Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - bike music and a stupid observation.

so i'm a fan of downloading a song here and there (before you cry "piracy!", the only albums i've downloaded in full are ones i've purchased already), and i was looking for some songs about bikes. queen is an obvious one, then there's the ghoti hook song "i like my bike" that has a pee wee herman sample at the beginning. then....ummmm....i start to draw a blank. i found an snfu song called "drunk on a bike" or something, but not much else. then there's serendipper's suggestion of mylo: "sunworshiper", but beyond that....

...what's good bike music?

also, stupid observation...the jar of peanut butter i'm eating right now says this on the back: "allergen statement: contains peanuts". no ****?

The Orb - Bicycles and Tricycles

Eek-A-Mouse: My Bicycle
best bike song ever

Pink Floyd - Bike

hear it here (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/bike.php)

queen - bicycle race

hear it here: http://www.flashplayer.com/music/bicyclerace_movie.php#bottom
complete with stupid flash animation

there's that bmx song by the Bouncing Souls song

Dude!
Peanut butter ROCKS!

They even have their own fan site. 2000 uses for peanut butter!
an excerpt:

1. Plug up the nursery's electric outlets to protect little fingers.
2. Use it to stick things if you run out of duct tape.
3. Two words: eye shadow.

someone posted this awhile ago.. but here again:

Bike Messenger Boy, by The Wendy Kroys
http://www.monkeybrains.net/~carrie/bikemessengerboy.mp3

"come over here
bike messenger boy
i like 'em real scruffy
will you be my toy?

you got a helmet full of decals
and a big zo bag..

...

i dig your tattooed arms
and your clip-on cleats
you ride when it rains
and you ride when it sleets
i'm getting turned on baby
let's get between my sheets"

there's this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000A4G4N/sr=1-1/qid=1137537311/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-6228367-2496662?%5Fencoding=UTF8

ooh, bike messenger boy, i'll have to get that one.

i saw that pink floyd one and didn't get it, but i guess i will now...queen, that's a given. sometimes i sing that while i ride.

also, i live a couple blocks away from the peanut butter & co.. be jealous!
http://www.ilovepeanutbutter.com

Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling (7:56)

from Boards of Canada "Peel Session" - Warp Records WAP114CD 1999

haha (http://www.bikerockmusic.com/store.html)

http://garethspor.com/night_rider_sm.jpg

The Moldy Peaches - Nothing came out
"I just want to ride bikes with you, and stay up late, and watch cartoons"

..and there's a Cex song with the line:
"I'll drag you out your car and teach you how to pop a wheelie"

BIG EDIT:
http://www.musikmarkt-wiesbaden.de/images/KRAFTWERK%20tour%20de%20france%207.JPG

boards of canada, right, i saw that one before, but forgot about it.

i also just remembered a band i heard about but can't recall the name of that uses contact-mic'ed bicycles to make music. plucking spokes a la triplets of belleville, i suppose.

and turd, jealous? no...that's too mild a word.

oooo, also

Kraftwerk - Tour de France (single, 1983)

Kraftwerk - Tour de France 100th Anniversary Album (2003)

tour de france, check.

ha ha, i was just listening to that moldy peaches song yesterday.

i want more bike songs to sing while riding. maybe i should start writing my own.

Pixies - Tony's Theme

Anything by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

Wow, go to iTunes and plug the word "bicycle" into the search bar...pretty cool...and while you're there check out the album "Rouleur" by 53x11

53x11? like the dude who's pretty unpopular on here?

i have limewire, but i think i'll get iTunes soon, since someone just told me you can't burn songs from limewire.

the spark has few. cool shirts and logos with a cyclist about to attack an SUV with an axe.

http://www.headcold.net/uki/firestarter/sparkcoverlarge.jpg

http://www.firestarterrecords.com/

my fave is bike lock resolution.

descendents - when i get old

RAMBO - U lock justice or trued till death

i cant think of anymore right now

rosa - bike rides and high fives

Bicycle Built For Two
(Version 1)

Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown

There is a flower
Within my heart,
Daisy, Daisy!
Planted one day
By a glancing dart,
Planted by Daisy Bell!
Whether she loves me
Or loves me not,
Sometimes it's hard to tell;
Yet I am longing to share the lot -
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!

Daisy, Daisy,
Give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle made for two.

We will go 'tandem'
As man and wife,
Daisy, Daisy!
'Peddling' away
Down the road of life,
I and my Daisy Bell!
When the road's dark
We can both despise
P'licemen and 'lamps' as well;
There are 'bright lights’
In the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!

Daisy, Daisy,
Give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle made for two.

I will stand by you
In 'wheel' or woe,
Daisy, Daisy!
You'll be the bell(e)
Which I'll ring you know!
Sweet little Daisy Bell!
You'll take the 'lead'
In each 'trip' we take,
Then if I don't do well,
I will permit you to
Use the brake,
My beautiful Daisy Bell!

ok so i 'cheated' too and searched in my itunes for "bike". & this has nothing to do with bikes, really, but a good track, nonetheless. according to piccadilly records: "completely un-electronic rendition of North-East folk standard "Byker Hill" (most famously recorded by Martin Carthy)":

"Biker Walk" by Various Production


If I had another penny
I would buy another gill
I would make the piper play
The Bonny lads of Byker Hill.

Chorus
Byker Hill and Walker Shore
Collier lads for evermore.

2. The pitman and the girls are trim
They drink bumble made from gin
Then to dance they do begin
To the tune of Elsie Marley.
Chorus

3. When first I went unto the dirt
I had no coat or no pit shirt
Now I’ve gotten two or three
Walker Pit’s done well by me.
Chorus

4. Geordie Johnson he had a pig
He hit with a shovel and it danced a jig
All the way to Walker Shore
To the tune of Elsie Marley.
Chorus

Bicycle Built For Two
(Version 1)

Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown

There is a flower
Within my heart,
Daisy, Daisy!
Planted one day
By a glancing dart,
Planted by Daisy Bell!
Whether she loves me
Or loves me not,
Sometimes it's hard to tell;
Yet I am longing to share the lot -
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!

Daisy, Daisy,
Give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle made for two.

We will go 'tandem'
As man and wife,
Daisy, Daisy!
'Peddling' away
Down the road of life,
I and my Daisy Bell!
When the road's dark
We can both despise
P'licemen and 'lamps' as well;
There are 'bright lights’
In the dazzling eyes
Of beautiful Daisy Bell!

Daisy, Daisy,
Give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy,
All for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle made for two.

I will stand by you
In 'wheel' or woe,
Daisy, Daisy!
You'll be the bell(e)
Which I'll ring you know!
Sweet little Daisy Bell!
You'll take the 'lead'
In each 'trip' we take,
Then if I don't do well,
I will permit you to
Use the brake,
My beautiful Daisy Bell!


thanks, i never knew the lyrics to that. i have a john fahey instrumental version of that, so i kind of wondered about the words....

nothing on R.A.M.B.O. and little on tbiapb, unfortunately, but that just means i'll have to mailorder some stuff. mmmm, i love waiting for records in the mail!

rosa - bike rides and high fives
milk crates too.

there seems to be alot of sexual innuendo in the 'built for two' lyrics...or ami just an old perv?

there seems to be alot of sexual innuendo in the 'built for two' lyrics...or ami just an old perv?

heh, heh... you said, "endo."

Autechre - Bike (Incunabula 1993)
Saloon - Bicycle Theives ((This Is) What We Call Progress 2002)
Múm - Slow Bicycle (Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK 2005)

*edit* Koop - Bjarne Riis (Sons of Koop 1997) Danish cyclist Bjarne Riis won the Tour de France in 1996. The song includes some heavy breathing.

This Bike is a Pipe Bomb - Murder Bike

the next post will be about XBXRX.

I remember Cassette Plus Headphones by XBXRX mentioning a bike.

am i smart or what?

This Charming Man and Back To The Old House by The Smiths both contain bicycle references.

http://www.zzzclub.com/dizzy/p3/mylo.jpg
Mylo - "Sunworshipper" from Destroy Rock N' Roll
...has a sample of a guy talking about how he gave up money, drugs and "the material trip" and took off on his bicycle. (recommended for you people who like boards o' canada)

http://www.infratunes.com/musique/mega-image/clouddead_grand.gif

cLOUDDEAD - "bike" from cLOUDDEAD

SNFU - Drunk On a Bike
http://mmedia.ozon.ru/multimedia/audio_cd_covers/am_08_01469.jpg

Oh and then theres the musician 1 speed bike (http://www.cstrecords.com/html/1sbmain.html)

Anything by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

+1

queen - bicycle race

hear it here: http://www.flashplayer.com/music/bicyclerace_movie.php#bottom
complete with stupid flash animation
such a great song.

I skimmed through the posts and saw This Bike is a Pipe Bomb but no Defiance, Ohio but I apologize if I just missed it.

Defiance, Ohio - "Bikes and Bridges"

Most of the bands on Plan-It-X Records are folk punk/pop punk groups that are really into Bike Culture and tons of other rad stuff, check them out if you haven't already.

Boards of Canada - Happy Cycling (7:56)

from Boards of Canada "Peel Session" - Warp Records WAP114CD 1999
beat me to it

a few people on this board listen to BoC it seems, cant tell if they're IDM or hippies though

Damn, marqueemoon, you beat me to naming the Smiths. There's a Tori Amos song that references riding an old Nishiki...I'll have to go look for it.

The Mixtures - The Pushbike Song (1970)

CHUCK BROWN & THE SOUL SEARCHERS...BLOW YOUR WHISTLE

"talkin the kids and the bicycle riders...
....
get yourself a whistle and blow!"

Damn, marqueemoon, you beat me to naming the Smiths. There's a Tori Amos song that references riding an old Nishiki...I'll have to go look for it.

Okay, it's "Bells for Her." It's just a quick reference.

Eek-A-Mouse: My Bicycle
best bike song ever
That is an awsome song, the actual title is "Peni Walli (fire flies)"

beat me to it

a few people on this board listen to BoC it seems, cant tell if they're IDM or hippies though

IDM

Pixies - Tony's Theme

Anything by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb

This Bike is a Pipe Bomb's "Murder Bike":
bicycle, bicycle, keeping me sane. i've got murder, murder, murder murder murder swimming in my brain. i know with you, i'm never gonna kill again and get the electric chair. na, na na na na na na na, na na na na na. hey hey, na na na na na.

+god is my co-pilot has a song called "bicycle gang."
+"brand new key" by Melanie ["i ride my bike, i roller skate, don't drive no car. don't go too fast but i go pretty far. for somebody who don't drive, i've been all around the world. some people say i've done all right for a girl. well i've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key."]