50 Best Subway Songs for IG Reels & Stories
Best Subway Songs for Instagram Reels and Stories
There’s a strange pulse that comes with being underground. Fluorescent lights flicker, wheels screech on the tracks, someone mutters into a phone, and the whole car feels half-asleep but alive. You’re crammed shoulder to shoulder, earbuds in, staring at tile walls flying past. Then the right track cuts through the noise. It doesn’t have to be about trains at all. Sometimes it’s a beat that matches the sway of the car or a lyric that lands right when the doors snap shut. That moment sticks, and suddenly the ride feels like a scene worth posting.
The subway is messy. The air smells faintly metallic, a busker is trying their luck on a sax, and a kid across the aisle is scrolling at max brightness. It’s a swirl of interruptions, and the right song finds a way to live inside it. Pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can all pull it off in their own way. A bright track makes the grit look cinematic. A heavy one makes the whole ride feel heavier. The connection isn’t neat. Some songs aren’t literally tied to the subway but they still fit the theme because of how they carry the atmosphere.
What matters is how the sound sits with the motion, the rhythm of stops and starts, the quiet hum between stations. A playlist for this isn’t about clean playlists or tidy moods, it’s about catching that weird overlap of ordinary and electric. These songs push through the noise and shape the backdrop in a way that can flip a ride into something that feels worth capturing. Here are the best subway songs for Instagram reels and stories.
Top 10 Transit Instagram Songs
1. 'Downtown Train' by Tom Waits
2. 'Last Train to London' by Electric Light Orchestra
3. 'Train in Vain' by The Clash
4. 'Crazy Train' by Ozzy Osbourne
5. 'People Get Ready' by The Impressions
6. 'Long Train Runnin'' by The Doobie Brothers
7. 'Midnight Train to Georgia' by Gladys Knight & The Pips
8. 'Take the A Train' by Duke Ellington
9. 'Subways of Your Mind' by The Subways
10. 'The Subway' by Chappell Roan
Top-rated Subway Commute Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Another Town, Another Train' by ABBA
12. 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight' by The Jam
13. 'Runaway Train' by Soul Asylum
14. 'The City of New Orleans' by Arlo Guthrie
15. 'Rock and Roll Train' by AC/DC
16. 'Folsom Prison Blues' by Johnny Cash
17. 'Hear My Train A Comin'' by Jimi Hendrix
18. 'Casey Jones' by Grateful Dead
19. 'Morning Train' by Sheena Easton
20. 'Last Train to Clarksville' by The Monkees
Popular Songs for Train Journeys #21 to 30
21. 'Mystery Train' by Elvis Presley
22. 'Long Black Train' by Josh Turner
23. 'Slow Train' by Bob Dylan
24. 'Freight Train' by Elizabeth Cotten
25. 'This Train' by Randy Travis
26. 'Locomotive Breath' by Jethro Tull
27. 'Train Kept A-Rollin'' by Aerosmith
28. 'Homeward Bound' by Simon & Garfunkel
29. 'Peace Train' by Yusuf / Cat Stevens
30. 'Zion Train' by Bob Marley & The Wailers
Train Songs for Social Media #31 to 40
31. 'I'm a Train' by Albert Hammond
32. 'Downbound Train' by Bruce Springsteen
33. 'Driver 8' by R.E.M.
34. 'Marrakesh Express' by Crosby, Stills & Nash
35. 'Last of the Steam-Powered Trains' by The Kinks
36. 'Hey Porter' by Johnny Cash
37. 'The Loco-Motion' by Little Eva
38. 'Train Round the Bend' by The Velvet Underground
39. 'The Midnight Special' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
40. 'Subdivisions' by Rush
Top Songs for Subway-Themed Content #41 to 50
41. 'Silver Train' by The Rolling Stones
42. 'The Night Train' by James Brown
43. 'Love Train' by The O'Jays
44. 'Metro' by Berlin
45. 'Sonderzug nach Pankow' by Udo Lindenberg
46. 'Blue Train' by John Coltrane
47. 'She Caught the Katy' by The Blues Brothers
48. 'Just Another Whistle Stop' by The Band
49. 'Nightrain' by Guns N' Roses
50. 'Mystery Train' by The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
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