So I'm sitting here playing tunes off Jango for the kids to dance to, and running across some killer tunes to drive to. Maybe It's just me and what I do for a living, but I'm thinking I'm not alone having a few that just kind of give that mental imagery of a bulivard cruise, backroad barnstorming, or maybe a kamakasi run down the big road where the zipperline becomes nearly solid.

Ted Nugent stranglehold
satriani ride
styx blue collar man
great white rock me

A slew of others come to mind. My question is simply this.

What is your favorite driving tune, The one that would probably get you busted when your not paying attention to your driving. You know the one that makes you when you hear it, or the hammer starts to drop...You know the one. So spill...What's your fave?

 

Golden Earring's Radar Love always makes the right foot very heavy!

Don

 

LOW RIDER

 

Lunatic fringe comes to mind too, but I'll be dipped if I can remember who does it. burnin sky from bad company is another one

 

x2 I'm always going about 20 over by the end

Tom Cochrane(SP.) I think

 

My kids go crazy when I play the Ramones 'Blitzrieg Bop' or anything from the Ramones or Teenage Head.

 

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Tom Cochrane. One of the many excellent Canadian artists who helped make MTV before it went to sh*t.

I like to drive to:

Foghat "Drivin' Wheel"

BOC "E.T.I." and "Buck's Boogie"

ANY Little Feat (Hoy Hoy!)

Kiss "Detroit Rock City"

Most Judas Priest

and of all things Gordon Lightfoot (another Canadien artiste par excellence!)

 

The number one all time song that makes my right foot turn to lead and the red mist form in my eyes is Highway Star by Deep Purple.
Nobody gonna' take my car gonna' race it to the ground.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgZSn...elated&search=

 

X3 That's THE all-time greatest late night high speed driving song.

 

Magic Carpet Ride and Born to be Wild by Steppenwolf

Cool the Engines by Boston

Runnin' Down the Highway by the Doobie Brothers

 

Fuel by Metalica will get you in trouble

 

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1200

 

Chad, I was really thinking of starting a thread like this - thank you for reading my mind!

My absolute favorite driving song is Tom Petty's "Running Down a Dream".
Not only is the tempo and intruments great, but the lyrics have a big meaning to Lady and I.
"Running down a dream, that never would come to me... Working on a mystery, going wherever it leads, running down a dream..."

That was exactly what I did when i flew half way across the country to get the car I always wanted and drove her home on a short vacation trip.
That song always gets my right foot heavy. Had the radio worked, I would have been listening to that song on the way home from South Carolina!

Second favorite is Chris Isaak's "Gone Riding".

Those two songs were used in a video I made of the trip to get Lady

The Outlaw's "Green Grass and High Tides" has some wicked guitar performances and ranks third.

Others tops include, but surely not limited to:
George Thorogood - Highway 49
Kentucky Headhunters - Ragtop
Outlaws - Ghost Riders in the Sky
George Thorogood - You Can't Catch Me
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Little Feat - Let it Roll
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Kathy Mattea - 455 Rocket
Little Village - She Runs Hot for Me
Tom Petty - Love is a Long Road
Eric Clapton - Hold On

And a few hundred more!

 

A few from left field, daft punk human after all, 2pac California dreamin, black lab this blood.

 

Always liked ghost rider in the sky, but had no clue who did it, gotta love fuel! some good pics all around. May be I should start writing some of these down for a compilation cd for those all nighter, got to be there tomorrow am deals.

 

Just about anything from Led Zeppelin

 

First version I heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsfw9CEQITA

My Granny called him "Gravel throat".

Norm

 

Edgar Winter Band - Frankenstein

 

On the hwy for me it "Highway Star" by Deep Purple. At 75 mph the the white lines on the road pass the car with the beat of the song. (Damn! I should have applied for a government grant before before making my study public ) The other driving song I like is "Summer of '69" by Brian Adams.

 

I forgot my other all time top favorite car song.

Little GTO by Ronnie and the Daytonas.

 

Rob, What's wrong with "Fat man in the bath tub"

"Might hear ya woooooooooooooooooan,"

 

Never heard it yet!
I am getting the hint that Little Feat is a good one.

This is one one reason i was wanting a thread like this, so i can find more songs to explore.

More of my favorites for riding to:
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
The Cult - Fire Woman
Rush - Between the Wheels
AC/DC - Thunderstruck
Guns n Roses - You could be Mine
Motley Crue - Wild Side

 

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

 

Hmm...

Let's add some Marshall Tucker Band and Allman Brothers to the mix. Shoot, there's all kinds of good driving tunes. Lately I've been digging a German import CD called "Hammond Heroes"- all 60s British R&B instrumentals, heavy on grinding Hammond B3 organ work.

 

Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Royal Crown Revue passed the time for me in my weekly adventures.

 

Okay I will go ahead and date myself. Beachboys. And you have to include Bob Segar.

Olds64, very good choices. You have to make your Dad proud.

 

radar love is excellent, even in naked earing ( acoustic version)

marshall tucker good too,

jimi hendrix vodoo child,
Nantucket sleighride mountain ( also missisippi queen( if ya know what I mean))
black dog by zep!!

all along the watchtower hendrix or an excellent version by dave matthews

pink floyd darkside of the mood whole dang cd


southside johnny ( especially covers of sam and dave songs)

martha and the vandellas heat wave

booker t and the mg's shotgun....

whew...

 

Allman Brothers Band - Jessica

 

A good song for parking is "My Daddy's Oldsmobile"...here, I'll sing some for you

My daddy bought this car before I was born.
Sure like the radio, I love the horn.
I love the great big shiny steerin' wheel,
Here in my daddy's Oldsmobile.

Four kids can sure fill up a big back seat.
They used to stop and get us something sweet.
Now Mamma says: "Let's pray for one good meal."
Here in my daddy's Oldsmobile.

• Mama kisses us goodnight,
  Daddy reads his paper in the dashboard light.
  Crushes out his cigarette, says:
  "Don't cry, honey, we ain't beat yet."

Another mornin' and we're up and gone.
Daddy says there's work in San Antone.
Two days of ridin', it ain't no big deal,
Here in my daddy's Oldsmobile.

Instrumental break.

• Mama kisses us goodnight,
  Daddy reads his paper in the dashboard light.
  Crushes out his cigarette, says:
  "Don't cry, honey, we ain't beat yet."

My daddy bought this car before I was born.
Sure like the radio, I love the horn.
I love the great big shiny steerin' wheel,
Here in my daddy's Oldsmobile.
Here in my daddy's Oldsmobile.

 

Beachboys - 409

Bob Segar - Shame on Moon
Bob Segar - Night Moves
A girl I went with loved these two...

 

Cant believe no one has brought up Sammy Haggar's I cant drive 55

George thorogood"s Bad to the bone

 

I'm going to date myself here...The first time I heard that song was in high school, I was on my way home from school, it was hot as all get out, and a storm was coming in. I had a 63 impala at the time big old bald 60's in the back. I was hauling tail, by the time that song ended, blowing rooster tails that seemed a mile long. Almost whiffed it coming around a corner when she started hydroplaning, but recovered. Man I was on top of the world for that three minutes or so! To this day, when I hear that song, I remember that brief moment in time and it makes me smile. Tom nailed it when he wrote that one One day I might just run one down.

 

Thought of a couple more
L A Guns showdown off cocked and loaded
Saliva Always, Broken Sunday, or King of the stereo
I like saliva cause they hit it hard, in kind of an old school get down to basics way, I'm no music critic, so don't know the terms, but its kind of reminiscent of Of the way deep purple did it in highway star. Well I like it any way, and thought I'd share.

 

That is because those are assumed to be in everyone's driving mix!
Pure classics, in my book...

Along with
Sammy Hagar's Only one way to Rock
George Thorogood - Highway 49,
George Thorogood - You Can't Catch me,
Rush - Red Sector A,
AC/DC - For these about to Rock,
Outlaws - Hurry Sundown,
etc, etc......

I can go on forever with these...

 

Y.M.C.A - Village people

 

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LAWDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hot rod Lincoln, one of the early driving songs

 

How do you guys keep your hands on the wheel when you are singing YMCA? I am going to say this thread has the potential to be one of the longest ever. Considering how many generations are represented here and how many songs are out there, this thing could go on forever. I have to include Jimmy Buffet's "Little Red Ragtop". It is not necessarily a great driving song but it is an appropriate song for my car. To my knowledge, it was never released as a single. Keep it going guys.

 

definitely, "runnin down the hiway". Hot Rod Lincoln, and like a couple others here, dating myself but the old Beach Boys and Jan & Dean hits.

 

Took a ride down to Red Hill (Patrick Henry's last home near Brookneal VA) this afternoon and grabbed a box of cassettes going out the door, not knowing what might be in it.

The hour each way drive was made enjoyable by the Swimming Pool Q's, Widespread Panic and Counting Crows. Adam Duritz has one of the best voices in rock and roll, and Jeff Calder and the Q's are among the most literate of the Southern rockers.

Yup. Gregg Allman was right. This road could go on forever.