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
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0[/video]
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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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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYsGWh_vpE[/video]
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.
Ahh, beat me to it…
Road to Nowhere
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ript5JqSWb8[/video]
EDIT – damn you both.
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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 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk[/video]
King Tubby and The Skatalites – Rocky Road [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdOCEXSUvEc[/video]
Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
Desolation Row could be on a road, I suppose.
Highway to Hull – ACDC’s homage to the M62
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmcdBnj4ZOg[/video]
route 66
The Beatles – Long and Winding Road.
It was the A19 (to Middlesbrough)
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
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TYptYIyu4[/video]
Pick any road you want…
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WPC-N3UYE[/video]
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 [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNVO-_TmiHI[/video]
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
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSSiMa29AE[/video]
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Blues Magoos – Tobacco Road
59th Bridge Street Song – Simon and Garfunkel
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