Greatest driving song?

unkel

So what did you vote over here?

Radar Love for me

Seth Brundle

Queen: Don't Stop Me Now

Steppenwolf for me with RL close 2nd!

drdre

queen for me;)

grimloch

Definately the Loaf.

dahamsta

I wouldn't vote for any of them, they're all decrepid old crap that's totally outdated and no longer up to the task (sorry Fred). And no ZZ Top, no AC/DC? No Jamiroquai, no Cardigans? Top driving songs my arse. I love the show, but those guys are so trapped in the past they should really be buying caravans, not blowing them up.

BTW, I challenge everyone in the Motors forum to go and download the soundtrack to Miami Vice right this very minute, and then drive their car without imagining that they're powering a speedboat down a crystal clear body of water somewhere, with an incredibly badly-dressed black man* at your side and some kind of large gun in your free hand.

Now that's a driving song. Sort of.

adam

*Or white, I'm just playing the numbers here.

Chong

Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild

Defo Radar Love for me but I am biased as I am Dutch.

mike65

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell

There are too many "Crazy Dutch Guys" on this thread!

Highway Star as I'm a Purple-Head myself.

Mike.

OfflerCrocGod

Queen: Don't Stop Me Now

The songs above are not really that good, they are a bit past their sale-by-date but the best would be ummmmm born to be wild. I'd prefer lots of other songs over that but out of the above choices......

CrowdedHouse

2 4 6 8 Motorway - Tom Robinson Band

Meatloaf from above list

aidan_dunne

Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild

Okay, this is going to make me look really, really sad and really, really old to a lot of people here, I know, but I'm going to come out of the closet and admit that I actually own.............
















both 'Bat Out Of Hell' and 'Bat Out Of Hell II - Back Into Hell'!

Yes, I'll admit it, I'm a bit of a Meat Loaf fan. But only really of the stuff he collaborated with Jim Steinman on. Most of the rest isn't great but when you put Steinman and ole' Marvin Lee together, that's where the best comes out, I reckon.

Having said all that.......... I voted for 'Radar Love'! Why? Just look at the opening lines:

I've been driving all night, my hands wet on the wheel.
There’s a voice in my head that drives my heel.
It's my baby calling, she says "I need you here".
And it’s half-past four and I’m shifting gear.

You can't get much more of a driving song than that, can you?

Though, I have to say, I quite liked 'Highway Star' tonight, especially when it was put to that montage of motor racing clips and crashes. That was actually the first time I heard it, to be honest (I know, mike65, shocking! ). The only Deep Purple tune I really know is 'Smoke On The Water' (another great driving track, in my opinion) but I think I'm going to have to track down a copy of 'Highway Star' now to add to my collection.

mike65

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell

Aidan buy the 25th Anniversay editon of Made in Japan (live 1972), you wont hear better live rock music.

http://www.thehighwaystar.com/FAQ/recordings.html

Mike.

ds20prefecture

The Shizznit - Snoop Doggy Dogg.

Or

Avalanche - Leonard Cohen.

2 Espressi

The fist songs that spring to mind:
The Distance - Cake
My Favourite Game - Cardigans
Fischerspooner - Emerge

(Of the 5 above, Radar Love)

unkel

Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild

aidan_dunne wrote:

The only Deep Purple tune I really know is 'Smoke On The Water'

:eek: 'Child in time' surely beats all purple or not, old or new

*goose bumps*

528i

can you pop a patsy clyne no. into that poll there ?
..a woman in turmoil, how could you not sing along.

aidan_dunne

Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild

mike65 wrote:

Aidan buy the 25th Anniversay editon of Made in Japan (live 1972), you wont hear better live rock music.

Ahem, excuse me but might I point you in the direction of Thin Lizzy's 'Live & Dangerous', mike! Surely one of the greatest, if not the greatest, live album of all time.

Oh Christ, now I must sound like a right old fart to some of the young whippersnappers in here! :eek:

I might have to give that album a look alright though, mike. Thanks for the mention.

AMurphy

hey, whats wrong with.....

O'Rafferty's Motor Car.
If She Wasn't on Blocks,
Unfit to Drive,
Built to Crash
Muscle Car Blues,

Chong

Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild

I will have to agree Child In Time is by far their best song.

Seth Brundle

Queen: Don't Stop Me Now

not fair!
I chose one of the options given - if I knew I could pick other songs then I would have:-
Thin Lizzy (too many songs to choose)
Motorway - Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden - Aces High
Blondie (loads e.g. Hangin on the telephone)
Slayer - Angel of death, Post Mortem/Reign in Blood
Metallica - loads but esp. Whiplash & Am I evil?


(funny how many of mine are fast paced!)
Oh and Highway star is better than Child Of Mine IMO
oops - work calls (but there *are* loads more!)

parsi

For lovers of EuroPop - Desenchantee - Kate Ryan.... (well it works in a Scenic ;-) )

kermit_ie

I voted for Meatloaf, just to spite Clarkson.

C Fodder

Gotta be Highway star.

Seriously bad news for points if played at full volume

RedRaven

C Fodder wrote:

Gotta be Highway star.

Seriously bad news for points if played at full volume

Slayer!! Seasons in the Abyss!!!!

Oriel

Definately Meat Loaf

Praetorian

The songs suggested by the bbc are okay, but I'd have to go along with kbannon. Fast paced metal songs are the best, why just last night I was zipping down the m1 listening to Ride the lightning. Some* dance songs can suit driving as well.

*My taste in music is very varied

2000th post

Alun

I always remember back in the (good old?) days when I used to do midnight dashes from central Germany to the UK via Belgium with their 3 lane streetlit motorways, that ELO's Secret Messages used to get the speedo creeping up towards the 220km/h mark every time

mike65

Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell

Praetorian wrote:

The songs suggested by the bbc are okay

Those songs are the top five from a longer list which was suggested by the visitors to topgear website. Those tracks start in 1968 and end in 1978 All of which shows that the Top Gear core demographic is er "getting on"!

Mike.

kermit_ie

mike65 wrote:

Those songs are the top five from a longer list which was suggested by the visitors to topgear website. Those tracks start in 1968 and end in 1978 All of which shows that the Top Gear core demographic is er "getting on"!

Mike.

*puts on rose tinted glasses*

Or music was better back then!

iregk

What about Highway To Hell? Great driving song...

Used to live in germany myself and two songs always listened to while thundering down the autobahn towards frankfurt were the beach boys-i get around and the doors-break on through

Roddy23

Queen: Don't Stop Me Now

what the ...........
Theres no Rappin Ronnie Reagan in there.
"he he, he did say Well a lot".

but seriously ye cant beat Steppenwolf.

Cond0r

Deep Purple: Highway Star

How come nobody has mentioned:
Prodigy - Various songs, esp. Smack my b*tch up!
GnR - Night Train, Sweet child o' mine
ACDC - Back in black
The Eagles - Loads of great driving songs..

Why have none of these been talked about! :eek: