List of songs about bicycles

This is a list of songs about bicycles or cycling.

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

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

TitleAuthorYearComments
"The Acoustic Motorbike"Luka Bloom1992
"Amsterdam" Riblja Čorba 1986 From the album Osmi nervni slom
"An Elegy for Baby Blue" The Wonder Years (band) 2008 From "Won't Be Pathetic Forever" EP
"Apology Song" The Decemberists 2001 From the 5 Songs EP
"A Bicicleta"Toquinho1983Album Casa de brinquedos.[4]
"La Bicicleta"Carlos Vives & Shakira2016[5]
"Las bicicletas son para el verano"Alex Under2005[6]
"Bicycle"BC Unidos feat. Shungudzo2017From the EP Bicycle[7]
"Bicycle" (feat. klei)filous2018[8]
"Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle" Be Your Own Pet 2006 From the album Be Your Own Pet
"Bicycle Episode"J. M. Richards1897[9]
"The Bicycle Girl"Avery Oddfellow, F. W. Meacham1895[9]
"Bicycle Race"Queen1978[10]
"Bicycle Song"Red Hot Chili Peppers2006
"Bicycles Are Red Hot"TV on the Radio2002From the album OK Calculator
"La Bicyclette"Yves Montand1968[9] From the album La Bicyclette
"Les Bicyclettes de Belsize"Engelbert Humperdinck1968From the movie Les Bicyclettes de Belsize
"Bike"cLOUDDEAD2004From the album Ten
"Bike"Pink Floyd1967[11]
"Bike Messenger Diaries"ApSci2005B-side of the single "See That?"
"The Bike Song"Mark Ronson & The Business International2010[12]
"Biking"Frank Ocean2017Featuring, JAY Z and Tyler the Creator
"Black Mags" The Cool Kids 2008 From the album The Bake Sale
"Bravo Eddy!"Jean Narcy1969/1970
"C'mon Let Me Ride"Skylar Grey feat. Eminem2012
"La complainte de l'heure de pointe (À vélo dans Paris)"Joe Dassin1972From the album Joe
"Cycles to Gehenna"Aesop Rock2012From the album Skelethon
"Cycling Is Fun"Shonen Knife1984From their album Yama-no Attchan
"Daisy Bell"Harry Dacre1892[9]
"Death Of An Old Bike"The Rosebuds2014[9]
"Dora Brown"Nelly Burt1897[9]
"Dr. Hoffman’s Bicycle Ride"Vocokesh2010From the same-titled album[13]
"Eddy Est Imbattable!"Pierre-André Gil1971
"Eddy Is Niet Te Kloppen!"Frankie1971
"Eddy Prend Le Maillot Jaune"Pierre-André Gil1969
"Fahrrad" Bläck Fööss 1982 [14] From their album "Morje Morje"
"Fahrrad fahr'n"Max Raabe2017From the album "Der perfekte Moment... wird heut verpennt"[15]
"Fahrrad Fahrn" Achim Reichel Oh Ha! 1996 [16]
"Fahrradfahr'n"Sternhagel1982
"Fahrradlied" Binder & Krieglstein 2012 [17]
"Fahrradsong" Christoph Busse 1976 [18] Aired in the german sesame street in 1978
"The Girl That's Up To Date"Edward Harrigan, David Braham1894[9]
"The Great Velocipede"Frank Wilder1869[9][19] Sung by W. F. Collins of the British Christy Minstrels
"Hadron Collision"Propagandhi2012[20]
"Handlebars"Flobots2005
"Happy Cycling"Boards of Canada1998From the album Music Has the Right to Children
"Have You A Wheel?"O. A. Hoffmann1895[9]
"Helter Smelter"Fifteen1994[21]
"In Bicicletta"Riccardo Cocciante1982From the album Cocciante[22]
"It's a Beautiful Day"The Beach Boys1979
"The Kickstand Song"Darren Hanlon2002From the album "Hello Stranger"[23]
"Pasto Verde"The Bike Trip2015
"The Latest Fad"A. A. Condon1895[9]
"Let's Have a Ride on Your Bicycle" Max Miller 1953 [24]
"A Lilac Harry Quinn"Half Man Half Biscuit1991From A Lilac Harry Quinn
"Mein Fahrrad"Die Prinzen1992[25]
"Motherfucking Bike"Sons of Science2012[26]
"My Bike"The Bennies2013From the Better off Dread EP[27]
"My Bike"Y.N.RichKids2013[28]
"My 'Cycle Gal"Philip Wales1899[9]
"My White Bicycle"Tomorrow1967About the Provos'. And a UK hit for the cover from Nazareth in 1975.[29]
"New Bicycle Hornpipe"Norman & Nancy Blake1985From the album "Lighthouse on the Shore"
"The New Columbia Wheel"George Lowell Tracy, James C. Dunn1898[9]
"The New Velocipede"E. H. Sherwood1869[9]
"Nine Million Bicycles"Katie Melua2005[30]
"Pedal Your Blues Away"Earl Rouse and Brothers1936[31]
"Physics Of A Bicycle"cLOUDDEAD2001B-side of the EP "The Peel Session"[32]
"Poppin' A Wheelie!" The Aquabats 2011 Hi-Five Soup!
"The Pushbike Song"The Mixtures1970And a cover by Mungo Jerry (1990, UK).
"Rennrad"Dota2016[33]
"Riding on My Bike" Sia 2020 From the album "At Home with the Kids"
"Shimano XTR"Ćelo & Abdï2017[34]
"Silver Machine"Hawkwind1972A UK hit about Robert Calvert's silver bicycle.
"Stadtrad"Binder & Krieglstein2018From the album "Trommeln der Nacht"[35]
"Ten Speed (Of God’s Blood & Burial)"Coheed and Cambria2005
"Terry Keeps His Clips On"Vivian Stanshall1981
"Tour de France"Kraftwerk1983From their cycling concept album for the centenary of the Tour de France in 2003 Tour de France Soundtracks.[36]
"Vas-Y Eddy"Jean Saint-Paul1967
"Velocipede Jimmy"O. H. Harpel, Henry Atkins1869[9]
"Two on a Bike" Six Hits and a Miss 1942
"Two Wheels" Wax 2011 Scrublife
"Yellow Bike" Pedro the Lion 2019 From the album Phoenix
"Schöne Mänsch uf em Velo" AURO 2018 [37]
"Brand New Key" Melanie 1971

See also

  • Songs about transport

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. "Circuito Musical. Toquinho: Casa de Brinquedos". Archived from the original on 2016-09-14. Retrieved 2016-09-04.
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  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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"
  12. Charlotte Heathcote (September 26, 2010), "Mark Ronson & The Business International Record Collection", Daily Express
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  28. http://ynrichkids.com/track/my-bike
  29. Nick Pas (2011), Between Prague Spring and French May, Berghahn Books, pp. 168–169, ISBN 978-0-85745-106-4
  30. Historical Dictionary of Cycling, Scarecrow Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5
  31. 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
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Further reading

  • Justin Daniel Belmont (2005), The Art of Bicycling, Breakaway Books, ISBN 978-1-891369-56-8
  • S. Conant Foster (1884), Wheel Songs, White, Stokes, & Allen
  • Labann (2008), Bike&Chain: The Ultimate Guide to Bicycling Culture
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