and you want to feel good

This is an actual video of myself cruising towards Theodore Roosevelt National Park with the superlative Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts blasting:

im just going to make short irrelevant posts in this thread

thanks for the contribution Mitchell! I'll be sure to check that out

with no attempt to punctuate

just to be annoying

Maceo & the Macks - Cross the Tracks: Has the bonus element of sounding like a car alarm going off while you're driving.


Archie Bell & the Drells - Tighten Up: Has the bonus element of being that song that Homer Simpson plays when he had a one-man-band, so if you're a Simpsons dork, you can sit there and chuckle to yourself as you remember that particular episode: "Giuseppe, go for the face!"

The Ramones - Rocket to Russia (any of the first 4 albums, really)
Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Live at Brixton, Everything Louder than Everything Else

gbv - echos myron
odb - shimmy shimmy ya

best two songs ever.

And people complain about MY contributions....

the 2nd, 3rd & 4th tracks from Janelle Monae's Archandroid have been getting a lot of loud play in my car recently...

Aggie has a drivers license and a car?

Funky house is a must.

ESPECIALLY after the 3:36 mark.

and...




Paul McCartney - Moonberry Monk Delight.

Modern Lovers is pretty ace for this.
And The Chronic.

Lately just blasting the fuck outta new Big Boi.

Freddie OTM.

Yes.

I've been blasting Modern Lovers in my car a lot, lately. Don't know why it slipped my mind.

I think "purple" wins this one.

Highway Star - Deep Purple
Speed King - Deep Purple
Hush - Deep Purple
LA Woman - Doors
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Monkey Man - Stones
I can see for Miles.. - WHo
Screaming for Vengeance - Priest
Red Barchetta - some Canadian band
Courage - Tragically Hip
Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC

Funny that I don't think that either Zeppelin or even the Beatles have a good "driving" tune.

Pixies - Surfer Rosa (esp. "Gigantic," which I usually have to repeat a few times.)

The Hold Steady - live version of "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" from A Positive Rage.

Ego Trip: The 300 Greatest Hip Hop Tracks of All Time, a playlist I DL'ed from some message board last year. Heavy on early '90s hip hop.

Two additions:






And this:

Smashing Pumpkins. To Sheila.

Please Mr. Postman.

Came up randomly on my shuffle last night in my car and I couldn't help but blasting the shit out of it.

Licensed since age 16, owned 2 cars since then. I'm not offended, but why would you not think so?

Couple more:
Spiders (Kidsmoke)--Wilco
Moving Pictures, Rush (is it coincidental how the cascading guitar riff in "Kidsmoke" slightly resembles "Red Barcheta"'s riff?)

I never really appreciated Kyuss' Welcome To Sky Valley until I got upsold on a car rental, and drove a new camaro ss from San Francisco to Napa and listened to it the entire drive. WTSV is phenomenal road music, and I always have a copy in my car now:




Also, I've got a shitty 1980 corvette with t-tops, and my wife bought be this as a gag gift. I'd like to pretend I only enjoy it on an ironic level, but that would be a huge lie:



Mississippi Queen – Mountain
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Hot Blooded – Foreigner
Slow Ride – Foghat
Stroke, The - Billy Squier
Free for All - Ted Nugent
Smokin' in the Boys' Room - Brownsville Station
Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Working for the Weekend – Loverboy
Any Way You Want It – Journey
Two Tickets to Paradise - Eddie Money
Hold the Line – Toto
Roll with the Changes - REO Speedwagon
No One to Run With - The Allman Brothers Band
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood & the Destroyers
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Smokin' – Boston
Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister
Metal Health (Bang Your Head) - Quiet Riot
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
Carry on Wayward Son – Kansas
We're an American Band - Grand Funk Railroad
Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) - The Hollies
Rockin' Down the Highway - The Doobie Brothers
Black Betty - Ram Jam
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Bat out of Hell - Meat Loaf

grateful dead - american beauty



the whole album. great highway, road trippin' music as far as i'm concerned.

Beep beep, beep beep, yeah!

With a tip of the hat to By-Tor, who mentioned Red Barchetta.

This is one of my go to albums if driving at night.

Shuggie Otis

Only if you're going at least 80.

depends on the mood really. if i'm in the gotta get there early mood i might throw on crue's kickstart my heart. but if i'm feelin like an old lady who can barely see over the steering wheel and whose feet can barely reach the gas pedal, i like to turn the wheel slowly to patti smith's redondo beach.

Can't Hardly Wait by the 'mats is perfect. It'll feel like Jesus is riding beside you.

If you do listen to Rush, I recommend comparing Spiders to the opening of "Xanadu" some time. There's some similarity in not jsut the chord, but the rhythm as well.

ANother great driving B-side from Rush: "Kid Gloves" from Grace Under Pressure.

Unsung by Helmet is a great, great driving song. Every time it comes on XM, I play it as loud as I can take it.

Natural Science is a pretty good Rush song to clip along to as well. At least the middle part of it...

God call on the Sasha remix of 'Smile' by Nowhere Fast. You heard Sasha's new track, SparkyLives? He was giving it away on his website, it's pretty lush, not heard it in a club yet but reckon it will be mammoth.

Listening to it for the first time now, and it's excellent.

Mammoth is an understatement. Something like this makes me miss going to Sasha live -- but once he comes back to NY, i doubt I'll hesitate.

The best Rush driving song is "Prime Mover" from severely underrated Hold Your Fire.

Did you ever see him at Twilo? Always wanted to be there for one of those sets but was too young and too far away.

I was too young and immersed in the wrong type of music at the time. I only discovered Sasha a little while after its closing. A best friend of mine did see Sasha & Digweed at Twilo and said it was an experience like no other. He probably mentions it every single time we go out.

I did see Sasha and Digweed at their reunion at New York's Crobar -- which, although was an absolutely excellent night -- i can't imagine it held up to the Twilo nights. I did get the pleasure of meeting Sasha at the Virgin Megastore release party. Really pleasant guy.

Yeah, he's a top dude, spoke to him a while back after a gig. Wonder if he ever dropped 'Twilo Thunder' in Twilo itself? Might have to trawl through the old setlists to find out.

the new against me! has been serving this purpose this summer...

i imagine "bark at the moon" would work well, or any track wher i could air guitar to jake e. lee riffs..or riffs in general.

the best driving album. best summer album. best anything album, at the moment.