Oct 142015
Simple one. Name an album, song title, or lyric which contains the name of a street. Doesn’t have to be an actual street but must be in the form of an actual street. So “boulevard of broken dreams is out” but Rue Morgue Avenue – from Dylan’s “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues,” performed in the video by Nina Simone just because I stumbled upon it and like it – is in.
Standard rules. One entry at a time. Decision of the judge is final.
Where you’re likely to find Bob Seger: Main Street.
Which raises a question I’ll answer before it is asked. An street name can be used only once. There must be dozens of songs with Main Street in it but that’s off the table now.
Low-hanging fruit – Beatles with “Penny Lane”
Shakedown Street
The Cure – Fascination Street
The Dead gone Disco, what could be better?
It’s a match made in heaven!
down at the end of Lonely Street
(I thought I posted this earlier but must have not hit “Submit”. If it shows up twice, please count it as two points.)
Orlons – “South Street”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Wk98IH2fU
Ludlow Street — Suzanne Vega — from the somewhat overlooked 2001 album “Songs in Red and Gray” — ruminations on the breakup of her marriage to Mitch Froom and the death of her brother.
https://youtu.be/a9iYre-Q5Ts
This is all one entry:
“Funky Broadway” Wilson Pickett
“On Broadway” The Drifters
“Boogaloo Down Broadway” The Fantastic Johnny C
“Nights on Broadway” The Bee Gees
I’m sure you can add some.
Conversation off Floral Street – The Zombies
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway – Genesis (both song and album)
Eddy Grant – “Electric Avenue”
Van Morrison, Cypress Avenue
The Rolling Stones — “2120 South Michigan Avenue”
May have to figure out a way for bonus points for an entry that includes an exact address with number.
Utopia Parkway – Fountains of Wayne
Rolling Stones “Route 66”
Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street
Billy Joel – 52nd Street (song and album)
“Baker Street”—Gerry Rafferty
“Mercy Street”—Peter Gabriel
“Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”—Bruce Springsteen…and the E Street Band
SUCH a great album.
Remember – only one entry per post
Uh… “walking down hip street,” tower of power. I’m sure they have many fans here.
Some British group released an album called “Abbey Road.”
Does hip street intersect the boulevard of broken dreams anywhere?
And this seems like a good spot to throw in Booker T. & The MGs’ McLemore Avenue.
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? – Bruce Springsteen
“Boogie Street” — Leonard Cohen
Telephone Road – Steve Earle
Yes, at Broken Hip Circle.
Ryan Adams – Shakedown on 9th Street
Do intersections count if they don’t have the words “street” or “ave” attached?
If so, 53rd and 3rd.
More Bruce – E Street Shuffle
H. Munster, you’re one of our strongest LMS players. Remember, keep it to one entry per post, or DON’T BOGART THAT POST. Thanks!
Blue Jay Way (and that’s not the only “Way” that comes to mind…)
Steve Earle, Copperhead Road
Dire Straits, Telegraph Road
Eminem, 8 Mile Road
Professor Longhair, Mardi Gras in New Orleans
“You will see the Zulu King down on St. Claude and Dumaine.”
The Move’s “Blackberry Way”
The Standells, Riot on Sunset Strip
Louis Armstrong, Basin Street Blues
Is there an actual Love Street, as in the Doors song?
9th And Hennepin, if intersections count.
That is definitely allowable.
Lonely Street made it, so why not Love Street?
Positively 4th Street
Does This Bus Stop At 82nd Street?
52nd Street
9th & Hennepin
10th Avenue Freeze-Out
53rd & 3rd
How many numbered streets can we find?
I’ll add The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
But only Hennepin counts in this entry since 9th was already taken – Ryan Adams – Shakedown on 9th Street
Mott the Hoople – “Angel of Eighth Avenue”
Tobacco Road
Keyhole Street by Pete Ham on Golder’s Green
The Flamin’ Groovies’ “Shakin’ Street”
LAST MAN STANDING!
Not a chance!
“The Battle of All Saints Road” – Big Audio Dynamite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR9flFVy8DM
“Up to Lexington 125…” – “I’m Waiting for My Man”
Richard Hell & The Voidoids – Destiny Street (song and album)
Gin Blossoms, Allison Road.
LMS!
Another Bruce numbered street – Incident On 57th Street
Thunder Road.
Womp womp!
Funky Street – Arthur Conley, I think.
LMS!
14th Street – Rufus Wainwright.
Sweet Thursday – “Gilbert Street”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYppwaCTo8
Aztec Camera – Killermont Street
(also covered by Fountains of Wayne)
LMS!
Pink Floyd – “On Noodle Street”
Not dead yet!
Late Night, Maudlin Street, Morrissey
Most Recent Man Standing!
Jefferson Airplane – 2400 Fulton Street
Highway 61.
Jubilee Street – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VdIEOMHHsE
Vine Street – Randy Newman, as also performed by Nilsson and Van Dyke Parks.
LMS!
Procol Harum – “Lime Street Blues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqaieKiELc
The Kinks – Denmark Street
Donald Fagan – Green Flower Street.
Tom Waits – “Virginia Avenue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs4FAJRncMM
Back in 1973 when Tom still had a real singing voice.
Kraftwerk – Autobahn!
The Band – Yazoo Street Scandal
I love that song.
Green Dolphin Street – choose your preferred version
“Ventura Highway” — America
Donovan – Sunny Goodge Street
Creeque Alley – Mamas and the Papas
LMS for five minutes!
“There are stars in every city
In every house and on every street
And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Their names are written in concrete”
Kinks – “Celluloid Heroes”
I had no idea The Flamin Groovies covered that song. We are talking about the MC5 song, right?
10CC – The Wall Street Shuffle
Nick Lowe – Basing Street
In “Lafayette Blues” the White Stripes mention several Detroit streets including Lafayette.
“Dead End Street,” The Kinks!
The Clash – London Burning
“I’m up and down the Westway, in and out the lights
What a great traffic system – it’s so bright”
Lindsay Buckingham – Holiday Road.
The Go-Betweens: “Streets of Your Town”
“Yellow Brick Road,” Captain Beefheart.
Elton feels left out.
Aztec Camera – On the Avenue
“Pleasant Street” — Tim Buckley
Per the thread title, the streets have to have a name. U2 took care of all the streets with no name!
Ditto!
While I understand that the task is a specific street, I believe that the street being referenced is a particular one, even if it’s not named. Just like the Go-Betweens song is talking about particular streets as it references a specific town (your town). Maybe I’m just pushing the envelope 🙂
Burt Bacharach – “Bond Street”
Another Tom Waits song – “Kentucky Avenue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvZK8Wl7RQ8
I finally got back on this site & I have a song that fits this catagory to boot: “Denmark Street” by The Cleaners From Venus a/k/a Friend of the Hall Martin Newell:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tMHOyg0q2AQ
Ron Sexsmith – Galbraith Street
A song worth hearing – just don’t expect a party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ueNFKQYLw
The Go-Betweens had a mid-career album, called “16 Lovers Lane”
Be Bop Deluxe – “Down on Terminal Street”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DQQa1VgDnE
Roddy Frame (again) – Crossing Newbury Street.
Another Steve Earle song – “Hillbilly Highway”
Welcome back! But try again as Denmark Street (via the Kinks song with that name) has already been used.
XTC (and not friend of the Hall, Andy Partridge) – Respectable Street
Joni Mitchell mentions the Champs Elysee in “Free Man in Paris.”
The Pagans – Shit Street. One of Cleveland’s finest!
Another Go-Betweens album, “Bellavista Terrace.” I looked it up, as I wasn’t sure where it was – nice real estate there.
Tom Waits again – Fannin Street
Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”: “I lived with them on Montague Street…”
Mott – Crash Street Kidds
Elvis Costello – “Blue Murder On Union Avenue”
Awaiting judgment on: Pleasant Valley Sunday – Carole King/Monkees
The song refers to Pleasant Valley Road, in South Orange, NJ, even though the word “road” is not used.
Triumvirat – “Panic On 5th Avenue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2loyy15LvE
Bob Dylan, “Desolation Row”
We are on the honor system here at RTH so PVS is accepted.
More Bob, from Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag “He slid, slidin’ backwards down Rampart Street”
Jimmy Buffett – A1A
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Road_A1A
Everybody owns U2’s album, “Songs of Innocence” so of course you are familiar with their song, “Cedarwood Road.”
Simon and Garfunkel mention “the whores on Seventh Avenue” in “The Boxer.”
Freddie Cannon also mentions Sunset Strip in “Where the Action Is”.
I wish I was on the N17 – Saw Doctors
Bob Dylan, “Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)”: “There’s a neon light ablaze in the green smoky haze and laughter down on Elizabeth Street”
“Rolling down 295 out of Portland Maine…” Jackson Browne, Nothing But Time
Others mention it of course, but I’m sticking with Bob till I run out, “Talkin’ World War III Blues”: “I seen a Cadillac window uptown / And there was nobody around / I got into the driver’s seat and I drove down 42nd Street! / In my Cadillac. / Good car to drive after a war.”
Liberty Street, from The New Basement Tapes
Bourbon Street, from the old Basement Tapes
Kate Bush – Snowed In At Wheeler Street
LMS LMS!!
Christian Street – Marah
Aimee Mann – Columbus Ave.
From the “Smilers” album that I never gave a fair chance because I thought it was boring.
The Rutles, “Doubleback Alley”
Dylan, “Meet Me in the Morning,” “56th and Wabasha”
Kings Highway – Tom Petty/Joe Henry/etc
HP Lovecraft – “Country Boy & Bleeker Street”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdTZGPnz4uk
The Stones – Dance Pt. 1.
Hey, what am I doing standing here on the corner of West 8th Street and 6th Ave-nyue?
Elvis Costello – Pony Street
Anyone read his book yet?
Dire Straits – Wild West End
“I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue”
John Mayall – Saw Mill Gulch Road
Tom Petty — Kings Road (from Hard Promises)
Thanks, tonyola, for jogging my memory:
Gorrilaz: M1 A1.
Wow, never actually heard them. They’re, well, not good.
Bob Dylan, “Stuck Inside of Mobile” : “the bricks fall on Grand Street where the neon madmen climb”
The Go-Betweens, “Streets of Your Town:” “I took it down there to Sheridan Street…”
Bob Dylan, “Senor”: “can you tell me where we’re heading / Lincoln County Road or Armageddon”
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers talking about cruising down Highway 128 in “Roadrunner.”
Bob Dylan, “Sara” : “You were there in the winter, moonlight on the snow / And on Lily Pond Lane when the weather was warm”
NJ Turnpike – Simon & Garfunkel’s “America”
The LIE – Laser Show, Fountains of Wayne
‘A’ Bomb In Wardour Street – The Jam
LMS again!
LMKR jogged my memory with “M1 A1”:
Paul McCartney references in “Helen Wheels” a Kendal Freeway and the M6.
ELO – “Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre)”
Gun Club — “House on Highland Avenue”
Mermaid Avenue – Wilco and Billy Brag
From the previously cited Denmark Street by the Kinks – “Down the way from the Tottenham Court Road’
The Posies — “Sweethearts of Rodeo Drive”
Wilbert Harrison, “Kansas City” : “standing on the corner / 12th Street and Vine”
LMS LMS LMS
The National – The Geese of Beverly Road (located in beeyoutiful Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, I believe)
Free Love Freeway by Ricky Gervais with Noel Gallagher. This probably also takes the Hot Love Highway off the board unless it’s mentioned in another song.
https://youtu.be/tvyTNJ1o2c0?t=1m14s
Another one from Mott the Hoople – “Carch Street Kidds”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3SN_P3cvbQ
I used to see the band Crash Street Kids in college.
Mid-80s power trio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc7gz1wzfcE
The cover of their record is a good one for this LMS
Van Morrison, “On Hyndford Street”
Neil Young & Randy Bachman – Prairie Town
The song mentions the intersection of Portage avenue and Main street in Winnipeg which is said to be the coldest intersection in Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVgjD8wdNzo
Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley
Prince – Alphabet Street
Take that SUCKAZ!!!!
Van Morrison, “Quality Street”
LMS.
Route 88 from “Spirit in the Night” — there LOTS of Bruce left.
Loudon Wainwright III – Carmine Street
And I have a question. If I have a specific intersection, but the two streets have each already been covered, am I SOL?
For now will go with the Duke Street Kings from Backstreets.
I-76, G-Love
The road on which the Greyhound Bus was travelling when the Ramblin’ Man was born in the back seat — Highway 41.
I meant rolling
Yes, you are on the corner of S and OL!
Richard Thompson – Psycho Street
This is getting epic, you guys.
Richard Thompson in Al Bowlly’s In Heaven – “Beats standing all day down on Scarborough Street”
Clapton’s back from the dead album 461 Ocean Boulevard.
I’m late to the party but I’m just getting going.
LMS
Springsteen, ball hog that he is, is jealous.
It’s OK, I spend a lot of time there.
Bob Seger – Horizontal Bop
The song mentions something about “pony cars cruising on Woodward Avenue..”
Oh, I know, how about:
Walking Down Madison, by Kirsty Macoll
Jesse Malin is burning on The Bowery
Tom Petty – “American Girl”
she could hear the cars roll by out on 441 like waves crashing on the beach
Thomas Dolby – “Cloudburst at Shingle Street”
The Kinks’ Dedicated Follower of Fashion is seen on Regent Street.
The Minutemen’s album title Double Nickels On The Dime refers to doing 55 mph on Route 110.
Elvis Presley Boulevard – Tennessee Plates by John Hiatt
In Jan and Dean’s “The Little Old Lady from Pasadena,” the protagonist is described as “the terror of Colorado Boulevard.”
Not sure if Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band counts — no self-titled album — so I’ll go with
“Across 110th Street,” Bobby Womack.
Back to Bob on Dirge – “a trip down Suicide Road”
Jonathan Richman, “Twilight in Boston” : “Now we’re walking up Beacon Street / Through the Back Bay there”
L.M.S.
A soon-to-be-recorded Nixon’s Head song, “The Healer,” refers to California’s “the 5,” as they call it out there. I won’t count this as a Last Man Standing, because the song is not yet recorded let alone available for public consumption, but I’m just sayin’ that one day I will come back and post this entry for the win!
This is for my friend and fellow Genesis-devotee cdm.
The epic “Battle of Epping Forest” from Selling England By The Pound starts with some sort of problem with involving cars — luxury cars! — along the Forest Road.
Sonic Youth – Pacific Coast Highway
LMS!!
From Dylan’s first album comes Highway 51
Blue Rodeo mentions Toronto’s Queen Street in “Western Skies.”
We’ve all hung out on Love Street and been down to the end of Lonely Street but according to Uncle John’s Band when life looks like Easy Street there’s danger at your door.
Gasolin’ – “Lonesome Avenue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoVFtgqY8H4
Lloyd Cole, “tell your sister”
“Why don’t you come down to Rue Morgue Avenue?”
Procol Harum – “Crucifiction Lane”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCafiNz8hRs
As an aside, Cory Wells, one of the three original lead singers of Three Dog Night, has just died at the age of 74.
Rue Morgue Avenue started off this whole thread.
Dirty Blvd – Lou Reed the way he was meant to sound!
Last Man Standing – the way it was meant to be!
Oh dang! Ok.
How did that one stay on the board so long?
I just saw that and was talking some Three Dog Night with old friend dbuskirk.
Ugh, ok, Billy Joel, Moving Out
“he works for Mr caciatori down on Sullivan street…”
Ew… have some self esteem, Cher. You’re better than that.
Flamingo Lane – Jungleland, Bruce
Bow Street Runners – by the group of the same name. A few more comments and we’ll get this topic in the “Most Commented Posts” list!
To quote a previous entry (Highway 61 Revisited) “Yes, I think it can be very easily done”.
From Richard Thompson’s Beeswing “I took a job in the steamie down on Cauldrum Street”
We all have our low points.
Prison on Route 41 – Calexico
Uncle Floyd’s parody – Deep In The Heart Of Jersey – says “Route 17, the traffic there is mean”
Last Man Coughing
Robyn Hitchcock, “De Chirico Street”
“The Peppermint Twist” — Joey Dee and the Starlighters
“Meet me baby down on 45th Street”
The Kinks – Salvation Road
Tom Waits yet again – “I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)”
Seven Bridges Road – the eagles, dolly Parton, probably somebody else…
When Mark Cohn goes Walking in Memphis, he walks with his feet 10 feet off of Beale (and maybe his feet other places too, I’m not sure).
“All the People Who Died” — The Jim Carroll Band
Teddy sniffin’ glue, he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two Nine
Barclay James Harvest – “Polk Street Rag”
Lake Shore Drive – Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOrdtmG2IMM
Bassist Mitch Aliotta died three months ago at age 71, Here’s a clip of Aliotta in Rotary Connection with Minnie Riperton covering Lady Jane (after an extended psychedelic introduction):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1tZtL6oz44
Richard Thompson – The Boys Of Mutton Street
Sticking with the Windy City theme…
Chicago – Frank Sinatra
“On State Street, that great street, I just want to say, they do things they don’t do on Broadway.”
Thomas Dolby (again) – Screen Kiss
“Where every road has a name like Beachwood Avenue, or so it seems…”
Lou Reed – Halloween Parade
It’s a 3 fer because he mentions Christopher Street, Avenue B and Avenue D.
Jan & Dean’s Dead Man’s Curve – “He passed me at Doheny”
In Steely Dan’s “Bad Sneakers,” there’s a fearsome excavation on Magnolia Boulevard.
Aorta – “Sprinkle Road To Cork Street”: a two-fer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DRpn9bzRXc
“Rockin’ Robin” — Bobby Day, Jackson 5
All the little birds on Jaybird Street
Loved to hear the robin go “tweet tweet tweet”
The Ventures — “Slaughter on Tenth Avenue”
The Go-Betweens: “Karen”
“No Queen Street sex thing”
See #167 above.
I hate to catch people on technicalities, but the title is at stake.
Carnaby Street – The Jam
Francis Dunnery – One Night In Sauchiehall Street
Bob Dylan, “Joey” : “The sun turned cold over President Street and the town of Brooklyn mourned”
Madness – “Razor Blade Alley”
Springsteen drove his “Stolen Car” down Eldridge Avenue.
Boylston Street in “Modern World” by the Modern Lovers.
LMS.
Gordon Lightfoot – On Yonge Street
LMS?
Joni Michell – Jungle Line
“Through the class on Park and the trash on Vine”
(this is for Park, since Vine was used)
Duly noted.
Babe the Blue Ox = I 35.
“Woodyard Street” — Mike Bloomfield
John Lee Hooker, “Boogie Chillen” : “When I first came to town, people, I was walkin’ down Hastings Street…”
Let’s make it two by John Lee Hooker in a row.
“Motor City Is Burning”
”It started on 12th and Clairmount that morning”
Coverd by the MC5
That’s three in a row about Detroit. Woodyard Street is fictitious, but the song says it’s in Detroit.
Here’s Dan Bryk, with his song, “Spadina Expressway,” which was originally on his album called “Lover’s Leap.”
https://youtu.be/54e5v_0ad8c
“Freight Train” — Peter Paul and Mary
When I die please bury me deep
Down at the end of Bleecker Street
Bleeker Street was hit at 112. There’s a also a New Pornographer’s song, “Myriad Harbors,” where Daniel Bejar is “stranded at Bleeker and Broadway, looking for something to do.”
“Hello death, goodbye Avenue A”
Folk Song — Bongwater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdNW0qRh5s
Moon Unit says about the “Valley Girl,” “On Ventura, there she goes, She just bought some bitchen clothes.”
See #63.
Moody Blues – “Eternity Road”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjZO1f4jJ0
Replacements – Alex Chilton
“Checkin’ his stash by the trash at St. Mark’s place.”
Pico Blvd – “? (The Gay Bar Song)” by the Easy Hoes and later by Colorfinger
oops. In any event, in this one it’s pretty hard to sustain the glory of temporary LMS for very long, even falsely obtained.
A Tom Petty twofer: Mulholland and Ventura Boulevard in “Free Fallin.”
LMS! LMS! LMS!
“Love Street & Fool’s Road” — Solomon Burke
In DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince’s “Nightmare on My Street,” which I heard for the first time on radio this a.m., they name drop Elm Street.
For a better Halloween song in the same genre, I commend to you old school hip-hoppers Whodini’s “Haunted House of Rock,” “the last building to your left on a dead-end street” (I know, wouldn’t count), with lyrics like:
“The invisible man
Where could he be?
We know he got inside the party free
One of these days
They’re gonna catch him red-handed
If not for sneakin in free
For bein a booty bandit.”
Steely Dan — “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”
“We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row”
Way Down South in Greenwich Village – Tuli Kupferberg
Take your pick: Lenox Ave. or Horatio St.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYj4VGcCfiQ
Ricky Nelson — “Waitin’ in School”
“Five, six, get your kicks
At the corner of Lincoln and 46th”
I’m back!
Bunny Sigler – Just Let Me Love You Tonight
“Yeah, we used to sing down at 3rd and Fairmount,
Northern Liberties Recreational Center
It wasn’t a place for no beginners…”
Route 23 – Wayne Hancock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeDgcScTGrI
Elvis Costello – Rocking Horse Road
LMS!
Jonathan Richman, “Modern World”: “out on route 9 it’s bleak and nearly dying”
Absolutely LMS!
Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive
In 1965, Jackson Browne was seventeen and was “running up One-O-One.”
In 1977, I guess that makes him twenty-nine when he put out the hit “Running on Empty.” His high-water mark.
Highway 54 – Wayne Hancock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avSsoAut8SA
Hello.
Stanley Road – Paul Weller
87 Southbound – Wayne Hancock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OxpViKDNo0
“Come loon soon down Cromwell Road, man” from Donovan’s Sunny South Kensington.
Loads of roads in Texas.
Black Angels – Entrance Song
“Rollin’ fast down I-45” (also I-35 and 75)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v45VTqLziyY
(NSFW)
Ralph McTell – West Jones 2nd Street
Less Than Jake- 9th and Pine
for Pine since 9th is taken
Black Angels – Haunting at 1300 McKinley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXS2p1m5two
Although it’s off the board, for fans of exact addresses with numbers there’s also “An Occurrence at 4507 South Third Street” by the Black Angels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEcDvtfaXC8
Plow United- 85 E Cleveland
as in Ave
Pain Street
Neil Young — “Time Fades Away”
Moon Duo – Stumbling 22nd St.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj9bjoUbE1c
I guess this disqualifies “Park Avenue” as a submission. Nevertheless, if you haven’t heard it already, check out “Green Haze” by Elvis Hitler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFgxJsjqkg
John Lennon — “Menlove Ave.”
Bob Marley- Natty Dread
Then I walk up the first street,
And then I walk up the second street to see.
Then I trod on through third street,
And then I talk to some Dread on fourth street.
Natty Dreadlock in a fifth street,
And then I skip one fence to sixth street.
I’ve got to reach seventh street
Some are taken, some are not
LMS
34th and Vine
“Love Potion Number Nine” — The Searchers
Vine has been used, but not 34th.
Good thing I searched the page for Beale. Wanted to use Dave Van Ronk’s version of Cocaine :
“Walking down Beale Street,
gonna turn down Main,
lookin’ for a gal
that’ll sell cocaine”
Frank Sinatra- The Girl Next Door
So it’s clear to see there’s no hope for me,
Though I live at fifty-one thirty-five Kensngton Avenue,
And she lives at fifty-one thirty three.
Neil Young – Human Highway
Mike Doughty- No Peace, Los Angeles
“Coming down, Wilshire Boulevard
Blurry stream of light”
XTC – “Respectable Street”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5gc_-VZiTk
Oh damn – already spoken for.
Billy Joel- Big Man on Mullberry Street
Olympic Blvd.
“In 1964” — David Hidalgo and Louie Perez
Gower Avenue
“Desperadoes Under the Eaves” — Warren Zevon
Clinton Street
“Famous Blue Raincoat” — Leonard Cohen
“I-94” — Radio Birdman
“Avenue B”
an album by Iggy Pop
Island Park Drive
“Love Kills” by Radio Birdman
Tenth Street
“Laurie Did It’ by the Flamin’ Groovies
We had Tenth Avenue above, not Tenth Street.
Tonyola mentioned “South Street” by the Orlons in #7 above. That song also mentions East Street, West Street and North Avenue.
btw, that song from back in 1963 mentions the word “hippies”. I don’t know of any earlier use of the word in a song or anywhere else.
“Green Flower Street” — Steely Dan
Fredericks Street
“Dance Little Sister” — The Rolling Stones
“Toulouse Street”
An album by the Doobie Brothers
Green Street
mentioned in “Black Cow” by Steely Dan
Livernois Street
mentioned in “Psychedelic Used Car Lot Blues” by the Southbound Freeway, a local hit in Detroit in 1967
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s93D30OdLZw
Hemlock Road
mentioned in “Message from Turner” by Mick Jagger
Avenue D
mentioned in “Daddy Don’t Live in that New York City No More” by Steely Dan
And finally,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQo0uEfOFSU
Thanks for the good times, Mr. Moderator!
LAST MONSTER STANDING!
In response to Al (#49) — Slaughter on 10th Avenue – The Ventures
#54. Mr. Mod, are you sure you mean The Flamin’ Groovies? Wasn’t it by the MC5?