Best Music to Drive By

N/A ^ | 07-28-05 | DaiHuy

[DaiHuy]

I was just sitting here thinking about a 1500 mile drive I have to make, and contemplating burning a couple CDS for the drive. I found some music that would make it more interesting but not enough. So here is the question.

If you were going to drive from Phoenix to Indy, you were in a sports car, what music would you want to have on your cd?

[PaulaB]

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

My fav out of all Floyds....

[A CA Guy]

The theme song to the movie "Thelma and Louise" perhaps?

[Andonius_99]

Cannibal Corpse always brightens up my day...:-)

[foobarred]

I'm probably the only person in the entire country that would say this, but I would listen to the entire collection of Tom Waits.

[The Unknown Nobody]

I was once in training (computer class) and unable to listen to Rush for a week. I had my wife record him for the entire week that I missed him. The following week I had a 14 hour drive to St Louis. My ride was filled with liberal bashing all the way.

It's almost talk radio or nothing for me. I can't recall how many times I've had to stop the radio from scanning channels 15-29 cycles.

[PaulaB]

LOLOL

[WanderingOisin]

Tom Waits does rule. :P

[Enterprise]

Another one, "Gimmee Shelter" - Rolling Stones.

[Canedawg]

Grateful Dead

Going Down The Road Feelin' Bad>
Not Fade Away

[\/\/ayne]

I would be sure and get some Old Time Radio plays like "The Shadow," "Suspense," and "Dimension X." You can download mp3s from the internet at http://www.radiolovers.com or search out more by internet searching "old time radio" in quotes but what I do is just request some CD's or cassettes to be reserved from my local library and pick them up before I go.

Even my ultra modern son and his girlfriend liked some on a trip they took.

Here's a good one:

Series: Suspense
Title: "On A Country Road"
Star: Carey Grant
Genre: Thriller
Originally Broadcast: 16 Nov 1950
Length: 29 minutes 14 seconds

Brief Description:

You are driving along a country road. The traffic is starting to back-up and a storm is brewing. All you need to complete the scene is a lunatic on the run after butchering a doctor, a nurse and a ward attendant with a meat cleaver in the nearby mental hospital. This is a classic killer-on-the-loose story starring Cary Grant and a superb example of just how gripping old time radio shows can be.

[Shaun_MD]

I have dozens of blues cd's. Plenty of SRV and Muddy and Buddy Guy. I don't have any Johnny Winters though. You want some head banging blues, listen to some of the old Howling Wolf stuff.

[r-q-tek86]

The radio stations here don't know that there is another song besides Run Like Hell on the Wall... drives me crazy

[F-117A]

We have a winner!!!

Gotta have some truck drivin' songs!

[Auntbee]

My absolute favorite Floyd song is "Comfortably Numb" then "Shine".

[Andonius_99]

anything by SCOTS is great road music...

[G Larry]

>BOB SEGER'S GREATEST HITS I & II.<


We have a winner!!!!!!!!!!

[Billthedrill]

The Mothers of Invention Live At The Fillmore East. "Mud Sh-sh-sharrrrk..."

Pink Floyd - Animals

Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn

George Thoroughgood - "If You Don't Start Drinkin' I'm Gonna Leave" (blew out a rental car's speaker with that one.

[PaulaB]

I was also going to say The Who....that will keep you awake and driving :)

Hour 1-All Pink Floyd

Hour 2-Bob Segar

Hour 3-The Who

Hour 4-Repeat.........

[montag813]

"Sweet Talking Woman" by ELO just feels go good when you are opening up to the open road.

[Dunstan McShane]

I already have ZZ Top (La Grange), The Doors (Strange Days), Tom Cochrane (Life is a Highway) what are your suggestions?

I am surprised that no one has mentioned The Who's Quadrophenia--the original 1972 or '73 release, not the one done for the movie. I wrote an entire dissertation with that thing booming away in the background, which is why I can't stand hearing it any more, but there's no reason somebody else couldn't enjoy it.

Nowadays, I just put on Ioannis Koukouzelis' Mathimata, Psalms, Sticheron, a collection of Byzantine chants. It induces alternate states of awareness in which "distance" is revealed to be secondary to the mental apprehension of spatial perception. That way, I save a couple of hours.

Problem is, sometimes when I arrive at the destination, it's 1962.