TGV Synthwave: a mix for the most aesthetically 80s train
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Alan's Other Music Mix videos:
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Videos Used:
• TGV AN 1 - 1982 SNCF F...
• IMPRESSIONS TGV - 1981...
• TGV 001 - 1972 SNCF Fe...
0:00 Home - Head first
3:30 Miami Nights 1984 - Accelerated
7:08 Voyage - Hyper
12:32 Electric Groove - LazerHawk
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The individual songs used for this and a custom TGV album cover can be found here!
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the one dislike is from airfrance
Air France mostly does international flights tho
@@Saucisse_Praxis ... because of tgv
@@CoolTransport fax
@@CoolTransport what dislike?
*John Cena 👋 *
Air inter*
They were the ones doing the intra flights and when down in the 1990s or 2000s
I strongly approve of this.
Hi!
I really enjoyed your video on tgv
France: "While you were reeling from the Beeching cuts , I was studying the grade"
UK: "... what the bloody hell are you talking abou-"
France: "S U D - E S T T I M E"
"While you were having cars, I studied the high-speed rail
While you were building roads, I practised the LGV
While you wasted your days in traffic jams I cultivated electric motion
And now that the world is on fire and the climate change is at out gates, you have the audacity to ask for help?"
@@michka841 from which film is the original quote? Sounds dope.
It’s a parody of the mall ninja copypatsta, the "while you were partying, I studied the blade"
Kinda funny since France exports power because it has so much nuclear power. Its largest net exporter of electricity in the world. With rising prices with Ukraine war french somewhat rubbing Germans face in it.
UK: "You may have forgotten my little gem here"
France: "Quoi?"
UK: *(H S T T I M E)*
*The HST Was in service for longer than TGV Sud-Est and more units were built*
For those who were wondering what that was at 0:40, the TGV was first designed as a gas-turbine powered train similar to the Turboliner. The 70's and the oil crisis drove them in the right direction, considering most of the nation runs on nuclear power.
It was sad to see the 1981 stock retire last year, at least SNCF painted one up with the old livery for the event.
As far as I know 'Patrick' aka TGV 001 will be fully preserved ( with that Orange Paint ) and there's talk to refurbish it's interior to what it was initially.
Now I haven't seen anything official about that, just posts on forums.
@@tenalafel Did you hear if they were going to repaint it fully in Sud-Est orange or keep its retirement paint job with the Phase I-III combo?
@@iamnemo1792 From what I read full Sud-Est Orange livery. For the time being the train is stored in Villeneuve-Saint-George pending final decisions on the look and refurbishing.
Yeh it was sad too see them go. I'm Dutch so the only TGV trains Ive seen from closeby myself are the Thalys trains in Amsterdam. But I did grow up with orange TGV's on posters above my bed lol.
@@tenalafel The TGV 001 "Patrick" will probably be used for parts to maintain and restore the TGV 016 wo did the World record in 1981.
"If TGV so good, why no-"
4:50
"LET'S GOOOOOO"
Meanwhile in Britain 40 Years later: "If HS1 so good why no HS-"
4:28*
@@MrStark-up6fi pretty sure means the TGV-2
It still looks modern nowadays
I would say bout 95%
They really were the future
It’s timeless
I'd argue the old one looks even better than the modern one. Probably childhood nostalgia talking though.
@@Totone56 i think old aerodynamic vehicles have more simple geometry than modern ones and thats why they are easier to look at
Les Américains sont dans les commentaires en train de chialer sur le North East Corridor mais Imagine si le Canada avait au moins une ligne de train interurbain qui était électrique :(
Me, a french guy looking through your channel :
"Oh boy, didn't know we were that whorshiped"
The TGV is awesome and you can be proud of it. As a German guy I am quite jealous.
@@AntonFetzer Tbh I like the ICE trainsets more. The great thing about the french network is the dedicated high speed corridors that aren't interrupted every 150km.
I worship the French b/c nearly two centuries previous "they" figured out toilet closet plumbing which allows one to rinse one's hands by pressing a foot pedal...instead of the American method of potentially contaminating an activation valve by using "contaminated" hands...but then...there's the SST and TGV...etc...
This feels like a mustard video
I'll take that as a compliment haha
Lots of that lineside flying footage
dijon' ??
3:20 Can you imagine, Jaeger-LeCoultre a Swiss luxury watch manufacturer literally built the speed-o-meter. How aesthetic isn't that?
Jaeger built dials for everything. My grandpa's 2000 Citroen Xantia had Jaeger gauges too, so it was basically a TGV!
@@kristenburnout1 a Xantia also has a very 80's pointy shape. I really love it!
Many French cars have Jaeger speed-o-meters :p
@@ronangaillard32 so then a French car is just a private TGV
And some Xantias even had the active leaning-into-turns suspension. I'm not sure Citroen didn't just point a shrinkray at a TGV A-unit and sold as-is.
Gonna download, record to VHS and play on my VCR
I’m jealous of the French. If only we weren’t so obsessed with our cars and had the poltical power to fix the northeast corridor
The us even could electrify most mainlines,they jzst dont wanna do it bc that would be socialism and it would help the people
People in France don't let the govt fuck them though. Slight change in the law people are on the streets smashing and burning shit. It finally happens in America and the news twists the narrative. Same here in the UK we could have all the nice things but people would rather be angry at their neighbour than work to make things better.
@@zoid88 As a french person, i'd like to say that you shouldn't be fooled by the rebeliousness of the French. Even though I agree that being critical of your government is good, most protest movements in France are counter productive and end up doing more harm than good. For instance in the rail world, train conductors are notorious for going on strike, paralyzing the entire country, and encouraging many people to take their cars as the trains are unreliable. Being critical is good, going apeshit whenever anything happens is much less so.
@@leonmorel789 That's because the workers of the private sector are delegating the striking power to the public ones. If they were striking, they would not need to go to work !
@@Ronor i don't think so. French private workers are free to unionize and strike no problem, but only 8% of french workers are actually unionized. And the whole country is led by three major unions which decide when major strikes take place. So it's extremely unrepresentative of what the workers actually think. I've actually heard from family members (which is in no way proof) that back in the 80's when there were major strikes at steel foundries, unions would put big guys with clubs at the entrance of the factory to keep the workers who wanted to go work from getting in. And if we were to compare, germany and Switzerland have better quality of life (and railservice for that matter), and i don't see them striking every week.
Americans: High speed rail, in this economy? Impossible
French: MAIS SI C'EST POSSIBLE AVEC LA CARTE KIWI
I UA
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for pepole thet dont know "la carte kiwi" was a pass of SNCF in the late 80's 90's
and the ad became a meme because is a earworm
Kiwi card?
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Timeless design...
TGV sud Est looked best in Orange 👍🏻
I'll have to go with the Atlantic livery. That's the one I grew up with!
Oui !
I'm a 90s kid, when I was growing up the orange livery definitely felt dated, especially when the silver livery of TGV Atlantique came around. I liked the new ones much better back then. But now, while the orange livery still feels very much late 70s, I absolutely love it! It's just a fantastic design that made history, it really is iconic. The music is really great too!
When something becomes so old it feels new again. It's a funny feeling.
Fashion goes in circles. Always has done. I remember thinking how dated and tacky all kinds of things from the 80s were a couple of decades back. Now much of it is cool again! So many modern pop songs sound like they were made in 1985, modern cars mimic the 80s style cars, and so on. Wait long enough and just about anything will come back into fashion. The older you get, the more you'll notice it.
70s disco orange is in atm
These things look like spaceships right from the future. Trains are most efficient mode of mass transport ever made. This is high tech that actually is consumer friendly, ecologically friendly and economically feasible.
The TGV is awesome. I remember going from Zurich to Paris in one afternoon at 300km/h.
The train was showing its age, but still a comfortable and fast ride. Also quite affordable. Even if I would have a car, I would choose the TGV if possible, because it is so much faster and so much more relaxing. Taking a nap at 300km/h is only possible in a train or a plane. Definitely not in a car.
Its quite sad how much "high speed" rail sucks in Germany in comparison. We have nice Inter City Express (ICE) trains, but the rail network is more than 100 years old and falling apart to the point where trains designed for 300km/h can only go 80km/h.
Yeah, I just went back and forth from Utrecht to Austria with ICE, we had consistent hour long delays and when we were moving we went a max of 130 km/h even though the train could go much faster
@@thijmstickman8349 to be fair, the Dutch part is poor as well (
@@MyReetkever Yeah definitely, for a country largely built around a through harbour of a river that goes to Germany we have a pretty shit connection to them via rail
I czech we have only one hight speed track pendolino what we have has max speed of 250 kmh but cuz the tracks are old it can go only 100kmh wich sucks
I moved from the UK to France tgv is so much better and cheaper than the UK.
Now there's a high speed train that feels, looks, and is fast and classy; thank you for sharing
Me watching this several times within a few days is responsible for flooding me with SNCF and TGV video recommendations and I ain't complaining. Never seen a more aesthetic train than the 1st gen TGV.
what about some maglev prototypes ?
The TGV is 80's AF, I do remember being in awe of many such things when vising France as a child, it made the UK look very backwards. Fortunately we seem to have got the message now and are catching up. I think the French do well because they somehow manage to transcend all the childish politics, recognizing that effective infrastructure is a common good no mater your political outlook, and not some kind of communist plot.
Yep, I am hoping for you guys that HS2 will actually be built. Maybe there's actually a chance of that happening, but I don't know for sure.. In my own country I wish we had better (high speed) connections to Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany (I live in the Netherlands), I live in a city which is pretty close to the border, but in order to get to Luxembourg, it takes nearly 6 hours by train.
@@adelaide7822 HS2 is certainly happening, construction is already well underway. It's interesting because our current government party (center-right) was once very anti-rail and pro-road, but right now they are putting massive funding into our railways. As well as HS2 there are a number of big electrification schemes, loads of new train sets and even some previously closed lines are being re-built. Also the overall UK rail system has just been defacto re-nationalized albeit most trains will still be operated by contract. I hope all EU governments will do similar because it will work so much better as a Europe wide system if all countries have good connections.
I mean french are more left wing. Hell french Communists are a thing can actually get seats in the senate.
It could be worse... you could be us in America. You look centuries ahead of us in terms of rail lol
Lol think again. A counterexample to your hypothesis : the deliberate sabotage of our fast-neutron reactor program, for a mere political agreement between the PS and the Green party ! France would be on top in that field if not for this untranscended "childish politics" !
To hell with planes and space travel, an extensive and reliable train network is the greatest example of forward thinking and long term planning of humanity.
If a country has electrified, high speed and extensive train network, they have done it.
Where I live, we have 2 of 3 but that is good enough.
This is the eightiest eighties that ever eightied.
Ａｌｓｔｏｍ ｗａｖｅ
The next Urbanist video should be out by the end of next week btw!
Stop the cap
Could you maybe make one with the Nederlandse spoorwegen(Dutch railways) koploper and the VIRMbizon units?
En tant que francais ayant pris plusieurs fois le TGV ce n'est qu'en lisant les commentaires anglophones que je réalise maintenant que lire un livre tranquillement à plus de 300km/heures sans ressentir la vitesse ne va pas en fait de soi (merci Internet pour cette leçon de philosophie).
La même
TH-cam at 3:00 AM :
Me: its not what i was serching for but im very thankfull for recomending me this
This is epic. I'm not generally an 80s fan, but this was one of the coolest things to come from that decade.
👍
And one also cool thing from 80s is thomas the tank engine and friends
I don't understand how something that had a prototype in the early 70s is considered 1980s just because the public could not board until 1981.
i took the TGV to go from Paris to Marseille last month, i went to the restaurant wagon, there were an old boomer who tried for 15 minutes to tell me how much the Giscard were cooler than Macron and also that thing were simpler with the MINITEL...that realy was the 80s experience XD
*Giscardpunk intensifies*
LOL, MINITEL...there's something I haven't thought of in over thirty years....
"The Giscard"
...and you young loser didn't believe him ?
Wooaaaaa the scene with the plane at 11:03 .... absolutely EPIC !
Much better than a helicopter rising above the horizon with a sunset and palm trees in the background if you ask me :D
that moment when you realize they have to use a chase plane to film it because at 380 km/h the train is too fast for a helicopter to keep up with
@@renhanxue And then theres the plane for the TGV V150 record...
@@renhanxue at one test the plane they had could barely keep up immo
The fastest mail train ever seen.
amazon needs this shit asap
edit: or any other goods hauling company for that matter
This is some quality Giscard Punk
for the record Electric Groove has been living rent-free in my head for weeks now and this video, solely, is responsible for that
yeah me too lol
Orange/white/dark is the aestethic i need in my life
I don't know why, but this type of videos makes me unreasonably happy
I love trains, they're wholesome
Nuclear-powered train of the future, France can be damn impressive sometimes, this and the union culture being so strong.
I remember seeing in southern France the classy and "shiny metal" style of the TGV next to the more 70's chic and "stainless steel" style of the EX-TEE "Catalan Talgo"...
It was quite a cool time!
This music is so fitting for the worlds best Highspeed train. YEAH, I SAID. Japan fight me! lol
The ride quality and service pattern isn't even close. Though I have to concede that the flexibility to run on normal lines is a superior quality that you will never get in the Shinkansen.
Shinkansen>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>tgv
@@lars7935 cause japan chose a rail gauge that was too small
I feel like they should have used standard gauge right from the start
@@rebeccacothron2871 It made a lot of sense at the time sine Japan is very mountainous and a narrower rail gauge is beneficial for that. And Japans settlement structure means that you can connect the majority of the population with just a few lines so it's not all that bad.
Why would french and Japanese fight. They are good friends. Something you realise outside the Anglosphere.
I was in France recently, and I was so happy that I was able to take the TGV for the first time. It was great.
I'm obsessed with this video.
I remember my first TGV trip between Paris and Lyon (and back): back in 1981, when the line opened, I accompanied my young son and his classmates and teacher to this science/technology/history trip through the French countryside (and Burgundy vineyards) down to the Capital of Gauls' at "only" 260km/h (the average speed then at the opening of the very first leg of the first French very high speed line).
Now, Marseille is 3hrs from Paris, London 2hrs, Brussels 1hr and the trains with their double deck coaches ride at 320km/h...
Right, I need this on cassette to play in my Citroen BX
The US needs a SNCF
Based flag, sir.
SNCE Société nationale des chemins de fer états Unis
Or renfe
No, this is impossible ! That will imply that the government has to do more stuff ! Therefore it would be more...
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Kid: We need SNCF
Mom: We have SNCF at home
SNCF at home: Amtrak
Damn you made Miami Nights 1984 and Lazerhawk even cooler, didn't think it was even possible
Thanks for this video, as a frequent TGV user, I absolutely love that 300 km/h feel when going back to my western hometown in the sunset.
Fun Fact: The TGV is so good that it was used in official CAHSR renderings
This video's vibes are impeccable
While the TGV Sud-Est sets entered service in the 1980s, I think they (not to mention the turbo prototype shown at the start) are unquestionably a 1970s aesthetic design. The ETR 450 Pendolinos in Italy were also 1970s design. For some quintessential 1980s train design, try the Shinkansen Series 100, the ICE-V prototype in Germany, or the SBB Re 4/4 IV locos from Switzerland.
Back to the 1970s, there was an aesthetically very pleasing train that should have shown the future to Europe but it took longer: the Class 403 in Germany. This semi-high-speed train had distributed traction like Shinkansens, also like modern Siemens Velaros, AnsaldoBreda/Bombardier Zefiros or CAF Oarises in Europe, but unlike the tractor head concept of all TGVs and the first generation of ICE trains in Germany and ETR 500 trains in Italy. One problem with the Class 403 was that it was too short (four cars long, built when intercity trains were stupidly first-class-only). Another was that it was built with one of the many failed tilting technologies (the tilting itself worked but people felt ill), limiting carbody cross-section. The distributed traction itself wasn't very maintenance-friendly back in the day, although it was still manageable for the Class 403. (Still, in contrast to Shinkansens where only end cars are trailers, most European distributed-traction high-speed trains only have half of their axles driven, not all like the 403.)
I only traveled in a Orange TGV set once in the late 90s on a normal piece of track. It felt very dated back then and they where definitely worn out by that time. But goddamn what a style it was
Perfect video to watch after having traveled through France west to east with a TGV
I never had the urge to construct trains in high quantities until this
90s ICE and X2000 on the NEC mix next?
you know when you find the exact content you need
7:22 The train looks so beautiful.
The TGV is pure class!
Source videos:
th-cam.com/video/OxlH5zvnBZQ/w-d-xo.html - Impressions TGV (1981); centre audiovisuel SNCF
th-cam.com/video/fV2ctSG0dFQ/w-d-xo.html - Opération TGV 100 (1981); centre audiovisuel SNCF
th-cam.com/video/gHqZ6PjZ7vo/w-d-xo.html - TGV an 1 (1982); centre audiovisuel SNCF
I live in Rotterdam and enjoyed each time this red beauty departed or arrive at central station. Never had the joy of boarding these models though and seeing this video makes me regret that.
Les américains sont comme ça: quand ils aiment ils aiment
Banger video. Very based
Thank you for this! This whole video fills me with optimism that solutions are already there and that some day, hopefully, we will come to our minds, and start using sexy trains that blasts 80s wave all day and night! It's the future we deserve!
This is one of the train that made me love them. I always looked at our old Polish trains and emus being slow and rusted, and having day long delays and the there was this French rocket! And you managed to mix ot with 80 music!
Absolutely LOVE THIS, I wish there was one for VIA Rail and their LRC and Turbo Train, one day I may make something like it. Absolutely love this video, keep up the amazing work!!
Well if you don't, I'll definitely put that on my to do list haha
Yes please! Also the first two songs would fit it perfectly ngl XD
Have a great day!
Superbe compilation, qui met bien en valeur cette magnifique prouesse technologique qu'est le TGV, tellement en avance sur son temps !
Hyper fit absolutely perfect. Synthwave + 80s high speed trains are a total VIBE
This gotta be the best AMV i've ever seen on youtube.
Instant sub.
The retro TGV Orange still looks so good to this day! I wish they still used it!
They could at least paint an Atlantique or a Reseau in that paint job
That fourth song is FUCKING FIRE, and I love the ** A E S T H E T I C ** in this video
these project are those you dream of working on
3:05 this is my favourite high speed train clip i think ever
First TGV , even today looks great!
THIS IS WHAT THEY TOOK FROM YOU
TGV, best thing to come out of france since... uhhhh
uhhh guillotines
The Eiffel Tower, Circuit de la Sarthe, the Statue of Liberty (it was built there), Asterix the Gaul. We've got a lot of options here.
Photography? That was pretty big one. Pasteurisation? Rechargable battery? Cinema? Aspirin?
French aren't short on world changing inventions.
Incredible video ! And this train is a legend
this is fantastic! fits so well!
I'm honestly a little gutted I won't have the chance to ride the 1981 stock. It was so cool.
What a beautiful mix of TGV and music.
I listen to this almost every day lol...hope you make more!
This video is objectively great!
The Intercity 225 the ICE the X 2000 and the E 414 look 80s too.
Everything about this is absolutely beautiful! We need another synthwave mix like this Alan.
9:42 "I'm gonna do what I call the Pro Gamer Move"
Operation TGV 100 in a nutshell
You literally embody my entire passion with urban design, with the Synthwave and everything. 😅
This mix goes way harder than I thought it would, I love it!
I had a Lima model of the TGV, I loved it so much! Music goes great with nostalgia
My fellow Americans, even though I have nothing to do with France but know someone who was born there, am now declaring it to be TGV Thursday, to complement F40 Friday, Mile Long Freight Monday, and Trolley Tuesday.
Is there a Japan Rail City Pop mix? I would love that xD
EDIT: Nvm, found the shinkansen city pop. Alan you are amazing!
This is hot.
I definitely love this video.
10:45 - 12:30 probably the best part.
This perfectly sums up Giscard Punk
As a kid, I had a miniature model of that orange TGV. I still think it is the best looking train to this day. I wish I knew where the hell I put it though...
Americans before the video : OK, what's so great about that train when you have planes ?
Americans after the video : ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIEEEEE
Never knew I needed this!
Well done, good sir!
There are a lot of things I have heard about the French, but I am very jealous as an American of the tgv
aaah, TGVawe: Wrong Line, luw it.
Next vid: Shinkansen Citypop???
TGV: the only thing that makes every Briton wish they were French.
dont forget the food bro, and the girls
This really hits for North Americans because it’s retro futurism but not science fiction. It’s the past for Europe but looks futuristic to us 🫠🫠
The first song goes so well with the video.
Really nice video dude!