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TubeSongs

Page history last edited by Matt Westcott 11 years, 10 months ago

A listing of songs that reference the names of tube (and DLR) stations. Where the complete name isn't quite mentioned but it's a close match, this is listed as an honourable mention.

 

A

Acton Town

Aldgate

  • Redgum - So Goodbye

Your country home at Aldgate

Your horses and your friends

  • Ufo - Black Cold Coffee

They travelled up together

From the coast

East of Aldgate

Aldgate East

like a BEAST RELEASED from ALDGATE EAST

  • Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London

Waterloo and Clerkenwell

Out to Aldgate East as well

All Saints

Alperton

Amersham

Angel

  • Chiara - Angel
  • Robbie Williams - Angels
  • M People - Angel Street

and many more...

Archway

  • The Boo Radleys - Blue room in Archway

Arnos Grove

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Arnos Grove, San Clemente

Arsenal

  • Kidney Thieves - Arsenal

 

B

Baker Street

Comin' at ya! On a Jubilee train!

Stanmore to Baker Street's the route in my brain!

Let the Hammersmith and City take you anywhere but Baker Street 

Balham

I was going down to Balham

When somebody said, let's go to Clapham

Bank

And down on the Drain you can travel to Bank while reading a paper and having a...

Barbican

Barking

Barkingside

Barons Court

Bayswater

Beckton

Beckton Park

Becontree

Belsize Park

  • Marillion - Kayleigh

Do you remember, loving on the floor in Belsize Park

Bermondsey

  • Squeeze - 853-5937

She's in Mill Hill, I'm in Bermondsey, it's the end of the Earth on the Northern line

Bethnal Green

Blackfriars

Blackhorse Road

Blackwall

Bond Street

Borough

  • Toy Dolls - Blaze Of The Borough
  • Run-DMC / KRS-One - 5 Boroughs

Boston Manor

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Boston Manor, Costa Rica

Bounds Green

Bow Church

Honourable mention:

  • Traditional - Oranges and Lemons

"I do not know", says the great bell of Bow

Bow Road

Brent Cross

  • Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Oh, Mr. Peanut

Where'd you get that haircut?

Brent Cross Shopping Centre?

Brixton

  • Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London

Through Electric Avenue

Brixton down in southwest too

  • Marillion - Fugazi

This is Brixton chess

Bromley-by-Bow

Buckhurst Hill

And people laughed and said Well that's all all right then

As alien warriors marched into Buckhurst Hill

Burnt Oak

 

C

Caledonian Road

Camden Town

The Bakerloo is painted brown. It doesn't pass through Camden Town

  • The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central 

At Finchley Central, ten long stations

From Golders Green, change at Camden Town

Honourable mention:

  • Tarkio - Following Camden Down

You and me following Camden down

Canada Water

Canary Wharf

  • Robb Johnson - The London Eye

It's just Canary Wharf gets in the way

Canning Town

Cannon Street

Canons Park

Chalfont & Latimer

Chalk Farm

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Chalk Farm, Massif Central

Chancery Lane

  • Graham Parker - Bean Counter

From Wall Street to Hong Kong, Chinee to Chancery Lane

Charing Cross

Chesham

Chigwell

Chiswick Park

Chorleywood

Clapham Common

Clapham North

Clapham South

Cockfosters

Colindale

Colliers Wood

Covent Garden

  • Days of Fate - Covent Garden

Crossharbour & London Arena

Croxley

Custom House

Cutty Sark

Cyprus

 

D

Dagenham East

Dagenham Heathway

Debden

When the spacecraft crashed on Debden

It caused an increase in time

For journeys on the Central Line

Deptford Bridge

Devons Road

Dollis Hill

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Dollis Hill, Fougeres

 

E

Ealing Broadway

Ealing Common

Earl's Court

East Acton

East Finchley

East Ham

East India

East Putney

Eastcote

Edgware

From Edgware to Epping, that's what I do

Edgware Road

Elephant & Castle

Elm Park

Elverson Road

Embankment

  • Marillion - FugaziA knight for Embankment folds his newspaper castle

Epping

From Edgware to Epping, that's what I do

Euston

It misses Euston and King's Cross 'cos if it didn't, they'd both be angry.

Euston, Paddington, train station please

Euston Square

Euston Square

Both of us rushing through turnstiles

 

F

Fairlop

Farringdon

  • Underworld - Dirty Epic

All I could see was Doris Day

in a big-screen satellite

disappearing down the Tube hole on Farringdon Street 

Finchley Central

  • The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central

Finchley Road

Finsbury Park

Fulham Broadway

 

G

Gallions Reach

Honourable mention:

Gants Hill

Gloucester Road

Golders Green

  • The New Vaudeville Band - Finchley Central 

Finchley Central is two and sixpence

From Golders Green on the Northern Line

Goldhawk Road

Goodge Street

Grange Hill

Great Portland Street

Green Park

Greenford

Greenwich

Snoop Grenny Greenwich, gonna knock out yo' stuffin'

Gunnersbury

 

H

Hainault

Hammersmith

  • Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London

Oh it seems like ancient myth

They once ran to Hammersmith

Stuck in a tunnel on the Hammersmith and City line 

Now you're stuck at Edgware Road

Wondering when the Hammersmith and City will come

Let the Hammersmith and City take you anywhere but Baker Street 

Hampstead

Hanger Lane

Harlesden

Harrow & Wealdstone

Honourable mention:

H&W's the stop for me!

Harrow-on-the-Hill

Hatton Cross

Heathrow Terminals 1,2,3

Heathrow Terminal 4

Heathrow Terminal 5

Honourable mention:

I run overground from Ickenham to Ruislip

and head down to Heathrow international flight-strip

Hendon Central

Heron Quays

High Barnet

High Street Kensington

Highbury & Islington

Highgate

Hillingdon

Holborn

Holland Park

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Holland Park, Studamer

Holloway Road

Hornchurch

Hounslow Central

Hounslow East

Hounslow West

Hyde Park Corner

 

I

Ickenham

I run overground from Ickenham to Ruislip

and head down to Heathrow international flight-strip

Island Gardens

 

K

Kennington

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Valencia, Kennington, Galveston

  • Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London

Teddington and Kennington

Twickenham and Paddington

Kensal Green

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,

Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green

Kensington (Olympia)

Kentish Town

Kenton

Kew Gardens

Kilburn

Kilburn Park

Beware the youths who lurk in the dark at Maida Vale and Kilburn Park

King's Cross St. Pancras

Honourable mentions:

It misses Euston and King's Cross 'cos if it didn't, they'd both be angry.

Kingsbury

Knightsbridge

 

L

Ladbroke Grove

Lambeth North

Langdon Park

Lancaster Gate

I took the train to Lancaster Gate

and the trouble that I met I'm going to relate

Latimer Road

Leicester Square

  • Tarkio - Following Camden Down

Leicester Square has lost its fair

Pigeon painted silver after noon

  • Days of Fate - Covent Garden 

We met at Covent Garden

On an October day

Destination Leicester Square

Lewisham

Leyton

Leytonstone

Limehouse

  • George Formby - Mr Wu's A Window Cleaner Now

The laundry, it didn't pay

Now there's no clean collars down Limehouse way

Liverpool Street

London Bridge

  • Traditional - London Bridge Is Falling Down

Loughton

 

M

Maida Vale

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Portobello, Maida Vale, Old Ford

Beware the youths who lurk in the dark at Maida Vale and Kilburn Park

Manor House

Mansion House

Marble Arch

Marylebone

I'm the champion! The Marylebone man!

Mile End

Mill Hill East

Honourable mention:

  • Squeeze - 853-5937

She's in Mill Hill, I'm in Bermondsey, it's the end of the Earth on the Northern line 

Monument

Moor Park

Moorgate

Morden

Mornington Crescent

  • Belle and Sebastian - Mornington Crescent

Mudchute

 

N

Neasden

New Cross

New Cross Gate

Newbury Park

North Acton

North Ealing

North Greenwich

North Harrow

North Wembley

Northfields

Northolt

Northwick Park

Northwood

Northwood Hills

Notting Hill Gate

But if the train's late, keep your head straight

and take the first service from Notting Hill Gate

 

O

Oakwood

Old Street

Osterley

Oval

Oxford Circus

 

P

Paddington

  • Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London

Teddington and Kennington

Twickenham and Paddington

Euston, Paddington, train station please

Park Royal

Parsons Green

Perivale

Piccadilly Circus

Honourable mention:

My first misery, when I embark at Piccadilly  

Pimlico

Pimlico, Pimlico,

What's the point of Pimlico?

  • Stefan Bednarczyk - When Santa Kissed The Fairy On The Christmas Tree

They never get far, they're always too slow

For the Children's Action Theatre Workshop Group from Pimlico

I parted with my tonsils in Toronto

My pancreas was pinched in Pimlico

Pinner

Plaistow

Poplar

Preston Road

Prince Regent

Pudding Mill Lane

Putney Bridge

 

Q

Queen's Park

I say, "what?", I say, "What?!", I say, "Queen's Park?!"

Queensbury

Queensway

 

R

Ravenscourt Park

Rayners Lane

Redbridge

Regent's Park

Richmond

Rickmansworth

Roding Valley

Rotherhithe

Royal Albert

Royal Oak

Royal Victoria

Ruislip

I'm the Theydon Bois boy, I'm the Ruislip ragamuffin.

Ruislip Gardens

Ruislip Manor

Russell Square

 

S

Seven Sisters

Shadwell

Shepherd's Bush

  • John Sullivan - Only Fools and Horses (closing theme)

Some Trevor Francis track suits from a mush in Shepherds Bush

I admit I was in a mush when I found myself quite at Shepherd's Bush

Shoreditch

  • Traditional - Oranges and Lemons

"When I grow rich", say the bells of Shoreditch

Sloane Square

Snaresbrook

South Ealing

South Harrow

South Kensington

South Kenton

South Quay

South Ruislip

South Wimbledon

South Woodford

Southfields

Southgate

Southwark

St. James's Park

St. John's Wood

St. Paul's

Stamford Brook

Stanmore

Comin' at ya! On a Jubilee train!

Stanmore to Baker Street's the route in my brain!

Stepney Green

Honourable mention:

  • Traditional - Oranges and Lemons

"When will that be?" say the bells of Stepney

Stockwell

Stonebridge Park

Stratford

Sudbury Hill

Sudbury Town

Surrey Quays

Swiss Cottage

 

T

Temple

Theydon Bois

...heard a strange unearthly noise

On the approach to Theydon Bois

I'm the Theydon Bois boy, I'm the Ruislip ragamuffin.

Tooting Bec

Honourable mention:

  • Carter USM - The Final Comedown

I've looted and I've begged

on the tubes of The Bec and Broadway 

Tooting Broadway

Honourable mention:

  • Carter USM - The Final Comedown

I've looted and I've begged

on the tubes of The Bec and Broadway 

Tottenham Court Road

Tottenham Hale

Totteridge & Whetstone

Tower Gateway

Tower Hill

Tufnell Park

  • Saint Etienne - Girl VII

Tufnell Park, Gracetown

Turnham Green

Turnpike Lane

 

U

Upminster

Upminster Bridge

Upney

Upton Park

Uxbridge

 

V

Vauxhall

Victoria

The only non-interchange station on the Victoria Line! PIMLICO!

 

W

Walthamstow Central

Honourable mention:

  • Bromheads Jacket - Poppy Bird

Just a few more stops to Walthamstow 

Wanstead

Wapping

Warren Street

Warwick Avenue

Waterloo

Waterloo, Waterloo.

Waterloo, waterloo, la, la

Oh, the games that we play with the trains down at Waterloo

  • Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London

Waterloo and Clerkenwell

Out to Aldgate East as well

Watford

Wembley Central

Wembley Park

West Acton

West Brompton

West Finchley

West Ham

West Hampstead

West Harrow

West India Quay

West Kensington

West Ruislip

Westbourne Park

Honourable mentions:

Westferry

Westminster

White City

Whitechapel

Willesden Green

Willesden Junction

Wimbledon

  • Mike Batt - The Wombles (theme)

Underground, overground, wombling free

The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we

Wimbledon Park

Wood Green

Woodford

Woodside Park

 

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