# Turn it up. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269 "2006-05-03T18:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/1 "2006-05-03T18:34:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/2 "2006-05-03T18:37:01Z")
short list off the top of my head Foreplay/Long Time–Boston Cliffs of Dover–Eric Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/3 "2006-05-03T18:42:27Z")
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 There’s plenty more I’m sure… ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bug)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/4 "2006-05-03T18:47:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/5 "2006-05-03T18:57:53Z")
Burning Down the House! Yeah baby! ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Bug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andrew\_Bug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Bug)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/6 "2006-05-03T19:07:27Z")
> [@Dolores Reborn](#): > > Burning Down the House! Yeah baby! Hooray! Somebody likes me. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/7 "2006-05-03T19:14:21Z")
Spirit of the Radio - Rush Thunderstruck - AC DC Hitch a Ride - Boston December - Collective Soul ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/8 "2006-05-03T19:15:25Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/9 "2006-05-03T19:22:41Z")
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 and probably more I can’t think of right now ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/10 "2006-05-03T19:25:09Z")
Anything on the _Freedom Rock_ album! or am I showing my age, remembering that commercial? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/11 "2006-05-03T19:25:37Z")
> [@Andrew Bug](#): > > Hooray! > Somebody likes me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/12 "2006-05-03T19:37:55Z")
Volume up to 10 & Can’t do 55: 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 ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/13 "2006-05-03T19:40:50Z")
any Misfits always gets balsted! 😃 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 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/14 "2006-05-03T19:48:28Z")
**Refugee** by Tom Petty **Ohio** by the Pretenders **Roomful of Clues** by Doug and the Slugs.\*\* **My Joy** by Lucinda Williams **Congo Square** by Sonny Landreth **Lipstick Sunset** by John Hiatt ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/15 "2006-05-03T19:54:38Z")
I’d add: 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 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/16 "2006-05-03T20:11:01Z")
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. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/17 "2006-05-03T20:14:20Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/18 "2006-05-03T20:17:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/19 "2006-05-03T20:43:28Z")
My off the top of my head list: -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” ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269/20 "2006-05-03T21:56:37Z")
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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-it-up/355269.md?page=2)