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I call upon you all to help me build a cycling sound track, Disc 1 is bands with cyclists in them, Disc 2 is songs about cycling (thats the hard one).
I'll start you off
Cyling bands
Disc 1
Carter USM - Sheriff Fatman (Fruitbat is a keen cyclist)
Jesus Jones- Right here, right now (Mike went on to be a MTBer)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - True me don't kill Coyotes (Anthony is a keen cyclist, cycling on tour)
The Cure - Boys don't cry (Simon Gallup is a keen cyclist)
Campag Velocet - Drencrom
Songs about cycling
Disc 2
Queen - Bicycle race
Nazareth - My White Bicycle
I reserve the right to veto any tracks.
Kraftwerk TDF album
thats the hard one
Not if you can harness the power of Wiki it isn't.
ListBicycle — John Cale
Bicycle Episode — J.M.Richards (1897)[4]
Motherf***ing bike — Sons of Science (2012)[5]
The Bicycle Girl — Avery Oddfellow, F. W. Meacham (1895)[4]
Bicycle Race — Queen (1978)[6]
Bicycle Song — Red Hot Chili Peppers (2002)
Bicycle Bicycle, you are my bicycle — be your own PET (2006)
Bike — Pink Floyd (1967)[7]
The Bike Song — Mark Ronson & The Business International (2010)[8]
C'mon Let Me Ride — Skyler Grey feat. Eminem (2012)
Daisy Bell — Harry Dacre (1892)[4]
Dirty Rider - Mikil Pane (2012) - Dirty Rider EP
Dora Brown — Nelly Burt (1897)[4]
The Girl That's Up to Date — Edward Harrigan, David Braham (1894)[4]
The Great Velocipede — Frank Wilder, sung by W. F. Collins of the British Christy Minstrels (1869)[4][9]
Hadron Collision - Propagandhi (2012)[10]
Handlebars — Flobots (2005)
Have You a Wheel? — O. A. Hoffmann (1895)[4]
It’s A Beautiful Day — The Beach Boys
La Bicyclette — Yves Montand (1968)[4]
The Latest Fad — A. A. Condon (1895)[4]
Les bicyclettes de Belsize — Engelbert Humperdinck (1968), from the movie Les bicyclettes de Belsize
My 'Cycle Gal — Philip Wales (1899)[4]
My White Bicycle — about the Provos' white bicycle plan by Tomorrow in 1967 and a UK hit for Nazareth in 1975.[11]
The New Columbia Wheel — George Lowell Tracy, James C. Dunn (1898)[4]
The New Velocipede — E. H. Sherwood (1869)[4]
Nine Million Bicycles — written by Mike Batt and sung by Katie Melua (2005)[12]
Silver Machine — Hawkwind, about Robert Calvert's silver bicycle. A UK hit in 1972.
The Pushbike Song — a hit for The Mixtures in Australia and the UK in 1971.
Terry Keeps His Clips On — Vivian Stanshall (1981)
Tour de France — a 1983 single by Kraftwerk who then produced a cycling concept album for the centenary of the Tour de France in 2003 — Tour de France Soundtracks.[13]
Velocipede Jimmy — O. H. Harpel, Henry Atkins (1869)[4]
You're welcome. 😉
Now, veto away my friend!
That list doesn't feature anything by [url=
]"The Cyclist"[/url] (who, I'd hazard a guess, is a cyclist)
or, my personal fave "Steal your bike" by The Marlon Jacksons (Si Begg remix)
😀
It's got Nine Million Bicycles by The Melua, though, Dezzie. A sure-fire classic, that!
Some more off of my iPod:
Cycles to Gehenna by Aesop Rock
Happy Cycling by Boards of Canada
Bicycles are Red Hot by TV On the Radio
Physics of a Unicycle by clouddead
Bike Messenger Diaries by Apsci
Las Biciletas Son Para El Verano by Alex Under
PLUS:
I've just made up one for the bonus features of your soundtrack.
It's a jaunty ditty in A flat (the cyclist's least favourite key. Hur-hur-hur) and the lyrics go something like:
[i]Man oh! man I like to ride a bike
Its, like, way cooler than being out there on a hike
Or hangin' all day with my thumb in a dyke
Oh how (how, how, how) I love to ride my bike[/i]
That's just a taster. 5% commission and you can have the whole thing. 😉
[i]Riding down those bumpy tracks
Nearly makes me fill my cacks
I would jump all the massive gaps
Unfortunately I roll them cos my skill level lacks[/i]
Nice, Dez!
But can you beat my latest effort, eh?
[b]The STW Song[/b]
(Unless I'm stuck behind Molly)
[i]Got my niche coffee maker
Gnarled my 29er in a crater
Got an Orange? Seez ya later
Unless I'm stuck behind Molly[/i]
* to be sung to the tune of 'what do you do with a drunken sailor?' *
The bassist out of Rage Against The Machine is a keen cyclist isn't he? I'm sure I have seen a picture of him on a TT bike with decals picked off of the Bontrager wheels to spell 'rage'.
