Driving albums

Dave H

I'm putting this in this forum 'cos I am a rock fan and this will be about rock/metal albums.

Just wondering what are ye're favourite driving albums. I noticed that I've good few in the car at the moment that I seldom listen to outside the car, yet listen to them religiously in it. I'll give ten of me favourite, it's up to yourselves how many you out in

All that Remains-Fozzy
Vulgar-Pantera
Best of the Almighty
Demanufacture-Fear Factory
Blood Stained Words-Beyond All Reason
Surfing with the Alien- Joe Satriani
Stranger in this town-Richie Sambora
October Rust-Type O Negative
Heaven and Hell-Circus of Power
The Wrong Side of Misery-Itchy Trigger Finger

Although the last two are played quite a lot in the house too:D

Mushy

Now I dont drive, but if I ever learn, I am definately gonna drive through the American desert listening to R by QOTSA...just seems such a perfect album for that sort of thing.

Other than that I dont really have much of an opinion on it, but maybe some ones I may think now that could be good driving albums would:

7th Son of a 7th Son-Iron Maiden
Permission to Land-The Darkness
Songs for the Deaf-QOTSA(the whole radio theme going through the album!!

damonjewel

When I am on a pretty long drive I generally listen to songs with long bits in them, Im a big fan of 'krautrock' which I know is not everyone's cup of tea, so I'd listen to this

Kraftwerk - AutoBahn is handmade for this
But Neu! and Agitation Free also seem to make the time pass quickly

I'd also listen to prog - like Suppers ready by Genesis or echoes by Pink Floyd.

God I'm an old fart

Malice

Dave H wrote: »

Demanufacture-Fear Factory

Good shout with that one!

Generally I don't draw a distinction between music I like and music I like to listen to while driving. Often what I do is simply take my favourite songs by a band and throw as many of them as possible onto a cd and listen to that.

ZakAttak

Trying to think of songs with driving related terms in the title;

'Highway Star' - Deep Purple.
'Space Truckin'- Deep Purple.
'Fuel'- Metallica.
'502'- Megadeth ('502' is the American police code for Drink Driving).
'Whiplash'- Metallica.

I'll think of some more.

mike65

UFO - Strangers in the Night
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (the track, but its half the album so thats okay!)
Jeff Becks Guitar Shop.

I tend to compile mixtapes I have to say - mixing rock, jazz, downtempo/electric

Mike.

Blackhorse Slim

Can - stuff like Yoo Doo Write and Oh Yeah. Great rhythms.

Also Southern Rock like Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers and ZZTop (the early albums) is great.

IamMetaldave

Metallica - Metallica
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Tool - Undertow
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark

damonjewel

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

Can - stuff like Yoo Doo Write and Oh Yeah. Great rhythms.

Also Southern Rock like Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers and ZZTop (the early albums) is great.

ha ha I remember a particularly long drive with Can's Tago Mago playing which was cool with my wife all the way through Paperhouse, Oh Yeah , hallelujah etc until we got to Augggmmmmmmmnnnn, it really drove her up the wall
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Tommy the Cat

QOTSA
Deftones
Zeppelin

MoominPapa

Rush have some great driving albums, Permanent Waves(maybe skip Entre Nous though) and Moving Picture are great. Driving on the M50 listening to Red Barchetta is a sure fire way to get done by a speed camera:mad:
The new album is great stuff too. One time I left the house with it in the cd player from the last drive and the last track, We Hold On came on first - it was perfect even though I wasn't have a barney with the misses:pac: and that set up the rest of the album for the rest of the trip - so thats the way I usually play it now

Parsley

Whitesnake. And lots of it. :pac:

peter1892

Rush - Different Stages, a triple live CD which is just perfect for driving across the country!

One thing I really liked about driving in California was being able to search thourgh the radio frequencies to find a rock station, whenever it would fade out it was always possible to find another one (just search until you hear Metallica's 'Sad but true'!)

Driving on the M50 listening to Red Barchetta is a sure fire way to get done by a speed camera

That song always makes me go faster! 'Malignant Narcissism' is another one...

Malice

peter1892 wrote: »

One thing I really liked about driving in California was being able to search thourgh the radio frequencies to find a rock station, whenever it would fade out it was always possible to find another one

I totally agree. I worked as a furniture mover in northern California for the in summer 2001 and each morning we used to head out in the trucks with the windows down and the likes of Godsmack, Metallica, Linkin Park and Deftones blasting out of the radio. It was great, even the most beat up trucks had working radios so we never needed to worry about having something to listen to.

I'll save a rant about the middle of the road rubbish broadcast during the day by the radio stations in this country for another thread .

Duff_Man

appetite is a class drivin album! so's back in black! doesnt get much better!

Léan

Motorhead!


Motley Crue too and Poison

CliffHuxtabel

The soundtrack for 'Collateral'

Civilian_Target

In Flames - Come Clarity
Bruce Dickinson - Chemical Wedding
Therapy? - Scopophobia
Garbage - Version 2.0
Gogol Bordello - Multi Kontra Kulti vs Irony
System of a Down -System of a Down

or alternatively
Sublime - Robbing the Hood
Brahms - Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Alison Krauss and Union Station - So Long So Wrong

John

Definitely Krautrock for the win. There's a reason they call that distinctive beat a Motorik rhythm.

Driving at night is awesome listening to Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Earth's later albums.

Civilian_Target

Dave Eyesclosed wrote: »

Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

You drive to this? Do other road users survive?!

cournioni

I have to say, I prefer most stoner bands while driving. Especially on a sunny day, but my favourite bands to listen to while driving are Down, Kyuss, Opeth, Sabbath and In Flames.

Joe_Dull

I think Oasis is great driving music:)

ZakAttak

I could really p1ss everyone off here by mentioning 'rolling' by limp wristed as a song with a driving related title. Theres also 'Hyperspeed' by the Prodigy (which is the nearest you'll get to a dance-metal song). 'I've been driving in my car' by Madness is another- not quite metal but the lyrics are cool.

And theres a thread on this forum talking about a band called clutch- oh, the hilarity!

Vim Fuego

Actually, I'll take Clutch as my driving music. You could see yourself driving down Route 66 listening to 'Electric Worry' no problem.

Though I'm mostly in a podcast mood in the car for some reason.

Sephiroth_dude

Deftones around the fur
metallica-the black album
earth crisis-breed the killers
acidtone-acidtone
korn-korn
metallica-kill em all

there the once id listen to if i were able to drive :-).

Max_Damage

Dire Strait's self-titled debut album I find is good for more 'relaxed' driving.

fredzer

nowt too heavy while driving, AC/DC if you want blood .. or some Zeppelin.
Soundgarden are pretty good for a road trip , something to sing along to anyway!

ToolFool

Lateralus - Tool
South of Heaven - Slayer
Peace sells.... - Megadeth
Any Beatles stuff when i'm trying to avoid getting points!!
Good thread by the way.