Desperados Waiting for a Train
" Desperados Waiting for a Train" is a song written by Guy Clark and originally recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker for his 1973 album" Viva Terlingua".
It subsequently appeared on Rita Coolidge's 1974 album" Fall into Spring", David Allan Coe's third album," The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy"( 1974), Tom Rush's album" Ladies Love Outlaws" the same year, before Clark's own rendition was released on his first LP, 1975's" Old No. 1".
Clark has stated that the song is about his grandmother's boyfriend named Jack who was a grandfather figure to him.
The song was also covered by Slim Pickens in 1981 on his self- titled album( Picc- A- Dilly PIC- 3484).
The American country music group the Highwaymen released it as a single in September 1985.
It was the second single from the album" Highwayman".
The song reached# 15 on the" Billboard" Hot Country Singles& Tracks chart.
Nanci Griffith recorded it for her 1998 album" Other Voices Too( A Trip Back to Bountiful)", accompanied by Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Eric Taylor.
Jason Isbell covered the song for Guy Clark's induction into the 2015 Austin City Limits hall of fame ceremony.
Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Huffin
" Huffin" is an instrumental song written by Karl Jenkins and performed by Soft Machine.
It was only released as a live recording, on their album( recorded July 1977, released 1978).
It is the last section of a suite of seven connecting songs which comprise the first side of the album, and is preceded by a short song titled" Puffin" which serves as an introduction to" Huffin".
The song is notable for its structure, and its function as a grand climax to the suite.
The main part of the song is a fast paced riff, a repeating pattern of notes that uses polyrhythms of high complexity.
Although the riff fits into the song's 4/ 4 time signature, it is sufficiently complex that, in order to follow the music, most listeners will need to memorize the riff and perceive the timing by the pattern, ignoring the time signature.
It is likely that the musicians had to do the same.
The riff is performed by all members of the group, playing the melody in unison, except for the violin played by Ric Sanders holding one high note.
There are no other harmonies or counter- melodies; even the drummer beats out the notes of the melody.
This is not too unusual for Soft Machine's music of this time, especially in the compositions of Karl Jenkins, and similar examples can be found throughout the album.
Even in the group's earlier days, when it consisted of completely different personnel from the group that performs" Huffin", melody lines were often played by several instruments in unison, and the music sometimes experimented with deliberately unsynchronized unison( several instruments playing the same melody, but out of sync with each other, sometimes wandering several bars apart), as explored on" Hope for Happiness": the first track on their first album, and on" Virtually" from their" Fourth" album.
The sound of unison playing was also simulated on several songs from their" Seven" album, by using a harmonizer to make one instrument sound like two, playing in unison.
But rarely, if ever, have virtually all instruments limited themselves to playing one melody in unison.
After several repeats of the riff, the music switches into a one- chord 4/ 4 jam with John Etheridge playing the lead solo on guitar.
The music switches between the two sections, but the riff is now reprised by just bass and drums, and Etheridge performs a virtuoso solo on top, which is particularly impressive if it is improvised, as it appears to be.
In the second half of the song, the riff appears again, but the solo is now performed by Ric Sanders on violin.
Although Sanders solos against the riff, his playing does not follow the timing of the riff for the most part( although there are a few short instances where it does), and he mostly performs free- form, ad libbing outside of the music's timing.
About a minute from the end, the music suddenly switches to a new riff which also uses complex polyrhythms.
The instrumentation is not as stringent as the first riff's, because in some parts, some instruments hold a sustained note while others continue the pattern.
Aside from that, all instruments play the melody together, as was done for the first riff, including John Marshall furiously beating out the timing on drums and cymbals, bringing the music to a sustained climax.
The song ends on a final note which holds while Sanders plays an ascending flourish on violin.
Fight Song (disambiguation)
Fight Song( or songs) or The Fight Song( or songs) may refer to:
The Riff (Lordi song)
" The Riff" is a song by the Finnish hard rock band Lordi.
It is the first and only single from the album" To Beast or Not to Beast", released on February 8, 2013.
The band has also made a music video for the song.
It's also the very first Lordi song that has been released also as an official lyrics video.
Lordi performed" The Riff" in a German television competition" Wok WM" in 2013.
The song is also featured in a" Pinball Rocks" app game.
Waiting for a Train
" Waiting for a Train" is the ninth single by the Australian group Flash and the Pan.
It is taken from the album" Headlines" and was their most successful single, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1983.
In 1989, a new version of the song, remixed by Harry Schulz and Kaplan Kaye and titled" Waiting for a Train'89( The Harrymeetskaplan Mix)", was released in the UK on Cha Cha Records.
Beast Loose in Paradise
Beast Loose in Paradise is a Lordi song that the band made for their horror movie" Dark Floors".
The song was released as a single on January 9, 2008.
Beast Loose in Paradise
Beast Loose in Paradise is a Lordi song that the band made for their horror movie" Dark Floors".
The song was released as a single on January 9, 2008.
The Metre/Waiting for the Sun
" The Metre" and" Waiting for the Sun" are two songs released together as a double A- Side single by Powderfinger in support of their fourth studio album" Odyssey Number Five".
It was released on 27 August 2001 and reached# 31 on the Australian music chart.
" The Metre" and" Waiting For The Sun" both had music videos produced.
" Waiting for the Sun" also featured on Powderfinger's compilation album,.
Gare (disambiguation)
Gare is French for train station
Waiting for a Train
" Waiting for a Train" is the ninth single by the Australian group Flash and the Pan.
It is taken from the album" Headlines" and was their most successful single, reaching number 7 on the UK Singles Chart in 1983.
In 1989, a new version of the song, remixed by Harry Schulz and Kaplan Kaye and titled" Waiting for a Train'89( The Harrymeetskaplan Mix)", was released in the UK on Cha Cha Records.

Question: Which song was released earlier, The Riff (Lordi Song) or Desperados Waiting For A Train?
Answer: Desperados Waiting For A Train