List of songs about Manchester

This is an incomplete list of songs, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

List of songs about Manchester, United Kingdom.

• The Spinners - "Flowers of Manchester"
• Shifty - "Manchester"
• The Times - "Manchester"
• Lionrock - "Snapshot on Pollard St."
• Lionrock - "Wilmslow Rd."
• Ian Brown - "Longsight M13"
• Brian and Michael - "Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs" (And parts of Ancoats where I used to play; about Manchester artist L. S. Lowry)
• Doves - "Northenden"
• Doves - "M62 Song"
• Davy Jones - "Manchester Boy"
• Elbow - "Station Approach"
• Elbow - "Forget Myself"
• Elbow - "Great Expectations" (About the 135 Bury-Manchester Bus Route)
• The Fivepenny Piece - "City of Manchester"
• Gomez - "Whippin' Piccadilly"
• Mint Royale - "From Rusholme with Love"
• Oasis - "Round Are Way"
• Oasis - "Half The World Away"
• Pomona (folksong) - Music hall song
• The Fall - "Cheetham Hill"
• The Fall - "City Hobgoblins" (Queen Victoria is a large black slug in Piccadilly Manchester)
• The Fall - "Fit And Working Again" (Reception room, Victoria Station)
• The Freshies - "I'm in Love With the Girl on the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk"
• John Shuttleworth - "You're Like Manchester"
• The Smiths - "Cemetery Gates" (about Southern Cemetery)
• The Smiths - "Rusholme Ruffians"
• The Smiths - "Miserable Lie" (What do we get for our trouble and pain but a rented room in Whalley Range?)
• The Smiths - "Suffer Little Children" (Oh Manchester, so much to answer for; about the Moors murders)
• The Smiths - "The Headmaster Ritual" (Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools)
• Aidan Smith - "Song for Manchester"
• The Stone Roses - "Mersey Paradise" (seeing as it runs through South Manchester)
• The Stone Roses - "Daybreak" (from Atlanta, Georgia to Longsight, Manchester)
• Joyce (singer) - "The Band on the Wall"
• The Beautiful South - "Manchester"
• Ewan MacColl - "The Manchester Rambler"
• Hair soundtrack - "Manchester"
• Take That - "Mancunian Way"
• The Courteeners - "Fallowfield Hillbilly"
• The Courteeners - "The Opener"
• Tractor - "Peterloo"
• Tractor - "Drunken Angels and Sad Clowns aka- Manchester"