1) Th… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artists/bands that go by the name Subway...
1) The krautrock inspired duo Subway consist of Alan James and Michael Kirkman. They are signed to Sunday Best and have recently released an album called ‘Subway II’ on Soul Jazz records. The Subway duo has seen their work included on such albums as Danny Howells’ Global Underground 27 mix (“Live In Miami”) and Hot Chip’s mix for the DJ-Kicks series. Their myspace is here: http://www.myspace.com/subway2006.
2) The Chicago based group Subway, comprised of Eric McNeal, Keith Thomas, Trerail Puckettand Roy Jones. The group was signed to Michael Bivins Motown-distributed label Biv 10. They came out on the scenes in 1995 with the hit single “This Lil’ Game We Play” featuring labelmates 702. The single set the group off to a good start, going gold and selling nearly a million copies. Their debut album was titled Good Times, and came out later that year. Written and produced by Gerald Levert and Edwin Nicholas, the album packed some solid hits such as the aforementioned “This Lil’ Game We Play.” In addition, the album’s single “This Is Not A Goodbye” went gold.
3) Hip Hop artist from Canada. Stephen McGruther aka Subway Born in the small town of Brooks, Alberta in August of 1986…Subway would point his earliest music inspiration to be none other than his own father. With a vinyl collection that included the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn and Led Zepplin among countless others. Taking guitar and drum lessons at the age of 13, Subway’s first lesson taught him the chords “E”, “A”, and “D”. And just the very next week he had created a song from scratch using only those 3 chords. And from some basic jamming sessions, he started to write his own songs, with his own lyrics and nothing but an acoustic guitar…giving birth to Subway;s extremely strong songwriting abilities. It wasnt until a few years later that Subway would be introduced to Hip Hop. After meeting a group of b-boys from Nanaimo, Tony Rochette, Mikey Steez and JuneBug (who is now his current manager), the group showed Subway his first real glimpse of Hip Hop, playing the likes of a lot of local BC artists to his virgin ears, and showing him the variety and talent that you dont hear on most mainstream radio. However at age 18, things took a turn for a spill as Subway had to pull anything musically off the table as a year long drug addiction had caught up with him. He was able to recieve help from the “Launching Pad Recovery House” in WhiteRock, BC. It was here that he started writing his first rhymes with his roomate at the time, and he spent his recovery time recording make-shift songs on a rented turntable, tapedeck, and a microphone. This is where music became his “new drug”, and has since made the effort to never waste a minute without it…believeing that he could may well be dead without it. In 2007, Subway was on a visit to Nanaimo and met back up once again with Mikey Steez, where he met a local group called Sunk City. After talks of collaborating raised, Subway was able to record his first 2 ever recorded songs with the group, and after realizing his strong work ethic, Sunk City asked him to be a part of the group permanently, to which he accepted, and moved to Nanaimo a week after. After about 6 months the ensemble had recorded a full length CD, to which Subway started to recieve local accolades and his rep grew bigger. He and the group eventually parted ways, to which Subway had met a young female singer out of Nanaimo named Eliza Smith. The duo created a live hip hop/jazz band called “Allie’s Way”, which consisted of keys, lead guitars, bass guitars, drums and a 3 piece horn section, which was felt so locally they made 2nd place in Nanaimo’s annual “Battle of The Bands”. Given the groups large work schedule, they all found themselves working on other various projects and decided to bring a halt to their music collaborations for the time being, but hope to continue working together in the future. Subway spent his downtime rapping over various beats from Soundclick.com, getting frustrated with it he decided to venture out to the world of Myspace in search of a producer who could craft the beats he was seeking. In doing so he met the acquaitence of Victoria’s Guy Woods. Guy’s soulful harmonies on the boards matched perfectly with Subways vocal energy, and the 2 linked to make it happen. They named themselves “The Scalebreakers”. The Scalebreakers (SUBWAY & GUY WOODS) have shared stages with- The Mighty Underdogs(Gift a Gab, Lateef), Swollen Members, Gene Simmons,The Beatnuts, Sweatshop Union, Moka Only, Josh Martinez, Emotionz, They have also Toured with Maestro Fresh Wes, Choclair and planning on go back out with Choclair in Oct! haveing dropped his first solo LP “On the Right Track”, Subway’s doing it big with guest appearences from Narai Dawn,Guy Woods and Metty The Dert Merchant from Sweatshop Union, as well as production from Rob the Viking from Swollen Members.
4) Subway was a duo, consisting of an American and an UK-guy, Irvin Mowrey and Malcom Watson who released their only album in France as 200 vinyls in 1972. There they lived and played both for some time as street musicians, who played their compositions even at Parisian subway, hence the bandname. Unfortunately the album fell through, so the unsold vinyls were melted, as usual in France at this time.The band presented a phantastic psych-folk music with prog-rock-elements. An absolutely top-album, which hopefully now will reach a bigger audience, as the original LP is very rare. Fully remastered sound for this great studio production. This first ever CD reissue is made under license of the musicians."
A truly odd and almost indescribably strange record (now on CD for the first time ever) from the annals of European prog circa 1972. subway were a half American, half British duo, living in France (see what I mean? It’s nonsense already) who released 200 copies of this, their self titled album, on vinyl, and promptly disappeared without trace. Their sole 'gigging' consisted of busking in Paris subways- hence the band's name- and to add to the legend, it seems that most of the unsold copies were melted, which was usual French practice!! The music itself is dark, psychedelically inclined folk with elements of freeform prog: somewhere betwixt Comus and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, but with less instruments.
5) A hard rock band from southern Germany, which had some success in Japan
6) A disbanded Korean rock band fronted by Jo Sung-Min.
7) A punk band from Belgrade, Serbia formed in 2008. They realised demo : ‘Fuck all the rules’ (2009) and was active up to half of the year 2009. Band website: www.myspace.com/subwaybg
8) Subway is an electronic/trance group composed of Ray Kajioka and Smooth.
9) A four pieces girl rock band from Marvejols, France. The band formed when the girls (Samantha : drums, Rachel : bass, Sarah : guitar and Severine : lead singer and guitar) were in high school.
After a couple of EP in 1996 and 1998 they released a first album in 2000 Superautomatic. Then a second in 2003 “Rien ne se voit”, on a major label. Amandine the new lead singer replaced Severine in 2005 and their next album “L’intranquille” in 2007 became a real success with a first hit ‘Paris’. Their main influences are Noir Desir and Eiffel Their official site is www.subway-officiel.com.
10) A Dutch punk rock band from Groningen which was active in the late seventies. In 1978 they released the 7" "Jesus Loves Me, But I Don't Care"/"You Gotta Support".
11) Subway is a metalcore band from hungarians, who living in Serbia. They released their first album, Separated Promises in 2013 with hungarian, serbian and english songs.
Paris
Subway Lyrics
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Me déboussole
Paris me perd
Et me promène
Dans des artères
De foule sans gêne
Paris m’ignore
Paris me bouffe
Paris se pâme
Paris se moque
De moi quand je rame
Et je suffoque
Dans les tunnels du RER
Mais je m’en moque...
Car j’ai ta main, car j’ai ta main
Qui me conduit au paradis
Dans le plus beau de ce Paris
Dans le plus doux de l’infamie
Paris m’isole
Et me déboussole
Paris me sert
Une rengaine
Rageuse, froide,
Souterraine
Paris m’ignore
Dans les volutes de fumée
Dans les artères étranglées
De la Seine
Paris me largue
Et me provoque
Mais ce soir je le nargue
Et je m’en moque...
Car j’ai ta main, car j’ai ta main
Qui me conduit au paradis
Dans le plus beau de ce paris
Dans le plus doux de l’infamie
O façades inhumaines,
O fourmilières de regard vides
O malaise général
Dissout dans l’air humide
Chacun des visages anonymes
Porte une plainte qui m’abîme
Une douleur périphérique
Aux embouteillages de l’âme
Orpheline d’humanité,
J’écume le pavé et j’en bave
Dans la candeur de l’oubli
Je lève mon verre,
J’élève mes vers
A ta tour de fiel
Où j’accroche un sourire
Sans rancune
En lettres de peine,
De peine capitale.
Mais j’ai ta main, mais j’ai ta main
Qui me conduit au paradis
Dans le plus beau de ce paris
Dans le plus doux de l’infamie.
The lyrics of "Paris" by Subway reflects the complex relationship between the singer and the city. The first stanza of the song portrays the city as isolating, disorienting, and overwhelming. The singer feels lost, ignored, and suffocated by the crowd and the underground tunnels of the RER. However, the tone of the song changes with the refrain "Car j'ai ta main" ("But I have your hand"), which suggests that the singer finds solace and escape from the city's harshness and indifference through the companionship of their loved one. The singer sees Paris as a mix of beauty and infamy, a city of contrasts that can be both alluring and repelling.
The second stanza of the song describes the singer's experience of walking through the smoke-filled and congested streets of Paris. The singer is provoked and challenged by the city, but they mock and defy it with the help of their partner's hand. The third stanza expresses the singer's alienation and despair caused by the impersonal and hollow nature of the city's inhabitants. The faceless masses share a collective pain that consumes the singer's soul, but they find consolation in their lover's hand as they raise a glass and poetic verses to the hostile and indifferent city.
The lyrics of "Paris" by Subway highlight the complex and often ambivalent relationship that people can have with a city. The city can simultaneously enchant and frustrate, isolate and connect, provide comfort and inflict pain. Ultimately, the song suggests that human connection, in the form of a loved one's touch, can be a powerful antidote to the harshness of urban life.
Line by Line Meaning
Paris m’isole
Paris isolates me
Me déboussole
Disorients me
Paris me perd
Paris loses me.
Et me promène
And takes me on walks.
Dans des artères
Through arteries
De foule sans gêne
Of crowds without shame.
Paris m’ignore
Paris ignores me.
Paris m’étouffe
Paris suffocates me
Paris me bouffe
Paris eats me up
Paris se pâme
Paris swoons
Paris se moque
Paris mocks me
De moi quand je rame
When I'm struggling
Et je suffoque
And I suffocate
Dans les tunnels du RER
In the RER tunnels
Mais je m’en moque...
But I don't care...
Car j’ai ta main, car j’ai ta main
Because I have your hand, because I have your hand
Qui me conduit au paradis
Which leads me to paradise
Dans le plus beau de ce Paris
In the most beautiful part of this Paris
Dans le plus doux de l’infamie
In the sweetest part of infamy
Paris me sert
Paris serves me
Une rengaine
A song
Rageuse, froide,
Angry, cold
Souterraine
Underground
Paris m’ignore
Paris ignores me.
Dans les volutes de fumée
In swirls of smoke
Dans les artères étranglées
In narrow arteries
De la Seine
Of the Seine
Paris me largue
Paris drops me
Et me provoque
And challenges me
Mais ce soir je le nargue
But tonight, I defy it
Et je m’en moque...
And I don't care...
O façades inhumaines,
Oh inhuman facades,
O fourmilières de regard vides
Oh ant hills of empty stares
O malaise général
Oh general malaise
Dissout dans l’air humide
Dissolved in the humid air
Chacun des visages anonymes
Each of the anonymous faces
Porte une plainte qui m’abîme
Carries a complaint that hurts me
Une douleur périphérique
A peripheral pain
Aux embouteillages de l’âme
In the traffic jams of the soul
Orpheline d’humanité,
Orphaned of humanity,
J’écume le pavé et j’en bave
I scour the pavement and I suffer
Dans la candeur de l’oubli
In the purity of oblivion
Je lève mon verre,
I raise my glass,
J’élève mes vers
I elevate my verses
A ta tour de fiel
To your tower of venom
Où j’accroche un sourire
Where I hang a smile
Sans rancune
Without resentment
En lettres de peine,
In letters of pain,
De peine capitale.
Of capital punishment.
Mais j’ai ta main, mais j’ai ta main
But I have your hand, but I have your hand
Qui me conduit au paradis
That leads me to paradise
Dans le plus beau de ce paris
In the most beautiful part of this Paris
Dans le plus doux de l’infamie
In the sweetest part of infamy
Contributed by Isabella V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
@ItzProblox
I'm personally french but I think this is very well explained ! Unfortunately the ticket booklet has disappeared due to ecological reasons... There is now a new Navigo pass which is online with 10 passes and the 6 line is also quite important because it takes you to the Eiffel Tower
@ItzProblox
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@renszatrapp9639
Not true.I bought a pack.of ten tickets yesterday.
@ItzProblox
@Rensza Trapp Yes but they will remove it soon. The individuals aren't available anymore.
@eestiny9734
Good to know. Thanx for the update, very useful
@grassytramtracks
It's really annoying that you can't share the 10 tickets between people like before!
@gregguarino563
Nicely done. I would add one thing for people that are not familiar with urban transit systems. When you exit the train at an unfamiliar station, walk immediately across to the wall. It's OK to be momentarily undecided about which way to walk, but don't be undecided while you're blocking the people behind you who also need to exit the train. Tourists do that all the time, much to the consternation of the "locals". That's good advice for crowded sidewalks too. Lost? Unsure of where to go? Move to the side, next to the buildings. Then you can decide which way to go at your leisure.
@siljenohr9699
This is great for someone who easily gets overwhelmed in new places and wants to travel to Paris on their own. So well explained and I feel comfortable using the metro now :)
@MC-zr6gc
Always helps to have an unlocked phone and local sim card ( activate it online while still at the airport for the free wifi) and offline maps, that way you can see where different lines intersect, makes navigating the city by metro easier
@Androctonus84
I love the metro. Maybe I’m just odd, but half the fun of visiting Paris for me is navigating the metro. I was with a student group once, and our native guide warned us the first day that we wouldn’t have time to do more than go to a local cafe before our first tour. I took that as a challenge. I grabbed two of my friends and told them we were going someplace better. I ran them through the metro and took them to one of my favorite boulangeries all the way across town, got some great food, and got them back in plenty of time. It’s a great public transport system.