It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes The MTA To Make You Cry

Here's a few songs for the New Yorkers among us to listen to on your ipod while you are cursing the MTA this weekend.

Download:

"Subway Train" mp3
by The New York Dolls, 1973.
available on New York Dolls

"Coney Island Steeplechase" mp3
by The Velvet Underground, 1969.
available on Another View

"Bled White" mp3
by Elliot Smith, 1998.
available on XO

"Downtown Train" mp3
by Tom Waits, 1985.
available on Rain Dogs

" 'A' Train Lady" mp3
by Mink DeVille, 1978.
available on Cabretta/Return to Magenta

"New York City Serenade" (no strings) mp3
by Bruce Springsteen, 1973.
available on The Geunine Tracks
bootleg

"It Take A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry" mp3
By Bob Dylan, 1965.
Newport Folk Festival
bootleg

all photos: © Ted Barron, 2008.

Searchin'

"I sat still for about five minutes and then my pipe got too hot. I put it down, looked at my strap watch, and got up to switch on a small radio in the corner beyond the end of the desk. When the A.C. hum died down, the last tinkle of a chime came out of the horn, then a voice was saying..."

Raymond Chandler, from Trouble Is My Business


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"Searchin'" mp3
By The Coasters, 1957.
available on The Very Best of the Coasters

"Bad Detective" mp3
by The New York Dolls, 1974.
available on Too Much Too Soon

"Prove It" mp3
by Television, 1974.
Eno demo from Double Exposure
also available on Marquee Moon

"Stop Showing Up In My Dreams" mp3
by Amy Rigby, 2000.
available on The Sugar Tree