Jan 142014
For this week’s Last Man Standing we seek songs that either walk or run—or both, as the case may be. Your entries should only include songs with titles involving the verbs “to walk” or “to run,” including their gerund forms. Songs about trotting, skipping, jogging, and scampering don’t qualify.
EARLY-GAME RULE ADDITION (1/14/14 @ 12:07 pm): Please alternate walk and run entries. For instance, if you see a “walk” song as the latest comment, try to follow it up with a “run” song.
If you’re new to participating in a Last Man Standing thread, which usually lasts until eternity or the end of our collective knowledge on a given topic, please limit yourself to one entry per comment. In other words…
DON’T BOGART THAT LAST MAN STANDING!
I’ll get my answer in before the lax rules committee starts accepting songs with Wok in the title. Run, Run, Run by The Who.
Joe Walsh – Walk Away
Walk on By – Dionne Warwick
I’m Walkin’ — Fats Domino
Running on Empty
Walk Away Renee
Born to Run
Running with the Devil – Van Halen
“Walk On,” Neil Young
EARLY-GAME RULE ADDITION (1/14/14 @ 12:07 pm): Please alternate walk and run entries. For instance, if you see a “walk” song as the latest comment, try to follow it up with a “run” song.
If “Walk On” is still the current Last Man Standing, we’ll be looking for a “run” song next.
The Beatles, “Run for Your Life”
“Cadillac Walk” – Mink DeVille
“Runaway Child, Running Wild” – The Temptations.
I want to specify that “running” is the word in the title that counts. The word “runaway” as used here, is a noun, it’s its own word, not really a form of the verb “to run.” It may be argued, down the road, that my favorite song by Jefferson Starship uses the word in a way that qualifies, but I’ll let chickenfrank be the judge of that!
So are you saying that “Don’t Eat Stuff Off the Sidewalk” by the Cramps wouldn’t count?
Perfect example! Thanks for amplifying. As chickenfrank pointed out this morning, the rock world looks to us to conduct these Last Man Standings with the highest degree of integrity.
“The Hardest Walk” – Jesus and Mary Chain
Run Run Run – Velvet Underground
This morning I made plans to fly there, but for the purposes of this LMS…”Walkin’ to New Orleans.”
Long May You Run – Neil Young
“I Walk the Line” – Johnny Cash
Bowie – Running Gun Blues
“Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand)” – Shangri Las
Eno, “I’ll Come Running”
You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It Or You’ll Lose That Beat – Steely Dan
Band on the Run
Jowe South, Walk a Mile in my Shoes
Joe South (damn fingers)
I will walk “Before They Make Me Run”. Stones.
“I Don’t Wanna Walk Around with You” – Ramones
Running up that Hill – Kate Bush
Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side
Turd on the Run – The Stones
Walkin’ With Jesus – Spacemen 3
Fox on the Run – Sweet
Lover’s Walk – Elvis Costello
Run Lola Run – From the Original Soundtrack
Walk Like an Egyptian
Love that song!
Love that movie!
Walk This Way – Run DMC featuring Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.
Running – Gil Scott-Heron
For Trigmo:
“Walking On the Moon” – The Police
Run Through the Jungle – CCR
“They Walked in Line” – Joy Division
Running Down a Dream – Tom Petty
“Walking Spanish,” Tom Waits
“Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)” – Temptations
“Walk Like a Man” – Four Seasons
“Johnny Hit and Run Paulene” – X
Cool, I think that’s now appeared in back-to-back LMS threads.
Shoot, I was holding that one!
“You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It,” by my beloved Walter Becker and Donald Fagan, from some soundtrack album they did in the early ’70s. (Truth be told, I thought there was a song by that name, but I had no idea who did it. I had to Google the artist, which I usually don’t support doing in a LMS.)
Pink Floyd, “Run Like Hell”
My Baby Walked Off – Howlin’ Wolf
Before I forget about this B-side to an obscure Tommy James and the Shondells A-side (“Mirage”), “Run, Run, Baby Run.”
I have to go into the gutter for this: “Walk With An Erection” by the Swinging Erudites.
Run Joey Run by David Geddes.
“The Walk,” Jimmy McCracklin
Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry
Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny
“Fuck and Run” — Liz Phair
Walking After Midnight – Patsy Cline.
Ah, for you Mod:
The Eagles – The Long Run
“These Boots are Made for Walking”
“Run to You” – Bryan Adams
“Walking in the Rain” — Flash and the Pan
FAVORITE
“Running to Stand Still” – U2
Walking the Dog – Rufus Thomas
Running On The Spot – The Jam
“Walk Out” Matthew Sweet
“Run Chicken Run” – Link Wray
Walk Idiot Walk – The Hives
Billy Ocean – Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)
Walk Right Back, Everly Brothers
So noun forms are acceptable (“The Hardest Walk” post 14)?
“She’s a Runner” Billy Squier
aloha
LD
Gerry & The Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone
Run For Tin – Ten Foot Faces
I’d like to keep forms to verbs and gerunds, thanks, but no harm here.
“Walking in Memphis” Marc Cohn
Long Train Runnin’ – Doobie Brothers
“I Ran” Flock of Seagulls
Past tense, bi-otches!
Maybe it’s a noun but I gotta put one of my all time fans in – Archie Bell & The Drells – The Soul City Walk,
But just to cover the base – Kirsty MacCall – Walking Down Madison.
Bobby Vee, Run To Him
Ew…
Walkin on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
“Outside the Trains Don’t Run on Time” – Gang of Four
Walk Right In, originally done by Cannon’s Jug Stompers and covered in the 60s by the Rooftop Singers
Run That Body Down by Paul Simon
Although the Temptations’ original is merely entitled “Don’t Look Back,” the Peter Tosh-Mick Jagger version is entitled “(You Got to Walk and) Don’t Look Back.”
LAST MAN STANDING!
“Run Wild” GBV
Was (Not Was), Walk the Dinosaur
“Walkin’ the Floor Over You” – Collins Kids (orig. E-Tubb)
“Run So Far” George Harrison
aloha
LD
Since I inadvertently double dipped on the walk, I’ll even the score with another run
“The Runnin’ Kind ” – Screamin’ Sirens
“Walking in the Shadow of Life” – the Meters
Run Red Run – the Coasters
“Moon Walk Part 1” — Joe Simon
“Chickie Run” – Homer Denison Jr.
“Walkin’ With My Angel” — Bobby Vee
“Run Diddley Daddy” – Bo Diddley
“Wee Jee Walk” — The Rivingtons
Take The Money And Run – Steve Miller Band
Hey, I’m not proud I did it, but the thread is slowing from a walk to a crawl.
“The Way I Walk” — Jack Scott, The Cramps
Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) – The Impalas
“The Continental Walk” — Chubby Checker, Hank Ballard
Run, Baby, Run (Back into My Arms), the Newbeats
“Walking on Air” — King Crimson
“Running Scared” — Roy Orbison