Jumping Someone Else's Train

{{more citations needed|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox song | name = Jumping Someone Else's Train | cover = Jumping Someone Else's Train.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = [[the Cure]] | album = [[Boys Don't Cry (The Cure album)|Boys Don't Cry]] | B-side = "I'm Cold" | released = 2 November 1979<ref>{{cite magazine|publication-date=10 November 1979|title=Music Week Fact Sheets. Singles|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-Week/1979/Music-Week-1979-11-10.pdf|magazine=[[Music Week]]|page=46|access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref> | recorded = 1979 | studio = | genre = [[Post-punk]]<ref>{{cite magazine|first= Phil |last= Alexander |title= 20 Great Post-Punk Tracks |date= 1 April 2014 |magazine= [[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]] |url= http://www.mojo4music.com/13181/20-great-post-punk-tracks/ |access-date= 23 August 2016}}</ref> | length = 2:55 | label = [[Fiction Records|Fiction]] | writer = [[Michael Dempsey]], [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]] and [[Lol Tolhurst]] | producer = [[Chris Parry (producer)|Chris Parry]] | prev_title = [[Boys Don't Cry (The Cure song)|Boys Don't Cry]] | prev_year = 1979 | next_title = [[A Forest]] | next_year = 1980 | misc = {{External music video|header=Audio|{{YouTube|s1oWf07FRCw|"Jumping Someone Else's Train"}}}} }}

"'''Jumping Someone Else's Train'''" is a song by English rock band [[the Cure]]. Produced by [[Chris Parry (producer)|Chris Parry]], it was released on 2 November 1979 in the UK as a stand-alone. It later appeared on the US version of the band's first compilation album, ''[[Boys Don't Cry (The Cure album)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' (1980).

==History==

During live performances, mostly during 1979 and 1980, the group would often segue into the instrumental "Another Journey by Train" after finishing this song. Also, they would occasionally segue into "Grinding Halt" from their debut album ''[[Three Imaginary Boys]]''.{{Citation needed|date=October 2010}} [[Siouxsie Sioux]] contributed as [[backing vocalist]] to the B-side "I'm Cold".

==Music video==

The music video shows a speeded up view from the driver's cab of a train journey from [[London Victoria station|London Victoria]] to [[Brighton railway station|Brighton Station]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oWf07FRCw&ab_channel=MartinDebaser | title=The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train (Original Video) | website=[[YouTube]] | date=28 December 2010 }}</ref>

== Cover versions ==

The song was covered by the Brooklyn-based band Luff for the 2008 [[American Laundromat Records]] tribute album ''Just Like Heaven - A Tribute to The Cure'' and by Army Navy on [[Manimal Vinyl]]'s tribute ''[[Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to The Cure]]''. The song was also covered by American [[noise rock]] band [[Whores (band)|Whores]] for the band's 2014 split single with Rabbits, consisting entirely of Cure covers.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://brutalpandarecords.com/shop/whores-rabbits-split-7/ | title=Whores / Rabbits – Split 7 | publisher=Brutal Panda Records | access-date=April 8, 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408215237/http://brutalpandarecords.com/shop/whores-rabbits-split-7/ | archive-date=April 8, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.metalsucks.net/2014/02/24/whores-jump-someone-elses-train-cure-cover/ | title=Whores Jump Someone Else's Train (The Cure Cover) | publisher=[[MetalSucks]] | date=February 24, 2014 | access-date=April 8, 2014 | author=Neilstein, Vİnce}}</ref>

==Track listing==

'''7" vinyl'''

# "Jumping Someone Else's Train" # "I'm Cold"

==Personnel==

* [[Michael Dempsey]] – bass * [[Robert Smith (musician)|Robert Smith]] – guitar, vocals * [[Lol Tolhurst]] – drums * [[Siouxsie Sioux]] – backing vocals on "I'm Cold"

==See also== *[[List of train songs]]

==References==

==External links== * {{Discogs master|341264}}

[[Category:The Cure songs]] [[Category:1979 singles]] [[Category:Songs written by Robert Smith (musician)]] [[Category:Songs about trains]] [[Category:Songs written by Michael Dempsey]] [[Category:Songs written by Lol Tolhurst]] [[Category:Song recordings produced by Chris Parry]]