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The songs for exercise thread made me think of this. What are your favorite songs to listen to while driving in your car? I love classic rock, rock and roll, and some heavy metal.
Favorites:
Guns N' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Def Leppard - Rock of Ages Def Leppard - Photograph Journey - Any Way You Want It Journey - Wheel In the Sky Van Halen - Panama Van Halen - Ain't Talking About Love Van Halen - Hot for Teacher Van Halen - And the Cradle Will Rock Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
Some other bands without particular songs are The Offspring, Muse, and OAR.
What about you guys?
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"Sweet Child O' Mine" is one of my favorites. And, oooffff course, "Born To Be Wild". "Carol of the Bells" by Transiberian Orchestra is really good, as is "I'll Be" by Edwin McCain. Yes, its a sappy cheesy song, but I love singing along with it. That's all that comes to mind right now.
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I made this playlist yesterday to listen to while driving to New Orleans with my boyfriend. I think it's a damn good playlist (though I will be pleasantly surprised if many of you have heard of most of these bands) and it was great to listen to while driving.
Wonderwall - Oasis Trigger Happy Jack - Poe Air Traffic Control - Jets To Brazil No Sleep - Sam Roberts Tech Romance - Her Space Holiday Goldstar - Starlight Mints Song to Sing When Im Lonely - John Frusciante Spit On A Stranger - Pavement This Damn Nation - Actionslacks 27 Jennifers - Mike Doughty Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park Saint Simon - The Shins Thank You, Lord, For Sending Me The F Train - Mike Doughty Drink To Me, Babe, Then - A.C. Newman Peacocks In the Video Rain - John Vanderslice Starlight - Muse Take Me Back - The Vines Your Misfortune - Mike Doughty Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World A Favor House Atlantic - Coheed & Cambria Zak And Sara - Ben Folds Light Switch - Jamie Wyatt Get Off - The Dandy Warhols Sirens - Elefant Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes Now - Self Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well - Mike Doughty Special K - Placebo Natural Disaster - Fischerspooner The Headphonist - Kinky Such Great Heights - The Postal Service It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M. A Stranger - A Perfect Circle Strange And Beautiful - Aqualung Trapped Under Ice Floes - +/- Adapt! - Antennas Amber - 311 Better Than Most - A.C. Newman Precious Things - Tori Amos Tombstone - Peaches Last Night - The Strokes Sticks and Stones - Amandine Retour A Vega - The Stills Agoraphobia - Incubus Soluble Words - On F**k The Pain Away - Peaches Goodnight Goodnight - Hot Hot Heat Island Of The Honest Man - Hot Hot Heat Five Times Final - Hot Hot Heat So Low - Self Summersound - Self You Better Get Ready - The Rosebuds Leaves Do Fall - The Rosebuds Boxcar - The Rosebuds I'd Feel Better - The Rosebuds Still In Love Song - The Stills In The Beginning - The Stills
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Anything Styx. They are one of my all time favorite car bands. Boston too. Not the same stuff I listen to at home, which tends to be Celtic or Led Zeppelin.
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Just about anything by Outkast or Jurassic 5 gets my head bobbin. Also, if the window is rolled down, it provides amusement for any black man I happen to pass. A win-win.
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Paul Simon's early stuff really keeps you going. Like "Love Me Like a Rock" and "Kodachrome." (And of course, his whole album Graceland is great for driving.)
The Beatles are similarly wonderful.
And the Brandenberg Concertos.
I love Kate Wolf's album Lines on the Paper in the car. Back Roads is good, too. Heck, any Kate Wolf is good. (But Lines on the Paper is best for driving to.)
Kate Rusby's first solo album, Hourglass, is good, too.
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The Old Rugged Cross Great is Thy Faithfulness Stomp American Pie Nightswimming Shooting Pidgeons in the Park The General
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quote:Originally posted by Narnia: Hysteria - Muse
That is really the best car song ever.
I love that song. The bass intro is one of the greatest I've ever heard and I love playing it.
Avadaru, I know about 35% of the bands on your list, but not many of the songs that you listed. That's probably because most of the bands that I've heard from there were from friends' cds and I didn't ask any of the song names. I love the Frusciante song, probably my favorite from his solo career.
Shawshank, by The General do you mean the Dispatch song? That's a great song but not really my kind of music for the car. That's more of a chill song for me, as is most of Dispatch's stuff.
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Yeah- that's it- I couldn't remember who it was by. The last 4 songs on my list are fond memories from my experiences at Duke TiP which I get rather excited about....
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I second the Graceland album by Paul Simon. I can listen to that entire thing again and again. It just makes me happy. I also just made an a capella driving playlist, so all the upbeat songs by Rockapella, Da Vinci's Notebook or The Nylons.
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If I need to get somewhere fast, I have a few choices that really help:
Heart - Barracuda Joe Satriani - Speed of Light Mason Williams - Classical Gas Apocalyptica - Hall of the Mountain King R.E.M. - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (if any of you out there know how I drive, you might find that amusing)
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quote:Originally posted by Narnia: Hysteria - Muse
That is really the best car song ever.
I love that song. The bass intro is one of the greatest I've ever heard and I love playing it.
I wish I knew how to play bass just so I could play the bass line to that song. I love how they put the whole song together in layers.
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Radar Love - Golden Earring Run Through The Jungle - CCR Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf Prison Song - The Outsiders A Friend - KRS One The End - The Doors The Distance - Cake Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull White Lightning - Def Leppard Through The Never - Metallica Bus 29 - Livin' Blues
I could go on and on, but I don't want to take up too much space. But perhaps the following albums are worth checking out, when next you go on a roadtrip:
Revolution - Q65 Think Tank (or 13) - Blur and last but not least; the soundtrack recording to "Last Action Hero"
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SHA NA NA unless its late at night and I'm sleepy; then John Phillip Sousa, the Philly Pops recordings.
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I have found "Shove This Jay-Oh-Bee" from the Office Space soundtrack to be a good song when I am driving home from work on certain days.
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Depends on the time of day, weather, and velocity. Here are a few off the top of my head...
Summer driving above the speed limit in good weather: Horrorscope (Eve 6), American Idiot (Green Day), a Guns 'n Roses "greatest hits" collection, The Color and the Shape (Foo Fighters)
Slower summer driving: Sigur Ros (Takk), a Led Zeppelin "greatest hits," Jimi Hendrix (more or less anything)
Urban night driving: Kid A (Radiohead)
Rural night driving: Anything by Zero 7
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Deep Purple: Highway Star Deep Purple: Speed King Rush: Red Barchetta The Beatles: Drive My Car Bobby McFerrin: Drive Queen: I'm In Love With My Car They Might Be Giants: Come On and Wreck My Car They Might Be Giants: Mink Car They Might Be Giants: AKA Driver Yes: White Car Cake: Race Car Ya-Yas The Cardigans: Daddy's Car Beastie Boys: Car Thief Primus: Jerry Was a Race Car Driver Barenaked Ladies: In the Car Barenaked Ladies: Tonight Is the Night I Fell Asleep At the Wheel Gordon Lightfoot: Carefree Highway Jim Croce: Workin' at the Car Wash Blues Captain Beefheart: Dali's Car Jethro Tull: Nobody's Car Weird Al Yankovic: Stop Draggin' My Car Around R.E.M.: Drive Flaming Lips: Mr Ambulance Driver Simon & Garfunkel: Baby Driver Dave Matthews Band: Drive In Drive Out Rush: Driven Rush: Between the Wheels Kanye West: Drive Slow Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive David Arnold: Backseat Driver The Atoll: Takin' the Wheel Willie Nelson: Hands On the Wheel Chris Isaak: Kings of the Highway Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan: From a Buick 6 Nobuo Uematsu: The Chase of Highway America: Ventura Highway Derek and the Dominos: Key to the Highway AC/DC: Highway to Hell Nelson Riddle: Theme to Route 66 Aretha Franklin: Freeway of Love Jeff Beck: Freeway Jam Stray Cats: Built for Speed Stray Cats: Rev It Up and Go Yo La Tengo: Speeding Motorcycle Prodigy: Speedway Orbital: Speed Freak Grateful Dead: New Speedway Boogie Bruce Springsteen: Thunder Road Dixie Dregs: Road Expense Red Hot Chili Peppers: Road Trippin' Frank Sinatra: On the Road to Mandalay Seatbelts: Road to the West John Denver: Take Me Home, Country Road Stereolab: Visionary Road Maps Cream: Crossroads James Taylor: Country Road Henry Mancini: Two For the Road Cocteau Twins: Road, River and Rail Steve Morse: The Road Home David Byrne: The Great Western Road Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere Neil Diamond: Glory Road Dire Straits: Telegraph Road Frank Zappa: Inca Roads Al Stewart: Roads to Moscow Roger Miller: King of the Road Cat Stevens: On the Road to Find Out Tenacious D: The Road The Beatles: Why Don't We Do It In the Road? Duke Ellington: At a Dixie Roadside Diner Pat Metheny: The Road to You The Doors: Roadhouse Blues Neil Young: Roll Another Number (for the road) Doobie Brothers: Road Angel Sting: Moon Over Bourbon Street 2Pac: Run tha Streetz Johnny Cash: Streets of Laredo Aaron Copland: Street In a Frontier Town Louis Prima: Basin Street Blues The Cure: Fascination Street The Crystal Method: Breakin On the Street Saint Etienne: Side Streets Dean Martin: Ev'ry Street's a Boulevard in Old New York U2: Where the Streets Have No Name Joni Mitchell: Underneath the Streetlight Dixie Dregs: Cruise Control Steely Dan: Midnite Cruiser DJ Shadow: Mashin' On the Motorway/ Blood On the Motorway
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Moloka'i Slide - Ehukai Drop Baby Drop - Mana'o Company When The Morning Comes - Kalapana Blue Light - Ho'onua Sailin' - Cecilio and Kapono Me Name Jr. Gong - Damian Jr. Gong Marley Sweet Darlin' - Fiji Margarita - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Never Forget Where I'm From - Justin Noho Pai Pai - Ka'au Crater Boys Bomdbudd - DJ Quick Puff the Magic Dragon - Crazy Fingers Sweet Lady of Waiahole - Bruddah Waltah Live a Little - Hawaiian Style Band Slowly But Surely - Ho'aikane
Haha, sorry. I just thought it'd be funny to get some Hawaiian up there.
I'd have to agree with "Sweet Child of Mine".
Peace of Mind - Boston Hotel California (70s version) - Eagles Tequila - Los Lobos Keep Fishin' - Weezer
If I've offended anyone via eclectivity I apologize.
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Most of the album Charm of the Highway Strip by The Magnetic Fields is perfect for those long multi-state trips, between sunset and sunrise especially.
My favorite songs are Lonely Highway, Two Characters In Search Of A Contry Song, and Fear Of Trains, though the first 8 songs are all pretty solid.