunder Road
Crowded House ‘Weather With You’ (57 Mount Pleasant Street)
10CC ‘Wall Street Shuffle’
Wallflowers ‘6th Avenue Heartache’
Donald Fagen ‘Green Flower Street’
and this might be cheating, but Powderfinger ‘Vulture Street’ (cos it’s the album title) where England will be on Thursday