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I'm surprised this hasn't been properly done here yet.. Anyway I have to make a compilation for a friend, 'conjuring' the NYC vibe (ie. not necessarily songs explicitly referring to NY). Obviously this will be highly subjective and partly based on personal experience, but any help appreciated.

So far, I've got:

Joni Mitchell - The Hobo Dance
Nas - Halftime
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Nico - Fairest of the Seasons
Nico - Sixty / Fourty
Lou Reed - Lady Day
Wu Tang - Click Click
Rakim - New York

and lots more..

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Gang Starr - The Place Where We Dwell
Nas - New York State of Mind
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Swans - Time Is Money (Bastard)

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Billie Holiday - "Autumn in New York"
Ramones - "Rockaway Beach"

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

New York Dolls - Chatterbox

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Micro Chip League - 'New York'

and I think there's a song by Frank Sinatra, but I can't remember what it's called...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess there should be a regulation token Strokes song on this, probably 'Hard to Explain'

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Odyssey - New York City Girl
Miles Davis - You´re Under Arrest
Ace Freely - Back In The NY Groove
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name (or maybe not)

― Vincent Vern, Friday, 3 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Interpol - NYC
Doves - N.Y.
Ryan Adams - New York, New York

― man, Friday, 3 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed - Lady Day

Swap this with Romeo had Juliet and you're there.

― ModJ, Friday, 3 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

metropolis - i love new york

― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i've attached David Axelrod's 'Holy Thursday' to NY in my mind, and i'd put Machine's 'There But For The Grace Of God...' on there too

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

EX MODELS - FUCK TO THE MUSIC

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Alot of these are sort've rose-tinted romantisization (is that a word?), but so be it.....

"Thela Hun Gingeet" by King Crimson
"New York City" by the Cult
"Back in New York City" by Jeff Buckley (a Genesis cover)
"Dirty Boulevard" by Lou Reed
"Waiting for the Man" by the Velvet Underground
"Cavern" by Liquid Liquid
"Ask For Janice/B-Boy Bouillabaisse" by the Beastie Boys (or absolutely anything off of Paul's Boutique, really)
"Dance Pt.1" by the Rolling Stones
"53rd & Third" by the Ramones
"Back in the New York Groove" by Ace Frehley
"Shattered" by the Rolling Stones
"Marquee Moon" by Television
"Two At a Time" by Cop $hoot Cop
"NYC 1999" by Pussy Galore
"Ditch" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
"New York, New York" by Nina Hagen
"Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads
Theme to "Taxi Driver" by Bernard Hermann
"Rapture" by Blondie
"Jazz Crowd" by Andy Prieboy
"Ignore the White Culture" by Missing Foundation
"Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson
"Riot in Tompkins Square" by the Undead
"7th Avenue Static" by Firewater

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Digable Planets - Borough Check

― BrianB, Friday, 3 October 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel"

― Nick H, Friday, 3 October 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

There really does need to be a lot more hip hop, but I'm afraid I'm not really your best source for that. That said, the first Run-Dmc album (the one with "Rock Box" and "Sucka MCs") was completely ubiquotous when I was in high school.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Some Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron might fit nicely here too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

A friend actually made me a CD-R of New York-themed songs, shortly after 9-11:

Talkin' New York - Bob Dylan
New York, New York - Ryan Adams
New York - U2
New York City Cops - Strokes
The Heat in Harlem - Graham Parker
Only New York Going On - Francis Dunnery
First We Take Manhattan - R.E.M.
Ground Zero N.Y.C. - Accelerators
N.Y.C.'s Like a Graveyard - Moldy Peaches
You Said Something - PJ Harvey
In Brooklyn - Al Stewart
Back in N.Y.C. - Jeff Buckley
Harlem Shuffle - Rolling Stones
Big Mouth Blues - Gram Parsons
N.Y.C. - Steve Earle
Cheatin' - Gin Blossoms
Tina Toledo - Ryan Adams
Love Song/New York - Bill Morrissey
The New York Shuffle - Graham Parker

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Odyssey - New York City Girl"

well, if you've got that, you might as well have:
Pet Shop Boys - New York City Boy

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Cub - New York City
Frank and Walters - Fashion Crisis Hits New York

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ghostface - Apollo Kids
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
Jay-Z - Snoopy Track
Folk Implosion - Natural One

All those make me think of New York for whatever reason. Also, the sound of me grinding my teeth in my sleep.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's Get Killed David Holmes
the entire album

― David Gates of Delirium, Friday, 3 October 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

funny, i made an NYC/NJ mix not too long ago...

MEET THE METS/commercial
LET’S GET RID OF NY/the randoms
BRIDGE AND TUNNEL/the fever
NYC TONITE/gg allin & the jabbers
NEW YORK BROKEN TOY/nazareth
THE BOWERY/exuma
NEW YORK GROOVE/hello
SLUM GODDESS/the fugs*
CONEY ISLAND STEEPLECHASE/the velvet underground
PAUL IS DEAD/yo la tengo**
SUBWAY RELOCATION MEMO/poem rocket
CITY DROPS INTO THE NIGHT/jim carroll band
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LBI/lifter puller
HOLLAND TUNNEL DIVE/impLOG
THE EDISON MUSEUM/they might be giants
WHITE CASTLE BLUES/the smithereens***
PALISADES PARK/freddy “boom-boom” cannon
I LOVE NEW YORK/casiopea
N.Y. YOU GOT ME DANCING/the andrea true connection
NEW YORK CITY HERE I COME/albert hammond
NEW YORK CITY/al kooper

*from the Lower East Side!
**mentions "10th St.", which I'll bet dollars to doughnuts is somewhere within Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Northern New Jersey. I've always associated it with the one down in the Village.
***not Jersey specific, but these guys were from Jersey and White Castle's a big part of the regional kid-culture.

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 October 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"New York, New York" (Comden & Green)
Blondie, "Rapture"
Naked City, "Batman"
Paul Simon, "Paranoia Blues"
Wynton Marsalis Septet, "City Beat"
Mingus Big Band, "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting"

and "Take the A-Train," obv

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Beastie Boys - "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn"

― Nick H, Friday, 3 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Time Out New York did a pretty terrific list of the top 100 New York records (albums and singles): http://www.timeoutny.com/features/178/178.ft.albums.html

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 3 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"some girls" has tons of explicitly nyc songs

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 3 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a damned great list!

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, it's one of my favorite music lists ever

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 3 October 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

That list makes me want to buy stuff.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 3 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Here, hip-hoppers can pick up guitars and saxes, punk rockers can play that funky music, and be-boppers can kick that Afro-Caribbean flavor. And it's all good."

Good list, but gimme a break ...

― David Gates of Delirium, Friday, 3 October 2003 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Buy some Kiss N!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

In honor of their concert together, "Roadrunner" Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and "I Love NYC" by Andrew WK.
And I suppose "My Metrocard" Le Tigre is a given

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I always think Liquid Liquid, maybe Cavern or Optimo, sounds like what I thought New York was like when I was a kid....this was mostly based on 80s movies like Bright Lights Big City, etc..

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 3 October 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a nice list.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Most of the ones I'd want to say have already been mentioned.

Howabout New York City - T. Rex

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Gotta say, lists of that kind usually get it all wrong, but that was mighty well done.

Some more...

The sound of St.Mark's Place circa Summer of `86:
"We Gotta Know" by the Cro-Mags
"Skinhead Rebel" by Murphy's Law
"Eliminator" by Agnostic Front

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 3 October 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

TENAEG RIOT

― calstars (calstars), Saturday, 4 October 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

'Let's Get Killed' is spot on. Especially the Gainsbourg cover, paradoxically..
I suppose there should be some Lydia Lunch in here, but can't think of what exactly.

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Saturday, 4 October 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" - The Magnetic Fields

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Saturday, 4 October 2003 13:53 (twenty-two years ago)

and "When the City Drops into the Night" by The Jim Carroll Band

― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Saturday, 4 October 2003 13:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"New York Telephone Conversation"-Lou Reed
"Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"-Rolling Stones
"Frank Mills" -Hair Original Cast
"Venus"-Television
"Sweet Thing/Candidate"-David Bowie
"Broadway Baby"-Elaine Stritch
"Out in the Streets"-Shangri-Las
"Deee-lite Theme"-Deee-lite
"Love at the Pier"-Blondie
"The Only Living Boy in New York"-Simon & Garfunkel
"Boogaloo Down Broadway"-Fantastic Johnny C
"Style It Takes"-John Cale/Lou Reed.
"Is That All There Is?"-the Cristina version
"Piss Factory" -Patti Smith
"One More Shot"-C-Bank
"Get Dancin'"-Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes
"The Killing of Georgie, Pts. 1 & 2-Rod Stewart
"Not Anymore"-Dead Boys

Maybe "Lady Scarface" for the Lydia Lunch song, Fabrice?

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 4 October 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone cited "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues as yet?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 October 2003 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Rachel Stevens - My LA Ex

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Saturday, 4 October 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

'Beat Bop' by Rammelzee Vs K-Rob is so New Yoik it hurts.

And something by Glenn Branca...?

― Jason J, Sunday, 5 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

malkmus, "vanessa from queens"

― Annouschka Magnatech (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 October 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

the record that feels most--exactly--like New York that I know is Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice."

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 5 October 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

..and I forgot PJ's obvious classic 'This Mess We're In'.

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Monday, 6 October 2003 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

i re-upped my nyc/nj playlist from 2003 and added a couple bonus tracks.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7i0owo

― red sobule (get bent), Wednesday, 11 September 2013 20:48 (twelve years ago)

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