Had my mini for a week now and I am always finding an excuse to go out and motor!

Today I got an ipod nano to hook up to the mini and downloaded all my music and when the wife asked me to head out to the store for some things we needed you know I said "NO PROBLEM".

So the ipod was ready and I headed out. I was thinking what a great thread it would be to have us post some of our favorite driving tunes all while listening to a great one which is now my favorite while driving the mini @ night.

So my favorite late night song to drive to in the mini is:

Pearl Jam - Of the Girl

Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with and I hope to find some new tunes as well through here.

 

Great thread.
I would have to say anything by Gov't Mule or Umphrey's Mcgee is what I use. But if I had to pick one I think it would be
Mule by Gov't Mule
Can't wait to hear from everyone else

Josh

 

Don't have my Mini yet. In production and scheduled to be finished July 4th...
Can't wait...
Driving tunes though....
Oasis - Rock N Roll Star
The Verve - the whole Urban Hymns cd

 

Mike Ness - I'm in Love With My Car
Social distortion - Reach For the Sky / Cold Feelings
New Order - Round and Round / Bizzare Love Triangle
Coldplay - Things I Don't Understand
Muse - Super Massive Black Hole / Map of the Problematique
Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
Bad Religion - Sorrow

Tons of others, but these come to mind quickly.

Tony

 

One more for The Verve Urban Hymns CD
Muse - Time Is Running Out & Hysteria
Kasabian - Club Foot
School of Fish - 3 Strange Days
Butthole Surfers - Who was in my room last night?
Our Lady Peace - Starseed
Moke - Wheel in Motion
Sevendust - Black
Prodigy - Firestarter
N.E.R.D - Rock Star
and the Top Gear CD

 

Gino Soccio - Try it Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th8WB4YjpD4&hl=en

Brothers Johnson - Stomp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tgWS9c4kI8

Brothers Johnson - Get the Funk up out my Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lj9_zBobJs
[although i did hear recently that it was used in a popular movie.. might have to reconsider broadcasting this one. =( ]

Either Belle Epoque or Glass Candy's cover of "Miss Broadway"
http://www.imeem.com/people/zOjzhQ//...adway_128kbps/

Talking Heads - Girlfriend is Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4

..meanwhile i dont even have the car yet! I still have to resign on my modifications tomorrow. I can barely remain continent--

 

Pendulum - Granite
" " - Propane Nightmares

GGX2 - The Midnight Carnival

The Chemical Brothers - Do it again.

Dynamic D's - The Contact.

Infected Mushroom - Becoming Insane

Scooter - The question is What Is The Question

And Last But Certainly not least -

Scapegoat Wax - Aisle 10 (Hello Allison)

 

Ahh the Chemicals, long time fan..
you see them play 'do it again' in Rome? Great show--
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2LMXI93MtY

 

Ugh. I wish I was there.

I heard 'do it again' when it was pre-released to some popular Radio DJ in the UK

I don't remember his name but I fell in LOVE with the song. Even a couple minutes ago when I was coming home in a bad mood I listened to it and it just pumped me up. Then again most of their songs do that =P

I want to remix that song sooo baddd!



Sorry-Didn't want to hijack >_>

 

and the greatest driving song of all time is..........born to be wild by steppenwolf

 

I play CDs in my MINI. Keep listening till one is done because as a rule, with my morning commute to the Park N Ride, I hear 2 or 3 songs on any given run, ditto for going to Scout meetings or running quick errands.

Favorites are Evanescence, then greatest hits of The Who, The Clash, David Bowie, various Beatles compilations, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" and "Wish You Were Here" which I plug in for longer trips, greatest hits of Blondie, The Doors, the B-52s and now just found a cool group called Within Tempation which has been out for years; also Thelonius Monk and Mingus;
favorite tune is theme from The Avengers (also use as cellphone ring).

CROC 411

 

Currently listening to:

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (highly recommended!)
The Presets - Apocalypso

Some other suggestions:

Avon - Queens of the Stone Age
In My Head - Queens of the Stone Age
The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret - QOTSA
Hell, most anything from QOTSA is good driving music
Ridge Racer 6 soundtrack - Disco Ball!

 

Jorgen Ingman and his Guitar - Zorba
Benny Goodman - Sing Sing Sing (Live at Carnegie Hall 1938)
Captian Beefheart - Sure Nuff Yes I Do
The Jesus Lizard - Nub
The Kinks - Victoria
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (yeah, it's about a Plymouth. it's still the best car song ever. The Jazz Butcher's version will work, too)
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
The Ramones - California Sun
Canned Heat - Going up Country (It gives me tickets, though)

Wow, I could go on all night...

The wife thinks that the record to listen to in the MINI is The John Spencer Blues Explosion - Orange. I think its because both are pretty bouncy. I'm not gonna argue.

 

I'm old school, but here's a few I put on my driving song playlist.

Life is a Highway - Tom Cochrane
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Helen Wheels - PM and Wings
Gone Ridin - Chris Isaak
Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
One Headlight - Wallflowers
I Drove All Night - Roy Orbison
On The Road Again - Canned Heat

 

i play the week top 20 from my local radio station..

 

Fools Garden - Lemon Tree (original and re-mix)

 

wow.. just goes to show you.. as customized as our cars are, its no where near as tailor-fitted as our music is.

 

All aboard the wayback machine -
Warning, some of these gems aged better than others.

Music for a convertible - ca. 1985
19 songs, 1:21:21 total time, 104.9 MB
Name Time Album Artist
Invincible 4:09 Greatest Hits Pat Benatar
Miami Vice Theme 2:29 Hit Me With Your 80's Box Jan Hammer
Against All Odds (Take a Look at M… 3:29 Serious Hits...Live! Phil Collins
Total Eclipse of the Heart 7:01 Faster Than The Speed of Light Bonnie Tyler
High On Emotion 4:26 The Lady In Red - The Very Best of … Chris De Burgh
Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airpl… 3:37 Gypsy Honeymoon - The Best of Ki… Kim Carnes
Runner 4:38 Somewhere in Africa Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Maniac 4:21 Casablanca Records Greatest Hits Michael Sembello
She Bop 5:20 She's So Unusual / True Colors / H… Cyndi Lauper
Better Be Good to Me 5:10 Tina Turner: The Collected Recordi… Tina Turner
I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is 4:43 Gypsy Honeymoon - The Best of Ki… Kim Carnes
Demolition Man 3:46 Somewhere in Africa Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Born To Run 4:31 Greatest Hits Bruce Springsteen
Never 3:47 Footloose Moving Pictures
Alive and Kicking 5:26 Once Upon a Time Simple Minds
I Want to Break Free 3:21 The Works Queen
Don't Let It Show 4:04 In the Heat of the Night Pat Benatar
Savin' The Day 3:24 Ghostbusters Soundtrack Alessi
Footloose 3:46 Footloose Kenny Loggins

 

I'm across most of the board with my listening pleasures. I listen to pop, rock, and country. I have Journey's new CD slotted with their new singer, who I love since Steve Perry won't get off his high horse and come back to the band.

 

(The Chemical Brothers - Do it again.)

Nice choice

I have alot of old DJ sasha live mix cd's that included some chemical brothers. Good Times.

For the long haul:

Global Underground 013:IBIZA (Sasha) Brillant!!!

Can't wait for Involver2

 

My choices are pretty varied but here's the usual:

Smashing Pumpkins
MC Chris
Weird Al Yankovic
Various Trance/Techno

And occasionally I'll listen to spoken word comedy by Lewis Black and Henry Rollins.

 

Where's the industrial or metal?
Jesus Built my Hotrod - Ministry

Sick Sick Sick - QOTSA (I second the QOTSA)

Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

When You Were Young - The Killers

For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica

 

ludacris-get out the way!

 

Roxy Music: Love Is The Drug
AC/DC: Thunderstruck
Petty: Runnin Down A Dream
Ozzy: Crazy Train
The Knack: Good Girls Don't
Green Day: American Idiot
B/Idol: Blue Highway
Nickelback: Rockstar
Many genres, many decades..

 

A few of my favorites:

The Jam
The Clash
Talk Talk
Elvis Costello
Onigo Boingo