Trains to Brazil

Infobox Single
Name = Trains to Brazil


Artist = Guillemots
from Album = Through the Windowpane
Released = 5 December 2005
11 September 2006 (re-issue)
Format = 10", CD
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 15:46
Label = Fantastic Plastic Records
Producer =
Chart position =
Reviews =
Last single = "I Saw Such Things in My Sleep EP"
(2005)
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"Made Up Love Song #43"
(2006)
This album = "Trains to Brazil"
(2005)
Next single = "Of the Night" (2006)
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"Annie, Let's Not Wait"
(2007)
Misc = Extra album cover
Background = khaki
Upper caption = Alternate cover


Lower caption = UK re-issue cover Extra tracklisting
Album = Through the Windowpane
Type = studio
Tracks =
# "Little Bear"
# "Made-Up Lovesong #43"
# "Trains to Brazil"
# "Redwings"
# "Come Away With Me"
# "Through the Windowpane"
# "If the World Ends"
# "We're Here"
# "Blue Would Still Be Blue"
# "Annie, Let's Not Wait"
# "And If All..."
# "São Paulo" "Trains to Brazil" is a song by Guillemots from their 2006 releases "Through the Windowpane" and "From the Cliffs". It was also released as a single. The 2005 single contains three tracks and was released on CD and in limited vinyl 10" formats. It was later re-released chart eligibly on September 11, 2006, peaking at #36.

Overview

In an [http://www.bbc.co.uk/portuguese/reporterbbc/story/2005/11/051116_guillemotsrc.shtml interview] for BBC Brazil, MC Lord Magrão, the band's guitar player, explained that the song title "Trains to Brazil" is a reference to the fatal incident involving the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot by the police in a subway, and that the band's singer/keyboardist Fyfe Dangerfield composed the song in 2002 originally under the title "Life Song".

Fyfe describes the title track as follows:

All of the tracks from this single appeared on the 2006 international release "From the Cliffs".

The B-side "Go Away" appeared on a compilation CD from British music magazine "NME".

Track listings

Original release

#"Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) - 4:01
#"Go Away" - 7:47
#"My Chosen One" - 3:14

Re-issue

CD

# "Trains To Brazil"
# "White Rag" (Demo)
# "Blue Eyes"

7"

# "Trains To Brazil"
# "Witch Doctor"

7"

# "Trains To Brazil"
# "You Can Look (But You Can't Touch)" (featuring Freakshow)
# "All The People Say"