Best driving song?

"OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars" (jakeauern)
12/10/2015 at 08:27 • Filed to: QOTD, AOTD, Driving, Song, Comcast Sucks, Oppo-ing

I’m headed home today from school, around 2 and a half hours, which means I will still be listening to music for less time then your average Comcast customer on hold. But to the point, Radar Love gets my nod. It’s a high energy classic and I’ve never heard anyone who didn’t like it. If there are enough replies I’ll make our very own Oppo Top Ten AOTD, but reserve the right to use my song again. Happy Oppo-ing (if that’s a thing)

DISCUSSION (42)

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:36

Depends. Best driving song as in Top Gear rules (about driving in some way), or just as in songs I love driving to?

Rainbow > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:38

X37.9XXS > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:39

Absolutely no question

Every time I hear it, I am screaming down I-5 in the summer moonlight, with the top down

Ash78, voting early and often > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:39

How about best 2.5 hours? I don’t really do individual songs or eclectic playlists, I do albums....so I’m going all popular 90s here. These albums all have WAY more depth and quality than their handful of popular singles:

1. Blood Sugar Sex Magik by RHCP

2. Ten by Pearl Jam

3. Under the Table and Dreaming by DMB

4. Alternative option if you’re feeling mellow/poetic: August and Everything After by Counting Crows

Those four are all in my top 10 all-time albums. That should be about right for the running time you need :D

EDIT: How about if you had to listen to a single song for 2.5 hours? I’d probably go with In a Gadda Da Vida about 3 times all the way through :D

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
12/10/2015 at 08:41

Ill keep it simple and nd say if it’s not an Oppo rule then its not a rule for this QOTD

V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:44

Sympathy for the devil-rolling stones

Berang > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:45

Something classical, fast, and loud.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
12/10/2015 at 08:46

Very good answer.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Rainbow
12/10/2015 at 08:47

Fun song. Good answer.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Ash78, voting early and often
12/10/2015 at 08:49

Good idea!

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > X37.9XXS
12/10/2015 at 08:50

Depends on what kind of convertible you have.

V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:51

It's really an issue, I always speed to an excessive amount when it comes on .

X37.9XXS > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:52

1970 SS396

Red

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
12/10/2015 at 08:52

I always blame Metallica for my first ticket. Have not listened to them much since then.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > X37.9XXS
12/10/2015 at 08:54

And the song came out in ‘69? That deserves points just for time period correctness.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:54

I don’t know of any Oppo rule that says the songs I like driving to have to be about driving :)

So:

Pixie Lott - All About Tonight

Zac Brown - Knee Deep

Brad Paisley - All I Wanted Was A Car

Brad Paisley - Mud On The Tires

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance - Not sure wtf you're singing girl, but I love the rhythm.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 08:57

But most country tbh

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
12/10/2015 at 09:00

Most my playlists are country too. An obvious song I’ve missed but added-Copperhead Road

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:01

Second that

505 - morphine not found > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:01

Depends on what you’re driving, but Kawinsky works for me most of the time.

However, what i do is to fill a big pendrive with music and put the car stereo in shuffle. Keeps me entertained for a long time.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:02

Yup. Radar Love is best.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:04

I can’t pick just one so here’s a bunch of my favorites:

AC/DC - Highway to Hell, Back in Black, Thunderstruck, Shoot to Thrill

Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys

Led Zepplin - Immigrant Song, Ramble On, Rock ‘n Roll

Iron Maiden - Aces High, Run to the Hills, The Trooper

Judas Priest - Turbo Lover, Head out to the Highway, You Got Another Thing Comin

Metallica - Enter Sandman, Master of Puppets, Wherever I May Roam, Seek & Destroy, Battery, Until it Sleeps, Fuel, All Nightmare Long

Megadeth - 1320, Hangar 18, Symphony of Destruction

The Sword - Warp Riders (The whole album, its a concept album and there’s not too much slow stuff on it)

Opeth - Demon of the Fall, Baying of the Hounds

Ghost - Pinnacle to the Pit

That’s all I got off the top of my head, but give me a few minutes and I’m sure I’ll come up with some more.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
12/10/2015 at 09:07

Lady Gaga is my guilty pleasure (as someone who mostly listens to heavy metal). But I’m also convinced shes this generation’s Alice Cooper. So maybe that’s why I like her.

Also, I can’t remember if it was Bad Romance or Poker Face, but one of the two is supposedly about her being with a man but wishing she was with a woman instead.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
12/10/2015 at 09:08

Also Dixieland Delight. Pure country fire.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:08

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

Knights of Cydonia - Muse

Lost It To Trying - Son Lux

Anything by Mutemath; One of the very few bands who have released an entire album where I do not want to skip any songs.

Almost every song by CHVRCHES; especially Lies , Strong Hand , and Clearest Blue .

For those drives when you aren’t able or want the wheels to be on fire, I love the album Every Day by The Cinematic Orchestra.

I also enjoy the band/DJ Seven Lions.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Snuze: Needs another Swede
12/10/2015 at 09:09

Meh, it’s the rhythm that matters.The problem is you time the rhythm against how fast the dashed lines go by...

Tripper > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:09

I don’t think I could pick just one song, but I can pick an album which is the first one from Eagles of Death Metal “Peace, Love, and Death Metal”. I don’t think that there is one song that I would skip on a road trip.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:11

Dirt Road Anthem

Barefoot Blue Jean Night

Most things Zac Brown

BringBackTheCommodore > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:13

Hmmm...

Well, if you’re in a cruising mood:

And when you’re ready to turn up the tempo:

FSI - alcohol enthusiast with a car problem > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 09:18

I’ve played Midnight Club 2 recently and I discovered this awesome song

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
12/10/2015 at 09:28

When The Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin

Knights of Cydonia - Muse

Lost It To Trying - Son Lux

Shut Em Down - Celldweller

Suddenly - BT (Celldweller remix)

Anything by Mutemath; One of the very few bands who have released an entire album where I do not want to skip any songs.

Almost every song by CHVRCHES; especially Lies , Strong Hand , and Clearest Blue .

Lies

Strong Hand

Clearest Blue

For those drives when you aren’t able or want the wheels to be on fire, I love the album Every Day by The Cinematic Orchestra.

I also enjoy the band/DJ Seven Lions.

Strangers - Seven Lions

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 10:11

Here are some of my favorites:

A Song for Driving by The Nick Hexum Quintet (A good late night cruising song)

Faded by Zhu

Take Ü There (feat. Kiesza) (Zeds Dead Remix) by Jack Ü

No Control by Pepper

Superstar by Saliva

Chris_K_F drives an FR-Slow > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
12/10/2015 at 10:13

Zac Brown Band is the best. Perfect mix of some of my three favorite genres; reggae, country (like old school country, not the Luke Bryan pop stuff made for sorostitutes), and folk.

I’ve seen them at Wrigley Field the last two years, and they’re absolutely fantastic live.

fennelbreath > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 10:55

Tom Petty, “American Girl”

QOTSA, “No One Knows”

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
12/10/2015 at 13:01

We have very similar tastes - mind sharing your top 10?

Ash78, voting early and often > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
12/10/2015 at 13:17

Not completely official (and not strictly 10), but all the ones I mentioned, plus Rage Against the Machine’s first one, Zeppelin’s Houses of the Holy, Cake’s Prolonging the Magic, Korn’s debut album, any/all of DMB’s first 3 LP albums, a couple of Barenaked Ladies’ releases, and I’m sure plenty of others I’m forgetting — but those have all been in my regular rotation for 15-20 years. Honorable mentions to Radiohead’s The Bends, now that I think about it.

I don’t know enough about newer albums to give my opinion, but I really like a lot of Jack Johnson’s stuff, Jason Mraz, etc. I tend towards the singer/songwriter end of the spectrum.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
12/10/2015 at 13:59

Love Rage Against the Machine, love Zeppelin, Love Cake (and cake), love Dave and lots of Barenaked Ladies’ stuff. On board with you on Jack and Jason (though I lean more toward blues-y, garage-y rock, like White Stripes, JET, The Black Keys, etc.). Never got into Radiohead or Korn that much, but definitely respect their stuff.

Have to add some Beck, Ben Folds and Foo Fighters to my list.

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 14:12

Classical. Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner, 1820 Overture w/ the cannons by Tchaikovsky. Those 2 come to mind first.

Ash78, voting early and often > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com
12/10/2015 at 15:56

Good calls. I don’t love Korn, but I really liked their novelty at the time before the whole “Nu Metal” knockoff bands ruined alternative metal :D

Radiohead started to get a little too weird and experimental over the years. If you liked their earlier rock-based stuff at all, check out Coldplay’s first couple albums (yeah, I love Coldplay, what of it?!) and also Travis, a Scottish band from the early 2000s.

I’ve been a Foo Fan since the start. Maybe it’s more of a respect than a love. Dave Grohl is a musical genius. Beck’s “Mellow Gold” got played to death in my first car in 1995. I saw Ben Folds Five at a free show in college around 1999 or 2000. Also an amazing musician with limitless talent.

I forgot to mention Metallica, STP, and a few others in there, too.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock
12/10/2015 at 16:07

I was waiting for Ride of the Valkyries. Such a powerful song.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Ash78, voting early and often
12/10/2015 at 16:35

[pours one out for Scott Weiland]

911e46z06 > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
12/10/2015 at 22:07

Lots of good ones.

I’ve found myself playing Gots to Get Paid by ZZ Top a lot lately.