henke on 8/4/2012 at 15:59
This is a thread I've been thinking about writing for years when I'm driving longer distances, but somehow I've never gotten around to it until now. I love listening to music while driving, and in my car is really the only place I get use of my extensive CD-collection. These are my favourite albums to listen to on the road, divided into 4 categories. Please feel free to list your own.
Highway, daytime:(
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http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/5016/3208372180x1801.jpg Todd Snider - “The Devil You Know”I always sing along to “Looking for a Job” and “Carla”. The third act of spoken-word track “You got away with it” never fails to put a smile on my face. The sad tale of poor Phil Ochs who slipped through the cracks while Judas went electric and never looked back, as told in “Thin Wild Mercury”, has just the right tempo to also serve as a great build-up for the titletrack "The Devil You Know". That's the point in the album where I crank it the fuck up and ROCK! OUT! while screaming along to the lyrics
“There's a war going on and the poor can't win! Helicopters over my house again!”. The album the perfect length as well, when I'm driving home from the Big Town I pop this album in at the start of the trip and arrive at my home as the final notes of closing-track “Happy New Year” is coming through my speakers.
Love love love this album.
Also good: Tom Waits - “Raindogs”, Hayes Carll - “KMAG YOYO”, Any album that mixes Country and Rock music well.
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http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7203/21826083180x1801.jpgThe xx - “xx”When you're driving along a dark highway in the country, nothing illuminating the winding road ahead of you except your headlights, there is nothing better than the last 2 minutes of “Infinity”. The track goes silent, and you almost think it's over, but then, quietly at first, it starts coming back, building and building until shivers are running up and down your spine.
Also good: Lynchian stuff. Listening to Marilyn Manson's version of “I put a spell on you” on the Lost Highway soundtrack as the sun is going down makes me feel like it's going down for good.
City, daytime:(
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http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4140/14538733180x1801.jpgKanye West - “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”For driving in the city during daytime I want phat beats and choruses I can sing along to.
Also good: Madvillain - "Madvillainy", Gorillaz - "Plastic Beach", M.I.A. - "MAYA"
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http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/3647/179472180x1801.jpgTom Waits - “Heart of Saturday Night”You wanna feel like the coolest cat it town when you go for a late-night drive? Start your cruise off with a (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=107dADrIVBk) New Coat Of Paint.
Also good: Pretty much any 70's Tom Waits album
nickie on 8/4/2012 at 19:52
Not an album but I do have a horrible habit of driving along the motorway turning the wheel in time to Leonard Cohen's 'So Long Marianne'. Obviously this can be problematic if there's other traffic on the road.
But yes, driving to music is great. I don't generally listen to music at home anymore so in the car is where I do listen. And I don't have much of a voice anymore but the car doesn't mind. But I don't have a car now so no albums to list. :(
st.patrick on 9/4/2012 at 13:42
This is my current (
http://www.last.fm/user/vhoracek/library/playlists/5cchv_idm) favorite playlist, it alternates between slower and faster tracks, it lets you focus on the music on the subliminal level and it fiills one blank CD nicely.
It's not strictly IDM even though the title suggests so, but I didn't come up with anything else, so there.
SubJeff on 9/4/2012 at 17:07
I just listen to whatever is on my phone, so occasionally tracks from the Spotify TTLG playlist.
I do have a playlist titled "Driving" but it's such a mix of stuff it could be titled anything.
I find what I listen to depends on my mood, the time of day, nature of the trip and how long I'm going to be driving for.
At night I prefer chillout stuff like Zero 7, Carbon Based Lifeforms, lofi dance like Adam Marshall or Swayzak. But if I'm in town at night I like 80s night time music; Phil Colins, Bronski Beat, Flock of Seagulls. You know.
Long day drives get a trance/dance or metal/guitar/industrial soundtrack. Infected Mushroom, Orbital, Hallucinogen, general psy/goa trance or NIN, Ministry, Soundgarden, Slayer, Sepultura, Cradle of Filth.
Occasionally I listen to the Kooks.
More often than not my driving gets a large dose of BBC Radio 4 though, and if there is one available a podcast of The Moral Maze or Infinite Monkey Cage or suchlike.
henke on 11/4/2012 at 18:39
That's pretty cool. Sadly I do not have a fast black car. Only a grey one that goes at a reasonable speed.
And Sulph make sure you give (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YRdxHHFKvQ) Dead Flowers a listen if you haven't already heard it. My fave Stones song to drive to. :)
PigLick on 12/4/2012 at 06:17
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henke on 12/4/2012 at 09:22
A lesser-known Johnny Cash gem called (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMSwWVlmGd8) "All I do is drive". Got this one on my "Keep on truckin'" MixCD, love singing along to it. Lines like
"I got nothing in common with any man who's home every day at five/All I do is drive, drive, drive" really gets under the skin of the trucker-psyche and shows why Johnny was such a great songwriter.
