SONGS about Motorcycles / Motorcycling

[Tom J.]

Can be a new song or a classic- feel free to tell a story about the song.
The typical song file is too large to post in the forum, so we may have to rely on youtube, zip files, or some other suggestion if you have one.

Here's one from a band called Poison, released on the 1990 album, Flesh & Blood.  The song is very up-beat and inspirational.

Poison - Ride The Wind

It's about, and I quote, "the loyalty, lifestyle, and freedom that the people who ride motorcycles experience."  -Bret Michaels

Lyrics:
Hearts of fire
Oooh, Streets of stone
Modern warriors
Saddle iron horses of chrome
Taste the wild
Lick the wind
Like something they never saw before
Their jaws dropping to the floor
Steel made of soul and sin
Rebels born without a care
(And the day he listens)
Only to fly where eagles dare
(And the night she whispers)
Chorus:
Ride the wind
Never coming back until I touch the midnight sun
Ride the wind
Never coming back again
Ride the wind
Never coming back until I touch the midnight sun
Painted flesh
Loyalty
Humble pride
Just as far as the eye could see
Stories told
To old friends
Of battle scars and lonely bars
And nights the rain wouldn't end
Here's to weathered eyes and gypsy smiles
(And the day he listens)
Here's to lovely ladies and a million miles
(And the night she whispers)
Chorus
Ride the wind
Oh, steel made of soul in sin,
Burning till the night is done.
Solo
Of all the truths and lies
And stories of riders in the sky
Only the bravest try
Where eagles and angels dare to fly
Chorus

Enjoy..... and if this thread is totally LAME, then please feel free to delete it.

[Y0ssarian]

Ronnie Montrose; "Bad Motor Scooter"; 1973, from their debut album "Montrose":


Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter

(Does that singer look familiar? He should!)

 If you get lonely on your daddy's farm
 Just remember I don't live too far.
 And there's a red bridge that arcs the bay, yeah
 You'll be at my place in less that a day.
 
 So get on your bad motor scooter and ride
 Up over to my place and stay all night.
 First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right
 So get on your bad motor scooter and ride.
 
 Ooh, the last I seen your face
 I swore that no one would take your place.
 Now since you've been gone I've been feelin' bad, yeah
 I'd come out to your place (but)
 I'm afraid of your dad.  So you...
 
 Ride, ride, ride.
 Come on baby, ooh yeah.
 Crank it on up!

[anycleavers]

Ok, I'll go, although this may date me,  , but I remember my older brother playing this album (vinyl) when I was a wee one. Man, did I ever lust for a Bonneville back then. Even when I was young the tragic end was heartwrenching.     Enjoy.

Jethro Tull - To Old To Rock and Roll, To Young To Die

The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.

Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die.

He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.

Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too young to die.

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.

And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.

[GeeBeav]

(Does that singer look familiar? He should!)

Wow. He was thin back then. Didn't recognize him until he started singing.

[ZG]

Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart (Official Music Video)


Maybe not bike specific, but an awesome tune to ride to!! And a Kinison cameo...
 

[CigarSki®]

The Motorcycle Song words and music by Arlo Guthrie

CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...cle

It was late last night the other day
I thought I'd go up and see Ray
So l went up and I saw Ray
There was only one thing Ray could say, was:

CHORUS

This song is about the time that I was ridin' my motorcycle.
Going down a mountain road, at 150 miles an hour, playin'
my guitar. On one side of the mountain road there was a
mountain, and on the other side there was nothin' - there was
a cliff in the air.

Now, when you're going down a mountain road at I50 miles
an hour you gotta be very careful, especially if you're playin'
a guitar. Especially if that guitar is an acoustic guitar.
Because if it's an acoustic guitar, the wind pressure is greater
on the box side than on the neck side, because there's
more guitar on the box side. I wasn't payin' attention ..

Luckily I didn't go into the mountain - I went over the cliff.
I was goin' at 150 miles an hour sideways and 500 feet down
at the same time.

I knew it was the end. I looked down, I said ''Wow! Some
trip". I thought it...well I knew it was...I knew it was my last
trip, and in my last remaining seconds in world,I decided
to write one last farewell song to the world.

Put a new ink cartridge in my pen. Took out a piece of paper.
I sat back and I thought awhile. Then I started writin':
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle

And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy ...cle."

I knew that, it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't
have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.

But as you all know, and as fate would have it, I didn't die. I
landed on the top of a police car. And he died. I drove away
on the road that he was on. I came into town at a screamin'
175 miles an hour, playin' the motorcycle song.

I came into town, I jumped off my bike, the bike went around
the corner by itself, went up on the stand by itself, turned
itself off.

I walked over to my friend. He was standin' there eatin'
pickles. I said "Hi, what's happenin'?" He looked at me in the
eye and said "Nothin'".

You gotta sing it with that kind of enthusiasm. Like you just
squashed a cop...

CHORUS

[enumclaw]

Ronnie Montrose; "Bad Motor Scooter"; 1973, from their debut album "Montrose":


Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter

(Does that singer look familiar? He should!)

 If you get lonely on your daddy's farm
 Just remember I don't live too far.
 And there's a red bridge that arcs the bay, yeah
 You'll be at my place in less that a day.
 
 So get on your bad motor scooter and ride
 Up over to my place and stay all night.
 First thing in the morning we'll be feeling all right
 So get on your bad motor scooter and ride.
 
 Ooh, the last I seen your face
 I swore that no one would take your place.
 Now since you've been gone I've been feelin' bad, yeah
 I'd come out to your place (but)
 I'm afraid of your dad.  So you...
 
 Ride, ride, ride.
 Come on baby, ooh yeah.
 Crank it on up!

The best one ever!!

[Outback_Jon]

Never Laid Her Down by The McAllisters.

It runs at about 4:05 in this video.  (Leads off with another good one:  Little Honda by The Beach Boys.)  The silver 80 CB750F with the full Vetter treatment is me. 

CB1100F.net NorthEast Spring Ride 2007

[Y0ssarian]

Not really about motorcycles, but the band has "motorcycle" in its name, and the song was in the movie "Faster"...

B.R.M.C. (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club); "Whatever Happened to my Rock n' Roll (Punk Song)"; 2001 from their debut album "B.R.M.C."

Official Video:

BRMC - Whatever happened to my rock n' roll (punk song)

From the movie "Faster":

B.R.M.C. soundtrack of "Faster"
There are other international championships; 125, 250, Supersports, Superbike. But if you want to be the world champion,
this is the one you have to win: 500cc MotoGP. The fastest men, on the fastest bikes in the world !
(Check out the massive front-end push @ 1:14! And Garry McCoy spinning the rear tire so hard the thing wheelies at 1:23)

You want a part of me
 You want the whole thing
 You want to feel something more than I could ever bring
 You want it badly
 You want it tangled
 I want to feel something more than I was strangled
 
 I fell in love with the sweet sensation
 I gave my heart to a simple chord
 I gave my soul to a new religion
 Whatever happened to you?
 Whatever happened to our rock'n'roll?
 Whatever happened to my rock'n'roll?
 
 She wants it hallow
 She wants it tainted
 She wants to feel something more than she was naked
 You want to hide away
 You're scared to touch it
 I want to feel something more than I care to take
 
 I fell in love with the sweet sensation
 I gave my heart to a simple chord
 I gave my soul to a new religion
 Whatever happened to you?
 Whatever happened to our rock'n'roll?
 Whatever happened to my rock'n'roll?
 
 You know you never decide.
 Why you can't trust their lies.
 It's so much pain you can't describe.
 There's got to be another reason for living.
 
 She wants your image
 She wants your kiss
 She wants to get inside your head and tell it like it is
 You want it badly
 You want it so completele
 I want to feel something more cos I can't ****** breathe
 
 I fell in love with the sweet sensation
 I gave my heart to a simple chord
 I gave my soul to a new religion
 Whatever happened to you?
 Whatever happened to our rock'n'roll?
 Whatever happened to my rock'n'roll?

[Cholla]

1952 Black Vincent Lightning.
I like the Del McCory band version.
Then there is the song by Cake-can't remember the name with the lyric, "how ya gonna pay for that black Moto Guzzi".

[lt1]

Bon Jovi - "I'm a Cowboy/Wanted Dead or Alive"
Bob Seger - "Turn the Page"

[Ron Dawg]

Fun thread. Well done.

[Tom J.]

Glad you enjoy it Ron-  the thread is less than a day old, and again shows what a diverse group we have here.  Thanks to all-

[Cholla]

Unknown Legend-Neil Young
Leader of the Pack-Shangri-Las
Gypsy Biker-Springsteen
Harley-Jackson 5 (!!)
You May Be Right-Billy Joel

[Glenn]

I like the Del McCoury version as well, but Richard Thompson wrote it and its my fave!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o&feature=player_embedded#at=14

[Glenn]

The Bob Seger classic!

Bob Seger Roll Me Away Live

[Glenn]

Although not a 'motorcycle' tune, I thought I'd include this one.

I lived in a small town in mid Vancouver Island once, there is a road that leads to the west coast of the Island that was nicely paved and very twisty with some fun 110mph+ sweepers. For some reason I'd have this tune in my head as I rode this stretch of road.

(vintage) Leo Kottke - june bug/part two

[Glenn]

This thread wouldn't be complete without a good old rockin' John Fogerty tune!

John Fogerty - Hot Rod Heart (Live - 2005)

[mjrfd99]

Canned Heat:     Broke Down Harley Davidson Blues     

[mr t]

Not really a song with lyrics - but the music in On any Sunday gets me every time I hear it.