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Go on then what ones can you name? Some starters...

N17 - Sawdoctors
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66 - Nat King Cole, Chuck Berry and others


 
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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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😉


 
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Dire Straits - Telegraph Road


 
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Beatles - Penny Lane


 
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Call To Mind - A9


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


 
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Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

Ahh, beat me to it...

Road to Nowhere


 
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EDIT - damn you both.

(-:


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


 
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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.


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

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


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


 
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Eminem - 8 mile
Chris Rea - Road to Hull


 
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Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

King Tubby and The Skatalites - Rocky Road


 
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Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty


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


 
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Highway to Hull - ACDC's homage to the M62


 
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route 66


 
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The Beatles - Long and Winding Road.


 
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Chris Rea - Road to Hell (M25)

It was the A19 (to Middlesbrough)


 
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Kula Shaker - 303

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


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


 
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Hope Street - The Levellers


 
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Pick any road you want...


 
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Jah Wobble - A13


 
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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


 
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Do streets count? Not sure they should.


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


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

Dream Warriors - Road of Many Signs


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


 
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I'll let you off


 
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(saw them play it live once)

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


 
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Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams


 
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😆


 
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Blues Magoos - Tobacco Road


 
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59th Bridge Street Song - Simon and Garfunkel


 
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Hope Street - The Levellers

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


 
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RAWK!


 
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Kraftwerk - Autobahn


 
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Raglan Road


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


 
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