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Title: Driving music
Post by: sullie363 on April 09, 2006, 02:41:26 AM: So I'm always looking for good driving music and was wondering what you guys got on this topic. Stuff I've already settled on is basically anything by ZZ Top, Radar Love works pretty well, so does Running Down a Dream by Tom Petty. Thoughts?
Title: Driving music
Post by: DiabloTX on April 09, 2006, 03:23:08 AM: Driving during the day: Mozart, Vivaldi, Tchaikovksy, Copland

Driving during the night: Wagner, Beethoven, F. Schubert, Holst
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Post by: bkbandit on April 09, 2006, 03:31:55 AM: it depends on the car and the situation. If im cruisin in my camaro ill put on some old school west coast rap, when its time to move i just listen to the v8 talk to me.
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Post by: Nilsen on April 09, 2006, 03:42:49 AM: Financial news on the radio and fresh coffe in the cupholder when cruising in my Cayenne Turbo on the way to meetings.
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Post by: eagl on April 09, 2006, 04:22:45 AM: You're gonna think this is funny, but eminem is fairly entertaining driving music. A lot of his stuff is regular rap but some of it is actually decent if you don't take it too seriously. If taken as entertainment and not a social statement, it's sort of fun to listen to.

I can't stand 99.9999% of rap but eminem is often funny and entertaining. Seeing some of his videos helps too since then you get to see that some of his songs are "just funnin" and not just some white guy shouting obscenities.

Other stuff I bring on trips and listen to in the car...
Van Halen
Tom Petty
Rush
3 doors down
green day
genesis / phil collins
creed
collective soul
the cars
blink 182
garth brooks
GnR
Matchbox 20
Men at work
Metallica (yea definately metallica!)
R.E.M.
Smashing Pumpkins
Sting
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Post by: Monk on April 09, 2006, 04:25:13 AM: German march music as I swear at the BMW drivers to get out my way.
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Post by: Debonair on April 09, 2006, 04:38:50 AM: I have a very vocal & angry lasa apso duct taped near my left ear as i stand on the street corner handing out pamphlets about the dangers of eating too much under-ripe celery
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Post by: JTs on April 09, 2006, 05:55:44 AM: time by the chambers brothers
i'm going home by ten years after
in a gadda da vida by iron butterfly (that drum solo macthes the rythm of my 3406 in 18x2.)
crystal ship by the doors
suzie q by ccr
sky pilot by the animals
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Post by: storch on April 09, 2006, 07:01:59 AM: XM radio
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Post by: lazs2 on April 09, 2006, 09:56:53 AM: two of my cars have 450 hp radios that I listen to... the Lincoln has XM. This all works out good for me.

lazs
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Post by: Vudak on April 09, 2006, 09:25:35 PM: Well, Darude's "Sandstorm" got me pulled over doing 90 in a 55 the second day I had my license... Guess that makes it a pretty good one... But kinda been done to death over the years.
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Post by: ChickenHawk on April 09, 2006, 10:22:58 PM: Nothing beats oldschool Metallica.
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Post by: lasersailor184 on April 09, 2006, 10:43:13 PM: Yeah, nothing except for everything else.

I like Comeback Kid. It pumps me up and for some odd reason, I always get to my destinations faster.
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Post by: xrtoronto on April 09, 2006, 11:29:46 PM: next time you're on an on-ramp, just as you floor it, play "L.A. Woman"

It just fits!:cool:
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Post by: OOZ662 on April 09, 2006, 11:39:19 PM: Quote
Originally posted by JTs
crystal ship by the doors

:cool:
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Post by: rpm on April 10, 2006, 01:42:37 AM: George Thorogood - Move it on Over, 1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch and 1 Beer

Ted Nugent - Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Fever, Great White Buffalo

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon (the whole album:aok )

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the Breeze, Workin' for MCA, Gimme Three Steps

Bob Seger - Night Moves, Long Twin Silver Line, Get Outa Denver

Heart - Baracuda, Magic Man

Johnny Cash - Anything he ever recorded
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Post by: Heretik on April 10, 2006, 04:55:32 AM: Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
Bouncing Souls - Anchors Away
Strung Out - Exile in Oblivion
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Floater - Burning Sosobra
Strike Anywhere - Change is a Sound
Pink Floyd - Pulse
AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
Against Me! - Reinventing Axel Rose
Title: Driving music
Post by: Tarmac on April 10, 2006, 06:05:06 AM: There's nothing in the world like going for a drive at dusk, hearing my Jeep's I-6 rumble to life and then settle into an idle as Bob Seger's "Roll Me Away" begins to groove out of the speakers.
Title: Driving music
Post by: cav58d on April 10, 2006, 08:34:03 AM: Quote
Originally posted by storch
XM radio

XM radio sucks and I wish I never got it....The tribute to Elvis is a joke! 2 songs! WTF...

Anyways....Best driving cd IMO is CCR greatest hits...
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Post by: storch on April 10, 2006, 08:50:16 AM: send me the receiver I have one in every vehicle i'll put that free one in my golf cart
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Post by: Holden McGroin on April 10, 2006, 11:31:38 AM: Hank

(http://www.tokyo-blues.com/images/blogs/hank-williams.jpg)
Title: Driving music
Post by: Mustaine on April 10, 2006, 11:38:45 AM: Quote
Originally posted by JTs
time by the chambers brothers
i'm going home by ten years after
in a gadda da vida by iron butterfly (that drum solo macthes the rythm of my 3406 in 18x2.)
crystal ship by the doors
suzie q by ccr
sky pilot by the animals
no brother trucker? :lol
Title: Driving music
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on April 10, 2006, 02:11:48 PM: All the ones listed here have several songs I like, these are the best DRIVING songs I can think of right now.

Molly Hatchet - Flirtin with Disaster

Montgomery Gentry - Hillbilly shoes, Hell Yeah

Allman Brothers - Ramblin Man

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds

Queen - Another one bites the dust

.38 Special - Just about anything really, but especially (for driving) Rockin into the Night, Caught up in You, Wild Eyed Southern Boys ...... all I can think of ATM.

ZZ Top - Already mentioned, pretty much all of it is good driving music.

CDB - Uneasy Rider (either version), Still in Saigon, Long Haired Country Boy, Stroker Ace

Grand Funk - American Band

Boston - Rock and Roll Band

BTO - Roll on down the Highway

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Thin Lizzy - Boys are back in Town

Golden Earring - Radar Love

Krokus - Ballroom Blitz

Quiet Riot - Cum on feel the Noize, Wild and the Young, Twilight Hotel
Title: Driving music
Post by: StarOfAfrica2 on April 10, 2006, 02:23:28 PM: Oh yeah. Almost forgot.

Steve Miller Band - Big old jet Airliner, Take the money and Run

Bob Seger - Turn the Page

Taj Mahal - Havin a real bad Day

Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff enuff

Restless Heart - Born in a High Wind
Title: Driving music
Post by: Chairboy on April 10, 2006, 02:38:20 PM: I was going to say Radar Love, but looks like you've got that covered.

Classic rock seems pretty well covered, I've got some more orchestra suggestions:

Holst's 'The Planets' has some great movements, like 'Mars, Bringer of War'. It was used as a temp track during the editing of Star Wars, and you'll see why. Very good stuff. Also many great songs in the Khatchaturian suite, like the adagio for strings (you'll recognize it when you hear it, it's used everywhere) and the sabre dance (another classic, very fast).

Moving to electronic, there are some great Sasha/Digweed tracks, like their symphony. Just about anything from the Northern Exposure CDs (lots of arists) will do great, fast and tuneful, not just repetitive machine music. I've been singing along to Audiolab's Satellite a lot this year.

Paul Oakenfold has some catchy tunes out. I like his 'Starry eyed surprise' song used in the diet coke commercial, for instance, but the rest of the music on that cd is crap. His live sets are good.
Title: Driving music
Post by: Sandman on April 10, 2006, 07:40:38 PM: Offspring.
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Post by: Vulcan on April 10, 2006, 07:47:07 PM: Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
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Post by: Reschke on April 10, 2006, 07:48:16 PM: TuPac, 3 Doors Down, Stone Temple Pilots, Driving & Crying, Led Zeppelin assorted songs, Iron Butterfly, Bubble Puppy, Jim Morrison, Creed, 10,000 Maniacs, REM, Jack Johnson, Evanessence, Phil Collins, Mudhens, Temple of the Dog, Queen and Pink Floyd are usually pretty good driving music for me.
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Post by: Sandman on April 10, 2006, 09:31:08 PM: Oh... one more... I just discovered.

Animal Alpha

http://lovefilm.no/films/Bundyl.swf
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Post by: ramzey on April 10, 2006, 09:39:24 PM: last days
Linkin Park
Offspring
Nightwish
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Post by: rpm on April 10, 2006, 10:40:26 PM: Oh yeah, forgot about this one.

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
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Post by: DiabloTX on April 10, 2006, 11:00:21 PM: Quote
Originally posted by rpm
Oh yeah, forgot about this one.

Van Halen - Hot For Teacher

"Unchained" for me. Whatta a monster guitar riff that one.
Title: Driving music
Post by: nirvana on April 10, 2006, 11:34:52 PM: Jim Morrison did solo stuff before The Doors?

I enjoy most anything when I drive, classic rock, Joe satriani, some rap, some rock, metal. Whatever gets the blood flowing and keeps me awake.
Title: Driving music
Post by: DiabloTX on April 10, 2006, 11:47:32 PM: Brian Eno put out an album in the early 80's called "Apollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks" that on a clear night on a long stretch of desert highway makes for pure driving nirvana.