Song about trains - suggestions please!

[sheothebudworths]

The runaway train!!!




By......???

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Lonesome Train - any number of rockabilly artists
Train Kept a Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio
Trumpton Song - Half Man Half Biscuit
Train Song - Tom Waits

 

[Iam]

The Stone Roses - whichever song it is that has the line, "A freight train laughs and rattles by/you kissed the girls and made them die." was that Can You Feel It?

All Across The Sands.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

oh, and tom waits - downtown train.

Yes seconded (and not the Rod feckin Stewart version either )

 

[Negativland]

I love the chk-a chk-a blues guitar imitating train noises.

 

[Geri]

Pastels - Truck Train Tractor.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Lonesome Train - any number of rockabilly artists
Train Kept a Rollin' - Johnny Burnette Trio

Oh, I like both of those and probably still have them (stuck in my sister's attic somewhere)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Choo Choo Ch' boogie

 

[robotsimon]

Carter USM - 24 Minutes From Tulse Hill:

If your conscience fails you we can be your guide
The runaway train will take you for a ride
It's an '88 special with automatic doors
Johnny Guitar, tell 'em where it goes
Down the tracks like a thunderstorm
past the house where I was born

 

[Isambard]

City of New Orleans by Johnny Cash.

 

[clandestino]

Good stuff. Keep 'em coming please!

 

[Iam]

The Midnight Special

 

[LDR]

Like The 309 - Johnny Cash

 

[Hocus Eye.]

City of New Orleans by Johnny Cash.

Or more accurately "A Train They Call The City of New Orleans"

 

[Roadkill]

I suppose loads of the old skiffle stuff is about trains, but that's not really the sort of music for an indie festival.

I saw Joe Brown interviewed ages ago about how he started in the music business. He actually was a fireman on British Rail in the '50s, when he started playing. As he said, "when skiffle came along all the songs were about trains and firemen, and there was I, a genuine fireman, with a guitar, who could play four chords! I was straight in there."

 

[Spandex]

Wilson Pickett - Engine Number 9

 

[Iam]

The Cramps - Drug Train

 

[nino_savatte]

The Who - 5.15 (a song about being off one's face on the 5.15 train from Victoria to Brighton)

 

[Roadkill]

Flanders and Swann - Slow Train

 

[Isambard]

Holly Johnson, Love Train?

 

[Iam]

Code Red - All Aboard (samples the Mayfield)

 

[christonabike]

Half Man Half Biscuit - Time Flies By When You're the Driver of a Train

Has anyone said that so far?

 

[el_starkos]

Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure
Groovy Train - The Farm
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
Medicine Train - The Cult

 

[Dirty Martini]

Engine 54 -- The Ethiopians

One More Ride -- Johnny Cash

 

[nino_savatte]

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia
Public Enemy - Nighttrain

 

[ohmyliver]

erm could you get away with "tracks of my tears" by Smokey Robinson and the The Miracles

 

[Spandex]

The Ethiopians

Didn't they do Train to Skaville too?

 

[Magic Sam]

Muddy Waters- Mean 'Ol Frisco

 

[Dirty Martini]

Didn't they do Train to Skaville too?

Yep, and Train To Glory. Wonderful group

 

[colacubes]

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Train Song

Kylie - The Locomotion