Driving Songs

Dub13

I am do doing a CD for the car but my memory for remembering song names is very bad.So I am looking for your help,whats your top 5/10 driving songs...?

Rowley Birkin QC

The Chain-Fleetwood Mac
Radar Love-Golden Earring
S & M Whole Album-Metallica
Anything by Daft Punk
Seeger Sessions Album-Bruce Springsteen
Dubliners Greatest Hits
Demetri Martin
Bill Bailey


That's just at the moment, iPod is usually on shuffle in the car.

No laughing please.

ImDave

I've got the Top Gear Ultimate Driving Songs CD, some pretty good tracks on it. Track list found here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Top-Gear-Ultimate-Driving-Experience/dp/B000BUBRGK/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1201287175&sr=8-3

jmayo

What about :
I drove all night (Cyndi Lauper)
Driving home for Christmas (bit seasonal though) (Chris Rea)
Road to Hell (Chris Rea)
Take it Easy (the Eagles)
Driving away from home (It's Immaterial)

And if you really want ot get pumped up go for German techno (U96 maybe).
Or like a friend of mine used to do crossing the border shove in the Wolfe Tones

Dub13

Some good suggestions there,the songs don't have to be about driving just good songs to listen to while driving.

2stageturbo

1. LA WOMEN - THE DOORS
2. ROCK N ROLL - LED ZEPPELIN
3. MADE OF STONE - THE STONE ROSES
4. (WHITE MAN) IN HAMMERSMITH PALAIS - THE CLASH
5. THE WIZARD - BLACK SABBATH
6. GIMMIE SHELTER - THE ROLLING STONES
7. MFC - PEARL JAM
8. THEME FROM 'STARSKY & HUTCH' - JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET
9. HOTEL CALIFORNIA - THE GYPSY KINGS
10. IF I SHOULD FALL FROM GRACE WITH GOD - THE POGUES


Just a small selection. I could go on and on

L1011

I find some good, erm, "old" tech trance does me fine.

But I'm 20, and male, and drive a small car with an aftermarket sound system :P

groupb

"Glory Glory Man Utd"

kona

1.Kickstart My Heart - MOTLEY CRUE
2.ANGEL of Death - SLAYER
3.Balls To The Wall - ACCEPT
4.Girls Girls Girls - MOTLEY CRUE
5.Ride The Lightening - Metallica
6.Look what the cat dragged in - POISON
7.Hells Bells - AC/DC
8.9-5 N.A.S.T.Y - W.A.S.P
9.Animal(f*ck like a beast) - W.A.S.P
10.Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry
11.Cherry Bomb - The Runaways

Rowley Birkin QC

MYOB wrote: »

But I'm 20, and male, and drive a small car with an aftermarket sound system :P

In other words,mostly Joe duffys, you are the antichrist


Forgot about Forty Licks, great album for driving.

LuckyStar

For some reason I love to listen to dance music while driving. I love the Scissor Sisters' version of "Comfortably Numb".

L1011

bigkev49 wrote: »

In other words,mostly Joe duffys, you are the antichrist .

Full clean licence, factory body on the car, no UV lights underneath it, I should be cancelling it out a *tiny* bit.

Usually flick on to Newstalk if I'm at a checkpoint or anything though - Guards seem to assume Sander van Doorn makes you an alcoholic: "I'm requiring you to take a random breath test...."

Rovi

Some driving essentials-

Born to Be Wild, Steppenwolf
Ride of the Valkyries, Richard Wagner
Smoke on the Water, Deep Purple
Layla, Derek & The Dominos
School's Out, Alice Cooper
Bad to the Bone, George Thorogood and the Destroyers
(actually, pretty much anything by George Thorogood and the Destroyers)


...and of course:
Convoy, C.W. McCall

crosstownk

kona wrote: »

7.Hells Bells - AC/DC

+1, in fact the whole Back In Black album is always worth keeping in the car. Some Thin Lizzy and good selection of Queen tunes will while away the kilometers.

Dub13

groupb wrote: »

"Glory Glory Man Utd"

:rolleyes:

Max_Damage

In no order...

1812 Overture - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
Sultans Of Swing (live version from the 'Alchemy' album is the best) - Dire Straits
Linchpin - Fear Factory
Fuel - Metallica
Mustang Sally - The Commitments
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
Spicy McHaggis Jig - Dropkick Murphys
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
N17 - Saw Doctors

kona

mustang sally is ZZ Top!;)

mike65

Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Deep Purple - Highway Star - live only!
Caravan - Memory Lain, Hugh / Headloss

Mike.

Run_to_da_hills

Tiesto Traffic
Tiesto Nanya
Tiesto Adajio for Strings
Flowtation
Paul Van Dyke for an angel
Lisa Lashes Base Keep Pumping
Darude Sandstorm
Mauro Picotto lizard
Freeform Five
Faithless Insomnia

THe above would only sound good with a 2x1KW RMS Ground Zero amp & subwoofers. (Removed from the van last July),

Max_Damage

kona wrote: »

mustang sally is ZZ Top!;)

It was originally a Wilson Picket song, although The Commitments did a better version of it IMO.

kona

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Tiesto Traffic
Tiesto Nanya
Tiesto Adajio for Strings
Flowtation
Paul Van Dyke for an angel
Lisa Lashes Base Keep Pumping
Darude Sandstorm
Mauro Picotto lizard
Freeform Five
Faithless Insomnia

THe above would only sound good with a 2x1KW RMS Ground Zero Subwoofers. (Removed from the van last July),

is it only me or do all dance/techno/electronica songs sound the same, like with the same beat???

Rowley Birkin QC

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Tiesto Traffic
Tiesto Nanya
Tiesto Adajio for Strings

Boo-urns!! Didn't know they reduced the driving age to 13 :rolleyes: Just kidding, each to their own!

L1011

kona wrote: »

is it only me or do all dance/techno/electronica songs sound the same, like with the same beat???

Its you.

I can't tell two pieces of 70s/80s rock apart, sound like the same guitar riffs to me... however I guarantee half the people on this thread can.

CrowdedHouse

Rovi wrote: »

Bad to the Bone, George Thorogood and the Destroyers
(actually, pretty much anything by George Thorogood and the Destroyers)

Rovi is a man with impeccable taste in music

Was listening to the first album on my way to Galway tonight...speaking of Galway....N17 by the Saw Doctors..

kona

MYOB wrote: »

Its you.

I can't tell two pieces of 70s/80s rock apart, sound like the same guitar riffs to me... however I guarantee half the people on this thread can.

how about the sqeeky kiddies voice on each track:D:p
nobody has been able to explain dance to me

and its all 80s/00s heavy metal and thrash and punk........rock is neither here nor there actually:D:D

70s rock id leave to the crowd to enjoy, my god journey are crap:D
i even heard a dance remix of it there the otherday

kona

Max_Damage wrote: »

It was originally a Wilson Picket song, although The Commitments did a better version of it IMO.

i stand corrected:D
maybe thats why pickett didnt show:D

parsi

Desenchantee - Kate Ryan
Summer in Dublin - Bagatelle (great chorus)
On ira tous au paradis - forget the name

Xavi6

Stereophonics - Dakota
Oasis - Supersonic
Muse - Plug In Baby
Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Modest Mouse - Float On
Manics - You Stole The Sun...
Incubus - Are You In?
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way/The Chain (F1 song from the BBC days)

TheBazman

Dont think too many of these would be classified as "driving songs" - but they are some of the ones I play most in the car

Rootless Tree - Damien Rice
Grace Kelly - Mika
Fix You - Coldplay
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
Firefly - Grand Drive
Zombie - The Cranberries
Alibi - David Gray
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
One (U2 Cover) - Johnny Cash
World of Good - The Sawdoctors

L1011

kona wrote: »

how about the sqeeky kiddies voice on each track:D:p
nobody has been able to explain dance to me

Thats specifically on extremely poor quality commercial dance music made to pander to skangers and children. None one track in the list that "run to da hills" provided has lyrics like that, a cursory glances shows only one with lyrics - Insomnia, which is spoken word not even sung.

In Ireland, particularly in North Dublin and in the West, you're only likely to hear the extremely poor commercial stuff "out and about", you need to be actively seeking out 'proper' dance music, stuff thats not made to a specific niche - where the target playback device is a cheap Nokia phone on the upstairs back of a number 10 bus.

mick.fr

- Britney Spears (Anything really).
- Madonna (Like a Virgin)
- Yam (Especially the Duo)
- Depech Mode
- Petshop Boys
- Nirvana ("In your Ass" album)
- Kim Wilde ("Ja Ich sprache Deutsh very good achso")
- Dorothee ("Accroche moi a la corde a linge par les nenes") - Mouarf lol I love this one...
- Les Muscles ("La fete au village")
- Chantal Goya ("when I am sade, I feel empty, but when I laugh I feel good")

Hum that is pretty it...