Railways & Music

Well there's obviously a great amount of interest in music in the forum (to say nothing about Railways...!), so I thought about yet another game we could have a go at - well there's nothing on the telly, is there? All you have to do is find a word or words which link a railway topic to music. The music topic could be the title of a song, a band, a group, a piece of music, even a line from a song, (provided you state which song) - the possibilities are endless...! Anyway, here's my starter for 10 and we'll see how far we go.

BAKER STREET

Who's next........?

Pacific 538, by Darius Milhaud

Saxon - Princess of the night

LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE

(in memory of Davy Jones of the Monkees who passed away this week)

As there is a general trend to flog deceased musicians material to death on the demise of the performer, I think we should pause and pray that Danny O'Donnell, Cliff Richard and Max Bygraves (google him) live forever.

WARWICK AVENUE by Duffy...

Agree with that, Gray, how about......

MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO GEORGIA

(Gladys Knight and the Pips, methinks)

Most well known. There was a dirty reggae version I remember from the 70s, very popular in the clubs. Buggered if I can find it anywhere.

An oldie from the 1950's:
LONESOME RAILROAD BLUES- Firehouse Five +2 (classical jazz from the Disney studios)

Nice one from the 50's - so how about...

CHATTANOOGA CHOO-CHOO

(and which platform did it depart from..............?)

Nice one, even older! Now, some local stuff:
DOKKUMER LOKAALTJE (about a local railway in the Northern Netherlands, from Leeuwarden to Dokkum)

Fare Dodging! (By Eastfield Rail Punk)!
or how about
Gods Plastic Railway (again by Eastfield...)
Oh or Class 20s Of The Apocalypse (again by... yeah you've guessed it)!

Good stuff,lads. Now then, how's about this one, and tell me if you disagree.......!

Muenchener Freiheit

Bitte???

Try this, kiddies




or, rather more to my liking

Thought it might - Muenchener Freiheit was a Rock Band in Germany in the 80's and I'm sure it's also a station on the Munich U-Bahn. Must get a life.....!

Neil Sedaka - One Way Ticket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkd78LOprLw

Here you are then.

Nice one Derryck - thought this game had died a death - obviously not. Will you accept "Do the Locomotion" (var. artists) ???

johnsinden wrote:Nice one Derryck - thought this game had died a death - obviously not. Will you accept "Do the Locomotion" (var. artists) ???

Sure, why not.

Know The Piano Guys? You might have seen their popular "Cello Wars" vid. That one is their first with railways, brilliant as ever =)

This song named "Train", performed by J-pop group "Ketsumeishi". This song is used by JR East to cerebrate its 20th Anniversary in form of promotion video on TV in 2007. Sorry this is a Japanese song, but I really love it because its strong rhythm as well as its positive lyrics.

You may find full song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qXmRL6a0uU

JR East 20th Anniversary - Shinkansen YEAR Campaign Promotion Video


You may find different version made by railfans around the world as well

BTW, here is an old poor clip I made 5 years ago: (Hong Kong KCR version)


Lyrics in English Translation:
http://www.quartet4.net/?p=226

Lyrics in Japanese Romaji:
http://www.lyricstime.com/ketsumeishi-train-lyrics.html

This one's for visualising...

Just got that link on another board. That's brilliant!