C90: train station waiting room

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what goes on this tape?

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Mission of Burma - Train

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Day We Caught the Train - Ocean Colour Scene (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! ha!)

Very Weird - Sportsguitar (they put us on a train, and bought us to the place where they usually take the people who wouldn't act normal anymore)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I fear we may have misinterpreted what gareth meant by this.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:33 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, you have.

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

So it's songs you could listen to while waiting for a train...hmmm...I guess I will go for: "i don't need to know" by the heartworms.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth aren't all your threads secretly this thread?

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 07:59 (twenty-three years ago)

not this one

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:09 (twenty-three years ago)

... so songs about 'travel = ennui' better than songs about 'travel = movement'. Some suggestions:

Madness - Waiting for the Ghost Train - penultimate single and a bit of a gem

Kan Kan - Changing trains - doubt you'll find this! c1980 and obscure even then. But contained the classic dud/tongue in cheek line: 'waiting in the dark/a traveller at a lonely station/the struggle to be free/can sometimes lead to isolation'

The 'Third Man' theme

Gladys Night - (Midnight Train) to Georgia - I reccomend singing along to the backing vocalists (whoo whoo! a superstar, but she didn't get far'). That should empty the waiting room.

Wire - Stranded - off Chairs Missing. The one with the line 'as the water get's warmer his iceberg gets smaller'

Jim White - Sleepytown - off his first album

and perhaps

― jon, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

"everybody's talkin at me" & "theme" - midnight cowboy soundtrack
"sand" - nancy sinatra & lee hazlewood
"flat beat" - mr oizo
"love letters" - elvis presley
"ma vie en rose" - edith piaf
"old friends" - jimmie rodgers
"motorpsycho nitemare" - bob dylan

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Waits - Downtown Train.
Maybe even Passengers - United Colors I think it was called.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

once i waited all night in a train station in lovely Trenton, NJ (aka one of the most depressed and violent cities in the Northeast) amongst the drug addicts and the crazies, while my (now ex-)girlfriend rode the train in from West Virginia. there were no early morning trains and i wanted to meet her when she got in. my only soundtrack was a copy of 'rich man's eight track tape' by big black.

i do not reccomend this.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:10 (twenty-three years ago)

...which makes me think of a couple of things we are good for that special 'urban ennui' that even the most rural concrete room by a track can evoke.

- west one (shine on me) - Ruts
- Shadowplay - Joy Division

as above poster implies, both are probably best avoided anywhere were genuine danger may lurk...

― jon cannon, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:20 (twenty-three years ago)

"Homeward Bound" -- simon & garfunkel.
"Train Comin Round The Bend" -- velvet underground.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Fugazi's "Waiting Room," duh

― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:11 (twenty-three years ago)

the Wire tracks should be "Midnight Bahnhof Cafe" and "The Other Window" (latter for the actual trainride).

― Paul (scifisoul), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take This Job and Shove It" - Johnny Paycheck - preferably with the treble turned way up

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

"Girl at the Bus Stop" by My Drug Hell, if you're trying to make your waiting time feel longer.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

"windshield" (or is it screen?) - Green Magnet School

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

good grief I can't resist this, but I'll be very selective: Train Is Comin' (Woodrow Adams), Night Train (James Brown - any excuse to include him), Late For The Train (Buzzcocks), Don't Miss That Train (Wynona Carr), The Diplomat (Johnny Cash - you can't omit country from a train-related C90), Stop That Train (Clint Eastwood & General Saint), Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time (Gang Of Four), Waiting For The Train (Merle Haggard or Jerry Lee Lewis), Midnight Train to Georgia (Gladys Knight - an 'any excuse' track), The Train to Doomsville (Lee Perry), Hurry Up Freight Train (Charlie Rich), Train From Kansas City (Shangri-Las - see James Brown), Slow Train (Staple Singers), Dark Train (Underworld - see James Brown), Train Fare Home Blues (Muddy Waters), Love Train (O'Jays - see Gladys Knight), Accident Waiting To Happen (Billy Bragg), I'm Still Waiting (Diana Ross), I'm Waiting At The Station (Aaron Neville), I'm Waiting Forever (Willie Nelson), Just Waiting (Hank Williams or the Fall), Tired Of Waiting For You (Kinks), Waiting In Vain (Wailers), Waiting On You (Al Green - see James Brown), Crash (Public Enemy).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

A few sudden thoughts while at work... Mink Deville - "A" Train Lady is essential... Maybe Rickie Lee Jones' "Night Train" as well... "Mystery Train" Sun Session, one of my fave Elvis tracks... Crime & the City Solution's "On Every Train (Grain will bear Grain)" is awesome as well while we're at it...

― Simon, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I Am Waiting - Rolling Stones - off of the best sixties Stones album and used with great effect in Rushmore.

― spiffy james, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I once saw Peter Mandelson in the train waiting room at Rugby station. FACT.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Sisters of Mercy, erm, 'Train' everybodys gotta destination.....i got mine

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The Straitjacket Fits are the best journey band ever (obv. including Journey), and I think that includes waiting rooms.

Waiting to leave: "Such a Daze"
Waiting to go home (buzzingly happy version): "Down in Splendour"
Waiting to go home (inevitably unhappy version): "Sparkle That Shines"
Waiting for someone to leave: "She Speeds", obv.
Waiting for someone to arrive: "All That That Brings"

― B:Rad (Brad), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 20:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of Rushmore, "Making Time" by the Creation.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

literalists!!

i have decided to get the bus instead, with this godawful lot i think i would find a railway station waiting room a terrible prospect...

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 07:30 (twenty-three years ago)

"board the bus" - Six Finger Satellite!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 07:46 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

bus station waiting room then

― Mary (Mary), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Bus is more difficult, but I have:

Get On The Bus - Destiny's Child
(Are You Ready) Do The Bus Stop - Fatback Band
Greyhound Blues - D.A. Hunt
You're Crazy For Taking the Bus - Jonathan Richman
Devil With The Bus - Sound Experience
Bus A Dub - Upsetters
Magic Bus - Who
Bus Driver - Muddy Waters
Bus Drivers' Prayer - Ian Dury
Bus-A-Bus Interlude - Missy Elliott
In The Bus Shelter - Jilted John
Weed Bus - Stairs

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 March 2003 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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