How To Get a Monster on the Bus

How To Get a Monster on the Bus
How To Get a Monster on the Bus
Compilation album by Neon and the Argie Bees
Recorded	2026–
Studio	Studio RGB-Newt
Label	Fishal Project Records
Producer	The Fishal Project
Neon and the Argie Bees compilation chronology

How To Get a Monster on the Bus is an upcoming compilation/tribute album from Neon and the Argie Bees, comprised of covers for opening and closing themes from Nintendo's Pokémon the Series anime franchise (Co-developed by GAME FREAK, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company International and OPM, Inc.). The album has entered pre-production in 2025, though the idea was floating around since at least 2016. Production is expected to begin ten years on from this earlier conception date, in 2026.

Supplemental EPs featuring more Pokémon-related songs, collectively titled How To Get a Monster on the Train, are due for a separate releases, as volumes. Of additional note, the brand name "Pokémon" is not mentioned in any of the cover songs included on the main album (being replaced with an instrumental fill), and only appears in a skit at the end of the main album, for "legal reasons". It does, however, appear on the cover songs featured on the EPs, as most wouldn't make sense without it.

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Track listing

Digital download
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Pokémon Theme"	John Loeffler John Siegler
2.	"Pokémon World"	John Loeffler John Siegler
3.	"Pokémon Johto"	John Loeffler John Siegler
4.	"Born to Be a Winner"	John Loeffler John Siegler
5.	"Believe in Me"	John Siegler David Rolfe
6.	"I Wanna Be a Hero"	John Siegler David Rolfe
7.	"This Dream"	John Siegler David Rolfe
8.	"Unbeatable"	John Siegler David Rolfe
9.	"Battle Frontier"	John Loeffler David Wolfert
10.	"Diamond and Pearl"	"Breeze" Barczynski John Loeffler David Wolfert
11.	"We Will Be Heroes"	John Loeffler David Wolfert
12.	"Battle Cry - (Stand Up!)"	John Loeffler David Wolfert Manny Corallo
13.	"Black and White"	John Loeffler David Wolfert
14.	"Stand Tall"	Ed Goldfarb Akhil Gopal
15.	"Under The Alolan Sun"	Ed Goldfarb Jeff Stuart Saltzman
16.	"Under The Alolan Moon"	Ed Goldfarb
17.	"The Challenge of Life"	Ed Goldfarb
18.	"The Journey Starts Today"	Gianni "Luminati" Sarah Blackwood "Tokyo" Speirs
19.	"Journey to Your Heart"	Ed Goldfarb
20.	"With You"	Graham Sierota Noah Sierota Sydney Sierota
21.	"We Go" (English Ver.)	Sophia Pae JADE.J Lee Won Joung KEYOR C’SA Yakyung
22.	"You Give Them a Valid Bus Ticket" (Skit)	NeonWabbit
Total length:			0:00

"*How To Get a Monster on the Train*, Vol. 1" EP digital download
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Don't Say You Love Me"	Marion Raven Marit Larsen Peter Zizzo Jimmy Bralower
2.	"Only Wanna Be with You"	Mark Bryan Dean Felber Darius Rucker Jim Sonefeld Don Gehman Louis Bell Andrew Watt
3.	"Kanto Pokérap"	John Loeffler John Siegler Tamara Loeffler
4.	"My Best Friends"	Michael Whalen John Loeffler John Siegler
5.	"What Kind of Pokémon Are You?"	John Loeffler John Siegler Norman J. Grossfeld
6.	"Together Forever"	John Loeffler Ken Cummings
Total length:			0:00

"*How To Get a Monster on the Train*, Vol. 2" EP digital download
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"2.B.A. Master"	Russell Velázquez John Loeffler
2.	"Viridian City"	John Loeffler Neil Jason
3.	"Double Trouble"	John Loeffler Louis Cortelezzi Allen Collins Bob Mayo Ronnie Van Zant
4.	"Song of Jigglypuff"	John Loeffler Bob Mayo Louis Cortelezzi
5.	"Go Pokémon Go"	Akira Chiba Atsushi "Toya" Tokuya Lawrence Neves
6.	"The Magikarp Song: I LOVE MAGIKARP"	KoikinGO Ed Goldfarb
Total length:			0:00

"*How To Get a Monster on the Train*, Vol. 3" EP digital download
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Slowpoke Song"	Yādonzu Ed Goldfarb
2.	"POKÉDANCE"	Yuki Honda Tsukasa Kikuchi
3.	"PIKA to PIKO"	Pikotaro
4.	"Pikachu no Uta" (Pikachu's Song)	Tomohisa Sako SAKU
5.	"Electric"	Katy Perry Jon Bellion Stefan Johnson Jordan K. Johnson Oliver Peterhof Bruce Wiegner Al Calderon Rachel Kanner Lucas Marx
6.	"The Time Has Come (Pikachu's Goodbye)"	John Loeffler John Siegler Norman J. Grossfeld
Total length:			0:00

Personnel

Additional musicians

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog No.
Worldwide	TBA	Fishal Project Records	Album digital download	NW-S26FPR01_Comp
	TBA		Supplemental EP Volume 1 digital download	NW-S26FPR01_EP1
	TBA		Supplemental EP Volume 2 digital download	NW-S26FPR01_EP2
	TBA		Supplemental EP Volume 3 digital download	NW-S26FPR01_EP3

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Self-published

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Discography Videography
Music from The Aussie Goldmine's Original Pitch Pilot EP	"Put Down Your Pickaxe"
The Disappearing OST	"The Squid's Game" "The Great Voltage and His Bunny, Sunny" "Voltereier Makes His Long Staff Rod Vanish Before Your Very Eyes" "A Bump of the Lamp" "Closing Curtains"
The Thirst Tides	"Adrift at Sea" "Flying Free" (The Thirst Tides album version) "Seagulls" "Seabreeze" "Chromatic Currents" "Lighthouse, Darkhouse" "Serene's Serenade" "In Waves" "Re-Surfacing" "Endless Ocean" "The First Tides" "Skipping Stones" "Neon Rain" "Drifting Ashore" "What's in the Bottle?"
The Thirst B-Sides	"Anchored at Bay" "Ibis Business" "Seals Pretending To Be Mermaids" "the grey inbetween" "Serpent Seamonster" "Drowning" "Clear Skies" "A Message Unsent" "A Thirst Quenched"
2... 2!	"To Too" "Double Take" (Take 2) "In Duet" "Twice Upon a Time" "Into the Bifocal Lens" "Three's a Crowd" "Parallel Lines" "Second Wind" "Echoes (Echoes)" "Pair-a-dise" "Fork in the Road" "Repeat" "Doppelgänger in a Mirror World" "The Dynamic Duo" "The Second Tides" "Repeat (Reprise)"
Farewell Stairwell	Farewell Stairwell
Other songs	"Really Neat!" "Accordio Nyah" "Where Is Clover?"
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