Reality Is Waiting For A Bus

Quick survey: is there a punk or hardcore band that writes more about riding buses than Rancid? Stuck at a bus stop in yesterday's downpour, I tried to think of one and came up with the Subhumans track I'm using as the title for this post and the (superior) one I'm embedding here, with its unexpected freakout line, "Nobody says anything on buses/THAT'S WHY PEOPLE KILL THEMSELVES!!!!"

(Which was an early indication of how punk rock will lead you astray. Please: do not talk to anyone on a bus you do not know. Especially do not talk to me. It must be an emergency to violate this rule. I suppose asking for directions counts. But don't get into the habit of speaking to strangers because Dick Lucas convinced you that your fellow passengers are dangers to themselves absent your intervention.)

Who am I missing? Meanwhile, I'm in an airport, en route to Kentucky, where Rob Farley is going to introduce me to the pleasures of gambling on horseracing. Buses are no help here. Punk rock has not thought everything through.

Comments

[PlanesNoSnakes]

There's also SNFU with their very public-transit-themed video for "Reality is a Ride on the Bus." Pretty clearly a reference to the Subhumans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk2mOhYhrAI

[Marshall]

WHO are you missing???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl9bvuAV-Ao

[80's punkster]

How about the Replacements: kiss me on the bus?

[bdbd]

Bus Stop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXKBUPEGcGA

I expect there are plenty of people in KY riding on buses, just none of the m punkish, hipsterish or sufficiently ironic to be acknowledged.

For example

http://www.lextranonthemove.org/ Lexington Transit

http://www.ridetarc.org/ Louisville

How do you think a lot of the help get to the track?

[danimal]

How about the Violent Femmes?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXQhYLaQ3jw

[fuster]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MjDf4Jl4y74/TZJUu1NnFjI/AAAAAAAAAw0/CoXOz3fRcqY/s1600/IMG_4297.jpg

[Addison Amateur]

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

[Alfred]

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