Driving music ..

Grateful Dead's 72' concert and Allman Bros's 1971 Fillmore East  should be mandatory on any interstate "trip" in the US.

John Willmott posted:

 

The album was a tad too aggressive for daytime driving so I had to throttle back so to speak ..

I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts about their driving favorites .. 

 

I got caught out years ago, on a long overnight, empty motorway drive, with Yello's "Flag" album playing full blast.................glanced down at the speedo at one point..............oops! 

Mind you, the album does include two versions of "The Race". 

Anything by Rammstein or Ozric Tentacles. But unfortunately they make me drive too fast, so I really should listen to Engelbert Humperdinck (the naff one).

I find I like some upbeat, cheerful, slightly cheesy Country music when driving long distance. Brad Paisley perhaps the best example, especially Time a Well Wasted, Mud on the Tires and 5th Gear. 

Vince Gill, Trace Adkins, Chris Young, Zac Brown Band (for half an hour or so until the tracks all start to sound the same!)

Forgot to mention a couple of other very suitable for this purposes Brad Paisley Albums : American Saturday Night and This is Country Music. Brad is the King of this a Genre for me. Cheesy wit, great singing and the guy is a superb Telecaster player (and J45 too).

I don't spend a lot of my home a HiFi time listening to this type of music, but there's something about the environment of a car and driving that alters requirements I guess. 

Maybe we need another new thread category: What are you favourite 'Guilty Pleasure' tracks?

Classic Country.  None of this kid stuff for me.

Glad to hear you made it back John.  

Bud

Transatlantic with it's long albums is a good one. Finally you hear it all from the beginnng to the end. I also sometimes use symphonies from any composer and work through them...

Bert Schurink posted:

Transatlantic with it's long albums is a good one. Finally you hear it all from the beginnng to the end. I also sometimes use symphonies from any composer and work through them...

....and by the way out of recent experiences an audiobook is a great companion for car traveling as well, I am getting addicted to that...

I've got a shed load of music in the car on a thumb drive but hardly ever listen to it.  Usually I'll listen to the radio, Real XS or Wish FM depending on where I am and occasionally Radio 2.  

I find Classic FM suits a soporific (= safe and economic) driving style.  

Leatherneck posted:

Classic Country.  None of this kid stuff for me.

Glad to hear you made it back John.  

Bud

Good to hear from you Bud .. Classic country doesn't do it for me I'm afraid, unless of course you're prepared to include Johnny Cash .. in which case, I'm on board.

Bert Schurink posted:

Transatlantic with it's long albums is a good one. Finally you hear it all from the beginnng to the end. I also sometimes use symphonies from any composer and work through them...

Bert:

That was my strategy for day time driving .. listening to Mozart violin sonatas and violin concertos .. I almost wore out Tchaikovsky's first violin concerto with Pincas Zuckerman .. 

There is about an 800 mile stretch of road where if you like gospel music you can just turn on your radio ..

John Willmott posted:

I have just completed a 3 day, 2,170 mile drive from Nova Scotia to north Florida..... 

 

I'm so sorry. I hope I never have to do anything so horrific. My condolences.

Tchaikovsky Violin is an interesting choice. I generally find classical to not work for me in the car, but an exception has been Tchaikovsky Symphonies. Chandos, Marriss Janssons, Oslo Phil, symphonies 3,4,5 especially.

winkyincanada posted:

John Willmott posted:

I have just completed a 3 day, 2,170 mile drive from Nova Scotia to north Florida..... 

 

I'm so sorry. I hope I never have to do anything so horrific. My condolences.

Winky:  I'm intrigued; why the condolences ?

1. The length of the drive

2. Leaving Nova Scotia

3. Coming to North Florida

4. The metropolitan areas that have to be passed through 

... my vote at the moment is #2.

John Willmott posted:

winkyincanada posted:

John Willmott posted:

I have just completed a 3 day, 2,170 mile drive from Nova Scotia to north Florida..... 

 

I'm so sorry. I hope I never have to do anything so horrific. My condolences.

Winky:  I'm intrigued; why the condolences ?

1. The length of the drive

2. Leaving Nova Scotia

3. Coming to North Florida

4. The metropolitan areas that have to be passed through 

... my vote at the moment is #2.

 

 

I view any driving as a negative. A drive of of that length would suck out a piece of my soul. (And also trading NS for Fl.)

I have fond memories of driving late at night across country when I was newly qualified and being kept awake and alert by The Best Of The Pogues at full blast. I arrived completely wired, and about 20mins earlier than common sense or legal limits would have suggested possible.

Without a doubt the finest way to drive is to the sound of a police siren. Some years ago I was required in my capacity as Police Surgeon to get from Skipton to Ingleton as fast as possible early on an Easter Bank Holiday morning. The Subaru Impreza police car in front did the 'blues and twos' and told me (with a little green light on the roof of my sporty Alfa) to 'stick tight behind'. We did it ridiculously quickly despite the holiday traffic, and despite his best efforts he never shook me off!

My other  choices for driving are the Blackadder series audio tapes and Test Match Special, and also the radio in general. Somehow I find this more engaging on a really long drive than music. Which is not to say that I don't enjoy music in the car but somehow prefer the radio even though it has a very decent HiFi.

Bruce

winkyincanada posted:

John Willmott posted:

winkyincanada posted:

John Willmott posted:

I have just completed a 3 day, 2,170 mile drive from Nova Scotia to north Florida..... 

 

I'm so sorry. I hope I never have to do anything so horrific. My condolences.

Winky:  I'm intrigued; why the condolences ?

1. The length of the drive

2. Leaving Nova Scotia

3. Coming to North Florida

4. The metropolitan areas that have to be passed through 

... my vote at the moment is #2.

 

 

I view any driving as a negative. A drive of of that length would suck out a piece of my soul. (And also trading NS for Fl.)

Hmm .. I would never have considered that as an option, I rather like driving long distances.  I think part of it is the planning and the setting and achieving of milestones along the way.  I also like to arrange dinners in touted restaurants along the route.

My car is not generally conducive to listening to music but I would have to say AC/DC is classic driving music - other times I listen to ska compilations and sometimes I listen to some recordings I have of Bob Dylans radio shows for Xfm

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road?

Last big trip I did (though not with me driving) there was a Smiths collection on for a bit of it.  Driver and I both agreed that there's a certain something about the lyric of "There is a light that never goes out" that marks it out amongst driving music choices.

Not normally great driving music, but driving along the side of Norwegian fjords there's a definite this is right vibe about Tallis & Palestrina.

Standard Good Driving Road, it's hard to better The Doors' LA Woman on the jukebox.

Pete.