You're stuck in traffic and your favourite track comes on so you start tapping wheel and then break into a full blown drum solo.
What music gets you doing the 'steering wheel' bongo's?
For me it's Sussudio - Phil Collins or Easy Lover - Collins/Bailey.
What about you?
Edited by Pugugly on 17/10/2008 at 17:33
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I don't tend to drum. Sort of cars I drive you don't want to hit them too hard in case something breaks......
Sing along though.....Neil Diamond of course.
Sweet Caroline..........
Longfellow's Serenade.......
etc etc
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for me on public transport,
"I wish the wheels on the bus would go round and round" ;-(
Billy
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Oh and "Van the Man" of course.
Brown eyed girl.....
Pogues
Christmas song thing.....
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More or less anything by Pink Floyd.
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Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five has got a book out or is going on tour and was on the Steve Wright Show a couple of nights ago .
They played 'Glad all over'
It was scary - I was singing along at the top of my voice in thecar and I could remember all the words from 40 + years ago....... when I thought he was a really good drummer
Hi Ho silver lining is another belter.......
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Dave Clark Five ........ ...... played 'Glad all over'
That brings back memories.
Gladys used to get a bit embarrassed when she walked down the gangway/aisle at work and all the production workers started singing "I'm feeling glad all over."!
It's true. Honest.
Edited by L'escargot on 17/10/2008 at 15:59
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Good choice andy. Have you ever seen the Australian Pink Floyd by the way?
THE best tribute band ever IMO.
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Good choice andy. Have you ever seen the Australian Pink Floyd by the way? THE best tribute band ever IMO.
No I haven't but I would like to. Maybe one of these days when they aren't too far away.
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For me it's Sussudio - Phil Collins or Easy Lover - Collins/Bailey. What about you?
Definitely NOT Phil Collins.
However, a bit of Talking Heads, or Peter Gabriel, and I could definitely hit the loud button (and the loud pedal) a bit harder...
Or carter USM or the KLF...
Yep, some songs just get me!
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Since dropping down to the one car, and running to work!!!
the mp3 player needs something loud and with a good beat...otherwise I slow down...
Bryan Adams "summer of 69"
whats that band called....wrote "sweet home alabama...."
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ian....yep talking heads....we're on the road to know where,,,and PG sledge hammer..superb....nice and loud and gets you going....
even the old 80s "rock" albums.....def lepard etc...
ha ha......
KLF....white room.....hmmmm
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KLF with Miss Tammy Wynette...
Justified, ancient.. and drive an ice-cream van!
Brilliant!
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd. Neil Young (who slagged them off in song) is another favourite - Like a Hurricane. Before it was screwed up by Bryan Ferry.
ZZ Top, The Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Cream...
James Brown, Carla Thomas, Martha and the Vandellas...
Bring It On!
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Anything by Carter USM, Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers.
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zztop....
the "legs" video......nice........mind wonders off.....ha ha
Robert palmer....addicted to love......mind still on the videos......snigger......
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I'm not much of a wheel tapper (more of a sing-along-er) but one that does get me going is Will You Smile Again For Me? by Trail of Dead.
And the other day, Go With The Flow by Queens of the Stone Age popped up at random on my ipod, not heard it for ages so that got me drumming too.
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Leningrad Cowboys & Red Army Choir
see:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014&feature=related
So impressed me I bought the CD !
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Re Leningrad Cowboys. Weird and wonderful. Just watched the Delilah clip too.
Think I'll try again after alcohol..............
;-)
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I think I've still got a can of Leningrad Cowboys lager, brought back from a trip to Finland around '95. :-)
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Pug, thanks for the link, i have just ordered two of these, to me, music and cars go together like .. fish and chips ..and i like to think i will always look at something new (new to me! ) Music and cars link together - Buddy Holly and James Dean would both be pushing 80 now ... is anything new ?
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I'm not much of a wheel tapper (more of a sing-along-er) but one that does get me going is Will You Smile Again For Me? by Trail of Dead.
I've been know to yell along to Best... Actually, pretty much all of Worlds Apart gets me going.
I drum along to Mogwai and Oceansize tracks usually... I think I loosened up the steering wheel on my old car doing that.
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I've been know to yell along to Best... Actually pretty much all of Worlds Apart gets me going.
Good one Kaytronika; I must listen to that album all the way through, these days Im guilty of listening to tracks at random on the old ipod. Source Tags and Codes is a good album too.
I must get some Mogwai stuff, Ive only recently heard a few tracks of theirs..
;o)
Edited by Rich 9-3 on 20/10/2008 at 21:20
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Saw Carter at London University Union back in about 1988, supporting the Senseless Things.
Guess who impressed me most?
Recall one Friday night in about 1995, coming home up the N1 out of Cape Town, crawling along in 3 lanes of traffic at 40km/h, and they had the Carter song "Let's Get Tattoos!" on the radio.
Looked around, and saw a hell of a lot of other drivers having a mean old time 'getting down' to Carter!
Once in a blue your dreams come true
If someone's looking out for you
So party on dude let's buy some booze
Go downtown and get tattoos
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Used to have a tape called Zulu Jive that was just the thing to get you swivelling in your seat.
By the way, for some real silly Friday fun, the photo at the top of page 17 in today's Telegraph takes a bit of beating. Telegraph website has taken it off the top of the pile, so if you go there click presidential campaign, photo gallery, image no 11. No 12 isn't bad either.
Funny how these carphounds can suddenly do something endearing. Almost makes one want to vote Republican.
Edited by Lud on 17/10/2008 at 18:26
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Ian, I saw Carter at UMIST in around 91-92 and it's still about the best gig I've ever been to. Small venue (think school hall) crowded with people who were Carter fans (this was before they were really well known. Two hours of sweaty dancing with so much heat in the room that the steam was condensing and raining back down on the crowd. Just brilliant. Ran into Fruitbat in the loos beforehand but thought better of striking up a conversation.
Wouldn't dare drive to 30something or 101Damnations, I'd be going so fast my licence would be scamera-ed void in no time.
Talking Heads always a good accompanyment (I'm a Speaking in Tongues man), but more often than not it's jamiroquai or Moby. Have stopped listening to Antony and the Johnsons with the roof off in the MX5, it's giving off the wrong signals altogether, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Edited by Citroënian {P} on 17/10/2008 at 21:16
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Ian I saw Carter at UMIST in around 91-92 and it's still about the best gig I've ever been to.
I've seen them a couple of times in that era and was very unimpressed.
Snuff were my favourite band form that era.
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Drumming? It has to be Bruce Springsteen and Candy's Room.
JH
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There are so many, but those that spring to mind are;
Won't get Fooled Again, The Who.
Glad All Over, as previously mentioned.
Baby Come Back. The Equals.
I Knew The Bride, Dave Edmunds.
Anarchy in The UK, Sex Pistols.
Star Star, Rolling Stones.
Get Back, Beatles.
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The ones that get me drumming the wheel are
Graceland from Paul Simon or any Level 42 song with deep thumping bass!
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I must be completely square compared with you lot. I would tap - or even discreetly conduct, to things like -
The Dambusters March
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance 1 and 4
Masquerade Waltz - Khachaturian
Poem - Fibich
I Believe
You'll never walk alone
For me it's the big tune that gets me going.
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Wolf Creek Pass by Curtis McPeake and the Nashville Pickers.
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Is there a risk of bongoing too hard and setting off the airbag? LOL
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I sometimes wonder about the horn push, because I know the harder you press it, the louder and more effective it is. :)
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Crikey - i thought i was old, and i could name loads from, Stones, Who, Led Zep, Deep P, Killers, Darkness, Lynnrd Skynnrd ( long version of Freebird ) Jimi H, but i gotta check out some of these tracks .. ..( always look for more ) !, .. .. my answer - anything loud 'n fast. For all you fringe fans check out The Creation - "Making Time" (well i like it anyway). Probably my fav driving track would be Steppenwolf,- "born to be wild" though poss a one hit wonder? P.S. I always thought a 1969 Camaro with 450bhp could be stickered " Heavy Metal Thunder" - 'scuse me - i gotta go ... back to the Mondeo, sorry, - i mean reality!
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The Blues Brothers ....Sweet Home Chicago
I believe that scene in the film was the longest sequence of car crashes in the movies, don't know whether it still is...and there must have been a fair few stunt drivers involved
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I believe that scene in the film was the longest sequence of car crashes in the movies don't know whether it still is...and there must have been a fair few stunt drivers involved
Mmmm.
At the time, IIRC, this was a silly "record" which movie-makers kept boasting of - Smokey and the bandit, Cannonball run etc all had massive car crash scenes, trashing dozens of cars.
Blues Brothers 2000 - terrible film, DON'T watch it ever - also had a massive car smash as well.
They also over did Elwood's famous power slide parking outside Chez paul from the original... they repetated the same driving about 47 times in the second movie, and it got boring.
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I've been trying to resist lowering the tone of this thread since Friday but here goes, I can't let this pass unnoticed.
Does anyone listen to Radio 2?
Album of the week last week was Black Ice by AC/DC.
Absolute classic AC/DC, just slowed down slightly to allow us geriatric headbangers to still stand up after the first track!
I know you think that lorries have a bumpy ride but really we're all headbanging at the wheel :)
Pat
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Saw them live in '81 - everyone inexplicably chanting Angus and shaking their heads in a very strange way.
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Pug, you've just gone up in my estimation :)
Hell's Bell's Tour at the NEC in Birmingham.
The bell was made in Loughborough and as such, it was the 'home' venue!
Pat
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Surely I'm not the only one who's never heard of "Angus" ? OK who is Angus ? Should I have known ? Am I inadvertantly revealing nerditude ? Angus who ?
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I actually still have the Hell's Bells tour tee-shirt. I was more a Rainbow man myself. ANGUS ANGUS !
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Who the pfd is Angus ????
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Angus Young one of the founding members (brothers) surprising what you can remember after over 30 years of pretending to be respectful.
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Oh, OK. AC/DC eh ? Before my time I guess. I suppose I do seem to remember some of the older ones liking them when I was a child.........
;-)
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Privileged to have been lucky enough to get tickets for the second O2 show AC/DC are doing next April. Last saw them in 1986.. I do hope they haven't changed. Not got Black Ice yet, hear it's good though.
Steering wheel drums- AC/DC is very hard to beat (although it lends itself more to air guitar). I think my favourite is the whole of physical graffiti (Led Zep for those who don't know)- John Bonham's drum sound is just fantastic, especially on In my time of dying.
I also went to a Carter USM gig, in 1989. Lost a shoe in the mosh pit. Fantastic times!
Cheers,
Alex.
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Another Led Zep fan - saw them live at Knebworth in 78 -awesome; I have In Through the Out Door on vinyl.
Edited by Pugugly on 22/10/2008 at 22:38
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I saw Rainbow live at the Granby Halls in Leicester in 1970 something, along with Motorhead, Saxon and Quo.
I didn't manage to get a ticket for AC/DC but I'm hoping they put on some more dates.
Pat
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