I was just joking with a friend that I have no idea how he took so long to be diagnosed with autism when he has a playlist dedicated to songs about trains; he made this playlist after randomly having 3 songs about trains come on in a row when he put his music on shuffle, and decided to start collecting them in a playlist. There aren’t too many on there at the moment, and he’d like to collect more, if anyone has any suggestions.
I will share the resulting playlist on here afterwards as either an edit to this post, or a comment reply. If you want to be pinged about this, let me know in your comment, and I’ll make sure you receive a link to the playlist.
Bonus question: if you’re autistic, what are your opinions on trains? I’m personally ambivalent about trains, but they also feel like they’re my culture, because of how many of my fellow autistic nerds like trains.
The Locomotion - any version you can find, they all rule M.T.A. - Kingston Trio Last Train to London - ELO Moonlight Express (album) - The Ivory Heart Love Train - The O’Jays
stretches: Takin’ Care of Business - BTO ("if your train’s on time…) Rydeen - Yellow Magic Orchestra (licensed for the arcade game Super Locomotive. for a rerelease without the license, they wrote a pastiche called “Ryzeen”) Detroit Medley - Bruce Springstein (has a part about a train a-comin’ that IIRC has never been done on it’s own)
Love the Kingston Trio and MTA, Dropkick Murphys do a great cover of the song I think, Skinhead on the MTBA
how could i forget Nigh Train! in jazz band in college we’d debate between playing it straight like James Brown or swung like BTTF (and presumably the original), both rule