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  • Songs named after roads
  • igm
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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

    donsimon
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0[/video]

    😉

    wwaswas
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    billy bragg – A13

    It’s Immaterial – Driving away from home (about M62)

    Chris Rea – Road to Hell (M25)

    noteeth
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYsGWh_vpE[/video]

    😉

    druidh
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    Dire Straits – Telegraph Road

    druidh
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    Beatles – Penny Lane

    deadlydarcy
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    Call To Mind – A9

    Drac
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    We’re bobbing along the A1 – School trip song when I was a kid.

    rkk01
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    Dire Straits – Telegraph Road

    Ahh, beat me to it…

    Road to Nowhere

    Cougar
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ript5JqSWb8[/video]

    EDIT – damn you both.

    (-:

    Edric64
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    goodbye yellow brick road (or was it yellow pricked toad?) something like that anyway

    duntmatter
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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.

    deadlydarcy
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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).

    bravohotel8er
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    Slight tangent, but Mega City 4 had an album called Sebastopol Road.

    TheSouthernYeti
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    Eminem – 8 mile
    Chris Rea – Road to Hull

    Markie
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    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]

    brakes
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    Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty

    noteeth
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    Desolation Row could be on a road, I suppose.

    bravohotel8er
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    Highway to Hull – ACDC’s homage to the M62

    TheSouthernYeti
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmcdBnj4ZOg[/video]

    Junkyard
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    route 66

    TheSouthernYeti
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    The Beatles – Long and Winding Road.

    5thElefant
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    Chris Rea – Road to Hell (M25)

    It was the A19 (to Middlesbrough)

    bananaworld
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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

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

    bravohotel8er
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    Hope Street – The Levellers

    noteeth
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TYptYIyu4[/video]

    Pick any road you want…

    TheSouthernYeti
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0WPC-N3UYE[/video]

    hilldodger
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    Jah Wobble – A13

    igm
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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

    molgrips
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    Do streets count? Not sure they should.

    igm
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    My thread, my rules – unless you’re a Mod, in which case whatever you say goes.

    Markie
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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
    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNVO-_TmiHI[/video]

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

    igm
    Full Member

    I’ll let you off

    Cougar
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    (saw them play it live once)

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

    TheSouthernYeti
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    Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams

    TheSouthernYeti
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzSSiMa29AE[/video]

    😆

    tony_m
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    Blues Magoos – Tobacco Road

    Pembo
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    59th Bridge Street Song – Simon and Garfunkel

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