# Classical music to blast from your car speakers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870 "2005-10-12T10:13:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/41 "2005-10-13T05:31:49Z")
Hey, is Queen considered classical music yet? If so, always keep a CD with the Bicycle Song queued up on it in your car stereo, when you see someone riding a bike on the side of the road, drop the windows, hit play, and crank it up as you go past the cool bike dude. I want to ridemy BICYCLE!! BICYCLE!!! **BICYCLE!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/42 "2005-10-13T13:09:48Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Dammit, you stole my top two. (But IIRC, it is _Widor_.)And I agree about the organ. > > I’ll add **Ein Straussfest** , especially if you have the 1500 Watt dual-subwoofer setup. It’s Widor with an umlaut over the i, and I couldn’t be arsed to look up the alt-code keystroke, hence the fussy e as I believe the umlaut stands in for an elided e. But I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/43 "2005-10-13T13:24:15Z")
_American Pie_. Hey, it’s a classic, right? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/44 "2005-10-13T13:42:54Z")
Hosanna from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/45 "2005-10-13T14:45:02Z")
Beethoven’s _Symphony No 9_, especially the 4th movement. There’s something empowering about cruising down the highway singing in German at the top of one’s lungs. The _Polovtsian Dances_ from _Prince Igor_. The _Toreador Song_ from _Carmen_. ---
**Author:** ![Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olive_The_Other_Reindeer)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/46 "2005-10-13T14:51:57Z")
Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” - especially, the movement called “The Great Gates of Kiev” Emerson, Lake and Palmer have a great version of it, too 🙂 Olive ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/47 "2005-10-13T15:59:26Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > There’s something empowering about cruising down the highway singing in German at the top of one’s lungs. Amen! ;j ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/48 "2005-10-13T18:17:58Z")
wow, i think nearly all my favorites have already been named – Wagner, Enesco, _1812, Pictures at an Exhibition, Funeral March for a Marionette_… how about a road trip 😃😃😃 oh, wait! i remember another one now – _Light Cavalry Overture_. it’s wonderful to blast from the speakers, and even better to sing during a good canter on horseback. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/49 "2005-10-13T21:59:50Z")
If you could stand going out into left field a little, I’d think “Switched On Bach” would be a good candidate for playing really loud, too. Good luck finding it, though. Maybe a download from somewhere, then burn it to a CD. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/50 "2005-10-13T22:08:17Z")
For HItchcock fans, Gounod’s “Funeral March for a Marionette”. “Flight of the Bumblebee” would also work fo an AMC Hornet, I gues. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870/51 "2005-10-13T22:45:55Z")
> [@Rufus Xavier](#): > > Copland’s **Rodeo** I did that today! Amusing watching the people first look at you weird, then look hungry. **Fanfare for the Common Man** is fun too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-to-blast-from-your-car-speakers/325870.md?page=2)