Songs about thoroughfares

Staccatos / Five Man Electrical Band - It Never Rains on Maple Lane:

 

Harvey Danger - Pike Street Park Slope

 

Soul Survivors, Expressway to Your Heart:

 

Lol, you win!

 

they had to change the name because people kept stealing the signs

 

Tom Waits' "Heart Attack & Vine"

 

Pixies Three - 442 Glenwood Avenue:

 

Iron Maiden's "22 Acacia Avenue"

 

Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

 

The song has already been mentioned (recorded by its composer) but I like this version (which I discovered here last year) a lot:

Ellie Janov - Portobello Road

 

Ian Hunter - 23A, Swan Hill

The address of his childhood home in Shrewsbury, Shropshire...
which, incidently, you can now rent as an Airbnb.

 

The Orlons - South Street

 

I saw the wreck on the highway, but I didn't hear nobody pray

 

Here's one for all my LA peeps.

 

There's an A bomb on Wardour Street!!

 

That song about the midway - joni
2120 Sth Michigan Avenue - Stones
The Dark End Of The Street - Trad

 

Be-bop Deluxe, Terminal Street:

 

Billy Nicholls - "Portobello Road"

 

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

 

Jethro Tull - Farm On The Freeway

 

Jethro Tull - Baker St. Muse

 

Jethro Tull - Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square