My commute is about 35 - 45 minutes each way, so I listen to a lot of music. Sometimes I listen to more mellow stuff, sometimes I listen to more hardcore stuff (System of a Down, Rage Against the Machine, Anne Murray).
Well, I have found that there are some songs that are just great to drive to.
Lately, it's been "Easy Living" by Uriah Heep as well as "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.
The chorus to this song came into my head one night in 1977 as I was driving through the Hollywood Hills. Our drummer, David Teegarden, played an entire set of drums as we recorded and overdubbed another entire set of drums playing a different pattern. In other words, there's two sets of everything: snare, kick-drum, hi-hat, etc. Billy Payne (of Little Feat) sat in with us for the first time and played the last two instruments, piano and organ. When he was done, he asked for a tape to listen to on the way home. he called me the next day while he had been listening, he looked down and found himself going 100 miles an hour on the freeway.
I was just gonna post that after you mentioned Hollywood Nights in your thread-starter, 79! As you know, that's from the liner notes of his Greatest Hits CD that I have.
One of my favorite driving albums is False Cathedrals by a now-defunct Louisville band called Elliott. Largely on the mellow end of things, but has some real rockers as well (tracks like Voices/Calm Americans, Drive On To Me, Speed of Film). Check it out for sure.
Early precursor to punk/metal. Covered by Bauhaus, and featured in the movie "The Lovely Bones", when the girl breaks every traffic law known when she takes the convertible Mustang to rush her brother to the hospital. This song gives my car 5 more hp!
I used to do some urethane foam roofing and as such, traveled a lot. When I had a job to do in Chicago and driving back and forth from Dayton, I spendt a lot of time driving.
I found this band, government mule and for some reason it just went so well with driving. Not just this song but the band overall. I feel if you like this song as an example, you may want to check out more of their songs as well.
jmho
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No offense, but I don't think you understand the concept of driving song. I had heard good things about Gov't Mule, but never heard them. Sorry, but I wouldn't consider this a driving song unless I had a Yugo.
Radar Love, check. Hollywood Hills, check. Johnny Cash, check.
This song would be good if I wanted to run the engine with the garage door closed.
No I don't think you understand. Different people have different tastes. Just look at the different genres of music. What may be good to you may not be good to others.
I made 300 mile trips listenning to government mule and loved it. So diferent pills for different thrills bud. Like me, you couldn't pay me to listen to rap crap. Why? Because I just don't like it. Yet lots of people do.
So let's let the poster who asked for these suggestions be the judge, not the peanut gallery. And if he doesn't like it, so be it.
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Lil Wayne A Mille for example. Hate the lyrics, total garbage but the bass pounds through my 12 inch Kicker CVRs. I enjoy rolling down the windows at red lights and annoying guys like Divot with it.
I said I heard good things about Gov't Mule. I just didn't think this was a good driving song. Different strokes, etc., but I want a song that cranks it up for a driving song. We probably just have different driving styles and cars.
I would love to see this band live in a small venue, but I wouldn't put that song on my driving playlist.
Quote: This song would be good if I wanted to run the engine with the garage door closed.
Well this is where you lost me.
Well I was driving a 1992 black Chrysler New Yorker and it was in the mid 90's. Averaging about 80mph with a kick a$$ stereo that I traded an older 4 wheel drive Chevy pick up for.
Let's try this...............................
These guys to me are kind of like The Allman Brothers on steroids.
On the studio CD's they are very basey and the base lines are very rambling and fast. So if you like that kind of music you love them, if not, you won't. In most all of their songs they keep changing tempos and chord patterns to change things up.
And it could be the fact that I was in bands for the most part over a span of three decades starting in high school with things like Robin Trower, Grand Funk. ZZ Topp and so forth. I read music, have written music so when I hear it, I know the talent and can feel the music too. This doesn't make me special or a music aficionado. But I believe it does give you somewhat of a different viewpoint on things.
It's like AC/DC and KISS. Most people from my generation LOVED them! Me? I thought, "What's the big deal? They play three or four chords and sing in one octive accept fot the incessant screaming of AC/DC."
Cause you see, I knew far more talented musicians and vocalists that nobody had ever heard of and thought it was such a travisty.
So our viewpoints may vary widely in that department. I've never heard a government mule song that even comes close to causing anyone to think of the above quote and have never heard anyone comment so negatively towards them.
I mean you have every right to your opinion, but dude, make you want to gas yourself with exhaust fumes? A little over the top don't you think? Seriously?
jmho
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
Lil Wayne A Mille for example. Hate the lyrics, total garbage but the bass pounds through my 12 inch Kicker CVRs. I enjoy rolling down the windows at red lights and annoying guys like Divot with it.
Please.
Public Enemy, yep. Ice Cube, Yep. I have no problem with good rap. I saw them and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five before the hype.
12 inch Kicker CVRs? Please.
Oh, nice car, Mr. 12 inch speakers listening to songs that he hates because it has a lot of bass that tries to annoy me as I look back in the rear-view mirror as you drive a Honda. I would guess my exhaust note is significantly louder than your speakers.
I may not be as sophisticated as you, but I prefer a nice car over a rolling beat box.
I log a good amount of turnpike driving during the year and Wish You Were Here usually gets a full listen with Dark Side of The Moon following it. The first couple of Black Sabbath albums are good for driving imo.
On a nice sunny day with a decent temperature i'll open my windows and blare some Boston. I'll also second everyone Arch said minus uncle kracker. I'd have to add Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, and Hal Ketchum to my driving around town list too.
Heck even freakin' Warren Haynes played in the Allman Bro's. Don't knock Gov't Mule.
But driving songs....
Hollywood nights is the best driving song hands down. You already know that. All my driving mixes include songs by Band of Horses, O.A.R., and Dispatch. But for singular songs, check out
Land of Hope and Dreams (live at MSG) - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band All the Young Dudes - Matt the Hopple (trust me, when you hit 65 on the highway at night, this song will be awesome for ya) I Was Wrong - The Morning Benders
Early precursor to punk/metal. Covered by Bauhaus, and featured in the movie "The Lovely Bones", when the girl breaks every traffic law known when she takes the convertible Mustang to rush her brother to the hospital. This song gives my car 5 more hp!
Wow......there's a nice suprise, I thought I was the only one who listened to Eno, in fact I was just listening to Baby's on Fire a few minutes ago. Back on topic here, driving music huh.....depends on the mood really.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
John 14:19 Jesus said: Because I live, you also will live.
Other songs,,,Eddie Money Shakin', Foreigner 'Jukebox Hero' , Papa Roach 'Last Resort', Fort Minor 'Remember the Name' and two Metallica songs, Enter Sandman' and 'Whiskey in a Jar'.
Without a doubt. I guess I'm gearing my songs too much to later night driving when ie is quite and I'm alone on the road. During the day Disturbed ' Down with the Sickness' is probably my favorite.
Rock 'n Roll, Hoochie-Koo - Rick Derringer Sweet Jane - Lou Reed Highway Song - Blackfoot Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John It's Impossible - Perry Como ... and many more
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I also like walking on sunshine 