What are some albums that are either about London, or take their setting in London? London Calling, A Weekend in the City, Commuter World, A Grand Don't Come for Free, etc.
Also, should Different Class count?
― marzoni, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)
Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
― ailsa, Monday, 12 November 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.penumbra.co.nz/shimages/slz8292_b.jpg
― sonofstan, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.thepeddlers.co.uk/content/SuiteLondonCD1.jpg
― sonofstan, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)
duckdive - stories for another day
so not quite the whole album, but anyway there is something exceedingly lame about australians singing songs about a very very romanticised london
see also the waifs
― electricsound, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)
another sunny day - london weekend (featuring sometime ilx poster hw)
― cedar, Monday, 12 November 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)
Skinny - The Weekend :: Now that I think about it, this was sort of an inferior prototype to A Grand Don't Come For Free in that it follows a first-person narrative through a weekend out on the town and all of the ensuing highs and lows. Only instead of the confessional (and sometimes genuinely affecting) soap-operatics of AGDCFF, we get something like Tracks 1-2: Warming up with a few cocktails; Tracks 3-5: Drugging, clubbing; Tracks 6-7: Scoring with the ladies Tracks 8-11: hungover on Sunday, feeling reflective and sorry for one's self
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)
Madness: "The Rise And Fall". A concept album about life in Northeast London.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)
Parklife? I mean yes, Dover gets in there, but really
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 05:14 (eighteen years ago)
geir, why do you say rise and fall is about NORTHEAST london?
― cedar, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:44 (eighteen years ago)
Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)
Lynyrd Skynyrd were from Herne Hill, most of their stuff is about the area they grew up with.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)
Camden Town, Primrose Hill. That stuff, isn't that Northeast? Well, maybe North.
And surely I know there's a song about Hyde Park there too, so maybe it's about more than just that. But Madness in general are very much about Camden Town.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)
Camden = North
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah definitely not NE. For a start it has an NW postcode!
Skinny - The Weekend :: Now that I think about it, this was sort of an inferior prototype to A Grand Don't Come For Free
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)
Blah blah, capital-ists. What about albums about provincial places, or just anywhere other than London?!
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)
We've just done a thread on that
― Tom D., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)
We have? Oh well, I started another. Where is it?
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:21 (eighteen years ago)
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Kinks, *.*
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)