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

About the album (wikipedia) 

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 ...