Songs That Remind You Of London.
- Thread starter maxflinn
- Start date
blossomchris
I feel better than James Brown
I've got my beer in the sideboard here - Chas and Dave.
Bloss
Bloss
maxflinn
pfm Member
Last edited by a moderator:
ff1d1l
pfm Member
Not about London but watching the news tonight I find Woody Guthrie's Deportees running through my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkuZJ1did8
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees"
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkuZJ1did8
The crops are all in and the peaches are rott'ning,
The oranges piled in their creosote dumps;
They're flying 'em back to the Mexican border
To pay all their money to wade back again
Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita,
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria;
You won't have your names when you ride the big airplane,
All they will call you will be "deportees"
My father's own father, he waded that river,
They took all the money he made in his life;
My brothers and sisters come working the fruit trees,
And they rode the truck till they took down and died.
Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract's out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died 'neath your trees and we died in your bushes,
Both sides of the river, we died just the same.
The sky plane caught fire over Los Gatos Canyon,
A fireball of lightning, and shook all our hills,
Who are all these friends, all scattered like dry leaves?
The radio says, "They are just deportees"
Is this the best way we can grow our big orchards?
Is this the best way we can grow our good fruit?
To fall like dry leaves to rot on my topsoil
And be called by no name except "deportees"?
Whaleblue
Southbound
Great choice! This one is brilliant too, and obviously very 'London'
Down In The Tubestation At Midnight
Umm - that's actually what I meant!
Last track on All Mod Cons. I only really really knew the single (which either omits the intro, or the DJs always spoke over it) until relatively recently.
maxflinn
pfm Member
Ah OK. I wasn't sure that there wasn't a version of Going Underground that didn't have tube train noises as a lead-up too, given the name.
This one is very Londonesque to me too:
Last edited by a moderator:
JamesJamerson
pfm Member
Last edited by a moderator:
Whaleblue
Southbound
maxflinn
pfm Member
We all get themNo, just a brain-fade
Mikeandvan
Banned
Ealing '91 - The cops 'n' robbers - I found out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61WB-hvjQQ
Bethnal Green '95 - Leviticus - The Burial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZJ5qunCcI
And plenty of speed garage a bit later on.
Bethnal Green '95 - Leviticus - The Burial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqZJ5qunCcI
And plenty of speed garage a bit later on.
Singslinger
pfm Member
Oddly enough, U2's "Pride (In the Name of Love)''.
I spent Oct 1984 in London and the song had just been released.
I spent Oct 1984 in London and the song had just been released.
ex brickie
pfm Member
Common People - Pulp
Rabbit - Chas and Dave
Eton Rifles - the Jam (Eton only just out of London)
My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Rabbit - Chas and Dave
Eton Rifles - the Jam (Eton only just out of London)
My Old Man's a Dustman - Lonnie Donegan
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty