Songs about Manchester and its areas

brass neck said:
The Ewan Mccoll song was dirty old town, did you meen that one as his best one?


the other song got shoved on the same reply by the system and admitedly has nothing to do with Ewan McColl, all though I would of loved to of heard his take on it!!!
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Aah I get it now. I love a lot of MacColl songs and couldn't possibly single one out. Dirty Old Town is up there though for sure.
 
bluevengence said:
bit of 80s reggae

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUo8DIvO9yc[/youtube]
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Great spot! I remember Barry Adamson did an instrumental album called Moss Side Story, but don't think it was a song as such, more a soundtrack for a non-existent film
 
There`s a great folk song about slum clearance in Manchester.Specifically about a old dear living i Gorton and having to be dragged out of her house to be re-housed in the brand new housing estate in the country =Hattersley.

think the titled is just HATTERSLEY.
 
LongsightM13 said:
SouthStand211 said:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSf0U6bN8R8[/youtube]

Fuck Longsight
And Levenshulme
Same goes for Stockport and Hulme
We doing alright
Just post-house blues
Cos this is northenden in the afternoon

The kids are deranged
They love guns and kidnap
Thats just the way we do things here
The day dies down
Not a moment too soon
Under the northenden afternoon

Northenden afternoon
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Quality! I like Doves, but must say I've never heard that track. A B-side?
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Yeah think it's on lost sides (album of b-side)
 
For the life of me I can't remember the band- who was it did that soul rending depiction of the existential wasteland of growing up amongst the wine bars of Hale Barns? 'Alderley Edge Not Street For Me' I think it was called.
 
sky tot said:
There`s a great folk song about slum clearance in Manchester.Specifically about a old dear living i Gorton and having to be dragged out of her house to be re-housed in the brand new housing estate in the country =Hattersley.

think the titled is just HATTERSLEY.
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that could have been my gran lol
hated moving from gorton up there and kept coming down on the bus every day until she was well into her 70s
 
what about this forgotten gem
manchester rap, the bosnians

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD42JzyjFQk[/youtube]

lend us a fag maxine i,m gaspin !
 
squirtyflower said:
sky tot said:
There`s a great folk song about slum clearance in Manchester.Specifically about a old dear living i Gorton and having to be dragged out of her house to be re-housed in the brand new housing estate in the country =Hattersley.

think the titled is just HATTERSLEY.
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that could have been my gran lol
hated moving from gorton up there and kept coming down on the bus every day until she was well into her 70s
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It could of been my family too All my aunts ,uncles, nana, granddad and cousins moved to Hattersley (Still live there ) My dad refused to go So we moved to Blackpool.
 
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