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Riding on a train
Posted by Dave Amitri on 23 September 2009 - 10:59am.
I am sitting on the 10.42 out of Waterloo. I have Riding On A Train by The Pasadenas in my head. There must be better train songs out there. Help!
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Last train to...
.. Clarksville or Glasgow Central.
Marrakesh Express.
Theme to Murder on the Orient Express (Richard Rodney Bennett).
Pacifc 231 (Honegger)
The little Train of the Caipira (Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras #2)
MGV (Nyman)
How about
Train Song - Pentangle
It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It takes A Train To Cry
Slow train Coming - Bob Dylan
Midnight Special - Leadbelly
Mystery Train - Elvis Presley
Last of The Steam Powered Trains - The Kinks
Man In The Station - John Martyn
Hear My Train A Comin' - Jimi Hendrix
Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
Jumping Sombody Else's Train - The Waterboys
can't think of any more.
Bugger
You had to mention Casey Jones! All these choices and the theme tune has taken root.
Steamin and a rollin
The Dead and Casey Jones
I guess you're thinking of the theme to the TV series. The song of the same name by the Dead is nothing like it.
Yes I was aware of the difference
my attempt at humour while typing on my Blackberry, on a train must have been lost, woo wooo!
The antidote...
is the Pete Seeger version:
A-ha/Train of Thought
er, Train In Vain/Clash
Train To Skaville/Ethiopians
Trains and Boats and Planes/Burt Bacharach
I hear that train a-coming
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
cash has loads of train songs
The Rock Island line for example. Oh and my favourite train song of all time:
http://open.spotify.com/track/1Z8G6xCE3z0nBl5lT1GXxe
He did at least one concept album to my knowledge set on the trains.
Cash's version is much better but here's an alternative for you:
oops
sorry to Nicodemus who mentioned the dylan version later in the tread (although posted before I did if you see what I mean) should have read it all before sticking in my oar.
It is a great song though so deserves to be mentioned twice.
Princess of the Night
by the mighty Saxon!
“Shake a hand, make a friend”
The Train Kept A-Rollin (or not in this case)
Of all the variants re-riffing this garage classic The Rogues version out-frugs all others
Robyn Hitchcock's "I Often Dream of Trains"
I often dream of trains when I'm alone
I ride on them into another zone
I dream of them constantly
Heading for paradise
Or Basingstoke or Reading
How about
this from the mighty Chigley of my childhood.
"Time flies by when I'm the driver of a train
And I ride on the footplate there and back again"
under bridges, over bridges,
To our destination
Let it happen, bass player
I'm sorry, but I have no choice but to post this
I'm sick of trees, take me to the city!
'Train Round the Bend' by the Velvet Underground
'Europe by Train' by The Divine Comedy
How about
'This Train' Sister Rosetta Tharpe
'5.15' The Who
'Night Train' Public Enemy or Guns and Roses
My thoughts were of
Kraftwerk's Trans-Europe Express
Waiting For A Train by Flash and the Pan
Waiting for a Train
What I'd have chosen (and the Kraftwerk) if I'd seen the blog sooner.
While searching online for this I've just discovered that Flash and the Pan wrote and performed the original version of "Walking in the Rain" (as later performed on Grace Jones' "Nightclubbing"). I never knew that, so thanks for the indirect prompt.
Midnight Train To Georgia
Gladys Knight & The Pips.
Woo-Hoo!
Get on your dancing trousers
and join the Love Train.
that first guy is on fast forward i hope or he's gonna explode
Fantastic record
On a similar tip, you could also have
Holly Johnson - Love Train
For fans of soft alternative rock
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum
or anything by the band "Train".
Also, for opera fans, Funiculi Funicula(r)
A few more
Play a train song - Todd Snider
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie or Willie Nelson or author Steve Goodman
Train a comin' - Steve Earle
The girl who waves at trains - The Lilac Time
Last of the old fashioned steam trains - The Kinks
Night train - Bruce Cockburn
Southern Pacific - Neil Young
Canadian Pacific - George Hamilton IV
Canadian Railroad trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
(these Canadians like their train songs)
Mystery train - Elvis Presley
Riding on a railroad - James Taylor
Let's remember
that accidents can happen
Sparks "Bullet Train"
The Sisters of Mercy "Train"
R.E.M. "Driver 8"
Neko Case "Train From Kansas City"
Johnny via Bobby...
... with Train Of Love:
Here's mine!
3 years of commuting into London lead me to pen this little bluegrass ditty (I suspect you get all of the clips - "Riding on the train" is the one - Fraser, delete if self referring...)
http://www.lemonrock.com/beaujangles?page=mp3s
The Mighty Kevin Ayers
Stop This Train Again Doing It.
more
one after 9;09 beatles
peace train cat stevens
desparados waiting on a train guy clark
chatanuga chew chew
iLikeTrains - post rock with vocals
A few more
Also:
Not forgetting Whistler - Don't Jump In Front Of My Train
A few more..
Free-Oh I wept
Oasis- You know what I mean
Animals-House of the rising sun
Rolling Stones-Love in vain
Oleta Adams-Get here
Kinks-Waterloo sunset
When The Train Comes
Sutherland Brothers and Quiver (I fee a new thread coming on there)
Waiting for a Train - Jimmy Rogers and also Boz Scaggs
Travelling In Style - Free
Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donegan ( and 'The Altrincham Line' spoof by Les Ackroyd)
Of Course !
How did we all miss Rock Island Line ? Embarassing really. There you go. A definitive suggestion.
More
"Desperadoes Waiting for a Train" - Guy Clark
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Choo Choo Ch'boogie - Louis Jourdain, Commander Cody
Freight Train to San Fernando - Nancy Whisky?
Orange Blossom Special - Earl Scruggs
Let Me Ride on the Southbound - country song - not sure who sang it (apart from a bassist I worked with, badly). Charley Pride maybe?
a few more
Goldfrapp - Train
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Train Fare Blues
Tom Waits - Train Song
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
Tom Waits - Gospel Train
Jean-Michel Bernard - Train Station
Explosions In The Sky - Train Station
Explosions In The Sky - Lonely Train
Bright Eyes - Train Under Water
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Trains
Guillemots - Trains To Brazil
Primal Scream - Trainspotting
Primal Scream - Last Train
The Horrors - A Train Roars
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Arcade Fire - Born On A Train
Scorpions - Catch Your Train
Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Johnny Cash - Down There By The Train
Johnny Cash - Let The Train Blow The Whistle
Johnny Cash - On The Evening Train
R.E.M. - High Speed Train
Bob Dylan - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Joni Mitchell - Just Like This Train
The Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville
Nitin Sawhney - Last Train To Midnight
Jefferson Airplane - Milk Train
The kills - Night Train
The Seahorses - Night Train
The Von Bondies - Nite Train
TV On The Radio - On A Train
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Pastelka On The Train
Milieu - Plume Train
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Stop That Train
Bob Marley & The Wailers - This Train
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Zion Train
Morrissey - Subway Train / Munich Air Disaster 1958
Duke Ellington - Take The "A" Train
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught The Train
The Smiths - The Draize Train
Anouar Brahem Trio - The Mozdok's Train
Oh iPod search function, how I love thee...
A couple more
Randy Newman - Dixie Flyer
Bruce Springsteen - Land Of Hope and Dreams
Woody Guthrie - Bound For Glory
Rosanne Cash - Runaway Train
Rolling Stones / Robert Johnson - Love In Vain
As usual the answer is
- oh you know the rest
Bowie - Station to Station
Lonesome Train
JJ Cale.
The rhythm of which always reminds me of the music that accompanies the train on the Magic Roundabout.
A few Trains songs
I was ...
... going to suggest 'Train Running Low on Soul Coal by XTC but you beat me to it... You could of course have the whole 'Big Express' album (which, in the days of walkman and cassette accompanied me on many a train journey) or Andy P's 'My Train is Coming' or indeed 'Tin Toy Clockwork Train'.
Long Train Running
by The Doobie Brothers is a seriously good record
Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train a Comin'
in the the acoustic version - you can hear the ghost of Robert Johnson
How about
Also by ELO
Last Train To London
Madness - (Waiting for the) Ghost Train
Guns n Roses - Nighttrain
Slow Train To Dawn - The The
Orient Express - Jean Michel Jarre
The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Colour Scene
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train - HMHB
Homebound Train - Bon Jovi
People Get Ready
by the Impressions
To call it the best train song ever would be to damn it with faint praise.
What about the brilliant
What about the brilliant 'Train To Nowhere' by Savoy Brown?
The train I ride goes to God knows where
I don't know - and I don't care...
Perfect for the 10.42 from Waterloo
What an unbelievable response
I love this place, my train journey literally flew by as I was fed a stream of new train based songs. At the same time I was able to read a debate on filesharing and the hardships of a musician trying to make a living, while finding out what your favourite buscuits are, marvellous. All thanks to the extra limb that is my Blackberry.
To complete the journey here's the song that started it.
Glad you posted that
couldn't place the track when I saw it in your post. Aah I remember it well now. Takes me back to a far simpler time. Top pop.
Get Carter theme
Dum de doo doo doo etc.
One Way Ticket To The Blues
awful song from the 50s
and another 'The Runaway Train' by Michael Holliday - I hated him as a kid (don't know why).
Down At The Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
The Go-Betweens 'Here Comes A City'
Should also feature high on any list of songs that mention Dostoevsky
and not forgetting
down in the tube station at midnight by the jam (an early example of punk story-telling in regards to the joys of late night commuting).
big blue train - by rockabilly bassist lee rocker... all about a big blue train, presumably.
No-ones mentioned RT yet...
Train don't leave - Richard Thompson (on the acoustic cd of You? Me? Us?)
KLF - Last Train to Trancentral
Two more..
The Cure - Jumping on someone else's train
Cream - Traintime
Then I found this, and realised I am wasting my time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs
Wikipedia list
It has Me And Bobby McGee as a train song. I always thought of it as a hitchhiking song.
If you're feeling maudlin...
"From A Late Night Train" by The Blue Nile.
The list's not over yet
Sorry I'm late, is there any punch left?
Freight Train - Annabel Lamb (beautiful song)