Friday 22 January 2010

Capital tunes!

The project: compile a playlist of top London-centric tunes.

The rules: 20 songs had to be about the capital city or mention it in some way, they had to be on my iPod*, and each artist could only appear once.

The result:
  1. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
  2. I Love London (In Flagrante Vintage Mix) - Crystal Fighters
  3. London's Burning - The Clash**
  4. Do the Strand - Roxy Music
  5. Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
  6. London Loves - Blur
  7. Signs - Snoop Dogg feat. Charlie Wilson and Justin Timberlake
  8. Lola - The Kinks
  9. London Town - Light of the World
  10. Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
  11. Man Out of Time - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
  12. London Town (Foamo Remix) - Man Like Me
  13. Cool for Cats - Squeeze
  14. Old Smokey - Linda Lewis
  15. Chelsea Girl - Ride
  16. Strange Town - The Jam
  17. My Old Man - Ian Dury
  18. Sticks 'n' Stones - Jamie T
  19. Charlotte Street - Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
  20. You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones
* Underworld's Born Slippy and London by The Smiths would've made the list were they not, inexplicably, missing from my MP3 player.
**This should be White Man (in Hammersmith Palais), but that track is another bewildering omission, iPod-wise.