Songs about modes of transport

[PTK]

To mark the recent death of Peter Yarrow

 

[stavros]

 

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It's a song about that there transport ain't it

 

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Have we had a skate board yet?

 

[zahir]

 

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It was probably meant about this. Built by a Scottish gentleman for an Indian gentleman in 1910.

 

[zahir]

 

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Sorry see above

I'm disappointed to learn that isn't a song about Mark Bolan taking a ride in one of these...

 

[hitmouse]

And the 60 bus mentioned in "Roots Radicals".

Whenever I get the Piccadilly or Northern line (which is not very often, cos I don't live in London), there's a fair chance I'll get this stuck in my head:

 

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Time for a tank song?

 

[hitmouse]

I think we can start to draw some conclusions about forms of transport have their praises sung the most and least - cars are sadly over-romanticised, trains do very well for themselves, buses and coaches have a bit of a hard time of it, and it's almost impossible to think of many tram songs other than this one:

 

[hitmouse]

Does hiking count?

Or indeed a drunk walk home?

 

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I was going to say "Into You Like A Train" by Jawbreaker, but my detailed google research has discovered that it's actually a Psychedelic Furs cover. But I know the Jawbreaker version better, so that's what this thread is getting:

 

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After this we had a car named Rosie. A neighbour had a very similar car which they called Jim. The rag doll is a narrow boat.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I think we can start to draw some conclusions about forms of transport have their praises sung the most and least - cars are sadly over-romanticised, trains do very well for themselves, buses and coaches have a bit of a hard time of it, and it's almost impossible to think of many tram songs other than this one:

Funny, I was just trying to think of a tram tune too but couldn't do any better than a mention in Run Run Run by the Velvet Underground. I gather a trolley is US slang for a tram, unless it's an actual trolley bus. Don't think they've been mentioned before either.

"Beardless Harry, what a waste
Couldn't even get a small-town taste
Rode the trolleys down to 47th
Figured he was good to get himself to heaven"

 

[hitmouse]

Funny, I was just trying to think of a tram tune too but couldn't do any better than a mention in Run Run Run by the Velvet Underground. I gather a trolley is US slang for a tram, unless it's an actual trolley bus. Don't think they've been mentioned before either.

"Beardless Harry, what a waste
Couldn't even get a small-town taste
Rode the trolleys down to 47th
Figured he was good to get himself to heaven"

The Sheffield tram system is called the Supertram which always made me wonder if it was a deliberate Supertramp reference, but then this isn't a "modes of transport that sound a bit like 70s rock bands" thread.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Found a tram tune. Looks to be some kind of karneval schlager singalong.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Found another tram tune. A Czech rap tribute to the iconic Tatra T3.

 

[Dystopiary]

Hot Air Balloon

 

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[LeytonCatLady]

Whenever I get the Piccadilly or Northern line (which is not very often, cos I don't live in London), there's a fair chance I'll get this stuck in my head:

This is a good one too for the Victoria line

 

[A380]

 

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Found another tram tune. A Czech rap tribute to the iconic Tatra T3.

Not forgetting this evergreen. No me neither

 

[A380]

Found a tram tune. Looks to be some kind of karneval schlager singalong.

Although I had actually heard of this one before.

 

[A380]

So not technically a means of transportation. But does self transporting agricultural machinery count? No, you say, but what if the video features both the Wurzles and the Muppets?

 

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[zahir]

 

[A380]

I think we can start to draw some conclusions about forms of transport have their praises sung the most and least - cars are sadly over-romanticised, trains do very well for themselves, buses and coaches have a bit of a hard time of it, and it's almost impossible to think of many tram songs other than this one:

Someone with too much time on their hands should do an analysis…

 

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So not technically a means of transportation. But does self transporting agricultural machinery count? No, you say, but what if the video features both the Wurzles and the Muppets?

2 of the many repeats people. We should insist on groups/ songs titles being written in so as they are searchable. Videos cannot be searched.

 

[hitmouse]

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