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Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Domestique on 13 July, 2012, 03:07:42 pm

Title: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Domestique on 13 July, 2012, 03:07:42 pm
Not sure if this has been done before, I suspect it has because everything seems to have been done on here  :-\
Anyway here goes

Splodgenessabounds - Bicycle seat
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: rogerzilla on 13 July, 2012, 05:56:24 pm
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: tiermat on 13 July, 2012, 09:14:16 pm
There are he obvious ones, so I skip over them and go straight to an obscure one:

I Love You - VV Brown

"I Love You"

Oh, oh
Oh, oohh
Oh, oh
Mmmmmm....

Riding down the boulevard
On our bikes, we pedal hard
Touch my waist, pull me along
You kept me safe, you kept me strong

Wishing we could stay right here
And time would slow down forever
I love you and every little thing that you do for me (I love you)
I love you and every little thing that you do for me (I love you)

The restaurant down by the sea
That's where we'd go, just you and me
Everytime, number 29
And we would eat, on those plastic seats

Wishing we could stay right here
And time would slow down forever
I love you and every little thing that you do for me (I love you)
I love you and every little thing that you do for me (I love you)

I love you, oh
For everything you are
I love you
For every little thing you are

I love you and every little thing that you do for me (I love you)
I love you and every little thing that you do for me (I love you)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: mark on 14 July, 2012, 04:32:49 am
Someone besides me has to have thought of these:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Fat-Bottomed-Girls-lyrics-Queen/01FECDA021BB25A84825689400039B68

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Bicycle-Race-lyrics-Queen/5143FBFDE0AA6AB44825689400022B7A

I suppose "Disraeli Gears" could be seen as an album featuring cycling in some way, even if none of the songs do so.
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: jogler on 14 July, 2012, 05:40:23 am
The Pushbike song by The Mixtures
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: redshift on 14 July, 2012, 08:12:20 am
Turin Brakes - Painkiller
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: rogerzilla on 14 July, 2012, 08:49:16 am
Bike - Pink Floyd

Quote
I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it

No prizes for guessing that it's a Syd Barrett lyric.
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 July, 2012, 08:55:36 am
Woil roidin' ewt one noight
A pleeceman came in soight
Sez 'ee to me "Oi'l throw the book at ye -
No brakes, no bell, no loight!"

Now don't tell Oi, tell 'ee
Is my philosophy
"You can do what you loike, it's your dad's boike
So don't tell Oi, tell 'ee!"
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Domestique on 14 July, 2012, 08:55:39 am
The Buff Medways - Medway Wheelers
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: drossall on 14 July, 2012, 06:32:36 pm
Kraftwerk (http://www.kraftwerk.com/) - Tour de France.

Not quite a proper answer, but towards the end of a long ride, I always remember singing in the church youth group, "One mile more, one mile more, give me faith for one mile more..."  ;D
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: John Henry on 14 July, 2012, 06:48:52 pm
One written by Huw Williams, covered on 'Red and Gold' by Fairport Convention:

'The Summer Before the War'

It lays the sentimentality and nostalgia on with a trowel, but it's a pretty song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2UkIukydk
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 15 July, 2012, 06:22:10 pm
Does this one count ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_5l6rIUu4A

NB Note the claim '(In this scene Paul Newman did his own bicycle stunts, after his stunt man was unable to stay on the bike)'  Not bad !
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Mr Larrington on 16 July, 2012, 02:59:11 pm
The Acoustic Motorbike ~ Luka Bloom
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Woofage on 16 July, 2012, 03:02:17 pm
Back to the Old House - The Smiths
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Woofage on 16 July, 2012, 03:04:38 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLoUTBy47U
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Peter on 16 July, 2012, 11:20:15 pm
Chains - The Beatles
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Biggsy on 17 July, 2012, 01:03:17 pm
There have indeed been threads on this subject before, but it's nice to mention new stuff as well as bloody old Fat Bottomed Girls.  (Hmm, bloody bottoms, not nice).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwZOid42f2g
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: rogerzilla on 17 July, 2012, 09:08:20 pm
Stop Me If You Think That You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths

(Mark Ronson never did a cover of this.  Oh no.   It never happened.)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Julian on 17 July, 2012, 09:56:29 pm
Daisy Bell

(sorry)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Chris S on 17 July, 2012, 10:17:16 pm
Goodness me - I hardly have the balls to post this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHnB_P5XWig&feature=related

WTF??? That's grim. They're 70's rock icons FFS - weren't they supposed to be found dead in their hotel rooms, asphyxiated on their own vomit, like the others?
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: bobb on 17 July, 2012, 10:32:22 pm
BMX Bandits - Wheatus

Over and under we ride in love with the suicide
Here we fuck with disaster and
careful has something to hide so come give this trick a try
pump it faster you bastard and
Over this mountain you glide
But you're not gonna last If you can't push it past

Hey Nicole
You stole my soul with that cute little bunny hop, Your radical table top
Oh I wished it would never stop
Hey Nicole
What's that you got is that a black Turbo Diamond Back
a JMC Racing Bike
Damn I wish I had one like that.
Hey Nicole
I was only ten years old

Please leave your cell phone at home
It's just a broken collar bone
walk it off you big puss
And then get your ass back on the bike
It's time to go lay some pipe
Or just watch me get nice
Ima school you on how to get high
Then go home tell your freinds how you bite all my style

Hey Nicole
You stole my soul with that cute little bunny hop, Your radical table top
Oh I wished it would never stop
Hey Nicole
What's that you got is that a black Turbo Diamond Back
a JMC Racing Bike
Damn I wish I had one like that
Hey Nicole
You got this moto licked the Hutch kids are off the list all the Skyway's are being fixed walky talkies and stolen shit.
Hey Nicole
Quadangle, PK Ripper, Webco and Mongoose rip Redline Proline is winning it but Nomura I so the tits.
Hey Nicole I was only ten years old.

Is there a love in your life
Cause I wanna be your wife
It's a bird it's a plane
It's a bicycle up in the sky
You didn't say you could fly
Now I know where I stand and I'm
Tired of life on the ground
Loose my soul when I'm down up your ramp I am Found

Hey Nicole
You stole my soul with that cute little bunny hop, Your radical table top
Man I hope that you never stop
Hey Nicole
What's that you got is that a black Turbo Diamond Back
a JMC Racing Bike
Damn I wish I had one like that
Hey Nicole
You got this moto licked the Hutch kids are off the list all the Skyway's are being fixed walky talkies and stolen shit
Hey Nicole
Quadangle, PK Ripper, Webco and Mongoose rips Redline Proline is winning, it but Nomura I so the tits

Hey Nicole I was only ten years old
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Snakehips on 18 July, 2012, 09:11:22 am
Riders on the Storm  -  The Dawes
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: jogler on 18 July, 2012, 09:49:57 am
I like your wit Snakehips ;D
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Fab Foodie on 18 July, 2012, 09:51:03 am
Have we had The Jam - 'Down inner-tube station at Midnight'?
Elton John - Sprocket Man?
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 18 July, 2012, 08:23:44 pm
Oh Lori - the Alessi Brothers.
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: rogerzilla on 18 July, 2012, 08:52:12 pm
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths (again)

The song isn't about bikes, but the video is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtW1MAZ32M
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: LindaG on 19 July, 2012, 12:59:49 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-abq9dlJKU

The official Lympic velodrome theme.  I love it!
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: PaulF on 19 July, 2012, 01:16:54 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-abq9dlJKU

The official Lympic velodrome theme.  I love it!

Beat me to it! Using my psychic powers I can, however, deduce what station your radio is tuned into :D
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Biggsy on 19 July, 2012, 01:44:40 pm
I beat you both to it.  See Reply #16.

Keep up!  You people are so behind the times!  ;)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: LindaG on 19 July, 2012, 01:47:24 pm
Heh!  I even read the whole thread to see if it was there already, and still missed it!

Well it's worth listening to twice  :P
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Domestique on 28 July, 2012, 07:24:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYCuMmukY&feature=share
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Fohat on 06 August, 2012, 11:44:20 pm
Hawkwind have always maintained that "Silver Machine" was about Robert Calvert's bike (but I've never really believed it)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Rhys W on 14 August, 2012, 10:22:01 pm
Here's a new one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpAZ_voOO3Q
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Woofage on 15 August, 2012, 11:47:01 am
Keane - Sovereign Light Café

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH13eUiDhmo
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: spesh on 15 August, 2012, 01:46:34 pm
Hawkwind have always maintained that "Silver Machine" was about Robert Calvert's bike (but I've never really believed it)

According to el Wiki...

Quote
The lyrics are a send-up of space travel, inspired by the Alfred Jarry essay How to Construct a Time Machine which Calvert interpreted as a description of how to build a bicycle:

"I read this essay by Alfred Jarrey called, "How to Construct a Time Machine", and I noticed something which I don't think anyone else has thought of because I've never seen any criticism of the piece to suggest this. I seemed to suss out immediately that what he was describing was his bicycle. He did have that turn of mind. He was the kind of bloke who'd think it was a good joke to write this very informed sounding piece, full of really good physics (and it has got some proper physics in it), describing how to build a time machine, which is actually about how to build a bicycle, buried under this smoke-screen of physics that sounds authentic. Jarrey got into doing this thing called 'Petaphysics', which is a sort of French joke science. A lot of notable French intellectuals formed an academy around the basic idea of coming up with theories to explain the exceptions to the Laws of the Universe, people like Ionesco the playwright. The College of Metaphysics. I thought it was a great idea for a song. At that time there were a lot of songs about space travel, and it was the time when NASA was actually, really doing it. They'd put a man on the moon and were planning to put parking lots and hamburger stalls and everything up there. I thought that it was about time to come up with a song that actually sent this all up, which was 'Silver Machine'. 'Silver Machine' was just to say, I've got a silver bicycle, and nobody got it. I didn't think they would. I thought that what they would think we were singing about some sort of cosmic space travel machine. I did actually have a silver racing bike when I was a boy. I've got one now, in fact." - Robert Calvert
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: spesh on 15 August, 2012, 01:48:15 pm
The Darkness - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us

http://youtu.be/HYgQs7dRtUA?t=34s
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 01:48:42 pm
Jarry was a mad (literally) keen cyclist, so that follows...
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: mattc on 15 August, 2012, 02:19:12 pm
Hawkwind have always maintained that "Silver Machine" was about Robert Calvert's bike (but I've never really believed it)

According to el Wiki...

Quote
The lyrics are a send-up of space travel, inspired by the Alfred Jarry essay How to Construct a Time Machine which Calvert interpreted as a description of how to build a bicycle:

"I read this essay by Alfred Jarrey called, "How to Construct a Time Machine", and I noticed something which I don't think anyone else has thought of because I've never seen any criticism of the piece to suggest this. I seemed to suss out immediately that what he was describing was his bicycle. He did have that turn of mind. He was the kind of bloke who'd think it was a good joke to write this very informed sounding piece, full of really good physics (and it has got some proper physics in it), describing how to build a time machine, which is actually about how to build a bicycle, buried under this smoke-screen of physics that sounds authentic. Jarrey got into doing this thing called 'Petaphysics', which is a sort of French joke science. A lot of notable French intellectuals formed an academy around the basic idea of coming up with theories to explain the exceptions to the Laws of the Universe, people like Ionesco the playwright. The College of Metaphysics. I thought it was a great idea for a song. At that time there were a lot of songs about space travel, and it was the time when NASA was actually, really doing it. They'd put a man on the moon and were planning to put parking lots and hamburger stalls and everything up there. I thought that it was about time to come up with a song that actually sent this all up, which was 'Silver Machine'. 'Silver Machine' was just to say, I've got a silver bicycle, and nobody got it. I didn't think they would. I thought that what they would think we were singing about some sort of cosmic space travel machine. I did actually have a silver racing bike when I was a boy. I've got one now, in fact." - Robert Calvert
That's rather marvellous.

Sadly I've just googled the lyrics (which I never bothered to listen to - are Hawkwind lyrics ever important?) and it's just fun doggerel. Could be about anything. Shirley  :-\

(It's still a nice story - perhaps I should read Jarrey's essay ... )
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: clarion on 15 August, 2012, 02:21:28 pm
How to Construct a Time Machine (http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/archives/1995.12/msg00065.html)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: cuddy duck on 15 August, 2012, 02:35:43 pm
http://www.ianpartridge.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Cycling.mp3
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Adam on 15 August, 2012, 08:52:47 pm
The Acoustic Motorbike ~ Luka Bloom

Or even better, his latest - The Ride.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dGcmTzFbY8
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Rhys W on 15 August, 2012, 10:25:15 pm
Jarry was a mad (literally) keen cyclist, so that follows...

So, I'd expect Pere Ubu to have written at least one cycling song then, anybody know?
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Chris S on 03 September, 2012, 09:18:37 pm
The Maccabees: Ayla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkcnPnY_2Mk
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: clarion on 03 September, 2012, 09:41:42 pm
Anyone recognise that route?

And it seems that the bike occasionally has the chainset on the wrong side.
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: microphonie on 25 November, 2012, 11:32:59 am
Just heard this on Rob da Bank's show.

Warning: some potty-mouthed language but also lots of component namechecks/puns e.g. 'Don't mean to derail ya'.

Cool vid too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdfiVwsLeVY
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: arry_b on 25 November, 2012, 12:03:32 pm
Yokel alert:

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

John Crisp's "Farmer on a Bike".
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Paul Rainbow on 25 November, 2012, 01:58:26 pm
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl - The Bike Song

http://www.youtube.com/embed/rVELTxKRoHA (http://www.youtube.com/embed/rVELTxKRoHA)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: spindrift on 25 November, 2012, 02:01:50 pm
Riders On The Storm- The Dawes
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: fuaran on 25 November, 2012, 02:20:42 pm
Belle & Sebastian - The Fox in the Snow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMMznRpn6g
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Peter on 25 November, 2012, 08:09:55 pm
Saddle Be The Day - The Crickets
 
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Post by: Deano on 25 November, 2012, 08:15:22 pm
Liars - Loose Nuts on the Veladrome (sic)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgwfET7GiZ0
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Mobbsy on 11 January, 2013, 09:26:35 am
A Lilac Harry Quinn - Half Man Half Biscuit
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: fuaran on 13 March, 2013, 12:33:01 am
British Sea Power - Machineries of Joy
The video features bikes anyway: http://www.muzu.tv/britishseapower/machineries-of-joy-music-video/1787171/
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: mattc on 19 June, 2013, 08:08:52 pm
http://lescoxsportifs.bandcamp.com/track/armbanz

Just heard a snippet on Stu Maconie's show. There were some lines about indicating to turn in front of a tram, and seeing a girl in a helmet. Very odd. Thought it might be of interest to our tram correspondents.

(Tune was OK - teensy bit HMHB, for want of a better comparison.)
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Chris S on 13 July, 2015, 09:27:27 pm
Augustines - Weary Eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IebSQLnmF1M&index=3&list=RDQ3RzXlZx9sE
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Deano on 13 July, 2015, 09:30:23 pm
I've remembered another, the first line of the Magnetic Fields' The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhO1XlDFqxE
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: microphonie on 14 July, 2015, 07:08:59 pm
Mungo's Hi Fi - Bike Rider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oUxPWnrXNk
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: clarion on 15 July, 2015, 03:29:44 pm
I'm not quite clear from the lyrics, but might that be something to do with a bike rider?
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: bobb on 01 December, 2018, 09:54:05 am
Bike - Pink Floyd

Quote
I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like
It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it

No prizes for guessing that it's a Syd Barrett lyric.

I was listening to this the other day for the first time in ages and it suddenly occured to me that I don't understand whether Syd is saying he doesn't know why the mouse hasn't got a house or he doesn't know why he calls him Gerald. Which is it?
Title: Re: Songs that feature cycling in some way
Post by: Torslanda on 01 December, 2018, 03:41:37 pm
Both. Because LSD.