Good songs about cycling

[Sunspots]

John Cale's got a song called Bicycle; it being John Cale though, it's probably about something else entirely...

 

[Final]

A good list of them here: (plus some anti-car ones)

http://bicycleuniverse.info/stuff/music.html

(but they've not got the Pixies' song).

 

[braindancer]

bicycle, bicycle, you are my bicycle by be your own pet

slow bicycle by mum

And I think it's outrageous that nobody has mentioned Bicycle Race by Queen - surely THE definitive bicycle anthem.

 

[Final]

And I think it's outrageous that nobody has mentioned Bicycle Race by Queen - surely THE definitive bicycle anthem.

if you'd read the thread instead of Ctrl+fing it then you might have sptotted the picture on post 3

 

[braindancer]

I did read the thread but managed not to notice that that image was a queen sleeve somehow!

Anyway I also think it's outrageous that nobody has mentioned 'Daisy Daisy give me your answer do' - surely THE definitive bicycle anthem

 

[Flavour]

but you'd look reet upon the seat
of a bicycle made for twooooooooo

 

[sojourner]

Arlo Guthrie - the motorcycle song

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Do they have to be good songs?

There is a flower within my heart,
Daisy, Daisy!
Planted one day by a glancing dart,
Planted by Daisy Bell!
Whether she loves me or loves me not,
Sometimes it's hard to tell;
Yet I am longing to share the lot
Of Beautiful Daisy Bell!

Daisy, Daisy,
Give me your answer, do.
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage!
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'll look sweet,
On the seat,
Of A Bicycle Built For Two.

We will go tandem as man and wife,
Daisy, Daisy!
Ped'ling away down the road of life,
I and my Daisy Bell!
When the road's dark
we can both despise
P'licemen and lamps as well;
There are bright lights
in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!
I will stand by you in `wheel` or woe,
Daisy, Daisy!
You'll be the bell which I'll ring,
you know!
Sweet little Daisy Bell!
You'll take the lead
in each trip we take,
Then, if I don't do well;
I will permit you to use the brake,
My beautiful Daisy Bell!

 

[madamv]

"Uk Subs Hey Santa lyrics"

Quite often I get a thinking
How as kids we got by
Like christmas time in our house
We couldn't even afford a fire

But we made do in our house
Back then when I was young
Dad used to suck a peppermint
And we'd all sit round his tongue

We couldn't afford no tinsel
On our christmas tree
So we'd just wheel old grandad in
And make the old cunt sneeze...atchoo

Wheel him round the other side granny...atchoo

Well things change so bloody fast
I got children now of me own
Now I heard 'em unwrap their presents
Last night when I got home

Santa claus you cunt
Where's my fucking bike
I've unwrapped all this other junk
There's nothing what i like

I've wrote you a letter
And i've come to see you twice
You geriatric wanker
Where's my fucking bike

If i wanted a pair of fucking shoes
I would've fucking asked
This cowboy suit and ping-pong set
You can stick right up your arse

You went and mucked my order up
It's enough to make you spew
It's not just me that's pissed off
My sister's cheesed off too

Santa claUs you cunt
Where's my fucking pram
You promised me you fucking cunt
You know who I am

'Cos I'm the little girl
You made sit right on your hand
Never mind your ho ho ho
Where's my fucking pram

Next time i go to see him
I'm gonna punch him in the guts
Set his fucking reindeer loose
Kick rudolf in the nuts

Just you wait til next year
'Til we get to that store
A mate of my little sister
'll come stomping through that door

Hey mums and dads just check his breath
And watch his bloodshot eyes
Don't listen to him boys and girls
'Cos he tells fucking lies

He's a pisstake and a pervert
He's not even fucking bright
'Cos that fucking wanker
Forgot my fucking bike

Hey santa claus you cunt
Where's my fucking bike
I've unwrapped all this other junk
There's nothing what I like

I wrote you a fucking letter
And I came to see you twice
You geriatric wanker
Forgot my fucking bike

Yeah I'm gonna tell my dad on you
Fucking punch your head in....cunt
I saw mummy sucking santa


I only know it by Kevin Bloody Wilson though

 

[stavros]

The Delgados, so named after the 1988 Tour de France winner Pedro Delgado, have an album called "Peloton", so named after the main group of riders in a road race, and one called "Domestiques" after the workhorse members of the teams who work to help the leader or climber or lead out the sprinter.

Abdoujaparov are the only other band I can think of named after a cyclist, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov who's actually from Uzbekistan. He's certainly the most ferocious sprinter I can remember.

 

[Sir Belchalot]

Polystyrene did a 'Bicycle Song' on her 'Translucence' album.
It's nothing special though.

 

[stavros]

Thread revival because I've just remembered the Half Man Half Biscuit song (who's name I can't remember) with the line;
"Too many psychopaths,
Not enough cycle-paths."