Tenth Avenue North - The Bike Song

Artist: Tenth Avenue North

Song: The Bike Song

We’ve all heard it said that music is the universal language, and it’s so true. No other vehicle more powerfully captures our collective hopes and fears or more poignantly celebrates our dreams and triumphs. With one listen to the music of Tenth Avenue North, it becomes obvious that songwriter Mike Donehey and his bandmates have a gift for expressing truth in a way that simultaneously educates, …

9 in the morning saturday came.
mom's in the kitchen fixing the *same,* and dad got up early to work hard outside.
today was the day he would teach me to ride
i rush to the kitchen to eat up the meal.
dad waltzes in with a smile that was real.
he knew i was watching, he knew i was there,
ready to chase all the birds in the air
traveling faster and racing the wind,
all is alive and the sky has a grin
while it welcomes me right here.
i have no limits and no need to cry.
I'm free like an eagle high in the sky.
what could stop these wings when they fly?
dad takes my hand we walk out the door.
he's ready to show me just how to soar.
he took off the trainers and placed me ontop.
held on the back as he gave me the talk.
i kept on moving and once he let go
i did as he told me, which is all i know.
i went through the tunnel straight to the beach
peddling down the sandy concrete.
traveling faster and racing the wind,
all is alive and the sky has a grin
while it welcomes me right here.
i have no limits and no need to cry.
I'm free like an eagle high in the sky.
what could stop these wings when they fly?
i pay no attention to the road all around.
a rock stops the wheel as i plunge to the ground.
i can't move a muscle and the ride is deformed.
I'm more then just helpless in these clothes that are torn.
but off in the distance a man starts to run
it was my daddy saving his son
and the more that i cried
the more he embraced
so i rode onto his shoulders and flying back home
we raced....
traveling faster and racing the wind,
all is alive and the sky has a grin
while it welcomes me right here.
i have no limits and no need to cry.
I'm free like an eagle high in the sky.
when they fly
when they fly

Vocokesh - Dr. Hoffman's Bicycle Ride

Artist: Vocokesh

Album: Dr. Hoffman’s Bicycle Ride (2010)

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Studio Album, released in 2011

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Born Losers (3:27)
2. Texas Asphalt Blues (4:15)
3. The Cruising Song (8:36)
4. Kesh #10 [Improvisation] (11:03)
5. Pretty Acoustic Piece (5:20)
6. The Highway Song (4:53)
7. 1000 Pictures In One Word (5:32)
8. Dr. Hofmann's Bicycle Ride (14:58)

Total Time: 58:04

Line-up / Musicians

- Richard Franecki / guitar, bass, electronics, electric sitar
- John Helwig / guitar, bass
- Rusty / drums, percussion

Lowrider Bicycle - Flyover Statesman

Artist: Lowrider Bicycle

Album: Flyover Statesman (2006)

Dark and austere guitar generated soundscapes, with lush rhythms and trippy atmospheric sounds and some crooked beats.

The latest member of the burgeoning artists' braintrust sixtyonesixtyeight , low rider bicycle is the creation of Matt Knoth, a guitarist, producer and engineer usually associated with traditional american musics (The Mercury Dimes; All Wrecked Up).

Approached by independant documentary filmakers Per Erik Eriksson and Liam Dalzell in 2000, Knoth began creating soundscapes and tracks for Eriksson's many film projects. Flyover Statesman represents the very best of those endeavors.

Part ambient anxiety-scape, part waking hobo-erotic dream, Knoth is joined on flyover statesman by veteran illbient musicians Bob Green (the Grassy Knoll), Peter Beddow (Absorption), Elise Engelberg (The Mercury Dimes) and Dave Revelli (Jewel, Vicious Hippies, the Grassy Knoll).

If you like Lanois or Eno, you'll probably dig this CD.

Christ - Bike

Artist: Christ

Album: Bike

Christ. is a Scottish solo electronic music artist. His music has been notable due to the melancholic nature of his sound and lush soundscapes he uses in them. There is no religious meaning in his name; rather, it is an abbreviation of his real name, Christopher Horne, which also explains the period which is an official part of his handle. Christ. s music is often likened to that of fellow Scottish electronic group Boards of Canada In fact, Horne was an early participant in the nebulous Hexagon Sun collective from which BoC emerged and was a collaborator with the group until approximately 1995, appearing on the Twoism album reissued by Warp in 2002 Horne's departure was amicable and he thanks the duo on his Pylonesque EP issued on the Benbecula Records label in 2001. He followed this release with a full length album Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle on the same label which was very well received within the genre. He has toured the UK Europe and Japan and performed a live session for John Peel at Maida Vale studios in London on 17th December 2003. This session became notable amongst Peel's fans as being the only known occasion upon which the legendary DJ requested an encore. Christ. will release his 4th full length album, his 2nd for Benbecula, on 22nd January 2007 (having been delayed from November 2006 due to manufacture and marketing issues).

The Smiths - Stop Me If You Think...

Artist: The Smiths

Song: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before

Album: Strangeways Here We Come (1971)

The Smiths “Stop Me if You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” – As a child of the 80s, I must confess I was a big Smiths fan. This video features the band and some pals parading around on bikes in Salford in some form of critical mass ride. Funnily enough some of the haircuts and bikes are now back in fashion in certain parts of East London.

Official promotional video for Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before.

The Smiths' song, written by the usual combination of Morrissey and Johnny Marr, came out on the group's 1987 album Strangeways, Here We Come.

The song was originally supposed to be released as a single and a music video was filmed, featuring scenes of the group-iconic Salford Lads Club and surrounding areas being bicycled through by the lads and friends. Because of a reference to "plan a mass murder" in one lyric it was banned from airplay by the BBC because of the then recent Hungerford massacre, so the band decided not to release it in the UK, however it was released in various other regions including North America, Europe, Australasia and Japan

Paul Sachs - Stolen Bicycles

Artist: Paul Sachs

Song: Stolen Bicycles

Album: The Refuge (2009)

Paul Sachs

Stolen Bicycles
In the summertime it’s 1983
There’s a heat wave in the city
And it’s barrelin’ down upon you and me
Banana seats and handle bars
Riding in between the cars
With you
Sidewalk flying ‘neath our feet
Burning down the NY street
We flew
on our
Stolen Bicycles

Stolen Bicycles
In the rhythm of the public city schools
Where we cut the classes in our jeans
We broke the rules
Yellow sneakers purple hair
It was fun to ride nowhere with you
We didn’t care the damage done it was still a lot of fun
It’s true on our
Stolen Bicycles

Stolen Bicycle in my living room
But I bought it used and cheap
Off some kid on a corner and it’s missing a few spokes
And a seat
I remember I recall
It seemed like we stole them all
We flew
And from my youth of minor crimes
I Still get the urge sometimes
Its true
To ride a Stolen Bicycle
Gonna ride a Stolen Bicycle

Lowell George - Willin'

Artist: Lowell George

Song: Willin’

Album: Little Feat (1971)

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