Songs About City Life

[Shakin-Slim]

Hey guys. I do a radio show on my university's station. Before it was solely a jazz/hip hop show, but I'm branching out into all the other types of music I listen to by having a theme for each week.

This week, I'm planning on doing songs about city life. I'm having a hard time coming up with enough songs to fill up the 2 hours. I'm not necessarily looking for songs about a particular city, but just about life in the city (good and bad sides).

So you know the direction I'm headed in, I'll post the songs I've got so far:

Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye
Ain't no Love in the Heart of the City - Al Brown
Kansas City - Muddy Waters
The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel
Transit Ride - Guru
New York is Killing Me - Gil Scott-Heron
Dirty Old Town - Luke Kelly
Hard Times in New York Town - Bob Dylan

Any other suggestions?

Thank you

 

[bassteban]

 

[millsbass5]

This:

 

[Shakin-Slim]

Thanks for these suggestions! Stevie Wonder is definitely getting added to the list.

 

[millsbass5]

This too:

 

[bassteban]

 

[Bassmanmike1]

Joe Walsh-In The City http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibA2y3L_P7Y
Frank Zappa-City Of Tiny Lights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glLsZIj5XvM

 

[SamJPow]

Foghat - fool for the city
And more obscure, but Rush - The Camera Eye would work too

 

[echoSE7EN]

Summer in the City - Lovin Spoonful

 

[NOT]

Move to the City - Guns N' Roses

 

[HighParkLow]

Some good here:

(I Wanna Go To) New York City - The Demics
Concrete Heart - Great Lake Swimmers

Int'l:
Trenchtown Rock - Bob Marley & the Wailers
London, My Town - Fine Arts Showcase

Brits:
Strange Town, Town Called Malice - The Jam
Glasgow Jubilee - Bill Wells & Aidan Moffit
(White Man in) Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
N.Y., Some Cities, Black & White Town - Doves

 

[elgecko]

Here's an obscure one

Mark Almond - The City

 

[Tanner5382]

The only one I can think of right now would be Fear's "I love living in the city", but that's pretty explicit.

 

[Phalex]

Sin city - AC/DC.

 

[elgecko]

Sin city - AC/DC.

I'll see your AC/DC - Sin City

The Flying Burrito Brothers - Sin City

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

The theme from Mary Tyler Moore... it is about makin' it in the big city...

 

[champbassist]

Not too straight forward, but maybe City Of Blinding Lights by U2.

 

[MegaSwing]

"The Streets of Baltimore" - Bobby Bare
"Up On the Roof" - The Drifters
"The Message" - Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five
"Native New Yorker" - Odyssey
"My Kind of Town" - Frank Sinatra

 

[Phalex]

Bright lights bigger bigger city?

 

[MegaSwing]

"Downtown" - Petula Clark
"Theme from New York, New York" - Frank Sinatra
"The Apple Stretching" - Grace Jones
"The City Sleeps" - MC 900-ft Jesus
"Detroit City" - Mel Tillis (and others)