[Closed] Songs named after roads

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billy bragg - A13

It's Immaterial - Driving away from home (about M62)

Chris Rea - Road to Hell (M25)

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Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Beatles - Penny Lane

Call To Mind - A9

We're bobbing along the A1 - School trip song when I was a kid.

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Ahh, beat me to it...

Road to Nowhere

EDIT - damn you both.

(-:

goodbye yellow brick road (or was it yellow pricked toad?) something like that anyway

Bruce Springsteen - Highway 28, Thunder Road, Backstreets, 10th Avenue Freeze Out, Does this bus stop at 82nd Street?, Incident on 57th Street, The E Street Shuffle.

"Then there was the hard times
Then there was the war"

Goosebumps moment from Cougar (saw them play it live once).

Slight tangent, but Mega City 4 had an album called Sebastopol Road.

Eminem - 8 mile
Chris Rea - Road to Hull

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

King Tubby and The Skatalites - Rocky Road

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

[i]Desolation Row[/i] could be on a road, I suppose.

Highway to Hull - ACDC's homage to the M62

route 66

The Beatles - Long and Winding Road.

Chris Rea - Road to Hell (M25)

Kula Shaker - 303

<<EDIT>> ...and how could I forget my current favourite cheesey band's contribution: Fountains Of Wayne - I-95

New Model Army - Leeds Road 3am and Carlisle Road
Green Day - Christie Road

Hope Street - The Levellers

Pick any road you want...

Jah Wobble - A13

OK some of you are scanning down your iTunes and posting when you spot one...

Some nice choices though.

More from me:
Runrig -(Stepping Down The) Glory Road
The Cure – Fascination Street
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble - Tin Pan Alley

Do streets count? Not sure they should.

My thread, my rules - unless you're a Mod, in which case whatever you say goes.

While I'm then finding them on youtube, they're first coming straight outa my collection...

Dream Warriors - Road of Many Signs

Errm. I'm running through my head until I remember them, is that allowed?

I'll let you off

(saw them play it live once)

Likewise - not on the Alchemy tour, but circa On Every Street.

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

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Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road

59th Bridge Street Song - Simon and Garfunkel

Hope Street - The Levellers

Saw that live a couple of weeks back... (-:

RAWK!

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Raglan Road

road to nowhere (talking heads)
love street (the doors)

My thread, my rules - unless you're a [i][b]Mod[/b][/i], in which case whatever you say goes

Paul Weller - Stanley Road 😉

Dead End Street
Tobacco Road
2-4-6-8 Motorway
Long and Winding Road
Blue Jay Way
Sunny Side of the Street
On the Street Where you Live

Interstate 5 - The Wedding Present

Across 110th Street - Bobby Womac

Pavement: Shady Lane
Pulp: 59 Lyndhurst Grove
Doors: Love Street {arse, already up there^}
Jeff Buckley: Lost Highway

(we are the) road crew - motorhead

does that count?

Not Roads....

MC5 - Shakin' Street

Stooges - Down on the Street

Hawkwind - Damnation Alleyway

Echo & The Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace

Simon & Garfunkel - Bleeker Street

Gorrilaz M1-A1

Although that may have been about tanks.

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

And two more after checking on iTunes

Bright Side of the Road - Van Morrison

Road Trippin' - RHCP

Restless Highway - Richard Thompson.

A Hard Road - Black Sabbath

Positively 4th Street
Baker Street
This is My Street
Street Fighting Man???

... a few people mentioned Baker Street, what most probably don't know is it was written about Dura Street in Dundee.

What about Orchard Road by Leo Sayer? Brilliant record...

Sullivan street - Counting Crows

Since we seem to be including streets, I can add some of my favourite songs:

Pleasant Street - Tim Buckley
In the Street - Big Star
At the Dark End of the Street - Flying Burrito Brothers:

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M62 again

Cougar -

...but circa On Every Street...

Same here 🙂

Dublin for me...where for you?

Take me home country roads - John Denver.

EDIT: weird double post thing goin' on.

Aztec Camera - Killermont Street
Harry Lauder - The Road to the Isles
Shane McGowan and the Popes - Holloway Boulevard
Paul Weller - Friday Street

Another m62, John shuttleworth style

Billyyyyy Braaaaaaagggg!

A13:

53rd and 3rd Calexico - The Ramones

Ventura Highway - America

Stanley road - Paul Weller

Beasley Street - Morrisey

A Bomb In Wardour Street - The Jam

Baker Street - Jerry Rafferty

Across 110th St - Bobby Womack

Greenflower St - Steely Dan

461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton (think someone else did an album of the same name but can't remember yet - altzheimers always worse in the morning)
Warwick Avenue - Duffy
Glory Road - Neil Diamond
Hudson Street - Agnelli and Nelson (how I've got that hip hop classic on my tunes is beyond me!)

Same here

Dublin for me...where for you?

Err, Manchester I think. The MEN Arena (or Nynex Arena as it was then) if memory serves.

Amongst the results of a search on my iPod (cheating?!):

Paper Street - Airhead
Exile on Bleep Street - Alter Ego
Lever Street - Death In Vegas
55 Dub Street - Augustus Pablo
Ring Road - Underworld
Lonely Road - Pusherman
41st Street - MF Woolly
Big Road - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Abomination Street - Venetian Snares
Ascension Street - Radio 4
Road Leads Where It's Led - Secret Machines
Road to Somewhere - Goldfrapp
Country Road X - Dosh
Gun Hill Road - Infesticons (album)
Beep Street - Squarepusher
The Glass Road - Squarepusher
Crash Street Kids - Mott the Hoople
Orgasm Way - Stump (?!)

Beasely Street

These Streets - Paolo Nutini

Have we had 22 Acacia Avenue by Iron Maiden yet?

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(sadly now Archers Way)

What can you come up with?