Song about trains - suggestions please!

[Calva dosser]

Bound to be on the links but-

'Over the points'- Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

'Lonesome Train'- Johnny Kidd and The pirates.

 

[killer b]

munich machine - get on the funk train. 'tis a stone cold classic.

 

[Maggot]

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.

Express by BT Express has train noises, train rhythms and is a great tune!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Someone mentioned City of New Orleans by Johnny Cash, but the Arlo Guthrie version is worth a listen.

Driver 8, REM

Casey Jones, Grateful Dead

Train Kept a Rolling, Yardbirds

Peace Train, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam

Crazy Train, Ozzy

Somewhere Down the Crazy River, The Band

Born on a Train, Arcade Fire

Bullet Train, Judas Priest

Long Train Running, Doobie Brothers

Girl on a Train, 10,000 Maniacs

etc

 

[Calva dosser]

You would be advised to read threads......

 

[mauvais]

Peace Train has been scientifically proven to be the worst song ever written. They tested it on a goat and its head fell off.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

You would be advised to read threads......

I'm not going to read four pages and make lists in anticipation of my post. Some of them are probably duplications: I apologize for the energy you've wasted rereading those dozen words.

ps I did read the thread, but the short term memory ain't what it used to be.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Peace Train has been scientifically proven to be the worst song ever written. They tested it on a goat and its head fell off.

I like peace train, and also city of new orleans.

I've never tried either on a goat.

 

[mauvais]

Man. I'd rather be run over by it than have to listen to that again.

"WHOOO WHOOO PEACE TRA-EE-AY-EE-WHOOOO-TRAIN, we're on the peace train, pease porridge hot train, gonna try not to derail because of the aging infrastructure, me and my train brothers, yeah, err, yeah-aaaaah, peace train. Ad-hoc freestyle excellent lyric train! To, err, salvation. Two three four. Ah."

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

 

[mauvais]

I'm not clicking it because I know it'll be Peace Train. You can't trick me that easily.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'm not clicking it because I know it'll be Peace Train. You can't trick me that easily.

But it's a good peace train, with a good chorus backing him up.

 

[mauvais]

It's not good at all. I hope it goes through a signal and crashes into the war train.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Just try it. Go ahead...

 

[mauvais]

Are you familiar with the sentencing for manslaughter?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Are you familiar with the sentence for being a boor?

 

[mauvais]

A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement?

That's the one....

 

[mauvais]

Yes. Yes I am.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

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

The Waterboys - Some of my best friends are trains

Are you the real Mike Scott then?

I heard you've also been rumbled writing your own wiki.

You damn self-spammers. The Water Boys! How very dare you.

 

[1927]

It does yep!


But Ivor the Engine would be WAAY cooler

The Undersea Adventures Of Ivor The Engine- Bad Manners

 

[1927]

Try this thread http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=127605

 

[ivebeenhigh]

electric trains - squeeze
trains aka i can strech my hands out - r.e.m.
the draize train - the smiths

 

[Sunspots]

 

[smashthestate]

Anything by Eastfield.

 

[mauvais]

Half Man Half Biscuit - The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train)

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Has 'This Train is Bound for Glory' been mentioned yet?

I'd play it last if I was you.


'Stop This Train - I Wanna Get Off' has to have been mentioned, but I'm way to lazy to read the whole thread this evening.

And, that Monkey's song about the train. That was good. Has that been mentioned?

 

[Dr. Furface]

Red Streamliner - Little Feat
New Delhi Freight Train - Little Feat
Two Trains - Little Feat
'A' Train Lady - Mink DeVille
Station to Station - David Bowie
What am I doing hangin' round - The Monkees

 

[Maggot]

Are you the real Mike Scott then?

I heard you've also been rumbled writing your own wiki.

You damn self-spammers. The Water Boys! How very dare you.

He wasn't writing his own Wiki entry he was correcting it. If you saw a load of incorrect information about you on such a site (eg you were a heroin addict), I'm sure you'd correct it.

 

[Maggot]

And, that Monkey's song about the train. That was good. Has that been mentioned?

Last Train to Clarkesville hasn't been mentioned (unless they spelt clarkesville wrong).

It's about conscripts leaving for Vietnam.