# Name a song about... **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 12, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427 "2010-07-12T18:19:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/1 "2010-07-12T18:19:53Z")
The other day I got into a discussion about songs that are about streets, roads, avenues, or other paved (or unpaved) places where cars go. I thought I’d ask here and see what others come up with. But it might turn into a short thread, so once we’ve exhausted the list, someone should suggest another topic. Food. Dogs. Space travel. Relatives. Whatever you can think of. But let’s start with roads. All we could come up with was: On Broadway Penny Lane Route 66 Ventura Highway ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/2 "2010-07-12T18:28:41Z")
Copperhead Road Long and Winding Road Road to Nowhere Highway to Hell ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/3 "2010-07-12T18:43:37Z")
Primrose Lane Naughty Lady of Shady Lane Boulevard of Broken Dreams Baker Street On Broadway Thunder Road ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/4 "2010-07-12T18:47:04Z")
Electric Avenue (Eddie Grant) Main Street (Bob Seger) Across 110th Street (Los Lobos/Bobby Womak) I-75 Boogie (Soledad Brothers) I-94 (Radio Birdman) No Hope Road (Anne Clark) Heart Attack & Vine (Tom Waits) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/5 "2010-07-12T18:51:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Baker Street Baker Street Blues, by Jethro Tull ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/6 "2010-07-12T18:51:11Z")
Down At The End Of Your Road - Jethro Tull Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/7 "2010-07-12T18:51:16Z")
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) by Simon and Garfunkel Allison Road by the Gin Blossoms ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/8 "2010-07-12T19:07:15Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > The other day I got into a discussion about songs that are about streets, roads, avenues, or other paved (or unpaved) places where cars go. I thought I’d ask here and see what others come up with. > > But it might turn into a short thread, so once we’ve exhausted the list, someone should suggest another topic. Food. Dogs. Space travel. Relatives. Whatever you can think of. Do want songs that have the word road/street in the title, or songs about specific roads? Highway Star vs. Route 66? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/9 "2010-07-12T19:09:07Z")
Holiday Road – Lindsay Buckingham I-95 – Fountains of Wayne ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/10 "2010-07-12T19:14:19Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > Do want songs that have the word road/street in the title, or songs about specific roads? Let’s keep it to specific roads, even if they are mythical. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/11 "2010-07-12T19:45:57Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Let’s keep it to specific roads, even if they are mythical. Does “Street Of Dreams” count? The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis Telegraph Road - Dire Straits ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/12 "2010-07-12T20:09:27Z")
Basin Street Blues (Louis Armstrong?) Dixie Highway (Journey) 10th Avenue Freezeout (Bruce) Fascination Street (The Cure) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/13 "2010-07-12T20:12:30Z")
Gasoline Alley ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/14 "2010-07-12T22:06:25Z")
Pony Street (Elvis Costello) Respectable Street (XTC) Mercy Street (Peter Gabriel) Lake Shore Drive (Aliotta Haynes & Jeremiah) Ventura Highway (America) although these are not specific streets: Boulevard (Jackson Browne) The Old Man Down the Road (John Fogerty) ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/15 "2010-07-12T22:10:56Z")
King’s Highway (Tom Petty) King’s Road (Tom Petty) apparently these are different songs, altho I was unfamiliar with the latter until I looked up the former. ---
**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/16 "2010-07-12T22:14:45Z")
I suspect the mods will steer this thread off Game Room Way and onto Cafe Society Terrace. ---
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/17 "2010-07-12T22:29:10Z")
Green Day has a couple: Christie Road and Stuart and the Ave. (The Ave. being Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley) Flogging Molly have a song called The Kilburn High Road but it’s not exactly _about_ the road so I’m not sure it counts. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/18 "2010-07-12T23:49:02Z")
Seven Bridges Road - Eagles On further review…from [listology.](http://www.listology.com/list/songs-streets-their-title) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/19 "2010-07-13T00:06:45Z")
_Carefree Highway_ – Gordon Lightfoot _Church on Cumberland Road_ – Shenandoah ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427/20 "2010-07-13T00:17:06Z")
[Gilbert Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYppwaCTo8) by Sweet Thursday [Lullaby of Broadway](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpUTnvO2jM) (from **Golddigers of 1935** ) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-song-about/546427.md?page=2)