Songs that namecheck Brooklyn

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"Brooklyn Owes the Charmer Under Me" - Steely Dan

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Every east-coast hip-hop song ever.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"downtown train"!!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.villagevoice.com/ads/giveaways/contest_top.jpg

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

musical theater kills threads.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

If you want song titles, there's at least a couple Digable Planets songs -- "We Live in Brooklyn" for one.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 05:32 (twenty-one years ago)

PJ Harvey, "You Said Something"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

we live in brooklyn baby - roy ayers
brooklyn queens - 3rd bass

― bulbs (bulbs), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"No Sleep `Til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Brooklynites" by Soul Coughing

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hung Again" by Cop Shoot Cop - "The lights are comin' on along the Williamsburg/The trains sure take it slow across that bridge...."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Doin' It" by LL Cool J - "I represent Queens/She was raised out in Brooklyn"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Love that song, especially when he cracks up at the end.

"Yes" by Memphis Bleek namechecks Marcy Projects but there's no way to tell if he's talking about the actual projects or Jay-Z's production company (of the same name) which is vaguely, lingeringly, annoying.

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

lou reed - "coney island baby"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

ferron - "snowin' in brooklyn"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

billy joel, "you may be right" ("...i walked through bedford-stuy alone...")

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

that Lil' Kim song on "Notorious K.I.M." where the chorus goes "brooklyn, brooklyn, / that's where I'm from".

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Waits - Jitterbug Boy

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Mos Def's 'Brooklyn' mentions it once or twice

― Seuss, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ODB- Take It Back To Brooklyn feat. GZA

Biggie - Unbelievable
"Live from Bedford-Stuyverson, the livest one
Representin BK to the fullest..."

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

mascott "follow the sound"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

smif n wessun - bucktown!

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"cough up a lung, where i'm from, marcy son/ain't nothing nice/been to many places, but i'm brooklyn's own"

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"brooklyn" by neva dinova

― eggie, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Diamond - Brooklyn Roads
also read PLEXUS, SEXUS, NEXUS b. H. Miller

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Al Stewart - "In Brooklyn"

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

that's "stuyvesant"

― You've Got to Pick Up Every Stitch (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"No Sleep `Til Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys

pretty sure there are some others by the BBs too...

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"oh carolna" - shaggy
"saturday night fever" (among other songs) -lordz of brooklyn

― chuck, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty sure there are some others by the BBs too...

First that comes to mind is "Brass Monkey." Got a castle in Brooklyn, that's where I dwell!

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 30 December 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"We Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel, on the Boys of Summer ("Brooklyn's got a winning team")

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aohhla.com+brooklyn

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://plasticlittleraps.com/frames/samples/brooklyn.mp3

plastic little, "brooklyn"

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"brooklyn zoo" odb.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

'You got a crew? I got one too. They're called the Brooklyn zoo.' -
Some Tribe song on Low End Theory.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 30 December 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"Deja Vu (Uptown Baby" by Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz

first thing I thought of and I don't think I've heard it for a good 4 years

― reed (smile), Thursday, 30 December 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm from Manhattan, MCA's from Brooklyn.
Yeah MCA, you should be cookin'"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 30 December 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The Dismasters' "Smalltime Hustler:" "Now you're stuck way out in Brooklyn / You're in deep the way things are lookin'"

― mike a, Friday, 31 December 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't got the Beastie's "To The Five Boroughs" yet but one of the singles lists the boroughs by saying what I think is "Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten".

― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 1 January 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeru The Damaja - "Brooklyn Took It"

"If ya props are gone/then Brooklyn Took It (Brooklyn Keeps On Takin' It)"

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

jay-z - brooklyn's finest!! but this subject is too large

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole borough:
(I Used To Be A) Brooklyn Dodger -Dion

Specific places in Brooklyn:
Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan (mentions Montague Street)
Albee Square Mall - Biz Markie

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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