Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On
Rod Stewart - True Blue
Joppa road by ween http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kUZ7yiJQ2w
Hot Rod Lincoln-Commander Cody & others Six Days on the Road - Dave Dudley, Flying burrito Bros White Line Fever - Merle Haggard
Thought of another..."B-Movie Boxcar Blues" either by Delbert McClinton or the cover by the Blues Brothers.
Did I miss something? No one mentioned Beach Boys 409????? Come on guys!
Stealthtercel wrote: "Open All Night" by Bruce Springsteen ("Propped her up in the back yard on concrete blocks, for a new clutch plate and a new set of shocks") "Sweet Little 66" by Steve Earle ("Them stickers in the window ain't just for show") "You Can't Catch Me" and "No Money Down" by Chuck Berry ("The salesman told me, said: 'Trade in your Ford, and I'll sell you a car that'll eat up the road' ") and a whole bunch of stuff from SoCal from back when gasoline was 35 cents a gallon or something, like Little GTO, 409, Little Deuce Coupe, etc., etc.
oh wait there, it is!
When I was a kid in the 70s my parents divorced and my Dad left behind an LP called 'Shut Down." It's a collection of car music from the Beach Boys and other like bands. Has Mitchum's Ballad of Thunder Road, Black Leather Trousers, Car Trouble, Dead Man's Curve, Cheater Slicks, Chicken, 409, Little Deuce Coupe amongst other automotive themed songs. I played that poor record out growing up and eventually it went missing.
So the week before I leave Atlanta (2002) to return to Vermont I'm waiting for the board meeting to begin for solo 2 Atlanta region and stop into a record store going out of business. On a lark I ask if they have the album. Now, I've been looking for this for close to twenty years. Amazingly they have it and it's half priced. I had a friend put it on CD and sent a copy to my Dad. He was shocked. I play that CD constantly to the chagrin of my wife. That single record is probably the reason for my automotive enthusiasm.
I also like VH Hot for Teacher. I too have always felt that the beginning sounded like a top fuel dragster sitting at the line waiting for the tree to go green.
Bat out of Hell by Meatloaf Last Kiss by ?
Some others: Hey, Little Cobra by the Rip Chords, the little-known "Kleine GTI" (spelling probably wrong, don't know German) to the tune of Little GTO, Baby Driver from the Simon & Garfunkel Bridge over Troubled Waters album (check out the sounds at the end of the track), Racing in the Streets by Emmylou Harris.
Maybelline - Chuck Berry.
Geez, somebody else remembers Vanilla Fudge - I must not be the only OF here. I forget the original writer's name (way before Commander Cody), but Hot Rod Lincoln is a real story, and the car still exists - ti was restored for the songwrtier and presented to him a few years ago. IIRC, he died a couple af years ago at the age of about 90. And the origional lyrics refer to "12 cylinders and uses 'em all", which is what the original car had - a Lincoln V12. Asleep At the Wheel also do a killer version of Hot Rod Lincoln.
Nobody's mentioned the Top Gear theme?
East Bound and Down- Jerry Reed
Black Sunshine and Dragula by White Zombie / Rob Zombie
Lots of stuff by Metallica, Breadfan and Blitzkreig stand out
Motley Crue- Kick Start My Heart!!!
93EXCivic wrote: East Bound and Down- Jerry Reed
load 'em up and truck 'em
FlightService wrote:93EXCivic wrote: East Bound and Down- Jerry Reedload 'em up and truck 'em
we're gonna do what they say can't be done
What a spectacular way to spend a rainy sunday afternoon. I have listened to every song referenced here. You folks have stellar car music taste!
"Week of Living Dangerously" by Steve Earle
Butthole Surfers with what I believe to be Grey Baskerville's ( famous photog and columnist from the heyday of Hot Rod and Petersen Publishig) '32 Ford roadster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNAkbbKycCM&feature=related
a few by The Cramps---
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbPGUPTdELY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqse-Pn4Rro
Brian Setzer-----
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXq_HfXeVw
Ministry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
White Zombie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axqUBIo7XVk
ZZ Top- La Grange. Don't know the lyrics, don't care.
Here are a few of my faves...
Fastlane - MegadetH on the new album 13 1320 - MegadetH from Endgame Ride - Joe Satriani ...OK it's a motorcycle song...and it's one of the few Satch songs with vocals! Panama - Van Halen Rush - Red Barchetta (already mentioned)
racer_ace wrote: Here are a few of my faves... Fastlane - MegadetH on the new album 13 1320 - MegadetH from Endgame Ride - Joe Satriani ...OK it's a motorcycle song...and it's one of the few Satch songs with vocals! Panama - Van Halen Rush - Red Barchetta (already mentioned)
you missed the best Megadeth car song- 502. it was on the "so far, so good, so what?" album.. there is also "Mechanix", but that is one Megadeth song that is best forgotten about since it's the original lyrics to "The Four Horsemen" by Metallica. .and it's a pretty stupid song..
not a "car song" exactly, but it Volbeat is good cruising music..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_-PAWM9es
Big policeman pull alongside me. He said, "Boy, you ain't quite as fast as me." I showed him a picture of that baby o'mine...he said, "..boy, you better move on down that line!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr1Y1y9zfdA
Out in the woods, or in the city..it's all the same to me. When I'm driving free, the world's my home..when I'm mobile.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxoO5yrabfc
I love you now like I loved you then, this is the road, and these are the hands..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XCqhrUXDHs
M6 South Down To Liverpool, where they play the West Coast Sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLzL17Qe5k0
Nobody gonna beat my car, I'm gonna break the speed of sound..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0iihjANPc
You don't know what I've got.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgGuadsqyo
James Dean in that Merc'ry 49..Junior Johnson through the hills of Caroline. Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans-Am..all gonna meet at the Cadillac Ranch!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-xXOE1Jws
Jeez, couldn't we all do this all night? 
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