Car songs

[Michael Jones]

Bored and sorting through the MP3s, creating a car song playlist. What would you put on such a list? I've got about 50 so far...they're...well... I don't have 80% of what you would, since my music tastes are a bit eclectic (read: screwed up.) Just switched from Fred Eaglesmith to Ministry. Such segues cause are known in the state of California to cause epileptic fits in laboratory animals.

So, make some requests, I'll publish what I have sometime later with some recommendations.

[Michael Jones]

Bored and sorting through the MP3s, creating a car song playlist. What would you put on such a list? I've got about 50 so far...they're...well... I don't have 80% of what you would, since my music tastes are a bit eclectic (read: screwed up.) Just switched from Fred Eaglesmith to Ministry. Such segues cause are known in the state of California to cause epileptic fits in laboratory animals.

So, make some requests, I'll publish what I have sometime later with some recommendations.

[Richard Lewis]

Some car related tunes.

Cake - Going the distance
Metallica - Fuel
Gavin Rossdale - Adrenaline
Ministy - Jesus built my hotrod
Rob Zombie - Dragula
The Presidents of the USA - Lil' Dune Buggy
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo

Some of these work better than others, but anyway...

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[formula_geek]

Without a doubt:

Cake - Stickshifts and Safetybelts
Cake - Race Car Ya-Yas
and that one song by Sugar Ray, can't think of the name...

Almost forgot, THE car song:

Waylon Jennings - Dukes of Hazzard Theme Song

[stscxr]

Dead Milkmen -- Bitchin' Camaro

[Michael Jones]

Biased from attending the show last night here, but Fred Eaglesmith does numerous car songs, including 105, Pontiac, Lucille, Georgia Overdrive, Mighty Big Car, Alternator, and a few others I'm forgetting...and one on fencing cars that I hadn't heard before...

Americana roots/country/folk/bluegrass music done by Canadians. Gotta love it. The band does about 250 shows a year, starting to hop the pond too, confused the hell out of the Dutch a while back. Worthwhile show if they're in your area.

[loose_nut]

Freewheel burning - Judas Priest

and of course... the theme to Knight Rider

[Sleeque]

How can you overlook all those SoCal car songs from the 60s. There was a whole genre of them, The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean etc, titles that come to mind are
Little old lady from Pasadena
Lil Deuce Coupe
Go Little Cobra (?)
Little GTO
Dead Mans Curve
Daddy took the TBird away
etc and etc,
Plus the original hot car song
Maybelline by Chuck Berry where the song tells of the old flathead Ford getting into detonation in the heat and is blown away by a Cadillac. The rain starts and the flathead cools....
"Cadillac lookin' like a ton of lead, a hundred and ten, half a mile ahead.
Cadillac lookin' like it's standin' still
when I caught Maybelline at the top of the hill".

Hey you students might not understand, but us old fogies do =]

Slan Leat
Sleeque

[Julie Kaye]

How could anyone forget "Lowrider?" A classic that must be included. Another one might be "Fun, Fun, Fun" by the Beach Boys. I'm glad someone started a list of car songs... I've actually been looking to put one together so that we can all listen to it at the shop when we work on the Formula car. Keep the songs coming!

*Julie*

[Argus Tuft]

What about Mark Knopflers "Nazareth Speedway" on the 'Sailing to Philadelphia' album, a tale of a drivers year in the Indy car series.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy !