Street Songs
by Pete

We’ve spent all this time building up our digital music libraries, so why not tinker around with them a bit and have some fun? Last week I explored tunes that clocked in at 2:28. This week, I take it to the streets.
The exercise this week is to locate your street songs. I’m not talkin’ lanes, avenues, roads, courts, and the like. Nuh-uh. I’m talkin’ Streets.
What’s more, I’m looking for songs that are simply names of Streets. “Oak Street”, “Main Street”, “This Street”, “That Street”. So that leaves out a lot of quality tunes obviously (“Positively 4th Street”, “Incident on 57th Street”, to name a couple). I’m interested to see what other “Street” gems are out there. So use the Search area of your favorite media player, look for some “___ Street” songs, and drop some into the comments.
Me? I came up with 17 streets. Here are four of my tops…
- Christian St. (mp3) – Marah | An ode to their hometown of Philadelphia, this is on Marah’s 2nd album, Kids in Philly
. It’s my favorite Marah album – just bristling with life. I spent the better part of the year 2000 with this record.
- Straylin Street - Pete Droge | From Pete’s ‘94 album, Necktie Second
.
- Great Jones Street - Luna | Never owned any other Luna albums other than Bewitched
, but this song is a soft stunner. They had me at Great.
- Cherry Street – JJ Cale | From JJ’s latest, Roll On
(a concept album about deodorant. Just kidding.).
The Others…
Alphabet Street – Prince
Boogie Street – Leonard Cohen
Dominick St. – Steve Earle
Grafton Street – Nancy Griffith
Grey Street – Dave Matthews Band
Highway One Zero Street – Joe Strummer
Lonely Street – Bap Kennedy
Love Street – World Party
Meadowlake Street – Ryan Adams
Rain Street – The Pogues
Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead
Shouting Street – Joe Strummer
South Street – The Orlons


November 5, 2009 - 9:36 pm
Green Flower Street – Donald Fagan
November 6, 2009 - 7:32 am
This one turned up a ton of tracks, here’s a selection:
2Pac – Run tha Streetz (feat. Michel’le, Mutah and Storm)
2Pac – The Streetz R Deathrow
Alexisonfire – Emerald Street
Big Star - In the Street
Bill Evans – On Green Dolphin Street
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Blue States – Alphabet Street
Bon Jovi – Wild in the Streets
Brothers Johnson – Streetwave
Bruce Springsteen – Streets of Philadelphia
Chet Atkins – Main Street Breakdown
Counting Crows – Sullivan Street
Dave Matthews Band – Grey Street
David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing in the Street
Death Cab for Cutie – State Street Residential
Deftones - Street Carp
Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble – Pine Tree & On the Street
Down to the Bone – On the Corner of Darcy Street
Ebony Alleyne – Every Lonely Street
Fatback Band – Njia Walk (Street Walk)
Jay-Z – Streets Is Talking (feat. Beanie Sigel)
Jay-Z – Streets Is Watching
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Burnin’ Streets
John Coltrane – Straight Street
Kanye West – Street Lights
lanterna – B Minor (From “Elm Street”)
Less Than Jake – Theme Song for H Street
Loverboy – Gangs in the Street
Lupe Fiasco – Streets on Fire
Martha and the Vandellas – Dancing in the Street
Mazarati – Lonely Girl On Bourbon Street
Mike Stern – Jones Street
Nas – Street Dreams
Paolo Nutini – These Streets
Pet Shop Boys – Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off You)
Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street
Prince – Alphabet Street
Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rob Thomas – Streetcorner Symphony
Rod Stewart – Street Fighting Man
Slough Feg – Street Jammer
The Black Crowes – Locust Street
The Cure – Fascination Street
The Cure – Fascination Street (extended mix)
The Cure – Fascination Street (live)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Blue Shadows in the Street
The Doobie Brothers – Takin’ It to the Streets
The Go-Betweens – Streets of Your Town
The Moments – Love On A Two Way Street
The Rolling Stones – Streets of Love
The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man
The Slackers – Don’t Forget the Streets
Tony Allen – Where the Streets Have No Name
U2 – Where the Streets Have No Name
Van Halen – Dancing in the Street
Van Halen – Mean Street
Weather Report – Brown Street
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis – Basin Street Blues
Wyclef Jean – Street Jeopardy
November 6, 2009 - 8:15 am
Thanks Michael…. but someone didn’t read the fine print!
“_____ Street” format only.
So Brown Street, Fascination Street, Mercy Street ….
November 6, 2009 - 8:24 am
Busted!
November 6, 2009 - 8:29 am
Some Others:
Pony Street – Elvis Costello
Killermont Street – Aztec Camera
Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
Carnaby Street – The Jam
14th Street – Laura Cantrell
Depot Street – Mudcrutch
Uneasy Street – Pete Townshend
Psycho Street – Richard Thompson
Galbraith Street – Ron Sexsmith
Bleecker Street – Simon and Garfunkel
Sunday Street – Squeeze
Easy Street – Randy Newman
November 6, 2009 - 10:42 am
Vine Street by Randy Newman
November 6, 2009 - 10:44 am
Oh, and Pleasant Street by Tim Buckley.
November 6, 2009 - 8:58 pm
“Baker Street” (Gerry Rafferty Cover) by Foo Fighters (The Color and The Shape
“Bleeker Street” by Simon & Garfunkel (Collected Works)
“Lonely Street” by Willie Nelson (Milk Cow Blues)
“Love Street” by The Doors (Waiting For The Sun)
“Sullivan Street” by Counting Crows (Across A Wire: Live In New York City)
“Sullivan Street” by Counting Crows (August & Everything After)
“Toulouse Street” by The Doobie Brothers (Toulouse Street)
November 12, 2009 - 7:11 pm
Rainbow – Street Of Dreams
*better late than never :p
November 12, 2009 - 7:29 pm
Better Than Ezra – State Street State Of Mind
Bob Seger – Main Street
Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street
Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street
Bruce Springsteen – Backstreets
Bruce Springsteen – Racing In The Streets
Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Fire
Chicago – Hot Streets
Chicago – Street Player
Dio – Evil On Queen Street
Dire Straits – On Every Street
Edgar Winter Group – Easy Street
Johnny Cash – The Streets Of Laredo
Kansas – Lonely Street
Night Ranger – Sentimental Street
Poco – Streets Of Paradise
Roger Whittaker – Streets Of London
Stacy Lattisaw – Love On A Two-Way Street
Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street
The Crusaders Featuring Randy Crawford – Street Life