What CD’s, cassettes or vinyl LP’s (hey, it could happen) do you have in your car, that you actually listen to?
Me, I’ve got (in no particular order):
**Billy Joel ** – Glass Houses (a shout-out to the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of college)
**Meatloaf ** – Bat out of Hell (a guilty pleasure)
**Antal Dorati and the DSO ** – 1812 Overture, Capricio Italien, Marche Slave, Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet (the *original * driving music!)
**Joan Osborn ** – Relish
**Louis Armstrong ** – What a Wonderful World (all-time champeen life-affirming feel-good music)
The Eagles – Hotel California
Glen Miller – um, “Greatest Hits”
Jethro Tull – Songs from the Wood
Paul Simon – Graceland
Uncle Kracker – No Stranger to Shame (sic? – his second)
Bob Seger – Night Moves (I’m from Detroit - it’s a requirement)
Bruce Springsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. (yeah, old Bruce “before he went commercial/C&W/contented/etc.”)
Right now in the glovebox are: The Eminem Show, Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde, Richard Thompson - Watching the Dark, some kind of “best of” of the Eurythmics.
My musical tastes are nothing if not schizophrenic.
A CD my husband made for me that has, among other things, selections from Attreyu, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days’ Grace, Kanye West, A Tribe Called Quest, Ben Moody and Chevelle.
I don’t keep tapes or CDs in the car. I listen to the radio, and if that palls, I hook up my iPod through the cassete deck. Usually, it’s an audiobook, Pratchett or Bujold or Bryson.
2000 of my FavOrITE songs brought to you by iPod. But that’s cause I’m riding the bus. When I’ve driving, it’s usually one of the Vettes, at which point the radio is OFF.
Radio: The Sean Hannity Show (I monitor it because I boycott his advertisers) and our local sports talk station (unless they are being mind-numbingly stupid, which is a fairly safe bet)
I’ll tell you what I’m listening to: the damn crappy-arse commercial airwaves, because my car has a non-functioning tape deck. And a few weeks ago, Houston’s only major rock station (KLOL) switched formats to some kind of spanglish garbage, leaving me with even less viable listening choices.
The CD I’d probably be listening to in the car (if I could) would be The Legends - Up Against The Legends. It’s been stuck in my head for a week or two.
In the CD player right now, Oingo Boingo’s Boingo Alive
In the glove compartment (if I remember correctly) Jethro Tull’s “Living With the Past”, some Peruvian instumental disc, the soundtrack to “Conan the Barbarian” and Alasdair Fraser’s “The Road North”
Cake: Comfort Eagle
Phantom Of The Opera
Natalie Merchant: Ophelia
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Raffie: Let’s Play
Guns n Roses: Appetite For Destruction
Howlin’ Wolf: Little Red Rooster
Tapes: Indian almost exclusively, as I very rarely get a chance to listen to them elsewhere, and I like them a lot. Some instrumental pieces, like Yanni or Jesse Cook.
Right now I am listening to an audiobook. It’s not great, but the narrator is VERY good, so I haven’t stopped it yet.
Radio: NPR or the Totally 80’s station. (please don’t hit me)
I usually just bring out a new CD every couple of days, but I keep a few in reserve in case I forget: The Jesus and Mary Chain’s 21 Singles, Belle and Sebastian’s I’m a Cuckoo EP, a few mix CDs. If all of those fail, then either NPR or the local college station.
I have a CD album in my car, which I rotate CDs through. The current set is:
Beethoven: Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, NY Philarmonic, Leornard Bernstein conducting.
Barnes and Barnes: will Mumy (Will Robinson from Lost in Space) and a friend doing very weird stuff, including Fishheads, Peg Leg Sue, Neanderthal Love.
Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues
Two Mozart Symphonies, I forget. the numbers.
Benny Goodman, Live at Carnegie Hall.
On my visor I have a bunch of Mike Oldfield:
Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations, Platinum, QE2, Five Miles Out, Islands, Amarok and Tubular Bells 2.