I been driving all night my hands wet on the wheel
Last night/yesterday afternoon I drove back from Danville on mostly freshly paved roads bereft of other traffic. My favorite talk station was too far away so I plugged the tape in and listened to the Ipod.
There are several songs on the Ipod that are… potentially dangerous, while I’m driving.
Santana, for instance. Pretty much guaranteed to make me push the skinny pedal to the floor, especially if the road is twisty.
The Who. This one for straightaways. This one for the roads on the map that never have straights. This one for dark and stormy nights, when you have to open the window and let the wet in and wash the cobwebs out of your soul.
These guys for hot summer afternoons with clear blue skies and long stretches of featureless roads through cornfields. Or this one for lots of long sweeping turns.
These are all naturals. Partner always knew that if he wanted me to drive like a maniac for five minutes, he could stick any of those disks in the player. What are your Drive songs?
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Radar Love (of course)
Anything by AC/DC
Dream On–Aerosmith
Respect–Aretha Franklin
Love Shack-B-52s
Takin’ Care of Business-BTO
Crazy Train–Ozzy
Don’t Fear the Reaper-Blue Oyster Cult
Pressure-David Bowie and Queen
Life in the Fast Lane-Eagles
Just as a start….. But generally don’t need music to drive fast.
If you can listen to “Black Dog” without it speeding up your own personal tempo, you’re already at least 4 hours dead.
As far as The Who goes, for me, the real “accelerator” songs are kinda odd choices: Substitute, Squeezebox, and “join together” are all rev up tunes for me.
Pretty much any of Deep Purples faster stuff puts me in danger of losing my license; never mind Judas Priest or Iron Maiden.
Fast straights: Doors – Light My Fire, 20th Century Fox; Steely Dan – Don’t Take Me Alive; Boston – More Than a Feeling
Twisties: Kansas – Point of Know Return; Doors – Back Door Man; Steely Dan – Gren Earings, Bodhisattva; Joe Walsh – Funk #49
Lonely Rainy Nights: Doors – Crystal Ship, Riders on the Storm; Steely Dan – Aja, Babylon Sisters
If I’m driving my Alfa, I’m only listening to the engine’s song (partly because the stereo is not powerful enough to hear topless at speed).
Magic Carpet Ride or Born to be Wild – Steppenwolf; Footloose or Highway Zone – Kenny Loggins; Magic Man – Heart; Anything by the Who, Deep Purple, Billy Squire or Queen. And that’s just off the top of my head. I don’t drive much these days…
Panzerleid (WWII Panzertruppen)
Guadalcanal Victory March (“Victory at Sea” soundtrack)
Ride of the Valkyries (most any version)
Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)
Imperial March/Darth Vader’s Theme (“Empire Strikes Back soundtrack)
Bagpipes (any selection)
Aces’ High March (“Battle of Britain” movie soundtrack
…so I plugged the tape in and listened to the Ipod.
So which was it? If you plugged an adapter into your vehicle cassette tape slot, there wasn’t any tape involved. If you put a tape in, then listening to your Ipod would be counterproductive. Unless you were lying about one or the other.
Back when I used to ride motorcycles, by internal soundtrack always played “Born to be wild”.
tape adapter. Mine is old enough that it uses a short piece of tape onto which it records and the radio plays it.
Country, sunset, twisties, Honda Valkyrie, Santana “Samba pa Ti”. It just doesn’t get any better.
Motorbiking… Chris Spedding.
Lots of stuff, including most of what you put up, Og. Lately, it’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHBqpyUmCP4