Best songs about New York?!

[starchild 10]

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

 

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 )

U2- Angel of Harlem

David Bowie- New Killer Star

 

Discuss.

[qazitory 10]

New York, New York lol

[tslogf74 10]

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"

[DaBouncer 13]

On Broadway - The Drifters:thumbsup:

[RPG 10]

Sting - Englishman in new york

[starchild 10]

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.

 

 

[Tony 10]

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

[tslogf74 10]

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

[Sam Miguel 10]

For me - The Fairytale of New York, also.

[spook 10]

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

[DaBouncer 13]

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

[spook 10]

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.....!