Songs directly referencing Manchester

[Lucky13]

Slaughter and the Dogs - Welcome to our Town

 

[Joycee Banercheck]

Sorry if mentioned and I overlooked it:

Elbow - Forget Myself

They're pacing Piccadilly in packs again
And moaning for the mercy of a never come rain
The sun's had enough and the simmering sky
Has the heave and the hue of a woman on fire

Shop shutters rattle down and I'm cutting the crowd
All scented and descending from the satellite towns
The neon is graffiti singing make a new start
So I look for a plot where I can bury my broken heart


So that's the whole of Manchester for you.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I have had a book recently published - The Manchester Musical History Tour
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.empire-uk.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.empire-uk.com</a>
and in it there was a section on the top 21 songs about Manchester

1. The Band on The Wall - Joyce
2. Bombs away on Harpurhey
3. Cheetham Hill - The Fall
4. Fallowfield Hillbilly - The Courteeners
5. Flowers of Manchester - The Spinners
6. It's nice to go out in the morning - Herman's Hermits
7. I'm in love with a girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout desk - The Freshies
8. Longsight M13 - Ian Brown
9. Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs - Brian & Michael
10. Manchester - The Times
11. Manchester - The Beautiful South
12. Manchester, England (Soundtrack from the film 'Hair')
13. The Manchester Rambler - Ewan MacColl
14. The Mancunian Way - Take That
15. Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson
16. Northenden - Doves
17. Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths
18. Sackville - Inspiral Carpets
19. Smiths Disco - The Courteeners
20. Various 'Timperley' songs by Frank Sidebottom
21. You're just like Manchester - John Shuttleworth

 

[manclad]

Manchester Boys - The Salford Jets (including Mike Sweeney).

 

[Cellarite]

song for manchester - aiden smith. an old mate of mine as it happens. i used to sit smoking joints and bongs while this musical maestro sat playing tunes on his guiter in the corner.

http://www.aidansmith.net/mp3s/fancy_barrel/song_for_manchester.mp3

 

[totallywired]

I have had a book recently published - The Manchester Musical History Tour
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.empire-uk.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.empire-uk.com</a>
and in it there was a section on the top 21 songs about Manchester

1. The Band on The Wall - Joyce
2. Bombs away on Harpurhey
3. Cheetham Hill - The Fall
4. Fallowfield Hillbilly - The Courteeners
5. Flowers of Manchester - The Spinners
6. It's nice to go out in the morning - Herman's Hermits
7. I'm in love with a girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout desk - The Freshies
8. Longsight M13 - Ian Brown
9. Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs - Brian & Michael
10. Manchester - The Times
11. Manchester - The Beautiful South
12. Manchester, England (Soundtrack from the film 'Hair')
13. The Manchester Rambler - Ewan MacColl
14. The Mancunian Way - Take That
15. Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson
16. Northenden - Doves
17. Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths
18. Sackville - Inspiral Carpets
19. Smiths Disco - The Courteeners
20. Various 'Timperley' songs by Frank Sidebottom
21. You're just like Manchester - John Shuttleworth

Is Timperley in Manchester?<br /><br />-- Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:25 pm --<br /><br />The boys are back in town` Thin Lizzy, supposed to be about Manny.

 

[manclad]

I have had a book recently published - The Manchester Musical History Tour
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.empire-uk.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.empire-uk.com</a>
and in it there was a section on the top 21 songs about Manchester

1. The Band on The Wall - Joyce
2. Bombs away on Harpurhey
3. Cheetham Hill - The Fall
4. Fallowfield Hillbilly - The Courteeners
5. Flowers of Manchester - The Spinners
6. It's nice to go out in the morning - Herman's Hermits
7. I'm in love with a girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout desk - The Freshies
8. Longsight M13 - Ian Brown
9. Matchstalk men and matchstalk cats and dogs - Brian & Michael
10. Manchester - The Times
11. Manchester - The Beautiful South
12. Manchester, England (Soundtrack from the film 'Hair')
13. The Manchester Rambler - Ewan MacColl
14. The Mancunian Way - Take That
15. Moss Side Story - Barry Adamson
16. Northenden - Doves
17. Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths
18. Sackville - Inspiral Carpets
19. Smiths Disco - The Courteeners
20. Various 'Timperley' songs by Frank Sidebottom
21. You're just like Manchester - John Shuttleworth

Is Timperley in Manchester?

-- Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:25 pm --

The boys are back in town` Thin Lizzy, supposed to be about Manny.

And Jimmy the Weed meets Johnny the Fox is about Jimmy Donnelly,a famous Manchester resident(QSG),who was a friend of Phil Lynott.

 

[LongsightM13]

The Manc hip hop scene of the late 80s/early 90s was fertile ground for this kind of stuff.
Chapter and The Verse did an album called Great Western Street, which included a track called Claremont Road. Two great Maine Road/Moss Side locales. Another track (can't remember which off the top of my head) namechecks Southern Cemetery.
The mighty Ruthless Rap Assassins had No Tale, No Twist about growing up in North Hulme, and Posse Strong, about Legends in town, where their producer and manager Greg Wilson was DJ.
Their two best known classics did not have direct references but were about here. It Wasn't A Dream was about Jamaican immigration to Manchester in the 50s and 60s and the video showed them in the crescents in Hulme and the back alleys near Maine Road. No Justice was about their experiences as black youth in urban Britain with a video filmed at the Champs Camp boxing gym in Moss Side.

 

[jacko74]

I'm a rambler, I'm a rambler from Manchester way....

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Top Manc song name checking Miles Platting and other areas! See the City flag in the video too!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BRw7kaypk[/youtube]