Unoriginal Soundtracks #66: Ticket To Ride

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The German-style board game turned video game inspires a bifurcated playlist -- one part modern rock, spoken word, and IDM and one part rootsy blues, folk, and jazz. But every song is about trains, North America, or trains in North America.

Tracklist

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Ticket To Ride [Extract] -- Sonic Youth
Fear Of Trains -- The Magnetic Fields
Santa Fe -- The Coasts
Calgary -- Myra Davies
Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole -- Venetian Snares
Casey Jones -- K.C. Douglas
Build That Railroad -- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
Rock Island Line -- Chris Thomas King
Freight Train -- Taj Mahal
Brother Can You Spare A Dime -- Bill Cox

Thanks, Cameron Pershall, for suggesting Fear Of Trains (and, presumably, picking it over the other Magnetic Fields song about trains.)

(Opening theme contains elements of Completely Unoriginal by the Bee Gees, Soundtracks And Come Backs by GoldFish, and This Podcast Contains Spoilers.)

 

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