|
The Off-Topic Lounge APPROPRIATE FAMILY-FRIENDLY TOPICS ONLY - READ THE RULES! This forum is for posting anything (excluding topics prohibited by the forum rules) that's unrelated to email. General discussions, in other words. |
|
Thread Tools |
5 Dec 2011, 06:37 AM | #1 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 365
|
Drive Playlist
Hi Guys, it's me again looking for suggestions for Driving songs.
Here's my criteria: Any genre, but must be songs about or related to driving. Here's some of my favourites so far: Highway Star - Deep Purple Cadillac Ranch - Bruce Springsteen (he has so many driving songs!) Shut Up and Drive - Rihanna Route 66 - Rolling Stones No Particular Place To Go - Chuck Berry Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys Road Runner - Jr Walker & The All Stars Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones Let Me Be Your Car - Rod Stewart & Elton John Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole One Piece At a Time - Johnny Cash 57 Chevrolet - Billy Jo Spears On The Road Again - Canned Heat Radar Love - Golden Earring Speed Demon - Michael Jackson Silver Machine - Hawkwind Gotta See Jane - R Dean Taylor The Passenger - Iggy Pop Autobahn - Kraftwerk I Drove All Night - Roy Orbinson Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett Baby Driver - Simon & Garfunkel Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty Drive My Car - The Beatles Rush Hour - Jane Weidlin Little Red Corvette - Prince Road To Hell - Chris Rea Heaven Is In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac - Hot Chocolate All Revved up With No Place To Go - Meat Loaf One Way Street - Nine Below Zero Trans Island Skyway - Donald Fagen Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Drive - The Cars Times Like These - Foo Fighters Stolen Car (Take Me Dancing) - Sting Brand New Cadillac - The Clash I'm sure I've missed out some good tracks here, I just can't think what they are right now. |
5 Dec 2011, 02:51 PM | #2 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: EU
Posts: 4,945
|
|
5 Dec 2011, 03:03 PM | #3 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Manchester UK
Posts: 2,616
|
|
5 Dec 2011, 06:57 PM | #4 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 4,681
|
I read once that Florian Schneider has admitted to deliberately including a soramimi in Autobahn: when he wrote the lyric "gefahren, fahren, fahren mit der Autobahn" he had the Beach Boys' Fun, Fun, Fun firmly in mind.
Which leads neatly to two more (both surfing songs): Fun Fun Fun -- the Beach Boys Surf City -- Jan and Dean (what kind of vehicle is a "woodie"?) |
5 Dec 2011, 07:36 PM | #5 | |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 4,681
|
D'oh!
How could I have forgotten Jan and Dean's biggest hit, Little Old Lady from Pasadena?
Quote:
|
|
5 Dec 2011, 08:13 PM | #6 |
Master of the @
Join Date: May 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 1,004
|
Some of these are a bit tenuous...
Everything But The Girl : Driving Bill Cameron : 511 Highway Jace Everett : That's the kind of love I'm in (the second verse relates to driving) Wilson Pickett : Engine no. 9 Alison Krauss & Union Station : The road is a lover Beth Orton : Stolen car Billy Ocean : Get out of my dreams The Animals : I ain't got you [/"I got a '65 Cadillac"] Tom Robinson Band : 2-4-6-8 motorway |
5 Dec 2011, 08:17 PM | #7 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: EU
Posts: 4,945
|
|
5 Dec 2011, 09:19 PM | #8 |
Essential Contributor
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 365
|
Thanks everyone for your contributions so far. There are many I have not heard before but will "Spotify" listen, and add to my playlist the ones that work for me.
Also, trying to avoid road crash songs |
5 Dec 2011, 09:33 PM | #9 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 4,681
|
|
6 Dec 2011, 02:09 AM | #10 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Manchester UK
Posts: 2,616
|
Trying to avoid crash songs, try taking the bus instead!
Magic Bus - The Who Waitin' for the Bus - ZZ Top |
6 Dec 2011, 04:09 AM | #11 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 4,681
|
The Beach Boys -- I Get Around
The Beach Boys -- Little Deuce Coupe The Beach Boys -- Little Honda Mungo Jerry -- In the Summertime The Beatles -- Magical Mystery Tour Jan Hammer -- Highway Made of Glass |
7 Dec 2011, 05:38 AM | #12 |
Master of the @
Join Date: May 2002
Location: UK
Posts: 1,004
|
Michael Bolton did a version of that too?? I know Michael Ball did, I prefer it over the Chris Rea one. My favourite version of that song is probably Madeline Bell's.
|
7 Dec 2011, 12:28 PM | #13 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: London, UK
Posts: 4,681
|
^ Oops -- you're right, I got the wrong Michael.
|
9 Dec 2011, 03:07 AM | #14 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown
Posts: 2,341
|
does REM's "Drive" count, even when the title is probably metaphoric?
Some forgotten ones in your list: "Radar Love" - Golden Earring "Riders on the Storm" - The Doors "LA Woman" - The Doors "There is a Light that never goes out" - The Smiths "Cars" - Gary Numan "Boys of Summer" - especially the DJ Sammy cover since it doesn't only refer to the Cadillac but the video is full of road scenes "Stan" - Eminem ft Dido "Ride" - The Vines "Motorcycle Emptiness" - Manic Street Preachers |
9 Dec 2011, 03:18 AM | #15 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown
Posts: 2,341
|
Some more:
"Driver's Seat" - Sniff 'n the Tears "Sleeping in my car" - Roxette "Pretty fly for a white guy" - The Offspring (the line about cruising in his Pinto) "Autobahn" - Kraftwerk "Diane" - Hüsker Dü (although the cover by Therapy? is more famous) "Dragula" - Rob Zombie (a Dragula apparently is some type of car, not sure if it exists in reality or only in some movie) |