Songs
Songs that reference Brixton Market
Laurel Aitken and Girlie - Scandal in a Brixton Market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyQmhHyREb8
http://www.strictly-vibes.com/laurel-aitken-girlie-scandal-in-a-brixton-market-1969-vt8924.html
About Laurel Aitken (wikipedia)
Big Audio Dynamite - Tighten Up Vol 88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQGDuamDTk
A windmill stands
In the city of spades
The Effra River flows
Under Granville Arcade
Old dogs in cold harbour
Have fond memories
Remember the days
This was Viking country
Natives blacks and werewolves
Yeah got it all
Every kind of exotic friut
On the market stall
Those drums keep on pounding
Since they moved in down the street
Cold wet surroundings
The cops don`t like the beat
The cost of bread is rising
The area`s run down
They painted up the brickwork
They painted up the town
While my brother dug the ramjam
I got flea-pit matinees
And we`d catch the number 2
Go up West for the day
Tighten up volume two
Sound system bon marché
Roits on Jebb Avenue
Down Marcus Garvey Way
Those drums keep on pounding
Since they moved in down the street
Cold wet surroundings
The cops don`t like the beat
A windmill stands
In the city of spades
The Effra River flows
Under Granville Arcade
There`s Christmas lights on Railton Road
It looks like Oxford Street
If Santa`s got electric goods
He`d better have receipts
Got no airs n`graces
Always been this way
After all I come from Brixton
What else can I say
Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5MtAmT24g
Down in the street there is violence
And a lots of work to be done
No place to hang out our washing
And I can't blame all on the sun, oh no
CHORUS:
We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Oh we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue
And then we'll take it higher
Workin' so hard like a soldier
Can't afford a thing on TV
Deep in my heart I'm a warrior
Can't get food for them kid, good God
CHORUS
Oh no...
Oh no...
Oh no...
Oh no...
CHORUS
Who is to blame in one country
Never can get to the one
Dealin' in multiplication
And they still can't feed everyone, oh no
CHORUS
Out in the street...
Out in the street...
Out in the playground...
In the dark side of town...
CHORUS
Rock it in the daytime
Rock it in the night ...
