If Music Could Talk

Top 5 songs about Streets/Housing etc...


1. Dead End Street - The Kinks
2. Respectable Street - XTC
3. The Sound of the Suburbs - The Members
4. Sweet Suburbia - The Skids
5. In the Street Today - The Jam

1. Ramones - 53rd & 3rd
2. Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
3. The Clash - The Street Parade
4. The Cure - Fascination Street
5. Depeche Mode - Here is the House

1. The Beatles - Bungalow Bill
2. Earl Grant - House of Bamboo
3. Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
4. Lew Lewis & His band - Boogie on the Street
5. The Clash - Safe European Home

(The Everyday Story of) Smalltown - XTC
Dead End Street - The Kinks
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
The Street Parade - The Clash
Shouting Street - Joe Strummer

Could probably post 50 lists but few that come immediately to mind:

MTCH - ghosts of cable street
Van Morrison - Hyndford Street
Ralph McTell - streets of london
Pogues - Old Main Drag
Van Morrison or Luke Kelly - Raglan Road

Gang of Four - At Home He’s a Tourist
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
XTC - No Thugs in Our House
Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Charlotte Street

Autobahn - Kraftwork
Motorway to Roswell - Pixies
Rayon Drive - Game Theory
Why Don't We Do It In the Road - Beatles
Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman / Modern Lovers

Doing the Flex thing ( no repeats)

1) House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
2) Bloody Road to Freedom - Paranoid Visions
3) Out in the Streets -
Blondie
4) Dark Streets of London - The Pogues
5) Alleyways and Avenues- Rancid

Hoover Street - Rancid
#Inder

revbob wrote: ↑

12 Jul 2018, 7:53pm

5) Alleyways and Avenues- Rancid

good song!

revbob wrote: ↑

12 Jul 2018, 7:53pm

3) Out in the Streets -
Blondie

Shangri-La's cover!

tepista wrote: ↑

14 Jul 2018, 9:08pm

revbob wrote: ↑

12 Jul 2018, 7:53pm

3) Out in the Streets -
Blondie

Shangri-La's cover!

I didn't know that. That's my learnin' for today.

Eddie Cochran top 5.

1. Something Else
2. C'mon Everybody
3. Summertime Blues
4. Nervous Breakdown
5. Twenty Flight Rock

Cut Along Shorty
Somethin Else
Three Steps to Heaven
Summertime Blues
Cmon Everybody

Silent Majority wrote: ↑

19 Jul 2018, 6:04pm

Cut Along Shorty
Somethin Else
Three Steps to Heaven
Summertime Blues
Cmon Everybody

Cut Across Shorty. Good song though.