London Bound

[f4f3]

Back down to the Smoke tomorrow - any suggestions for a London playlist?

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

London Calling, clearly.

For the evening, Waterloo Sunset, perhaps?

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

Damn, beat me to it. (The Clash)
Now I shall have to think.

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

...and having expended oh, all of 45 seconds - I think the music that has the strongest London association for me (aside from those mentioned above, obviously) is the early Rolling Stones.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ooh.... Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown maybe?

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

As an example. "Mother's Little Helper",. that period. Why, do you need some?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

No, and funnily enough I was just adding the Stones track and swithering between breakdown/have you seen your mother baby/mother's little helper.

Which reminds me - must put on a Michael Caine sample from Get Carter.

[morgaine-x.livejournal.com]

I have Peter Sellers doing a "Hard Day's Night" and William Shatner's "I am Canadian" rant for breaks on mine.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Oh, maybe something from Billy Connely about London...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yup, definitely London Calling - hadn't thought of WS, but shockingly it isn't in my iTunes library!

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Dirty Old Town? ;)

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking!

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Great minds and all that! :D

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

For some reason I never associate that with London, but it's going in - the Bap Kennedy/Steve Earle version I think.

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Going Underground - The Jam

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"A Bomb in Wardour St", too.

And "In the City".

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I think I'll leave off the Bomb one given current news stories, but In The City definitely.

Maybe a Town Called Malice too...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Excellent

[shadowshape.livejournal.com]

I want to see that Spamalot, but its not here yet...
xxx

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

London Rain (Nothing Heals Me Like You Do) - Heather Nova

The Wombling Song - The Wombles

Soho Square - Kirsty MacColl

Swinging London Town - Girls Aloud

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I only have one of those amongst my 10,000 tunes, but you have reminded me to put on Rainy Night in Soho by the Pogues

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I think I've got the Heather Nova somewhere, if you can think of anyway I can send it to you

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You could email it to f4f3@livejournal.com !

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"Maybe Its Because I'm A Glaswegian Londoner"?

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of using "Caledonia" (the Franky Miller cover, not the Dougie MacClean original) because of that advert where it's used to show someone leaving London to come home to Scotland, but it might be stretching things a bit...