Car Brands Models in Songs

“jump like a Willys in four wheel drive” Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead

Chuck Berry songs –
Jaguar And Thunderbird,
You Can’t Catch Me (Coupe Deville),
Dear Dad (Ford),
No Money Down (Cadillac, Ford).

B52s – Love Shack (Chrysler)

Blondie – Rapture (Cadillacs, Subarus, Lincolns, Mercurys)

Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire (Edsel)

Charlie Daniels – Uneasy Rider (Chevrolet)

Eagles – Take it easy (Ford), Hotel California (Mercedes Benz)

Note: Janis Joplin’s Mecedes Benz also mentions Porches

Susan Werner’s “Big Car”:

So you can keep your stupid SUV
Give me a big old ugly LTD
A Lincoln Town Car
Or a Grand Marquee
And I’m a woman driving destiny around

Slick Black Cadillac - Quiet Riot
Look At That Cadillac - Stray Cats

The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari, John Hiatt

Buick McKane, T-Rex

White Valiant, The Muttonbirds

Blue Belmonts, Blam Blam Blam

“I drive a Maserati GT/With snakeskin unholstery”: I Ain’t Got You, The Yardbirds

“I drive a Rolls Royce/'Cos it’s good for my voice”: Children Of The Revolution, T-Rex

“I got a Ford Cortina that just won’t run without fuel - fill 'er up, Jacko”: The Clash, London’s Burning

“Hot Rod Lincoln” was by Commander Cody, a.k.a. George Frayne, and the Lost Planet Airmen.

Joe Walsh - Life’s Been Good

“My Maserati does 185.
I lost my license, now I don’t drive.”

D’oh! - OK, Ryan originally recorded it, but the version by Commander Cody is more well-known.

Actually, “Janie Jones.” I was listening the the first Clash album on the way into work this morning. Really loud. Just one more reason I could never carpool.

Ben Vaughan Combo, “Motor Vehicle”: “I got a 1965 Rambler American / Baby aren’t you impressed? / Sure I could drive a Datsun 280-Z / But I’m not like all the rest”

Sir Mix-a-Lot, “My Hooptie”: “My hooptie rollin’, tailpipe draggin’ / Heat don’t work an’ my girl keeps naggin’ / Six-nine Buick, deuce keeps rollin’ / One hubcap 'cause three got stolen …”

Public Enemy, “You’re Gonna Get Yours”: “Suckers to the side / I know you hate / My 98 …”

Sammy Johns, “Chevy Van”: “She woke up and took me by the hand / She’s gonna love me in my Chevy van / And that’s all right with me”

Youc an almost see the airbrushed desert scene painted on the side, can’t you?

Ween, “El Camino”
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, “2cv” (mentions the Citroën 2cv)
The Gourds, “Escalade”

Pat Travers has a version that’s quite tolerable as well.

Not to mention the “big old Buick” in My Hometown or “the barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge” in Jungleland.… or “the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets” in Thunder Road.

Come to think of it, is there any Springsteen song that doesn’t mention cars or driving in some capacity? :smiley:

Here is another honourable mention for this classic car in an equally classic lyric by Ian Dury:

…had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina
a seasoned up hyena
could not have been more obscener
she took me to the cleaners
and other misdemeanours
but I got right up between her
rum and her Ribena…

I realize there’s no way most people here have heard these, but hey, a couple from Spain:

Qué difícil es hacer el amor en un Simca 1000, by Los Inhumanos (Making Love in a Simca 1000 is Real Complicated). The title is probably true, too: those things are like boxy cousins of the VW Bug and as the lyrics say you can’t push back the backs of the seats.

Cadillac Solitario, by Loquillo y los Trogoditas. One of their signature songs, “Lonely Cadillac” aka “L.A.” has been a fixture in Spanish radio for over gasp 20 years now.

Skee-Lo - “I Wish”
I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a '64 Impala

Barenaked Ladies - “If I had $1,000,000”
*If I had a 1,000,000 (If I had a 1,000,000)
I’d but you a **K-car ** ( a nice **Reliant ** automobile)
If I had a 1,000,000, I’d buy you love *

The Siegel-Schwall Band’s “On The Road” sings about the Geo Metro.

Marc Cohn’s followup to “Walking in Memphis” was “Silver Thunderbird.”

And another:

Elton John - Made in England - “I was made in England like a blue Cortina.”

Actually, I think that’s the only post-1984-or-so Elton John song that I like at all.

Keep Risin’ to the Top Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew

“I’m in a Cherokee, Chill Will in a Audi

Springsteen:

Cadillac Ranch as mentioned:

“James Dean in that Mercury `49
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am

Racing in the Street’s Chevy as mentioned, more specifically:

" '69 Chevy with a 396
Fuelie heads and a Hurst on the floor"

Pink Cadillac as mentioned

But my love is bigger than a Honda
It’s bigger than a Subaru

'41 Ford in “Something Else”

There’s Studebaker by Warren Zevon.

And this lovely bit in “I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train” by Billy Joe Shaver:

“I love the wiggle in your walkin’
Your big city talkin’
And your brand new shiny Plymouth ragtop car.”

Oh hell, why not one more? :slight_smile:

Saw Doctors - Red Cortina

God, I love the Saw Doctors.

B-52’s:

She came from Planet Claire
I knew she came from there
She drove a Plymouth Satellite
Faster than the speed of light