Calling London

[f4f3]

So far the playlist looks like this - I'm sure I'm missing some Del Amitri and Deacon Blue though... More suggestions welcome...

London Calling The Clash
Werewolves of London Warren Zevon
Going Underground The Jam
Town Called Malice The Jam
Carnaby Street The Jam
Chelsea Girl Simple Minds
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello
19th Nervous Breakdown The Rolling Stones
Cool For Cats Squeeze
Money (That's What I Want) The Beatles
Dirty Old Town The Pogues
A Rainy Night In Soho The Pogues
Mornington Crescent Belle & Sebastian
Oxford Street Everything But The Girl
This City Never Sleeps Eurythmics
Baker Street Gerry Rafferty
Last Train To London Electric Light Orchestra
London's Burning The Clash
Caledonia Frankie Miller

Comments

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

So Circus Lights isn't the one about the Glasgow Circus? Of course not, that's "Christmas in Glasgow". I like Everytime you Sleep, too.
What about "Nothing Ever Happens?"

[deililly.livejournal.com]

That can't be London! :P I wonder if it is based on Arse End? (claim to fame: My old art teacher was the father of the Del's keyboardist)

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Justin closed the Blazing Fiddles concert last month with it, and I've always thought of it as a young man stuck in London, miles from home. I could be imagining that, of course.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

Funny that. It was always the other way round in my head. To me they were trying to leave home.

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

That could be anywhere and everywhere...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Why aren't you playing golf?

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

I'm too cold. I know that's wierd, but I couldn't get warmed up when I got home, so I'm wrapped up on the sofa with a blanket...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

A fair decision: I'm watching the biggest raindrops ever hit the canal.

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

Bet the canal's still winning.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Only up to a point.

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Also - Orphans was written about the experience on the train home from London, after the annual Eng v Sco football game at Wembley...

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Can't listen to it now because I'm readding all the stuff I lost...

[pshtaku.livejournal.com]

Ricky Ross London Comes Alive
"Originally I wanted to write an album of songs for my friends. I also wanted to put things down which wouldn't get left until after people died. I'd spent so much time talking about my late father I thought it wrong I hadn't written something for my mother. So here it is. Inspired by a rail journey into London one July morning in 1999 as I came into London and realised how beautiful and exciting it is as you get close and closer to the centre."

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Aw...