― anthony, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― dave q, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― philT, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Damian, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Prude, Saturday, 17 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Alexander Blair, Sunday, 18 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 18 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― DavidM, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― michael, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― James Kyllo, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
'Silver Train' - The Rolling Stones
― Andrew L, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dave225, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
For the best ever train sounds - rent the "Pink Floyd: The Wall" movie and fast wind to "The Happiest Days of Your Lives"
Hipster choice - Theme from "Get Carter" by Roy Budd Muso-I've-still-got-30-minutes-of-tape-to-fill choice - Steve Reich's "Different Trains"
― Jeff, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The Day We Caught The Train - Ocean Color Sean.
I apologise.
― Graham, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
There's also a Divine Comedy song called Europe By Train only it's not really about much.
Taramasalata by Eggstone is about the Underground - does that count?
― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― dave q, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
- "Are you going to release the record?"- "I don't think so"- "Okay..."- "Okay".
― K-reg, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― JJ, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Rock Island Line by Johnny Cash, amongst many others.
― suzy, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mr Noodles, Monday, 19 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― nickn, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― JJ, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― michael, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― jk, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Steve.n., Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Keiko, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ian, Tuesday, 20 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
"Hot Rail" by Calexico. Hot Rail is used among rialworkers to alarm co-workers when a train is approaching. This is actually what you hear when the song starts.
― willem, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
"I'm A Train" by Albert Hammond, especially the cackle on the outro.
― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 21 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
How has nobody mentioned Last Train To Trancentral??
― emil.y, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dare, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― RickyT, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― sharann long, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― doug, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― N., Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
"Ignoramuses shut oor station doon and noo mah auld grannie hivs tae walk back fae the toon"
And people think that lyrics, even ones so infused with the poetry of the soul such as this, arent important
― Alexander Blair, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Stephen Gardner. Yes.
― Dare, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― etc, Monday, 4 August 2003 08:50 (twenty-two years ago)
'ppears so.
― M Specktor (M Specktor), Monday, 4 August 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 August 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 August 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 4 August 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)
and so on.
― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― chuck, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)
10,000 Maniacs - Can't Ignore The TrainRoy Acuff - Wobash Cannonball and The Streamlined Cannon BallWoodrow Adams - Train Is Comin' and Train TimeAfrican Head Charge - Timbuktu ExpressDoc Alimontado & the Rebels - Rasta TrainBabes In Toyland - Jungle TrainReverend Robert Ballinger - The Little Black Train and This TrainBarmy Army - Mind the Gap (re tube trains)Big Youth - Train to RhodesiaBirch Sisters - I Missed That Train AgainBlessed Ethel - Pullman Car To VenusBox Tops - Choo Choo TrainBrave New World - Train Kept A Rollin'Big Bill Broonzy - Southbound TrainTeddy Brown - Midnight Train To GeorgiaTommy Brown - The House Near the Railroad TrackBuzzcocks - Late For The TrainJames Carr - Freedom TrainSuster Wynona Carr - Don't Miss That TrainJohnny Cash - The Diplomat/Down There By The Train/Hey Porter/Hey, Hey Train/I've Been To Georgia On A Fast Train/Let The Train Blow the Whistle/Train of Love...Neneh Cherry - Outre Risque LocomotiveAlex Chilton - Train Kept A Rollin'Contrastate - Locomotive ShudderCool Sticky - The Train To SoulsvilleElvis Costello - Coal Train Robberies and Ghost TrainCulture - This TrainCure - Another Journey By TrainKing Curtis - Night TrainVernon Dalhart - The Runaway TrainDeadly Hume - My Head Feels Like It's Been Hit By A TrainDom & Roland - Spirit TrainBilly Ward & the Dominoes - Little Black TrainDub Syndicate - Night TrainBob Dylan - Freight Train BluesSnooks Eaglin - That Same Old TrainJoe Ely - BoxcarsFall - Stay Away (Old White Train)Farm - Groovy TrainFlux of Pink Indians - Tube DisastersEddie Giles - Go Go TrainLloyd Glenn - Honky Tonk Train BluesAl Green - Back Up TrainNanci Griffith - Southbound TrainGrowling Tiger - The Train BlowMerle Haggard - I Won't Give Up My Train and Waiting For The TrainLionel Hampton - Take The A TrainDerrick Harriott - Psychedelic TrainHighwaymen - Desperados Waiting For A TrainHolmes Brothers - The Train SongJam - Down in the Tube Station at MidnightElmore James - Sunnyland TrainJesters - Night Train From ChicagoHolly Johnson - Love TrainLouis Jordan - Texas And PacificGladys Knight & the Pips - Friendship TrainBilly J Kramer & the Dakotas - Trains And Boats And PlanesByron Lee - Psychedelic TrainJerry Lee Lewis - Waiting for a TrainLionrock - She's On The TrainLittle Feat - Two Trains RunningLouisiana Red - Alabama TrainLouvin Brothers - Freight Train Blues (Boogie) and Put Me On The Train To CarolinaLudichrist - Last Train to ClarksvilleBlind Willie McTell - Wobash CannonballMekon - EurostarMemphis Minnie - Chicksaw Train BluesLittle Milton - Rode That TrainMission of Burma - TrainMotorhead - Iron HorseJunior Murvin & Dillinger - Roots TrainWillie Nelson - A Fast Train To GeorgiaNeville Brothers - Mystery TrainNico (the D&B one) - AmtrakOrbital - Eurotunnel Disaster 94Dolly Parton - Life Rides The TrainLee Perry - The Train to DoomsvillePlastics - Last Train to ClarksvilleLouis Prima - Night TrainPrimal Scream - TrainspottingProcol Harum - Whisky TrainPulp - Boats And TrainsTot Randolph - Blues TrainCharlie Rich - Hurry Up Freight TrainRisse - House TrainJimmie Rodgers - The Brakeman's BluesRogues - The Train Kept A-RollingEd Rush - SubwaySaint Etienne - Railway JamScotty - Salvation TrainShimon & Andy C - Orient ExpressDavid Shire - The Taking Of Pelham One Two ThreeMichelle Shocked - If Love Was a TrainTV Smith - Runaway Train DriverTrixie Smith - Runaway Train DriverStaple Singers - Move Along Train and Slow TrainSun City Girls - Love TrainTarheel Slim - No. 9 TrainArt Tatum - 9:20 SpecialEddie Taylor - Train FareTemptations - Friendship TrainSonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Southern TrainSister Rosetta Tharpe - This TrainLinval Thompson - Train To ZionRichard Thompson - Train Don't LeaveToots & the Maytals - Freedom TrainTTC - SubwayMo Tucker - TrainIke Turner - Evening TrainUnderworld - Dark TrainTom Waits - Gospel Train and Train SongT-Bone Walker - That Evening TrainDionne Warwicke - Trains & Boats & PlanesWaterboys - The Late Train To HeavenMuddy Waters - Train Fare Home BluesWeather Girls - Love You Like A TrainWeather Prophets - Downbound TrainWashington White - The New Frisco TrainBarrence Whitfield - Long Black TrainWho - 5.15Hank Williams - Log TrainSonny Boy Williamson - Train Fare BluesRoma Wilson - This TrainWoodentops - Love TrainPete Wylie - Train To Piranhaville
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 9 August 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)
John Zorn, "Samarkan" (where Ned Rothenberg's shakuhachi does the steam whistle part just fine)
Grotest Ensemble, "Railway to London"
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 9 August 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)
and then, y'know, 'cissy strut' came on or something and i got over it.
― brian badword (badwords), Sunday, 10 August 2003 00:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― sibsi, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― sibsi, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― Aeroguy, Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)
― Aeroguy, Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― sibsi (sibsi), Sunday, 9 January 2005 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)
Sadly, Husker Du's 'MTC' is only about the bus.
― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)
― Bob Broilo, Friday, 6 January 2006 18:11 (twenty years ago)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)
― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)
One of the better songs from the Anthology of American Folk Music
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 6 January 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)
― drewo (drewo), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)
― mcd (mcd), Friday, 6 January 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)