# Where The Streets Do Have Names: Song Titles Which Are Street Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 25, 2005, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776 "2005-10-25T05:00:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![revolver\_4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@revolver\_4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/revolver_4)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/61 "2005-10-26T02:35:36Z")
Cypress Avenue - Van Morrison 442 Glenwood Avenue - Pixies Three Heartache Avenue - Maisonettes Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/62 "2005-10-26T10:05:27Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > And of course “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” - Elton John (Duh!) This reminds me that Violent J of ICP did his own telling of The Wizard of Oz (called the Wizard of the Hood; not to everyone’s taste but hilarious IMHO) which had the song “Yellow Brick Alleyway”. In San Andreas, the radio station K-Jah West has a song that seems to be called “Broader than Broadway” but I’m not sure if that’s the actual title. ---
**Author:** ![Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Capt.Ridley\_s\_Shooting\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/63 "2005-10-26T10:15:26Z")
Stanley Road - Paul Weller Longsight M13 - Ian Brown Debris Road - Ocean Colour Scene ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/64 "2005-10-26T11:37:25Z")
> [@jainsafel](#): > > Mercy Street – Peter Gabriel > > (_This_ is what brings me out of lurkerdom?!) Like the man said, welcome to the camp. I guess you know why you’re all here. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/65 "2005-10-27T00:33:57Z")
Cat Stevens - “18th Avenue - (Kansas City Nightmare)” ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/66 "2005-10-27T00:43:21Z")
“22 Acacia Avenue” by Iron Maiden “Sentimental Street” by Night Ranger “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” by Hanoi Rocks (and an entirelydifferent song by the same name by Greenday) “12th Street Kids” by Princess Pang (or am I the only person that ever bought that album?) “Road Behind” by Gwar “Down the Road” by Mickey Hart ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/67 "2005-10-27T00:49:47Z")
“Streets Of Your Town” – The Go-Betweens ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/68 "2005-10-27T03:37:19Z")
Main Street Eyes - Iggy Pop ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/69 "2005-10-27T04:08:37Z")
I-10 West- Cowboy Mouth Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway- Continental Drifters Highway of the Saints- Continental Drifters At the Foot of Canal Street- Cowboy Mouth The Road to Abilene- Jeff and Vida(okay, it’s a stretch) Waratah Street- Mark Seymour ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/70 "2005-10-27T06:58:02Z")
There are several traditional jazz standards named after streets in New Orleans. Not all of them are songs (i.e. some have no lyrics), but I’ll mention them anyway: Basin Street Blues (already mentioned in this thread) Bourbon Street Parade Canal Street Blues Gravier Street Blues Burgundy Street Blues Perdido Street Blues Decatur Street Blues Blues for Rampart Street South Rampart Street Parade And on a different note (no pun intended): 12th Street Rag ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/71 "2005-10-27T07:39:54Z")
> [@batsto](#): > > “22 Acacia Avenue” by Iron Maiden now how do you go and list that but not “Murders on the Rue Morgue”??? (at least I think thats a street) Tom Waits, Kentucky Avenue Michael Penn, Denton Road (and Bunker Hill sort of) Donald Fagen, Trans-island-skyway Jim Morrison, Dawns Highway Rage Against the Machine, Down Rodeo PJ Harvey Highway '61 Revisited Melt Banana, Iguanna in Trouble…ok I am really just seeing if anyone is really paying attention. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/72 "2005-10-27T08:55:35Z")
Billy Idol - Blue Highway Kraftwerk - Autobahn {I’ll see your Melt Banana and raise you a Shonen Knife “Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner”} ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/73 "2005-10-27T22:10:41Z")
Psycho Street - Richard Thompson Eden Alley - Timbuk 3 and DC’s own Honky Tonk Confidential with “The Rock Creek Parkway Crawl” “and it’s stop, go, stop, go, stop, go…” ---
**Author:** ![Fredescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/73ab20/32.png) [@Fredescu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fredescu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/74 "2005-10-27T23:27:31Z")
Starfield Road - Sonic Youth (Murray Street by Sonic Youth too if we’re up to counting albums) ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/75 "2005-10-28T02:58:28Z")
Kansas - Lonely Street ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/76 "2005-10-28T03:07:58Z")
Supertramp - 10th Avenue Breakdown ---
**Author:** ![J.Gelert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@J.Gelert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J.Gelert)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776/77 "2005-10-28T04:32:36Z")
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-streets-do-have-names-song-titles-which-are-street-names/327776.md?page=3)