What do you like to listen to while you drive?

Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Great for driving to Chicago or anywhere else really. Every song is awesome.

I have a mix CD I made as well as some other CDs but if my wife isn't with me, it's GNR. She gets pretty sick of GNR. I can't stand the radio, not only are the ads annoying, the disc jockeys and music is equally annoying.

I can't drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlRiR4oAejs

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Don't be so modest. You drive me crazy.

The other night, coming home from work, the radio station played "Good Vibrations" (The Beach Boys). Don't know why, but I really got into it and by the time the song ended I was doing 75 mph. Good thing there wasn't a cop around.

I don't drive, but...

If ever I got a car to which others aspired to (fucking pointless to me, but hey, people have their consumerist hobbies), I'd love to crank up the volume to full and play Beethoven's 7th Symphony.

Fuck, what a paradox. It's too easy to play popular music in the vehicle embodiment of The Consumerist West.

I have been playing Beethoven in my car for several months now. One of the 5 cds have 3rd and 7th symphonies. They are great I used to listen to Godfather soundtrack before. I think I should make a Nino Rota collection with GF, 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita

I spend a lot of time driving.

i listen to Mike and Mike in the Morning and Colin Cowherd when I get the chance. I also listen to some CDs that include Springsteen, Bob Seger, U2, and lately Elton John.

I swear I got a speeding ticket once because I was playing "Born to Run" with a little too much volume.

A friend of mine is giving me a Gordon Lightfoot CD, which I'm looking forward to .

Gordon Lightfoot's the man, Klyd. There's a beautiful scene in Vincent Gallo's great (but enduding, be warned) The Brown Bunny, of Lightfoot's "Beautiful" playing as the camera just stays static from the inside of a car, looking on as the American scenery goes by. Seriously good.

I listen to various types of music when I drive. From 50's stuff to classical to opera to modern. Depends on what I'm in the mood for.

Led Zeppelin - The Crunge
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HKPVUOUuomU

Dire Straits' Dire Straits

Tears For Fears: Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

One of the great driving songs, ever.

Drive by a hearst to the sounds of Queen's "Another one bites the dust".

I have five favorites while driving:
1. "Train Kept a'Rollin'" by Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio;
2. The "Easter Mass" from Cavalleria Rusticana;
3. "Madre Pietoso Virgine" from "La Forza del Destino" sung by Leontyne Price;
4. "Bodhisattva" (live version) by Steely Dan.
5. "Casta Diva" from "Norma" sung by Joan Sutherland.

With me it varies depends on whom I'm in the mood for I'll listen to Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Overkill or I'll pop in a Shania Twain cd.

Currently I'm listening to Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil in one truck, and Dark Passion Play from Nightwish(their new cd, their new lead singer sounds awesome)in my other truck.

I'll have to check that out. Thanks, Capo.

That's up my alley. They've been a long favorite of mine.

Last time i drove it was one of my wifes CD's in the deck...
Leanne Rimes i think!

My choice is usually a bit of the Foo Fighters at the moment

My initial post should read "Vincent Gallo's great (but enduring, be warned) The Brown Bunny." Because it is enduring. Not for everyone, anyway.

But yeah, it's funny you mention Gordon Lightfoot as a driving "partner", because that film is in essence a road movie. (Also features solo acoustic stuff from John Frusciante.)

When I was younger, every Sunday night - depressed by the thoughts of school the next day - I used to demand my Dad play Lightfoot's "Daylight Katy" loud enough so I could hear it from my room upstairs. I couldn't get to sleep without it.

He is enduring. If that was me acting with Chloe in that final scene, the movie would have been ten minutes shorter.

That's a very good song to complete your weekend, and a good story too. I always liked Lightfoot, and when SC posted a Lightfoot song in the You Tube thread, it got me hooked again. His melodies are comforting and he has a comforting and relaxing voice.

My friend made the CD for me, but somehow several of the songs didn't make it on. I guess I'm going to buy the greatest hits CD.

You've mentioned this before, and I keep telling myself to check it out, primarily for the Frusciante tracks, but so far, I've yet to do so.

Johnny Cash's greatest hits CD works well for in town driving, I need something more aggressive like Guns N Roses for high speed driving on the interstate.

Pointless, in terms, of vanity projects or motivations, sure, in a sense.

But for people with families and careers (that require carrying stuff around be it paperwork, presentational stuff, or, say, filmmaking equipment) it's practical and fundamental.

Renting cars or catching taxis are expensive. Not all companies have company cars/transportation.



There are far more disposable and vain embodiments of consumerism than useful, practical things like cars.

Hi!

I know what you're saying. But...

Regarding the first quote above, note the part to which others aspired to. I'm not against cars, but live by the "a car's a car" virtue.

As far as the second quote goes, I was in Godard mode. Forgive me. And regarding your reply, vanity's vanity to me; I find it difficult to rate one form of vanity worse than another. And I also find it difficult to relate to a counter-point such as yours without some form of example to ground it.

Also, I recognise the practicality and perhaps even necessity of cars (my family has two); note that my thoughts refer to a certain kind of person, not the technology itself.

(Though I would hope you (that's a compliment) sense in my words a certain abstract bitterness, perhaps even a pretentiousness, which likes to stamp on toes here.)

My favourite song of all time,love it

I rarely drive more than 3 miles at a time but don't worry, I avoid pot-holes and am always on the look out for the Campus Police--they're mean little shits and have jurisdiction over the entire inner city. But that doesn't stop me from 'hot-boxing' around the town with a few 'buds'.