Love on a Real Train

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"Love on a Real Train"
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Single by Tangerine Dream
from the album Risky Business soundtrack
B-side "Guido the Killer Pimp"
Released 1984
Genre Electronic
Label Virgin
Songwriter(s) Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream singles chronology
"Warsaw in the Sun"
(1983)
"Love on a Real Train"
(1984)
"Flashpoint"
(1984)

"Love on a Real Train" is a 1984 single by Tangerine Dream from the soundtrack for the film Risky Business . [1] [2] [3] Critics have noted the influence of Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians on "Love on a Real Train". [4] [5] [6] [7]

The song has been featured on other film soundtracks including Noah Baumbach's The Squid and the Whale , [8] the television series Mr. Robot , [9] interactive Netflix film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch , [10] the Netflix movie The Babysitter: Killer Queen [11] and Ben Affleck's Air .

"Love on a Real Train" was voted one of the best 200 songs of the 1980s by Pitchfork magazine. [12]

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