Tonight I am intrigued to know what everyone's favourite tunes about New York are. Could be just the slightest mention of the city, or a whole song devoted to the world's finest. :D :D

I shall start thee off.

(In no particular order...)

KISS- Back In The New York Groove
Billy Joel- Why Should I Worry
American Tail Sdtrk- There are no cats in America
Jon Bon Jovi- Midnight in Chelsea (although written about the London Chelsea the video was filmed in the NYC Chelsea :P )
U2- Angel of Harlem
David Bowie- New Killer Star

Discuss. :thumbsup:

New York, New York lol

Fairytale of New York

"They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When he first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me"

On Broadway - The Drifters:thumbsup:

Sting - Englishman in new york

Originally posted by RPG
Sting - Englishman in new york


Doh...I knew I was forgetting something!!

In the words of Saturday Night Live (filmed in New York of course)
Stink.


:D

The Irish Rover

On the fourth of July eighteen hundred and six
We set sail from the sweet cove of Cork
We were sailing away with a cargo of bricks
For the grand city hall in New York

Cue Shane McGowan toothlesss grin/sneer :)

I almost forgot, My my metro card by Le Tigre.

For me - The Fairytale of New York, also.

I'd have to go with Nas ~ 'Get Down'

Nas - Get down is good... didn't realise it was about NYC tho!

with apologies - naughty language!

[Nas]
Uh.. uh.. uh..
New York streets,
Where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete
And Pappy Mason,
Gave the young boys admiration
Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem,
Street legends
The drugs kept the hood from starvin
Pushin cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's
But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities
Worldwide on the thorough side of things
Livest kings, some died

One guy, one time, one day, grabs me
As I'm about to blast heat
40-side of Vernon, I turned, well he asked me:
"What you up to, the cops gon' bust you"
I was a teen drunk off brew,
Stumbled, I wondered if God sent him,
Cause two squad cars entered the block
And looked at us,
I ain't flinch when they watched
I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror,
Brushed my hair, starin at a young disciple,
I almost gave my life to what the dice do
Yeah man, throwin them bones

Hopin my ace get his case thrown
His girl ain't wait for him,
She in the world straight hoe'in
While he lookin at centerfolds of pretty girls,
Showin they little cooch
Gangstas don't die, he's livin proof
The D.A. who tried him was lying
A white dude, killed his mother durin the case
Hung jury, now the D.A. is bein replaced
Pre-trial hearing is over,
It's real for the soldier
Walks in the courtroom,
The look in his eyes is wild
Triple-homicide, I sit in the back aisle
I wanna crack a smile when I see him
Throw up a fist for black power,
Cause all we want is his freedom
He grabbed a court officer's gun
And started squeezin
Then he grabbed the judge, screams out:
"Nobody leavin! Everybody get down!"


CHORUS: [James Brown]
Get down!
Get down, get down!

Everybody..
Get down, get down!
Get down, get down!


[Nas]
Some niggaz **** they enemies in they ass
When they catch 'em
Weird-ass niggaz who dangerous,
So don't test 'em,
They make you dissapear
This a year that I won't forget,
Sold CD's double platinum, met more execs
Southern niggaz, independent label, real killers
Know the business, ran Tennessee for years,
Now they chillin
They had the coke game summed crazy,
Sold music out the trunk of they car,
That **** amazed me
Put me onto heroin blunts, sherm or somethin
Took a puff, what the ****,
I turned to punch them
Southern niggaz ain't slow,
Nigga tried to play me
I left from around them dudes,
They cool but they crazy
Now I'm back around the old school
That raised me
New York gangstas, we loungin out in L.A.

See, a dude wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay
The letter said:
"Nas, I got your back, the fools don't play"
I rolled with some Crips
Down to a Crenshaw funeral
Never saw so many men slaughtered
And I knew the hoe responsible
The nigga still alive in a hospital
Midnight they crept in his room,
And shot the doctor too

See my cousin's in the game, thuggin and things
He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano
Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano
She passed me the indigo,
But the imbecile shoulda never tippy-toed,
Thought my eyes were closed
Openin the hotel room door, to let her goons in
But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li ****
I let the hammers blow, wet three kids
See, honey thought I had somethin to do
With all the drama
Cause I was with a crew, that had her people killed
Called up my cousin,
Told him "I ain't ****in with you"
He responded cool, but told me:
"Out here, this how mother****ers get down"


-CHORUS-


All I really gotta say is that,
If that's how our people gon' get down,
How we ever gon' get up?
How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down?
A shame when you ain't look at it
My folk is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk
Somebody gotta make a change..


well it starts off about New York.....!

Harlem Shuffle - Rolling Stones
Chelsea - Counting Crows

AC/DC - Safe in New York City

The Stokes - New York City Cops.

Only New York going on or Living in NYC both by Francis Dunnery - lovely stuff

(I love these opporunities to mention FD in the hope that someone else might listen to him one day!!)

Road to Hell - Chris Rea :D

(cant help meself sometimes)

Um got to agree Fairytale of New York - the original Pogues and Kirsty McColl one not the pap Ronan Keating verson!

Originally posted by Mosherchik
Road to Hell - Chris Rea :D

(cant help meself sometimes)

Um got to agree Fairytale of New York - the original Pogues and Kirsty McColl one not the pap Ronan Keating verson!

Road to Hell ain't about New York though, apparently it's about the M4 corridor in Bedfordshire.... hence "I said momma I've come to the Valley of the rich" line in the first verse, because apparently there's NOBODY without a job in that part of Bedfordshire.

I originally thought it was about the M25 road to London.

Originally posted by Rich
Road to Hell ain't about New York though...

:D

Hell? New York? Hmmmmmmmm not really seeing any difference :D
Don't mind me Ive taken some extra flippancy pills this morning :thumbsup: