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Best "travelling" songs.
What are your favourite songs that are about or remind you of travelling ?
What songs really bring back memories of freedom, fun and the romance about being on the road ?
I love a band called "The John Butler Trio". They can really make me think im somewhere else.
This one for example.
YouTube - John Butler Trio - Zebra (Taratata Fr3)
I really urge you to look through his other songs on there. Hes a fantastic guitarist and a total hippy too
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Thanks very much fot that. It's powerful stuff.
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The list is so long....
We saw Alabama 3 a few years ago at a small club in Birmingham UK. In their words, they play 'sweetprettycountryacidhousemusicallnightlong'.
YouTube - Alabama 3 Too sick to pray
The Very Reverend Dr D Wayne Love of the The First Presleyterian Church Of Elvis The Divine (UK) is someone to behold!!
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Oh yes! the John Butler Trio are amazing indeed! I live in Suffolk and the love of my life is at uni in Swansea,the track "Words" by the Doves always reminds me of one sad and rainy sunday riding back from Swansea........
Anything by Clutch or Wolfmother are perfect if you're in a hurry!
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Hi,
I can think of a few, this reminds me of my time in the middle east - moby runon
This one reminds me of Ras Al Had in Oman, at a critical moment on a windsurfing trip! - We're not gonna make it ...
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talking heads
talking heads-we're on a road to nowhere.
but sadly sometimes its
chris rea-road to hell
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This one gets the blood flowing and clears the head first thing in the morning .
YouTube - Golden earring - Twilight zone
OK I 'm am old fart but Cezar has got to be one of the best drummers int'world .
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Rock on Tommy!!!!!
My list includes among lots more...
Best of Chris Isaak
Eagles
Cat Stevens
Buena vista Social Club
Bob Dylan
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GoldWing song
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The Road
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Originally Posted by tedmagnum
What are your favourite songs that are about or remind you of travelling ?
What songs really bring back memories of freedom, fun and the romance about being on the road ?
I love a band called "The John Butler Trio". They can really make me think im somewhere else.
This one for example.
YouTube - John Butler Trio - Zebra (Taratata Fr3)
I really urge you to look through his other songs on there. Hes a fantastic guitarist and a total hippy too 
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This has got my vote , YouTube - Frank Turner - The Road
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So many Frank Turner songs which could fit the bill for this thread - Vital Signs, I Am Disappeared, Journey of the Magi, Wanderlust - although 'The Road' is probably at the top of the list.
I'd also add "After the Rush Hour", from the Million Dead days.
I am the small town linesman
And you'll find me out here on the line.
Searching ceaselessly to simply
Find a place i can call mine.
Every corner of this country
Criss-crossed out with coloured lines.
The city lies before me,
Another city sprawling out behind.
Since the Scramble ended,
Since the West was won with wagon trails,
It seems the Mazzini's paradisical
Panopticon prevailed.
My walkabouts no longet take me
Beyond a choice of different gaols.
Why should i have to choose a state
When every one of them has failed?
I am a frontiersman,
Trapped in suburban England.
And i promise not to overthrow the state
If allowed to redraw the atlas before
I emigrate.
So I have sailed the seven seas alone,
Trying to find a shore I can call home.
But all i found are different flags,
Double-speaking diplomats, and
I do not have time for that.
So I'll declare my own sovereign state,
The borders based on the
Bottoms of my boots,
And i will open embassies
Wherever the hell i please,
And at assemblies
You will see me sat
But never on my knees.
And I'd gladly leave your
Metternich's alone as long as where
I lay my head i can be my very own.
I am the Winchester lineman.
I am a frontiersman,
Trapped in suburban England,
But here I will not remain-
I'll ride into the sunset,
My horse waits on the plain,
And I keep walking the line.
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Here's a new great one especially for women but inspiring for everyone. Road Running by Imelda May. [url=http://www.ImeldaMay.com]Imelda May
Get up, roll up
Goin up in the world
Goin round, yeah round
Goin round in a whirl
Gettin by I'm fly that's movin so fast
Never stop.
Cause I'm having a blast
Never slow down dk dk down down
dk dk down down
dk dk down down
Gettin high, gettin love
Oh as good as a drug
I got a great, great feelin
I'm as snug as a bug
I got no class
No glass celing to break
Never stop.
Cause I'm on the make
Never slow down dk dk down down
dk dk down down
dk dk down down
I'm a road runner, I'm road running
yeah I'm a road runner oh...
I'm a road runner, I'm road running
yeah I'm a road runner oh...
B-B-B-Bye boo
Yeah I'm lookin at you
Don't tie yourself to your womanly dues
You gotta run gotta run
Gotta take what you can
Never stop
Oh make like a man
Never slow down dk dk down down
dk dk down down
dk dk down down
I'm a road runner, I'm road running
yeah I'm a road runner oh...
I'm a road runner, I'm road running
yeah I'm a road runner oh...
Not too late
Never had a watch
That old parlait
Tick-tickedy-tock
Have a go Joe or (it'll) blow in your face
Never stop.
Its a human race
So Never slow down dk dk down down
dk dk down down
dk dk down down
Never never slow down
Never never slow down
Never never never never...
I'm a road runner, I'm road running
yeah, I'm a road runner oh...
I'm a road runner, I'm road running
yeah, I'm a road runner oh...
Never stop.
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Anything by the mighty Status Quo...
Though more recently... Smash Mouth - All Star ( there are some decent acoustic covers on youtube BTW ) + Anything by Little Green Cars or Lau...
All time favourite has to be ''Soul Less'' by Turin Brakes... An uber rare B side to the single 'Feeling Oblivion'...
Soul Less
I need much more than my name on the door,
A company car and abuse from the bored/board
A favour for favours routine
So i'm taking a stand, from standing in line
I'm sick of the sickness, i'm serious this time
I'm buring to break, free...
But it's all right if your soul less...
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