Music you listen to when driving your Spider?

[radiopilot]

Just wondering what era music you listen to when driving your cars, for instance I run a small radio station here in Savannah and the music I play on weekends during the evening hours is Doo-Wop, alot of people like this music especially the guys that hang out with their muscle cars at the pizza place on our small island, I also play surf instrumental (Beach Boys, Dan & Jean, Tornadoes, etc.) music, along with 70', 80's and 90's music... but I like to listen to Doo-Wop music the most and it's not even my era (my era is the mid 80's to early 90's music) I just had to listen to it during the late 60's/early 70's as this is what was played during my early years by my older siblings, somehow it just goes so well, alot of my friends think so too...

So what's your preference?

Nick

[mbouse]

dual tipped ANSA

[rlux4]

No way Mike! I keep my exhaust quiet so that I can listen to the muse while I cruise. Definately do-wop. The Coasters rule!
Ron

[Danno]

a radio? thats a fancy option. I pretty much just listen to wind rushing, and exhaust roaring.

That doesn't answer your question, though. I once tried to make a list of ALL car related songs. I got a good list going, but it certainly isn't complete. I gave up, lol.

also, recognize that many songs are remakes, or have been remade...
you got a fast car - Tracy Chapman
In theCar - Barenaked Ladies
I'm in love with my car - Queen
Car Song - Elastica
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Car Crash - Powerman 5000
Car Wheels on a gravel road - Lucinda Williams
Car Crash - Costanza and Tricky
Car on a hill - Joni Mitchell
What Car - Cliff Richard
In my car (I'll be the driver) - Shania Twain
Car Show - Jagged Edge
Car Crazy Cutie - Beach Boys
Stolen Car - Sting & Police
Car Full of white boys - Haystack
Ode to my car - Adam Sandler
Car Games - Olivia Newton - John
Drive my car - the Beatles
Brand New Car - Rolling stones
Race Car Yayas - Cake
Cruisin' - Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis (remake)
Cruisin' Smokey Robinson (Original)
Cruisin' Coolio (remake)
Cruisin' - D'Angelo (remake)
Cruisin' - Jadakiss and Snoop (not a remake)
Cruisin' - Vixen (not a remake)
Cruisin' Music - Eric Carmen
Roll all Day - Ice Cube
Mustang Sally - (crap a lot of people have covered this)
Ride on Josephine - George Thorogood
Real Gone - Sheryl Crow
Route 66 - Chuck Berry (I LOVE THIS!!!) or John Mayer
life is a highway - Rascal Flats

there were a couple more listed when I brought this up on my other car forum. you can check it out if interested:
http://www.aeriostyle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=69395

[Leesfer]

Lately I've been pretending my car is a Ferrari Daytona and I've been listening to the Miami Vice soundtrack

[radiopilot]

Yeah... I got aN Ansa muffler too but it gets old after a while and gotta have my tunes...

Here are some other good 'car tunes' ...

Little Red Corvette - Prince
Pink Cadillac - Bruce Springsteen
Fun, Fun, Fun - The Beach Boys
little Duece Coupe - The Beach Boys
I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
Red Barchetta - Rush
Big Log - Robert Plant
Sleeping in My Car - Roxette
My Body The Car - Godley And Creme
Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car - Billy Ocean
Cars - Fear Factory
In The Car - Barenaked Ladies
My Car - Gin Blossoms
Under My Wheels - Def Leppard
Drivin' Around - Eric Carmen
Gimme The Car - Violent Femmes
Surf Wax America - Weezer
Cadillac Car - Bronski Beat
Survival Car - Fountains Of Wayne
Cartrouble - Adam & The Ants
Daddy's Car - Blur
I Stopped To Fill My Car Up - Sterophonics
No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car - Elvis Presley
Let's Take a Ride - Justin Timberlake


I get comments when I'm listening to Doo Wop from younger listeners when I'm driving the spider, they've never heard it before... they think it's cool.

Nick

[Danno]

Who sings that song about "the little old lady from Pasadena" I have a lot of those songs you just posted on a cd my Father In Law made.

[Danno]

GTO by Ronny and the Daytonas. I still catch my wife singing it wrong, even after I told her it isn't "Gee Gee Oh", lol.

[radiopilot]

Who sings that song about "the little old lady from Pasadena" I have a lot of those songs you just posted on a cd my Father In Law made.

Jan & Dean, they had a lot of good hits in the sixties...

I have most all of the songs of 'surf' instrumental both here ib the states and from Europe... all good stuff.

Kids are now getting this music mixed with Jack Johnson type stuff and they're lovin' it.

[mdrburchette]

Radar Love is my favorite while driving the Fiat but I grew up with classic rock and roll. The Boys Of Summer is also a song that brings back fond memories of cruising the Strand at Myrtle Beach, but I can only listen to the radio while sitting at a stop light because of the dual IDFs.

[So Cal Mark]

driving music and car songs are really two different genres. IMHO, doo wop music goes more with 50s era American cars; lead sleds and the like

[Danno]

driving music and car songs are really two different genres. IMHO, doo wop music goes more with 50s era American cars; lead sleds and the like

I reject your reality and insert my own. I think that most car songs are appropriate for driving. or at least driving anything that isn't a fart can teensy wannabee. But I totally understand what you are saying. I think it could be considered weird to be listening to a song about a pink cadillac while driving my blue fiat.

[radiopilot]

I agree... all manners of music are appropriate, some more than others, so if Doo-Wop is associated with 50's cars, lead sleds, etc., then Ferrari, Masserati, Lamboughini, Fiat, Alfa, etc. are listening to only Italian opera music and the such?

Occasionally I drive the Fiat to these local car cruise-ins and they have Doo-Wop, surf (Beach Boys, etc.), and older/current rock music, alot of the cars are Italian, British, American, Japenese, etc., older and newer cars etc., the music is what brings these drivers together and everyone has a great time... kids through adults.

I enjoy a variety of music (not Rap or teeny bopper stuff), and the sixties music be it Doo-Wop or surf intrumental brings it closer to a spider convertible than any other music.

I grew up in New Jersey and in my early years and remember my family travels going from Asbury Park through Ocean City and the music of the time was surf music along with stuff from Gary Puckett, TheTurtles, etc.... it was a great time in my life and if anything stuck in my head it was this music.

Nick

[dinosabella]

I personaly listen to Lounge, acid Jazz, Italian Jazz.
I recomend an album from the Putumayo collection called Italian Cafe. Its great, not your standard stereotypical O Sole Mio and Mambo Italiano compilation, very Jazzy.
I listen to pretty much every style of music on earth but in the Spider I like to set the mood, kind of imagine im on the Riviera. Somehow Metalica, Pearl Jam and Rage agaisnt the Machine wouldnt sound appropriate in a litle red Italian sports car.
But driving through a tunell well thats almost a religious momment, I stop all conversations, press mute on the CD player and enjoy the exhaust resonate around me. My favorite tunnel is the Ville Marie tunel here in Montreal, its where the movie Driven with Stalone was filmed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-QOctq8n8A

[So Cal Mark]

I believe it's related to your car/music experiences. In my mind, driving music has a "driving beat"; music that makes you want to hit the open road and drive all night. Not music that will lull you into a daze. In relating genres of music to particular cars, my memories of growing up was doo wop was popular in the late fifties, early 60's with bowling shirts and lead sleds, low riders. When we were cruising in the muscle car era it was pop and rock-the Doors, Stones, Beatles so that's what I associate with that type of car. To me, doo wop just doesn't fit with import sports cars. To each his own. When I go out really driving, I'll crank up the Meatloaf