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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 00:29 
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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!

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 01:13 
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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.


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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 08:05 
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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)

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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...


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 18:31 
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Has no-one had Mancunian Way yet?

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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...


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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 22:02 
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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
PostPosted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 22:28 
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"The Road To Hell" by Chris Rea is about the M25.


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

Definitely the M25.


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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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: !


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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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... :P


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


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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
PostPosted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:11 
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Mind you, according to Wikipedia, the Swindon Magic Roundabout inspired a children's TV show of the same name... :P


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

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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!

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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


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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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Not strictly a musical road, but a prime example of the dangers you used to come across on the old A9!



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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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.

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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Mattemotorway wrote:
I'll also add, as it isn't in the list, Blur's 'For Tomorrow' mentions The Westway!


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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...)

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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)

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 Post subject: Re: Musical Roads
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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.


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


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