Thank Frankie it’s Friday.
Can you dig another music competition? That’s what I thought.
I’ve still no voucher to offer (insert sad face) but why let that come between us?
This week I want to know what’s your favourite song about travel or which mentions travel?
Here’s mine.
Please include a video link where possible.
Nick says: Good luck!
Lines Must close on Saturday at Midday.
Meanwhile…
Madness – One Step Beyond
Last week, Capernosity & Function won my esteem with this entry (above) to the question of what song makes you dance.
He recalled:
“God be with the days when you were defined as a Rude Boy or a Nutty Boy depending on whether you had scrawled Madness or The Beat on your school bag, in marker.”
Nick says: Well done, Capernosity & Function and thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Esteem
Pic: The Record Spot, Dublin 2
It’s Immaterial – Driving away from home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_HV90SMzU
We’ve all done it
I’ll second that
thirty miles or more..
a great little 80’s tune
Ramblin’ Man by Lemonjelly from their most excellent Lost Horizons album.
“John you’ve been on the go ever since you were born and I
imagine few people in the world today have travelled as much
as you have. Now why?”
https://youtu.be/KXDtQcuA5Bo
It’s just such a funky piece of music and I love as the ambient beat and dreamy tune builds up to our ramblin’ man listing out where he traveled to.
Funny piece of trivia – about a third way thru, the first letter of each place mentioned spells “Bagpuss Sees All Things”
Brilliant.
Talvin Singh – Traveller
https://youtu.be/_ePlKJfWtaM
Great winner!
Simple Minds – I travel
https://youtu.be/G5iW_RQ9RPQ
Nice one. It’s a superb song.
Agreed. When they were good.
Dukes of the stratosphear – Bike Ride to the Moon.
https://youtu.be/QDKZqZ8bsDs
This predates et decorating our skylines with his cheeky band of brothers on the BMX’s
Do love me some Dukes of Stratosphere so I do…
it’s about “space travel”…
no, really!
buckle-up and get ready for take-off!
https://www,youtube.com/watch?v=TKE8V5SOQs
The Only Ones- – “Another Girl, Another Planet”
:-)
This
https://youtu.be/zb5Ja6V4OeY
Europe by train- the divine comedy
https://youtu.be/RX1JXGtKBpI
Good one. Could have a bit of National Express too:
https://youtu.be/p_GLSgJ39Dc
I’m not a spotter but I do like an oul continental train trip now and again
I’ll go out of my way to integrate one into the journey if feasible
France, Switzerland, Germany, Holland…despite reminding me about just how poverty spec our own infrastructure is I love it, how if the train isn’t on that platform it’s almost always because you missed it because you were late. anyway…my first journey is on the T.E.E
Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHfSwoALYE
a second stab to follow…
The traveler, Alan Parsons project.
https://youtu.be/F4F_K95ol8c
A strange one, but a travellin’ song nonetheless.
Bonny “Prince” Billy with Ease down the road.
https://youtu.be/Z2OMj0gMlK8
Bit scary/abducty though.
more transportation…
I’ve seen discussions on various boards droning on at length about it’s meanings etc.
I couldn’t give a toss about any of that….for me it’s about a pretty girl next door that I’d love to ask out (yep I fancied a .gif bigtime) going thru her daily grind travelling to work with lashings of public transport infrastructure
a great tune, which I think still sounds fresh and a great great video (possibly one of the smartest ever) which got me into the lovely world of Infographics
Remind Me by Röyksopp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8LMQQ0rEw
what? no Kraftwerk “Europe Endless”? No “Autobahn”?
No “Station to Station”? No Kate Bush “Rocket Man”?
No Primal Scream? No Hawkwind? No Tangerine Dream?
Ramones – “Rocket to Russia”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B30U5Gigcu4
plenty of time to, eh, put the kettle on…
:-)
I’m going to pitch in with:
VOYAGE VOYAGE by DESIRELESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PDmZnG8KsM
I was never a fan of europop but I’ll always listen to this if it plays on the radio.
TRAVEL, TRAVEL
Above the ancient volcanoes
Slide your wings under the carpet of the wind
Travel, travel, eternally
Of clouds in swamps
Of wind in Spain in the rain from Ecuador
Travel, travel, fly to the highest heights
Above the capitals, fatal ideas
Look at the ocean
Travel, travel, further than the night and the day
Travel, in spaces unheard of by love
Travel, travel, on the sacred waters of an Indian river
Travel, and never come back
* English translation may or may not be accurate! :-)
it’s a classic
Bright Blue Berlin Sky/3000 miles by the Shutes.
https://youtu.be/lTt5fZSSwx4
Under no circumstances should you look at the Ana de Armas version in the red dress. No. You’ll go blind.
Don’t let the moment pass.
https://youtu.be/Vf8D1oFpkzU
Lee Dorsey – Ride your Pony
https://youtu.be/RhyCLQf_YTY
horse power rules
Keeping the equine motif
Lil Naz X And Billy Ray
https://youtu.be/r7qovpFAGrQ
Closer to home for some rare horse play
Rubber Bandits – Horse Outside
https://youtu.be/ljPFZrRD3J8
I’ll get my stirrups – giddy up baybee
I have lost count of the number of transport alternatives offered in this.
Fitzy in his Mitzi! Brilliant!
I used to enjoy playing that song to the Frenchies, cracks me up,
” if you pull me by the poney tail and ride me like a horse “
Lovage – Strangers on a train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jmK_UTXafs
Utter filth. But could boost ticket sales…
An emigrant’s imagined journey.
“Last night as I lay dreamin’
Of pleasant days gone by
Me mind bein’ bent on travelin’
To Ireland I did fly
I stepped aboard a vision
And followed with my will
‘Til next I came to anchor
At the cross near Spancil Hill”
Shane MacGowan & Christy Moore – Spancil Hill
https://youtu.be/aqlLJXYtRWg
Aw man, that song kills me every time…
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
https://youtu.be/kv8_EZrNhpY
Travelling is the ethos of this, but not very far.
Eazy-E, Cruisin down the street in my 64
https://youtu.be/45PvLSyHKRg
In the same vein
Snoooooop!
https://youtu.be/fWCZse1iwE0
The quintessential Aussie road trip song.
The Triffids – Wide Open Road
https://youtu.be/7N5akOOlGTI
In honour of the lad from The La’s
There she goes.
https://youtu.be/CZXLLMbJdZ4
It suggests a form of travel, doesn’t it?
For me it is Man of the World by Fleetwood Mac. A friend included this on a mixtape he called Aural Valium that he compiled when I first started my travels. I still have it somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GPR848mhIs
Depeche Mode – Behind the Wheel
https://youtu.be/VEAuMiKqP-4
Thank you Nick. It is a great honour to have been chosen winner as a Gentleman as well as a Player.
For this week I propose arguably my favourite grunge track. An underrated song in my view. Enjoy.
Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
https://youtu.be/yjJL9DGU7Gg
Ok, stone cold classics
Gladys and the Pips, Midnight train to Georgia
https://youtu.be/A0F9lh8TiSM
And the unmistakable
Mr. Goddamn Johnny Cash
https://youtu.be/7MWB51QcWoc
He hears the train a’ comin!
Here’s My Morning Jacket’s sweet cover of the John Denver classic, Leaving on a Jet Plane
https://youtu.be/AvOYj_PA0tg
A freewheeling narrative that takes in touring, stripclubs, aging, boxing and a glorious takedown of the War on Drugs.
Mark Kozelek – Ottawa
https://youtu.be/UZqnuRI7sC0
How about Route 66, there are a million versions, but I like
The Depeche Mode take!
How about some Radar Love? Golden Earring
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=radar+love&qpvt=radar+love&view=detail&mid=468220CC2E19D140A5CE468220CC2E19D140A5CE&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dradar%2Blove%26qpvt%3Dradar%2Blove%26FORM%3DVDRE
And how about some Crystal Gayle and River Road, accompanied, quite literally, by none other than The Muppets :-)
https://youtu.be/uP5fkjo1uLk
Moby, Damien Jurado, a gospel choir and some delightful rescue dogs. What’s not to like?
Almost Home – https://youtu.be/qr_qFHF7Zr0
https://youtu.be/Eo2ZsAOlvEM
America by Simon & Garfunkel
A gorgeous classic that reminds me of my late teens and early twenties; a journey of self-discovery and joy and embarrassing mistakes, of travelling in France and Italy with friends, of smoking weed in a coffeeshop in Amsterdam, stumbling tipsily through the fog on the Charles Bridge in Prague, but, paradoxically, never once visiting America.
I used a couple of lines from this as an intro to an essay in school.
“And I dreamed I was dying
I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassuringly”
I still have the essay somewhere.
paul weller – early morning rain
jet planes freight trains
https://youtu.be/UdYyN8kWlkA
I expected lots of ska, how many ska tunes reference the chhoo choo ?
Joyce Bond This Train.
https://youtu.be/SMXujM_JzdE
Happy Friday
White Lies – Bigger Than Us
https://youtu.be/B271ERwcz20
You took the tunnel route home
You’ve never taken that way with me before
Did you feel a need for change?
This has one of the most epic, uplifting choruses ever
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=oHtoayjVLAY&feature=share
back when you could feck off with a few quid in your pocket and be free….King of the road
Perfect! Winner winner chicken dinner!
nostalgie of freedom is strong these days Papi :) x
Always baby.
That phrase can be taken in many ways, with or without the comma. X
:)
Talking Heads – Road to Nowhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQiOA7euaYA
The neverending journey…
Norah Jones (Jose Padilla remix)
– Travelin’ On
https://youtu.be/jEW-5gJnqxo
“Sin and gravity drag me down to sleep
to dream of trains across the sea…”
RIP David Berman
Ohtis – Trains Across the Sea
https://youtu.be/w_NF7K6ps7Q
Niamh Farrell with John Spillane and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra – Ar gach uile slí ar fán duit (All the ways you wander)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfSRkG_6o_4
The original, by John Spillane:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DynQtnV33Ig
“There are places I don’t remember
There are times and days, they mean nothing to me…”
Tindersticks – Travelling Light
https://youtu.be/zFfOgtTEji4
I had that ready to go! Great minds!
Also, on the naughty step so mine may come in later.
Tindersticks, Travelling light.
Sad, but true.
https://youtu.be/zFfOgtTEji4
Definitely worth the watch though.
“Elvis outside of Flagstaff
Driving a camper van
Looking for meaning in a cloud mass
Sees the face of Joseph Stalin
And is disheartened…”
Think Nick Cave fronting Pixies
Protomartyr – A Private Understanding
https://youtu.be/yWdLpIITqsQ
https://youtu.be/iYYRH4apXDo
Does this fit, traveling off this Rick, seems to be the rage, Space oddity, Bowie
* off this rock
One of their best, from 1985:
REM – Driver 8
https://youtu.be/wuFId1RYSZE
REM were such a great band, especially in the early days.
It’s not about travel but I heard it for the first time this week and wanted to share it
Emiliana Torrini- Jungle Drum
https://youtu.be/iZ9vkd7Rp-g
As much a song as it is a memory test cum tongue twister: “I’ve been Everywhere” by Johnny Cash mentions the 90+ places to which he’s travelled.
And Yes, I actually counted them. Damn OCD :-)
https://youtu.be/VM_ncuwDtcE
hey beat me to it
“Man was not considered to be, considered to be fully grown,
Has he not gone beyond the hills?
has he not crossed the seven seas?
Ladies,gentlemen, kick back and enjoy the chaotic genius of Gogol Bordello’s Wonderlust King
https://youtu.be/K3SUPPeuRdU
Led Zeppelin – Travellin Riverside Blues
https://youtu.be/RSht5j3Cnh0
Slide guitar central
Love that guitar lick, love the Robert Johnson referencea – I think it’s the perfect representation of what Zep were at their heart.
“Squeeeze my lemon baby, til the juice runs down my leg. Squeeze my lemon baby til I just can’t get out of bed”
https://youtu.be/4v4ZJglWWhc
Barbara always says it best
Iris DeMent – Walkin’ home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHkE9sLo0Rw
Not always the easiest of walks
For the week that’s in it.
I would love to see a video of this.
The Chieftans and The Rolling Stones performing The Rocky Road to Dublin.
The duelling and fusion of traditional Irish and rock always makes me smile.
RIP Paddy Moloney
https://youtu.be/FzY9D01RE24
https://twitter.com/mickjagger/status/1448729982210125825?s=21
Paul Simon
He’s going to Graceland, so he is
https://youtu.be/H9M4XJXnCcw
If “losing love
Is like a window in your heart
Everybody sees you’re blown apart” doesn’t give you a little ache every time you hear it then I’m happy for you…
I’d go with him.
Reminds me of my travels around Australasia in 1999
Dodgy – So Let Me Go Far
https://youtu.be/48jorQRabbY
gil scott heron
train from washington
https://youtu.be/Voacr1kpEhE
OCS – the day we caught the train
https://youtu.be/1rr4tXN2eJM
Helen Shapiro
Walking back to happiness
https://youtu.be/QCbHubvwFs0
Shanks Mare always gets you there
Coming down from Downpatrick
Stopping off at St. John’s Point
Out all day birdwatching
And the craic was good
Stopped off at Strangford Lough
Early in the morning
Drove through Shrigley taking pictures
And on to Killyleagh
Stopped off for Sunday papers at the Lecale District,
Just before Coney Island
On and on, over the hill to Ardglass
In the jam jar, autumn sunshine, magnificent
And all shining through
Stop off at Ardglass for a couple of jars of
Mussels and some potted herrings in case
We get famished before dinner
On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
Heading towards Coney Island
I look at the side of your face as the sunlight comes
Streaming through the window in the autumn sunshine
And all the time going to Coney Island I’m thinking,
Wouldn’t it be great if it was like this all the time.
Van Morrison – Coney Island
https://youtu.be/O_Cy-4lEFDg CCH
If I’m gonna roll I’m gonna roll “One Fine Morning” with Bill Callahan and the skeleton crew, just us and the hosses and the wide open American prairie…
https://youtu.be/8NphJbinncQ
Can’t beat a bit of Bill/Smog
Ain’t that the truth…
Kim Deal on covering Driving on 9, by Ed’s Redeeming Qualities.
“They were totally different than anybody else,’’ says Kim Deal, who befriended the band right as the Pixies were on the ascent and later recruited Bradley to play violin with Deal’s next band, the Breeders. “They were really good at what they were doing, but there was a really cool amateur quality that was truly amateur. They were fun, too, sort of like the Pogues — but with more teeth.’’
Driving on 9-original album version by Ed’s Redeeming Qualities
https://youtu.be/2JuiDpuUUh4
Driving on 9-The Breeders.
https://youtu.be/KbLz3PbaQsw
…here’s two songs with different perspectives on the journey.
Crooked Still – Wading Deep Waters
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=glP9hwqZfxg
World Party – Put The Message In The Box
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udCaa-Ju3dk&list=OLAK5uy_mxFu6KJEMQwx5YakRYGY6iEODQTvjX-3U&index=4
War – Low rider
https://youtu.be/F_iJ28iXwo0
The The
Slow Train to dawn
https://youtu.be/TfzvFKO1ud8
Return ticket please
Ag Criost an Siol by Sean O Riada
(old irish poem/hymm set music)
It’s an ideal and stunning fall morning in New England,farmers market and apple picking awaits,yeah yeah coffee and a spliff,with this arguably too loud,for this hour….ok,ok im turning it down…have a great one.
Ag Criost an Siol by Sean O Riada
https://youtu.be/6kNSVO83TvM
Liam O’ Maonlai
https://youtu.be/-r-PzyM5e98
..take’s me home,lock up your daughters,here’s……JOHNNNY…coming back soon,like a bad nightmare for some:)
Time to bring a little Creedence to this conversation. We want to make sure Tina is a Proud Mary…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTfYnRQgKgY
Sorry I’ve been away so here are my out of time suggestions:-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tJSn0QtME
Doobie Brothers –
Long train running
Should be double points for train and running ;-)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7MJRmA99kHc
Ride on – Christy Moore
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=na47wMFfQCo
Horse with no name – America
Lol, just realised that I missed the competition for songs about travel because I had gone to France – hehe!
did you have a blast ? eat all the good things ?
It was fabulous, the weather was lovely and the food was, and continues to be excellent – I’ve just had a pain au chocolat for my breakfast :-)
sighs wistfully, good for you
Excellent choices, and I think and excellent reason, hopefully for excellent reasons.
You remind me of another one, but a sad one. Next post.
It was a 0 birthday for Mr H, and we had a lovely few days celebrating!
The :Leaving of Nancy by the incredible Eric Bogle
In comes the train, and his whole life shakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpBad7nMAE
The Monkees – What am I doing hanging round?
https://youtu.be/JFgwMdg2m1I
sunday already
tempus fugit gan dabht
https://youtu.be/N-hQ6-biWoo
if you prefer
https://youtu.be/FyHKL7uR6yA
Wonderful.