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Best fossil fuel line in a song

Just when you thought we've dissected popular music to shreds, comes Euro 21 group stages dross and makes you find yet one more overlooked angle.

For me:

"Is there Gas in the car???"

Steely Dan,
Kid Charlemagne
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  • edited June 2021
    If you wanna hang out, you've gotta take her out Cocaine
  • Think there's an easy winner for this:

    Our one source of energy
    The ultimate discovery
    Electric blue for me
    Never more to be free
    Electricity
    Nuclear and HEP
    Carbon fuels from the sea
    Wasted electricity
  • edited June 2021
    If I was in world war 2 they’d call me spitfire ( the prodigy , spitfire)

    Or

    My intellect's devour
    With Diesel Power 
    (Diesel power , prodigy)
  • I got money in my pocket, got a tiger in my tank
    And I'm king of the road again.

    David Dundas, Blue Jeans
  • Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas
    I'm gonna take my life.

    Stuff Up The Cracks - Ruben & The Jets (Really Frank Zappa)

    or

    You're gonna wind up workin' in a gas station.
    Wind up workin' in a gas station.
    Wind up workin' in a gas station.
    Wind up workin' in a gas station.
    Pumpin' the gas every night.
    Pumpin' the gas every night.
    Wind up workin' in a gas station.
    Wind up workin' in a gas station.
    Pumpin' the gas…

    Wind Up Workin' in a Gas Station - Frank Zappa
  • I bought a brand new motor
    Now I'm waiting for a loan
    So I can fill her up and start her
    Cos I'm going back home

    Dr Feelgood 
  • Superstation by Stevie Wonder
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  • anything by Nat King Coal
  • Pump up the Volume
  • Crawling home, running home
    Down to Gasoline Alley where I started from
    Going home, and I'm running home
    Down to Gasoline Alley where I was born
  • Anything by Mary oil wells and gene pitney
  • Have You Kerosene Her? - The Chi-Lites
  • “Well, he tried to be standard
    He tries to be mobil
    He tried living in a world
    And in a shell”
    - Last Chance Texaco - Rickie Lee Jones
  • Gas Panic - Oasis
  • It was Saturday night
    I guess that makes it alright
    And you said “baby have we got enough gas?”
    Little Red Corvette by Prince

    Life’s a gas, I hope it’s gonna last
    T Rex

    Or anything by Snow Petrol..
  • Diesel and dust is what we breathe
    - Midnight Oil "Warakurna"

    Anything by the Coal Porters (whose version of Another Girl Another Planet I like). Or That Petrol Emotion

    Gas Food Lodging - Green on Red






  • Spandau Ballet. Classic 80’s …. Coal
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  • "Halfway from coal, halfway to diamond" - Beat A Drum by R.E.M.
  • Working in a coal mine - Lee Dorsey
  • Putting out fire with gasoline - Bowie. Cat People.
  • Stig said:
    Think there's an easy winner for this:

    Our one source of energy
    The ultimate discovery
    Electric blue for me
    Never more to be free
    Electricity
    Nuclear and HEP
    Carbon fuels from the sea
    Wasted electricity
    Nice, OMD
  • Six Days on the Road .. 'got my diesel wound up and she's runnin' like she never did before'
  • Not a song, but a compilation album


  • Locomotion took us there and back
    We kept our heads, we laid our track
    Pedestrian wait!

    The power of steel automation
    Turn the key for mass ignition
    Pedestrian wait!

    Airplanes buzz like Asian flu
    Jumbo junks on Airfix glue
    Spaceships built for leisure cruise
    Baby's feet in brand new shoes

    Sunday cleaning chrome and steel
    A man-made god, the automobile
    Pedestrian wait!

    Ford protect us in this race
    To find another parking space
    Pedestrian wait!

    Now you know it takes you nowhere
    Now there's nowhere left to go
    Every road leads to another
    Juggernaut noise and petrol fumes

    To make one mile of motorway
    Pedestrian wait!

    Don't breathe the air, it's full of lead
    Baby's sick, baby's dead
    Pedestrian wait!

    Now I've got my head screwed on
    And my boots are both laced p
    Don't want to be a precinct puppet
    I'm going to walk just where I choose
  • Simon & Garfunkel - A most peculiar man. 

    He died last Saturday. 
    He turned on the gas 
    And he went to sleep
    with the windows closed so he’d never wake up. 


    Guns ‘n’ roses - Night train. 

    I’m a mean machine,
    Been drinking gasoline 
    And honey you could make my motor hum
  • A tear of petrol is in your eye
    The hand brake penetrates your thigh
    Quick lets make love before you die
    Warm Leatherette
    Warm Leatherette
    Warm Leatherette
    Warm Leatherette
    Warm Leatherette
    Warm Leatherette
    Join the car crash set
  • The normal ?
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