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Location: Avondale AZ | There is something about driving the open road that makes rock and roll more exciting. The following is my list of songs that are my favorite to listen to while traveling in my fast car. They are all equally exciting and in no order of preferance. Note none of these have a banjo in them.
Driver's Seat by Sniff 'N' the Tears
The Cowboy Song by Thin Lizzy
Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple
Free Bird by Lynard Skynard
Radar Love by Golden Earring
What is your list?
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Location: Chicagoland | Driving rock eh? Like The Ramones? |
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Location: Iowa | What comes to mind for me is the song Fame by David Bowie, but maybe i'm just a little out there. |
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Location: Gardnerville, NV | Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Working Man - Rush
Lunatic Fringe - Red Ryder
Pete's Blues - Roy Buchannon
Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughn |
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Location: Avondale AZ | All good so far. How about 'Smoking' by Humble Pie and 'Mississippi Queen' by Mountain. I believe all of these can be played on an Ovation solid body. Maybe some can be remixed on an Ovation acoustic.
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1979 Viper(mohagany) original owner |
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Location: Avondale AZ | Can you believe I spelled 'Mississippi' right? |
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Location: NJ | "Highway Star" - Deep Purple
"New Lee Highway Blues" - David Bromberg
"Running Hard" - Renaissance
"FastBuck Freddie" - Jefferson Starship
"Rock & Roll" - Lou Reed
(but only from the "Rock&Roll Animal" Live album . . the only LR album I can tolerate) |
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Location: NJ | I spend a lot of time on the road.
deep purple "machine head" is near perfect.
Steely dan "aja" |
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Location: SE Michigan | I cant think of 5 songs that havnt already been mentioned, but my favorite driving song has to be
"Jessica" by the Allman Brothers. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Runnin' Down A Dream- Tom Petty
Mean Street- Van Halen
Hot for Teacher- Van Halen
Anything on Appetite for Destruction-GNR
Anything on Back in Black-AC/DC
But I would really only drive to these if I have a sudden urge to uncontrollably raise my heart rate, adrenaline and my car insurance rates. Otherwise, I tend to stick to driving to more peaceful tunage and appreciate the journey a lil more.
Gettin' older, I s'pose. |
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Location: Venice, Flo | Nine Inch Nails - Radar Love ;) |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Jimi - "Manic Depression" "Fire" "Purple Haze"
Aretha - "Pink Cadillac"
The Band - The Last Waltz CD set |
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Location: Kirkland, WA | Hollywood Nights
Start Me Up
Two Ticket to Paradise
Fun, Fun, Fun
Funeral For A Friend |
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Location: Toronto | An American Band - Grand Funk
Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
or American Woman - Guess Who
The sixth song is optional - pending roof on or off... |
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Location: North Carolina | "Rockin' down the highway" - Doobies
"Souped up Ford" - Rory Gallagher
Franklin |
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Location: South Portland, ME | Going Down The Road Feeling Bad -Grateful Dead
China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider - Grateful Dead |
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Location: Indiana | Down the Road-Kansas
Hotel California-Eagles
Green Grass and High Tides-Outlaws
Highway Song-Blackfoot
Crosstown Traffic-Hendrix |
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Location: Avondale AZ | Meatpill
Nine inch nails does a cover of Radar Love?
I did not know that. I interested hearing it.
BeatleJuice53
Good call with the Outlaws and Blackfoot. These were two bands that never got their dues along with Uriah Heep. In fact add their song 'Easy Living' to the list. |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | 1.) Bargain - The Who
2.) Red Barchetta - Rush
3.) Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson
4.) Vertigo - U2
5.) Takin' It To The Streets - Doobie Bros. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Evil Woman - Spooky Tooth
The Speed of Sound (album) - Ronnie Montrose
Stormy Monday - Lee Michaels
I'm a Believer - Giant
Magic Man - Heart |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Voodoo Chile - Hendrix or SRV
We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Reeling In The Years - Steely Dan
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Steamer Lane Breakdown - Doobie Brothers
(and about a million others) |
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Location: Vermont USA | Just about any thing by the Allman Brothers,Journey, or Peter Frampton.
Paul :cool: |
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Location: SoCal | late 50's and early 60's...course with the top down, even in the rain. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | Limelight- Rush, anything by Creedence Clearwater Revival, anything by Nazareth, Third Eye Blind- Blue, Blue Oyster Cult- Agents of Fortune. |
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| Mr Cheese - having played bottom of the bill to Nazareth a couple of times more years ago than I care to remember, may I be allowed to tell you that those guys were crap beyond almost any meaning of the word?
Nobody mentioned Canned Heat or Free/Bad Company. Bob Seeger made some great driving music. And BB King. |
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts | "Right Place, Wrong Time" by Dr.John
"Roll with the Changes" by REO Speedwagon (who?)
"Love Shack & Roam" B-52's
"Can't get what you want until you know what you want-Joe Jackson
Two Tickets to Paradise - Eddie Money |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | BruDeV!
Giant???? Damn...I didn't know anyone else knew who they were! Dan Huff is quite a player and singer...too bad after playing on so many other people's rock albums, his own band didn't make the cut. Bad timing I guess.
Now he's carved himself a niche in country music as a player and growing ever more popular as a producer with some big name artists.
Interesting choice...great song. I haven't heard it in a long time. I'll have to dig out that cd now. |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Just pick any 5 songs from Little Feat: Let It Roll. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Yup, Let It Roll is on my list too!
as well as:
Can't You Hear Me Knocking - Stones
All Right Now - Free
Won't Get Fooled Again - Who
Congo Square - Sonny Landreth (awesome slide!)
and as an extra I'd throw in:
Rollin' and Tumblin' - Jeff Beck Version |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | - Strumming12
FYI there are 3 Giant albums:
1989 'Last of the Runaways'
1992 'Time to Burn'
2001 'III' |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Bru DeV-
I didn't know about "III", had the other two. Thanks for the tip.
Be well- |
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Location: Avondale AZ | Now that I started this, I am hearing driving rock songs all the time. Here are two that got me over the speed limit yesterday:
Dude looks like a lady by Areosmith
I'm a man by Chicago or Dave Mason or whoever does it.
Something about those 2 titles together. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I'm going to have to do this by Album...not songs...
In no particular order:
Let it Bleed-Stones
The Heeler- John Lee Hooker
Mock Tudor- Richard Thompson
The Feelies- The Feelies
The American in Me- Steve Forbert
Skip, Hop and Wooble (maybe the best instrumental album EVVVERRRR-R. Barenburg, E. Meyer. J.Douglas
So that's six...sue me! |
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Location: Indiana | Originally posted by TWA:
Just pick any 5 songs from Little Feat: Let It Roll. I guess since my name is Bill Payne(not the same one), I better agree. |
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Location: NJ | forgot to mention
the stones get your ya yas out
and the cut "monkey man" |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Lots of the Stones stuff from Beggar's Banquet, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street makes for great top down crusin'...
Hmmmmm, time for a new mix CD! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | D'zilla
Yeah...so many Stones tunes....from all the above and Some Girls, Goats Head, Black& Blue...on and on...
... how about "Memo from Turner"...you never hear that these days |
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Location: Tennessee | Dramarama did a GREAT cover of Memo From Turner on their Vinyl album. As an added bonus, the incredible Mick Taylor played guitar on some of the album.
I tend to think of albums for road trip music ... some favorites include:
Bat Out of Hell -- MeatLoaf (and the genius of Todd Rundgren)
Scarecrow -- John Mellencamp
Hot Rocks -- The Stones
Soundtrack from Five Summer Stories -- Honk
Hank Wilson's Back -- Leon Russell
London Calling -- The Clash
(I have a six disc changer. ;) ) |
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Location: Malden, Massachusetts | And who could forget these...
http://www.ohek.co.uk/funnies/fun-titles.htm |
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Location: Warwick, RI | "Tumeni Notes" by Steve Morse and Jeff Watson |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | - Strummin12
Make that 4 Giant albums
2003 'Live and Acoustic' |
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Location: Houston, TX | I'm not a Stones fan - but Can't you hear me knockin is a great tune. The break reminds of the break in Loggins and Messina Angry Eyes.
My wife and I spent 2 weeks in Maui in April - I love the place, but after about 5 days of nothin but uke, we planned to be in the car all day going down the road to Hana and beyond - off the beaten path. We stopped at Wal-Mart and picked up a live REO Speedwagon CD and it was absolutely glorious to blast Ridin the Storm Out and Roll With the Changes while we were cuttin through the countryside in a convertible.
Aja is a good call - Kid Charlamagne is one of my favorite Steely Dan tunes. Is there gas in the car, yes there's gas in the car...made you feel like jesus...did you realize, that you were a champion in their eyes...maybe the most subtle and yet accurate snapshot dealer song.
I'm not a Deadhead, but American Beauty got me from Houston to San Antonio a couple of times - Box of Rain, Sugar Magnolia...
Freddy King - Goin Down - always makes me stomp on the accelerator. With my big feet out the window... |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Ice 9 and Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani
Tom Sawyer and YYZ - Rush
I Got A Name - Jim Croce
Jessica - The Allman Brothers Band
Up On A Roof - James Taylor
Svefn-G-Englar - Sigur Ros
Short Skirt, Long Jacket - Cake
My Own Prison - Creed |
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top 5 rock songs for driving