Where The Streets Do Have Names: Song Titles Which Are Street Names

Cypress Avenue - Van Morrison
442 Glenwood Avenue - Pixies Three
Heartache Avenue - Maisonettes
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Dirty Boulevard - Lou Reed
:slight_smile:

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.

Stanley Road - Paul Weller
Longsight M13 - Ian Brown
Debris Road - Ocean Colour Scene

Like the man said, welcome to the camp. I guess you know why you’re all here.

Cat Stevens - “18th Avenue - (Kansas City Nightmare)”

“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

“Streets Of Your Town” – The Go-Betweens

Main Street Eyes - Iggy Pop

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

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

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.

Billy Idol - Blue Highway

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

{I’ll see your Melt Banana and raise you a Shonen Knife “Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner”}

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…”

Starfield Road - Sonic Youth
(Murray Street by Sonic Youth too if we’re up to counting albums)

Kansas - Lonely Street

Supertramp - 10th Avenue Breakdown

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Ocean Avenue - Yellowcard