Greatest Driving Song

Shadow Leader

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Cheers, whoever put the music thread back to the top (I forget, sorry!) as I've been meaning to post a thread on this since last Sunday. Top Gear are currently after nominations for "Greatest Driving Song". Now, I've been giving this a bit of thought and I haven't made my mind up yet. I like to listen to something with a good rhythm to it that you can have a good sing too, and pretty loud, for driving too. I love driving, and my number one requirement for a car is a CD player! Granted, my 1.0 litre 12 year old Renault Clio & it's dodgily wired old JVC CD player are no match at all to the previous model - a Citroën Saxo VTR and it's top of the range Panasonic 12-CD Changer (great perk that Dad has worked at Panasonic for over 30 yrs ;) ) - but it still does me grand for a good blow out every now and then. I've come up with a few initial thoughts for nominations and will think about it further, I reckon. So far, possibles (for me) are

James - Laid
Killers - Mr Brightside
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Matchbox 20 - Bright Lights or Bent
Stiltskin - Inside (there's got to be at least one obligatory 80's/90's rock track!!)

and my current favourite driving song, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - There She Goes, My Beautiful World.

I love Matchbox 20 & find them a great band for driving to - their most recent album, More Than You Think You Are, is fantastic, with some great tunes. I also tend to keep The Rasmus, Jet, James and Green Day in the car.
 
Bugger - I nearly forgot to put the link up!!! It's Top Gear's Greatest Driving Song

By the way, can anyone help? I missed last night's programme and I can't find when the repeat is on. Last week I caught it again midweek sometime. I'd be much obliged if anyone knew, I've searched the TV lisings to no avail so far. I'm always gutted to miss Top Gear, it's one of the best programmes on TV right now.
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Jun 6 2005, 11:24 PM


By the way, can anyone help? I missed last night's programme and I can't find when the repeat is on. Last week I caught it again midweek sometime. I'd be much obliged if anyone knew, I've searched the TV lisings to no avail so far. I'm always gutted to miss Top Gear, it's one of the best programmes on TV right now.
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Fret ye not. It wasn't on, there was football on instead. I had a pants day at work and was looking forward to coming hom and watching Top Gear so imagine my disappointment when I sat down and discovered it wasn't on :cry: I do so love gawping at Richard Hammond :lol:
 
Griffin - you are a star!! Of course, if I cast my mind back to the dim and distant past that was last week, I remember Clarkson mentioning it now. I am very relieved now - there I was, thinking I had missed it & getting depressed over it! I'm with you on Richard Hammond too, he's pretty easy on the eye, alright! ;) B)

That's a good suggestion, Betsmate - hadn't thought of that one. Another fantastic album to drive along to (has to be cranked up, mind!) is U2's Zooroopa.
 
Dakota - stereophonics is a good song to drive to and riverboat song by ocean colour scene.

I like disease out of the matchbox 20 songs. They are good but they are not critically acclaim, they remind me a bit of Bon Jovi which is probably why they are not as popular in England as they should/could be. ...
 
Slayer - Postmortem. Very fast, brutally heavy. It does make you want to drive fast, mount the pavement and run down pedestrians so maybe not totally appropriate for those with limited self-restraint.
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Zero- Smashing Pumpkins or Every Day I Love You Less And Less - Kaiser Chiefs

Particularly if I am in a bad mood!
 
' Clarkson Rocks' a free cd, as picked by the great man himself Jeremy Clarkson, had the following on.....

The Darkness Bareback.
Meat Loaf Bat out of Hell
The Cardigans My Favourite Game
Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag
Stereophonics The Bartender and the Thief
Ram Jam Black Betty
The Wannadies Skin
The Hives Main Offender
Reef Place Your Hands
Emerson Lake and Palmer Fanfar for the Common Man.


For a free cd ......that ain't bad!
 
You're right there with Main Offender, Diminuendo, but also Die Alright from the same album.

Swollen Summer by the Bravery from their album is also great for driving, as is Nine Inch Nails - Hand That Feeds and Gorillaz, Feed Good Inc of recent releases. No One Knows by QOTSA is another great one, as is Hurricane by Bob Dylan, Start Me Up by the Stones, I Predict A Riot by the Kaisers and Oh Yeah by The Subways. That's just off the top of my head!

Unfortunately my CD player was stolen and the insurance money went on people's Christmas presents so I have been Driving Song free since November!

Bastards!
 
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Back seat ~ Je T’Aime ( moi non plus ) - Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin :shy:
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Yes.
Normally it's " behave yourself we've only stopped at the traffic lights" :o
 
Meatloaf, Bad Company, some Joe Satriani, and Metallica for me. Although in quieter moments, say, stuck behind an oversized tractor-trailer combination, The Cars are very pleasant and calming.
 
What is the ideal music to be listening to when you're stuck in a gridlock on the M 25, M 6, M 5, M 4 or wherever? (Road to Hell, Chris Rea??????)

Bombing down the motorway at 70 to get home in time to watch Top Gear (one of the few programmes on TV worth watching).

ROLL ON DEATH!!

Colin (grey old curmudgeon, who failed the audition for Grumpy Old Men[too old and too grumpy] and now a prospective candidate for the Green Party if I don't get run down by some mother taking her children to school in a huge 4x4)
 
You've hit on a good one there with Riverboat Song, Will! The Darkness are good for driving too as well. Kula Shaker's Hush would be another one.
 
Colinnnn... 'bombing down the motorway at 70' - now that ain't MY idea of bombing down the road! :teeth: Don't tell me, let me guess: you're in a 1970s Volvo, with an overweight Labrador and a copy of the AA Motoring Atlas of Great Britain 1978 beside you?
 
Almost to a tee, bar the speed - he can't shovel coal and drive at the same time, so it's never over 45!
 
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