I was just joking with a friend that I have no idea how he took so long to be diagnosed with autism when he has a playlist dedicated to songs about trains; he made this playlist after randomly having 3 songs about trains come on in a row when he put his music on shuffle, and decided to start collecting them in a playlist. There aren’t too many on there at the moment, and he’d like to collect more, if anyone has any suggestions.
I will share the resulting playlist on here afterwards as either an edit to this post, or a comment reply. If you want to be pinged about this, let me know in your comment, and I’ll make sure you receive a link to the playlist.
Bonus question: if you’re autistic, what are your opinions on trains? I’m personally ambivalent about trains, but they also feel like they’re my culture, because of how many of my fellow autistic nerds like trains.
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One of my favorite artists, Tim Barry, does (or maybe did) some train hopping so some of his songs are about his experience riding in boxcars and that’s reflected in his album art. A few of his that come to mind are: Driver Pull Chirch of Level Track Steel Road
But for an actual song about a train, I didn’t see “Wabash Cannonball” yet. You can make a playlist from different Artists renditions of this song. Roy Acuff’s take on it is the one that I associate with the song but the Limeliters is probably my favorite.
List of train songs - Wikipedia
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This album is about actual train wrecks, I believe.
The Ghost of Hope by The Residents
Train in the Distance by Paul Simon
Lots of these songs involve trains. This one is about trains: I Often Dream of Trains - Robin Hitchcock
Just a small town girl, living in a loooonely world, She took the midnight train, going an-yyyy-where
I have one German A Cappella song and one German Volkslied from the 1800s.
Doesn’t Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler take place on a train? not about a train per say but the story is set on a train, right?
The most famouse song about DB by wise guys
The train song - nick cave
Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint - An instrumental record of train sounds. Pretty phenomenal record IMO. Though it’s not one you listen to over and over again.
The train and the gate (instrumental) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qu4dp97e0k
Freight Train by Alan Jackson (different to the other songs titled Freight Train that I’ve seen linked so far)
