Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 32 - threespires - Could have been a Contender (pg 472)

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Haven't listened yet but the title suggests that it might have been inspired by Splash Mountain.

Not exactly... but maybe save it for when the list is done. It and this band from Philly are pretty unique. I find their works are better in the context of an album, but I just couldn't resist getting a log flume into this week's theme!

(side note, just heard from Foggy and he's been snowed under with work obligations, so he'll be back soon on the Album thread. I was concerned to the point of posting some Radiohead tie-in, but I went the direct PM route)

 

[bennyboy]

No Expectations...Rolling Stones.

Take me to the station
and put me on the train
I've got no expectations
To pass through here again

 

[Mancitydoogle]

‘Getaway Car’ Michael McDermott

 

[RobMCFC]

Let's have another McDermott.

"Slow Boat to Something Better" - Kevin McDermott Orchestra

 

[Coatigan]

I am going to compete for the prize of newest / most recent song. Rleased a mere 2 months ago.

Flying Too Low - Jacket Thief

Sticking with the stoner/desert rock theme. Debut side project of Fu Manchu's Scott Reeder (not to be confused with the other desert rock Scott Reeder, the bassist of Kyuss, Unida, and The Obsessed). The whole album, I still haven't got into, it's a bit too foo fighters softy-generic for me. But this opening song on it I quite like. Swaps the thick motoric guitar distortion for some acoustic equally thick riffing.

 

[Saddleworth2]

My fave transport song.
Subtle and nuanced.
I give you three wheels on my wagon....

 

[stoneblue]

Slow Train - Joe Bonamassa

 

[Out on blue 6]

The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train

 

[Mancitydoogle]

(‘Never Stop Building ) That Old Space Rocket’ Danny and The Champions of The World.

 

[threespires]

(‘Never Stop Building ) That Old Space Rocket’ Danny and The Champions of The World.

A second space travel track.

I thought about International Space Station by Sea Power but does the ISS actually qualify? It moves at 17,000 mph but it's not really taking you anywhere is it??

 

[threespires]

My fave transport song.
Subtle and nuanced.
I give you three wheels on my wagon....

Well that definitely wins the least politically correct artwork in the playlist.

 

[threespires]

So much for the romance of the road, the train is a runaway winner at the moment.

If you take a liberal view of what constitutes a boat, they are coming second.

 

[lastmanback]

Chris spedding - motor biking .

 

[OB1]

Back down to Earth.

Prince: "Little ### Corvette".

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

So much for the romance of the road, the train is a runaway winner at the moment.

If you take a liberal view of what constitutes a boat, they are coming second.

Challenge accepted:

Bruce Springsteen - "Racing In the Street"

 

[threespires]

I've decided that if a Log Flume counts so does the space station.

(British) Sea Power - International Space Station

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

I've decided that if a Log Flume counts so does the space station.

It was checked before nominated, as you would expect from me. ;-)

J.W. Haines built the first successful lumber flume in 1859. The v-shaped trough brought a half-million feet of lumber daily from the eastern Sierra Nevada to the Comstock Lode. The 15 miles (24 km) route was between Lake Tahoe and Reno, terminating at the Virginia and Truckee Railroad terminus in Washoe Valley. Soon, log flumes spread across the mountains of the western United States as artificial rivers that brought lumber to market.

(British) Sea Power - International Space Station

Looking forward to it!

 

[RobMCFC]

Challenge accepted:

Bruce Springsteen - "Racing In the Street"

Was also on my list.

 

[Mancitydoogle]

Was also on my list.

Mine too , along with Pink Cadillac and Cadillac Ranch.

 

[Coatigan]

So much for the romance of the road, the train is a runaway winner at the moment.

If you take a liberal view of what constitutes a boat, they are coming second.

Might put forward Calum Dan's Transit Van to balance it out a bit.

The two I had up next are both train related too. Might pivot.