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GaalDornick
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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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Javert
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Crossfade's song "Cold". Would always rock out in the car when it came on the radio.
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Boris
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Harry Conick Jr, "To Love the Language"
great road song [Big Grin]

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Dancing in the Moonlight - either Toploader or King Harvest
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pH
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Most of the Beautiful Creatures' self-titled CD is really good for road trips.

-pH

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Telperion the Silver
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"Hold on tight! You know she's a little bit dangerous... Dangerous! bum bum bum dah da da... oooo.. just a little bit dangerous!"

I love Roxette in the car!

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Dr Strangelove
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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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Anything Dream Theater
The entire Rock Spectacle album by BNL
"Danger Zone" is always fun.

I just can't listen to slow jazz on long drives, it makes me sleepy.

Bryan

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Avadaru
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(Sorry, this is long)

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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babager
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Take it Easy- The Eagles... (no road trip is complete without it [Smile] )
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ladyday
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I like A Tribe Called Quest in the car, as well as anything I know the words to.
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romanylass
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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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Little_Doctor
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Two words...Low. Rider.
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Juxtapose
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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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Jim-Me
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Highway or racing: Rush - "Scars"
Cruising: Led Zeppplin - "In the Evening"

Accept no substitutes.

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ketchupqueen
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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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Jump in my car - David Hasselhoff
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How cool.
You Like Kate Rusby! She's got such a sweet voice.

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Narnia
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Hysteria - Muse

That is really the best car song ever.

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Shawshank
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Um...

The Old Rugged Cross
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Stomp
American Pie
Nightswimming
Shooting Pidgeons in the Park
The General

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GaalDornick
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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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Shawshank
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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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Nighthawk
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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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Panic! At the Disco.

Hands down the best thing to listen to.

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Narnia
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quote:
Originally posted by GaalDornick:
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. [Smile]
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The Doors - Morrison Hotel

The whole thing is the best driving music I know.

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Eduardo St. Elmo
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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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Artemisia Tridentata
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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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Ben
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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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MyrddinFyre
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quote:
Two words...Low. Rider.
Yessssss!

Hmmm, I like listening to all of my music in the car. So no lists from me [Smile]

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"The Wheels on the Bus Go Round & Round"
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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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Eduardo St. Elmo
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I forgot to list "Albuquerque" by Weird Al on my previous post. It's seemingly endless...
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quote:
Originally posted by Dan_raven:
"The Wheels on the Bus Go Round & Round"

[ROFL]
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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.

-Bok

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