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The song's title is derived from the catchphrase of the programme's titular character, and the chorus of the song features this phrase prominently, as well as the response, "Yes we can!" Vocals on the song are provided by Neil Morrissey, who voiced Bob at the time of the track's recording. It was released as a single on 4 December 2000 in the ...
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
Lush covered her song "I'd Like To Walk Around in Your Mind". They got to know it from the Circus Days compilation. A cover of "Train Song" performed by Ben Gibbard and Feist appeared on Dark Was The Night, a charity compilation benefiting HIV/AIDS awareness and the Red Hot Organization. It was released by 4AD on 17 February 2009.
Music journalist Simon Vozick-Levinson, writing in a 2020 Rolling Stone article where the song ranked 10th on a list of "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century", commented on the playful ambiguity of the lyrics, noting that the central image of a train whistle could either sound like "the last trumpet of the apocalypse" or function as a "symbol of music's redemptive power".
The music video references the recording of Dylan's song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in the 1967 D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back. [3] The video for "Bob" is similarly shot in black-and-white, and in the same back-alley setting, with Yankovic dressing as Dylan and dropping cue cards that have the song's lyrics on them, as Dylan did in the film.
It was released November 23, 2004 by Universal International, and is Feist's second single released in Canada, after "Inside and Out". Feist performed the song live on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January 2006 and appears on the 2008 compilation album, Northern Songs: Canada's Best and Brightest.
However, in January 1991, while doing recorded rehearsals in Sussex, England for the initial Unplugged TV show, Paul McCartney and his band performed various classic skiffle songs. The concluding number was "Freight Train", though it was abruptly stopped just a few seconds into the song (this recording is available on an unauthorized release ...
Constantines + Feist "Islands in the Stream" Non-album single Feist "Please Be Patient" A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! Stephen Colbert, Elvis Costello, Feist, Toby Keith, John Legend, and Willie Nelson "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" 2009 Feist and Ben Gibbard "Train Song" Dark Was the Night: Grizzly ...