# Songs you MUST crank up while driving **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 28, 2001, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074 "2001-07-28T11:49:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sk8rixtx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@sk8rixtx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sk8rixtx)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/21 "2001-07-28T17:58:23Z")
“Boys republic” - deftones “Clarissa” - mindless self indulgence “Speechless” - fenixtx “Miles Away” - goldfinger “makes no difference” - sum41 “ordinary world(duran duran cover)” - fenixtx ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/22 "2001-07-28T18:31:56Z")
“Sweet Home Alabama” after all, it says “turn it up” right as it starts, and I always do what I’m told. ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/23 "2001-07-28T18:42:46Z")
“Date Rape”, by Sublime “What would you do?”, by City High “Perfect Gentleman”, by Wyclef Jean anything on the Coyote Ugly soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/24 "2001-07-28T19:21:35Z")
Just some recent tunes that get me goin…: Saves the Day-Funeral, Rock TOnic Juice Magic, You Vandal, Car and Calories Alkaline Trio-Chainsaw, Private Eye… Velvet Acid Christ-Phucking Phreak, Zix Zix Zix New Order- 1965, Vanishing Point, True Faith… Tool-Schism, Parabola Winterkalte-Rebound Effect vs Sustainability, Saint Jarna Feindflug- Stukas Im Vieser, Stormtod ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/25 "2001-07-28T19:40:05Z")
Practically anything Rush related. Head Like A Hole, Down In It, or Closer by Nine In Nails. The Humpty Dance and Freaks Of The Industry by Digital Underground. California by Tupac That “Cut my life into pieces” song by Pappa Roach. about 90% of everything The Toadies play (Especially Possum Kingdom, I Burn, Little Sin and Dollskin). Do You Really Wanna Touch It by Monifa. Various songs by Prince (Pussy Control, Let’s Go Crazy, Get Off). Basket Case by Green Day I Remember and The Brothers by Jungle Brothers History Repeating by Propellerheads On The Road Again by Willy Nelson Blue Budda by Thrill Kill Kult ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/26 "2001-07-28T21:34:19Z")
**Pantera** ’s “Respect”. Staind’s “Mudshovel”, “Just Go”, or anything off _Tormented_. Any and all **Tool** , particularily “H”, “Eulogy”, and “The Grudge”. And **Sevendust** ’s “Bitch” usually makes me increase my speed by at least 15mph. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/27 "2001-07-28T22:44:03Z")
**Joe\_Cool:** > [@](#): > > Probably lots of other stuff that I’m forgetting. But that’ll get me a few dozen miles. 🙂 That’s what you get for livin’ in New Jersey. :d&r: ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/28 "2001-07-28T23:13:15Z")
“Louie Louie”–Kingsmen 😉 “If Ya Wanna Be Happy”–Jimmy Soul “Suddenly”–artist unknown (“suddenly…the wheels are in motion”) 🙂 “Overjoyed”–Stevie Wonder “So Much in Love”–Tymes 🙂 tears “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”–Royal Guardsmen ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/29 "2001-07-29T00:51:44Z")
“Life is a Highway” “You Ain’t Seen Nothin Yet” Any GOOD old 80’s music Any GOOD old disco (yeah yeah call it cheesy but Stayin’ Alive really gets me pumped up in the car) ---
**Author:** ![ModernRonin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@ModernRonin2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ModernRonin2)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/30 "2001-07-29T01:07:29Z")
“Da Funk” by Daft Punk. Aka “that electronic “wa, wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah”” song that nobody knows the name of. “Du Hast” by Rammstein Have to third (Nth?) “Runnin’ Down a Dream” by Tom Petty. -Ben ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/31 "2001-07-29T02:08:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sealemon88 \* > \*\*That “Cut my life into pieces” song by Pappa Roach. \*\* “Last Resort” Would it be wrong, would it be right If I took my life tonight? Chance are dynamite. ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/32 "2001-07-29T02:13:02Z")
Black on Black – Heart Her Strut – Bob Seger Touch Too Much – AC/DC Shadows Of The Night – Pat Benatar Mississippi Queen – Mountain Roll On Down The Highway – BTO Call Me – Blondie Rebel Yell – Billy Idol Cry Me A River – Joe Cocker Rock And Roll Fantasy – Bad Company All Right Now – Free Panama – Van Halen Talk Talk – Talk Talk Sweet Child O’Mine – Guns N’Roses ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/33 "2001-07-29T02:32:34Z")
Higher Love-Steve Winwood Cotton Fields-Creedence C.R. Everyday People -Sly&Fam Stone Leave It-Yes Fooling Yourself (the Angry Young Man)-Styx Levon-Elton John Life is a Highway-Tom Cochrane Love Letter-Bonnie Raitt Show Business Kids kids-Steely Dan Slow Ride-Foghat Heartbreaker-Pat Benatar Touchin’Lovin’Squeezin’-Journey Baba O’Riley-The Who South Side of the Sky-Yes Bad Company-Bad Company Closer to Heaven-Alan Parsons Do It Again-Steely Dan And You And I-Yes Downtown-Petula Clark Dust in the Wind-Kansas Flashdance (What a Feeling)-Irene Cara Jack & Diane-John Mellencamp layla-derek &the dominoes Life’s Been Good-Joe Walsh Like a Rolling Stone-Jimi Hendrix Love the One You’re With-CSN Lucifer-Alan Parsons Lola-Kinks Kashmir-Led Zeppelin Summer '68-Pink Floyd My My, Hey Hey-Neil Young Real World-Alan Parsons Meat Loaf-Bat Out of Hell (the title track) Sagrada Familia-Alan Parsons Sunny Came Home-Shawn Colvin Close to the Edge-Yes Take The Long Way Home-Supertramp Prophet Song-Queen Dogs-Pink Floyd Castle Walls-Styx I’m the Only One-Melissa Etheridge Rock On- David Essex The Battle of Evermore-Led Zeppelin Running On Empty-Jackson Browne Your Move-Yes Song Is Over - the Who Welcome to the Machine-Pink Floyd Walking On Broken Glass (Annie Lenox) Won’t Get Fooled Again-The Who ::looks up, looks around at audience’s glazed eyes:: Sorry, got a little carried away there I guess… ---
**Author:** ![AMM9132](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@AMM9132](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AMM9132)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/34 "2001-07-29T02:35:59Z")
“Back in Black”-AC/DC “Welcome to the Jungle”-Guns and Roses “Crazy Train”-Ozzy “Sweet Home Alabama”-Skynyrd “Cold Gin”- K.I.S.S. “Revolution Is My Name”-Pantera “You Shook Me All Night Long”-AC/DC “The Blood The Sweat The Tears”-Machine Head “When I Come Around”-Green Day “Call to Arms”-Dropkick Murphys These do it for me. Fun thread ---
**Author:** ![tak29813](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@tak29813](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tak29813)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/35 "2001-07-29T04:24:27Z")
Soundgarden-Burden in my Hand, Big Dumb Sex (always fun when next to minivan at a light) Most Offspring, especially Bad Habit Sublime-Under My Voodoo, DJ’s Save Ferris-Come on Eileen David Byrne and some sultry Portuguese Woman-Waters of March on Red, Hot and Rio Rage Against The Machine-Renegades of Funk Blind Melon-3 is the Magic Number (from Schoolhouse Rocks!) ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/36 "2001-07-29T05:46:14Z")
I love this board. Just as I was running out of MP3s to download, this hits the spot. But enough intro. Here we go:[sub]And it is going to take a lot to narrow this down.[/sub] **Alanis Moresette** - _Uninvited_ **Billy Joel** - _Piano Man_ **Black Crows** - _Hard To Handle_ **Bob Seger** - _Old Time Rock And Roll_ **Cab Calloway** - _Minnie The Moucher_ **Counting Crows** - _Mr. Jones_ **Creed** - _Higher_ **Don Henley** - _Boys Of Summer_ **Enigma feat. Enya** - _Return To Innocence_ **Green Day** - _Minority_ **Jennifer Lopez** - _Feeling So Good_ **Journey** - _Don’t Stop Believing_ **Kool And The Gang** - _Celebration_ **Marvin Gaye** - _Sexual Healing_ **Notorious BIG** - _Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems_ **Rouque Heat Wave** - _Boogie Nights_ **Soft Cell** - _Tainted Love_ **Stroke 9** - _Little Black Backpack_ **The Sweet** - _Little Willy_ **Tom Petty** - _Freefalling_[sub]Oh Crap…I’m getting long here.[/sub] **Trick Daddy** - _Take It To The House_ **Van Morrison** - _Brown Eyed Girl_ **Venga Boys** - _Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom_ AND: All Classical Music. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/37 "2001-07-29T12:48:24Z")
There’s a lot of tunes I love to crank, but some that I just can’t resist: _Paint it Black_ - Rolling Stones _The Zoo_ - Scorpions _Three Lock Box_, _I Can’t Drive 55_ - Sammy Hagar _Signs_ - Five Man Electrical Band _Rolling Stone_ - Dr. Hook and the New Medicine Show _Tusk_ - Fleetwood Mac _Live Wire_ - Mötley Crüe _Should I Stay or Should I Go?_ - The Clash _In A Gadda Da Vida_ - Iron Butterfly _Dream On_ - Aerosmith _1812 Overture_ (assuming the speakers can handle it!) \ ---
**Author:** ![sulamith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@sulamith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sulamith)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/38 "2001-07-29T14:06:11Z")
Many of the ones already mentioned, plus Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith! ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/39 "2001-07-29T15:12:29Z")
Some of your DJs sure have a liberal translation of what qualifies as “Classic Rock.” Sheesh. I am a nice, conservative, plumpish, suburb-living, Honda-driving mother. But when AC/DC comes on, I must crank. ---
**Author:** ![BooBoo316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@BooBoo316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BooBoo316)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2001, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074/40 "2001-07-29T15:12:52Z")
All of mine are pretty much covered already, except for Steppenwolf’s _Magic Carpet Ride_. I also hope that I’m not the only person here who feels just a little bit odd hearing songs I grew up with on the Classic Rock station. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-must-crank-up-while-driving/74074.md?page=3)