Trivia; the Southern commuter songbook

Busaholic · 22 Jul 2016

Just been pondering a few song titles, some with suitable amendments. to reflect the recent experiences of the woebegone Southern commuter: please do add to them:-

24 Hours from Tulse Hill
London Bridge is Falling Down
Give Peacehaven a Chance (and Peacxehaven of My Heart)
Crawley Through the Wreckage
Three Bridges over Troubled Waters
(I Could Walk) 500 Miles
Redhill in the Sunset
Victoria (old Kinks classic - those of you familiar with it might imagine Ray Davies being wistfully wry about his relationship with the station in the chorus)

Ones definitely NOT on the list would be (Everybody's Doing) The Locomotion and Ticket to Ride

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Harbornite · 22 Jul 2016

Down in the tube station at midnight (because Southern have cancelled your train)

Blindtraveler · 22 Jul 2016

Status Quos Burning 3 Bridges seams apt here?
Also the cars and Drive

roversfan2001 · 23 Jul 2016

Southern's response comes in the form of Rihanna's Shut Up and Drive?

I'll get my coat...

AlterEgo · 23 Jul 2016

Florence and the Machine - Conductor

The only thing that's certain
Is your indecision
I guess it must be working
Cause you hit me with such precision
Now the strings are breaking
Their fingers run with blood
But they keep on playing
The cycle never stops

Who's in control?
Who's playing who?

Agent_c · 23 Jul 2016

24 hours from Brighton(Tulsa)

theageofthetra · 23 Jul 2016

Fleetwood Mac - Gipsy (Hill)

Fleetwood Mac -Govia Own Way

The Who- I can Seaford Miles

Kenny Loggins- Footlewes

The Smiths - Hever knows I'm miserable now

Simon & Garfunkle - Three Bridges over Troubled Waters

Queen - Seven Seas of Rye

Eagles- Leighing Eyes

Tina Turner- Nutbourne City Limits

Nik Kershaw- Wadden it be Good

The Cult- She Selhursts Sanctuary

Bruce Springsteen - Fishbourne to Run.

Maria Carey - Cheamlover

Bookham T & the MG's- Soul Limbo

Supertramp - Glynded by the Light

The Commodores - Southeasy

Enja- Orenoco Flow.

Weary Walker · 23 Jul 2016

Flanders & Swan - On the Slow Train

Southern · 23 Jul 2016

roversfan2001 said:
Southern's response comes in the form of Rihanna's Shut Up and Drive?

I'll get my coat...

Amy Winehouse' "You Know I'm No Good" and Baz Luhrmann' "Everybody's Free (to take the Bus) come to mind as well

Few more for the commuters:

Thinking About Tommorow (with dread) - Beth Orton
All The Way to Redhill - R.E.M
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding
I'm So Afraid (of never getting home) - Fleetwood Mac
Rehab (I'm gonna need it after this) - Rihanna
Edge of Sanity - Stevie Nicks

cf111 · 23 Jul 2016

National Sh*te Day - Half Man Half Biscuit.

bravesirrobin · 23 Jul 2016

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
One train hell - U2
Gimme Gimme Gimme (A train after midnight) - Abba
Road Movie to Brighton - They Might Be Giants

mirodo · 23 Jul 2016

The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

Blindtraveler · 23 Jul 2016

Talking heads, railroad to nowhere

Mag_seven · 23 Jul 2016

Busaholic said:
Ones definitely NOT on the list would be (Everybody's Doing) The Locomotion

As in "come on baby, DOO the locomotion with me"

Busaholic · 23 Jul 2016

Another Kinks number might be apposite - All Day and All of the Night.
The Fleetwood Mac number could also stand in its own right - Go Your Own Way
Convoy would be a suitable one for a passenger hallucinating on a Southern platform somewhere.
Got to work an Elvis number in somehow, so Return to Selsdon
New Cross Gate, New Cross Gate (so good they named it twice) - works better without the Gate, but that wouldn't be Southern!
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Mag_seven said:
As in "come on baby, DOO the locomotion with me"

Sorry, only just got that one, but :lol:

DelayRepay · 24 Jul 2016

Don't Stop Believing (that one day you'll be able to complete your) - Journey.

Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train
Goin' nowhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South London
He took the midnight train
Goin' nowhere

Southern Management sit in their room
RMT say 'we need a new broom'
For their members they fight the fight
It goes on and on, and on, and on

Strangers waiting
Up and down the platform
Their shadows searching
In the night
Exhausted people
Livin' just to find their train
Hidin' somewhere in the night

Workin' hard to pay my fare
Everybody just wants to get there
Timetable random as a dice
Just one more time
Some will lose
Some will pray
Some will just claim Delay Repay
Oh, the saga never ends
It goes on and on, and on, and on

miami · 24 Jul 2016

Mag_seven said:
As in "come on baby, DOO the locomotion with me"

Kylie songs?
I should be so lucky (to get a seat)

Never too late wouldn't be a good one

2HAP · 25 Jul 2016

Three wheels on my bogie - New Christy Minstrels
Last train to Folkestone - The Monkees
Nowhere train - The Beatles
Down on the Old Pull and Push - (Von Tilzer / Sterling)

infobleep · 25 Jul 2016

Blindtraveler said:
Status Quos Burning 3 Bridges seams apt here?
Also the cars and Drive

There's also Don't Drive My Train by the mighty Quo.

They also had a song called Enough is Enough which doesn't even need a title amendment.

Long Ago another of their's that might explain the last time someone saw a train that they could catch before recent emergency timetable.

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2HAP · 25 Jul 2016

Last train to Folkstone Central - Billy Connolly

Blindtraveler · 25 Jul 2016

If were doing Quo songs, get out and walk.

This a song title of theres and needs no alteration

Busaholic · 26 Jul 2016

Bearing in mind that Clapham Junction is actually in Battersea, then
Battersea out of Hell - Meatloaf

The old Orange Juice classic from the early 80s, to be sung to the person who is Rail Minister this week, relating to the franchise:-
Rip It Up and Start Again (if you don't know the song the original video from 1983 is on You Tube)

DelayRepay · 26 Jul 2016

Up the Junction...

I never thought it would happen
Wait for the 06:21 to Clapham
Stood on that windy station
A complete service cessation
Red Cross handing out rations
Blaming broken down traction
Stood on the platform with dismay
At least I'll claim for this delay.

AndyNLondon · 26 Jul 2016

For the fans of musical theatre...

Somewhere Over the Railway

Somewhere, over the railway
Way down south
There's a train that I dreamed of
Once in a lullaby

Super-crammed-in-fragile-service-expialidoucious

Super-crammed-in-fragile-service-expialidoucious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you complain loud enough you'll always sound ferocious
Super-crammed-in-fragile-service-expialidoucious

And for any journalists in the audience...

Feed the Trolls

Early each day to the gates of Brighton
The little old journalist comes
In in own special way, to the people he calls
Come, give me nice juicy quotes

Feed the trolls, tuppence a quote
Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a quote
Feed the trolls, that brings the hits
While on the web, his trolls act like...

yorksrob · 26 Jul 2016

Just a few I've cooked up:

The disco classic: "Do the Hustle Alarm" by Guard's Van McCoy (with TOTP dance routine by PAN's people)
"Ride my 4-Cor" by Justin Hayward's Heath and the Moody Corporate Blues
"Four Five Five Talkin" by the EPBee Gee's
"All Around My HAP" by Steelgirderbridge Span
"Last Train to Bexhill Central" by the KLF
"Every VEP You Take" by CEP-Diddy in honour of the notorious BIG (originally by The Police liveried class 37)
"Make it Easy on Yourself (You'd better go via Liss to Waterloo)" by the Sir Herbert Walker Brothers.

Martin S Heron · 26 Jul 2016

I'm an occasional lurker on this site, and this thread has made me join purely to ask the OP this question.

Did you amend Gene Pitney's "24 Hours from Tulsa" or Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine's "24 Minutes from Tulse Hill"?

Doctor Fegg · 26 Jul 2016

Joy Division: Govia Will Tear Us Apart

infobleep · 26 Jul 2016

Pete Doughty wrote a song called From Bollywood to Battersea. Well here's a variation on that song:
From Brighton to Battersea (the no trains running remix)

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yorksrob · 27 Jul 2016

"Seven Years (I've waited for this service)" by the Moulescombe Bay Dance Band.
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Classic 90's album "Generation Terrierist" by the Cannon Street Preachers.
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Another one by the EPBee Gee's, "For whom the Belle Rolls"

infobleep · 28 Jul 2016

Please Dont Leave Me (at this station for ever) by Screamin' Angry formerly of Tunbridge Wells but now of Arlington which is a cover of a song by Fats Domino Affect

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Ridin' on the Southern Rail by Line all delays and also covered by Four Four Two, having been renamed Ridin' on the Gatwick Express.

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