This week's rotation:

Radiohead: How's My Driving
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Led Zepplin: Early Days
Bonnie Raitt: Silver Lining

 

I was just listening to this song and it made me think of this thread, because this song reminds me of what I often do since I got the MINI:

Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home

 

Sunday Morning -- Maroon 5

First song in my Mini, Maggy!!!

 

Limelight, RUSH when the drums kick in on my HK you can feel it in your chest

 

Night Ranger's "Sister Christian", but only because the song has a very enthusiastic "You're motoring!" in the lyrics. . .

 

anything chili peppers for me. there funky stuff is good for when i feel like taking my car a bit harder, and there slower mellower songs are good for time i feel like just cruising down the beach in 6th with the windows open and breeze on my face
plus i mean red hot chili peppers in a (hot) chili (pepper) red mini S? its like a perfect match

 

only one song gets played in my motor atm....Summer Time - Will Smith i know its 90's cheesy but it IS summer time atm and it was voted by Kiss100 (Londons biggest radio station) and all its listners as the all time favourite summer song!

 

I've been diggin' on the Cars soundtrack...I'm no fan of Sheryl Crow but "Real Gone" is great to drive to, as are the respective covers of "Life is a Highway" and "Route 66" by Rascal Flatts and John Mayer.

 

Just dug out Middle of the Road, by The Pretenders.
Crank it up on the HK.
Listen to the background drums.
Impressive!

 

Lately it's been a toss-up between:

Bom Bom Bom by Living Things or
We've Been Had by The Walkmen

But most Stereolab albums work too.

 

Rob Zombie.. Dragula
Jim

 

Here is a little vid from in my Mini with a tune playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1MHGsXpJc8

 

I've been wearing out MadMaXX's "Just Picked Up From The Dealership" mix CD*

Paint It Black - Rolling Stones | Galaxy Bounce - Chemical Bros. | Touched - Vast | Terre Firma - Delerium | Coma Girl - Joe Strummer | Where's Your Head At - Basement Jaxx | Four Kicks - Kings of Leon | Illuminati - Fatboy Slim | Satellite - Bosco | Absurd - Fluke (Whitewash Edit) | Deep - Nine Inch Nail | God Killed The Queen - Louis XIV | Roads - Portishead | California Waiting - Kings of Leon | Shuffle Your Feet - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Brand New Cadillac - The Clash | Pretty When You Cry - Vast | The Good Ones - The Kills

You'll have to excuse the long list (MP3s!)
* Warning: Many of these will make you want to drive *fast*

 

Chamillionaire - Ridin'

 

1. Alta CAI
2. Milltek exhaust
3. My heart pounding

 

A few of my friends have been asking me what I listen to with the top down... so I started a PodCast that posts a new song each week or so. If you have iTunes you can click the 'subscribe' button and iTunes will download each new song. I mainly started it as a fun experiment when Apple released the new iWeb application. Feel free to go play, then roll your eyes! :impatient It's more for fun than anything else!

www.NemoMINI.com
click on "NemoTunes" at the top, then choose a song. You can listen from the website or from iTunes, either one. And you are correct... I DON'T have anything better to do with my time. Ha!!

Yeah... I listen to some weird stuff. But it makes me feel good!

 

Always random iPod mix through the glove box adapter: (I don't listen to music much...)

Mostly jazz:
Charlie Hunter
Greyboy Allstars
Galactic
The Meters
Modern Jazz Quartet
Stanton Moore
Robert Walter
Garage a Trois
Herbie Hancock
Dave Holland
James Brown (jazz?)
Grant Green
John Coltrane
Thekonius Monk
Medeski, Martin & Wood
Milt Jackson
Wes Montgomery
John Scofield
Soulive
Stanley Turrentine
T.J. Kirk


Also, some hip hop
Tribe
de la soul
J5
common

some rock
tool
biohazard
bloc party
fugazi
helmet
ministry (popular here!)
NIN
pantera
pearl jam
the police
red hot chilis
rage
the stones
primus
STP
the who

some alt
death cab for cutie
the shins
cure
beck
white stripes

and a lot in between
marley
hendrix
led zep
zz top
yes
rush
u2
traffic
tom petty
sublime
stevie wonder
pink floyd
phish
neil young
marvin gaye
allman bros
curtis mayfield
dave matthews



But, instead of cataloging my music, I can just pick a few songs for the MINI mixtape-

Charlie Hunter - Whoop-***
Lake Trout - Little things in different places
Led Zepplin - When the levee breaks (best zep ever)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mellowship Slinky in B Major
James Brown - Superbad
Charlie Hunter - Dope-a-licious
The Greyboy Allstars - Happy Friends
A Tribe Called Quest - Vivrant Thing
Beck - the New Pollution
Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
G. Love & Special Sauce - Recipe
The Police - Driven to Tears
Grant Green - Let the Music Take Your Mind
The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py
Pearl Jam - Brain of J.
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (Make me wanna holler)



Whoo! I'm gonna burn that one for this weekend! MINI MASTER MIX!

 

"you don't speed throught, two miles an hour so everybody sees you"

"it is like a natural afrodisiac"



That is a good summer time driving song.

 

I have sooooooo many songs I love to drive to.

Killswitch Engage
Slipknot
Godsmack
Eric Clapton
Cold Play
RUSH
Red Hot Chili Pepers
Even the new Hasidic Raggae singer is cool

I just like way to much music to have just one or two driving songs.

 

Man, how many songs quoted here and not one by the Boss ?????

Maybe its a Jersey thing, but I have a MINI playlist with everything on it that Springsteen ever released....!

"I'm driving in my car.... turn on the radio.... I'm holding you close.... you just say no ...."

but the best Boss driving music ever - Thunder Road ..... Man, I was breaking the speed limit under the influence of that back in the 70s....

Also, with the top down I have been playing a LOT of Cheryl Crow lately, mainly -

• Every day is a Winding Road
• Soak up the Sun

Sorry that Cheryl broke up with Lance (maybe he's not) but I find her's to be strangely fun driving music.

Now, for the most obscure driving music of all time - anything by Brian Protheroe, especially

• Clog Dancer
• Pinball

You may not even be able to buy his stuff on CD (had to order a compilation from Europe) as he was popular in certain circles in the mid to late 1980s before vinyl completely died out and they never re-released his stuff in the US. He remains popular in the Netherlands and Brasil (strangely) so you can order CDs from those countries.

That is all.

Bill

 

speed metal always works ... a good dose of Exodus

 

Yoooooo!!! Jersezzzz Bill! Howz turnpike exit 9 doin? I am formally known as GSP exit 163... oh! how I miss it. Before moving out to MO I was 287 exit 17, but 287 just didn't have the same significance. Now we just plead with all people of the tri-state area to appreciate what they have, eat the pizza as if it was the last pizza on earth, and the wisdom to stay put in the best place on earth!

But since this is a music thread, I guess I should focus on the topic... my OLD time favorites... clapton, inxs, simple minds, billy idol, van halen... great memories of good tunes on my way to the beach! Favorite place on the beach to listen to live bands... Martell's Tiki Bar at Point Pleasant... my friend still plays there... Hungry Jack.. awsome music

 

What everyone here must realize that in New Jersey, you don't live in a town, a village, or a city. You are known by your "Exit Number" and that is all someone has to know about you to tell how cool you are, how rich you are, whether you are "connected", just about everything.... I proudly share my Turnpike Exit with the hometown of Bruce Springsteen - Freehold, NJ, though I am on the other side of the Turnpike.

You are right - the best exits are the NJ Tpke and the GS Parkway - you can really zero in on someone with those !!!

Man, Point Pleasant.... Nothing like the Jesey Shore for great music and ole time seaside fun. Belmar, Wildwood, Cape May, Sandy Hook (largest nude beach in America) - love em all !!!

New Jersey gets so maligned - and I think on purpose that we show our worst face to New York - all the chemical plants, warehouses, swamps, you name it - but there are places in Jersey that make you think you are in Europe or the Mediterranean or anywhere you want to be. Such a wonderful diverse State with just about everything - man, I am never leaving.... Now if we could only convince our new Governor to get serious about letting us pump our own gas - it is embarassing to be one of only two states where you can't do this.

Another proud NJ fact - home state of Zaino (wish you could mail order it here though !!!)

Missouri must be a nice place - but it is no New Jersey.... Fugeddeboudid ! Come on home !!!

Bill

 

Finn Brothers "Everyone is Here" was the first cd to pop in for the ride home from picking up Car84.

Last weekend I was in some wooded twisties when the Beatles' "Revolution Number Nine" came on. I've never listened to it completely (did this time), but it sure is good for the "zone" one gets in, for a road like say, the Dragon.

 

My three current favs---

Mae
Jack's Mannequin
The Mars Volta