Songs with New York in them

[floydian slip]

ok last city thread.


previously mentioned:

Grateful Dead - Trukin
Martha and the V's - Dancin' in the Street



Im going back to New York City I do believe Iv'e had enough

Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues

The same sample is also on Check your Head by the Beastie Boys - finga lickin' good yall



Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

[Bronxie]

Billy Joel - "New York state of mind"

[napho]

I just saw the movie Midnight Cowboy and one of the songs on the CD was I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City.

A great disco song called Native New Yorker

[zombywoof]

The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman

I met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder,
Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind.

It's the honky tonk women,
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

I laid a divorcee in New York City,
I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady, then she covered me in roses,
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.

It's the honky tonk women,
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
It's the honky tonk women,
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.
It's the honky tonk women,
That gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

[Ramona_A_Stone]

I
See
Faces
And
Traces
Of
Home
Back in New York City

So
You think
I'm a tough kid?
Is that what you heard?
Yeah well I like to see some action
And it gets into my blood.
They call me
The trail blazer
Rael
Electric razor
I'm the pitcher
In the chain gang
We don't believe in pain
'Cause we're only
As strong
Yes we're only as strong
as the weakest link
In the chain

Let me out of Pontiac
When I was just
Seventeen
I
Had
To
Get
It
Out
Of
Me
If you know
What I mean
What I mean

You say
I must be crazy
'Cause I don't care who I hit
Who I hit
But I know it's me that's hitting out
And I'm
I'm not full of shit
I don't care who I hurt
I don't care who I do wrong
This is your mess I'm stuck in
I really don't belong
When I take out my bottle
filled up high with gasoline
You can tell by the night fires
Where Rael
Has been
Has been



P.S. I like this series of posts, I was waiting for you to do my hometown, which is mentioned in about 30 or so great songs I can think of off the top of my head. (ok, some not so great) ...but don't stop now!

[floydian slip]

cool, a green light


Daddy Dont Live in That New York City No More - Steely Dan

[floydian slip]

The Police in New York City
Chased a boy right thru the park
In a case of mistaken identity
they shoved a broomstick up his ass

Heartbreaker - Rolling Stones
also by the Stones
http://www.napsterites.net/undergrou...&threadid=9054

Manhatten and Big Apple are mentioned

[kristof47]

Solid State - New York

R.O.M. Feat Marko Von Schoenberg - New York 2001

[Ramona_A_Stone]

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side

Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer

David Bowie - Jean Genie

Kate Bush - Moments of Pleasure

[LV15]

An imitation from New York
you're made in Japan from cheese and chalk
you're hippy tarts hero cos you put on a bad show
you put on a bad show oh don't it show

Still... out on those pills
Oh do you remenber...

Think it's swell playing Max's Kansas
you're looking bored and you're acting flash
with nothing in your gut you better keep your month shut
you better keep your month shut you're in a rut

Still... out on those pills
Oh do the sambo...

You're four years on you still look the same
I think it's about time you changed you brain
you're just a pile of SHIT you're coming to this
ya poor little FAGGOT
You're sealed with a kiss

Kiss me... Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Think it's swell playing in Japan
when everybody know Japan is a dishpan
you're just a pile of SHIT you're coming to this
You poor little FAGGOT
You're sealed with a kiss...

Pills cheap thrills Anadins Aspros anything
you're condemned to eternal bullshit
you're sealed with a kiss

Kiss me...

A kiss a kiss you're sealed with a kiss
A looking for a kiss you're coming to this
I wanna kiss...

You do just about anything
Oh kiss this
Eh boy

New York (Jones/Cook/Rotten/Matlock)

[LV15]

LIGHTNING STRIKES (NOT ONCE BUT TWICE)
(THE CLASH)

Now lightning strikes in old New York
It may be dark but I wanna talk
It might rain, it might snow
Too many things I got to know
If this is spring than it's time to sing
Never mind the l'il birdies wing
Look out, look out, old New York
New York's coming an' New York talks
Hey! Strike! Not once...
Strike! But twice!

Get out your money - peel a slab
Roll some notes an' hail a cab
Drive in church drive in back
Drive down Seventh in a tank
Take in the sights, feel the breeze
See New York's one and only tree
It can be found in Garbage park
But don't inspect it after dark
Strike! New York! Lightning!
Not once but twice.

Accidental hike in the transit strike
Roller skate or ride a bike
Three to a car, Brooklyn Bridge
You won't get far if you're privileged
Graffiti Jack sprays in black
An Englishman can he read it back?
Deli Joe he ought to know
He runs the gang on Pastrami Row
Strike! Lightning strike!

Because glass to glass, street to street
Buildings touch St. Peter's feet
From car to bar, prez to shah
Everything is in the jar
The 4 winds blow cos the 4 winds know
Takes a special hustle to make a roll
Honey girl on her feet
I wish everything to make her sweet
Strike! Twice! OK so roll!
From Harlem! Strike one!

Harlem slum to penthouse block
On every door I already knocked
There wasn't anybody that I didn't leave alone
Somebody lying under every stone
Everything that a man could need
In a bag down by my knee
That looks good, this ain't got seeds
Cheaper than booze down in the bowery
Lightning strike! Old New York!
Everything's light! Strike!

Hey ho such a night
I'll see y'all when the lightning strike
A polaroid caught in the act
You're married too and that's a fact
But I won't peek and I won't squeek
Down by the trucks on Christopher Street
It's Cuban Day - Oi Vey
Chinese New Year let's call it a day
Tootsie! Hey Chi man!
That melody is Puerto Rican
Hey Chi man is what he's speaking
An' there's the road down into London Town
Where many cars get broken down
It's the Westway from Ladbroke Grove
Runs down to Old Hounslow
Just thought I'd mention the new extention
That run's down the 59th street intersection
Did you hear the news y'all?
London Town on the Broadway!

[Bronxie]

"New York, New York" by Ryan Adams

Well, I shuffled through the city on the 4th of July
I had a firecracker waiting to blow
Breakin' like a rocket who makin' its way
To the cities of Mexico
Lived in an apartment out on Avenue A
I had a tar-hut on the corner of 10th
Had myself a lover who was finer than gold
But I've broken up and busted up since

And love don't play any games with me
Anymore like she did before
The world won't wait, so I better shake
That thing right out there through the door
Hell, I still love you, New York

Found myself a picture that would fit in the folds
Of my wallet and it stayed pretty good
Still amazed I didn't lose it on the roof of the place
When I was drunk and I was thinking of you
Every day the children they were singing their tune
Out on the streets and you could hear from inside
Used to take the subway up to Houston and 3rd
I would wait for you and I'd try to hide

And love won't play any games with me
Anymore if you don't want it to
The world won't wait and I watched you shake
But honey, I don't blame you
Hell, I still love you, New York
Hell, I still love you, New York
New York

I remember Christmas in the blistering cold
In a church on the upper west side
Babe, I stood their singing, I was holding your arm
You were holding my trust like a child
Found a lot of trouble out on Avenue B
But I tried to keep the overhead low
Farewell to the city and the love of my life
At least we left before we had to go

And love won't play any games with you
Anymore if you want 'em to
So we better shake this old thing out the door
I'll always be thinkin' of you
I'll always love you though New York
I'll always love you though New York, New York, New York

[LV15]

New York, London, Paris, Munich Everybodys talking bout pop music

[daddydirt]

Ad Libs - Boy From New York City (1965)

[Drake]

Englishman in Newyork by Sting
and these lyricas i don remember...but...take my word for it?

and...
Trial Of tears by Dream Theater

It's raining, raining,
On the streets of New York City
It's raining, raining, raining deep in heaven
Raining deep in heaven

[theflaco]

Ruben Blades "Pedro Navaja"

"Ocho millones de historias tiene la ciudad de Nueva York"

Bronxie must know this one!!

theflaco

[ipswichite]

Simon and Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy in New York

[ipswichite]

Eagles: New York Minute

[floydian slip]

I think its Sam Cooke but I heard it in Animal House - Twisting the Night Away

somewhere up the New York way
where the people are so gay
twistin the night away

Huey Lewis and the News - Heart of Rock and Roll


New York New York is everything the say
and No place that i'd rather be
where else can you do a haslf a million things
all at a quarter to three

[assorted]

I my favorite nyc songs with specific references inside nyc, probably since it's where i live...

People Who Died
By Jim Carroll

Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Refrain:
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died / I miss 'em--they died

Repeat Refrain

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others,
And I salute you brother/ This song is for you my brother

Repeat Refrain

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchen proof
"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly . . . Tony died

Repeat Refrain:

Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
He said, hey, I know it's dangerous,
but it sure beats Riker's
But the next day he got offed
by the very same bikers

Repeat Refrain; repeat song to Eddie

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famous blue raincoat
by Leonard Cohen

It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.

I hear that you're building your little house deep in the desert
You're living for nothing now, I hope you're keeping some kind of record.

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?

Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
You'd been to the station to meet every train
And you came home without Lili Marlene

And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobody's wife.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
One more thin gypsy thief
Well I see Jane's awake --

She sends her regards.

And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
What can I possibly say?
I guess that I miss you,
I guess I forgive you
I'm glad you stood in my way.

If you ever come by here, for Jane or for me
Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear --

Sincerely, L Cohen

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53rd & 3rd
Dee Dee Ramone

If you think you can, well come on man
I was a Green Beret in Vietnam
No more of your fairy stories
'Cause I got my other worries

53rd and 3rd Standing on the street
53rd and 3rd I'm tryin' to turn a trick
53rd and 3rd You're the one they never pick
53rd and 3rd Don't it make you feel sick?

Then I took out my razor blade
Then I did what God forbade
Now the cops are after me
But I proved that I'm no sissy

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"People Who Died" is just a great Jim Carroll song and a fun "gritty nyc song." The kind of song that scares people about NY which is why it's so much fun.

"Famous Blue Raincoat" is just a fucking great poem by itself; forget about the song or New York. Even though NY isn't so much a principle character, the idea of place is. Him being in NYC in the winter and his friend now being in the desert creates a nice stark contrast in landscape from the beginning of how seperate and far away they are now; both physically and emotionally by his actions.

"53rd and 3rd" is no longer a street for male prostitutes at all. That seedy element of NYC is pretty much gone now. However it was when Dee Dee Ramone was a teenager and allegedly he did try standing out there turning tricks for $$. Whether he was ever picked up or not is up for debate; but it's pretty certain even though he was known for always carrying a knife; he never actually stabbed anyone. Then again, I guess one never knows. Still, reading the lyrics to "53rd and 3rd" still gives me a chill.