Your Driving Songs

[E-ZooZoo One]

... gotta love how similar us VXers can be

So, is it just me, or has anyone else ever had their CD changer loaded full of Tom Waits?







Yeah, I guess it’s just me, isn’t it?

[Velvis]

Parliament / Funkadelic ("tear the roof off the mothersuckerSCREECHSMASH!!AHHHHH!!!) I may leave that one stuck in the changer for JOE_BLACK.
Otherwise,
The Bad Plus
PiL
Pistols
Peter Murphy / Bauhaus
Karla Bonoff
John Campbell (Howlin' Mercy)
Blasters
X
Coltrane
Miles Davis (is it "Green on Red" or "Red on Green")
Chet Baker
Cult
Mills Bros.
and of course, the King

Velvis

[WyrreJ]

Currently in my changer or in the armrest, recently pulled from the changer

Shpongle - all of their stuff, can't get enough of it
Hallucinogen - Lone Deranger
Black Uhuru - Unification
Live - Mental Jewlery
Suba - Tributo
M.I.A. - Arular
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo Remixes
Juluka - mix of stuff I pulled off emule since most is out of print
Sinead Oconnor - Throw Down Your Arms in Dub (japan-only release - I love the net)
Pepper - Kona Town
X-Dream - We Interface
Transglobal Underground - Backpacking on the Graves of our Ancestors
Yerba Buena - Island Life
Dio - Last in Line & Holy Diver remasters
Buddha Bar - various sets
Trilok Gurtu - Kathak
Avadhoot Gupte - Desi Latino Mix
Theivery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
Utah Saints
Juno Reactor - (various tracks)

I need an in-dash mp3 player, that's way too many discs...

[nfpgasmask]

Ahhh X-Dream- We Interface, that is a great CD! And Utah Saints! Man, I can't believe someone else out there is still listening to them!!

I have an in-dash single DIN JVC player that plays MP3s off of DVDr!!! It rocks! 4.7 GIGs of MP3s on one disc! PM me if you want details!

Bart

Currently in my changer or in the armrest, recently pulled from the changer

Shpongle - all of their stuff, can't get enough of it
Hallucinogen - Lone Deranger
Black Uhuru - Unification
Live - Mental Jewlery
Suba - Tributo
M.I.A. - Arular
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo Remixes
Juluka - mix of stuff I pulled off emule since most is out of print
Sinead Oconnor - Throw Down Your Arms in Dub (japan-only release - I love the net)
Pepper - Kona Town
X-Dream - We Interface
Transglobal Underground - Backpacking on the Graves of our Ancestors
Yerba Buena - Island Life
Dio - Last in Line & Holy Diver remasters
Buddha Bar - various sets
Trilok Gurtu - Kathak
Avadhoot Gupte - Desi Latino Mix
Theivery Corporation - The Cosmic Game
Utah Saints
Juno Reactor - (various tracks)

I need an in-dash mp3 player, that's way too many discs...

[VCAMILO]

WHAT! Thats all weak! Nothing but Reggetton in my VX. As a matter of fact when I was driving out of Hells gate in Moab who was on my radio? Daddy Yankee "GASOLINA" Broom Broom Dale Mas Gasolina... LOL!

[WyrreJ]

Just this weekend I discovered the whole bollywood-meets-reggaeton fad (apparently its already yesterday's news in Mumbai) and I must have played Mirame by Daddy Yankee about 50 times. I have yet to burn a CD of the tracks I like - still exploring.

[Tobert]

For driving (other tasks require different music):

3.5L Isuzu V-6 coupled with a TOD 4L30E transmission.

I just like to listen to my engine most days. I've saved my own *** more times than I can count by hearing changes in road conditions or engine performance.

But when I'm out for something to keep me awake:

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Gustav Mahler: 5th symphony (Chicago w/ Solti) ... Mahler 5 rules for destroying sound systems (quiet, quiet, quiet .... fff full orchestra)
JS Bach: anything .. fugues RULE!
Metallica: Ride the Lightning (their finest work IMO)
Brian Setzer: Jump Jive and Wail
Rammstein: Rammstein
Mortal Kombat soundtrack
The Matrix soundtrack
Nobuo Uematsu: Final Fantasy 1-11 soundtracks
NPR - whatever's on ... starting to have too many commercials (stupid sponsor announcements and fund drives amount to commercials without the cheese)

Also, whatever else I grab on the way out of the house ... a lot of stuff I like I don't even have on CD, especially Jazz and orchestral music. XM radio is looking awful attractive.

So, in order my genres are: automobile sounds, orchestra/classical, trombone misc., Jazz, heavy metal.

I listen mainly to various electronica and game music stations on Shoutcast at work. They tend to fade into the background of my conciousness and not distract me from what I'm working on.

[WormGod]

AH! My Man! You rule! I currently have Waits and Primus in the changer in my WRX. People look at me like I am some deranged serial killer as I drive by. I wouldnt have it any other way.

[E-ZooZoo One]

…People look at me like I am some deranged serial killer as I drive by. I wouldnt have it any other way.

I know exactly what you mean…

I was sitting in the fire lane at the mall, immediately after dropping-off Miss Kathy, when an amazingly drop-dead-gorgeous young woman started walking towards the VX on her way to the entrance… I caught her looking and smiling toward ‘us’ -- Well, that is, until she got within earshot of my open driver's-side window, and heard…

“Anchors away with the Black Rider
I'll drink your blood like wine
I'll drop you off in Harlem with the Black Rider
Out where the bullets shine

And when you're done
You cock your gun
The blood will run
Like ribbons in your hair”

…from The Black Rider.


That bubbly smile of hers disappeared immediately… replaced by a look of intense revulsion and horror!