Cycling 'Themed' Songs Or Artists....

all show no go
all show no go Posts: 542
edited October 2009 in The bottom bracket
It's that time of year when I dig out my rusty old Tacx turbo trainer and bore myself silly for an hour and ruin the laminate flooring in the conservatory with my stinky sweat. More important than trying to stay reasonably fit is knowing what tunes to listen to whilst i'm on the turbo and the better half is watching Corrie or naffing about on Facebook. I normally listen to stuff like The Crystal Method for banging dance stuff or poppy indie like The Enemy. What i'd like to do though, is knock together a compilation that is loosely themed around cycling. It could be the name of the band ( The Delgados, Abdoujaporov etc) or it could be the song (Tour de France by Kraftwerk or The Bicycle Song by Queen for example). Any recommendations, however tenuous or just plain daft would be most appreciated and would brighten up an hour of my life on a turbo trainer a few evenings a week.

Thanks for your help folks
Let's close our eyes and see what happens
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Ride - Leave them all behind
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Best choon - Aerodynamik (Has to be the live version off Minimum Maximum though) by Kraftwerk.
  • Satans Budgie
    Satans Budgie Posts: 103
    edited October 2009
    Changed my mind cr@p selection
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    beat the clock sparks
    were on the road to knowhere talking heads
    5 minutes, burning up time the stranglers (sorry nice and sleazy)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The Skids - Into the valley
  • Captain Fagor
    Captain Fagor Posts: 739
    Very tenuous, but I recall a montage that Channel 4 did for the 1987 or 1988 Tour de France that used Terence Trent D'Arby's "Seven More Days" song. The mountains were over, with Gert Jan Theunisse in the polka dot jersey, and there were only seven more days of pain to go.

    Anyway, never mind that Terence Trent crap - get Metallica's Black album, and feel the fury!!!
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    wheels of steel-saxon
  • desweller
    desweller Posts: 5,175
    edited October 2009
    The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve

    EDIT: Although, clearly they do...
    - - - - - - - - - -
    On Strava.{/url}
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    i remember channel four using billyoceancolourscenes when the going gets tough for the great lemond badger showdown.
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    NapoleonD wrote:
    Ride - Leave them all behind

    Great choice Mr D. One of my all time favourites, 'specially the album version with the extended intro. Good tune to kick off the compilation with.
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    anything by campagveloset.
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    thejesusandsedischain wrote:
    i remember channel four using billyoceancolourscenes when the going gets tough for the great lemond badger showdown.

    Top selection. Deffo one to use when i'm about half an hour into a turbo session.

    Keep 'em coming folks......
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    thejesusandsedischain wrote:
    anything by campagveloset.

    Nice one. I forgot about them. Spotify here I come....
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    thejesusandsedischain wrote:
    wheels of steel-saxon

    Let's Rock!

    Twenty minutes in and this'll come on.
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    highwaytohell-ACDC
  • mask of sanity
    mask of sanity Posts: 610
    AC/DC - Ride on
    The Doors - Riders on the Storm
    Metallica - Ride the Lightning
    Judas Priest - Hell rider
    Pink Floyd - Bike
    R.E.M - Electrolite
    Alice Cooper - Under my wheels
    Allman Brothers - Midnight rider
    Black Sabbath - Glory ride
    Cinderella - The last mile
    Deep Purple - Speed King

    (Ok, that distracted me from uni work pretty well!! :D )
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    You people are just too good. I've already started putting these tunes together. I've also added 'All The Way' by Ladytron, as well as 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' by BJ Thomas because it reminds me of the bike riding scene in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid.

    Top work folks.
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    anything that lynda Mcartney added her considerable musical talent too,oh Emmas gone off i can stop now.
  • mingmong
    mingmong Posts: 542
    Too easy. "Puncture Repair" ELBOW
  • thejesusandsedischain
    thejesusandsedischain Posts: 195
    and of course anything by THE JESUS AND SEDIS CHAIN
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    thejesusandsedischain wrote:
    oh Emmas gone off i can stop now.

    :lol:
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • mask of sanity
    mask of sanity Posts: 610
    Missed some good ones!!

    Journey - Chain reaction
    Skid Row - Living on a chain gang!
    Black Label Society - Spoke in the wheel

    Wow, there's loads!!
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    FC Kahuna - Mindset to cycle.
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    The thread title says "or artists"... yet no-one's mentioned the Delgados!
  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    afx237vi wrote:
    The thread title says "or artists"... yet no-one's mentioned the Delgados!

    Umm, I mentioned them in my intro to the thread.
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • teagar
    teagar Posts: 2,100
    Cycle system:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyIsmUUj-E
    Note: the above post is an opinion and not fact. It might be a lie.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    all show no go wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    The thread title says "or artists"... yet no-one's mentioned the Delgados!

    Umm, I mentioned them in my intro to the thread.

    Oops, so you did. Their albums had cycling references too... one was called "Peloton" and another was "the Great Eastern", which is (was?) apparently a race in Scotland.
  • wiffachip
    wiffachip Posts: 861
    my white bicycle, covered by nazareth

    the pushbike song, the mixtures
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    afx237vi wrote:
    all show no go wrote:
    afx237vi wrote:
    The thread title says "or artists"... yet no-one's mentioned the Delgados!

    Umm, I mentioned them in my intro to the thread.

    Oops, so you did. Their albums had cycling references too... one was called "Peloton" and another was "the Great Eastern", which is (was?) apparently a race in Scotland.

    Don't forget the album "Domestiques"

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