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So what is your favourite driving song? Mine is Inside by Stiltskin.
And Driving home for Christmas for slushy sentimental reasons.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:33, 157 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Do I need to bring owt special? TGB and I are gonna get wasted on white russians...
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:53, Reply)
I am going to make bread and then drink gin.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)
I'm busy friday, saturday and saturday night.
you planning to hit the beach on sunday?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:02, Reply)
I'll be heading home about 2pm Sunday though in order to drive back.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Fucking hell - are you going back to the NORTH POLE or something?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)
That way Vippers can give you your surfing lesson on Sunday and the rest of us can point and laugh from a nearby pub.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:35, Reply)
I won't even be using a GAY breadmaker.
I'll be kneading and pummelling with my bare hands.
Al, don't fucking start with the strikethroughs.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:57, Reply)
But I still love your mini naans.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:58, Reply)
and drink beer while we do it. Why has nobody thought of doing this before!?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:01, Reply)
It could start with 'bar' to cover the booze bit.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:02, Reply)
queuing up at the charcoal grill to get your meat.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)
you're likely to get flying insects buzzing around your food!
So, we could call it a Bar-Q-Wasp!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:07, Reply)
Are you coming out on saturday?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Awwwww, you're not gonna be able to come are you. You can always bring Lab and TGB if they are down here.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
We booked it weeks ago.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:58, Reply)
I'll just have to make do with DiT. He's a poor substitute for a BFF. Just ask becky.
Mind you, he is bringing his wife.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:59, Reply)
I might throw a big hammy fit and not come at all and then it'll just be you.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:48, Reply)
conveniently also by Deftones and also on White Pony. I know what I'm putting on for the drive home in 40 mins.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:46, Reply)
Got to be in the mood for them, then Feticera (sp) is cool!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:44, Reply)
I like something fast to drive along to - RATM or similar!
Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror is an appropriate song
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:39, Reply)
Misirilou, (or however you spell it) by Dick Dale and the Deltones. OK, not a song as such, but an awesome tune all the same.
The Cramps cover of Shortnin' Bread for the bass riff alone. Actually, lots of Cramps tracks.
The Power of Lard, by Lard.
Never Let Me Down Again, by Depeche Mode.
Temple of Love - The Sisters of Mercy.
And the 'beat' version of All The Way Down by the Primitives (a B side). Something about the Hammond organ on that that screams summer, windows open. Can't put my finger on it.
And many, many more, pop pickers.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:45, Reply)
I used to have it on an old compilation tape and haven't heard it in ages. This is something that I must remedy.
Did you ever get to hear any of Jello Biafra's Spoken Word stuff?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Because whatever speed you're travelling, it gives the impression that everything is moving faster.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:45, Reply)
Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald. 303 fever, the perfect antidote to road rage.
Halleluwah - Can. Looping and loping psychedelic brain vibrations, superb for locking into a motorway drive.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:46, Reply)
I remember Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer as a good travelling album, it portrays a journey itself (blah blah blah pretentious bullshit).
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:48, Reply)
When autumn comes around it's
Vanessa Carlton, this is my fave
Colbie Caillat love this one
Flyleaf oh, love this toooo
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:50, Reply)
Or listen to whole albums like The Downward Spiral.
However, here are a few recent ones I've had on repeat in the car:
Pendulum - Island pt 2
How to Destroy Angels - Space in between
Spineshank - Dead to me
Atari Teenage Riot - Atari Teenage Riot
NIN - March of the Pigs
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:50, Reply)
for speed. Good on track days.
Otherwise, Hey Jealousy by the Gin Blossoms. All these things that I have done (Killers). Rabbit Heart (Florence and the Machine). Sparky's Dream (teenage fanclub)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:51, Reply)
East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed - this is without question the best driving song ever made.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
I start every car journey of more than an hour with that song
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:03, Reply)
by Sepultura
Though prefer nothing when on the bike so I can hear the engine scream :o)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
I Am The Highway - Audioslave
Getaway Car - Audioslave
Long Road To Ruin - Foo Fighters
Edit: JesusChristPose - Soundgarden
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)
also had www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPCxfQGjyY this on it. Unfortunately I've lost the mp3 file and can't find it anywhere
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:11, Reply)
I already found two sites you can get it from.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:13, Reply)
Mind you that was some time ago, should try again. Love the song, don't think they ever released the CD proper though
Edit: got it. Love the sig by the way
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:14, Reply)
Did she cry and eat cream cake while it was being filmed?
Does it matter?
*Chimps*
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:34, Reply)
Fight Like The Night by Malcolm Middleton.
My slushy sentimental one would be Goin' Back by Dusty Springfield.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:14, Reply)
so I will have to go with Chapter 5 of my SmartFrench CD, which covers the various conjugations of 'Etre' (To be), it really gets my motor running that one!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:19, Reply)
i should really listen to it but end up on radio 2 or 4 (a sign of aging I think...)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:41, Reply)
Speed King - Deep Purple
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
The Race - Yello
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:20, Reply)
"heavyweight champion of the world"
"killing in the name of"
"go your own way"
"i am the resurrection"
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:40, Reply)
Also my fav song is that little snippit from Monsters Inc where they have to pretend they are rehersing a play and go
Put that thing back where it came from so help me (bom bom bom)
So help me!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:56, Reply)
is it from Bugsy Malone?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:01, Reply)
It's also in the game Borderlands, as shouted by excited mono-cycling robots.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:08, Reply)
(I can't drive so that's rather lucky innit)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:04, Reply)
"My baby beside me, at the wheel."
So SHE could be driving.
Allowing you to drink and do...other things.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:15, Reply)
EDIT I have heard that tune thousands of times and never clocked that observation - I always imagined it was Chuck driving the automobile.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:18, Reply)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:22, Reply)
Mississipi Queen - Mountain
Sunshine High - Dropkick Murphys
Born on the Bayou - CCR
Burnin' for you - Blue Oyster Cult
Runnin' Wild - Airborne
Don't Speak - EoDM
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:26, Reply)
'Willie & The Poor Boys' is one of my favourite LPs. Do you like The Grateful Dead?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:34, Reply)
now I'm listening to Johnette Neapolitano though. More specifically Suicide Note. Which is not as dirgeful as it sounds
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:50, Reply)
but she has a wonderful voice. Check out Suicide Note or Before the Fall. I have the mp3 to Suicide Note if you want it
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:17, Reply)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKwu2-5WkTc&feature=related
Changed videos, the spelling mistakes on the other one were too irritating- plus the lyrics were wrong
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:22, Reply)
she's a bit old to be an emo. More a shoegazer
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:54, Reply)
you hear of one thing and then suddenly it is everywhere
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:13, Reply)
I've been listening to Concrete Blonde for years and trying to persuade others of their excellence.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:40, Reply)
though I can't believe I only heard Suicide Note today.
After a quick google, I realise that not bothering to google bands for ages, means I miss facts such as they had a reunion tour in early summer :(
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:44, Reply)
on the Pump Up The Volume soundtrack. I used to have a copy of Bloodletting somewhere too, probably on an old hard drive. Must dig it out.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:02, Reply)
The best of, Recollections is worth having.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:14, Reply)
ebay not coming up trumps at all
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:19, Reply)
I might be able to help you out with mp3s
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:30, Reply)
torrents all appear dodgy on this one.
I'd buy it on CD if I could get it relatively reasonably
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:34, Reply)
it makes it harder for me to appreciate the original. Same with Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah or the Hendrix cover of All Along The Watchtower.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:35, Reply)
I love Concrete Blonde. Aside from my brother you folk are the only people I know who like them. Most haven't heard of them, and when I play them, turn their noses up.
She has just got a marvellous voice.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:40, Reply)
I'm still surprised by how few people have heard of them
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:43, Reply)
I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this, and it may just have been the shitty stereo we used to play it* on, but for ages I couldn't decide whether she was dude or not.
*it being Everybody Knows
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:51, Reply)
The opening of Down On The Corner just has an irrepressible basic rhythm.
John Fogerty has a terrfic voice.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:43, Reply)
One of the local bands does a lap steel version of 110 In The Shade. I swear it starts to feel hotter when they start on that lazy slide intro ...
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:01, Reply)
You good, Brian?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:14, Reply)
Even better considering I'm nearly done here, so I'm about to sling my hook and slope off into one of the nearby licenced premises with the aim of redistributing some wealth. Sort of ...
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:28, Reply)
stupendous.
Their version of Heard it through the grapevine is outrageously good too.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:44, Reply)
Drove back from Menai Bridge to Coventry via the A5 early morning (3 A:M) this thursday when this came on - certainly affected my average speed!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:30, Reply)
Similarly
Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:45, Reply)
I am getting really fucking obscure here.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:15, Reply)
so I can sing along proper loud and dramatic, like
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:44, Reply)
OoS is one of those albums I can listen to end to end. Forget this Resistance twaddle, just blast Hyper Music or Citizen Erased and you're good to go.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:19, Reply)
Can't beat a good bit of drum'n'bass.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:26, Reply)
Pepper, by the Butthole Surfers.
Bulletproof - Pop Will Eat Itself.
Fat Bastard - Macc Lads.
Forever More / Pure Pleasure Seeker - Moloko.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:46, Reply)
Kenny Ken, Randal, DJ Hype, DJ Zinc, Nicky Blackmarket, Bryan G, Ratty.. '97 style, rolling beats getting you into the right zone for doing far too many miles an hour in 2 tonnes of metal for an hour or so next to a bunch of other lunatics doing the same.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:11, Reply)
those old rave tapes come in handy
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:10, Reply)
Oh yeah:
Jesus built my hotrod - Ministry.
Sister Ray - Velvet Underground.
Pure Shores - All Saints.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:12, Reply)
was to ding-a-ling-lang my dang-a-long-ling-long
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:15, Reply)
Faster driving:
Tool - Ticks and leeches
RATM - Bullet in the head
CCR - Up around the bend
SOAD - Sugar
Chilled out nighttime driving:
A perfect circle - the noose
deftones - passenger
pink floyd - comfortably numb
Led zep - no quarter
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:25, Reply)
Cheers! I find that No Quarter, particularly when it's pitch black and maybe snowing, will make the hairs on my neck stand up every time..
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:41, Reply)
can I assume you have heard the Tool version?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:43, Reply)
I have indeedy (not live alas), great cover as you'd expect, but not as sublime as the original. I think my favourite cover that Tool have done is diary of a lovesong.. I'd love to get my hands on a studio-quality copy of that one.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:57, Reply)
and had to pluck up the courage to make one of us venture into the bikers' pub to get hashish, whenever the unlucky winner failed to score, the announcement was always 'No Quarter'. How we laughed at our own wit.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:20, Reply)
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