alltime great songs about cars

[scotto]

I live for cars and girls

The Dictators

Well done.

[dime in the gutter]

lost in the flood/bruce (kind of)
baby, i just wanna go home/sun tangled angel revival
dirty angels/kevn kinney

[Clams]

lost in the flood/bruce (kind of)

explain

[dime in the gutter]

lost in the flood/bruce (kind of)

explain

zip got your password too?

That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight
He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got "Bound for Glory" in red, white and blue flash paint
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the Saint
Well, that blaze-and-noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point
And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell, that is, nothin' left that you could sell
Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell
And I said, "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil, that's blood"
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm, or was he just lost in the flood?

[Clams]

lost in the flood/bruce (kind of)

explain

zip got your password too?

That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight
He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got "Bound for Glory" in red, white and blue flash paint
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the Saint
Well, that blaze-and-noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point
And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell, that is, nothin' left that you could sell
Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell
And I said, "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil, that's blood"
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm, or was he just lost in the flood?

Marginal. Points for digging deep.

Dime.... expect Les.

[beantownbubba]

Marginal. Points for digging deep.

Dime.... expect Les.

From Wikipedia, 2060 edition:

"Historians generally date the start of World War III from the renewal of the American Civil War on 18 November 2010. An apparently harmless discussion about something called rock music quickly escalated into a personal and then regional feud due to an insult to the honor of a fan of a certain college football team (which at the time still had amateur status, creating deep bonds between the team and its fans), which quickly ignited and spread across the country and the world. We are still recovering 50 years later."

[dime in the gutter]

explain

zip got your password too?

That pure American brother, dull-eyed and empty-faced
Races Sundays in Jersey in a Chevy stock super eight
He rides 'er low on the hip, on the side he's got "Bound for Glory" in red, white and blue flash paint
He leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him Jimmy the Saint
Well, that blaze-and-noise boy, he's gunnin' that bitch loaded to blastin' point
He rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a point
And there's nothin' left but some blood where the body fell, that is, nothin' left that you could sell
Just junk all across the horizon, a real highwayman's farewell
And I said, "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil, that's blood"
I wonder what he was thinking when he hit that storm, or was he just lost in the flood?

Marginal. Points for digging deep.

Dime.... expect Les.

i think you meant margarine....as in butter.

clams....so close.

back on topic.

i can't drive 55. (kind of)

[Steve French]

Guitar Wolf


Taxi Driver



Racing Rock



Venus Drive


(they have motorbike and train songs too, for when we get to those: Kawasaki Z2 750 Rock and Roll, and Shinkansen High Tension respectively)

Guitar Wolf are awesome.....

[cortez the killer]

Bloody 98/Blue Mountain

[bovine knievel]

Bitchin' Camaro - Dead Milkmen

[The Black Canary]

Johnny Cash-One Piece at a Time

[tinnitus photography]

lock thread

[gerg]

Red Barchetta
Long May You Run
Little GTO

There is no song in the world I hate more than Mustang Sally. And if a cover band plays it, I immediately know that I will not like them. And the guys in the crowd at such a show who love it, waxing poetic on the virtues of "blues rock"...my least favorite musical conversations happen with those guys.

[Duke Silver]

felice brothers, 'the devil is real'

[Slipkid42]

I've been trying to remember this one for a while now
From a simpler time

[dime in the gutter]

blue canoe/blue mountain

[LuthierJustin]

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe"
Beach Boys "I Get Around"
Foghat "Chevrolet"
ZZ Top "Chevrolet"
Jimmy Buffett "God Don't Own A Car"
Jimmy Buffett "Ragtop Day"
The Firm "Cadillac"
Sonny Landreth "U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"
The Blasters "Long White Cadillac"
John Prine "Automobile"
Greg Brown "Slant 6 Mind"
Southern Culture on the Skids "69 El Camino"
Dwight Yoakam "Guitars, Cadillacs"
Olympic Ass Kickin' Team "Purple GTO"
Terry Anderson "37 Miles In Reverse"
The Hondells "Little Honda"*
Jerry Jeff Walker "Pickup Truck Song"*

*These last two are kindly cheatin' because one is a motorcycle song and the other is a truck song.

Been tempted to pick this up on occasion but there's a considerable amount of repeat material from at least a couple other Rhino box sets I already have:

[beagle001]

Roll On~ Son Volt
Three on the Tree~ Cooley
Dixieland Delight~ Alabama
I'm in a Hurry~ Alabama (kind works)

[beagle001]

My Old Cars~ Chris Knight

[Smitty]

Roll On~ Son Volt
Three on the Tree~ Cooley
Dixieland Delight~ Alabama
I'm in a Hurry~ Alabama (kind works)

well, she will 0 to 60 in 5.2

been on an Alabama kick the past week - haven't listened to them in years - I grew up on that shit.

[one belt loop]

The girl I love
I stole her from my friend
He got lucky, stole her back again
Cuz she knowed he had a Mercury
She knowed he had a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road

[one belt loop]

Tom Waits "Ol' 55"

maybe not strictly about the car, but you have to admit it's a central character.

[Kudzu Guillotine]

The girl I love
I stole her from my friend
He got lucky, stole her back again
Cuz she knowed he had a Mercury
She knowed he had a Mercury
I'm gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise it up and down the road

I'm not sure how I managed to overlook that one, especially since I've always loved David Lindley's version of it the most. I remember him and El Rayo X doing it on Solid Gold (of all places) many years ago.

[lost-johnny]

Heavier Cars:

I'm in love with my car - Queen
Highway Star - Deep Purple, well partly about a car
Panama - Van Halen
Roller - Gillan
Wheels of Steel - Saxon

Once a headbanger...

[cortez the killer]

"Belvedere" P. Hood

[Erdlivz]

Sorry. I have to go there.


Especially poignant song to me in high school when I drove around this beast. It didn't work that well but in the winter I could maneuver the craziest doughnuts with its parking brake in the snow at our high school's driver's ed course.

[blackwll]

The version on R30 is even better.

[beagle001]

Roll On~ Son Volt
Three on the Tree~ Cooley
Dixieland Delight~ Alabama
I'm in a Hurry~ Alabama (kind works)

well, she will 0 to 60 in 5.2

been on an Alabama kick the past week - haven't listened to them in years - I grew up on that shit.

They were absolutely great and as popular and as many hits that they had, I still think they are underrated.

[sactochris]

"Something Else"- Eddie Cochran