Songs with reference to longboarding

**jarman** · 03-08-2009 12:16 PM

I was listening to my favorite band, the cat empire, earlier and I heard the line:

"and we'd sneak into a carpark
with the skaties on our back
and we're flying down the levels howling
'on the attack now on the attack' "

In the song chariot.

Any other longboarding references in songs?

**enemy combatant** · 03-08-2009 12:34 PM

Hunh? Where is the longboarding reference in this one?

**LatinoRide** · 03-08-2009 12:45 PM

well, if you have spotify. (spotify.com) you will find some songs with the songtittel Longboard (as the surfboard) and skateboard if you search.

listen to them if you want..

**Meadowlark** · 03-08-2009 01:00 PM

Our weapons were our instruments made from timber and steel. We never yielded to conformity, but stood like kings in a chariot that's riding on a record wheel.

Good song!

**jarman** · 03-10-2009 05:44 PM

"skaties" referers to longboards/skateboards and carpark = parking garage

He's referring to "garage skating" or for my multi story car park skating.

**jarman** · 03-10-2009 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Meadowlark

Our weapons were our instruments made from timber and steel. We never yielded to conformity, but stood like kings in a chariot that's riding on a record wheel.

Good song!

Yeah, amazing song, whoop!

**Wells** · 03-10-2009 06:49 PM

It was written before longboards were invented; but I've always thought the Pink Floyd song "The Gold It's In The..." might as well have been written about skating:

Come on, my friends,
Let's make for the hills.
They say there's gold but I'm looking for thrills.
You can get your hands on whatever we find,
'cause I'm only coming along for the ride.

Well, you go on your way and I'll go mine,
I don't care if we get there on time.
Everybody's searching for something, they say.
I'll get my kicks on the way.

Over the mountains, across the sea
Who knows what will be waiting for me?
I could sail forever to strange sounding names.
Faces of people and places don't change.

All I have to do is just close my eyes
To see the sea gulls wheeling in the far distant skies.
All I want to tell you, all I want to say
Is count me in on the journey.
Don't expect me to stay.

**DSquared09** · 03-10-2009 08:36 PM

The closest I can think of is Lupe Fiasco's Kick Push but he's referring to skateboarding instead.

**SoFlo** · 03-10-2009 08:40 PM

"Heaven is a Halfpipe" by OPM

The song isn't explicitly about longboarding, but has a lot of the sentiments that all skaters feel:

If I die before I wake,
at least in heaven I can skate,
'Cuz right now on earth I can't do jack,
Without the man up on my back.

**Grizzly** · 03-11-2009 04:39 PM

In the song 2 minutes to midnight by Iron Maiden it says demonseed.

**Inspector Dec** · 03-11-2009 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by Grizzly

In the song 2 minutes to midnight by Iron Maiden it says demonseed.

That has absolutly nothing to do with longboarding....

Yes i realize name's are the same still comon

**baritone** · 03-14-2009 02:07 AM

Longboards predate Floyd - seriously.

**Tonyz** · 03-15-2009 09:24 AM

Puddle of Mudd - Drift and Die

Forgotten thoughts of yesterdays
Through my eyes I see the past
Well I dont know, I dont know, I dont know why

I believe, I believe, I believe in the truth
From inside
Go away, go away, go away from me
Leave me alone

Ignorance spreads lies
How much will money buy
Well I'll take my time
As I drift and die

Unwanted, live my life in shame
Who's to blame for my mistakes
Well I dont know, I dont know, I dont know why

I believe I said I believe in the truth
From inside
Go away go away go away from me
Leave me alone

Ignorance spreads lies
How much will money buy
Well I'll take my time
As I drift and die
As I drift and die
As I drift and die
As I drift and die

Ignorance spreads lies
How much will money buy
Well I'll take my time
As I drift and die

**BoardDuDE630** · 03-15-2009 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Tonyz

Puddle of Mudd - Drift and Die

yea drift is basicly the same as slide but
what does that have to do with longboarding???

**Tonyz** · 03-15-2009 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by BoardDuDE630

yea drift is basicly the same as slide but
what does that have to do with longboarding???

Drifting around hairpins. They show a longboard in the vid too.

**Tonyz** · 03-15-2009 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by jarman

I was listening to my favorite band, the cat empire, earlier and I heard the line:

"and we'd sneak into a carpark
with the skaties on our back
and we're flying down the levels howling
'on the attack now on the attack' "

In the song chariot.

Any other longboarding references in songs?

Just listened to that song, good band.

This be a declaration
written about my friends
it's engraved into this song
so they know I'm not forgetting them
see maybe if the world contained
more people like these

Possibly?

**aznmobsta** · 03-15-2009 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by SoFlo

"Heaven is a Halfpipe" by OPM

The song isn't explicitly about longboarding, but has a lot of the sentiments that all skaters feel:

If I die before I wake,
at least in heaven I can skate,
'Cuz right now on earth I can't do jack,
Without the man up on my back.

thats a good song!

**jarman** · 04-09-2009 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by Tonyz

Just listened to that song, good band.

This be a declaration
written about my friends
it's engraved into this song
so they know I'm not forgetting them
see maybe if the world contained
more people like these

Possibly?

Yeah very good band.

Are you saying that that verse could also be about longboarding due to the social aspect of it?

**Joe & Nick** · 04-09-2009 05:38 AM

"Why Don't We Do it In The Road" by the Beatles

**jordanj2133** · 04-09-2009 07:41 AM

Lost Prophets - We Still Kill the Old Way

So here we go again
Another time, but it feels the same
Got sick of waiting here
Set sail on concrete waves
No survivors left to save
Too late for the walking dead

May or may not be a reference. Here's the song if you want to have a listen.