By Aaron Levy (CIVL Station Manager) – Email
Print Edition: March 20, 2013
CIVL station manager Aaron Levy wants to congratulate UFV students for securing a one year trial for a shuttle bus between Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Here are some bus songs!
Anonymous – “The Wheels on the Bus”
A classic for children between the ages of two and six. Written by no one and everyone all at once, and covered by everyone from Fred Penner to Barney to Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers, to Madonna impersonator Mad Donna. Who sings the first round on this bus?! Me?!
Kriss Kross – “I Missed the Bus”
These guys were the original Bieber. Before Lil Bow Wow, before Willow Smith, even before McCauley Culkin was really breaking through with Home Alone, Kriss Kross were the original child prodigies of the music machine. And it’s something that you can guarantee they’ll never, ever, ever do again. They promise.
C.R. Avery – “The Bus to Baton Rouge”
Recorded in Avery’s should-be classic, smoke stained, Bob-Dylan-with-grills style; a hip-hop, beat-boxing slam poet for the ages. On his penultimate album, The Great Canadian Novel, Avery covered Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams, and also added a few of his own strokes of brilliance to the Can-con canon.
Refused – “Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull”
“I took the first bus out of Coca-Cola … ” Where’s my royalty cheque for this? Exclusivity agreements usually include benefits for the endentured. “ … city, it made me feel all nauseous and shitty. I took the first bus downtown, cause they didn’t want me hanging around.” All that needs saying.
