your favourite driving music?

your favourite driving music?

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goffahsez

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172 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Now I'm guessing a lot of people on here will agree with me when I say that the engine note of your own car is all the music you need to rbjoy a good drive out.
But the question I bring to the table today is what is your favourite music that you listen to in the car?
My personal favourite for a cruising drive is any of Bob Marley's fantastic tracks. And for something more racy tends to be either old school rock or old school club classics, varied I know bit that's what this post is for! Might add I love driving to the ' don't speak no americano' track that's out right now!

So ask yourself, what's your favourite music?

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

196 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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goffahsez said:
Now I'm guessing a lot of people on here will agree with me when I say that the engine note of your own car is all the music you need to rbjoy a good drive out.
But the question I bring to the table today is what is your favourite music that you listen to in the car?
My personal favourite for a cruising drive is any of Bob Marley's fantastic tracks. And for something more racy tends to be either old school rock or old school club classics, varied I know bit that's what this post is for! Might add I love driving to the ' don't speak no americano' track that's out right now!

So ask yourself, what's your favourite music?
I would have to go with your former comment. Don't even have a stereo in the TR7 V8, just a hole in the dash and doors (sans speakers) and a loud exhaust! hehe

If I do play music in the other cars it'll usually be some form of rock based music, from Led Zep to Hendrix, to the Black Keys, Soledad Brothers. Bit of blues like Berry and Canned Heat too and not missing off a bit of country (Alsion Krauss & Union Station, Trish Murphy) and even a bit of folk like our own Kate Rusby.

goffahsez

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525 posts

172 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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A well cultured answer!

If I was lucky enough to own a v8 I'm pretty wire I'd strip the speakers too! Lol

alfa pint

3,856 posts

217 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Too many varying factors! Day music is different from night music. Hood up music is different from hood down music. Then there's whoever is in the passenger seat, especially if she's the one in charge of the i-pod.

Day, alone, hood down - big fan of James / anything loud and happy that sounds similar. Or exhaust noise from the ragazzon! Occasionally stick something operatic on - bit of verdi / mozart.

Night alone, hood down - definitely just the exhaust

Night alone, hood up - currently like Editors most recent album. Or Interpol. Or Noah and the Whale's last album

Night with company - radio 4!

Carfiend

3,186 posts

215 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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I have had some funny looks pulling up to lights in the Skyline with classical music coming out of the speakers.

MarJay

2,174 posts

181 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Highway star by Deep Purple.

thunderbelmont

2,982 posts

230 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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depends.
For racing - Motorhead, worth at least a second a lap!
For cruisin' - Booker T and the MG's, Queen (night at the opera, day at the races, etc..)

goffahsez

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525 posts

172 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Anyone for foo fighters?
Or ofcourse the classic fleetwood mac, le chain. You don't get any better timing than if that comes on as your lined up next to a nice car on the lights!

magnus911

584 posts

195 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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an Italian V8

300bhp/ton

41,030 posts

196 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Meant in high spirits and humour. But this just seems so appropriate.... wink

doogz said:
Tool
hehe

GT Kodiak

2,907 posts

185 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Feeder

Q.O.T.S.A

Foo Fighters

Pendulum

Depeche Mode

Sea Sick Steve

Muse

And occasionaly REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake and The Cure when the girlfriend in in the car, if/when I let her play it... hehe

Wish I had some Infected Mushroom to play in the car though...

Twincam16

27,646 posts

264 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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The CD I play most often in the car is The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets.

Excellently-written indie-rock repackaged as note-perfect Scott Walker/Al Stewart pastiche. The result, on the right road (something slightly twisty and hemmed in with cliffs, rocks and trees with nothing else in sight), at the right speed (swift, but not breakneck), with the right sunglasses (a nice wraparound gold-and-brown pair I've got that seem to turn the world into lens-flared, slightly faded and grainy technicolour), it feels like you're starring in a classic film in the Italian Job/Odessa File/Harry Palmer mould, and the opening credits are scrolling across the screen.

Yep, sad, I know, but that's half the appeal - at least it's not the actual theme tunes, they just sound like them.

aclivity

4,072 posts

194 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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On my own in the car, usually it's Radio 4, or for long journeys I sometimes download talking books from www.librivox.org. If it's music, either rock or "world" music (usually something Spanish or Cuban, occasionally Afro-Celt sound system).

With the kids in the car, they insist on Pendulum - particularly any of the tracks that were on the "Need for Speed - Undercover" game on the Nintendo DS.

goffahsez

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525 posts

172 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Good line up GT Kodiak!

goffahsez

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525 posts

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Monday 12th July 2010
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GT Kodiak said:
Feeder

Q.O.T.S.A

Foo Fighters

Pendulum

Depeche Mode

Sea Sick Steve

Muse

And occasionaly REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake and The Cure when the girlfriend in in the car, if/when I let her play it... hehe

Wish I had some Infected Mushroom to play in the car though...
What a line up, must download Sea Sick Steve, he is awesome!

goffahsez

Original Poster:

525 posts

172 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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GT Kodiak said:
Feeder

Q.O.T.S.A

Foo Fighters

Pendulum

Depeche Mode

Sea Sick Steve

Muse

And occasionaly REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake and The Cure when the girlfriend in in the car, if/when I let her play it... hehe

Wish I had some Infected Mushroom to play in the car though...
What a line up, must download Sea Sick Steve, he is awesome!

goffahsez

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525 posts

172 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Twincam16 said:
The CD I play most often in the car is The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets.

Excellently-written indie-rock repackaged as note-perfect Scott Walker/Al Stewart pastiche. The result, on the right road (something slightly twisty and hemmed in with cliffs, rocks and trees with nothing else in sight), at the right speed (swift, but not breakneck), with the right sunglasses (a nice wraparound gold-and-brown pair I've got that seem to turn the world into lens-flared, slightly faded and grainy technicolour), it feels like you're starring in a classic film in the Italian Job/Odessa File/Harry Palmer mould, and the opening credits are scrolling across the screen.

Yep, sad, I know, but that's half the appeal - at least it's not the actual theme tunes, they just sound like them.
You paint a pretty good picture!

I'd likethe Ferrari from the opening scene of the Italian job, saying that if I did I wouldn't have the music playing

alfa pint

3,856 posts

217 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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goffahsez said:
Twincam16 said:
The CD I play most often in the car is The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets.

Excellently-written indie-rock repackaged as note-perfect Scott Walker/Al Stewart pastiche. The result, on the right road (something slightly twisty and hemmed in with cliffs, rocks and trees with nothing else in sight), at the right speed (swift, but not breakneck), with the right sunglasses (a nice wraparound gold-and-brown pair I've got that seem to turn the world into lens-flared, slightly faded and grainy technicolour), it feels like you're starring in a classic film in the Italian Job/Odessa File/Harry Palmer mould, and the opening credits are scrolling across the screen.

Yep, sad, I know, but that's half the appeal - at least it's not the actual theme tunes, they just sound like them.
You paint a pretty good picture!

I'd likethe Lamborghini from the opening scene of the Italian job, saying that if I did I wouldn't have the music playing
EFA!

Twincam16

27,646 posts

264 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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alfa pint said:
goffahsez said:
Twincam16 said:
The CD I play most often in the car is The Age Of The Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets.

Excellently-written indie-rock repackaged as note-perfect Scott Walker/Al Stewart pastiche. The result, on the right road (something slightly twisty and hemmed in with cliffs, rocks and trees with nothing else in sight), at the right speed (swift, but not breakneck), with the right sunglasses (a nice wraparound gold-and-brown pair I've got that seem to turn the world into lens-flared, slightly faded and grainy technicolour), it feels like you're starring in a classic film in the Italian Job/Odessa File/Harry Palmer mould, and the opening credits are scrolling across the screen.

Yep, sad, I know, but that's half the appeal - at least it's not the actual theme tunes, they just sound like them.
You paint a pretty good picture!

I'd likethe Lamborghini from the opening scene of the Italian job, saying that if I did I wouldn't have the music playing
EFA!
Or maybe he means that black Dino that Raf Vallone drives off in after the Miura has ploughed into the bulldozer.

Greenwich Ross

1,219 posts

179 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Horsepower Productions' "To The Rescue" or Radio 2...