I have Dire Straits - live album in my changer almost all the time.

So last night -- I am in de-stress mode.

Pop in David Gilmour's - "On an Island" CD.

VERY relaxing. But not exactly a disc that I could ever listen to while driving. My son was chillin' with me....

Then he put on HIS music. Just happens to be the "Cars" disney CD. Definitely a good driving disc.

So..... a Friday poll --- What is your best and worst Driving music?

My favorite is Metallica - Ride the Lightning -- Specifically "Sanitarium"

Worst might be Sarah McLaughlin, or any "put you to sleep" music. Think Enya, Tangerine Dream, Old Floyd....

Some of the tracks are a little "Jeremy Clarkson" but overall a pretty good selection of driving music for an album.

Of course, for a single-band album, nothing beats AC/DC - just great "stomp the gas and take me to jail music"

When I want good driving music, but a little mellower than AC/DC, I usually go for the Pretenders Greatest Hits, but Chrissie Hynde is an acquired taste.

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

I built a couple of CDs from individual songs. Some of the included were:

Otis Redding - Sitting on the dock of the bay
Super Tramp - Take the long way home
Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world
Don Henley - The boys of summer
REO Speedwagon - Keep the fire burning
Peter Frampton - Show me the way
Queen - Don't stop me now
America - Ventura highway
Creedence clearwater - Looking out my back door
Doobie brothers - drift away
Keith Urban - love, pain and the whole crazy thing
Mr. Mr. - Broken wings
Roy Orbinson - Pretty Woman
Dire Straits - Telegraph road
The Cardigans - My Favourite game
The Cars - drive
Tom Petty - Running down a dream
Mark Knopfler - Cleaning my gun
Mark Knopfler - Speedway at Nazareth
JJ Cale - Call me the breeze
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

Any suggestions?

Dave - 06 987 S coupe SG/NL; gone (but still my first love): 03 986 AS/GG/BK;

Now I know your AutoX secrets!

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

highly reccommended

Harvey

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I think it is Ireland

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

depends. If taking a road trip, i go mellow in the morning for the first hour or so. By then, I'm awake and got a groove going so it's time to crank up the volume and tempo. No, real best or worst. Mainly, it's a mood thing.

After just seeing Roger Waters perform The Wall 5x, I would have to say What Shall We Do Now and Young Lust are very high energy songs. I could drive forever to Comfortable Numb. Nothing beats Jimmy Buffett's live version of Southern Cross on a nice beautiful sunny day.

Kind of interesting to see the Diversity of Opinion on what constitutes driving music - and how different people's tastes are.

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

I kind of thought there might be.

I really need energy when driving -- so mellow is OUT.

I don't need aggression, but it helps... Strangely - I find it relaxing too.

same here with the energy. I'm with Red on the "stomp the gas and take me to jail music". If I want to drive slow, I'll take the wife's SUV.

Dave - 06 987 S coupe SG/NL; gone (but still my first love): 03 986 AS/GG/BK;

Some tracks from Easy Rider,
Almost anything Foreinger,
And, my wife likes ABBA and that does it for me too.
Worst? Lawrence Welk

My driving tunes playlist is getting rather lengthy--currently at 75 songs (and 5.7 hours play time). The common thread is songs I like and a lot have something loosely about cars. Some obvious like "Life is a Highway". Some less so, like "Wango Tango" ("your face is a Maserati...") ). Others--"It has a good beat....you can dance to it".

You get the idea.


Driving Tunes Playlist:

1. All She Wants To Do Is Dance / Don He...
2. All Summer Long / Kid Rock
3. Angie / The Rolling Stones
4. Baby I Love Your Way / Peter Frampton
5. Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor...
6. Baker Street / Gerry Rafferty
7. Boom Boom Boom / Rare Blend
8. Burnin` Sky / Bad Company
9. Cadillac Ranch / Bruce Springsteen
10. Cheeseburger In Paradise / Jimmy Buffett
11. China Grove / The Doobie Brothers
12. Do You Feel Like We Do / Peter Frampton
13. (Don`t Fear) The Reaper / Blue Oyster ...
14. Dream On / Aerosmith
15. Feel Like Makin` Love / Bad Company
16. Flirtin` With Disaster / Molly Hatchet
17. Frankenstein / The Edgar Winter Group
18. Free Ride / The Edgar Winter Group
19. Godzilla / Blue Oyster Cult
20. The Heart Of Rock & Roll / Huey Lewis ...
21. Her Strut / Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet...
22. Hit Me With Your Best Shot / Pat Benatar
23. I Can`t Drive Fifty-Five / Sammy Hagar
24. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction / The Rollin...
25. In The Air Tonight / Phil Collins
26. Introduction To Lola / Lola / The Kinks
27. Jack & Diane / John Cougar Mellencamp
28. Juke Box Hero / Foreigner
29. Jump / Van Halen
30. Knockin' on Heaven's Door / Guns `n` ...
31. Life is a highway / Rascal Flatts
32. Little Red Corvette / Prince
33. Love The One You're With / Stephen Stills
34. Magic Carpet Ride (Single) / Steppenwolf
35. Magaritaville / Jimmy Buffett
36. Heard It In a Love Song / The Marshall Tucker Band
37. Money For Nothing / Dire Straits
38. Mony Mony / Billy Idol
39. Must Of Got Lost / J. Geils Band
40. Mustang Sally / Wilson Pickett
41. One Bourbon One Scotch and One Beer ...
42. Oye Como Va / Santana
43. Photograph / Def Leppard
44. Radar Love / Golden Earring
45. Ramblin` Man / The Allman Brothers Ba...
46. Roadhouse Blues / The Doors
47. Rock N Roll Band / Boston
48. Rock You Like A Hurricane / Scorpions 1
49. Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy) / Big & R...
50. School's Out / Alice Cooper
51. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band /...
52. Shakin' / Eddie Money
53. Shout (Pts. 1 & 2) / Isley Brothers
54. Show Me The Way / Peter Frampton
55. Slow Ride / Foghat
56. Smoke On The Water / Deep Purple 2
57. Spirits In The Night / Manfred Mann`s ...
58. Stranglehold / Ted Nugent
59. Sweet Home Alabama / Lynyrd Skynyrd
60. There`s Only One Way To Rock / Samm...
61. Toys In The Attic / Aerosmith
62. Tuff Enuff / The Fabulous Thunderbirds
63. Turn Up The Radio / Autograph
64. Twilight Zone / Golden Earring
65. Twistin' the Night Away / Rod Stewart
66. Vehicle / Bo Bice
67. Virtual Insanity / Jamiroquai
68. Wango Tango / Ted Nugent
69. Wanted Dead Or Alive / Bon Jovi
70. Werewolves of London / Warren Zevon
71. Whipping Post / The Allman Brothers Ba...
72. Wild Thing / Sam Kinison
73. Wild Thing / The Troggs
74. Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mi...
75. You Can Leave Your Hat On / Joe Cocker

Current Porsche: PCA Club Coupe 2 of 50

Past: 02 986 S

01 996 Turbo

00 Millenium Coupe

99 996 C2

99 Boxster



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Great list Paul. Leave Your Hat On by Joe Cocker is a great song - and I seem to remember it from a very memorable movie scene . . .

I noticed you don't have any Cars on your list - given the other songs, might I suggest Bye Bye Love, Shake it Up, or You Might Think?

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

I cannot stand the Cars--Freshman year in college, a guy across the hall in the dorm played the Cars endlessly. 31 years later and I still cringe at Cars songs.

Current Porsche: PCA Club Coupe 2 of 50

Past: 02 986 S

01 996 Turbo

00 Millenium Coupe

99 996 C2

99 Boxster

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

The Beatles LOVE album is GREAT! And I consider myself a purist... Seen the show twice now... fantastic!

Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Bizet's Carmen Suite
The Empire Brass's recording of the Hopper Dance (it's on two of their collections)
Any collection of Franco Corelli singing
Band of Brothers soundtrack
Das Boot soundtrack on a rainy night
Just about anything by Aaron Copland or Gershwin
Not for the purists, but The Beatles' Love album
Green Day American Idiot
Anything by Dick Dale when you're into driving hard
Gorecki's sublime Symphony No. 3 for contemplative cruising
John Coltrane; Miles Davis
Willie Nelson Across The Borderline
Any version of Tubular Bells
A Jimmy Durante best of
Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Dar Williams' cover of Comfortably Numb

and so on....



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That is definitely diverse.....

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Laz

Green Day American Idiot

and so on....

"One of these things is not like the others . . . " - not that there is anything wrong with it. It's a great list!

1998 986 Turbo-Look Cab
172,000 Miles
Dilithium Crystal Supercharger

I can't get the link to display in full, but do a Google search for

Empire Brass Quintet - Hopper Dance!

and give the Youtube video a listen. You won't be hearing the subterranean bass, but it's a hint of the majesty of the piece. The visuals aren't too much of a distraction in this case.

Guenter
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There was a time when I could, even while in Manhattan's traffic, differentiate the 2, 2.2, and 2.4 liter iterations without seeing the cars themselves.

... or some of the Pandora competitors. Love hearing something new.

Favorite tunes to drive by that come to mind: "Serpentine Fire" by Earth Wind & Fire; "Transatlanticism" by Death Cab; "Oceano" by Djavan; some Brahms or Dr. Dre ... I could go on for a while ...

Presently have over 3,000 songs on the Ipod hooked up in the car so when I need a wake up in the morning I stick on ACDC with Thunderstruck. I also need foot and wheel tapping music when I drive the Box. Lately I have been into the Killers and Brandon Flowers, find it to be great driving music. As for least anything slow, boring and that includes all the George Straight my wife always wants to listen to.LOL

I didn't see any Led Zeppelin mentioned before, "Ramble on" is a great driving song, Ted Nugent's "Stranglehold" and "Just what the Doctor Ordered" always almost gets me a ticket....

ha haaa ha ha