=v= Chicago's Critical Mass community has a "Critical Mix" CD with the following songs on it:
Queen - Bicycle Race Kraftwerk - Tour de France Senor Coconut - Tour de France Shonen Knife -
Cycling is Fun Pink Floyd - Bike They Might Be Giants - Dirt Bike Henry Dacre's - Bicycle Built
for Two (a.k.a. Daisy)
(I'm shocked that "Brand New Key" isn't on the list.) Other CMs have their own mix CDs, which they
play on mobile sound systems towed on bike trailers.
=v= You can make all sorts of things *into* bike songs. Lots of rap songs these days are about
Raleigh Twenties, for example ("Roll Out," by Ludakris, for example, mentions "rollin' on Twenties"
in the chorus).
=v= Below is a great proto-rap song rewritten for the first Bikesummer (1999, in San
Francisco). <_Jym_>
"The Revolution Will Not Be Motorized" Lyrics by Larry Chinn With deepest apologies to Gil
Scott-Heron
You will not be able to drive thru, brother.
You will not be able to drive in, fill up, and cruise out. You will not be able to lose yourself on
the strip, Cruise the strip while taking calls on the cell. Because the revolution will not be
motorized.
The revolution will not be motorized.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Chevron With three levels of octane and free cups for
the kids. The revolution will not show you pictures of Henry Ford Blowing a bugle and leading a
charge of raging SUVs yearning to park at strip malls and walk only on concrete while dreaming
dreams of a better land with more free parking.
The revolution will not be motorized.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the stockholders of Royal Dutch Shell or Exxon. The
revolution will not put a tiger in your tank.
with more horsepower and less gas mileage. The revolution will not come with fine Corinthian
leather, because the revolution will not be motorized, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie Mays driving a stolen BMW down the block or trying to
fill your tank for under $1 per gallon. Now one will be able to predict the winner at any time or
report from countless severed neighborhoods yearning to throw off the weight of too much asphalt.
The revolution will not be motorized.
There will be no pictures of OJ riding in a white Ford Bronco in the instant replay. There will be
no pictures of OJ riding in a white Ford Bronco in the instant replay. There will be no pictures of
Michael Moore chasing the head of GM around with a microphone. There will be no slow motion or still
life of your car, or any car, rolling freely down an open road, carefree and happy.
BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell, GM, Toyota, and all the rest will not longer be so damned relevant. No
one will care about the size of your engine, or your wheels, or your back seat because people will
be tearing up the asphalt, looking for a brighter day.
The revolution will not be motorized.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news and no pictures of angry motorists and
cyclists fighting each other over a bit of roadway.
The theme song will not be written by the Ad men from Madison avenue and it will not have a catchy
phrase that tells you to buy a bigger house, further from everyone else.
The revolution will not be motorized.
The revolution will not roll down its power windows, light it's cigarette from the dash board, or
pollute your air with carbon monoxide. The revolution will not kill people for profit.
The revolution will not make war for oil. The revolution will not put you in the driver's seat. The
revolution will not be motorized, will not be motorized, will not be motorized, will not be
motorized. The revolution will not run on gasoline.
The revolution will not be motorized.
The revolution will live!
