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It would appear we're having another music day.
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 15 years ago)
Passenger - Deftones

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:35, Reply)
Great tune
The Maynard graces it with his awesomeness.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:43, Reply)
*puts on steel-toe capped boots*

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:46, Reply)
Steady on lady
What brought this on?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:46, Reply)
Mmm...
I am totally eating iced gems.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:47, Reply)
Erm...ok...
Probably be there about 6-7ish on Friday, that cool?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:51, Reply)
Very!

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:51, Reply)
Awesome!
Do I need to bring owt special? TGB and I are gonna get wasted on white russians...
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:53, Reply)
Nope, not as far as I know.
I am going to make bread and then drink gin.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)
So the house will smell of freshly baked bread?
ZOMG Heaven!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
is this the weekend you are down this way?

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:57, Reply)
Ja
I'll be down Friday, going back Sunday
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:57, Reply)
hmmm
I'm busy friday, saturday and saturday night.

you planning to hit the beach on sunday?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:02, Reply)
Hopefully.
Gaz Wookiee - he's in charge.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Honestly I have no idea
I'll be heading home about 2pm Sunday though in order to drive back.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:03, Reply)
2pm?
Fucking hell - are you going back to the NORTH POLE or something?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)
it's an outrage
don't let them leave that early clenders.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Mesmerise him with your norks!

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:07, Reply)
I can stretch to 4pm I 'spose
But I'm meeting some friends at 7pm
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:08, Reply)
Hah!
Like you have other friends.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:27, Reply)
Also, you massive nonce, how do you feel about going home from the beach?
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)
That all sounds rather marvelous

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:38, Reply)
Oh yeh!
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)
Seriously, my granary bread was so fucking good.
But I still love your mini naans.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:58, Reply)
Let's have a bread party.
With beer. And meat.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:59, Reply)
We could cook the meat outside over charcoal
and drink beer while we do it. Why has nobody thought of doing this before!?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:01, Reply)
Let's call it something funky.
It could start with 'bar' to cover the booze bit.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:02, Reply)
You could include the word queue to indicate
queuing up at the charcoal grill to get your meat.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:06, Reply)
And, since it's outside and you would want to do this sort of thing in the summer
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)
What? You're meeting Lab on friday?
Are you coming out on saturday?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:54, Reply)
Is that thing THIS Saturday?
I thought it was NEXT Saturday.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:55, Reply)
Oh THAT thing.
I wasn't ever able to come to that :(
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
No it's THIS saturday.
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)
They won't be. They'll be in the westcountry.
We booked it weeks ago.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:58, Reply)
Awwwwwwww.
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 am very sorry, BFF.
I would liked to have attended.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:59, Reply)
WATCH IT, YOU SLAG.
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)
Sad driving is Knife Party or Teenager,
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)
I'm a bit meh about Deftones
Got to be in the mood for them, then Feticera (sp) is cool!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:44, Reply)
Eye of the Tiger
no apologies
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:37, Reply)
Not heard Inside for ages!
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)
The Benny Hill theme tune

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:39, Reply)
OK, this wins!

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:41, Reply)
Yakkety Sax

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:01, Reply)
Touché
Edit: actually that's better 'plane music
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:08, Reply)
I cannot whittle it down to one.
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)
The Power Of Lard is excellent.
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)
Nah, a mate of mine was a big fan though and had pretty much all of his stuff.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:12, Reply)
Some nice tunes there Davvers

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:01, Reply)
Cheers Montague.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:57, Reply)
Pictures of Home by Deep Purple
Because whatever speed you're travelling, it gives the impression that everything is moving faster.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:45, Reply)
Autobahn - Kraftwerk. An obvious, yet completely brilliant driving track.
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)
Autobahn= yes

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:47, Reply)
The screams of my passengers.
I can't drive.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:47, Reply)
I can
but have no licence. I still have driving music though
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:47, Reply)
I just plug my music player in.
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)
haha

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:03, Reply)
Depends really, mostly it's stuff I can sing to.
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)
I tend to have my music on random when driving
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)
She sells sanctuary
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)
Damage Inc - Metallica
East Bound and Down by Jerry Reed - this is without question the best driving song ever made.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
Is that from Smokey and The Bandit?

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:02, Reply)
indeed it is
I start every car journey of more than an hour with that song
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Cool

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:05, Reply)
I always thought you were some kind of Bandit

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:03, Reply)
ratamahatta
by Sepultura

Though prefer nothing when on the bike so I can hear the engine scream :o)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 15:56, Reply)
Off the top of my head...
I Am The Highway - Audioslave
Getaway Car - Audioslave
Long Road To Ruin - Foo Fighters
Edit: JesusChristPose - Soundgarden
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Last CD I burned for the car
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)
Just google the name of the track, the artist and the word torrent
I already found two sites you can get it from.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:13, Reply)
I did try that
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)
and you were against the idea of that meme
meme truth getting out
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:29, Reply)
Has she? Really?
Did she cry and eat cream cake while it was being filmed?
Does it matter?
*Chimps*
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:34, Reply)
HOT.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:35, Reply)
But now it is out
I can see the beauty of it
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:38, Reply)
you shouldn't have doubted me

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:45, Reply)
I'd go with
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)
I tend to listen to my "teach yourself French" CDs in the car
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)
oh la la colonel
quel domage
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:40, Reply)
Quel fromage?

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:12, Reply)
i have a teach myself italian
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)
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Speed King - Deep Purple
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
The Race - Yello
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:20, Reply)
"take the long road and walk it"
"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)
LOOK AT ME I'M DANCING!
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)
what is that Look at me I'm dancing bit from?
is it from Bugsy Malone?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:01, Reply)
No I just like attention

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:05, Reply)
I know for a fact
It's also in the game Borderlands, as shouted by excited mono-cycling robots.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:08, Reply)
such a good game. I would quite like a cl4ptrap

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:28, Reply)
'No Particular Place to Go' by Chuck Berry
(I can't drive so that's rather lucky innit)
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:04, Reply)
But isn't one line
"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)
Toss myself off and fuck about with the stereo?

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)
It all depends on whether you believe in the comma.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:21, Reply)
As it's Chuck Berry, I doubt that she would have been old enough to hold a licence.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:22, Reply)
Good job it wasn't Jerry Lee Lewis then.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:23, Reply)
They'd need a child's booster seat.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:24, Reply)
The 'Bert Monkeysex' of Rock'n'Roll

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:26, Reply)
stop saying his name
haven't you seen Candy Man.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:30, Reply)
Randy Man more like

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:33, Reply)
"I cum inside my sister's sweaty clunge" more like

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:44, Reply)
Hahaha

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:16, Reply)
Fortunate Son - CCR
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)
Love me some Creedence
'Willie & The Poor Boys' is one of my favourite LPs. Do you like The Grateful Dead?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:34, Reply)
Got St Stephen on at this moment :)

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:39, Reply)
You are a revelation sometimes, young lady.
Studio or live?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:46, Reply)
live- sounds better
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)
I have never heard of said ice cream vendor, in truth.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:15, Reply)
It's nothing especially special
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)
or more simply
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)
Eeeeeeeemmmmmmmmmooooooooooooooo!

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:49, Reply)
it's quite good though
she's a bit old to be an emo. More a shoegazer
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:54, Reply)
I've no room to talk.
I like Anthony and the Johnsons.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:00, Reply)
I only heard of Concrete Blonde last night
Via Nick Cave.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:02, Reply)
life is strange sometimes
you hear of one thing and then suddenly it is everywhere
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 19:13, Reply)
finally!
I've been listening to Concrete Blonde for years and trying to persuade others of their excellence.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:40, Reply)
Snap
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)
Concrete Blonde do a good cover of Everybody Knows
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)
you know, I never knew that was a cover
The best of, Recollections is worth having.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:14, Reply)
ridiculously hard to find on CD though
ebay not coming up trumps at all
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:19, Reply)
I nicked my brother's copy :-)
I might be able to help you out with mp3s
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:30, Reply)
that'd be good
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's one of those covers that is so confident
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 know what you mean
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)
a fantastic voice
I'm still surprised by how few people have heard of them
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:43, Reply)
It is extraordinary
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)
she has a deepish voice.
sounds as manly as Robert Plant I guess!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:52, Reply)
I've got a copy of the Willie & The Poor Boys album with an odd sleeve that's got japanese writing on it.
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)
Big vote up for Fogerty
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)
I want to take up lap steel - I fucking love the sound.
You good, Brian?
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:14, Reply)
Mighty fine thanks, Monty.
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)
Run through the jungle is my fave Creedance song
stupendous.

Their version of Heard it through the grapevine is outrageously good too.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:44, Reply)
Electric worry - Clutch
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)
hell of a tune

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:44, Reply)
now I have Bat out of hell
in my head. Thanks a fucking bunch
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:47, Reply)
you cannot blame that on me

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:57, Reply)
and yet I am
you are the blame horse
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:00, Reply)
Clutch - nice tying in with the driving theme.
Similarly
Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:45, Reply)
Big Red Ford Capri by Dr Brown.
I am getting really fucking obscure here.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:15, Reply)
nothing new there Monsieur Boyce

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:47, Reply)
something by muse
so I can sing along proper loud and dramatic, like
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:44, Reply)
or Lordi
HARD ROCK HALLELUYAH!
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 17:50, Reply)
Muse is excellent.
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)
"Turbulence" by Moving Fusion.
Can't beat a good bit of drum'n'bass.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:26, Reply)
LCD soundsystem : time to get away.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:42, Reply)
Bowie's greatest hits.

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 18:46, Reply)
Also
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)
Oldskool DnB for the motorway
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)
That's mo' like it

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 20:27, Reply)
It helps that I drive my mum's car with tape deck fitted
those old rave tapes come in handy
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:10, Reply)
i o

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:17, Reply)
You fuckers - I always miss these.
Oh yeah:

Jesus built my hotrod - Ministry.
Sister Ray - Velvet Underground.
Pure Shores - All Saints.
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:12, Reply)
All that was left for me to do
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)
Some seriously good choices there

(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 21:28, 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)
that is one of my all time favourite songs
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)
When we were kids
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)
Anyone else watching Later ... ?
Mark Ronson's hair is upsetting
(, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 22:10, Reply)

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