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Tuesday Coffee Break: Alternative Transportation

Posted at 8:03 AM on June 29, 2010 by Steve Seel (55 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

(updated below)

We got a rather helpful heads-up from the City of Minneapolis yesterday alterting us to the fact that traffic is expected to be, quite frankly, hell in downtown Mpls both tonight and Thursday night. Why? Both nights will host big events at both Target Field and Target Center simultaneously. Tonight it's a Twins Game plus Justin Beiber at Target Center; Thursday it's another Twins game, but this time it's Styx, Foreigner and Kansas at Target Center. Wow.

So, howabout we focus on alternative transportation today for the 9:30 Coffee Break? Songs about commuting in any other fashion than driving your own car: bicycling, walking, taking a taxi, riding the light rail, riding the bus ... you get the idea.

Update: We played:

1) Fats Domino, "I'm Walkin'"
2) Jeremy Messersmith, "Light Rail"
3) The Who, "Magic Bus"
4) Modest Mouse, "Convenient Parking"
5) Arcade Fire, "No Cars Go"

Comments (55)

Bicycle - Memory Tapes
Blimps Go 90 - Guided By Voices

Posted by wellst | June 29, 2010 8:28 AM

No Cars Go - Arcade Fire
Bicycle - Queen

Posted by Haley | June 29, 2010 8:35 AM

"On The Bus" - The Replacements
"Downbound Train" - Springsteen
"Jumping Someone Else's Train" - The Cure
"Party Train" - The Gap Band
"Bicycle Race" - Queen

Posted by (JL) | June 29, 2010 8:37 AM

Subway Song - The Cure
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
Magic Bus - The Who
Riding on the Metro - Berlin
Walking in LA - Missing Persons

Posted by Jen | June 29, 2010 8:37 AM

Sidewalk Surfin' -- Jan & Dean

Posted by lou | June 29, 2010 8:41 AM

Dang! Forgot the classic "Tijuana Taxi" by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass!

Posted by Jen | June 29, 2010 8:43 AM

Bicycle - Queen
Walking - The Dodos
Walk or Ride - The Ditty Bops
Streetwalker - Delta Spirit
Winged Bicycle - The Motion Sick
Train From Kansas City - Neko Case
Train In Vain - The Clash
Train Song - Tom Waits
Train Song - Hymns
A Bus Called Further - Heroes of Popular Wars
Brothers on a Hotel Bus - Death Cab for Cutie
Make The Bus - Janelle Monae
Nightbus - The Mummers
Paper Planes - M.I.A (or the Pale Young Gentlemen Cover)
Down In the Tube Station At Midnight - The Jam
Rollerskate Skinny - The Old 97's

Posted by jenna | June 29, 2010 8:44 AM

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell or the cover by Counting Crows

Posted by Amy | June 29, 2010 8:53 AM

Love Train – O’Jays
Kick Push – Lupe Fiasco
These Boots were made for Walkin’ – Nancy Sinatra
Magic Bus – The Who
Metro – Berlin
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s my Brother – The Hollies
Run – Gnarles Barkley

For a new alternative
Ride my See Saw – Moody Blues

Posted by loran | June 29, 2010 8:54 AM

Sober Driver-Dengue Fever
Big Yellow Taxi-Joni Mitchell

Posted by blondito | June 29, 2010 8:54 AM

"Hitchin' A Ride" - Vanity Fare
"Another One Rides The Bus" - Weird Al Yankovic

Posted by IndyR | June 29, 2010 8:56 AM

Boat of Car - They Might Be Giants

Posted by jon | June 29, 2010 9:01 AM

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Aeroplane

Posted by Oj | June 29, 2010 9:01 AM

BR5-49 - No Train to Memphis

Posted by Oj | June 29, 2010 9:03 AM

CCR version of Proud Mary (rolling down a-Mississippi- river to Minneapolis)

Posted by Katie | June 29, 2010 9:03 AM

I Missed the Bus - Skankin Pickle
Bus to Beelzebub - Soul Coughing

Posted by Steve | June 29, 2010 9:03 AM

Surf Wax America - Weezer!

Yellow Submarine - The Beatles

Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Posted by Chris | June 29, 2010 9:04 AM

Yellow Submarine - The Beatles

Posted by loran | June 29, 2010 9:04 AM

Jeremy Messersmith - Light Rail
The Letter - Box Tops

Posted by Ken | June 29, 2010 9:04 AM

"Bike" Syd Barrett's Classic Pink Floyd
"Train Song" Phish
"Walking to New Orleans" Bo Diddle
Please don't play " Magic Carpet Ride"

Posted by TJKRAFTY | June 29, 2010 9:05 AM

When Jill said Jet packs, It reminded me of the band by the sweet name : "We Were Promised Jetpacks"
Can you play something from them?

Posted by BP | June 29, 2010 9:05 AM

"Bicycle" by Queen

"Drumsticks" by Doomtree (there are bikes in the video!)

"Hospital Beds" by Cold War Kids (My thought it that you get transported in hospital beds so, its another mode of transportation)

Anything by "They Bike is A Pipe Bomb"

Posted by Patrick | June 29, 2010 9:05 AM

"Taxi Cab" - Vampire Weekend
"Drove Through Ghosts to Get Here" - 65daysofstatic
"Ghost of Corporate Future" - Regina Spektor (walking and subways?)
"Early Birdie" - Owl City
"Hoppípolla" (jumping into puddles) - Sigur Rós
"Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Puppini Sisters.

Posted by Robbie | June 29, 2010 9:06 AM

The Zephyr Song-Red Hot Chili Peppers

Posted by Eric | June 29, 2010 9:07 AM

Weezer - "Surf Wax America"

Posted by Joe Coakley | June 29, 2010 9:07 AM

Kick Push – Lupe Fiasco
Bicycle - Queen
Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure
I start to run - White Denim
Runnin' - The Pharcyde

Posted by Sam | June 29, 2010 9:08 AM

"Take the A Train" Duke Ellington

Posted by TJKRAFTY | June 29, 2010 9:08 AM

Bob Marley - Bus Dem Shut

Posted by sam | June 29, 2010 9:10 AM

Brand New Key - Melanie
Train Song - Feist/Ben Gibbard

Posted by Pam | June 29, 2010 9:10 AM

Bus to Beelzebub - Soul Coughing
On The Bus Mall - The Decemberists
Missed the Boat - Modest Mouse
Blue Balloon - Ween
Take A Walk - Spoon
Broken Train - Beck

Posted by Jackie K. | June 29, 2010 9:10 AM

night train - guns and roses

Posted by Brian Eugene | June 29, 2010 9:11 AM

Walk - Pantera

That'll get the blood flowin'

Posted by sam | June 29, 2010 9:11 AM

brand new key by melanie--bikes and rollerskates!

Posted by betsy | June 29, 2010 9:13 AM

C'mon 'N Ride It (The Train) by Quad City DJ's

"Casey Jones" by Grateful Dead

"Desperadoes Waiting for a Train" by The Highwaymen

"I've Got a Thing About Trains" by Johnny Cash

"waiting for the bus" violent femmes

Posted by Amy | June 29, 2010 9:13 AM

walk - Pantera

That'll get the blood flowing'

Posted by sam | June 29, 2010 9:14 AM

Walk Don't Run
My Baby Takes the Morning Train
Leavin on a Jet Plane
Ticket to Ride

Posted by Beth | June 29, 2010 9:16 AM

Walk or Ride--The Ditty Bops
Walk on the Wild Side--Lou Reed
Walking in Memphis--Marc Cohen
These Boots Were Made for Walkin'--Nancy Sinatra
Bicycle--Queen
Kick Push--Lupe Fiasco

Posted by Susan | June 29, 2010 9:17 AM

Rosa Parks - Outkast
Waiting for the Bus - Violent Femmes
and the most obvious choice of all:
Bicycle - Queen

xoxo

Posted by Samantha | June 29, 2010 9:17 AM

The Passinger - Iggy Pop

Posted by Pail Ale | June 29, 2010 9:19 AM

500 Miles - The Proclaimers
Night Train - James Brown
Bicycle Race - Queen
Train Kept Rollin - Aerosmith
Aeroplane - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Love Rollercoaster - O'Jays (I think?)
Casey Jones - Grateful Dead
Marrakesh Express - Crosby Stills & Nash

Posted by Heidi | June 29, 2010 9:19 AM

another one...

Train Under Water - Bright Eyes

Posted by Heidi | June 29, 2010 9:20 AM

Skyway - The Replacements or Jeremy Messersmith

Posted by Mark | June 29, 2010 9:22 AM

Fly Like an Eagle- Steve Miller Band

Posted by Andrew | June 29, 2010 9:23 AM

These Boots Were Made for Walkin'
Take a Walk - Spoon
Walkin' - Wilco

Posted by karen | June 29, 2010 9:24 AM

Kick Push – Lupe Fiasco
Rollercoaster - Everything but the Girl

Posted by monica | June 29, 2010 9:26 AM