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"Stop That Train", a 1991 single by Vanilla Ice that samples the Keith & Tex version "Stop That Train", a 1970 song by Peter Tosh , recorded with the Wailers on The Best of the Wailers (1971) and Catch a Fire (1973), and by Tosh again on Mama Africa (1983)
"Stop That Train" is a 1965 ska song by Jamaican band The Spanishtonians (also known as the Spanish Town Skabeats), that has been covered and sampled by numerous artists. Its most famous cover was its first, a 1967 cover by Keith & Tex .
Their version of "Stop That Train" formed the basis of deejay Scotty's "Draw Your Brakes", which featured in the film The Harder They Come, [6] and Big Youth's "Cool Breeze". Keith And Tex began touring again in 2013 and are currently performing worldwide at some of the most influential music festivals from Asia to Europe, Australia, North and ...
"No Sleep till Brooklyn" appears in the 1991 film Out For Justice, 2008 video game Guitar Hero: World Tour, [17] the 2016 film The Secret Life of Pets [18] and the 2023 films The Super Mario Bros. Movie [19] and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3; [20] the song is also included on the latter's soundtrack album. [21]
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.
The song, written by Adam Yauch and band friend Tom "Tommy Triphammer" Cushman (who appears in the video), was initially written for their side band called Brooklyn, but then Yauch proposed to use the song for the Beastie Boys. The song was meant as an insignificant portrayal of "party" and "attitude"-themed songs, such as "Smokin' in the Boys ...
For the Pet Shop Boys' first tour in 1989, filmmaker Derek Jarman created video projections to be shown during the performance of different songs, including "King's Cross". Some of the footage came from the 1987 music video for " Rent ", featuring Chris Lowe disembarking from a train at King's Cross.
The accompanying music video was directed by Alan Calzatti, and was filmed in Orlando, Florida on April 10, 1996. [2] It was released in May 1996. [citation needed] As of March 2023, the video has over 57 million views on YouTube. [3]