C90: Melancholy Urbanism

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The Kinks: Waterloo Sunset
East River Pipe: Make a Deal with the City
The Go-Betweens: Streets of Your Town
The Pretenders: My City Was Gone
Luna: Chinatown
Bill Withers: Harlem
The Mountain Goats: Going to Queens

What else?

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

anybody's version of "up on the roof"

― Bob Dylan’s harmonica can make it hard for office workers to concentrate. (Jody , Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:29 (twenty years ago)

Anybody except the bad doo-wop groups who walk through the 6 train. (But they mostly do "Under the Boardwalk.")

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Caetano Veloso: London, London

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Petula Clark: Downtown

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:42 (twenty years ago)

The Jam - Strange Town [not exactly melancholy, but close if you end up needing filler]
Roisin Murphy - Leaving the City
Saint Etienne - Side Streets

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Nick Drake: At The Chime Of the City Clock

John Foxx: Underpass

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Saturday, 13 May 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Tindersticks - City Sickness
Kraftwerk - Neon Lights

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:01 (twenty years ago)

VU - Ride Into The Sun

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

Ach, ye've smacked me all weepy, mars'll: goaway, goaway... .

― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Saturday, 13 May 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Dismemberment Plan 'The City'...."the city's been dead since you've been gone"

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Saint Etienne - "London Belongs to Me"
Moose - "Uptown Invisible"

― hank (hank s), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:59 (twenty years ago)

Gene Clark - Los Angeles

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

http://www.songlyricscollection.com/lyrics/k/kool-g-rap-and-dj-polo/wanted-dead-or-alive/wanted-dead-or-alive.jpg
http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B000003R65.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
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― -+-+-+-+++, Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

pulp - wickerman. though it may be more "wistful" than melancholy.
springsteen - atlantic city

― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

West End Girls owns this thread.

― Palomino (Palomino), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Palomino took the words out of my mouth.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Bryan Ferry 'Don't stop the dance'

― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Sunday, 14 May 2006 08:00 (twenty years ago)

The Clash: Broadway
The Clash: The Street Parade

― Jason Toon (Jason Toon), Monday, 15 May 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

Iggy's "The Passenger" of course. Lyrics made all the more melancholy by that jaunty beat.

― bendy (bendy), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Bananarama's "Cruel Summer."

Style Council's "Paris Match."

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:29 (twenty years ago)

The Pogues: "Lullaby of London"
Belle and Sebastian: "This is just a modern rock song" amongst others.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

The start of "Kids in America" by Kim Wilde

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Actually, most of the Lost in Translation soundtrack works too, I think.

― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Todd Rundgren, "Boat On The Charles"

― hank (hank s), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Mekons -- Journey to the End of the Night

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 15 May 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

the fall: "edinburgh man". worked for me, anyway.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

Everything But The Girl "Five Fathoms"

― Baaderonixx rides the neon lights (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Kiss "Black Diamond"

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

"Cold Gin" too

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:43 (twenty years ago)

the organ - memorise the city

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:45 (twenty years ago)

Not "anybody's" version of "Up On The Roof" - I mean, Laura Nyro's version, absolutely, but Robson and Jerome's?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:48 (twenty years ago)

The Orange Glow of a Stranger's Living Room- Smog

" I walk the city streets at night, and I'm scared shitless"

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 07:58 (twenty years ago)

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