This may have been done before, but it’s time to do it again.
What songs, when you hear them start on the car stereo, automatically cause you to reach for the volume and crank it all the way up?
A short list, off the top of my head:
Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away Neil Young - Country Home Queen - Tie Your Mother Down The Replacements - The Ledge The Mekons - Memphis Egypt Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money Waterboys - We Will Not Be Lovers The Knack - My Sharona (really, turn it WAY up) Blue Oyster Cult - Flaming Telepaths, or alternately - Dominance and Submission AC/DC - ALL of Back in Black Bon Jovi - Livin’ on a Prayer Camper Van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima, Parts I and II (but find the live version) Steve Earle - Copperhead Road (again, get the live version) Shivaree - Goodnight Moon Jill Sobule - Supermodel Nick Lowe - I Knew the Bride (ONLY the live version from "Stiffs Live, that studio version blows. Sorry, Nick) Lucinda Williams - Pineola, or Real Live Bleeding Fingers and Broken Guitar Strings
It seems I spend a lot of time with the stereo playing louder than it shouls, huh?
Sweet Home Alabama - when he says “turn it up!”
Any AC/DC
Fat Bottom Girls - Queen
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Run Through the Jungle - Creedence
Ain’t Goin’ Down (til the Sun Comes Up) - Garth Brooks
Gloria-Them
Complete Control-The Clash
Letsgetabitarockin-101’ers
Search and Destroy-Iggy and the Stooges
Skinhead Moonstomp-Symarip
54-46(that’s my number)-Toots and the Maytals
Burning Down the House-Talking Heads
Psychotic Reaction-Count Five
Be-bop-a-lula-Gene Vincent
Tank!-Yoko Kanno And The Seatbelts.
Sweet Home Alabama
Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City - Guns & Roses
You Shook Me All Night Long, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
Enter Sandman & Master of Puppets - Metallica
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
In Bloom - Nirvana
Bullet, Where Eagles Dare - The Misfits
Ain’t Going Down… -Garth Brooks
Walk Like an Egyptian -Bangles
Get Back -Beatles
Running Down the Dream -Tom Petty
Nth Degree -Morningwood
Late in the Evening -Paul Simon
5 from the 60’s
Yardbirds ¤ Over Under Sideways Down & Train Kept A Rollin
Rolling Stones ¤ Stray Cat Blues
Arthur Brown ¤ Fanfare / Fire Poem / Fire
Ten Years After ¤ At The Woodchoppers Ball (Live)
John Mayall ¤ Room to Move (Live)
10 from the 70’s
Led Zeppelin ¤ Immigrant Song
Buddy Miles ¤ Them Changes
Black Sabbath ¤ Sweet Leaf or St Vitus Dance
Harry Nilsson ¤ Jump Into The Fire
Atomic Rooster ¤ Breathless
Jeff Beck ¤ Going Down
Buzzcocks ¤ Orgasm Addict
Flash & The Pan ¤ Hey Saint Peter
The Records ¤ Starry Eyes
Sniff ‘N’ The Tears ¤ Driver’s Seat
10 from the 80’s
Kings ¤ This Beat Goes On - Switching to Glide
Pretenders ¤ Precious or Time the Avenger
Talking Heads ¤ Cities or Crosseyed And Painless
Tears for Fears ¤ Change
Joe Walsh ¤ The Confessor
Paul Young ¤ I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Replacements ¤ Alex Chilton
Mason Ruffner ¤ Gypsy Blood
Georgia Satellites ¤ Hippy Hippy Shake
Pursuit of Happiness ¤ I’m An Adult Now
10 from the 90’s
Jane’s Addiction ¤ Stop
Was (Not Was) ¤ I Feel Better Than James Brown
Ministry ¤ N W O
Dink ¤ Green Mind
Mike Watt ¤ Against the '70s
Stone Temple Pilots ¤ Trippin On A Hole In A Paper Heart
Tool ¤ Ænema
Blur ¤ Song 2
Filter & The Crystal Method ¤ (Can’t You) Trip Like I Do
Ocean Colour Scene ¤ Hundred Mile High City
10 from the 00’s
Basement Jaxx ¤ Where’s Your Head At
Delerium ¤ Innocente [DJ Tiësto Remix]
System Of A Down ¤ Chop Suey
Weezer ¤ Hash Pipe
Foo Fighters ¤ All My Life
Korn ¤ Thoughtless
Queens Of The Stone Age ¤ Go With The Flow
Beck ¤ Girl
Magic Numbers ¤ Mornings Eleven
The Raconteurs ¤ Steady As She Goes
I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Human Fly - The Cramps
Ocean Size, Mountain Song - Jane’s Addiction
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
Guns of Brixton, Magnificent Seven - The Clash
Sweet Leaf, War Pigs, Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath
Slow Hands - Interpol
Dangerous, Make it Clap, Fire It Up - Busta Rhymes
Word Up - Cameo
Burning Beard, Profits of Doom, Elephant Riders - Clutch
Smash It Up, Love Song - The Dammed
Them Bones - Alice in Chains
Urgent - Foreigner
You Ain’t Gotta Lie to Kick it - Ice Cube
First Aid, Deep Down Trauma Hounds - Skinny Puppy
Dam that River - Alice in Chains
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails (slow song but it rocks)
Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound - Hank Jr.
Lost Highway - Hank Williams
Move it On Over - George Throgood
Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
Black Betty - Spiderbait
Van Halen - Unchained
This thread is depressing! You guys actually get to hear stuff like that on the radio? The crappy-ass stations where I live play non-stop crap. I almost never want to turn it up.
No, I never hear hardly any of those songs on the radio. The OP says “What songs, when you hear them start on the car stereo, automatically cause you to reach for the volume and crank it all the way up?” I hear them on my stereo when my MP3 player plays them!
My #1 “turn it up” tune is Don’t Bring Me Down, by ELO. I never get tired of it, and louder is better, even though the recording quality leaves much to be desired.
-Beatles “Revolution” [fast version of course]
-Beatles “I Saw Her Standing There”
-Neil Young “Like A Hurricane”
-Van Morrison “Brown Eyed Girl”
anyone singing “Gloria”, esp. Patti Smith
also anyone’s version of “Wild Nights”
Bob Seger- Hollywood Nights
Don McLean- American Pie
Billy Joel- Only the Good Die Young
The Hollies-Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress
AC/DC- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
ZZ Top- Tube Snake Boogie
Golden Earring-Radar Love
Big & Rich- Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy
Thin Lizzy- The Boys Are Back In Town
Pretty much anything by Queen
Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round
Dixie Chicks- Good Bye Earl
Billy Idol- Mony Mony, White Wedding, Rebel Yell
