As far as modes of transportation go, trains tend to get short shrift these days. But that doesn't diminish the role they play in popular culture. There are plenty of songs about trains, and I've got a bunch of them in hour 2 of Stuck In Thee Garage this week.
Ralph Wiggum choo-choo-chooses this playlist:
Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
The Smile - Thin Thing/A Light For Attracting Attention
Pink Mountaintops - Blazing Eye/Peacock Pools
Danger Mouse & Black Thought - No Gold Teeth/Cheat Codes
50 Foot Wave - Double Barrel/Black Pearl
Oceanator - Beach Days (Alive Again)/Nothing's Ever Fine
Eddie Vedder - The Dark/Earthling
Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers - Strike 3/Spencer Gets It Lit!
Savak - Dumbinance/ Human Error/Human Delight
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Acid Dent/Night Gnomes
Tijuana Panthers - Helping Hand/Halfway to Eighty
Camp Cope - Running With the Hurricane/Running With the Hurricane
Kurt Vile - Flyin' (like a fast train)/(watch my moves)
Pavement - Folk Jam/Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal
The Flashing Lights - Where Do the Days Go?/Where the Change Is
Tricky Woo - Fell From a Cloud/Sometimes I Cry
Hour 2: Trains
Mission of Burma - Train/Vs.
Drive Like Jehu - Bullet Train to Vegas/Yank Crime
Future of the Left - Throwing Bricks at Trains/Travels With Myself and Another
Mike Watt - Big Train/Ball-Hog or Tugboat?
The Kinks - Last of the Steam-Powered Trains/The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Beck - Broken Train/Midnite Vultures
Art Brut - Blame It On the Trains/It's a Bit Complicated
Rancid - Daly City Train/...And Out Come the Wolves
The Nation of Ulysses - Last Train to Cool/Plays Pretty For Baby
Thelonious Monster - Positive Train/Baby...You're Bummin' My Life Out In a Supreme Fashion
The Cult - Medicine Train/Sonic Temple
New York Dolls - Subway Train/New York Dolls
The Clash - Train In Vain (Stand By Me)/London Calling
Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run On Time/Solid Gold
The Horrors - A Train Roars/Strange House
Death From Above 1979 - Trainwreck 1979/The Physical World
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