Favorite Driving Music
 

What's your favorite music to listen to while traveling?

Modest Mouse - many of their songs and even an album is about driving. It reminds me of the mountains.

Iron & Wine - their quiet music puts me in a peaceful mood.

Grateful Dead - long, live Dead shows keep my mind creative and alert while on long trips.

Circle Takes The Square, pg.99, Ampere, Combatwoundedveteran, The Lady Is Not For Burning, She Died Real Pretty, etc.

blueprint, notorios big, three six mafia :)

Taking Back Sunday and Say Anything

Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zeppelin are the best for long road trips.

City Drivetime by the One Dollar Man is an awesome driving tune

definately not Bob Marley and the Wailors, he makes me fall asleep.

18 hour drive + Bob Marley = high insurance rates.




Motorhead will make you get out
your car and tear a dude's face off
for not putting on their turning signal.

I love pumping out my Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday cds (the jazzier stuff) in the car, Bowie too. I get a lot of strange looks.

I gave my father a misty's big adventure cd a year ago. He always listens to it in the car. It's the closest I get to driving, and it really livens up the trip.

Obviously, Bad Habit by The Offspring:

Hey man you know I'm really okay
The gun in my hand will tell you the same
But when I'm in my car
Don't give me no crap
Cause the slightest thing and I just might snap
When I go driving I stay in my lane
But getting cut off it makes me insane
I open the glove box
Reach inside
I'm gonna wreck this f**ker's ride
I guess I got a bad habit
Of blowin' away
Yeah I got a bad habit
And it ain't goin' away Yeah
Well they say the road is a dangerous place
If you flip me off I'm the danger you'll face
If you drive on my ass
Your foot's on the gas
And your next breath is your last
'Cause I got a bad habit.
Of blowin' away
Yeah I got a bad habit
And it ain't goin' away yeah yeah
Drivers are rude
Such attitudes
But when i show my piece
Complaints cease
Something's odd
I feel like I'm god
YOU STUPID DUMBSH*T GODDAMN MOTHERF**KER!!!
I open the glove box
Reach inside
I'm gonna wreck this f**ker's ride
'Cause I got a bad habit

Elliott Smith, Johnny Cash, I Would Set Myself On Fire For You, 2Pac, Danzig, The Kodan Armada, N.W.A., I Have Dreams, The Black Dahlia Murder, Arsonists Get All The Girls, The Postal Service, Ratatat, Darren Styles, and Between the Buried and Me.

For radio: anything on 97.9, 102.7, or 95.5 (rap stations), anything on 101.9, 90.9, 90.1 (jazz)

Ethan only listens to good music in the car.

etc. implies My Chemical Romance and Hawthorne Heights.

I can't drive to anything but hardcore fo srrs. So yeah MCR and Hawthorne Heights are basically a must. Converge is sexy to blast too.

Most people drive around like *******s with their chairs back and look all shifty when they listen to rap here and have it blasting from their car.
I feel pretty bad-ass when having some spastic metal or screamo in the car, therefore, I tend not to play it often, because most of the time I'm an asshole anyway, especially on the road.
This feeling coming hugely from Job For A Cowboy, maybe just because all the kids listening to their music are bastardizing little scene shits, I feel like one too.

Radio stations are different everywhere...............

So, then why did you mention them?

Because its a thread on driving music, some people listen to the radio when they drive. I listen to 107.7 which is an alternative station that plays decent stuff.

Some people on here live near me, and I wanted to an estimate of how many radio stations in the Detroit area play some kinds of music.

I'm always listening to Electric Wizard in my car. Or the Melvins, or something groovier like Winnebago Deal or Fu Manchu.

I'll play anything heavy with a thick bass note. Seemingly always turns heads because NZ is such a hip hop nation. Well, it wouldn't turn heads if I didn't have it so loud, but then I don't do quiet.:)

CocoRosie, Death Cab for Cutie, Shiny Toy Guns

Rocket from the Crypt, Pelican, Killing Joke. If I need to stay awake: Pig Destroyer or The Black Dahlia Murder.

Best driving music ?
 

I think Blue october is good for the drive...

Pretty much anything I can sing along with. Loudly. I've been fond of The Wheepies lately.. otherwise I'm terrible for radio channel surfing. They all seem to play the same crap.

Red Hot Chili Peppers or the Smooth Jazz station.

If you would kindly look to the left of that kind posters post. Not a big deal.

That was answered AND it was over a year ago.

I listen to music I would normally not listen to in the car. Queen and Allman Brothers. I am a new and bad driver so I need something in the background but also won't distract me from the road.

The lead singer of Queen died of AIDS.

Singing along to Bohemian Rhapsody with a full car is the greatest.


I usually just set my ipod to shuffle when I'm out running errands, but for long drives I like mellow albums that I can sing along with.

Yes?

October Rust by Type O Negative is a great cruising album, because it moves at such a nice, cruisy pace, in my opinion...


Also Terria by the Devin Townsend Band used to be a highway, long distance driving favourite of mine, mainly because the album is long, loud and epic - just perfect for long driving stints!

Quit trolling please.

Any of the many power ballad compilation albums that are about - always a few that you can belt out without bursting the ear drums of those around you. Although if there's people in the car I got a few orchestral rock albums I whack on for background music.

I generally listen to whatever's on my iPod at the time
It could be anything and I wouldn't care

Maybe that's a side-effect of me being too lazy to find music suitable for a carr journey

The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips.

Race for the Prize whilst driving on an unclogged highway is pure magic.

^ I have to try that

I don't drive but a few months ago a friend and I took a trip and blasted out Pendulum. Was a blast although we both did feel like a pair of chavs.

I like some good, loud metal while taking a long drive on the freeway. Helps me keep up my momentum.

Loud metal whilst driving rawks!

Yes indeed. During the long drive from Boston to Philadelphia over the holidays I discovered that Electric Wizard, Sleep and Death are all fantastic driving music.

For me a good dose of Fear Factory really eats up the miles - it just has the right pace and volume for a long highway drive, especially with the double kick drums and the sequenced bass drumming in the quicker songs - really gets your heart pumping and your pulse racing while behind the wheel...