Trains to Brazil
"Trains to Brazil" is a song by Guillemots from their 2006 releases Through the Windowpane and From the Cliffs. It was also released as a single. The 2005 single contains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited vinyl 10-inch formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on 11 September 2006, peaking at number 36.
"Trains to Brazil" | |
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Single by Guillemots | |
from the album Through the Windowpane | |
Released | 5 December 2005 |
Recorded | 2005 |
Genre | Indie rock |
Length | 15:46 |
Label | Fantastic Plastic |
Songwriter(s) | Fyfe Dangerfield |
Alternative cover | |
UK re-issue cover |
Overview
In an interview for BBC Brazil, MC Lord Magrão, the band's guitar player, explained that the song title "Trains to Brazil" is a reference to the fatal incident involving the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot by the police on the London Underground, and that the band's singer/keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield composed the song in 2002 originally under the title "Life Song".
Fyfe describes the title track as follows:
It was weird, I wrote in 2002 and was sort of thinking about the whole Twin Towers thing, but then a couple of months before the London bombings we decided to drag this song out and do it as a single, and then all that stuff happened. On my birthday, as fate would have it – 7 July. Very odd. But yes, it's also just a song about appreciating life, I guess.
All of the tracks from this single appeared on the 2006 international release "From the Cliffs".
The B-side "Go Away" appeared on a compilation CD from British music magazine NME.
Track listings
Original release
- "Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) – 4:01
- "Go Away" – 7:47
- "My Chosen One" – 3:14
CD
- "Trains to Brazil"
- "White Rag" (Demo)
- "Blue Eyes"
7-inch
- "Trains to Brazil"
- "Witch Doctor"
7-inch
- "Trains to Brazil"
- "You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)" (featuring Freakshow)
- "All The People Say"