List of songs about bicycles

Harry Dacre's Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two) was a popular success

This is a list of songs about bicycles or cycling.

Bicycles became popular in the 19th century as the new designs of safety bicycle were practical for the general population, including women. By the end of that century, cycling was a fashion or fad which was reflected in the popular songs of the day. The most famous of these was Daisy Bell,[1] inspired by the phrase "a bicycle made for two".[2] The vogue for cycling songs continued into the Edwardian era and modern examples continue to appear in the 21st century.[3]

List

Title Author Year Comments
Acoustic Motorbike Luka Bloom 1992
Apology Song The Decemberists 2003
Bicycle Hey Ocean! 2012
Bicycle Livingston Taylor 1996
Bicycle John Cale 2003
Bicycle St. Vincent 2009
Bicycle Bicycle, You Are My BicycleBe Your Own Pet 2006
Bicycle Episode J.M.Richards 1897 [4]
The Bicycle Girl Avery Oddfellow, F. W. Meacham 1895 [4]
Bicycle RaceQueen 1978 [5]
Bicycle Ridin Rune Meyer 2006
Bicycle Song Red Hot Chili Peppers 2002
The Bicycle Song David Rovics 1996
Bicycle Tillie The Swallows 1953
Bicycle Wheels Ugly Kid Joe 1996
La Bicyclette Yves Montand 1968[4]
Les Bicyclettes de Belsize Engelbert Humperdinck 1968 From the movie Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
Bike Pink Floyd 1967 [6]
Bike In Head The Nits 1986
Bike Ride to the Moon The Dukes of Stratosphear 1985
Bike Rider Mungo's Hi Fi feat. Pupajim 2014
Bike Song Tenth Avenue North 2003
The Bike Song Mark Ronson & The Business International 2010[7]
Black Mags The Cool Kids 2008
Broken Bicycles Tom Waits 1982
C'mon Let Me Ride Skylar Grey feat. Eminem 2012
Cycling Is Fun Shonen Knife 1984
Daisy Bell Harry Dacre 1892[4]
Death Of An Old Bike The Rosebuds 2014[4]
Dirty Rider Mikill Pane 2012 Dirty Rider EP
Dora Brown Nelly Burt 1897[4]
The Girl That's Up To Date Edward Harrigan, David Braham 1894[4]
The Great Velocipede Frank Wilder, sung by W. F. Collins of the British Christy Minstrels 1869[4][8]
Hadron Collision Propagandhi 2012[9]
Handlebars Flobots 2005
Have You A Wheel? O. A. Hoffmann 1895[4]
Helter Smelter Fifteen 1994[10]
I Like My Bike Kimya Dawson 2011
It's A Beautiful Day The Beach Boys 1979
The Latest Fad A. A. Condon 1895[4]
LDN Lily Allen 2006
A Lilac Harry QuinnHalf Man Half Biscuit1990From the album McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt. The song title names a bike, the lyrics are less relevant.
Lock Up Your Mountain BikesHalf Man Half Biscuit1999From the EP Look Dad No Tunes. The song title mentions a bike, the lyrics are less relevant.
Motherfucking Bike Sons of Science 2012[11]
Mein Fahrrad Die Prinzen 1991
My 'Cycle Gal Philip Wales 1899[4]
My White Bicycle Tomorrow 1967 About the Provos'. And a UK hit for the cover from Nazareth in 1975.[12]
The New Columbia Wheel George Lowell Tracy, James C. Dunn 1898[4]
The New Velocipede E. H. Sherwood 1869[4]
Nine Million Bicycles Katie Melua (written by Mike Batt)2005[13]
Pedal Your Blues Away Earl Rouse and Brothers 1936[14]
Poor Man Transportation Junior Reid 1986
The Pushbike Song The Mixtures 1970 And a cover by Mungo Jerry (1990, UK).
Riding My Bicycle Team Me 2011
Riding On My Bike Madness 1982
Rockin' Bicycle Fats Domino 1961
Roll On Piebald (band) 2007
Rolleo Rolling Along (The Bicycle Song) The Merry Macs 1944 From the musical Song of the Open Road
See That My Bike's Kept CleanHalf Man Half Biscuit1997From the album Voyage to the Bottom of the Road. A parody of See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Slater Tyler the Creator feat. Frank Ocean 2013
Silver Machine Hawkwind 1972 A UK hit about Robert Calvert's silver bicycle.
Tandem Bike Those Darn Accordions 2004
Terry Keeps His Clips On Vivian Stanshall 1981
Tony's Theme Pixies 1988
Tour de France Kraftwerk 1983 From their cycling concept album for the centenary of the Tour de France in 2003 — Tour de France Soundtracks.[15]
Uve Kolarz Nagły Atak Spawacza 1998 en. "Uve The Cyclist", a tribute to a GDR cyclist Uwe Ampler
Velocipede Jimmy O. H. Harpel, Henry Atkins 1869[4]
Wheely Wheely Early B1985
She rides Evalyn Parry 2011 From her theatrical concert show SPIN, which features a bicycle played as a musical instrument, and tells the story of Annie Londonderry, first woman to ride around the world on a bike in 1895.
I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle Napoleon XIV 1966 Trytone| Live 4 Bikes bike shop theme songLive4bikes.com |

See also

References

  1. ↑ Marian Klamkin (1975), Old sheet music, Hawthorn Books, pp. 31–32
  2. ↑ Hazel Butler, I Know a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie, p. 40
  3. ↑ Andrew Horrall (2001), "Bicycles", Popular culture in London c. 1890-1918, Manchester University Press, pp. 54–64, ISBN 978-0-7190-5783-0, cycling songs remained popular until the mid-Edwardian era
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Jon W. Finson (1997), "Popular views of technology", The Voices That Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular Song, Oxford University Press, pp. 144–145, ISBN 978-0-19-511382-2
  5. ↑ Ken McLeod (2011), We Are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music, Ashgate Publishing, pp. 30,122–123, ISBN 978-1-4094-0864-2
  6. ↑ Zack Furness (2010), One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility, Temple University Press, p. 144, ISBN 978-1-59213-613-1, Bike riding and bicycles are prevalent in the lyrics and imagery of dozens of active and defunct punk bands such as Fifteen ... Syd Barrett's psychedelic musings on Pink Floyd's "Bike"
  7. ↑ Charlotte Heathcote (September 26, 2010), "Mark Ronson & The Business International Record Collection", Daily Express
  8. ↑ Frederick Alderson (1972), Bicycling: a history, Praeger, pp. 33–34
  9. ↑ Listen to Propagandhi’s Failed States, read the band’s track-by-track insights http://music.cbc.ca/#/blogs/2012/9/Listen-to-Propagandhis-Failed-States-read-the-bands-track-by-track-insights
  10. ↑ Youtube
  11. ↑ Youtube
  12. ↑ Nick Pas (2011), Between Prague Spring and French May, Berghahn Books, pp. 168–169, ISBN 978-0-85745-106-4
  13. ↑ Historical Dictionary of Cycling, Scarecrow Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5
  14. ↑ Randy Noles (2002), Orange Blossom Boys: The Untold Story of Ervin T. Rouse, Chubby Wise and the World's Most Famous Fiddle Tune, Hal Leonard Corporation, pp. 48–49
  15. ↑ M.McGuinness (2009), Sporting sounds: relationships between sport and music, Taylor & Francis, p. 187, ISBN 978-0-415-44367-8

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