Top Gear did one but what do you think?
If someone has done one like this before please delete.
Schoolboy
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Silver Machine by Golden Earring.
Bat out of hell by Meatloaf.
Dancing Queen by ABBA.
Anything by the Smurffs...
Regards,
John R @ Home
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Silver Machine by Hawkwind or Radar Love by Golden Earring
gah! now veryone knows what a saddo I am.....
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I'm nominating Sweet Home Alabama, as I can't get the blasted thing out of my head at the moment.
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steppenwolf - born to be wild
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"Sweet Home Alabama"
Good one! How about "Wishing Well" by Free, Rocky Mountain way and Life's been Good - joe Walsh, not forgetting Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond and anything by Howlin' Wolf .
Now guess my age!!
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Forgot "Freebird" Lynyrd Skynnyrd (too many "n"s and "y"s but you get the drift!)
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ELO - Sweet Talking Woman
ELO - Turn To Stone
ELO - Confusion
Stereophonics - T-Shirt Sun Tan
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Adam
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Ads - you need that new greatest hits CD of ELO (or have you got it?) Was our favourite this summer.
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Got it Phil.
Only discovered them a while ago. I mean - I'd heard Mr Blue Sky but I had no idea their other songs were so good too.
I listen to the others too - Telephone Line etc but they're not traditional driving songs!
The Smiths, Roxy Music. They're all good. (Looking at my cds now!)
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Adam
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ELO? you ony just discovered them?
Jeez you missed the out of the blue tour, spaceship and all.
WAsnt that long ago either, 1979 i Think
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I only just discovered how good they were RF - and yes - I have missed out!
1979 was 6 years too early btw.
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Adam
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If someone has done one like this before......
Probably, but some people here now might not have been around back then, so post away.
As for my best driving song, it depends what mood I'm in at the time.
Nothing classical - can't stand it.
Rock or heavy metal for when I am in a hurry. Bon Jovi, Ozzi Osbourne, Def Leppard and the like.
General pop music for everyday driving - as long as it's got a decent tune and it's not boyband stuff like Westlife.
Can't pinpoint my all time favourite though.
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That's another goodun' - Def Leppard. As well as the old Aerosmith stuff and Duran Duran.
Classics.
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Adam
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Highway star - Deep Purple
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Autobahn by Kraftwerk (the long version) is great on a deserted motorway at night.
If you must have ELO, you can't ignore Roll Over Beethoven.
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Roll Over Beethoven - yep - that's in.
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Adam
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Kraftwerk - yep - but ONLY if you want to fall asleep on the journey!!
Ah Ha - greatist hits - EXCELENT for night drive!
ELO - first class if you all want to sing along - you'll now the words without knowing the words (not so sure about roll over Bethoven though!!)
VB
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Me and my mate went up to the Trafford Centre the other day and managed to sing non-stop ELO all there way up there. They are the ultimate sing along band.
We were too hoarse on the way back.
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Adam
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Anything being played on Radio 2 whilst I'm at the wheel (plus Terry Wogan in his most infectious mood).
Still remember with great amusement a letter he read out during his initial days on Radio 2 from a motorist who revealed that his wife was known as the Slough turn off...:-)
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Radar Love by Golden Earing.
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Yes... Radar Love. That's what I meant.
Silver Machine of course, was by Hawkwind.
Regards,
John R @ Home
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I have a confession to make. When Top Gear polled their best driving song, I voted for Meatloafs Bat out of Hell. I really wanted it to win just to nark James May.
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Bruce Springsteen; Cadillac Ranch, Born to Run, Open all Night and about 50 others.
John
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Bohemian Rhapsody. Try listening to it without doing a Wayne's World!
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Crawling from the Wreckage - Dave Edmunds
(Graham Parker song - Google'd for the lyrics and found Status Quo have covered it also)
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Don't Stop Me Now (Queen)
And apologies in advance to anyone who draws alongside me at the lights when this is on and I'm singing my little heart out...
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Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Have a Cigar - Foo Fighters (or Pink Floyd if you're a bit old ;) )
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Simply Red - Something got me started
Pasadenas - Riding on a train
Black Box - Ride on Time
Motorhead - Bomber
808 State - Cobra Bora
Pet Shop Boys - Left to my own devices
Level 42 - Heaven in my Hands
Lisa Stansfield - People hold on
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Level 42. Of course! Not Heaven in my Hands though - Lessons in Love and Running in the Family.
Awesome songs. Reminds me of being a kid.
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Adam
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Never out of the cd carousel - Genesis - Second Home by the Sea (has to be the live version). Say what you like about Phil Collins and I?ll agree but he and Chester Thompson are two of the best drummers in the world going hell for leather and I play this track at max volume on the motorway, in the vague hope that It will set the airbags off.
For more pensive moments, like a bit of country, Gram Parsons, Cowboy Junkies and being a manc, anything with Ian Brown in it. (Coolest man on the planet after me).
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Ahem. And after me.
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Adam
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Agree on Bat out of Hell
Anything by Capercaille
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Coolest man on the planet after Ad and me.
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Thank you.
And to think next Monday I was going to stop by....can't quite remember what for though.
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Adam
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I imagine you were going to drop off my birthday present, it being the 19th of September ?n?all.
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Really? The 19th of September??? Your birthday???
On the way, I may listen to Boston's More Than A Feeling because I've got more than a feeling that there'll be some birthday cake for me.
(A-ha. I've now made my post delete proof!)
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Adam
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I'm square and proud of it - just about all of the above would put me off completely.
I need a big strong tune to drive to - something like I vow to thee my country (Jupiter from The Planets - Gustav Holst) or Jerusalem (espaially as WE WON THE ASHES) - not forgetting I Travel the Road (Peter Dawson).
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Driving songs have to 'singalongable' - just ask my kids.
Current favorites include:
I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison version)
Dont Pay the Ferryman (Chris de Burgh)
Healing Hand (Elton John)
Since Youve been Gone (Rainbow)
Girl Talk (Dave Edmunds)
I also like a good steering wheel bongo or air guitar part (though only when stuck in traffic).
For some reason the boys insist on keeping the windows closed when I sing...
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The Chain, Fleetwood Mack
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Eagles .........
# Well, I'm running down the road
tryin' to loosen my load
I've got seven women on
my mind,
Four that wanna own me,
Two that wanna stone me,
One says she's a friend of mine.....
Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me......
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Take it eaaaasy, take it eeeeeeeee-ee-eeesay.
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Adam
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If i didn't know you better Adam i'd swear your fast approaching middle age based on your music choice!
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Blue, I swear I should have been born earlier. You could count on one hand the music of today I like.
I mean, I like the more traditional songs such as Stereophonics and people like that but there's not many of them anymore.
I can't listen to the radio anymore. It's either some bloke giving his life story trying to cram as many words into one sentence as he can, or some sugary pop crap that makes you want to wrench the cd player out and dispose of it whilst moving.
God I sound old.
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Adam
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Oh come on Adam....
Scissor Sisters is kewl.......Good driving music too.
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Here is a good one.
Song, contains reference to Studebaker, Edsel, and the Queen of England.
Title and Artist please
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Name that tune in one!
Nothing to do with Not Starting the Fire and Billy Joel is it?
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Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire
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Adam
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B'ah. Too slow in my old age.
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Adam
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It has a tune but I wouldn't rush out and buy it.
The Police - also very good. Don't stand so close to me when I'm singing it though as I'm liable to embarass you. I used to say to my ex, Roxanne, I can't stand losing you but I may as well have been an Invisible Man...even though every little thing she did was magic.
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Adam
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Buddy Guy: Mustang Sally.
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....and I forgot: Chuck Berry's Maybelline.
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Kenny Loggins: Danger Zone (From 'Top Gun')
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The Worst Driving Song is Rossini's William Tell Overture, (aka The Lone Ranger). When Classic FM play it, I have have this great urge to accelerate hard irrespective of (and in defiance of) speed limits.
On another subject, it's good to know that ELO is back. Up here in the NW Highlands, one is tempted to start singing "Mr Blue Sky" on any of the rare occassions that one has actually seen blue sky and sunshine during the "summer" of 2005.
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I can't listen to the radio anymore. It's either some bloke giving his life story trying to cram as many words into one sentence as he can, or some sugary pop crap that makes you want to wrench the cd player out and dispose of it whilst moving.
Amen to that. I think the last time I listened to the radio without making unconscious sounds of disgust I was about 18. And it was probably Mark and Lard (couldn't ever listen to them at lunch-time, I tend to work then).
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it was probably Mark and Lard (couldn't ever listen to them at lunch-time, I tend to work then).
Instead of my best driving song I could listen all day to Fat Harry White, Lard's animal sanctuary and the Shirehorses.
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Ride The Wild Wind - by Queen on the Innuendo album
(Whoops, I nearly said LP then...)
Regards,
John R @ Home
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Muddy Waters King Bee
ZZ Top Blue Jean Blues/ I'm bad, I'm nationwide
Stevie Ray Vaughan Crossroads/taxman/sweet little thing etc etc
Ian Dury Sweet Gene Vincent
Jimi Hendrix Stone free
JJ Cale Cocaine
Gene Clarke From a silver phial
Little Richard Good golly Miss Molly
Bob Dylan Tangled up in blue
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John Martyn 'Solid Air'
Rush 'Red Barchetta'
Queen....anything
Genesis 'Los Endos' live
Jethro Tull 'Minstrel in the Gallery'
I grew up going to see Motorhead, Sabbath, Saxon, Iron maiden and the like but all thatstuff is only on very old tapes which wont play in the car (sniff). I can just about get away with the above listing of songs by the other passengers in the car.
StarGazer
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Motorcyle Emptiness - The Manic Street Preachers
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
R.O.C.K in the USA - John Mellencamp
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Richard III by Supergrass
Andy
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Won't get fooled again - The Who.
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Yeah - I agree with Mr Shaw. 'Won't Get Fooled Again' by The Who - put it on, turn it up and listen to John Entwistle giving it some of the finest electric bass guitar playing you ever will hear. Then play it again and again.
As a musician I thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread, and getting a handle on what people listen to in their jam-jar. I confess that I'd forgotten about Dave Edmunds' excellent 'Crawling From The Wreckage', and 'More Than A Feeling' by Boston - thanks for the reminders.
On the subject of Boston, check out a track called 'Smokin' which can be found on the 'B' side of 'More Than A Feeling' (45rpm vinyl version) and also on their first album. Seriously good rock and it's great to drive to.
Having said that my preference for driving music is Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew' or 'Sketches Of Spain' - and personally I can live quite happily without ELO (the exception being Roll Over Beethoven, which works for me).
But that's music - you can't please all the people, but you can please yourself.
Thanks to all who've contributed, so far, to a fascinating thread - take it easy and drive carefully.
Chezz55.>>
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I got some Miles in the car as well for when I want to wind down. "In a silent way" always does the trick.
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...although at the moment I have the "In The Cage" medley from the Abacab tour - awesome keyboards from Tony Banks.
Andy
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Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
I remember getting sideways to that in a wet roundabout in 1972 with my remould shod Popular 100E.Passenger objected.
Great!
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
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When I was in USA in May I could not resist putting on Elvis 'Heartbreak Hotel' and singing along with our friends at top volume as we drove from our Hotel in Memphis to visit Graceland in our hired Cadillac.
On the way back from Graceland we stopped off at Sun Studios and stood on the very spot in the studio where he recorded it....
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Andy P
What taste you have. In the Cage live is outta this world.
I?ve got Supergrass in there too at the moment, hugely underated. Incredibly ugly drummer.
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Master of the Universe and/or Damnation Alley both by Hawkwind
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Hell Bent For Leather (Judas Priest)
24 Hours From Tulsa (Gene Pitney)
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Sorry, I forgot:- Just for Kicks (Mike Sarne)
Somewhat dated, perhaps:
If there's one thing that I like
It's a burn up on my bike
A burn up with a bird up on my bike
Now the M1 ain't much fun
Till you try and do a ton
A burn up on my bike, that's what I like
Just for kicks, I ride all through the night
My bird hangs on in fright
When I do the ton for kicks
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Anything by Goldfraap
Most Pink Floyd stuff (Wish You Were Here/Dark Side of the Moon era)
Pretty much everything ever by Led Zeppelin
I remember driving from Chester up to Scotland on Christmas Eve night many years ago. The songs on the radio were all seasonal and I knew the words to all of them. I was hoarse before I hit Cumbria! It was brilliant and really put me in the festive spirit.
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Can't disagree with any of the above, but like Adam I do like ELO. Mind you, unlike Adam, I 'found' them in 1979 at the latest!
However, a good piece of Beethoven, especially the final movements of the Third, Fifth, Seventh and Ninth Symphonies are superb, but likely to cause a severe attack of flashing by Gatso. I can't help singing also with the soloists and chorus with a badly karoaked version of Ode to Joy, or possibly renamed Ode to Freedom (on the open road).
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Red Barchetta - Rush
Race with the Devil - Girlschool (original by Gun, Girlschool version is more manic!)
Accidents Never Happen - Blondie
Run To You - Bryan Adams
My Favourite Game - The Cardigans
Urgent - Foreigner
Cars - Gary Numan
Long Live Rock 'N' Roll - Rainbow
Cold Sweat - Thin Lizzy
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Depending on the circumstances:
Muse - Hysteria
The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart
Basement Jaxx - Plug It In
Super Furry Animals - Slow Life
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I like "Carry on my Wayward Son" by Kansas at the moment.
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Just recently i've been listening to Iron Maiden - Best of the Beast whilst in the car
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How could I forget
Jessica by the Allman Brothers Band
StarGazer
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Boys of Summer by ????
Fullchat
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Don Henley
His album, The End of The Innocence is usually in the cassette player of my car if I have been driving for any distance. The rest of the album with Boys of Summer on, "Building the Perfect Beast"? IIRC is a bit of a let down
There is also an excellent Eagles song called "Get Over It" which might appeal to No FM2R - quite rocky, and very sharp lyrics.
Although not traditional driving songs, I like the witty lyrics of Simon & Garfunkel, early Gerry Rafferty (pre City to City) and Elvis Costello - makes me laugh!
Number_Cruncher
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Amy Winehouse- Frank
My absolute favourite album for ages, can't help but sing along. Its a bit jazz sounding, but incredibly funky.
Ben
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Agree with the Golden Earring "Radar Love"
"Been driving all night my hamster's wet on the wheels..."
BTW - did anyone have an LP in the 70's "Sing a song of Motor Cars?"
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'Crash!' by James.
Cheers, SS
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Wolf Creek Pass by Curtis McPeake and the Nashville Pickers.
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L\'escargot.
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I'd agree anything by Deep Purple, Sabbath, ELO.
Hand that feeds- Nine Inch Nails
Phantom of the Opera, Iron Maiden.
Cowboys from Hell by Pantera.
No-one knows- Queens of the Stone Age
Brighton Rock- Queen
K.T. Tunstall's new album is fab too!
Odd mix, but there you go.
Alex.
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Dr Alex Mears
Seat Leon Cupra
If you are in a hole stop digging...unless
you are a miner.
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And no one has mentioned "Road to Hell"
Did Chris really write that about the M25 as the urban legend would suggest?
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Or Chuck Berrys 'No particular place to go 'always gets me singing along....
Riding along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
My curiosity runnin' wild
Crusin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
sums up the whole teenage driving experience in the sixties for me and I learned to jive to it well over 40 years ago.
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Did Chris really write that about the M25 as the urban legend would suggest?
Yes.
www.songfacts.com/detail.lasso?id=5018
www.freefoto.com/browse.jsp?id=2032-49-0
To name but a few.
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I just did a google search for 'sing a song of motor cars', thinking I'd buy it for my twin brother's 50th birthday.....and it brought me to the back room! I'm determined to get a copy of the LP....Val Doonican singing about Paddy McGinty's car......'there was Riley, pushin' it, shovin' it and shooshin' it, Hogan, Logan, and all the village through'.........and a fabulous final track that begins with what sounded just like my sister's boyfriend's highly tuned Austin A35 coming up the road to annoy my father. Ah.....memories. Which is what makes me realise that 'great driving songs' are not about the songs themselves....they are about experiences, memories, a moment locked in time. For me, a heavy, rainy night in Maldon Essex, helping a friend to move house in the dark using the firm's Escort van. Radio Caroline playing, and on comes Camel's 'Lunar Sea' album. First time I heard it, and I've been in love with it ever since. Then it was American Pie, played over and over and over as I 'drove' my dad's MkII Cortina to Wales and back....without moving from the garage. I was 12 at the time. Now.....it's Coldplay's 'Fix You'.....and I chase from Marlow to Dorney late most nights at huge speeds in my Saab 9-5 estate.....seemingly capable of superhuman pace....as this track builds and explodes.....my smile widening as I take in the sublimeness of the lyrics and the musical perfection that allows me to drive on that 'higher plane' that only happens once in a while. Fabulous!
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The Clash - Should I stay or should I go
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Elvis Costello - 'Accidents Will Happen'
(not for the superstitious)
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Got to be Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run.
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Easy for me. Rehab by Amy Winehouse or anything off her Back to Black album. It's brill
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Best Driving song for me has to be Duel by German band Propaganda.
Top Gear went through a phase of using a long sample taken from the middle of this song to provide the backing track for virtually every car road test they did.
However, in spite of this fact, this song never appeared on the Top Gear CD when it was issued some years ago. Due to a licencing problem, perhaps?
Used to be played quite often on Radio Caroline.
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Shostakovich's 13'th symphony conducted by Kirill Kondrashin and sung by the Red Army Choir.
"We got to get out of this place" by Dead On Arrival with Jello Biafra.
"Iron Horse" by Motorhead.
"Silver Machine", by Sparrow f***.
"Short Ride in a Fast Machine", by John Adams. (A performance scheduled to be performed at the Albert Hall not long after 9/11was cancelled for some strange reason.)
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Top Gear do like to use a song as backing for a road test. The incongruity between Clarkson's personality and the chosen music always amuses me. For example, Silver Machine, written and performed by a bunch of smelly stoned out hippies. Maybe Tammy Wynette would be more apt.
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What I like is the bubblegum and elevator music they always play while the Stig is driving things.
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Apologies if someone has already mentioned this as I haven't read the whole thread.
I just heard Natasha Bedingfield's Radio One Live Lounge version of Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.
I was just about to turn into my street as it came on, I was so moved by it that I couldn't face turning off the main road and I ended up blasting down the A19 and then coming back along the Seaham to Sunderland Coast Road, an absolutely stunning piece of music if ever I heard one. Maybe it's not a perfect driving song, but as soon as it is available to buy I will be straight to the shops, I already have the Snow Patrol version in the changer.
Blue
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We always played Cindy Lauper's hits en route to our annual holiday when our children were young - then it was put away for the year. So now, if Girls Just Wanna Have Fun comes on, it revives all the great feelings of summers in Devon, France, North Wales etc. More talented than Madge by far - as a chanteuse - don't know how one made it huge but not the other. Well I do, and it's nothing to do with music.
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