Street Songs
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. – 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
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Donna
Green Flower Street – Donald Fagan
Michael
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
Pete
Thanks Michael…. but someone didn’t read the fine print!
“_____ Street” format only.
So Brown Street, Fascination Street, Mercy Street ….
Michael
Busted!
Dave Lifton
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
Johnny Bacardi
Vine Street by Randy Newman
Johnny Bacardi
Oh, and Pleasant Street by Tim Buckley.
AWJ
“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)
WallOfSound
Rainbow – Street Of Dreams
*better late than never :p
WallOfSound
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