Song about trains - suggestions please!

[Buds]

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

Has anyone said that so far?

Yep, I have http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=6263731&postcount=24

 

[nino_savatte]

Kylie - The Locomotion

Just to add to Kylie's cover version: Little Eva - The Locomotion

 

[colacubes]

Just to add to Kylie's cover version: Little Eva - The Locomotion

I know - I just thought it would be more disturbing for the kids at an indie night

 

[nino_savatte]

I know - I just thought it would be more disturbing for the kids at an indie night

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Flying Scotsman - Spear of Destiny

 

[nino_savatte]

Swervedriver - Last Train to Satansville

 

[teuchter]

Do you know that John Betjeman film, "Metro-land"?

He visits a chap called Len Rawle who has a Wurlizter organ installed in his front room, on which he plays a piece which makes the organ sound like a steam train ... don't know whether you could get a recording of that or not...

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1259604/index.html

 

[beeboo]

Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure

My other half swears the beginning of 'Hand in Glove' sounds like a train

 

[sojourner]

Alabama Train - Louisiana Red

 

[Spion]

Hank Williams - Ramblin Man

 

[Jambooboo]

Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan

 

[yardbird]

Smokestack Lighnin' - Howling Wolf

 

[May Kasahara]

Blue Train - Cibo Matto

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Is there any music to Thomas the Tank Engine?

 

[beeboo]

Is there any music to Thomas the Tank Engine?

It does yep!


But Ivor the Engine would be WAAY cooler

 

[Roadkill]

Kylie - The Locomotion

Tbh, if he plays that he deserves to be stuffed head-first into the firebox of one of the engines...

 

[Meltingpot]

Burt Bacharach and Hal David's wonderful "Trains and boats and planes". Don't know how you'd do the orchestration live though.

There's also Crosby Stills and Nash's "Marrakesh Express" and some song called "I'm A Train" which I remember from my childhood.

 

[billy_bob]

I've been planning a 'songs about trains' compilation for ages, but I've limited it by only including songs which replicate the sound of the train, through the rhythm, whistles, etc. I've still got enough stuff for about 4 hours.

Damn that blues.

 

[cesare]

Kick The Bus, Kick The Train - the Kleptones
Trains - Shri
Train To Bay - Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight
Train Of Love - Neil Young
The Train I Ride - Alison Moyet
This Train - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Stop That Train - ^ ditto
Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Paris Train - Beth Orton
On The Evening Train - Johnny Cash
Night Train/Closing - James Brown
Night Train - Rickie Lee Jones
Last Train - Travis
Just Like This Train - Joni Mitchell
Hear My Train A Comin' - Jimi Hendrix
Ghost Train - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Down There By The Train - Tom Waits
Coal-train Robberies - Elvis Costello

Thank you iTunes ....

 

[Meltingpot]

Has anyone mentioned the O'Jays "Love Train" yet?

"Peace train"; good call, I like Dolly Parton's version of that too.

 

[cesare]

Locomotive - Thelonious Monk
Life's Railway To Heaven - Johnny Cash
Railroad - The Zutons

 

[cesare]

"Peace train"; good call, I like Dolly Parton's version of that too.

Haven't heard that, will d/l it

 

[Magic Sam]

George "Bullet" Williams- Frisco leaving Birmingham

There is already a compiliation of blues train songs I think <googles> ah yes
http://www.railserve.com/music/ bit obsessive IMO.

 

[cesare]

Ooo - look. There's loads here on a last.fm journal. You can listen to some of em an all

 

[beeboo]

On my train home there are these two geezers who come on and play a song called "This train (is going to Caterham)" before passing round the hat. They sell CDs of it as well, maybe I could fix you up with one

 

[joevsimp]

apol's if its bindun (and its not a song as such) but:

this is the night train
crossing the border
bringing the cheque
and the postal order
letters for the rich
letters for the poor
the shop on the corner
the girl next door

 

[GroovyCrimes]

I guess this is as good a thread as any for a newbies 1st post

The Waterboys - Some of my best friends are trains

 

[Superape]

Skimmed the other responses so apologies if these have been done:

Johnny Cash - Ridin' the rails
Johnny Cash - I got a thing about trains
Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special
(are you seeing a pattern to this yet?)
Johnny Cash or Lonnie Donnegan - Rock Island Line
Johnny Cash - City of New Orleans
Johnny Cash - Wreck of the old '97
(wait, there's more, and they're not even Johnny Cash)
Adrian Belew - The rail song
Bob Dylan - Slow train comin'
Monkees - Last train to Clarksville
Johnny Cash - Train of love
(Thought I'd sneak another one in there)

 

[yardbird]

Train Kept a Rollin' - Yardbirds

 

[oryx]

Can't Ignore the Train - 10,000 Maniacs