Wednesday, September 19, 2007

I CAN'T GET, CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE/I'VE BEEN THERE I KNOW THE WAY: In the ALOTT5MA Board of Directors meeting at ALOTT5MA Plaza this morning (present -- Bonin; Cosmo; Elwood; Earthling; Gordon; Marcotte; Spaceman; Throckmorton; absent - Shacklebolt), the third order of business (after P&L and Year-2000 Compliance) was identifying at least one song concerning as many methods of conveyance as possible. The Subcommittee on Songs About Trains, Cars, and Motorcycles, operating with a surfeit of material, will conduct a survey and report its results in a later meeting. The Board at large compiled the following list of songs concerning other, less-popularly-balladeered, conveyances:
  • Fat Bottom Girls (bicycles)
  • Skater Boi (skateboards)
  • I've Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates (You've Got a Brand New Key) (roller skates)
  • 50 Mission Cap (ice skates)
  • Mountains Win Again (skis)
  • Convoy (trucks)
  • Tonight's the Night (vans)
  • Country Grammar (SUVs)
  • Oh, Streetcar (streetcars)
  • Monorail! (monorails)
  • Over My Head (cable cars)
  • Mark on the Bus (buses)
  • If I Had a Boat (yachts)
  • In the Navy (larger ships)
  • The Water is Wide (personal watercraft)
  • Surfing Safari (surfboards)
  • Erie Canal (barges)
  • Stairway to Heaven (stairways)
  • Super Bon Bon (elevators)
  • Up the Down Escalator (escalators)
  • No Sign of Life (fire escapes)
  • Funiculi Funicula (funiculars)
  • A Horse with No Name (horses with no names)
  • Wildfire (horses with names)
  • Pull Your Hat Down Tight (bulls)
  • Ride my Llama (llamas, extraterrestrial spaceships)
  • Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (extraterrestrial spaceships, llama status indeterminate)
  • Space Oddity (terrestrial spaceships)
  • Vengeance (The Pact) (sort of large featherless bird - a Roc or Dragon-like aerial beast of burden)
  • Greatest American Hero Theme Song (non-winged flying)
  • (Take These) Broken Wings (wings, broken)
  • I Believe I Can Fly (wings, imaginary)
  • Stratford-on-Guy (airplanes, in air)
  • American Pie (airplanes, not in air)
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (winged cars)
  • Unmarked Helicopters (unmarked helicopters)
  • Police Helicopters (marked helicopters)
  • Parachute Woman (parachutes)
  • She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain (stagecoaches)
  • Wells Fargo Wagon (the Wells Fargo Wagon)
  • Walking after Midnight (feet, own)
  • He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (feet, others')
  • I'm Gonna Crawl (hands and knees)
  • Boogie Shoes (shoes, boogie)
  • Blue Suede Shoes (shoes, blue suede)
  • Roller Coaster of Love (roller coasters of love)
  • Magic Carpet Ride (magic carpets)
  • Taxi (marijuana-infused taxis)
  • St. Elmo's Fire (wheelchairs)
Any conveyances that we missed? Any songs that better represent the ones on the list above?

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