Was in my local drinker last evo with a few bikers and other disreputable expatriates. We were talking about the kind of music that fits driving. Emily the owner who is absolutely gorgeous by the way threw this one on the CD ...........
'..ladies and gentlemen, from Los Angeles California....The Doors!"
Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel...
Best driving music ever or what.
What else you got? Bring it on.
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Highway Star by Deep Purple from the live 'Made in Japan' album.
Kerb Crawler by Hawkwind from (IIRC) 'Quark, strangeness and charm' album.
Status Quo's live version of 'Bye Bye Johnny'
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Oh, and Golden Earring did a belting 2 LP nine track 'Live' album, with 1 12 minute version of Radar Love! Superb!
Also worth noting:
Stevie Nicks "Edge of 17"
Devo "Whip it"
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Ha ha Nick, sounds like we could swap music collections and not notice. Living at opp ends of The Fens and almost the same age as well!
Hope you still have your original double album of Made in Japan. Worn cover but nicely preserved vinyl?
Do you remeber sneaking it home in 1972 hoping the folks wouldn't see yet another LP ("waste of money son") being carried into the bedroom?
M.M
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We've done this before, but ...
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
ZZ Top - anything by the bearded ones
Stones - most anything
Cream - most anything
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Eagles greatest hits - Every track a crusin cream.
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I'm going to buck the trend up to now by suggesting sdome newer stuff.
Muse - pretty much anything, but especially Absolution
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Audioslave - Audioslave
But I still can't resist putting in a few older individual songs though
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Particular no-no's:
The prodigy - you'll drive too fast
Radiohead - Street Spirit - always makes me close my eyes when I'm listening to it
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BazzaBear - your taste in music is of the highest order.
QOTSA, really blows the cobwebs away.
Others with a regular place the moment are the Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Fun Lovin Criminals.
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Oh boy, ZZ Top, that chick in the garter belt with the car keys/ get me out of here...............
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chains fleetwood mac makes me drive too fast, good on the lanes around castle combe area some really good bends in that area
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Specially on the racing track.........
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Specially on the racing track.........
i have had the pleasure of driving at castle combe and yes its good but no stereo in formula ford .. no the roads around castle combe are almost a race track , a nice drive with the right music
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There was a radio when I drove round it. Was fortunate enough to rush round there in a MK1 Golf GTI on a closed private track day when GTIs were new.(Thats when i found the golfs secret achiles heel - NO BRAKES)
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Nobody mentioned Mustang Sally. Wilson Pickett's is great that's fine but I think Buddy Guy's version has better riffs.
Long thread coming................
But didn't the Doobie Bros do something rather similar?
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As far as other live music to play in the car... Aynsley Lister. He's done so much growing up in the last year and is now putting out some class stuff. Also the people that brought him to my attention - Amor... and The Hoax (?), who I was born too late to see live but flatmate has a vast CD collection!
(Have to admit though that my latest CD purchase was Brittney's latest - absolutely perfect for singing to in the car!)
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Nah, has to be at least 20 years old to be PROPER music, not current electronic junk. How could any self respecting Harley rider settle for less.....12-bar blues, there's nothing else. Guys playing instruments, not some richard head in a studio manipulating managed noise. Rest is just kid stuff.
mmm.....LZ Stairway to Heaven, just remembered that. But for me the Doors got it right in '68 and nothing since can come vaguely close.
Jim we miss you.
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Old stuff - Tattoo (or almost anything) by Rory Gallagher. When it was first released, I was two.
New stuff - Holy Roller Novocaine (or almost anything) by Kings Of Leon. When it was first released, I was thirty two.
Based on the above, it's good to think that when I'm sixty two, there should be something new I can drive disgracefully to.
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You'll never beat LA Woman. May sound dated to some, but it's a cultural reference point that even smells of an era.
Ditto God Only Knows, the work of that tortured genius Brian Wilson, and Summer Breeze by the Isley Brothers.
Doesn't quite give you the same vibe in an English winter, though...
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"Old stuff - Tattoo (or almost anything) by Rory Gallagher."
Thanks for that reminder, andymc. Just been to the CD rack and dug out the live Irish Tour '74. That'll be in the car come Monday morning.
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Lalo Schiffrin, Bought the 'Bullitt' soundtrack and played it while I tried to find the passport office in Durham, felt like the mac daddy until I went up a one way street the wrong way. The Doors, what a band! PS anyone want to buy my car?
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(Have to admit though that my latest CD purchase was Brittney's latest - absolutely perfect for singing to in the car!)
Britney? Listen PoloGirl, this is a thread about LIVE music. Britney couldn't sing 'live' if her life depended on it.
(Britney can't sing anyway, but I digress ...)
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Britney? Listen PoloGirl, this is a thread about LIVE music. Britney couldn't sing 'live' if her life depended on it. (Britney can't sing anyway, but I digress ...)
Ah but all the others I mentioned are live (and alive too).
Anyway, venturing back onto this thread even though being the right side of 25 seems to get my views instantly dismissed, just wanted to tell those of you that have mentioned that blues is your thing... there's a brilliant CD on the front of the current issue of MOJO.
I'll leave you to it now!
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Whoops, I did it again ...
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Music for Driving...
Nirvana - Nevermind
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the lash
The Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole
and music for Cruising...
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Frank Sinatra - Songs for swingin' lovers
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of love
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This can go on and on:
Paradise by the Dashboard Light -- Meatloaf
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Highway to Hell: AC/DC
....defintely appropriate for the South Luzon Tollway on a Friday night when it's raining and it's payday, or from what I hear from you guys would probably fit the M25 as well....
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Sorry folks got it wrong again as I tend to do increasingly frequently with advancing anno domini and you must be fed up with all this. I promise I'll zip it after this. They'll never ask me on Desert Island Discs but if they did among Hotel California by The Eagles I would include one I've forgotten and just dug out.
Doors again, yes I know sorry. Live version off their 3 CD collection, Poontang Blues. Oh boy, that withering pneumatic-drill-thru-your-head bass line and those blistering guitar licks that come out of nowhere with Morrison yelling abuse at the audience. If any of you ever owned a V-8 you will know how the music somehow pulsates along with it. V-8's and rock n roll somehow match the human pulse rate, isn't that right and isn't that why they just connect so well? Harleys also. God bless America.
Just need to get that 8-track for my old '69, no luck yet, got a couple of Stateside pals working on it.
Rock n roll or what. Mustang music for sure. Growlette says play that again Dadi I love it (wiggles across room to the beat in state of Sunday morning undress).
...oops, too much already. Might get meself severely modified. HJ away I see. TH I guess?
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Just need to get that 8-track for my old '69, no luck yet, got a couple of Stateside pals working on it.
I'll keep an eye out for one at the local flea markets. Are you after original spec, or just any-old-8-track?
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As I typed my reply to Pologirl, one of my colleagues walked in with a copy of a CD which i've been bugging him for for ages...
Drinkin' TNT 'n Smokin' Dynamite!
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. Recorded live at The Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland on June 28, 1974.
They had a few other chaps helping out - Pinetop Perkins, Dallas Taylor, Terry Taylor and some jobbing muso called Bill Wyman on Bass...
Oh, I can't wait for the journey home!!
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Ian you've done it again. Buddy Guy beats the proverbial out of most guitarists and I have that one. Junior Wells plays a mean harp as well. You're a blues man I see, all those famous names.
Got to keep this somewhat motoring oriented else we get moddy-fied.
This weekend has been the Manila Rugby 10's. Very hot weather. Teams of expats from all over Asia have been here and of course lots of girls have flocked into town to join in.
The bikers and the Rugby mob have filled the bars, and they are mature gentlemen who demand proper music not this bubblegum or hiphop stuff. So we've had some great motoring type rock and roll. Maybellene and C'est La Vie (Chuck Berry) -- oh that jitney - a cherry red '53, anything by Bo Diddley, the DJ in my local (after a generous tip from me and an injunction to play driving type music) just put it all up on the computer and let it roll. Crossroads by Cream, but the best version of that is the eerie original by Robert Johnson. Also play his Love in Vain and weep, it's so good. Jagger tried but no way can you beat the original.
This week I'm going to make up a few CD's of all this stuff for the motor.
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I also borrowed the Blues Brothers from the same chap (White Jewish Rastafarian ex-lawyer, believe it or not).
There is a great scene in there when the 74 Dodge Sedan is cruising along, with the 8-track playing The Best of Sam and Dave. They get pulled by the 'Rollers', and escape, trashing the local mall - all to the soundtrack of Booker T and the MGs.
Great movie, great driving scenes and great music!
"It's got cop tyres, cop shocks .. a 422 cubic inch plant, made before catalytic convertors, so it can run on regular gas... You don't like it?"
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Oh stop it Ian.
Elwood goes into Mr Gasperon's used car lot and says to BB King respectfully Sir how much would that Dodge over there with the police package run? Well son I can let you have that for five hundred dollars.
I'll be back. Don't worry, I'll keep it for you son.
Then he gets the kid to nick the police chief's wallet to raise the money.
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Must have been the 'sequel', which I never saw, out of sheer stubborness - how can you follow that up? how can you do it without Belushi?
Back to the original: Twiggy in the e-type waiting at the motel for Elwood!
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You should watch it: yes I know without Jake it's not the same but I have always been a fan of John Goodman and I do think he pays the right respect to the role with due deference to the standard already set and he doesn't try and upstage Belushi (may he rest in peace).
The opening scene where Elwood spends all night outside the joint when he gets out waiting for Jake and the the prison governor shows up and breaks the news to him Jake is dead....
heck you've got Aretha Franklin, James Brown, BB King, if that isn't motoring music then I don't know what is. Just a great movie and a real keeper.
The way he parks that old police Dodge sideways in a 4 wheel drift is a religious experience and I wish I could do it.
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John Cage 4' 33"
:-)
Hawkeye
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Tone deaf in a strange land
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No, it's too quiet. Even with the volume on full I couldn't hear anything above the road noise.
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So many tracks to choose from, but I've always liked "dual" & "duel" by Propaganda.
Moby - 18 or Play are constantly somewhere in the multichanger
Been listening to Nora Jones this week in the car and it's a relaxing experience - for the same reasons I love Nat King Cole and Dean Martin.
And if you have a DAB radio, the BBC 6 Music Craig Charles funk show on Fri/Sat night is a goldmine of quality driving music!
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Lee
MINI adventure in progress
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I expect this will mark me down as sad, unhip etc, but given the choice of a studio or live album I would always pick the studio version.
All that whooping/shouting/whistling just spoils the music imo.
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Its got to be the EARLY Chris Barber Band or the Early Acker Bilk Paramount Jazz Band or the EARLY Ken Colyer band in full flight.
Now THAT will get you breaking the speed limits!
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Malteser oh yes. Whistlin' Rufus! Pat Halcox on the trumpet (or cornet I think to be perfectly accurate) and Barber puffing away on the trombone.
Whatever happened to Ottilie Paterson?
Keep it motoring fellers please.
(GRowler unofffcial moddy out)
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Growler - (whinges) It was motoring - I mentioned breaking the speed limits :)
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Test Match Special in the 3500, ok, it's not music but it is live. I'm sure I could get Capital Gold on the trusty Radiomobile but I hardly ever have the radio on :)
As for other live albums.
Simple Minds - Live in the City of Light. I can't keep singing along to Alive and Kicking and Sanctify Yourself.
Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder.
Studio Albums.
Leftism by Leftfield can easily get me carried away on a motorway.
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