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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A few you might not have heard
Two feet ahead of the train - Michael McNevin
And I know it’s a Christian song but Josh Turner Long Black Train is so good.
Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Hey Conductor
Train Underwater - Bright Eyes New Virginia Creeper - Old Crow Medicine Show Let the Train Blow the Whistle - Johnny Cash
Am undiagnosed but definitely autistic. My opinion on trains is they used to scare the shit out of me when I was a child. Coal trains are all over the place where I live, and I was right up next to them while they were making terrifying loud noises. I think that ruined any interest I might have had from a distance. Now as an adult, I am very interested in the engineering and workings of trains, but not much more than the engineering and workings of all other complex engineered systems. But I’m more interested in buildings and architecture than mechanical engineering.
Peace Train by Cat Stevens
Love Train O‘Jays
Last Train to London by ELO
Chattanooga Choo Choo Glen Miller/ Andrews Sisters
Take The A Train Duke Ellington
Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys and Pips
Flanders & Swann - The Slow Train https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU&list=RDU6OHD2uCpfU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUOdGhlIHNsb3cgdHJhaW6gBwE%3D&ra=m
List of train songs - Wikipedia
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Freight train rolling on by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, and a bunch of other blues songs are related to trains, built around sounds and rhythms the trains make, or around journeying on trains.
Just a small town girl, living in a loooonely world, She took the midnight train, going an-yyyy-where
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.
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
I have one German A Cappella song and one German Volkslied from the 1800s.
The most famouse song about DB by wise guys
