Tim’s Top Trains

1. Waiting For A Train (Beck)
2. Train To Nowhere (Savoy Brown)
3. Ramblin’ Man (Hank Williams) – also ‘The Devil’s Train’
4. Into You Like A Train (The Psychedelic Furs)
5. Draw Your Brakes (Scotty)
6. London (The Smiths) – also the chorus of ‘Nowhere Fast’
7. Homeward Bound (Simon and Garfunkel)
8. Love On A Real Train (Tangerine Dream)
9. Little Red Rider (Michael Nesmith)
10. Jumping Someone Else’s Train (The Cure)
11. Train 45 (Woody Guthrie)

I love this theme, but when I started searching for supergroups, I realized that I don’t like any of them apart from Cream – and they’d have been better without Clapton. So here’s my slightly-cheaty list which includes pre-fame-collaborations and one ‘featuring’.

1. Hurdy Gurdy Man (Donovan, with session players John Bonham, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page from a future Led Zeppelin)
2. Over The Top (Motördamn – brief team up between Motörhead and The Damned)
3. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, plus metal super-session player Rudy Sarzo & Simon Wright)
4. Flavor (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion featuring Beck and Mike Diamond from The Beastie Boys)
5. Get The Message (Electronic – Bernard Sumner of New Order, Johnny Marr of The Smitsh with Neil Tennant & Chris Lowe from The Pet Shop Boys and Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk.)
6. Yer Blues (Dirty Mac – John Lennon of The Beatles, Keith Richards from The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton of Cream and Mitch Mitchell of the Jimi Hendrix Experience)
7. I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll  (original demo version by Joan Jett with Steve Jones & Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols)
8. As You Said (Cream – Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and Ginger Baker of Graham Bond Organization )
9. Shake Appeal – (Vicious White Kids – Sid Vicious and Glen Matlock of The Sex Pistols, Rat Scabies of The Damned, Steve New of The Rich Kids and Nancy Spungen – other line-ups for Sid’s live shows included Mick Jones of The Clash and Jerry Nolan of The New York Dolls)
10. We Love You (The Rolling Stones plus an uncredited John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles)