# Songs you love to really belt out while driving
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 5, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026 "2012-12-05T02:21:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/21 "2012-12-05T14:02:36Z")
Show tunes. ANY show tunes. Though I’m partial to “(One) Singular Sensation” from A Chorus Line, and “All That Jazz” from Chicago, and selections from “Phantom of the Opera”.
“Copacabana” by Barry Manilow.
“My Man” by Barbra Streisand.
And don’t tell anyone, but when I’m alone in the car at Christmas time - Christmas carols. Some of them, anyway “Walking In A Winter Wonderland”, “Mary’s Boy Child”, “Santa Baby”.
I’m sorry I can’t think of any more current songs, the content of my CDs reveals I’m stuck in the past!
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/22 "2012-12-05T14:41:43Z")
Most of the songs in this thread oddly enough, plus:
Boys of Summer - Don Henly
Just about anything by Trooper, but Raise a little Hell is an excellent example.
The Look - Roxette
Basically anything with a strong beat and fun lyrics that will keep me from focusing on how much of an idiot that guy is OMG WHO GAVE YOU A LICENSE???
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/23 "2012-12-05T14:51:23Z")
Lots of 'em, but the first thing that popped into my head is Tom Petty’s _American Girl_.
Possibly the perfect rock and roll song.
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### Author:  [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/24 "2012-12-05T15:28:02Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> “Living on a Prayer” --Bon Jovi
Yeah, good choice.
“'Cause I’m freeeeeeee…free fallin…” is a favorite of mine. Also, several 90’s alternative and grunge songs are common for me, especially “Give It Away,” just about anything off of Ten by Pearl Jam, “Spoonman.”
A local station played “Blow Up The Outside World” by Soundgarden, this was years back. When I got to the end, where Chris Cornell and I were just chanting the title of the song for a while, I looked up to see that next to me was a carful of nuns, giving me a very strange look.
It’s also nice that my wife and I actually harmonize fairly well, despite the fact that I can’t sing. We do a good job with “Hunger Strike,” she takes Chris Cornell’s parts.
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### Author:  [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/25 "2012-12-05T15:29:07Z")
I will actually circle the block so I can finish singing “Pumped Up Kicks.”
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### Author:  [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/26 "2012-12-05T15:58:50Z")
My favorites:
“Born to Run” Bruce Springsteen
“The Boys of Summer” Don Henley
“Piano Man” Billy Joel
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/27 "2012-12-05T16:40:27Z")
The Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. Yes, really.
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### Author:  [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/28 "2012-12-05T16:45:13Z")
Margaritaville
She Shook Me All Night Long
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/29 "2012-12-05T16:49:04Z")
A whole bunch, in fact. A sampling:
Tom Petty, “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
Grand Funk Railroad, “I’m Your Captain”
Kitchens of Distinction, “Drive That Fast”
Sisters of Mercy, “Lucretia My Reflection” (extended 8 min version)
Cult, “She Sells Sanctuary” (also 8 min extended version)
U2, “Where the Streets Have No Name”
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/30 "2012-12-05T16:57:20Z")
Jackson Browne, Running on Empty
Al Stewart, Song on the Radio, and Time Passages
Van Halen, Jump
Dave Nachmanoff, Sheila Won’t Be Coming Home
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### Author:  [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/31 "2012-12-05T17:01:45Z")
Boston -More than a feeling
Clash - Pressure drop
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/32 "2012-12-05T19:14:48Z")
Dusty Springfield - “Son of a Preacher Man”
> [@notfrommensa](#):
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> …She Shook Me All Night Long
Good one!
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### Author:  [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/33 "2012-12-05T19:17:46Z")
> [@RobDog](#):
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> Boston -More than a feeling
Boston songs are great but I have to make doubly sure the windows are rolled up and there are no passengers present, they’re REALLY hard to sing well and singing is not one of my strengths at the best of times.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/34 "2012-12-05T19:27:53Z")
Some good ones have already been mentioned – Don’t Stop Believing, Living on a Prayer, You Shook Me All Night Long, stuff by Trooper (I’d go with The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car, myself).
I’d add:
Jungle Love & The Joker – Steve Miller Band
Centerfold – J. Geils Band
The number one song I cannot fail to sing (and talk) along with when driving (although I don’t really “belt it out”): “Foux Da Fa Fa” by Flight of the Conchords
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### Author:  [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/35 "2012-12-05T19:34:34Z")
All Ke$ha songs. I’m constantly flipping through my preset stations to make sure I’m not missing a Ke$ha song. On long trips, I make sure to bring her CDs along, especially if I’m traveling through an area with no good stations (i.e., any rural area).
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/36 "2012-12-05T19:39:30Z")
The Analog Kid - Rush.
Workin’ Them Angels - Rush. Blew the speakers on this one.
Inhale - Big Wreck.
Acrobat - U2.
The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd.
4:33 AM (Running Shoes) - Roger Waters.
Among others.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/37 "2012-12-05T19:54:45Z")
School’s Out for Summer – Alice Cooper
Sweet City Woman – The Stampeders (including the falsetto scatting portion, of course)
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/38 "2012-12-05T20:03:26Z")
“Otherside” - Red Hot Chili Peppers. preferably at the top of my fucking lungs.
“Stay” by BicRunga.
“American Pie”
“Hey Soul Sister” by Train
“No Heaven” by Champion
“Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo
“Somebody Like You” by Keith Urban
Singing in the car is one of my greatest joys.
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### Author:  [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/39 "2012-12-05T22:34:41Z")
Meatloaf “Bat Out of Hell” windows down, sing loud, drive fast :-/
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### Author:  [@Hottius\_Maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hottius_Maximus)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-love-to-really-belt-out-while-driving/643026/40 "2012-12-05T22:52:53Z")
“Driver’s Seat” by Sniff’N The Tears (My buddy & I love to GEEK OUT to this one)
“Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart” by Elton John
“Do 'Ya” “Sweet Talking Woman” “Turn To Stone” “Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO
“My Love” by Pet Clark
“Lollipop” by Mika (my wife & I do this one together)
“Since You Been Gone” by Rainbow
“Paradise By The Dashboard Light” by Meatloaf
“Go West” by Pet Shop Boys
“Let My Love Open The Door” by Pete Townsend
“Rubberband Man” by the Spinners
and of course,
“Major Tom” by Peter Schilling (in English)
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