The Bakerloo seems to have done OK from Waterloo Sunset to Warwick
Avenue via Baker Street (and you could add the Lambeth (North) Walk I
suppose. I can't recall any other line getting similar treatment?

MaxB

On 18/07/2010 11:46, MaxB wrote:
The Bakerloo seems to have done OK from Waterloo Sunset to Warwick
Avenue via Baker Street (and you could add the Lambeth (North) Walk I
suppose.

The BBC have a rehearsal studio in Delaware Road, which was where many
Peel Sessions were recorded, including the Can song "Up The Bakerloo
Line With Anne".

Siouxsie & The Banshees did a song called "Circle" which has many
Underground line references.

And, as I mentioned the other week, Bob Mould did an album called
"District Line".

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Basil Jet wrote:

On 18/07/2010 11:46, MaxB wrote:

The Bakerloo seems to have done OK from Waterloo Sunset to Warwick
Avenue via Baker Street (and you could add the Lambeth (North) Walk I
suppose.

The BBC have a rehearsal studio in Delaware Road, which was where many
Peel Sessions were recorded, including the Can song "Up The Bakerloo
Line With Anne".

Siouxsie & The Banshees did a song called "Circle" which has many
Underground line references.

And, as I mentioned the other week, Bob Mould did an album called
"District Line".

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine's '24 Minutes from Tulse Hill' has the
rarer distinction of being a song about a London BR station (or service,
in fact - the Sutton - London Bridge one). And in that neighbourhood, i
don't know if you count 'The Indestructible Beat of South Norwood' as
being related to the station or the township, er, neighbourhood.

This question gets asked occasionally; we really ought to compile a
comprehensive list.

The guys on ILM have tried:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelec...readi d=23486

But sadly the guys on ILM are all congenital syphilitics. An unidentified
human or humans have done well:

http://tubechallenge.pbworks.com/TubeSongs

And i'm positive Inspiral Carpets got their name from a French magazine
article about Holloway Road ...

tom

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YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND. --
Kathy Acker, Empire of the Senseless

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:11:47 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:


This question gets asked occasionally; we really ought to compile a
comprehensive list.

The guys on ILM have tried:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelec...rollerServlet?
boardid=41&threadid=23486

But sadly the guys on ILM are all congenital syphilitics. An
unidentified human or humans have done well:

http://tubechallenge.pbworks.com/TubeSongs


Both useless. They don't include Willie Rushton's "Neasden", a song
which also mentions Tufnell Park, Golders Green, Harlesden, Ongar ("on
the dear old Central line"), Ruislip, and Tooting Bec ("where sheep may
safely graze"), as well as Orpington and East Sheen out in NR territory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLa-KfO7m0

"solar penguin" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:11:47 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:


This question gets asked occasionally; we really ought to compile a
comprehensive list.

The guys on ILM have tried:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelec...rollerServlet?
boardid=41&threadid=23486

But sadly the guys on ILM are all congenital syphilitics. An
unidentified human or humans have done well:

http://tubechallenge.pbworks.com/TubeSongs


Both useless. They don't include Willie Rushton's "Neasden", a song
which also mentions Tufnell Park, Golders Green, Harlesden, Ongar ("on
the dear old Central line"), Ruislip, and Tooting Bec ("where sheep may
safely graze"), as well as Orpington and East Sheen out in NR territory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLa-KfO7m0

There's also Fred Wedlock's "The Hippies and the Hairies-O" Which has both
Euston and Chorleywood on LU as well as Knebworth on NR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1tqIP5WKmw
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Cheers, Steve.
Change jealous to sad to reply.

On 19 July, 06:29, solar penguin wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:11:47 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

This question gets asked occasionally; we really ought to compile a
comprehensive list.

The guys on ILM have tried:

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelec...rollerServlet?

boardid=41&threadid=23486



But sadly the guys on ILM are all congenital syphilitics. An
unidentified human or humans have done well:

http://tubechallenge.pbworks.com/TubeSongs

Both useless. *They don't include Willie Rushton's "Neasden", a song
which also mentions Tufnell Park, Golders Green, Harlesden, Ongar ("on
the dear old Central line"), Ruislip, and Tooting Bec ("where sheep may
safely graze"), as well as Orpington and East Sheen out in NR territory.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsLa-KfO7m0

The fictitious "next stop on the tube: Marylebone Road" is mentioned
in Barry Andrews's wonderful "Rossmore Road NW1". It contains a
mixture of true things and things that were probably only true about
adjacent roads.

It also mentions "Regents Park", but referring to the park.

Tom Anderson wrote:
This question gets asked occasionally; we really ought to compile a
comprehensive list.
[snip]
But sadly the guys on ILM are all congenital syphilitics. An unidentified
human or humans have done well:

http://tubechallenge.pbworks.com/TubeSongs

This is a wiki, if anyone feels like adding to it...

Some more, that wouldn't all count as 'pop' songs...
(but neither do many on that page)

All Saints
"For all the Saints" (hymn)

Temple
lots of hymns

Hainault, Fairlop
"Come, come my boys" (18th century)
"To Hainault Forest Queen Anne did ride,
And saw the old oak standing by her side,
And as she looked at it from bottom to top,
She said to her Court, it should be at Fairlop."
http://www.hainaultforest.co.uk/3Fairlop%20Oak.htm

New Cross
"The Only Living Boy in New Cross", Carter USM, 1992
"Don't let it pass you by", UB40
"New Cross was no gate-crash bomb...
Rightful justice must be done!
Burn two spliff and rock to the riddem
Burn two spliff and rock to the riddem
We don't deal with Isim Scisim
We don't deal with Isim Scisim"
(and various others about the 1981 New Cross fire)


I suspect there are many more if you just google "station name song".

Theo

On 18/07/2010 11:46, MaxB wrote:
The Bakerloo seems to have done OK from Waterloo Sunset to Warwick
Avenue via Baker Street (and you could add the Lambeth (North) Walk I
suppose. I can't recall any other line getting similar treatment?

MaxB

There's Finchly Central on the Northern Line.

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:05:12 +0100, dB wrote:

On 18/07/2010 11:46, MaxB wrote:
The Bakerloo seems to have done OK from Waterloo Sunset to Warwick
Avenue via Baker Street (and you could add the Lambeth (North) Walk I
suppose. I can't recall any other line getting similar treatment?

MaxB

There's Finchly Central on the Northern Line.

The New Vaudeville Band?

On 18 July, 16:18, wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:05:12 +0100, dB wrote:
On 18/07/2010 11:46, MaxB wrote:
The Bakerloo seems to have done OK from Waterloo Sunset to Warwick
Avenue via Baker Street (and you could add the Lambeth (North) Walk I
suppose. I can't recall any other line getting similar treatment?

MaxB

There's Finchly Central on the Northern Line.

The New Vaudeville Band?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvMYHbN5baw