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.

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Dirty Old Town? ;)

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

Going Underground - The Jam

[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.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"A Bomb in Wardour St", too.

And "In the City".

[shadowshape.livejournal.com]

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

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking!

[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

[unblinkered.livejournal.com]

Great minds and all that! :D

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Excellent

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Ooh.... Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown maybe?

[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]

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

[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.

[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]

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

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

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

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

You could email it to f4f3@livejournal.com !

[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...