Your top 10 driving songs

[Robert]

You know, for listening when you're cruising down the road with that expensive petrol in the tank! They don't have to be about cars or driving really, just the type of song you enjoy while driving.

Here are mine (quickly made up in a few minutes):

1. Slow Turning - John Hiatt
2. Highway To Hell - AC/DC
3. American Girl - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakes
4. Let's Go Crazy - Prince
5. Drive My Car - The Beatles
6. Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
7. Route 66 - Nat King Cole
8. Life In The Fast Lane - Eagles
9. Detroit Rock City - KISS
10. Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

 

[merlin]

I can't really think of 10, but there is nothing better for me then a sunny day with the windows down and "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins comes on the radio.
It always puts me in a good mood even though the song is about suicide.

 

[Bloozcat]

< Roadhouse Blues - The Doors....
"Keep you eyes on the road your hands upon the wheel..."

< Radar Love - Golden Earing...
It was significant for me at the time, beyond merely a good road song...


< Goin' To Mexico - Steve Miller Band (Number Five)
"Pack my bags
Don't be too slow
I should've quit you baby
A long time ago
I left you flat
And split for Mexico....
...I've got four or five hundred miles to go
down them, southbound highways
53 Studebaker goin' for broke
I'm pushin it night and day
I've had enough of your lies
To last a long long time...."

Another road song with specific meaning during the same time period.


< I Wanna Be Free - Uriah Heep

"As I wake up every day
With no new songs to play
Feelin' like I ought to pack my bags and run
My imagination flies
To some other sunny skies
Where I felt so good and everything was done
And my time, was my own
And my heart, felt so free
Come on!"

OK...so it was my celebrated blue period. And yes, it did involve a woman...


< Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix...of course

< Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

< Ramblin Man - Allman Brothers

< Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet

< Traffic - Various albums...

< Crossroads - Cream - Wheels of Fire...

That'll do for starters...I know there's more...

 

[Ro3b]

1. "Dragula" by Rob Zombie
2. "Colony of Birchmen" by Mastodon
3. "Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine
4. "Heirate Mich" by Rammstein
5. "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" by the Stooges
6. "Galang" by MIA
7. "Die, All Right!" by the Hives
8. "Twin City Lights" by the Midnight Evils
9. "Suck My Kiss" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. "Zobi la Mouche" by Les Negresses Vertes

 

[Robert]

Ro3b - I don't even recognize ONE of those songs!? What's the matter with me?

 

[Ro3b]

Whoa, really? Maybe I should have embedded videos. Here are a few, anyway...

Dragula: http://youtube.com/watch?v=N1MQW5e6KcE

Sleep Now in the Fire: http://youtube.com/watch?v=wu67yo-3jfw

Galang: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jTLkHQz1OpY

The rest are all kind of like that, only different...

 

[just strum]

In no particular order.

Werewolves of London - Zevon
Sympathy for the Devil - Stones
Street Fighting Man - Stones
My Girl - Temptations
Lawyers, Guns, and Money - Zevon
Helter Skelter - Beatles
I got the Feeling - James Brown
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Wild Thing - The Troggs
Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen

 

[street music]

HIGHWAY STAR- Deep Purple
SUPER TROOPER- Deep Purple
One- Three Dog Night
Dyer Maker- Led Zepplin
Long Run- Eagles
Bad Company- Bad Company
Down On The Corner- CCR
CopperHead Road- Steve Earle
Rocket- Def Leppard
Would I Lie To You-Eurthymics

Now what a crazy list of music, from a crazy ole man that just wants to rock.:rockon:

 

[markb]

< I Wanna Be Free - Uriah Heep

"As I wake up every day
With no new songs to play
Feelin' like I ought to pack my bags and run
My imagination flies
To some other sunny skies
Where I felt so good and everything was done
And my time, was my own
And my heart, felt so free
Come on!"

Uriah Heep is rumoured to be our prime minister's favourite band, she refuses to comment .

 

[SuperSwede]

I´ve been playing the same CD in my car for several months now...

Its "Everything must go" with Steely Dan (got it from Spuds a while ago.. thanks thanks.)

 

[FatCat]

In no particular order

ZZ Top - La Grange
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Golden Earing - Radar Love
Rolling Stones - Route 66
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
CCR - Fortunate Son
AC/DC - It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
The White Stripes - Ball & Biscuit
Rolling Stones - Star Star

 

[Bloozcat]

Ok, the brain's had some time to work on this...

Highway Star - Deep Purple...how could I have forgotten this one?

Highway 61 Revisited - I like the Johnny Winter version myself

Highway Song - Blackfoot

Rockin' Down the Highway - Doobie Brothers

Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf...a classic road song...

Key to the Highway - Freddie King, with a nod to EC as well

Truckin' - Greatful Dead...no list of road songs is complete without this one.

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

 

[Robert]

I agree - Highway Star must be there. It's one of my favourite Deep Purple songs. I also need to another one of their songs - Space Trucking!

 

[bigoldron]

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
LaGrange - ZZ Top
Tush - ZZ Top
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower
Voodoo Chile - SRV
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
China Grove - Doobie Brothers
Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
Hold on Loosely - 38 Special
Dreams I'll Never See - Molly Hatchet

OK, so it's 12 instead of 10. I still like to hear them when I'm riding the road, 'cause they ROCK! :rockon: :dude: :R

Wait a minute! I thought of 2 more: Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo - Rick Derringer and Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group! :AOK:

 

[King_Dumble_of_Princeton]

In no particular order:

Cream - Crossroads
SRV - Crossfire
John Mayer - Covered in Rain
The Eagles - Good Day in Hell
Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Hendrix - Little Wing
Ray Charles - I've Got a Woman
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
B.B King - The Thrill is Gone
Bill Withers - Who is He and What is He to You?

Those are just the first ten off the top of my head. I could go on for days.

CR

 

[Ch0jin]

1. "Dragula" by Rob Zombie
2. "Colony of Birchmen" by Mastodon
3. "Sleep Now in the Fire" by Rage Against the Machine
4. "Heirate Mich" by Rammstein
5. "Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell" by the Stooges
6. "Galang" by MIA
7. "Die, All Right!" by the Hives
8. "Twin City Lights" by the Midnight Evils
9. "Suck My Kiss" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
10. "Zobi la Mouche" by Les Negresses Vertes

Awesome. We have very similar tastes, although if I was to nit pick...

Swap Rob's solo stuff for White Zombie's La Sexorcisto and Astro Creep 2000.

How is Black Sunshine from La Sexorcisto not a driving song with that opening sample..

"Grip the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire. The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45. True death, 400 horsepower of maximum performance piercing the night. This is Black Sunshine"

Anyway, how freaky is this.. In my car CD player right now I have a mix CD (Whilst I love my ipod, I love making a good mix cd) that actually has several of the same artists you've mentioned. To be specific...

Rammstein - Feuer Frei
RATM - Sleep now in the Fire (same as you haha)
Mastadon - Blood and Thunder
The Hives - AKA IDIOT
White Zombie - Thunderkiss 65 (which was supposedly Sean's nickname)

and of course more.

Sadly the type of music I like to listen to in my car does not encourage safe driving, especially with a V8, so I got's to be careful

 

[Jimi75]

A driving song can be something that makes me "dream away" while riding a long road or the highway or a good driving song can be some pretty hard music that kicks me for the moment. Depends on the mood really.

Here's a compilation I would burn on cd for the ride. The order has no meaning...

1. Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
2. Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
3. Eagle Eye Cherry - Safe tonight
4. Jimi Hendrix - All along the watchtower
5. Bruce springsteen - I'm on fire
6. Elvis Presley - You don't have to say you love me
7. Metallica - Master of puppets
8. Thin Lizzy - Cowboy song
9. Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name
10. Bob Marley - No woman no cry (live version)

 

[Spudman]

1. Love Supreme - The Flower Kings
2. Cruise Control - Dixie Dregs
3. Once - Blackfield
4. Welcome To The World - Cheap Trick
5. Devils Road - Glenn Hughes / Joe Lynn Turner
6. Train Tracks - Ian Moore
7. Bridge To Better Days - Joe Bonamassa
8. Alex In Paradise - Karmakanic
9. Shallow - Porcupine Tree
10. Death Alley Driver - Rainbow

 

[Ro3b]

How is Black Sunshine from La Sexorcisto not a driving song with that opening sample..

"Grip the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire. The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45. True death, 400 horsepower of maximum performance piercing the night. This is Black Sunshine"

Ha! Yeah, and that's Iggy Pop doing the spoken word stuff there, which gives it a few dozen coolness points. "Dragula" would still be on my list though, since it was written in honor of Herman Munster's dragster. A whole hell of a lot of White Zombie/Rob Zombie stuff is good driving music. Superbeast, Super Charger Heaven, American Nightmare, Thunderkiss 65 of course.

And I had originally put Feuer Frei on my list, but Heirate Mich is just so damn perverse.

Sadly the type of music I like to listen to in my car does not encourage safe driving, especially with a V8, so I got's to be careful

Yeah, I hear you. Heaven help us. :dude: