Trivia; the Southern commuter songbook

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Time for Sale (waiting time that is) - Hawkwind
We like to be delayed - Hawkwind/Bob Calvert
I'm waiting for my train - Velvet Southern Rail / Hawkwind
Back on the Streets (as it's quicker to walk or take the bus than catch a Southern train) - Hawkwind
Kings of Delay - Hawkwind

Helen - Nine Below Zero
Helen, I won't be home til 7. Can you see this is the life for me. Being delayed daily. When I get home, late from the job, thanks to Southern Rail!

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[Deepgreen]

Yes, and Canterbury numb.

Not a Southern destination (much though I like it)!

 

[APTnerd\Effwon]

Just been pondering a few song titles, some with suitable amendments. to reflect the recent experiences of the woebegone Southern commuter: please do add to them:-

24 Hours from Tulse Hill
London Bridge is Falling Down
Give Peacehaven a Chance (and Peacxehaven of My Heart)
Crawley Through the Wreckage
Three Bridges over Troubled Waters
(I Could Walk) 500 Miles
Redhill in the Sunset
Victoria (old Kinks classic - those of you familiar with it might imagine Ray Davies being wistfully wry about his relationship with the station in the chorus)

Ones definitely NOT on the list would be (Everybody's Doing) The Locomotion and Ticket to Ride

She's got a ticket to ride,
She's got a ticket to ri-i-ide
She's got a ticket to ride, but she can't use it!
but she can't use it!
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Classic Rock

Money for nothin' by dire straights (because you pay fo a ticket that gets you nowhere)

 

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Angry Hour by the Southmartins, who in the real world just happen to actually be a Beautiful South / Housemartins cover band of that name.

Anxious by the Southmartins
Anxious, I'm so anxious, Southern Rail makes me anxious.

Missing appointment by The Rolling Stones

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[mirodo]

All Apologies - Nirvana

 

[2HAP]

Shiny HAPpy people (1990s remix) - R.E.M.

 

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We Shall Not Be Move (the there's no spare staff to run this train as Govia haven't recruited enough edit) - a traditional unlike Govia who aren't traditionally employing enough staff

Pack up your troubles in your shiny briefcase and wait wait wait - by an unknown artist who will soon be made redundant or moved to a new role and let go of once they are sick of it.

On my luggage seat by Status Class

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[Busaholic]

Walk, Don't Run - the Ventures
Bring It On Home To Me - the Animals
Because They're Young (when they started their journey) - Duane Eddy

 

[IanXC]

The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Not Running

Down around Tattenham Corner, half an hour from here
See them long trains run, and you watch them cancelled out
Without strikes, where would you be now
Without stri-i-ikes

You know I saw Mr Horton down along the tracks
He lost his timetable and won his case and he won't be giving up
Without strikes, where would you be now
Without stri-i-ikes

Well the Gatwick Express
And the Southern Railway
Got to keep on pushin' mama
You know they're running late
Without strikes, where would you be now
Without stri-i-ikes

Well the dispute keeps on rumbling
And the wheels don't go around
The steel rails are cold and hard
For the miles that they go down
Without strikes, where would you be now
Without stri-i-ikes
Where would you be now

Baby baby baby babe oh won't you sort it out
I gotta keep on moving, gotta keep on moving

 

[DarloRich]

"2-4-6-8 Motorway" - Tom Robinson band

 

[Tracked]

"2-4-6-8 Motorway" - Tom Robinson band

"2-4-6-8 Delay Repay" surely?

 

[Busaholic]

Brighton Eyes - Simon and Garfunkel
Poetry in Motion (the only thing that is) - Johnny Tillotson

 

[Hornet]

Automation Song by Phil Ochs.

 

[Busaholic]

Ch- ch- changes (to the timetable)
I Can See for Miles (and no train in sight)
People Are Strange (as you soon discover when packed nose to armpit with hundreds of them for an hour or so) - track from the first Doors album, in case anyone's wondering

My final contribution I think to this thread.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Not entirely relevant, but funny in a slightly juvenile way...

Waiting by MC Pitman (be aware, lyrics NSFW):
https://youtu.be/JMsT0nyu7xk

 

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Take a chance on me (the if and when will you reach your destination remix) - ABBA

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[DarloRich]

"2-4-6-8 Delay Repay" surely?

Good one - I missed an open goal!

 

[Groningen]

Set Fire To The Train - Adele
Trainway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Train Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
In The Train Tonight - Phil Collins
Train In Time - Deep Purple
Another Train In The Wall - Pink Floyd
God Only Trains - Beach Boys
Losing My Train - R. E. M.
Where The Trains Have No Name - U2
I Don't Want To Miss A Thing - Aerosmith

One Of These Trains - Eagles
I Want To Know What A Train Is - Foreigner
The Train Takes It All - Abba
How You Gonna Train Me Now - Alice Cooper
Chasing Trains - Snow Patrol
The Final Countdown - Europe
You're The Train That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John
Train Must Be Missing An Angel - Tavares
Always On The Train - Lenny Kravitz
Running With The Train - Van Halen

Get The Train Started- Pink
Take My Train Away- Berlin
A Train Called Malice- Jam
One Train I'll Fly Away- Randy Crawford
If The Train Never Comes - Ronan Keating
A Train With No Name - America
Stuck With Trains -Huey Lewis And The News
When The Going Gets Tough, The Train Gets Going - Billy Ocean
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Train - Hollies
Each Train Breaks My Heart - Nick Kamen

 

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Don't think we've had this one:
Where the ex-guard has no job - U2

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[Gutfright]

[Waiting for a] Train in Vain - The Clash

[Waiting for a] Train in Vain - The Clash

Oops, just noticed that this one's been done already

Mods, you know what to do...

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Go-Via Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals.

 

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Crazy Little Thing Called Govia - Queen

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[DarloRich]

Railway to hell - AC/DC
No trains running - Doobie Brothers

 

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High Voltage (but no trains running) - AC/DC
Let there be no trains - AC/DC
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC - no title revision required for this one. Hehe.
Strike Business - AC/DC
Ain't No Fun Waiting Around for a Non Existent Train - AC/DC
There's Gonna Be Some Cancellations - AC/DC
There's Gonna Be Some Strikes - AC/DC
It's a Long Way to London (if no Trains are Running) - AC/DC
Hells Bells (where's my F***in' Train remix) - AC/DC
Rock 'n' Roll Train (if only it was running remix) - AC/DC
Go Via (extended mix) - AC/DC
Have Some New T&Cs on me - AC/DC
Striker - AC/DC
For Those About to Strike (we Sault You) - AC/DC
Gone Sick - AC/DC

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So Many Cancellations by Otis not in a Rush
Every Kind of Cancellation - Dr FeelStressed
Dr FeelStressed by Dr Not FeelSoGood

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[DarloRich]

"National Express" ( because the train is cancelled) - The Divine Comedy

 

[yorksrob]

Flanders & Swan - On the Slow Train

I believe they also did:

"We're gonna hang out the washing on the Seaford line,
Have you any dirty washing mother dear"

 

[Busaholic]

One for next week:-

You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - the Byrds.

As it was written by Dylan, we can assume the double negative was deliberate rather than born of ignorance.

 

[Cowley]

Shine on you crazy disruption - Pink Floyd
Oh baby, where have all the good trains gone - Elton John
Hole in my timetable - Neil

 

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Weapons of mass disruption - Faithless
Late again - Edwyn Collins

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[DarloRich]

Surely:

Part of the Union - Strawbs