Audax song titles

[Moleman76]

Night on Bald Mountain - various orchestras/performers, composed by Mussorgsky

Truckin' (or, Bikin') - Grateful Dead

Take Me Home, Country Roads -- John Denver

Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls (for the non-GPS users)

Crosstown Traffic -- Jimi Hendrix

[Datameister]

Especially for Mr Teethgrinder, I would suggest "Again and Again" by Status Quo

[Argo]

King of the road - Proclaimers

[Bairdy]

Rolling People - The Verve

[Jonah]

Magnificent Machinerys of Joy - British Sea Power

[chrisonabike]

Dread at the Control - Mikey Dread

[Chicane]

I like these...

Ry Cooder - Feelin Bad Blues
https://soundcloud.com/umutdogukankanac/ry-cooder-feelin-bad-blues

All Along the Watchtower - a nice mix
https://soundcloud.com/thereflex/jimi-hendrix-o-watchtower-the

Donna Summer - I Feel Love
https://soundcloud.com/giorgiomoroder/donna-summer-i-feel-love

Maybe the last one is just a little bit camp for a chap like me!

[JamesBradbury]

Freedom Road - The Divine Comedy

Not only is it a good title, but despite being about a truck driver, it captures a lot of the spirit of audax (as I see it).

* - Some people are really serious about getting proof of passage!   

It's early morning on I-19.
I ain't got much for company,
A pick-up truck, a brown Volvo,
And a couple of jokers on the radio.

I wish that it could stay like this,
But soon I'll have to put up with
The whole world and his Uncle Joe
Cluttering up my freedom road.

When I was a boy I'd fantasize
About the freedom road. I'd drive
A thousand miles before sundown,
Father a child in every town*.

But a hundred thousand miles have passed
Between me and iconoclastic images
Of the freedom road.
I want to shed this heavy load.

Well I've seen the power of the lightning storm,
I've seen the endless ears of corn,
I've seen the lakes at the break of day,
And that shit takes my breath away.

But if I were to even start
To tell them how it melts my heart,
Never more would my truck-stop friends
Look me in the eye again.

It's early morning on I-19,
A dreamer's waking from his dream,
A driver who has lost his way
Parks up his rig and walks away.

[zacklaws]

The Uncle Devil Show -  Leonardo's Bicycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W_oO20Wj04

[Whitedown Man]

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell".
Welcome to Audax Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave

[Exit Stage Left]

The Uncle Devil Show -  Leonardo's Bicycle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W_oO20Wj04

I used that in a video of the Three Coasts 600 in 2005. That was a technical rehearsal of sorts for filming LEL that year. It also features 'Sunny Road' by Emiliana Torrini.
https://youtu.be/HWX7AcoR7MU


I've been attracted by 'Keep on Movin', by Inner City. Songs that mention time a lot, work well for Audax.

https://youtu.be/LEHqOfKeabc

[IanDG]

If I could choose the life I please
I'd be an audax rider
On tarmac and the highways free
many miles I'd cover

Time limits are my only rules
and make it to open controls
If I could choose the life I please
I'd be an audax rider

If I could choose the life I please
I'd be an audax rider
And if the road was not for me
Then, I would choose another

Cross mountains and the valleys deep
Where I would pedal weary feet
If I could choose the life I please
I'd be an audax rider

Read more: Levellers - The Boatman Randonneur Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[Deano]

One for those who, through design or otherwise, don't entirely follow the route - Long Cut by Uncle Tupelo:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/IdyTUUJq6f4&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/IdyTUUJq6f4&rel=1</a>

I've been searching and you've been gone
Out looking for the shortest path to the one that you're on
And I've already seen all I wanna see
Come on, let's take the long cut
I think that's what we need

[Jonah]

'Carradice' by Sade

...Feels fine
Feels like
You're mine
Feels right
So fine
I'm Yours
You're mine
Like Carradise

[Peter]

This may already be here; I haven't read them all.

Carradice and Lunch - Ry Cooder

[T42]

Waylon Jennings for that mournful four o'clock (a.m.) feeling:

I'm a long way from home and so all alone
Homesick like I never thought I'd be
I'm a long way from home, everything is wrong
Someone please watch over me.

I'm not acustomed to this feeling
Loneliness is burning in my soul
Sometimes the mind is so mistreating
I wish I'd stayed at home like I was told.

I wish I knew the force within me
That keeps my mind out of control
What makes me reach for things that I can't see
I wish I'd stayed at home like I was told.

I'm a long way from home and so all alone
Homesick like I never thought I'd be
I'm a long way from home, everything is wrong
Someone please watch over me...

[paulworthington53]

Found this today...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (more of a solo artist...)


Whose woods these are I think I know.   
His house is in the village though;   
He will not see me stopping here   
To watch his woods fill up with snow.   

My little horse must think it queer   
To stop without a farmhouse near   
Between the woods and frozen lake   
The darkest evening of the year.   

He gives his harness bells a shake   
To ask if there is some mistake.   
The only other sound’s the sweep   
Of easy wind and downy flake.   

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.

[mattc]

That one's got a place in my heart Paul https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=35735.msg1140627#msg1140627

The final line certainly resonates with the ( slightly too ) long audaxes.

(But surely a poem, not a song? I think ... )

[Peter]

Halfway To Carradice - Billy Fury

[SR Steve]

Three songs from Nick Lowe: -

"I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" - Not a sound you want to hear whilst audaxing.
"Endless Grey Ribbon"                      - The long road ahead.
"Cruel to Be Kind"                            - Reminds me of the organisers of some of the hillier rides on the calendar.

[Deano]

That one's got a place in my heart Paul https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=35735.msg1140627#msg1140627

The final line certainly resonates with the ( slightly too ) long audaxes.

(But surely a poem, not a song? I think ... )

These lot had a go (well, they nicked the last lines for the last few lines of the song - the rest of it owes less to Robert Frost):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYl2RfUge1w

[Pichy]

These lot had a go (well, they nicked the last lines for the last few lines of the song - the rest of it owes less to Robert Frost):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYl2RfUge1w
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Ah... that take's me back. Saw them on the same bill as Aberfeldy about a decade ago but can't remember who was warming up for who. Ballboy were probably headlining. In the now deceased Venue. Boo hoo!

[Man of the Mountains]

Down the highway, down the tracks
Down the road to Exeter..

[T42]

Then there's Chesterton, as quoted by Clarion a couple of years ago. 3rd verse particularly appropriate.

Actually, on reflection, I most prefer rolling roads.

    Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode,
    The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
    A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire,
    And after him the parson ran, the sexton and the squire;
    A merry road, a mazy road, and such as we did tread
    The night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head.

    I knew no harm of Bonaparte and plenty of the Squire,
    And for to fight the Frenchman I did not much desire;
    But I did bash their baggonets because they came arrayed
    To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made,
    Where you and I went down the lane with ale-mugs in our hands,
    The night we went to Glastonbury by way of Goodwin Sands.

    His sins they were forgiven him; or why do flowers run
    Behind him; and the hedges all strengthening in the sun?
    The wild thing went from left to right and knew not which was which,
    But the wild rose was above him when they found him in the ditch.
    God pardon us, nor harden us; we did not see so clear
    The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier.

    My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,
    Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,
    But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,
    And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death;
    For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
    Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

[tornandfrayed]

Instantly got a good idea of what your record collection looks like Bairdy.


The tyre with a thorn in its side - The Smiths (well not quite)

or possibly 'The Boy with a Thorn as his ride'

Anywhere I Lay My Head  - Tom Waites (Raindogs)

Please Wake Me Up  -  Tom Waites (Franks Wild Years)

Slowly Goes the Night - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (Tender Prey)

We Came Along This Road - Nick Cave (No More Shall We Part)

How Far Can Too Far Go? - The Cramps ( A Date With Elvis)