Ah, the Misery Line. It may be shit at times, and always seems to face 'planned engineering works' (sounds like an unreleased Aphex Twin album) but it's dead convenient and that, and I miss it now I'm on the Piccadilly.
Not only that, but you hear it in songs all the time.
I have already thought of a few but will start off with:
"Mornington Crescent" - Belle and Sebastian
"Archway People"and"London Belongs To Me" - Saint Etienne
"Take a tube to Camden Town, walk down Parkway and settle down."
― darren (darren), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)
"London" - the Smiths
"Train heave on to Euston..." (well, one would imagine he'd head for the NL after disembarking from the Manchester-London train, were he to actually catch it)
― darren (darren), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Teh HoBBercraft (the pirate king), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 1 June 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)
Lifting the mask from from a local clownFeeling down like himSeeing the light in a station barAnd travelling far in sinSailing downstairs to the northern lineWatching the shine of the shoesAnd hearing the trial of the people thereWho's to care if they lose.And take a look you may see me on the groundFor I am the parasite of this town.
― shookout (shookout), Thursday, 1 June 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)
Them - from You Just Can't Win: "You used to ride on busesTake a tube to Camden Town..."later: "You're up in Park Lane nowAnd I'm somewhere round the Tottenham Court Road."
― eyesteel (eyesteel), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)
Fuck you, Suggs.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 06:59 (nineteen years ago)
― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)
Northern Line, feels like I'm going to lose my mindYou just keep on pushing my love over the Northern Line
― jgwr, Friday, 2 June 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)
Boston - Morden A Feeling
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:10 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:11 (nineteen years ago)
― mark h (mark h), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:22 (nineteen years ago)
Marillion, "Kayleigh"
"Do you remember, loving on the floor in Belize Park"
― darren (darren), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)
― darren (darren), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:54 (nineteen years ago)
― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Friday, 2 June 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)
― darren (darren), Friday, 2 June 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Saturday, 3 June 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)
"There's fifty-two stations on the Northern LineNone of them is yours, one of them is mine"
― Paul Eater (eater), Saturday, 3 June 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)
Yummy Fur - Shoot The Ridiculant
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 3 June 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)
suggs hates you
― dell, Saturday, 26 July 2008 09:07 (sixteen years ago)