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nubc · #41 Post by **nubc** » Thu 09 Feb 2017, 06:13

unknown track, probably by Andreas Vollenweider (time lapse Yellowstone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8dvcVevW_c

belham2 · #42 Post by **belham2** » Thu 09 Feb 2017, 08:43

Anybody remember and/or like Midnight Oil?

Driving across the French/German countrysides back in the early 90s, they powered me along with Blue Sky Mining and such gems as:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HxG4rbzaKE

Who'd like to change the world, who wants to shoot the curl
Who gets to work for bread, who wants to get ahead
Who hands out equal rights, who starts and ends that fight
And not not rant and rave, or end up a slave
Who can make hard won gains, fall like the summer rain
Now every man must be, what his life can be
So don't call, me, the tune, I will walk away
Who want's to please everyone, who says it all can be done
Still sit up on that fence, no one I've heard of yet
Don't call me baby, don't talk in maybes
Don't talk like has-beans, sing it like it should be
Who laughs at the nagging doubt, lying on a neon shroud
Just gotta touch someone, I want to be
So don't call, me, the tune, I will walk away
So don't call, me, the tune, I will walk away
So don't call, me, the tune, I will walk away
Who wants to sit around, turn it up turn it down
Only a man can be, what his life can be
One vision, one people, one landmass
We are defenseless, we have a lifeline
One ocean, one policy, seabed lies
One passion, one movement, one instant
One difference, one lifetime, one understanding
Transgression, redemption, one island
Our place mat, one firmament
One element, one moment, one fusion
Yes and one time

The world is, actually, overall just a great, big one country. Wish people all over could remember this

souleau · #43 Post by **souleau** » Thu 09 Feb 2017, 20:28

You know besides Radar Love, which is their most famous song, the Golden Earing made a couple more that are excellent to listen to while being on the road.
It's almost as if these guys wrote their best songs feeling homesick.

These two in particular:

Back Home
https://youtu.be/m9bkcvUg6ME

Another 45 Miles
https://youtu.be/CeMjdk8YQek

Nice black and white videos to remind us just how old we are.

rokytnji · #44 Post by **rokytnji** » Fri 10 Feb 2017, 15:52

Roam - B52's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwC0sp-uA4

Smithy · #45 Post by **Smithy** » Sat 11 Feb 2017, 00:04

There might be room to slip Jim in the set list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbx6gULYNbc

rokytnji · #46 Post by **rokytnji** » Sat 11 Feb 2017, 00:36

Spinnerette - Driving Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FTGM_pR0Ec

#47 Post by **Flash** » Sat 11 Feb 2017, 03:22

Sadly, I haven't had time to listen to many of the fine submissions in this thread. I'd like to add a few of my favorites to the list:
Jim Varney - Hot Rod Lincoln
Junior Brown - Highway Patrol
Asleep At The Wheel - Route 66

On the cartalk.com web site there is a Born Not To Run CD and a Car Tunes CD. Most of the songs on them are excellent and some of them are truly great. I think the only way you can get the songs is to buy the CDs.

drunkjedi · #48 Post by **drunkjedi** » Sat 11 Feb 2017, 06:35

Flash wrote:I think the only way you can get the songs is to buy the CDs.

Here's the list of songs on that disk, you can search for them online.
https://www.discogs.com/Car-Talk-Born-N ... se/4538706

greengeek · #49 Post by **greengeek** » Sat 11 Feb 2017, 19:38

belham2 wrote:...we never even knew the Boss had first written and performed this song

Blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce
Another runner in the night...

Quite an eye opener to find out Springsteen wrote that song! I always loved the Manfred Mann version and figured it was their original.

Whats "deuce" referring to I wonder? Deuce coupe?

greengeek · #50 Post by **greengeek** » Sat 11 Feb 2017, 19:48

nubc wrote:Celine Dion - I Drove All Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvz_gW5C2cY

Bobby Hutcherson - Herzog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6P4ckoHqlY

Patrick Williams - Mr. Smoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklbouzjLpA

I love Celine (for some reason that no one ever seems to understand...) but I think I could only ever listen to Hutcherson in the elevator on the way out of the hotel... Way too hypnotic for the road - I'd forget where I'm going

EDIT - Nubc I'd love you to post a pic of the roads where you would be driving to the music of Patrick Williams... I'ts hard for me to imagine where that could be. Do you really drive that slow? You'd probably be wagging your cigar finger at me as I overtook

nubc · #51 Post by **nubc** » Tue 14 Feb 2017, 03:47

Patrick Williams on the streets of San Francisco
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mijBMpnS3a4

Lalo Schifrin - Prelude To A Chase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgQfm0yW9aE

car chase (streets of Montreal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgSwiVVkxlM

Blazing Magnum - trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk2GGruHEl4

The music of Bobby Hutcherson, recently deceased, is often difficult to understand the first time you hear it. "Herzog" is a very uptempo track as well, so you would already be doing 85 mph when the song starts. But try again with a slower tune, and I can tell you the secret to following this track. You follow the bass line. Pay attention to the bass player, and the rest will fall in place. I hope so anyway. It's the title track, "Total Eclipse". Maybe listen to this song at dawn to appreciate its mysterious quality. I had to listen to this album 10 times before I finally got it, and I was listening to it critically, trying to get rid of the album.

Bobby Hutcherson - Total Eclipse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-dzeml8y9g

8Geee · #52 Post by **8Geee** » Wed 15 Feb 2017, 20:34

This particular version of the "Ecstasy of Gold" is pretty good. I can see Tuco running around the graveyard looking for Arch Stanton.

EDIT: A few not-so-diseased brain cells just popped ...

Stones: Rock & a Hard Place (Full), Gimme Shelter
Creedence: just about everything on Cosmos Factory (esp. Up 'Round the Bend), Proud Mary, Fortunate Son, etc way too many
Alice in Chains: Rooster
Soundgarten: Black Hole Sun

greengeek · #53 Post by **greengeek** » Sat 10 Feb 2018, 19:33

Stumbled across a youtube compilation that's pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlwpC1OyYig

slavvo67 · #54 Post by **slavvo67** » Mon 12 Feb 2018, 03:31

Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild
Jackson Browne: Running on Empty
Willie Nelson: On the Road Again

Almost any Bon Jovi song; maybe throw in some Bruce Springsteen and some old Van Halen.

And if you're hitting triple digits; something like Bodies by Drowning Pool would be quite appropriate.

nubc · #55 Post by **nubc** » Thu 22 Feb 2018, 03:36

California Hwy 1 @ Big Sur (high on legal weed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfB4C0YbqIg

Clarence White - The Last Thing On My Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8YK5vkalTc

Antonio Jackson - Santa Monica Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u-EU_4w90E

Russ Freeman - Drive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR7WlixHauw

Colonel Panic · #56 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Thu 22 Feb 2018, 06:34

Some good choices here (particularly like CCR - John Fogerty is a genius). Here's one for a high-speed road, such as they have in Germany;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11h73WhqK4

nic007 · #57 Post by **nic007** » Thu 22 Feb 2018, 10:26

Anyone for some classical music? Not the heavy stuff (which I don't like) but more in the Andre Rieu vein (waltzes, etc)

nubc · #58 Post by **nubc** » Fri 23 Feb 2018, 02:08

Andrew Lawrence-King (Baroque harp) - JS Bach - Partita in A minor BWV 1004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXxPMM7uxPE

Robert Hill - JS Bach - early harpsichord music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8J2rmOaEh8

Galbi · #59 Post by **Galbi** » Fri 23 Feb 2018, 14:45

nic007 wrote:Anyone for some classical music? Not the heavy stuff (which I don't like) but more in the Andre Rieu vein (waltzes, etc)

Nic007 get a handkerchief and look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyRpAat5oz0

nubc · #60 Post by **nubc** » Fri 23 Feb 2018, 16:28

Son Dos - Melesio Morales - Nezahuacoyotl (waltz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHnbnyuebY

Arturo Galvez - Adios Pueblo de Ayacucho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqGD0a0mYAI

EDIT: I listen to a lot of music, but I cannot believe how the above waltz got stuck in my head, and it's not even a jazz waltz. Moreover, the song that's playing in my head is not really the above song. It's some movie version with dancers spinning around a ballroom in Vienna (maybe from the movie Mayerling?). Powerful songform!

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