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Joined: Dec 06 2008 Location: Pearland, TX Posts: 88

It would be bad ass if I could get the opinions of everyone willing to give one on what the best driving songs are. Not necessarily bassy techno but something that makes you feel good while cruising. All music styles are fair game.

Joined: Dec 06 2008 Location: Pearland, TX Posts: 88

To start us off I dig Bush - Inflatable, Machine Head, and Glycerine *obviously
Deftones - Digital Bath, Sweetest Perfection
AC/DC - Let's Make It

Posted: Apr 23 2009 05:32 pm

For driving fast:
Metallica-Fuel
Metallica-Motorbreath
Metallica-Breadfan (Budgie cover)
Motorhead-The Hammer
Motorhead-No Class
Pantera-Shattered (I once ran a red light blasting that song)
Mercyful Fate-Evil
Kyuss-Green Machine
Corrosion of Conformity-Heaven's Not Overflowin'
Incubus-A Certain Shade of Green
The Red Hot Chili Peppers-Give It Away
Black Label Society-Say What You Will
Brad Paisley-Mr. Policeman
Clutch-Pure Rock Fury
Megadeth-Mechanix
CCR-Lookin' Out My Back Door
The Cult-Love Removal Machine
Dethklok-Go Into the Water
Dethklok-Thunderhorse
Iron Maiden-The Trooper

And pretty much anything by AC/DC, except "The Jack." That song's boring as hell. And I love blasting commercial rap when I'm driving slow with the windows down. And I also love blasting Obituary and Morbid Angel whenever I drive by people with the windows down, but I have to frantically turn the volume down if I pass a daycare or playground, though. I'll elaborate on all of these if anyone wants me to.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

I love listening to Sugar Ray's Floored album in the car (excluding "Fly"). There's a lot of heavy, racing type music - especially the first track, RPM. I think it actually just reminds me of playing Road Rash on PSX and 3DO, because three of their songs were on that game's soundtrack - Mean Machine, Speed Home California, and The Club.

I also love to listen to Compilation albums from the Chicago-based independent label, Positron Records. They have three "KomPosi" albums that are great background music.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

The video game Top Gear 2... I think, has GREAT driving music. Course 1 or 2.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

"Bankshot"- Operation Ivy
"Radar Love"- Golden Earring (best driving song ever)
All of Common Rider's Last Wave Rockers album

Posted: Apr 24 2009 05:44 am

I created four cds of driving songs: Daytime Crusing Songs Vol. 1 and 2, and Nighttime Cruisin' Tunes Vol. 1 and 2. The Daytime Volumes involve songs for cruising downtown, on the highway, and at the beach and shit.

Daytime Cruising Songs Vol. 1
1. Born To Be Wild- Steppenwolf
2. School's Out- Alice Cooper
3. All Right Now- Free
4. Crazy Train- Ozzy
5. La Grange- ZZ Top
6 Free Fallin'- Tom Petty
7. Lust For Life- Iggy Pop
8. Takin' Care of Business- BTO
9. Ramble On- Led Zeppelin
10. Life Is A Highway- Tom Cochrane
11. L.A. Woman- The Doors
12. The Boys Are Back In Town- Thin Lizzy
13. You Can't Always Get What You Want- The Rolling Stones
14. Stone Free- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
15. Jack and Diane- John Cougar Mellencamp
16. Paradise City- Guns N' Roses

Daytime Cruising Songs Vol. 2
1. You Shook Me All Night Long- AC/DC
2. All The Way- Connor Tkach (a buddy of mine)
3. Summer of '69- MxPx
4. Open Road Song- Eve 6
5. Sympathy For The Devil- The Rolling Stones
6. 99 Red Balloons- Goldfinger
7. The Impression That I Get- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
8. Pretty Noose- Soundgarden
9. Burden In My Hand- Soundgarden
10. Ride Wit Me- Nelly
11. Semi-Charmed Life- Third Eye Blind
12. Under The Bridge- Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Alive- Pearl Jam
14. Panama- Van Halen
15. Electric Gypsy- L.A. Guns
16. Fly Away- Lenny Kravitz
17. Come On Eileen- Save Ferris
18. Freebird (Outtake Version)- Lynyrd Skynyrd

Now Nightime is a little more organized. Vol. 1 you listen to when the night is young and the city is alive. Vol. 2 you listen to when you're driving home and the party's over.

Nighttime Cruisin' Tunes Vol. 1
1. Highway To Hell- AC/DC
2. Radar Love- Golden Earring
3. Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
4. Dragula- Rob Zombie
5. Highway Star- Deep Purple
6. Paranoid (Live)- Ozzy Osbourne
7. Bark At The Moon- Ozzy
8. Nightrain- Guns N' Roses
9. Whiskey In The Jar- Metallica
10. Kickstart My Heart- Motley Crue
11. Smokin'- Boston
12. Just What I Needed- The Cars
13. Rock Me- Great White
14. Heading Out To The Highway- Judas Priest
15. Boys Of Summer- The Ataris
16. In This Diary- The Ataris
17. Rock N' Roll All Nite- KISS

Nighttime Cruisin' Tunes Vol. 2
1. Like A Stone- Audioslave
2. I Am The Highway- Audioslave
3. With A Little Help From My Friends- Joe Cocker
4. Won't Back Down- Tom Petty
5. All Along The Watchtower- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
6. Summer Nights- Van Halen
7. School- Supertramp
8. Touch Me- The Doors
9. Singing In My Sleep- Semisonic
10. California Dreaming- The Mamas and the Papas
11. Paradise By The Dashboard Light- Meat Loaf
12. Anyway You Want It- Journey
13. Everlong- The Foo Fighters
14. Hotel California- The Eagles
15. Jungle Love- The Steve Miller Band
16. Sultans of Swing- Dire Straits
17. Here I Go Again- Whitesnake

I think I basically covered it. In addition you should also carry Lynyrd Skynyrd's first two albums, a CCR compilation, all David Lee Roth-era Van Halen albums, Sublime's self-titled, Appetite For Destruction, Boston's self-titled, and AC/DC's entire catalogue.

Posted: Apr 24 2009 07:45 am

Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel is the first that comes to mind for me.

Title: Title: Title: Title Joined: Sep 18 2008 Posts: 258

Sister Christian by Night Ranger is pretty ace.

Posted: Apr 24 2009 11:37 am

There are a few songs I can't hear while driving anymore, because they make me want to speed up. Like whenever I hear "Paranoid" by Garbage, I have flashbacks to playing Gran Turismo 2.

Posted: Apr 24 2009 02:04 pm

Good call Knyte, why do you think Freewheel Burnin' isn't on my list?

Posted: Apr 24 2009 03:43 pm

If I'm in a fast, hurry-up driving mood, I throw on "Piece of Mind" by Iron Maiden, or maybe "Master of Puppets" (the album) by Metallica.

If I'm in more of a slow, Sunday-driving, nowhere I have to be kind of mood, "Here & Now" by America.

If I'm going horseback riding, anything by George Strait or Garth Brooks if I'm in a retro mood. Very Happy

Posted: Apr 25 2009 03:34 am

As much as I love metal I cannot listen to it while driving, it makes me want to speed. Confused

Posted: Apr 25 2009 09:33 am

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Guns N' Roses - Shackler's Revenge
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles
The Lone Rangers - Degenerated
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Social Distortion - Reach For The Sky
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
Overkill - Hello From The Gutter
Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Drivin' N' Cryin' - Fly Me Courageous
Queensryche - I'm American
Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
Sponge - Plowed
My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem
Manowar - Black Wind, Fire, and Steel
Lustra - Scotty Doesn't Know
Luca Turilli - Demonheart
Leatherwolf - Bad Moon Rising
Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills
Foghat - Slow Ride
Blink 182 - Dammit
Black Sabbath - Neon Knights
Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Alice Cooper - Who Do You Think We Are?
Against Me! - Stop
The Offspring - No Brakes

Posted: Apr 25 2009 11:27 pm

Robert Earl Keen - The Road Goes On Forever

Posted: Apr 26 2009 03:10 am

Open Road Song - Eve 6
Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep At the Wheel - Barenaked Ladies
Driving in my Car - Madness
Karma Slave - Splashdown

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

Wilco - Impossible Germany
The Cramps - New kind of kick
Social Distortion - Mommy's little monster
Bad Religion - Anesthesia
The Breeders - Huffer
The Pixies - Letter to memphis
Bouncing Souls - True Believers
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
GWAR - Immortal Corruptor
Leonard Cohen - Closing Time
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Tom Waits - Ol' 55
The Clash - Magnificent Seven
Depeche Mode - It's no good
John Prine - People puttin' people down
The Kinks - All day and all of the night
Van Morrison - Into the mystic
Zombies - Time of the season

Damn, looking up I realize that's a pretty diverse list.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 01:56 pm

Bitchin' Camaro-The Dead Milkmen

Posted: Apr 26 2009 02:59 pm

Lord,
Damn straight you include Open Road Song! Great beat, angsty vibe, and some of the best song-writing I've ever heard.

Josh,
That's extremely diverse, and I can't believe I've forgotten Mommy's Little Monster (really any SD works), Subterranean Homesick Blues, All Day and All of the Night, and Time of the Season!

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

joshwoodzell wrote:

Wilco - Impossible Germany
The Cramps - New kind of kick
Social Distortion - Mommy's little monster
Bad Religion - Anesthesia
The Breeders - Huffer
The Pixies - Letter to memphis
Bouncing Souls - True Believers
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
GWAR - Immortal Corruptor
Leonard Cohen - Closing Time
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Tom Waits - Ol' 55
The Clash - Magnificent Seven
Depeche Mode - It's no good
John Prine - People puttin' people down
The Kinks - All day and all of the night
Van Morrison - Into the mystic
Zombies - Time of the season

Damn, looking up I realize that's a pretty diverse list.

We need something besides '80s metal on this list, and you picked some awesome ones. Special props for True Believers and Waterloo Sunset.

Posted: Apr 26 2009 05:52 pm

mc chris - Fett's Vette

Posted: Apr 26 2009 08:18 pm

Surprised that no one mentioned Battery by Metallica or Them Bones by Alice in Chains....

Posted: Apr 27 2009 12:11 am

For daytime driving:
Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkies
Coldplay - Talk
Queen - Brighton Rock
Beatles - Paperback Writer
Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
Smashing Pumpkins - This Time (especially in the evening, with the sunset in the sky)
Green Day - Are We The Waiting
Killers - Human
Crystal Castles - Crimewave
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
INXS - Suicide Blonde
A Fine Frenzy - Rangers
Silversun Pickups - Little Lover's So Polite (especially when it's hot outside)
Smashing Pumpkins - Jackie Blue
M.I.A. - Bird Flu
Billy Corgan - Walking Shade
Smashing Pumpkins - Frail and Bedazzled

For night driving:
Radiohead - I Might Be Wrong
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Dave Gahan - Kingdom
M.I.A. - Hussel
Ladytron - Another Breakfast With You
Queen - It's Late
Smashing Pumpkins - Stumbleine
Santogold - Anne
Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People
Bjork - Nature is Ancient
Joy Division - Isolation
Rammstein - Spieluhr
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers
Feist - My Moon My Man
Blue Man Group - Utne Wire Man
Rilo Kiley - Close Call
Pretty much anything from Third by Portishead (especially "We Carry On", "Small", and "The Rip")

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Cameron wrote:

Smashing Pumpkins - Jackie Blue

I've never heard of this one, only "Blue". Is it some alternate of this song, or some random studio session song?

I didn't even find it on the Smashing Pumpkins Fan Collaborative site:

http://www.spfc.org/songs-releases/song.html?song_type=1&song_display=

Oh, and I love Walking Shade, quite possibly the best song on the album, next to the first track, All Things Change.

Posted: Apr 27 2009 10:37 am

Strike Force - Girls In Cars