New Amsterdam to New York City

It's midnight in Manhattan, this is no time to get cute

"New Amsterdam," Elvis Costello & the Attractions (The Very Best of Elvis Costello and the Attractions)
"A New Car!" Daniel Amos (Doppelganger)
"New Deep," John Mayer (Heavier Things)
"New One," Unlikely Cowboy
"The New Timer," Bruce Springsteen (The Ghost of Tom Joad)
"New York," U2 (All That You Can't Leave Behind)
"New York City," Sonia Dada (Sonia Dada)
"New York City Serenade," Bruce Springsteen (The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle)

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[cjmr's husband]

New Attitude - Patti Labelle
New Math - Tom Lehrer
New World Man - Rush

and a couple New York songs that someone else will post that I don't particularly like but were on albums that I ripped.

Not being from anywhere near NY or LA, the one flyover country attitude I totally get is the irritation at songwriters and tv writers and movie writers that assume that because they think those are the greatest places in the world, everyone else must think so too...

Unrelated to that rant: I once heard my sister singing a parody of that Patti Labelle song, "I Got a New Pair of Shoes". Anyone know of that one?

[cjmr]

In addition to what husband has, I also have:

"New Kid in Town" -- The Eagles

and

"New York State of Mind" -- Billy Joel

which I like, despite being from flyover country, although I'm not sure it technically fits into the range.

[Robin Z]

"New Beginning," Tracy Chapman (New Beginning)
"New Monster Avenue," The Mountain Goats (Get Lonely)

I don't know how I managed it, but my laptop doesn't have one New York City track.

(P.S. The New Math online.)

[Robin Z]

Aww, frick! New Monster Ave., live performance.

[cminus]

"New Blues," Joe Satriani
"New Boy," The Connells
"New Clothes," Pat McCurdy
"New English," Ambulance Ltd.
"New Girl," Third Eye Blind
"New Kid (On The Block)," Barenaked Ladies
"New King," The Rembrandts
"New Market Reel," Jerry Holland
"New Math," Tom Lehrer
"New Moon On Monday," Duran Duran
"New Orleans Instrumental No. 1," R.E.M.
"New Sensation," INXS
"New Skin," Incubus
"New Speedway Boogie," Grateful Dead
"New Style," The Beastie Boys
"New World Man," Rush
"New Year," The Breeders
"New Year's Day," U2
"New York City," They Might Be Giants
Also, outside the range because of the vagaries of alphabetizing punctuation, but definitely within the spirit of things: "New, New Minglewood Blues," Grateful Dead

Most recommended: believe it or not, "New Speedway Boogie." Quite possibly my favorite Grateful Dead song, and very accessible to the non-fan. Runners up, "New Boy" and "New York City," although if you're not familiar with the Connells I'd recommend starting with "Crown" instead of "New Boy."

As for the rest, "New Kid (On The Block)," "New Sensation," "New World Man" and "New Year's Day" are typical but good efforts from their respective bands, so if you like the band I'd recommend the song. "New Clothes" and "New English" are good tracks from less well known acts, and as for "New Math," well, depending upon how advanced mathematics instruction was when you grew up, it's good for a side-splitting guffaw or two.

[cminus]

Not being from anywhere near NY or LA, the one flyover country attitude I totally get is the irritation at songwriters and tv writers and movie writers that assume that because they think those are the greatest places in the world, everyone else must think so too.

Oh man, I understand. I've never spent enough time in Los Angeles or around Angelenos to know if there's a West Coast version, but I just can't grasp the attitude prevalent among New Yorkers that the rest of the country finds New York as endlessly fascinating as they do. The two most galling examples that immediately come to mind would be the New Yorker of my acquaintance who claimed that Sony's digitally inserting Times Square billboards for USA Today and Cingular in the Spider-Man movie was a non-issue (true), because "everybody knows that the Times Square billboards are for NBC and Samsung" (*snort*).

[wintermute]

New Beginnings - Jeff Mills (Off his soundtrack for Metropolis)
New Girl - Third Eye Blind
New Guitar in Town - The Lurkers
New Technology - Vex
New XXX - Node
New York - The Sex Pistols

[wintermute]

I missed a few because I just looked at the N's.

A New Flag (Patriotism) - Bill Hicks (not a song, but a track off a stand-up comedy album)
A New Song - Pizzicato 5
The New American Way - Dropkick Murphys

[Theo]

A New England - Billy Bragg
New Rose - the Damned (plus a cover by Guns 'n Roses)
New York - the Sex Pistols
New York City - T. Rex

[Jon]

"New Blues" - Joe Satriani
"New Day" - Joe Satriani
"A New Level" - Pantera
"New Morning" - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"The New Wild West" - Jewel
"New York" - The Sex Pistols

[Linkmeister]

I got zip. I can't believe that neither my Linda Ronstadt nor my Beatles selection (the two artists who most populate my iTunes library) have a single song beginning with "New."

[hapax]

Here we are in New South Wales,
Shearing sheep as big as whales
With leather necks and daggy tales
Fleece as tough as rusty nails...

I'm just amazed at the stuff I find on my playlist sometimes.

[Robert Hutchinson]

First time posting here, and this seems easy enough.

"New Amsterdam", Elvis Costello & The Attractions (Get Happy!!)
"New Blue Moon", Traveling Wilburys (Vol. 3)
"The New Face of Zero and One", The New Pornographers (Electric Version)
"New Hampshire", John Linnell (State Songs)
"New Lace Sleeves", Elvis Costello & The Attractions (Trust)
"The New Romance", Pretty Girls Make Graves (The New Romance)
"New Song (From Me to You)", Dressy Bessy (Dressy Bessy)
"New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage", XTC (White Music)
"New World Man", Rush (Signals)
"New York City", They Might Be Giants (Factory Showroom)

[Painini]

New Sensation - INXS - (Kick)
New Kicks - Le Tigre - (This Island)
New World Water - Mos Def - (Black on Both Sides)
The New Face of Zero and One - The New Pornographers -(Electric Version)

Day-umn, with a 'New Blank' album title that last would've been a triple-threat.

[Luke]

"New Beginning" Tracy Chapman
"New England Holidays--A Symphony, III: The Fourth of July" Charles Ives
"New Enough to Know Nothing At All" Pete Yorn
"New Intro--Once More with Feeling" Buffy Cast
"New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" REM
"The New Timer" Bruce Springsteen
"New Underground" Guster
"New World Symphony" Antonin Dvorak
"The New Year" Death Cab for a Cutie
"New York" U2
"New York Groove" KISS
"New York I Love you but You're Bringing me Down" LCD Soundsystem
"New York Serenade" Bruce Springsteen & Pete Yorn
"New York State of Mind" Billy Joel
"New York, New York" Ryan Adams

Man, that's a weird list...

[borealys]

New and Improved - Michael Giacchino
New Deep - John Mayer
New Enemy - Sarah Harmer
New Orleans Instrumental No. 1 - REM
New Orleans is Sinking - The Tragically Hip (three versions)
New Slang - The Shins
New Years Day - U2
New York State of Mind - Billy Joel
The New Babysitter - Michael Giacchino
The New Maybe - The Tragically Hip
The New Number 2 - Boy

This may be the best list I've ended up with yet. Recommendations? Well, Michael Giacchino's score for The Incredibles is fantastic if you're into the whole jazzy instrumental film score thing. New Orleans is Sinking is the definitive Tragically Hip song, and a great piece of rock music. And Sarah Harmer is a goddess.

[Sophist, FCD]

"New Brat in Town" - The Auteurs
"New Clothes For the New World" - Disco Inferno
"New Coat of Paint" - Tom Waits
"New Drug Queens" - Pink Mountaintops
"New Feeling (Live)" - The Talking Heads
"New French Girlfriend" - The Auteurs
"New Intro" - Drive Like Jehu
"New Joker" - Ladyhawk
"New Man Theme" - Mr. Lif
"New Math" - Drive Like Jehu
"New Room" - Chavez
"New Word Order" - Non-Prophets
"New Workout Plan" - Kanye West
"New York" - Doves

[Chris Koeberle]

76 songs, and very little I enjoy at all. Four that inspire me to mention them:

"A New Hope," blink-182
"New Hope Cemetery," The Damnations
"New Year's Day," U2
"New Year's Honours," God's Little Monkeys

A little late perhaps... But here are some additional songs, because everyone's your friend in New York City:

"New Dawn Coming" - Cowboy Junkies
"New Dress" - Jonatha Brooke with Neil Finn
"New Favorite" - Alison Krauss
"The New Physics" - Lost Dogs [not being of the library sciences, I don't know how to treat the article here, so I default to iTunes]
"New Redemption Song" - Over the Rhine (2x) - on a personal note, I am very sorry to be missing another Christmas show, but oceans come between.