Songs about public transportation

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Waiting For the Bus - Violent Femmes
Metro - Berlin
M.T.A. - Kingston Trio
Subway Song - The Cure
Kiss Me On the Bus - The Replacements
Downtown Train - Tom Waits

What else you got?

― kate78 (anywherebuthere), Friday, 9 February 2007 06:27 (eighteen years ago)

In my country there is problem ...

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Friday, 9 February 2007 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

Get on the Bus - Wesley Willis

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 9 February 2007 07:13 (eighteen years ago)

I missed the Bus - Kris Kross

And:
SUBWAY - Sesame Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPh8As-y6E&eurl=

― shudder redduhs (shudder), Friday, 9 February 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

You're Crazy For Taking The Bus - Jonathan Richman
The Wheels On The Bus - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers

― marmirite? (epp), Friday, 9 February 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

Train Train by the Count Bishops.

― Antony Holt (ant), Friday, 9 February 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

train - life, sex and death
900 miles - terry callier

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Friday, 9 February 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Stop The Bus I Want A Wee Wee.

Every Belle and Sebastian song excpet I Love My Car.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

The Association, The Bus Song
Fatima Mansions, Only Losers Take the Bus
Jake Thackray, Country Bus

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Fatback Band, Do the Bus Stop

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Frank Sinatra - "The Lady is a Tram"

― It's Tough to Beat Illious (noodle vague), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Move, Turkish Tram Conductor Blues

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

"Double Dutch Bus" - Frankie Smith

"My Metrocard" - Le Tigre

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Francie and Josie, The Glasgow Underground Song

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

Billy Connolly, Last Train to Glasgow Central

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

'got on the bus with me day saver' by the kersal massive

― m the g (mister the guanoman), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Jam: Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:21 (eighteen years ago)

'Truck Train Tractor' - The Pastels (okay, only one of these is REALLY a method of public transportation)
'My Train's Coming In' - Betty Lavette

I used to know loads of songs about trains but my mind has gone blank now.

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Lee Hazlewood, Greyhound Bus Depot

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

The Wacky World of Rapid Transit - Del tha Funkee Homosapien

― the Dirt (FunkDirt), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Suicide, Super Subway Comedian

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

new york dolls, subway train

― senator second p. newcastle (a_p), Friday, 9 February 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

The Who - Magic Bus

― dad a (dad a), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Count Five, Double Decker Bus

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Si Begg has a whole album dedicated to the theme, it's called Commuter World.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Frank & Walters - Happy Busman
Frank & Walters - Trainspotters

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

i love the femmes song, kate!

and i said hey mr driver man, don't be slow, cuz i got somewhere i gotta go!

― Surmounter (rra123), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

executive slacks "the bus"

oh no!
our legs are touching!
touching on the bus!

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

The JB's - "It's Not the Express (It's JB's Monaurail)"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

The Fairways - KLM Line

― svend (svend), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

ELO - Last Train To London
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Various 1969 Kids Especially Brinsey Out Of Aswad - Double Deckers Theme
Jackie Trent - 7:30 From Suburbia
KLF - Last Train To Transcentral
Destiny's Child - Get On The Bus

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Sheena Easton - "Morning Train"

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

take the "A" train

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

jonathan richman, "you're crazy for taking the bus"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

The Move, Omnibus

― Tom D. (Dada), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hope and Keen, Crazy Bus

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 9 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

GURU/Jazzmatazz - "Watch the Closing Doors"

Trends of Culture - "Hassle on the Iron Horse"

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

The Flaming Lips - Riding To Work In The Year 2025

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

"Knick Knack Patty Wack" -- EPMD

Cause as I dust bust, crush, and then rush
a sucker new jack, with no if's and's or but's
You roll with the good times, we like to roll with Rush
I drive a 'Ratti (I drives a Benz) you ride the bus

"I'm Kurious" -- Kurious Jorge

With the type of rhymes, that'll derail ya
Train of thought, 2-3 Uptown
On the iron horse, self esteem slows down

"Stop That Train" (part of "B-Boy Bouillabaisse")-- Beastie Boys

It's 4:00 a.m. I've got the Dr. Hfuhruhurr Ale
I've got nothing to lose so I'm pissin' on the third rail
Groggy eyed and fried I'm headed for the station
D-Train ride Coney Island vacation ...

everything by TOKEN ENTRY

― edb (edb), Friday, 9 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Here Comes A City -- The Go-Betweens

― edb (edb), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone has an ALBUM about public transport.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Six Finger Satellite - "Board the Bus"

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

The Cramps - "Drug Train"

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

If we include songs about trains that would open up about a million songs. Are trains really public transportation though?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

man, no one's said "i often dream of trains" by robyn hitchcock yet?

the l train is a swell train, and i don't want to hear any of you indies complain, by out hud.

and, of course - another one rides the bus, by weird al.

― Emily Bjurnhjam (Emily Bjurnhjam), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't see "Bus Stop" by the Hollies above, but maybe I missed.

Nice to see Kriss Kross's "I Missed the Bus" mentioned. I pulled that out recently and it holds up real well.

I never thought of the Magic Bus as being public.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Songs About Trains...
I've Got A Thing About Trains Or The Role Played By The Locomotive In Blues, Folk And Country

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Yeah, I take my private train to work every day!

― edb (edb), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Red Box by I Jog and the Tracksuits

― Fjord Spellman (fjord), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Well, sure, subway songs count, and songs clearly about AmTrak, but songs about freight trains and commercial railroads, no way.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Of course we can't really characterize the mystery train.

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Husker Du, MTC

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Judy Garland, "The Trolley Song"

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

one of my favorites,

"El is a Sound Of Joy" by Sun Ra

― Bob McNichol (bmcnee), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

no songs about monorails, then?...

― hank (hank s), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Monorails are okay, I guess, as long as they are publicly owned and operated.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

this is easily the best song about monorails...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbi8tFe769U

― seth schowalter (big baby), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Waitin for the Bus, ZZ Top

― novamax (novamax), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

And I suppose we don't know exactly how Jesus traveled from Chicago to New Orleans.

OutKast, "Rosa Parks."

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Very obscure, but a great song by Lori Wray, Mpls./Kansas singer-songwriter: "MTC 1990."

― dylan (dylan), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

we can't really characterize the mystery train.

This is like a zen koan.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 9 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

"Train" - Leo Sayer
"Calcutta" - Dr. Bombay (well, his uncle does work as a cab driver according to the lyrics ;) )

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

Tin Machine- "Bus Stop"
The Monkees- "Last Train to Clarksville"
Prince- "Lady Cab Driver"

― K Smith (chamomile), Saturday, 10 February 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Once on the radio, many many years ago, I heard a song called (possibly) "People Mover," where the one guy yelps stuff like "Wait! Stop!" and the band goes "People mover!" At one point he definitely says "Step away from the door!" and maybe "Car full, escalator!" It's all kind of a blur now but I have never had the slightest luck figuring out what song that was. Clues?

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 10 February 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

"Love Train" - The O'Jays
"The Venga Bus Is Coming" - Vengaboys
"Bus Stop Boxer" - Eels
"Blue Train" - Coltrane
"Slow Train" - Dylan

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

"Taxi" Harry Chapin

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 February 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

"Escalator of Life" - Robert Hazard

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so sorry but nothing beats the Replacements' "Kiss Me On The Bus" in this department which kindof means this thread was over the minute it started.

― Twenty Special Offer Stickers (Bimble...), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

Much as I love Kiss Me on the Bus, that Del track is a very fine thing indeed.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 10 February 2007 05:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.shuffledemons.com/video_bus.php

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Saturday, 10 February 2007 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

"ST-37" by Chrome - typically cryptic, but it's a bus!

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Saturday, 10 February 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

Half Man Half Biscuit "Time Flies By (When You're The Driver Of A Train)"

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

Chandra, "Subway"

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

"Hey Now Now" - The Cloud Room
"Hey now now, we're goin' down down
and we ride the bus there and pay the bus fare"

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 10 February 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

wheels on the bus

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 10 February 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

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