# Music for thundering along in a tank? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237 "2006-09-18T21:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/41 "2006-09-20T13:20:14Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] For a large formation cav charge (dunno if they even do that in tanks anymore) play the Rohan theme from Lord of the Rings. [/QUOTE] For triumphantly entering a city, play the Elven War Theme from Two Towers (especially if you really aren’t supposed to be in that city 🙂 ) For a battle in an already-fought-over wasteland, play something powerful from Mozart’s Requiem such as Rex Tremendae. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/42 "2006-09-20T14:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Stranger On A Train] Jeez, haven’t you guys ever seen _Kelly’s Heroes_? You play “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” and “All For The Love Of Sunshine” when driving your tank into battle. Always with the negative waves, Moriarity, always with the negative waves! Stranger [/QUOTE] Read the OP, specifically his second choice. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/43 "2006-09-20T16:33:43Z")
oh, c’mon now… Flirtin’ With Disaster Train, Train Highway to Hell and finally: ‘Tanks for the memories…’ ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/44 "2006-09-20T20:13:39Z")
Funny all the times I spent in tanks this never came up. Too busy listening to the radios. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/45 "2006-09-20T20:29:44Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] The _ultimate_ rolling tank song? Slayer, “War Ensemble.” [/QUOTE] When I was in college I taped “War Ensemble” off of my CD to listen to in the car, but I accidentally had the tape on high speed. When I played it, it was slowed down to half speed and everything was dropped about two octaves so that Tom Araya sounded like a Balrog eating a mountain. It was so heavy it cracked the foundation of my house. ---
**Author:** ![akira5822](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@akira5822](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akira5822)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/46 "2006-09-20T20:33:35Z")
“One” by Metallica ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/47 "2006-09-20T20:58:48Z")
What about the _A-Team_ theme music? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/48 "2006-09-20T23:10:30Z")
And I’d suggest that anything by Metallica should also be off of their S&M cd, for that added touch of elegance and class. We’re not _savages_, you know. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/49 "2006-09-21T03:24:53Z")
The Theme from Rocky is good. Tina Turner doing _The Bitch is Back_ from the _Two Rooms_ CD is good for the lighter moments of tank combat. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/50 "2006-09-21T04:44:35Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Funny all the times I spent in tanks this never came up. Too busy listening to the radios. [/QUOTE] Same here, really, until Maj. “Batman,” our S-3 (named because he thought anyone “infantry” was automatically a superhero, and because, well, he was fucking batty), started constantly calling up requesting asinine status reports every 15 minutes. The thing is, our “encoded” sitreps took about 3-4 minutes each to transmit, tying up the net, and you basically had to do it all over again ten minutes later. After doing this about 3 or 4 times, all the command tracks in the two tank companies suddenly developed vague yet persistent commo problems. It finally got so bad that our CO and Bravo Co.'s CO went to the old man and basically said, “When you hear us shooting, you’ll know where the bad guys are; so please get Maj. Batman off our ass.” ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/51 "2006-09-21T05:16:46Z")
Brutal Planet by Alice Cooper. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/52 "2006-09-21T06:56:12Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] Funny all the times I spent in tanks this never came up. Too busy listening to the radios. [/QUOTE] Ah, that’s just because you guys didn’t have iPods! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/53 "2006-09-21T07:28:14Z")
Vivaldi. The Four Seasons. Just for the incongruity. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/54 "2006-09-21T19:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=Quartz] Vivaldi. The Four Seasons. Just for the incongruity. [/QUOTE] Just time any exciting moments to coincide with Winter. “Sir, the enemy is closing in.” “Tell them to wait a couple minutes until the next movement starts!” “… yes sir.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/55 "2006-09-21T19:48:37Z")
I tried twice to enter “The Imperial March” from **The Empire Strikes Back** , but the hamsters were down and it wouldn’t lert me. Then somebody else stole in and said it. (grumblegrumblegrumble) In lieu of that, how about Weird Al’s **I’m Drivin’ a Truck (with my High Heels On)** ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/56 "2006-09-21T20:21:32Z")
It occurs to me that for a pitched battle, Liberi Fatali would be another excellent choice, especially if you expect to find yourself abandoning the tank to duke it out mano-a-mano against the enemy with swords. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/57 "2006-09-21T20:43:50Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] It occurs to me that for a pitched battle, Liberi Fatali would be another excellent choice, especially if you expect to find yourself abandoning the tank to duke it out mano-a-mano against the enemy with swords. [/QUOTE] Mmm. Not a pretty picture. I’d take Kipling’s advice about fighting in Afghanistan before abandoning my tank to anything less than catastrophic fire to “duke it out.” Tanks come in 4-packs, ya know (at least in the U.S. Army they do). That’s a lotta whoop-ass to step off in; as Uncle Jun told Tony is season 1: next time, come heavy, or don’t come at all. I’s hads me some buddies to catch my back. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/58 "2006-09-22T06:45:56Z")
Portions of the sound track to _Dead Again_ would work, and so would _Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan_. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/59 "2006-09-22T12:35:05Z")
The Spanish Legion’s “el novio de la muerte” (Death’s Lover) works well with anything involving guns and the possibility of explossions. Rammstein has quite a few that are booming enough. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237/60 "2006-09-22T13:56:45Z")
[QUOTE=ExTank] Mmm. Not a pretty picture. I’d take Kipling’s advice about fighting in Afghanistan before abandoning my tank to anything less than catastrophic fire to “duke it out.” [/QUOTE] The “wait for supports” advice or the “roll to your rifle” advice? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-thundering-along-in-a-tank/373237.md?page=4)