Musical Roads

Mattemotorway · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 00:29

skiddaw05 wrote:

Big L wrote:

Presume I am missing something here.

Only my dodgy sense of homour.

Driving in my car by Madness has the line 'I drove along the A45'. Presumably had the song been recorded more recently it would be 'I drove along the A14' (or indeed the B645) :lol:

Depends which part it was... Don't forget the A4500 also! And most of the western half of the A45 is more or less the same as it was 30 years ago!

Burns · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 01:13

Malcolm Middleton has a song called Speed On The M9 - he lives (or did at one point in his life) in Falkirk as well so it all adds up.

Nicholas · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 08:05

Mattemotorway wrote:

Nicholas wrote:

Tom Robinson: "2-4-6-8 Motorway" - not about a particular motorway, but about trucking - the line "2-4-6-8 Motorway" does not appear in the lyrics

Erm... I thought it did... Like "2! 4! 6! 8! Mo-tor-way!"

Not according to this site (and I checked on others too)

Halmyre · **Joined:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 07:47 **Posts:** 480

Nicholas wrote:

Tom Robinson: "2-4-6-8 Motorway" - not about a particular motorway, but about trucking - the line "2-4-6-8 Motorway" does not appear in the lyrics

Another TRB motoring-related song was 'Grey Cortina'.

I remember a chap at school raving about how great the Tom Robinson Band was when 'Motorway' was released.

You've never seen anyone change their opinion so fast when the follow-up single came out...

Johnathan404 · **Posted:** Wed Nov 24, 2010 18:31

Has no-one had Mancunian Way yet?

agc2070 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 21:24

How about 'Fat cats with a death-wish on the M25'? A humorous little ditty about a certain breed of sports-car driver. Here it is...

Paspie · **Joined:** Sat Jan 16, 2010 15:41 **Posts:** 1444

Bump!

trigpoint · **Joined:** Sun Feb 19, 2012 20:43 **Posts:** 198

Mattemotorway wrote:

a1adam wrote:

"The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea is about the M25.

Erm... Wouldn't that be some road in America?

Definitely the M25.

Al · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 02:08

I thought it was about the A1? Himself being from the North East an' all, howay man liike (etc)

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But this "M25/A1" debate has been going on for, ooh, about 26 years now

... It was a topic of debate when I was (just) in high school :lol:

!

MiChaos · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:26

According to Wikipedia, the Magic Roundabout in Swindon "inspired the song 'English Roundabout', a pop song by the Swindon band XTC, which was recorded for their 1982 album English Settlement."

Mind you, according to Wikipedia, the Swindon Magic Roundabout inspired a children's TV show of the same name...

Lockwood · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:55

It's possible that Mister Brown goes off to town on the A21.
However, he might go off to town on the 8:21.

Mattemotorway · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:11

MiChaos wrote:

Mind you, according to Wikipedia, the Swindon Magic Roundabout inspired a children's TV show of the same name...

Oh dear... I know the Magic Roundabout's in France for a start off...

Lockwood wrote:

It's possible that Mister Brown goes off to town on the A21.
However, he might go off to town on the 8:21.

It's definately the 8:21!

Oh, and I actually thought Chris Rea was American... Shows what I know...

I'll also add, as it isn't in the list, Blur's 'For Tomorrow' mentions The Westway!

trigpoint · **Joined:** Sun Feb 19, 2012 20:43 **Posts:** 198

Al wrote:

I thought it was about the A1? Himself being from the North East an' all, howay man liike (etc)

.

But this "M25/A1" debate has been going on for, ooh, about 26 years now

... It was a topic of debate when I was (just) in high school :lol:

!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2002/ ... sfeatures1

shimtoan · **Posted:** Wed Jun 27, 2012 20:17

Mattemotorway wrote:

shimtoan wrote:

Electric Avenue by Eddie Grant - named after Electric Avenue in Brixton

Where IS Eddy Grant from? I'm not sure...

he's from Guyana but must've spent quite some time in London.

Gorillaz had a song called "M1A1", with the lyrics "M1A1 - thousand miles an hour". I'm presuming that M1A1 refers to the M1-A1 Link Road but I'm probably wrong there. without interviewing Damon Alburn there'd be no way of telling

Halmyre · **Joined:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 07:47 **Posts:** 480

Not strictly a musical road, but a prime example of the dangers you used to come across on the old A9!

Chris Bertram · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 08:31

Prog-rock band Sky - which included classical guitarist John Williams, as well as Herbie Flowers and Francis Monkman - had a track called "Westway". It was an instrumental, of course, they never had vocals on any track.

Mattemotorway · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:55

Mattemotorway wrote:

I'll also add, as it isn't in the list, Blur's 'For Tomorrow' mentions The Westway!

shimtoan wrote:

Gorillaz had a song called "M1A1", with the lyrics "M1A1 - thousand miles an hour". I'm presuming that M1A1 refers to the M1-A1 Link Road but I'm probably wrong there. without interviewing Damon Alburn there'd be no way of telling

Now Damon Alburn joins my 'where's he from'? list... (Yes, I know he's British, but whereabouts, I'm not sure...)

Ritchie333 · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:09

Mattemotorway wrote:

Now Damon Alburn joins my 'where's he from'? list... (Yes, I know he's British, but whereabouts, I'm not sure...)

It's not all wonkery and flamewars on Wikipedia you know! (or "Colchester" for short)

Trebeck · **Posted:** Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:27

I thought I'd mentioned it before.

Doves - M62 Song

From The Last Broadcast album.

Recorded under the M62, gives it a bit of a surreal backing track, a little American-style ditty about moonshine.

Toothed Tiger · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 19:01 **Posts:** 7

Anyone else out there ever heard "A413 Revisited" by John Otway?

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