There has always been an intimate link between cars and contemporary music and car stereos (aka sound systems) enable the immediacy of that link.
As the (almost) ultimate freedom machines, cars can enable a young man to impress an aesthetically pleasing young woman in more ways than might be immediately obvious.
However – there is an insidious agenda intended to deny these wondrous freedom machines to the “common people”.
Electric Vehicles are a joke. Expensive, impractical (see the concept of “range anxiety”) and possibly lethal when not in use (another novel concept) our self-declared betters have not been shy about decreeing that the proles will use EVs, bicycles, public transport, or resort to good ol’ walking. Or else.
The Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicle is in danger of extinction if these ridiculous totalitarians have their way. Of course our local pollie corruptocrats are totally on board with this insidious idiocy. Just don’t expect to see them giving up their ICE vehicles any time soon. The plan is to tax, legislate and starve ICE vehicles out of existence.
We must not allow this to happen.
Anyway, not wanting to let the lunacy impede our enjoyment, here’s my two initial song choices for this month:
The most awesome coda in the history of car related songs:
Why we love them so much:
No doubt there’s a whole library of memorable songs that you’re just waiting to post in the comments thread. Incidentally, I’ll be heading off tomorrow on my favourite drive in Oz – the various roads through the Royal National Park, culminating in lunch at the newly refurbished Imperial Hotel in Clifton.
Go for it Cats, you know you want to and may your proverbial gas tanks remain eternally full to the brim!
I was surprised three days ago when in Coles. They had that very track on the tannoy. Numan! Sounded wonderful.
My immediate contribution to this most excellent idea for a musical thread is Stan Ridgway.
Drive, She Said (1986)
We turned up there last Sunday at 1:00pm only to discover that there was a lengthy queue, with a wait time that was estimated at 30 minutes at least.
Ended up having lunch at Wombarra Bowls, which was awesome. No queues, no difficulty parking, awesome views and awesome food. Very highly recommended, Cats. 🙂
Jesus Built My Hotrod by Ministry from the album KE*A*H** (Psalm 69)
Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod (Official Music Video)
Pink Cadillac
Great dance routine too
Ode to Detroit-love it. Ford’s diner the place to eat if you ever visit.
Beep! Beep!
This was a featured song at primary school when we had a weekly singing session with printed songbooks and an ABC broadcast to lead. A favourite of mine and a reminder to suggest we do novelty songs sometime!
It’s a kicker!
100 Years Evolution of traffic – 1910s till the 2010s
Grace Jones – Pull Up To The Bumper
The need for speed!
Singing the specification… (Beach Boys.)
It help that the lyrics had contributions from those that knew what they were talking about.
Amoco nice clean petrol
Amoco 2
You and I and Gemini
Rocket 88 Ike et al.
Here’s Prince.
Highway Star
After that I got to do this one.
Spiderbait – Black Betty (2004)
This is the pure version btw, without the silly movie scenes.
Just Drive, she said
Yep. Prince.
Gunna be tough without an upticker tonight, unna?
BoN are you gonna do Keys to her Ferrari … or should I?
My life, 1000 miles away…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boN94tAFqZM
Love the old wooden bar at the start of the video, reminds me of the old Melbourne & Victorian pubs before pokies killed them.
White Wedding – Billy Idol.
Oxygene Part 2 – Jean Michel Jarre – On a dark stormy night, ripping up through the D’Aguilar Block out past Wamuran at stupid speeds.
A great car stereo can be fantastic because it really fills the space. It can be a bit like trying to get great acoustics in a toilet but that is part of the challenge.
Crazy ’bout a Mercury
Baybee, we were born to run!
too slow … Key to her Ferrari
Oh Stylo …
Not all rangas are cheats .. go Cortnee ……!
ooops … wrong fred ……….. duuuuuuuuh! .. LOL!
In Your Car Dugites
Rockdoctor
Aug 12, 2023 8:10 PM
I wasn’t going to post this as most of the car stuff is in the video, but if we’re doing time and place: Flame Trees
Eric – the Dugites were awesome.
There’s a place …
MT – One of the most orgasmic of car tracks of all time! Thomas Dolby’s whole album is seriously good, with barely a single filler track. Highly recommended, even if he’s a nutty lefty.
I was going to go with Peter Gabriel next though.
Digging In The Dirt (1992)
Another roadtrip, this time with Paul Kelly. Not sure if this one made the radio or not. Sounds like Victoria with that pothole…
Wendy & The Rocketts – Play The Game (1983)
Or busses and cabs… Paul Kelly again. Radio version, not the album one.
Indeed, Mr DJ. They had a fun track about their keyboard called Tesco is going to be bigger than the disco. Can’t find a clip.
I’m fuel injected suicide machine.
Not a music video, but it should be.
Company Of Strangers – Motor City (I Get Lost) 1993
Tim Rogers- Paragon Cafe.
Tim can be massive twat, but you’ve got a heart of stone if you don’t feel the pinch of that roadtrip.
Beep Beep reminded me of Fred – as in, “We’re having fun, sitting in the back seat, kissing and a huggin’ with Fred, diddy doom doom” we performed it on stage at Primary School, chairs lined up like in a bus. Such fun!
A bit of Me and Bobby McGee in Two Lane Blacktop
Sex petrol
Haha, just found four metal tracks based on that scene. I won’t link them. They’re not bad but. Our Mel resonates!
The Normal – Warm Leatherette (Crash music video)
She’s bringing it in, again, she asked for …
China Crisis – Working With Fire And Steel
Van Life
In memory of Heath and Hutchence.
The Passenger (1995)
Stickshifts and Safetybelts
Born to be Wild Steppenwolf
Long Line of Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuZA6qiJVfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl9lQonO_RQ
links lost in translation –
first is “Drive” by the Cars
second is special mix of “4 AM” by Kaskade
Test
Drive Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsrqKE1iqqo
plenty of classic cars in this video …
Opps. Crashed.
Drive Cars.
hmmm – losing my html … trying one more time
Lowrider – War
I’m going all Aussie.
TMG
Cruel Sea (It’s about driving)
See if I can load Roger Miller Hitchhiker
speaking of aussie songs – this song couldn’t exist without cars
Awesome movie, with a seriously good car.
We have a long way to go and a short time to get there (1977)
They did exceptionally well – until they didn’t.
Self indulgent in both their fields to bizarre extremes.
The Loaf!
https://youtu.be/C11MzbEcHlw
where are the upticks?
Alamak, we thought of that one last week on the dry run!
Out chauffeuring Miss Personage around on a Saturday Night …
Grace Potter — Mother Road
Weirdly last week I heard this Coles for the first time in decades.
The Black Sorrows – Chained To The Wheel (1989)
Bloody good.
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair…
https://youtu.be/09839DpTctU
Jump in my car…
https://youtu.be/lPsa8MJU_50
It was only a kiss, I tells ya!
BoN, some great choices!
I like you, but I’ll never let it show …
look at your picture and I smile …
might as well wright you up in my notebook that you rock my woild …
Beards. Looong beards. And guitars. And very Arky car.
Sharp Dressed Man (1983)
Legs (1983)
The Beach Boys!
https://youtu.be/NwgGuadsqyo
Route 66
https://youtu.be/tg2EbJy-9dc
Don Felder – Heavy Metal / Takin’ a Ride (1981)
Actually saw this flick at the cinema back then. It was a blast!
Drivers seat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7griww3CfI
Little drivin on a Saturday night
Rats, I got the wrong video. That one is from the movie, but this is the one I meant to link…maybe it was the inspiration for Elon’s interplanetary Tesla.
HeavyMetal intro (1981)
Time for me to drive off in my hot FJ with chrome plated grease nipples and twin overhead foxtails. Night all!
Bob Hudson – The Newcastle song (1975)
Bar Beach Swimmer> never let a chance go by …
Bruce> Great set of tracks and top song for the finish.
This one is about aussie cars, specifically the booster seat used in some.
convoy
I said, laydee – step inside my Hyundai …
I’m in love with my Car, got a feel for my automobile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaEM4JYFPfw
She realised she’d never drive through Paris in a sportscar, with the warm wind, in her hair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0NxhFn0szc
Pogs:
We Will Rock You
We are the Champions
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan …
Sacré bleu! 😕
A Sexy Rock Chick*
*She’d only disagree with the “rock” part of the description
Rabz,
are you mixing up your Birkins and your Faithfull? 😀
Paul Simon:
“Cars are Cars”
From the”Hearts and Bones” album.
Photographs of pre-WW1 streets in ANY town or city are instructive. Those are NOT cane-toads scattered all over the (generally) unsealed roads.
Proper riding boots have “elevated heels and not just so your feet don’t slip out of the stirrups
Some mighty contributions above, Cats. 🙂
Vroom Vroom …
Pogs – any excuse is sufficient to post a comment containing la Birkin.
Especially given her recent demise. 🙁
Sweet Jane …
Late to the party, but don’t forget Kraftwerk’s tribute to the cult of the car, Autobahn</aReleased in the mid 1970s, as usual, cutting edge stuff by the K crew.
Cherman autobahns at that time had no speed limit, apparently the nanny state is encroaching on them, but some still don't.
Drivers on the potholed excuses for roads policed by cameras and sneaky coppers hiding in the bushes here can only dream.
Thanks, Joh – Yerp* Endless …
*As referred to by this utter imbecile and unrepentant warmonger
Danger Zone Kenny Loggins
Yes, I know it’s used as a top gun reference, but I like playing this when I have the chance to run my Charger.
Though I don’t hear much over the sound of the triple Webber intake…
Also, you have to wear aviators while this song plays, otherwise it’s just not right.
A tenuous link to the theme perhaps, but ‘Barbie Girl’ by Aqua (mmmmmm, Lene!) comes to mind. (Some scenes are of the four band members in a pink convertible).
It’s a fun, sugary frolic – not to be taken seriously. Life is too full of seriousness though.
Go plastic!
https://youtu.be/is97RmHhmVg
Highest drama – creation – tell Laura I love her
https://youtu.be/aRlSHG5hRY4
Hot sweaty and dusty – euro style
Golden earring – radar love
https://youtu.be/JGBXnw86Mgc
Ahh – it’s a suburb full of losers,
Da boss – the north European – gilas do you appreciate what he has done with his small orchestra.
https://youtu.be/LNmIbSre7Tw
Road song by the sensitive Jackson Browne.
https://youtu.be/WonOudGMSdc
I can’t imagine this song without a Ute. And a slap in the face, the door being slammed, and da chick getting becoming a legend with her peers.