OT: songs that mention bicycles
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MTB-Idle wrote: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?
And I quote from the all truthful soothsayer Wiki: "Mercury came up with the idea while on holiday in France when the Tour de France went past his hotel room window"
Wiki aslos states this: "The video featured a collection of naked models riding around a race track on bikes hired from British cycle shop chain Halfords. When returned, Queen was ordered to pay for all the seats as Halfords wouldn't accept them knowing what they had been used for."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_race"Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
Christophe3967 wrote: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:
Sorry about that.
Wasn't that loud though.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
I'll go with Pedal Pusher from MC Abdominal, a bit of cycling rap!0
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MTB-Idle wrote: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)
I think you should take a look at my earlier post on first page. I'll repost it for you here so save you looking as you missed it first time round .dilemna wrote:Daisy Bell composed by Harry Dacre 1892.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_BellThere 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!Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
Think how stupid the average person is.......
half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.0 -
Ride Forever - Paul Gross
Ok so it's about horses, but it could be equated to bikesOfficers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men0 -
MTB-Idle wrote:Silver Machine by Hawkwind :?: (tenuous) but a great song (I got a silver machine.
It flies side ways thru' time, It's an electricline)
Not tenuous at all, it WAS about a bike
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Mac ... and_Lyrics
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MTB-Idle wrote: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?
+1
Actually, I don't care, as Queen are gash.
I'm sure there's a Kate Bush song that mentions bikes, be blowed if I can recall it though
It's just a hill. Get over it.0