I like lists.
I like public transportation.
Seems like it's about damn time to combine these loves, no?
- Belle and Sebastian "The State That I Am In": "Riding city buses for a hobby is sad." I did a hankie of this one, but mispelled buses, which always looks to me like a plural for Gary Busey.
- And, in "The Boy With the Arab Strap", Stuart sings a line about missing the bus. He is my soul mate, after all.
- Wilco "Far Far Away": "Kiss and ride on the CTA." One of my favorite public transportation lines. Tiff and I are such nerds that, on the magestic Spring Break Road Trip, we both made sure to get pictures of CTA buses.
- Kris Kross missed the bus, and that is something that they'll never do again. This one might be a school bus, though.
- Replacements "Kiss Me On the Bus". 'Nother hankie: "your tongue your transfer your hand your answer"
- Violent Femmes "Waiting for the Bus". This used to be my goto I'm Running Late song.
- The Bangles "Manic Monday". I liked this one better when I thought the line was "blame it on the train but the bus is already there," probably because I used to try and rationalize lateness by blaming a particular route, when another got there ages ago. Example: I missed the 61A by 30 seconds. The 71D takes 10 minutes longer to get to the same place. Can I blame the 71D for being 10 minutes and 30 seconds late to work?
- The Who "Magic Bus"
- Screeching Weasel "Totally": "The Belmont bus takes me right by your house"
More to be added as I think of them/people bring them to my attention.
3 comments:
i have a belle & sebastian radio performance where s. murdoch changes "i'm only lucid when i'm writing songs" to "i'm only lucid when i'm riding buses" in this is just a modern rock song...other references to follow when you watch the belle & sebastian dvd with me...
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and Bob Nostanovich of Pavement drove a bus in Hoboken and there's an alternative version of a Pavement video that takes place in a subway station
From "New York City," originally by Cub, covered by They Might Be Giants:
"We met in the springtime at a rock-and-roll show
It was on the Bowery when it was time to go
We kissed on the subway in the middle of the night
I held your hand, you held mine, it was the best night of my life."
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