Songs about Motorcycles

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Companion to the 'songs about cars' thread obv.

― dave q, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't decide between Billy Joel's "You May Be Right" and Lou Reed's "New Sensations". Not to mention Blue Oyster Cult's "Golden Age of Leather". Does everybody on Long Island ride a hawg?

Best title in the world ever - Serge Gainsbourg's "Harley David Son of a Bitch"

― dave q, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Speeding Motorcycle - D Johnston

― nathalie, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Motorcycle Emptiness," obv...though I doubt any of the Manics have ever even been on a motorcycle.

― Justyn Dillingham, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can imagine James Dean Bradfield on a lawn tractor - or better yet, a forklift, with his gut hanging over the seat

― dave q, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"1952 Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson which if you haven't heard it is a ballad about the classic British motorcycle and a red headed girl. It is one of my favorite of Thompson's songs.

― earlnash, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thompson did "Wall of Death" too.

Hey, how could I forget SAXON!!? "Motorcycle man/ Get my kicks anywhere I can..."

― dave q, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ride the Wind" - Poison

― jel --, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Motorcycle" by Love & Rockets, "Stainless Steel Providers" by Revolting Cocks, "Iron Horse" by Motorhead

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorbike Beat - The Revillos
Leader of the Pack - Shangri Las

We need a bicycles thread now.

― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Other than "Bike" by Pink Floyd and "Fat Bottomed Girls" by Queen, I can't think of any other songs with bicycles.

― earlnash, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

umm, tour de france?

― gareth, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Motorbiking' by Chris Spedding. It's shit, tho.

― Andrew L, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Motorcross Madness by Soulgrabber. It's on 2 Many DJs I think.

― Ronan, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...has to be Motorbike Girl by The Would-Be-Goods.

― Jez, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Montrose - "Bad Motor Scooter". Steve Gibbons Band - "BSA".

― chris j, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hell for Leather" by Hoodoo Gurus, "Hell BENT for Leather" by Judas Priest

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Motorpsycho Nitemare" by Bob Dylan doesn't mention motorcycles once, but the whole story about the farmer's wife who falls for Bob's drifter communist trades on rebel/outlaw stereotypes of the biker. Awesome how Bob conflates proto-Hell's Angels wild-one Brandoishness with support for the Cuban revolution.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

More Blue Oyster Cult - "Transmaniacon MC"

― dave q, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Funky Moped - Jasper Carrott. It's GRATE! He can fuck off with that b- side though. BOING!

― zebedee, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't think of any other songs with bicycles
"Cycling Is Fun" (Shonen Knife)

― Jeff W, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what about the arlo guthrie song?!?!?!?

― Ron, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Meatmen - "War of the Superbikes"

Neil Young - "Motorcycle Mama"

― briania, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Leader of the Pack

esp the Joan Collins Fanclub version

― Robin, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

problem w/Arlo Gurthrie song --> it is vile

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beachnuts-"Cycle Annie"
Ike & Tina Turner-"Chopper

― Arthur, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

suicide - ghost rider.

― stirmonster, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Living End" by The Jesus & Mary Chain is the best motorcycle song evah!

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bad News "Masturbike"

― Brian MacDonald, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'moped' by rodney allen(not sure that is the actual title but the song is all about his moped)

― keith, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since The Delgados are named after a cyclist, can we say that all their songs are about bycicles. In which case Accused Of Stealing would have to win.

― Shane, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"iron horse/born to lose" by motorhead, did someone already say that one?

― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

andrew "motorbikin' by chris spedding is a CHOICE song!

― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Someone's nicked the wheels of my scooter" Revolving Paint Dream / Biff Bang Pow!

― BT, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doorag you cld well be right (haven't heard it in years) - but I still wish I'd picked 'Bad Motor Scooter' instead...

Here's a 'good' one - 'Silver Dream Machine' by David Essex (reached #4 in the UK in 1980, spent 11 weeks on charts, catalogue no: BIKE1!) From the movie 'Silver Dream Machine'.

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, I mean: from the movie 'Silver Dream Racer' (like anyone else gives a fuck!)

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Motorcycle Irene'- Moby Grape.

― Snotty Moore, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I Have No Need Of Anyone Except My Harley-Davidson (Brigitte Bardot - another Serge song, I believe); Highway Patrolman (Johnny Cash); Psycle Sluts (John Cooper-Clarke); Side Car 1 or 2 (Miles Davis); Cycles d'Opposition (Laurent Garnier); Motorbike (Sheep On Drugs).

― Martin Skidmore, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh isnt that brigitte song the same song as the serge g. song that everyone always says..."H.D. son of a bitch" - i dunno 'cause i only ever heard the BB one, i just figured that must be that same song. who knows?

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

second annual report by T.G. features slug bait live at brighton, a hoony road noise classi

― george gosset, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HEY GEORGE!!!!

― unknown or illegal user, Wednesday, 26 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eighteen years pass...

No one mentioned "Born to be Wild"!

Anyway, today I learned "Hold On Loosely" by .38 Special is, to quote Genius, "your typical song comparing relationships to motorcycles." I feel like there are a hundred more examples that can be mentioned.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:16 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9UlPKeDl4I

― Indexed, Tuesday, 9 February 2021 15:56 (five years ago)

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