OT: songs that mention bicycles

iPete

Thanks to illness & crimbo I've done 70 miles in nearly 3 weeks and can't add any miles for the next week, normally do 170 a week

Now I can't get this damn song out of my head, is this normal?! !
Queen - Bicycle Race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk4rLp9mHQc




Please add to the bicycle related music complication collection:
Flobots - Handlebards
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA
Queen - Bicycle Race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk4rLp9mHQc

Alinshearah

The pretender had a song 'back in the chain gang'

kurako

This Charming Man by The Smiths.

A p*nctured bicycle
On a hillside desolate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3hSDODDNs4

N0bodyOfTheGoat

Something by Pink Floyd... "I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like" (then goes on to mention Gerald!)

Agent57

The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCWAGpChSRI

Wallace1492

2 In a Room - Wiggle It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT6h7Sfn4bc

Oddjob62

"Performance" - MC SpandX

hells

She's on a mission by slackstring.

Clip from the MTB movie ROAM with the song shes on a mission

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzeFP8J4ro

Porgy

my white bicycle - traffic i think

Bike Ride To The Moon - XTC

Buckets of Rain by Bob Dylan
Little red wagon. Little red bike. I ain't no monkey but I know what I like

And Kraftwerk: tour De France
"The hell of Northern Paris - Roubaix
The Cote d`Azur and Saint Tropez
The Alps and the Pyrenees
Last stage Champs-Elysees
Galibier and Tourmalet (2 mountains)
Dancing even on the top
Bicycling at high gear
Final sprint at the finish
Flat tire on the paving-stones
The bicycle is repaired quickly
The peloton is regrouped
Comrades and friendship"

Eau Rouge

Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles.

Wallace1492

(I'm in the middle of a ) Chain Reaction - Diana Ross

Riding on My Bike - Madness

Porgy

Pump it up - elvis Costello
you can ring my bell - ??
cycle killer - talking heads
Five Gears - David Bowie
Don't Let Me down - The Beatles (as sung by a bicycle tyre)

Christophe3967

Revolution in the Head. Girls Aloud. <Sigh>

dilemna

Daisy Bell composed by Harry Dacre 1892.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell

There is a flower within my heart,
Daisy, Daisy,
Planted one day by a glancing dart,
Planted by Daisy Bell.
Whether she loves me or loves me not
Sometimes it's hard to tell,
But there are those that would share the lot
Of beautiful Daisy Bell.
Chorus:

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do,
I'm half crazy all for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage -
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'd look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
We will go tandem as man and wife,
Daisy, Daisy,
Wheeling away down the road of life,
I and my Daisy Bell.
When the nights dark, we can both despise
Policemen and lamps as well.
There are bright lights in the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell.(Chorus)

(Below, ending of the Edward M. Favor version); This version, with music arranged for barbershop quartet,is available on the Internet[5].

I will stand by you in "wheel" or woe
Daisy, Daisy
You'll be the bell(e) which I'll ring you know
Sweet little Daisy Bell
You'll take the lead in each trip we take
Then if I don't do well
I will permit you to use the brake
My beautiful Daisy Bell.
The song has entered the folk tradition, giving rise to a number of "answer-song" versions consisting of only two choruses -- the original, then another in which Daisy refuses her suitor. The most common answer-song chorus [6] appears to predate the advent of the motorcar, as it refers to a carriage. The rejected suitor's name varies but is often given as Harry -- the name of the author of the original song.

The lyrics to the answer song are:

Harry, Harry
Here is my answer true.
I can't cycle, for I get black and blue.
If you can't afford a carriage
There won't be any marriage.
For I'll be switched if I'll be hitched
On a bicycle built for two.
Another variant is:

Michael, Michael
Here is my answer true.
I'm NOT crazy
All for the love of you.
If you cannot afford a carriage
There won't be any marriage.
'Cause I'll be damned
If I'll get crammed
On a bicycle built for two!

Zachariah

It was only last year when listening to the Queen song that I finally realised it isn't about Bicycles at all...

redvee

'39 - Queen
Accelerate - REM
You spin me right round - Dead or Alive
Fix(ie) you - Coldplay

Sleepycol

Lest we forget.
Handlebars by the Desperate Bicycles.

Christophe3967

Of course we could never forget....

Les Bicyclettes De Belsize. Englebert Humperdinck.

My mum says he did better work.

always_tyred

The Bicycle Song
Red Hot Chilli Peppers

"How could I forget to mention the bicycle is a good invention"

tailwindhome

*invoking Greg T's Circle of Trust*

Not a cycling song

But occasionally (well frequently) this song pops into my head when cycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqRL7nJ ... re=related

I know, I'll see myself out.

cjcp

NitrousOxide wrote:

Something by Pink Floyd... "I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like" (then goes on to mention Gerald!)

It's "Bike", I think.

Sigurd

All the daughters (of her father's house) by The Icicle Works: "Brother, the small price of a bicycle isn't mine"

Canny Jock

And more from Queen - Fat Bottom Girls:

Oh (I know) you gonna take me home tonight (please)
Oh down beside that red firelight
Oh you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Yeah
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Get on your bikes and ride

Christophe3967

WheezyMcChubby wrote:

*invoking Greg T's Circle of Trust*

Not a cycling song

But occasionally (well frequently) this song pops into my head when cycling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqRL7nJ ... re=related

I know, I'll see myself out.

Yes well in future, kindly leave it there. I clicked on that link and now the children have woken up :roll:

biondino

The Red Door by The Aislers Set (if anyone else here knows them I'll eat my bottom bracket):

But I've got a red red red red door
And a big grey cosy house
A black black black black car
And an R E D Bi C Y C L E
But I don't have you

mirrorkill

Seems like a good time finally to delurk...

Greetings. I am, amongst other things, a bicycle commuter (Kona Dew Drop) & a singer/songwriter. & I humbly present, for your consideration, "Gothonabicycle":

http://www.mirrorkill.co.uk/Mirrorkill% ... 0Invented&#41;.shtml#gothonabicycle

(edited to get url working - apparently bbcode doesn't like brackets...)

Cheers,
MK

mtb-idle

my white bicycle (already mentioned) but better original version by 'Tomorrow' used here by me on a video http://vimeo.com/8656163

It was indeed 'Bike' by Pink Floyd (its got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good)

Silver Machine by Hawkwind :?: (tenuous) but a great song (I got a silver machine.
It flies side ways thru' time, It's an electricline)

The Pushbike song by The Mixtures

Bicycle song by RHCP

Handlebars by The Flobots. This song is da bomb (as i believe da kidz say): I can ride my bike with no handlebars, no handlebars etc.

errr... that's it for the moment

simple_salmon

mirrorkill wrote:

Seems like a good time finally to delurk...

Greetings. I am, amongst other things, a bicycle commuter (Kona Dew Drop) & a singer/songwriter. & I humbly present, for your consideration, "Gothonabicycle":

http://www.mirrorkill.co.uk/Mirrorkill% ... 20Invented).shtml#gothonabicycle

(edited to get url working - apparently bbcode doesn't like brackets...)

Cheers,
MK

I liked it; put me in mind of Ed Ball's The Times - esp. the 'Enjoy' album

mtb-idle

Bike ride to the moon by The dukes of stratosphear

Bicycle Built for Two by Daisy Bell (It won't be a stylish marriage, I can't afford a carriage, But you'd look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two)

mtb-idle

Zachariah wrote:

It was only last year when listening to the Queen song that I finally realised it isn't about Bicycles at all...

really? What's it about then?

mtb-idle

bicycle song by Orbit

Kelsea, won't you come out to play
I got my bicycle today
My father bought it for me
He said it cost him money
He's got a man in China
Who says he gets them cheaply
It's got a magic handle
It's got a chromed up fender
It's got a sprocket card and
It's got some superpowers