What's in your "Top-Down" Soundtrack?
 

I know all of you have that song that comes on when you're driving on that perfect day, on the perfect road with the top down that just makes you say, "yeah, life is good." I think we all need to share our favorite tunes so that the soundtrack is always right for our motoring experiences. I tend to like Jazz, Electronic, or something that doesn't quite fit a category, but there are those tried and true Rock tunes that fit the moment too.
I'll start with a couple:
Pursuit of Happiness by Weekend Players
Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders
Colour by Atjazz
What's in your iPod?

Excerpts from our hastily assembled, 98 song drive home after delivery playlist:

Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
All Right Now - Free
Born to Run - -Bruce Springsteen
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
You're So Square - Buddy Holly
This Time It's Real - Tower of Power
Maria - Blondie
Got My Mind Set On You- George Harrison
Panama - Van Halen
Cowboys to Girls - The Intruders
Got to Get You into My Life - Earth, Wind, and Fire version
Back in Black - AC/DC
Me & Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
Barracuda - Heart
Everything's Coming Our Way - Santana
Three Good Reasons - Dwight Yoakum
Drive My Car - The Beatles
Piece of My Heart - Erma Franklin
Ventura Highway - America
Crush With Eyeliner - R.E.M.
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
She's Got Everything - The Kinks
Luz Verde - Luis Miguel
I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
My Best Friend's Girl - The Cars
Wild Night - Van Morrison
Sugar Magnolia - The Grateful Dead
Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones
The Thanks I Get - Wilco
No Hay Perdon - Go Betty Go
Crazy - Aerosmith
Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

PLUS: The entire Foo Fighters Catalog

I just got my ipod dock to input jack adaptor and I think it does sound better than the audio input to headphone jack, so I enjoyed some Miles Davis (Kind of Blue and Birth of the Cool) and Mozart (Symph. 40 & 41). Works pretty well (the songs and the cable setup)

after that list all I can say is WORD! Good list. :thumbsup:

Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Free Ride - Edgar Winter
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger
Rosalita - Bruce Springsteen
Highway to the Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Let's Get Together - The Youngbloods
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
Authority Song - John Cougar Mellencamp
Runaround - Blues Traveler
Africa - Toto
Every Day is a Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
Sing a Song - Earth, Wind and Fire
Rockin' Down the Highway - The Doobie Brothers
Deacon Blues - Steely Dan

Im into Ska if anyone here knows what it is, im also into reggae and punk

So ill usually play all the StreetLight Manifesto Songs or Aggrolites and some of you guys might know, the Specials

Janet - if you like Deacon Blues, you might like a couple of Donald Fagan tunes (H-Gang off of his newest album, or International Geophysical Year off The Nightfly)

Kwin - I don't know much Ska, but any tracks in particular we should check out?

Steppin' Out, Free Ride, and Africa are already on my driving list - good tunes (it's even hard to get mad at bad drivers when you have the right music)

Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
Low Rider - War
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix
Call Me the Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Layla - Eric Clapton
Abby Road, The Entire Second Side (of the album) - The Beatles

"Beautiful Day" - U2
Anything hardcore trance. :nod:

Lol Ridingfar, I can just imagine you playing that while swooping down on some blue haired old lady driving her buick at 15mph under the speed limit! :lol:

Low Rider - excellent cruising tune

Ok, yesterday I listened to:

Boston - Third Stage
Queen - various stuff
Aerosmith - (Sweet Emotion brings back some good memories :wink: )
Bach and some Handel Water Music (try it while driving slowly through a tree covered road :nod: )
Sublime - a few fav songs in there including Caress Me Down

Yeah, it was a sunny day, lots of time to listen and drive with the top down. :grin:

Yeah. I have lots of Donald Fagan, including Nightfly as well as Steely Dan. Love 'em.

I think Steely Dan is a love-em-or-hate-em group, with nothing in between. I've always loved them, but some of my friends constantly give me hell for it.

Well, I'm still about 6-8 weeks away from having somethign to drive, but here in Colorado I think you'd have to include Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh!

You have much more patience than I do SPF Zero - I went to the dealer intending to order, and drove off the lot 3 hours later. Delayed gratification? Nah, maybe later...

XM channels: Electronic: 81,82
Soundtraks: 27
80s Metal: 41
Hardcore/ Heavy: 42
Alot of Bennassi and Iron Maiden
Oops sorry, well windows open

+1 for the XM channels!!!:thumbsup:

81: BPM
82: The System

Sweet dance/trance stations for those XMers out there!

The Crystal Method - Legion of Boom :nod::nod::nod:

Xm fungus has some ska if you guys wanna check it out

Theres lotsa different ska "waves" there called but if you guys wana check out some 3rd wave or punk ska check out Sell out by Reel Big Fish and if you wanna check out more original check out two tone Army by the Toasters

and just as a side note ska is known for its use of checkerboard patterns symbolizing unity (the mix of black and white)