ext_281244 ([identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2005-11-11 08:47 am

Urgent Qn From Work For All Poptimists

Songs about travel! Name them! Quick!

Not holidays.

It's for work.

[identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
We are SAAAAILING
WE ARE SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYLEEEEING

Um - many of your trucking songs are about 'being on the road' so any of those.

Woaah! We're going to Barbados/Ibiza depending on modernity (on Venga Airways)!

[identity profile] atommickbrane.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Last Train to Transcentral!!

[identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I can only think of hairy old American rock staples like, um, "America" and "Route 66"

[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Acen - Trip II The Moon
Bobby Bare - Goin' Back To Texas
Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train To Georgia
Chuck Berry - Promised Land
Brides Make Acid - Flying Over Frankfurt
Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Gene Pitney - 24 Hours From Tulsa
Leadbelly - Rock Island Line
Fats Domino - Walking To New Orleans
Elvis Hitler - Berlin To Memphis
Flatlanders - Did You Ever See Dallas From A DC9 At Night?
Wilbert Harrison - Kansas City
John Lee Hooker - Going To Louisiana
Howlin' Wolf - I Walked From Dallas
LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali
Madness - Night Boat to Cairo
Mott the Hoople - All the Way From Memphis
(may as well break these up - more to come)

[identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
If You're Going To San Fransisco
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
L.A. and Hit The North (by teh Fall)
London Calling

[identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Leeeeaving On A Jetplane...

[identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I Like Driving In My Car by Madness
Cars - Gary Numan
Drive by The Cars
I Drove All Night by Cyndi Lauper
Drive by REM

[identity profile] the-roofdog.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
'M5' by The Fall
'Call For Escape Route' by The Fall
'Free Range' by The Fall
'Chicago, Now !' by The Fall

[identity profile] the-roofdog.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, and

'The Wheels On The Bus' by Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

[identity profile] the-roofdog.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
John Denvx0r - Leaving on 1x Jet Plane
Brx0r Springsteen - Born To Run
Roger Millx0r - King Of The Road
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild


O dear, I am 1x bearded folkster....


[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Public Enemy - By the Time I Get to Arizona
Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg
Jimmy Reed - Going To New York
Shangri-Las - Train From Kansas City
Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose?
Louis Armstrong - Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train
James Brown - Night Train
Beatles - Ticket To Ride
Ethiopians - Train To Skaville
KLF - Last Train to Trancentral
Jerry Lee Lewis - Waiting For A Train
Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
(another break, more to come)

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Where do you go to my lovely???

Rock Island Line - Lonnie Donnegan
Driving in my car - Madness
Walking Down Madison - Kirsty MacColl
King of the Road
My Ding-a-Ling - Chuck Berry
Maybelline - Chuck Berry

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Fly me to the Moon

[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Willie Nelson - A Fast Train To Georgie
New York Dolls - Subway Train
O'Jays - Love Train
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
Jackie Brenston - Rocket 88
Ronnie Dawson - Action Packed
Duncan Browne - Journey
Johnny Cash - Drive On
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Destiny's Child - Get On The Bus
Lee Dorsey - Ride Your Pony
Kinks - Supersonic Rocket Ship
Suicide - Driving
Wedding Present - Flying Saucer (or Sports Car)
Who - Magic Bus
(may be more yet)

[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Jimmy Cliff - Hard Road To Travel
Soul Stirrers - I'm Travelling On
Frank Sinatra - Some Travelling Music
Lightnin' Hopkins - Traveller's Blues
Blind Willie McTell - Travellin' Blues
Bo Diddley - Travellin' West
Paul Van Dyk - Travelling
Travelling At The Speed Of Thought - Ultra Magnetic MCs
Travelling Stranger - Little Anthony & the Imperials
Mr Scruff - Travelogue
Air - Universal Traveller
Chairmen of the Board - Weary Traveller
Black Uhura - Journey
Avalanches - Little Journey
Louis Prima - Sentimental Journey
Coldcut - Space Journey
(will that do?)

[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
if there is a more specific brief, I can have another scan through my database, Tom.

[identity profile] martinskidmore.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps having done that series of weather conceptual-mixes, I might do a series of travel-related ones next - cars, trains, flying, places, something like that.

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a long way to tipperary
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll

[identity profile] poptasticuk.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Travel Girl! Duh!