Panic On The Streets Of London

London. Also known as the place I’ve been planning to move to since I was about seven. However, I’ve only been to London once and rather late, meaning last summer (when I was 20… 20 minus seven. Do the math yourselves). And, much to my distress, I realised I was not mistaken: I need to move there. I say ‘distress’ because it was great and I didn’t want to leave but I had to and … yeah, you know the deal.

So it was my utter and complete love for this tiny, tiny town that made me do a list of songs about London and various places on and about the city.

1. The Clash – London Calling (Yes, shocking, this song on a list about London.)

2. Lily Allen – LDN (again, I keep making controversial choices)

3. White Rose Movement - London's Mine (electro-sleaze. Lovely)

4. The Clash – London’s Burning (it’s not my fault they wrote songs about the city)

5. The Lambrettas - London Calling (no, not a cover, but a great mod-revival piece)

6. The Smiths – London

7. Patrick Wolf – London (yes, artists have no creativity when it comes to song names)

8. The Kinks – Lola (yes, it all happens in LDN)

9. Madness - Mr Speaker (Gets the Word)

10. Pulp - Mile End

11. Elvis Costello - I Don't Want to Go to Chelsea

12. The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

13. The Clash - Guns of Brixton

14. The Stranglers - (Get a) Grip (on Yourself)

15. The Jam - Eton Rifles

16. The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight

17. The Kinks - Dead End Street (about a bedsit in Kentish Town. A crappy bedsit)

18. The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion (and Carnaby Street)

19. Morrissey - Come Back to Camden ( to be more specific, I want to move to Camden. Walking cliché I am)

20. Sham 69 - Cockney Kids are Innocent

21. The Jam - Carnaby Street (I wonder what this is about)

22. Babyshambles - Black Boy Lane

23. Pulp - Bar Italia

24. Babyshambles - Albion (various London districts are mentioned. Cause, like, Albion means just London

25. The Rakes - 22 Grand Job

26. The Jam - 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street

27. The Clash – (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais

28. Bloc Party ­ - Waiting for the 7.18 ("the Northern Line")

29. Dirty Pretty Things - Tired of England

30. XTC - Towers of London (really now)

31. Pulp - Sorted for E's and Wizz (or how Jarvis got lost in Camden)

32. Secret Affair - Soho Strut

33. Jamie T - Sheila (she does drown in Thames)

34. Madness - Primrose Hill

35. Babyshambles - Pentonville

36. Television Personalities - Part Time Punks

37. The Rakes - Just A Man With A Job (“Three floors below from Piccadilly”)

38. Good Shoes - Morden

39. Larrikin Love - Downing Street Kindling