Trains to Brazil
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Single by Guillemots from the album Through the Windowpane |
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Released | 5 December 2005 11 September 2006 (re-issue) |
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Format | 10", CD | ||||
Recorded | 2005 | ||||
Genre | Indie rock | ||||
Length | 15:46 | ||||
Label | Fantastic Plastic Records | ||||
Guillemots singles chronology | |||||
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Through the Windowpane track listing | |||||
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"Trains to Brazil" is a song by Guillemots 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" formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on September 11, 2006, peaking at #36.
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[edit] 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 in a subway, 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.
[edit] Track listings
[edit] Original release
- "Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) - 4:01
- "Go Away" - 7:47
- "My Chosen One" - 3:14
[edit] Re-issue
[edit] CD
- "Trains To Brazil"
- "White Rag" (Demo)
- "Blue Eyes"
[edit] 7"
- "Trains To Brazil"
- "Witch Doctor"
[edit] 7"
- "Trains To Brazil"
- "You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)" (featuring Freakshow)
- "All The People Say"
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