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Trains to Brazil

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Format
  
10" single, CD single

Genre
  
Indie rock

Recorded
  
2005

Length
  
15:46

Released
  
5 December 2005 11 September 2006 (re-issue)

Label
  
Fantastic Plastic Records

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Contents

  1. "Little Bear"
  2. "Made-Up Lovesong #43"
  3. "Trains to Brazil"
  4. "Redwings"
  5. "Come Away with Me"
  6. "Through the Windowpane"
  7. "If the World Ends"
  8. "We're Here"
  9. "Blue Would Still Be Blue"
  10. "Annie, Let's Not Wait"
  11. "And If All..."
  12. "São Paulo"

"Trains to Brazil" is a song by Guillemotsfrom their 2006 releases Through the Windowpaneand From the Cliffs. It was also released as a single. The 2005 singlecontains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited vinyl10" formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on 11 September 2006, peaking at number 36.

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 on the London Underground, 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.

Original release

  1. "Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) - 4:01
  2. "Go Away" - 7:47
  3. "My Chosen One" - 3:14

CD

  1. "Trains to Brazil"
  2. "White Rag" (Demo)
  3. "Blue Eyes"

7"

  1. "Trains to Brazil"
  2. "Witch Doctor"

7"

  1. "Trains to Brazil"
  2. "You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)" (featuring Freakshow)
  3. "All The People Say"

References

Trains to Brazil Wikipedia
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