Thursday, September 08, 2005

I'm rapidly becoming the Blog of Listy Goodness (depending on your opinion of goodness, of course).

I like music.
I like lists.
I like public transportation.
Seems like it's about damn time to combine these loves, no?

  1. 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.
  2. And, in "The Boy With the Arab Strap", Stuart sings a line about missing the bus. He is my soul mate, after all.
  3. 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.
  4. Kris Kross missed the bus, and that is something that they'll never do again. This one might be a school bus, though.
  5. Replacements "Kiss Me On the Bus". 'Nother hankie: "your tongue your transfer your hand your answer"
  6. Violent Femmes "Waiting for the Bus". This used to be my goto I'm Running Late song.
  7. 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?
  8. The Who "Magic Bus"
  9. 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:

Anonymous said...

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...
t.

PoBaL said...

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

Anonymous said...

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."