I'm Movin' OnHank Snow
I'm Movin' On
1950
Twenty-one weeks at number one, and a chugging beat that lets the train do all the talking.
★ 5.5
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Wabash CannonballRoy Acuff
Wabash Cannonball
1936
Recorded in 1936 with someone else singing lead, then cut again by Acuff in 1947, a train that never existed.
★ 5.6
Chattanooga Choo Choo
1941
Cut in Hollywood in May 1941; nine months later RCA handed Miller the first gold record ever presented.
★ 6.0
Here Comes Your Man
1989 · From Doolittle
A teenage demo the band mocked as their Tom Petty song, until Gil Norton talked it onto Doolittle.
★ 6.5
Mystery Train
1955 · From The Sun Sessions
Two years after Junior Parker cut it at Sun, Moore's slapback guitar turned the same train into rockabilly.
★ 7.6
Trans Europa Express
1977
Kraftwerk's rhythm rode a train across Europe, name-checked Bowie and Iggy Pop, then turned up inside Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock.
★ 8.1