Does it seem odd to anyone else that the canonical rock & roll vehicle should be the good, old-fashioned locomotive? Look at all the kinds of trains we've got:
"Mystery Train"
"Night Train"
"Train of Love"
"Silver Train"
"Love Train"
"Peace Train"
"Crazy Train"
"Downbound Train"
"Runaway Train"
That's not counting such near misses as "Take the A Train" (not a rock song) and "Train in Vain" (not a type of train). What am I missing?
4 comments:
"Casey Jones"
Michelle Shocked, "If Love Was a Train"
"Folsom Prison Blues"
Also delivered via email were such selections as "Train Kept a-Rollin" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" and "Jumping Someone Else's Train" and Los Lobos' "That Train Don't Stop Here." I also could have added "Last Train to Clarksville" and "Midnight Train to Georgia," but I was trying to stick to the "BLANK Train" format, with an allowance made for Johnny Cash, since it was so close.
But maybe I should have branched it out.
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