{"id":152316,"date":"2017-06-28T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=152316"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T12:27:01","slug":"famous-songs-le-tour-de-france-one-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/06\/28\/famous-songs-le-tour-de-france-one-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Songs of Le Tour de France: Which One Do You Like the Most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here are some of our favourite tunes to get you in the mood for Le Tour 2017!<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tour de France by Kraftwerk<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The symbiosis of techno and road-cycling may never be fully understood, but there are some obvious common themes \u2013 both require endurance, focus, a love of repetition, and an almost fetishistic reverence of the machinery that leads you to a transcendental plateau.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=LTZyXlLhvxs params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/LTZyXlLhvxs\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>Released in 1984 by electronic super-group Kraftwerk, the song used state-of-the-art digital sound samplers to record vocal panting and chain noises. Anyone who\u2019s exerted themselves on the bike can instantly identify the quintessential sound of the cycle ride. It doesn\u2019t get more iconic that this.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bicycle Song by Queen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The most iconic song on this list, Freddie Mercury\u2019s love song to the bicycle and everything it represents \u2013 freedom, rebellion, and therapy. In a true rock\u2019n\u2019roll fashion, Freddie tells his audience he likes to ride his bike where he likes.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=FZ_FrGPiCds params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/FZ_FrGPiCds\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>Inspired by Le Tour de France, the video infamously features some of the sexiest machinery any cycle fan could lay eyes on \u2013 Campagnola groupsets, Gitane steel framed and lug-welded frames. Beautiful. That is why \u0160koda is using this song to evoke all the joys of cycling in the video below.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Walking Indurain by Fred Poulet<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Miguel Indurain won five Tour de France Yellow Jerseys in a row between \u201991 and \u201995, so arguably he earned a song in his honour. However, the song is as much a meditation on the pleasures of watching Le Tour as it is of Indurain himself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"fred poulet walking indurain\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x2xnul&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Poulet stated that he actually watched Le Tour for the strange and crazy things that happen along the route, saying he preferred the parts like, \u201ca stage in the Ardennes, slightly hilly, with a horse that runs next to the peloton for a while \u2013 it suits me\u201d. The lyrics are minimal and you can hear the humour as Poulet mimics a TV commentator.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Le Champion Espagnol by Jean-Louis Murat<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Not one to follow convention, Jean-Louis Murat penned what can only be described as a deeply spiritual song about the Toledo Eagle, Federico Bahamontes, winner of the 1959 Tour de France. Bahamontes also won the mountain classification six times and is widely regarded as one of the sports great climbers.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=Ztdl-pVBPJ4 params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/Ztdl-pVBPJ4\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>The lyrics to Murat\u2019s 2011 opus are a tone poem of competitive life on Le Tour as well as a sympathetic portrait of one of cycling\u2019s most popular characters \u2013 the Toledo Eagle is described as having kind eyes, of being tenacious, and of throwing everything into the beautiful madness that is Le Tour.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Vive Poulidor by Andr\u00e9 Verchuren<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>You\u2019ll want to turn this one up loud \u2013 if this doesn\u2019t get the blood pumping in anticipation of Le Tour 2017 I don\u2019t know what will. The music instantly takes you back to Poupou\u2019s heyday of the 60s\u2019 and early 70s\u2019, when French riders were very much in contention.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=CcKHeb2oV54 params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/CcKHeb2oV54\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>Poulidor\u2019s career coincided with another French great \u2013 Anquetil, but this song is testament to Poupou\u2019s enduring popularity with race fans who were happy to see him wear the Yellow Jersey in 14 Tours, including his final Tour de France when, at the age of 40, he finished in 3rd place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of our favourite tunes to get you in the mood for Le Tour 2017!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":152320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[1184,1181,1183,1182,1174,1180,1168,1169],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-152316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-andre-verchuren","tag-fred-poulet","tag-jean-louis-murat","tag-kraftwerk","tag-queen","tag-songs","tag-tdf-2017","tag-tour-de-france-2017"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Famous Songs of Le Tour de France: Which One Do You Like the Most? - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here are some of our favourite tunes to get you in the mood for Le Tour 2017! 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