Best Driving Music
 

I'm going on a small road trip in a little while and it made me think of what music I should bring with me. So I wanted to know what everyone here listens to when they're driving. What makes you want to drive really fast or keeps you awake at night? What are some of the best albums to play with the windows down?

A few of my choices are:
Springsteen- Born to Run
Minor Threat
The Clash- London Calling (Great album with lots of different sounds, plus it's really long.)

Reverend Horton Heat "Big Sky/Baddest of the Bad."

They are two songs, but they are meant to be heard together. I think it is excellent music to speed to.

get the theme to the tim burton "batman", the one composed by danny elfman. while you're driving, i swear, it'll make you feel invincible.

since I'm always in traffic here in NYC...someone recently turned me onto Ludacris' Move Bitch...

Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way
Move bitch, get out the way
Get out the way bitch, get out the way

May I also suggest "Bad Habit" by Offspring:

"Drivers are rude
Such attitudes
But when I show my piece
Complaints cease
Something's odd
I feel like I'm God
You stupid dumbshit goddam MOTHERFUCKER!"

Personally, I like EBM, Techno, and Industrial when i'm driving.

Good beats, lots of bass, etc. Works for me :)

Any Reverend Horton Heat is good for speed. We are talking about the drug right?

For hip hop

Wu-Tang Forever

For ROCK!

Bad Company - 10 to 6

WHAM's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"

and The Foundations "Build Me Up Buttercup"

...

waiting for the incredulous stares.

You gotta include "Radar Love" by Golden Earing. It's made to be played while driving.

I always have the urge to crank the volume to Kenny Loggins song....'Highway to the Danger Zone'. (from Top Gun)

Warning: May make you exceed the speed limit!

led zeppelin- travelling riverside blues
kyuss- gardenia, 100 degrees, asteroid
queens of the stone age- millonaire, songs for the deaf, mexicola, feel good hit

John Mayer

/predictable

I tend to like a nice mix of Slipknot/Sevendust/Rob Zombie/Marilyn Manson or classic punk.

Anything by Rush suite me just fine.

There is a song by Pete Yorn called "Life On A Chain" that I just love....
godDENIM thats a good driving song...

I second that on The Rev. Five-0 Ford is another good high-speed song.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd- Trouble is...
Nashville Pussy- Shoot First and Run Like Hell
Stuart Hamm- If You're Scared, Stay Home!
Steve Vai- The Attitude Song

"karma" from Delirium.

Soundtrack to "Queen of the Damned."

I've always thought that Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight" was the ultimate, driving at night while smoking a cigarette, driving song.

Lost Highway soundtrack is a good one. :)

Techno is pretty good for driving at night. Paul Oakenfold's Tranceport CD is pretty basic, but gets the job done.

Sometimes if I'm cruising down the freeways here in ATL late at night, I'll break out the trance.

All of this music will keep you awake, but it also will probably want to make you drive faster too, so watch that speed.

I've actually heard somewhere that they did and study, and found the most dangerous song to drive to is Ride of the Valkyries. I think they found it causes the driver to feel indestructible or something like that.

Its fun! lol

any zombie stuff rob or white zombie... u cant keep ur foot out of the throttle... go to ls1speed.com and on the left corner u will see movies... click on intmd8 760rwhp burnout... u will see what i mean

Wagner - Ride of the Valkryies. Very loudly with the windows down.

Motely Crue - kickstart my heart - you can't not speed :)

Back when it was legal for me to drive, I would mainly listen to Industrial, extremely loud, with the windows down. I would FORCE my music on other people. The side effect of this, of course is that I would speed all the time. And thus why I cannot drive anymore.

Lost in Translation (soundtrack) recommended for scenic driving, especially on a cloudy day.

Thorogood.... George....

Bad to the Bone
No Particular Place to Go
One Bourbon, One Whiskey, One Beer :thumbsup:

and the only Sammy Hagar song worth listening to:

I Can't Drive...... Sixtyyyyyy Five :D

when driving down a highway ain't nothing better except maybe Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild... but that is so cliche :hmm:

You got your license permanently revoked for speeding? How many times did you get caught?

Rush - Red Barchetta
Rob Zombie - Dragula
Thomas Dolby - Keys to her Ferrari
Satch - Train of Angels

Counting Crows - Rain King: This one works for me, but not may others

For late night long distance: STP - Interstate Love Song

Slayer
The Haunted
Blind Guardian

its all good.

"My Maserati does 185
I lost my liscense now I don't drive....

Life's been good to me so far...."

Reminded me of the great song by Joe Walsh.

Limp Bizkit - Rollin'


good for when you want to drive fast...but anything with lots of bass for me....love to give my subs a good work out :thumbsup:

Hooverphonic's A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular album keeps me awake ;)

Bob Seger, period. There is no other driving music, it's all a lie.

Any classic Stones album should do.

If you want to be fairly mellow but stay awake late at night, think Motown. Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson, Supremes, Marvin Gaye, all those. They're not that intense, but they've definitely got the beat and are good to sing along with.

the queen of the damned soundtrack, Korn and Disturbed when your want to drive fast.
And if you feel a little down, Nickelback (not the latest album, The Long Road) and The Poets of the Fall-Late Goodbye

1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
Mr. E's Beautiful Blues - Eels
Zion - Fluke
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Einstein on a Beach - Counting Crows

ANY song off Weezer's blue album.

the best driving song ever is Sky, by Ra

download it!!

I'm going to have to be stereotypical and go with AC/DC - highway to hell, it's personaly my favourite driving song.

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song. By far.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Runnin' Down a Dream. Obligatory.
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - 2nd Ave., 11 am. Oh yes.

two 10 inch 600 watt (each) subs will keep you awake :D

In addition to Ride of the Valkryies, Bohemian Rhapsody is always a good one (especially with friends).

I always find it entirely depends on my mood and the traffic I'm in.

Good mood and clear roads something heavy with a lot of guitar - get the blood pumping and th etruck moving.

So/so - bad mood or lots of traffic and I prefer smooth jazz or classical - keeps me calmer and allows for more behaved driving in those situations.

oh gosh...

i can't believe i forgot "everlong" by the foo fighters.

::hangs head in shame::

There are plenty of good driving tunes out there, each has a time and place.

More than a decade ago, I remember I was in the car while my dad was driving and the song "In the Mood" by Robert Plant came on (Phil Collins plays the drums). It totally suited the moment, and I recall we both stopped talking to listen to the song.

It still has a special place in my heart and I think it makes a beautiful late night driving song. That, and another song off the same album called "Big Log."

Linkin Park - Meteora
Gladiator Soundtrack
Loreena McKinnet
Weird Al

I saw Radar Love and anything from Weezer's Blue album listed. Both fine choices, but if you want the ultimate road trip song, it has to be Open Road Song by Eve 6. It is always the first cd in on any road trip.

Anything but techno.
(I personally like 112, Alicia Keys, some 80's .. the list goes on)

I made a cruising CD that was specifically made for my friend and I to listen to on our way down and back from Houston. We were headed there for a small Mustang meet, and we didn't know if there would be any racing involved but wanted a high-energy CD to cruise with - here's what we put on there, but this isn't in order of tracklisting, it's just in alpha order, as I can't find the actual CD at the moment.

Deftones - My Own Summer
Disturbed - Stupify, Voices
Drowning Pool - Bodies, Tear Away
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff, Eat You Alive
Linkin Park - A Place for My Head, One Step Closer
Metallica - Seek and Destroy, Stone Cold Crazy
Pearl Jam - Evenflow (Live from Washington DC, 7 minutes long!)
Mudvayne - Dig
Primer 55 - Loose
Staind - Spleen, Mudshovel
White Zombie - More Human Than Human
We also threw some Strongbad songs on there as interludes of sorts.

Other than those... I do enjoy Meteora and Hybrid Theory as cruising music but the cds are way too short for long trips, so I consolidated them onto one cd, much better!

I enjoy live Pearl Jam as well... Rearviewmirror is a good driving song.

I second the vote for STP's Interstate Love Song as well. The main three bands that I listen to in the car are PJ, Linkin Park, and Staind though... with the occasional Hendrix, Faith No More, or 311 thrown in there.

Welcome To The Jungle-GNR
Dirt Off Your Shoulder- Jay-Z
Race Against Time Pt. 2-Tank
Click Click Boom-Saliva

Any new Papa Roach song....man there new shit rocks

Any new Papa Roach song....man there new shit rocks

Slipknot - Pulse of the Maggots

This song makes me drive fast :D

Alright, here're some off of my last roadtrip list:

2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Layla - Eric Clapton
Everlong (acoustic) - Foo Fighters
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Dust in the Wind - Kansas (Blast it while driving through a town, it's about guaranteed to confuse some people)
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Highway To The Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Ride of the Valkries - Wagner
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Wherever I May Roam - Metallica
Immigrant Song - Led Zepplin
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Got Me Wrong - Alice in Chains
Spit Me Out - Collective Soul
I Wear My Sunglasses At Night - Cory Hart
Drive - Incubus
Hold the Line - Toto
Johnny Be Good - ?
Satan is My Motor - Cake
The Distance - Cake
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Lola - The Kinks
Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones
Imperial March - Rage Against the Machine
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Indifference - Pearl Jam

That's probably about a quarter of it... I can't remember any more and I've already put too many up

LA Woman - The Doors
Road Angel - The Doobie Brothers
Cowboy Romance - Mission of Burma
Jessica - The Allman Brothers
Dreams - Molly Hatchet
Individual Choice - Jean Luc Ponty
Child of Vision - Supertramp
Santa Esmeralda - Esmeralda Suite

the list goes on...
I have several compilations for driving. Makes me look forward to road trips.

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

Best fast-driving song ever.

End of arguement.

bic runga -good morning baby

Drum&Bass, Funky House, Trance

Anything with Dire Straits, especially when the weather is grey and gloomy.

"Ready Steady Go" by Paul Oakenfold. Was in the movie "Collateral" with Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise. Perfect song for those long windy roads where you push your car to the limit......

Breath, and Firestarter, by Prodigy.
Anything with a good beat and a lot of bass.

"Chicago" off Sufjan Stevens' Illinois works well for the road.

Ditto, anything of the Neurofunk style.

Gotta love "Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild" too.

You have almost forgotten the classic driving album (it was referenced once) :

Full Moon Fever- Tom Petty

Unbelievably great driving album.

A-----men!!