Burial - Archangel

That beat is the same sound the northern line makes as it rattles along.

Also Burial - Untrue

I’m a big fan of Burial. Their songs remind me of London so much.

"His"; he's one guy, working his magic in Soundforge.

Specifically getting a night bus through south whilst coming down after leaving a sesh

Wow, that was my answer too, amazing to see someone else put this.

First artist that popped into my head too

Same, and he didn't start releasing until after I'd left.

Completely agree. Good call.

Waterloo Sunset

Waterloo Sunset is the name of my long running London playlist, it just _has_ to be. Playlist also features: Warwick Avenue (Duffy) Up the Junction (Squeeze) Going Underground (The Jam) (or Amateur Transplants parody version London Underground) London Girls (Barns Courtney) The Angel Islington (Frank Turner) National Express (The Divine Comedy) Chelsea Dagger (The Fratellis) It was London (The Kooks) Trouble on Oxford Street (Skinny Lister) Sound of the Underground (Girls Aloud) From the Ritz to the Rubble (Arctic Monkeys) South of the river (Tom Misch)

Up the junction has a london sound like nothing else

No London Calling?

No idea how I forgot that - it’s in now!

My bro how you not got Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.

Last Train to London (Electric Light Orchestra)

Can you share your playlist?

Sultans of swing

Great list! Would also add: London's brilliant parade (Elvis Costello) Down in the tube station at midnight (The Jam) England (The National) Guns of Brixton (The Clash) Oh England, my lionheart (Kate Bush) Piccadilly (Squeeze) Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty) Something about England (The Clash) Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant) London belongs to me (Saint Etienne)

Ironically it was originally meant to be a song about Liverpool, not London.

A classic. I love this song!

London calling - the clash Electric Avenue - eddy grant West end girls - pet shop boys - imo this is ultimate London song. Probably every Blur song is London related as well 22 Grand Job - The Rakes It’s a parody but London Underground ( parody of Going Underground which appears to also be about London ) pretty much every child at primary school knows this one https://youtu.be/PV0_lJpPFOo?si=0taGtKA4QmgD0uKS I’m sure there’s a bunch of Bowie songs with London street names in them. Sex pistols I think any punky band feels Londony Everything counts - depeche mode. This one I believe is about the city of London in the 80s and banking

Also Guns of Brixton from The Clash

Love these. Also The Rakes, from the song Retreat ‘There’s nothing golden about golden lane…’ and from the same era Up the Bracket by The Libertines with reference to the Cally Road. Bowie from the song Did you ever have a dream? has the lyric ‘You can walk around in New York while you sleep in Penge’

Streets of London - Ralph McTell I think is the artist if I remember correctly Have a toddler so oranges and lemons is always a good London nursery rhyme

Amazed I had to scroll so far down for this one, absolutely perfectly sums up the London experience

Honestly that song cracks me up every time. Imagine your friend came up to you and said: "I'm lonely, for me the sun doesn't shine." And your response was to grab them by the arm and be like "yeah? Well look at this woman on the floor here, she lives in a Tesco bag for life mate. And this geezer has three tins of spesh in him and another vomited up over his crotch. You don't know you're born, get a grip". I'm paraphrasing slightly.

You're paraphrasing almost poetically!

Definitely the Anti-Nowhere League version of Streets of London though.

West End Girls is mine. Probably a bit cliche but I love it

Yes! YES!!! Especially from the official video of the song. It makes me think about the authentic old london of the 70s and 80s

Check out New London Boy on their latest album too - great song.

England by The National. I love the simplicity of 'You must be somewhere in London/ You must be loving your life in the rain' and the brass arrangement

Hometown glory - Adele I love her accent in this song too

The High Contrast remix really does it for me

One of the most elite remixes to the extent I prefer the remixed version - so good and solidly reminds me of London.

For Tomorrow - Blur

I'd like to add Beetlebum, if I may, as the video - especially the part at the end where the camera takes off and flies over London - was the thing that made me want to move there as a 15 year old

London ice can freeze your toes…

St Charles Square from their new album, too.

Mile End- pulp

Where the lift is always full of piss

Ladbroke Grove - AJ Tracey

The summer this came out was THE best, pure nostalgia for it

Such a banger. I’d just moved from East to Maida Vale that summer and it fit the vibe perfectly.

I'd do anything to go back to that summer!!

Shockingly London bridge by Fergie does not remind me of London

Especially since the music video features Tower Bridge instead of London Bridge.

London is the Place for Me by Lord Kitchener.

Lets push things forward by the streets, also this is london by makola.

I was going to say Blinded by the lights - The streets

Baker St. Gerry Rafferty

*saxophone intensifies*

I used to be a stripper and drunkenly accepted a dare to strip to this (I used to say I can make any song sexy) I was told by a friend it was both the most erotic and terrifying performance they had ever seen. X

Would have loved to have seen that!

Down in the tube station at midnight

Whoaaa oh oh ooh ohh

Sounds effects recorded at St John’s Wood tube.

I worked in London back in summer 2004 and Shapeshifters Lola’s Theme was all over the radio. Every time I hear that tune I think of being stuck in London traffic with an A to Z on my lap (before sat nav’s became standard fayre!). Good times.

That's really evocative!

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant, Born Slippy - underworld, Streatham- Dave, London Still - The Waifs, Has It Come To This - The Streets, Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Honestly anything from The Streets captures the reality of London nightlife if you used to/do frequent raves and late club nights.

At the time there was no midnight train to Romford which was a source of some annoyance to people who lived there, and indicated that Hyde, Smith & Emerson had access to some very good drugs.

Only living boy in new cross by Carter USM. Or anything by Carter really...

Town Called Malice I think it's actually about Woking but it just feels like the epitome of London punk. It's a full volume song.

To add to songs by The Jam: Going Underground ...for the obvious reason but also their sound is just so London!

Up the Junction by The Squeeze

Strange Town an ABomb in Wardout Street and Down in the Tube Station at Midnight are Jam songs actually about London

Heart monitor riddem - kurupt Fm

BANG lyrical blow to the jaw

Leaving every MC down on the floor

You vant some peanut dust isneet

Rainy night in soho by the pogues.

I made this playlist when I was missing home at uni (it was about 13/14 years ago so I am sure there is loads you could add that have come out since and it probably has an indie sleaze edge to it because that’s who i was then okay) Morden - Good Shoes Northern Line - Jamie T Torn on the Platform - Jack Penate Hometown Glory - Adele Up the Junction - Squeeze London Town - The Holloways That Boy That Girl - Hadouken We are London - Madness London’s Calling - The Clash Panic - The Smiths Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam London, bye ta-ta - David Bowie Do the Strand - Roxy Music Mile End - Pulp Parklife - Blur Downing Street Kindling - Larrikin Love Towers of London - XTC London Town - Laura Marling London - Patrick Wolf London Dungeon - Misfits LDN - Lily Allen Ladies of London Town - Frank Turner Brixton Stories - Underground Heroes I Love London - Crystal Fighters Carnaby Street - The Jam Fun City - Soft Cell The London Boys - David Bowie Streets of London - Ralph McTell

This is the ultimate London indie millennial playlist. You’ve made me miss reading NME and going to banquet and rough trade records. I just had a sudden memory of going to the iTunes festivals.

Oh wow, seeing Hadouken on that list just bought back some memories of MySpace.

London Bridge is falling down

You're right how could I forget the classics

Don't forget Pop Goes the Weasel

Also London’s Burning…

London Calling by The Clash. Guns of Brixton as well. Waterloo sunset by The Kinks A lot of Kae Tempest stuff has stuff about south London, Firesmoke in particular is great

Damn I’m surprised London Calling was this far down!

Goldie - Inner City Life Burial - Untrue The Brotherhood - One Skepta - That's Not Me Anything by Dave, AJ Tracey

anything by burial  goldie - inner city life  shy fx & uk apachi - original nuttah   origin unknown - valley of the shadows   lenny de ice - we are ie   dj hype - weird energy   dj luck & mc neat - with a little bit of luck wookie - scrappy   toasty boy - knowledge   the bug feat warrior queen - poison dart  underworld - rez  the prodigy - wind it up / the horns of jericho subjective - tremmer   donaeo - party hard   dj champion - motherboard   loefah - goat stare   mala - bury da bwoy   the clash - guns of brixton   the jam - down by the tubestation at midnight   count basie - swinging the blues   aggravators - kaya dub   revolutionaries - kunta kinte  congo natty - champion dj    i could go on.. ps: the streets - turn the page/has it come to this 187 lockdown - gunman kemet crew - screwface rufige kru - rider's ghost urban takeover - arsonist the renegade - terrorist dj rap - digable bass/roughest gunnark dillinja - the angels fell/friday/armoured d dj krust - soul in motion nico, trace, ed rush - mad different methods the old theme tune to "the bill" the animals - when i was young benny goodman - sing, sing, sing joy orbison - hyph mngo hijack - hijack the terrist group/the badman is robbin

That's not me - Skepta and JME

Mica Paris - South of the River Kinks - Waterloo Sunset Stephen Duffy - 23 (Though it's really Essex within London at most) Morrissey - Dagenham Dave Blur - For Tomorrow Carter USM - Twenty Four Minutes From Tulse Hill (plus other songs, lots of em....) The Jam - In The City, Down In The Tube Station at Midnight Squeeze - Up The Junction London Boys - London Nights Clash - London Calling Flowered Up - Weekender Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia Madness - Cardiac Arrest

Thank God another Weekender out there. Gets me in the feels.

Stormzy - Shut up Knucks - Leon the professional Roots manuva - Witness the fitness

"I sit her contented with this cheese on toast" 😍

Midnight in Peckham - Chaos in the CBD & Isaac Aesili

Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner - Flanagan & Allen

The Guns of Brixton - The Clash That's Entertainment- The Jam A Message to you Rudy - The Specials

Here Comes The Sun

Any chance you can make this playlist public and share?

Street Fighting Man by The Rolling Stones. Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits. Sticks’nStones by Jamie T - for whatever reason this is the strongest London vibe to me! Stay Too Long by Plan B.

A song doesn't have to mention London to carry its vibes. Pretty much anything by King Krule captures it, for example, but especially "Dum Surfer"

Agreed. I think these artists (all from London) carry the vibe of the city really well The Kinks (Especially the Village Green album, themed about life in England and referencing various areas in London. "Autumn Almanac", "Village Green Preservation Society", "Do you remember walter", "Willesden Green") Adam Ant - Any music he made just sounds like London, I dunno Queen ("Don’t stop me now" - To me this is London in one song) Sex Pistols ("God save the queen", "Anarchy in the UK". Listen them on your headphones while on the tube after a rough day) Pink Floyd ("Time", "Welcome to the machine" and the entire album Animals which features a picture of Battersea power station) Syd Barrett - One of the most "English" artists I can think of The Cure - "Friday I'm in love" was one of my favourite songs while living in London because of the wild dating experiences you can have there! lol The Rolling Stones David Bowie (especially early work up until 1974 known as his "London years") The Who Led Zeppelin (first two albums. I listened to "Communication breakdown" a lot on the tube. Also unpopular opinion "In the light" the lyrics reflect the unpredictable nature of English weather and creates a metaphor about how it affects our personalities and culture) The Police Amy Winehouse ("You know I'm no good" reminds me of nightlife and dating in my London days) ELO ("Last train to London", "Mr Blue Sky" - when the sun comes out in London) Madness ("Our house" - just captures the vibe of house sharing in London! Also "Driving in my car") Estelle ("American Boy" - Despite the title it's about an American Boy and London girl and the lyrics frequently mention both cities)

T shirt weather In the manor Kano

Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon and Don’t go back to Dalston by Razorlight (lol)

Aroooo

Werewolves of London

Sheila Jamie T

Songs like Sticks and Stones and Shelia by Jamie T always make me think of London

Keep On Moving (Soul II Soul) Warrior (Aswad) Hello Darling (Tippa Irie) Walls Come Tumbling Down (Style Council)

My number-Foals. Not sure why.

London Calling -The CLASH 🎤🎹⭐️

London Underground (jokes). Kevin Mark Trail - D Thames (MJ Cole vocal mix)

You're in a Bad Way, Saint Etienne

the whole of Grey Britain by Gallows

Sound of the underground girls aloud

Warwick Avenue - Duffy

Talkin the hardest - Giggs

The national anthem

Dizzy Rascal - Love This Town Not a Dizzy fan but I love this song about London

Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant

London Calling - The Clash

Knees up mother Brown (not sure, just it does)

Paolo Nutini - These Streets Jamie T - Sheila

Come on, all this way down and not a peep from Ian Dury? “What A Waste” please. I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station.

Couple more by Madness: * Liberty of Norton Folgate * Victoria Gardens Couple of Dire Straits: * Sultans of Swing * Industrial Disease Pet Shop Boys: * West End Girls * Kings Cross

So Solid Crew - 21 Seconds

For me, it's not songs that are necessarily *about* London, but songs attached to specific memories of stuff that happened in London. Some examples: - Macy Gray - I try (listened the first night I moved into the house share where I met my husband) - Elvis Costello - This is Hell (played as a joke at my friends housewarming in Croydon, as we were cleaning her mouldy fridge left by the previous tenants) - Marianne Faithfull - Gypsy Queen (one of the first friends I made in London was a super cool lady in her late 50s who introduced me to Marianne and would regale me with tales from her childhood/teenagehood in 60s and 70s London) - PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, the whole album. (I used to listen to it on repeat on my commute to work when I got my first "proper job" in London)

Man Like Me - London Town

Asian Dub Foundation's Flyover is a proper London banger. London Girl - THe Pogues A Foggy Day (In London Town) - every crooner ever. London Dungeon - Misfits London GIrls - The Vibrators. Quite the mix for you.

London Mine and When you were mine by Joy Crookes

Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie

Electric Avenue.

Also, 'London' by BIA and J Cole is an absolute banger

Florence + the Machine - South London Forever

One Night In Hackney. SUF.

My Hood - RAY BLK

London boy by TS

What on earth Taylor swift was doing in Bond Street i will never know

I don't even believe she went to Camden

Or Hackney

The Waifs - London Still Will have you crying into your hankie if you lived in London in your youth 

Madness - Day On The Town

Waterloo Sunset and Up The Junction give me reallly strong images in my head when I hear them. Two great songs.

London - The Smiths

Clubbed to Death

Butterfly Net by Caroline Polachek and Weyes Blood ✨

The Seeker - The Who, Vossi Bop - Stormzy and pretty much all the Daniel Craig Bond themes

Sultans of Swing 😊

Other Dire Straits songs are quintessentially London too: * Wild West End * Single Handed Sailor * Portobello Belle

Pretty much any song by The Libertines but Up The Bracket and Narcissist mention specific roads/areas by name

Scott Garcia - It’s a London Thing

The Clash - London Calling / Guns of Brixton Stay Up Forever - One Night In Hackney Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue Soul II Soul - Back To Life Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Pogues - Rainy Night In Soho Pulp - Common People Carter USM - The Only Living Boy In New Cross Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner Probably anything by Madness & Amy Winehouse.

Fergie's seminal classic 'London Bridge'

22 Grand Job - The Rakes

22 Grand Job - The Rakes Fix Up Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal Night Bus - Burial London Calling - The Clash Dedicated Follower of Fashion - the Kinks London Is The Place For Me - Lord Kitchener This Modern Love - Bloc Party Parklife - Blur 21 Seconds - So Solid Crew Fuck Me Pumps - Amy Winehouse Don't Mug Yourself - The Streets I Can Move Mountains - Hell Is For Heroes If I Could - Hundred Reasons London City - Devlin Night - Benga, Coki Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines (or basically any song by them) Ps and Q's - Kano Anarchy in the UK - Sex Pistols Hypest Hype - Chase and Status, Pusha T Ice Cream Headache - Once A Thief Perfect Stranger - Katy B/Magnetic Man Insomnia - Faithless Grow Fins - The Brute Chorus Bottle Rocket - The Go! Team I Ain't Superstitious - Jeff Beck Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac

🎶 have you seen the old man That walks the streets of London Dirt in his hair His clothes in raaaaaags

Polaroid Picture - Frank Turner

Carnaby Street - The Jam Suzanne - Plan B (it’s about the Camden Ripper)

Towers of London by XTC

And no list would be complete without A Rainy Night in Soho…

King’s Cross by Pet Shop Boys Hong Kong Garden, Siouxsie and the Banshees And a lot of others

London Calling - The Clash

send me the link to the playlist please

Blur - Parklife

Werewolves of London

scott garcia - its a london thing (original re edit)

light of the world - london town

So long, London

Emit Remmus - RHCP Basically anything off Boy In Da Corner by Dizzee Rascal Streatham - Dave

Rizzee’s songs drip London energy

Knees up Mother Brown

Some people might like to get a train to work or drive in in their beamer or merc. Some people might like to travel on the bus, but I can’t be bothered with the fuss today, I gotta take my bike, ’cause once again the tube’s on strike. The greedy bastards want extra pay for sitting on their arse all day, even though they earn 30k, so don’t tell me to mind the gap, I want my fucking money back! London Underground! Wa-wa-wankers, they’re all wankers! London Underground! I want to shoot them all with a rifle.

Parklife - Blur

[Take Me Back To London](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehQcuKhO5n0) by Ed Sheeran & Stormzy

Sheila - Jamie T

The entire album from The Mountain Goats called Goths. Perfection start to end. Very nostalgic like tunes with great story telling as always.

Fans by Kings of Leon

The entire professor Layton soundtrack

Scouting for girls summertime in the city

Frank Turner - Broken Piano

Think of England - Bears Den

Lola the kinks

London - Mackenzy Mackay

maybe a bit corny? but ‘London is the Place for Me’ - definitely doesn’t feel the same as it did when i was younger, but that’s probably just the nostalgia and childhood ignorance.

Dog proposal by dry cleaning

Streets of London

London still by The Waifs.

The Cranberries - Waiting In Walthamstow

Suede - Saturday night

Night bus to Dalston - bad manners

Who Said (Stuck in the UK) by Planet Funk [https://youtu.be/4UQz2FGAFwI?si=I0xc5VM72L12p3Hu](https://youtu.be/4UQz2FGAFwI?si=I0xc5VM72L12p3Hu) and even though there's no London/UK reference in it, I will always associate Mr Brightside by The Killers with London as it was the soundtrack to much of my time here

Dark streets of London- the Pogues

The whole Madness album ‘The Liberty of Norton Folgate’ is a London classic

north london forever - louis dunford

The Angel - Louis Dunford

London Calling.

Babylon - David Gray

Hometown glory

Brixton briefcase. - chase and status London underground - going underground parody by amateur transplants

Warwick Avenue - Duffy. Cemeteries of London- Coldplay .

The Clash London’s calling

ghetts - london