# What are you listening to in your car? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013 "2004-12-21T18:32:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Genghis\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/45deac/32.png) [@Genghis\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genghis_Bob)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/1 "2004-12-21T18:32:59Z")
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.”) How about you? ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/2 "2004-12-21T18:34:23Z")
My muffler. (hmmm, where is that warranty?) ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/3 "2004-12-21T18:36:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/4 "2004-12-21T18:37:11Z")
Blue Man Group **The Complex** ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/5 "2004-12-21T18:49:26Z")
Brian Setzer’s Christmas… Led Zeppelin’s box set (still in box)… ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/6 "2004-12-21T18:55:38Z")
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 usually just listen to the ol’ XM, though. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/7 "2004-12-21T19:01:27Z")
_Monchy y Alexandra’s Dance Remixes_ _Dwight Yoakam’s Greatest Hits_ ---
**Author:** ![Graycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Graycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graycat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/8 "2004-12-21T19:04:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/9 "2004-12-21T19:04:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wartime\_Consigliori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9d8465/32.png) [@Wartime\_Consigliori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wartime_Consigliori)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/10 "2004-12-21T19:22:13Z")
Cassette: **Dead Letter Office** by REM. 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) ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/11 "2004-12-21T19:23:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/12 "2004-12-21T19:45:25Z")
The Cowboy Bebop soundtrack boxed set, which is my best Christmas present so far this year. Thanks, Mom-In-Law! ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/13 "2004-12-21T19:51:36Z")
On the radio, NPR. 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” ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/14 "2004-12-21T20:36:04Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/15 "2004-12-21T20:37:20Z")
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) ---
**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:** [December 21, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/16 "2004-12-21T20:38:55Z")
No cd player in the car and I threw out my cassettes, so it’s glorious **XM Radio** for me too. Specifically: -80’s on 8 -Cinemagic -XM Comedy -Fred -Ethyl -Lucy And currently it’s Special X-Mas 24/7 ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/17 "2004-12-21T21:13:42Z")
Pulp - [This is Hardcore](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781ED84AA97320C2933945CFB575F30FDF45FB881F264B53DDB33068850262EC5DFC85D3E2A528F811D9B959ED0974B686EF54E3DE67223F8DEEA22C3C344A0502214190A897&sql=10:woue4jj73wae) 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](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781ED84AA97320C2933945CFB575F30FDF45FB881F264B53DDB33068850262EC5DFC85D3E2A528F811D9B959ED0974B686EF54E3DE67223F8DEEA22C3C344A0702214090A897&sql=10:7q87gjir36ix), Belle and Sebastian’s [I’m a Cuckoo](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE4781ED84AA97320C2933945CFB575F30FDF45FB881F264B53DDB33068850262EC5DFC85D3E2A528F811D9B959ED0974B686EF54E3DE67223F8DEEA22C3C344A0502254290A897&sql=10:fven97udkrkt) EP, a few mix CDs. If all of those fail, then either NPR or the local college station. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/18 "2004-12-21T22:07:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/19 "2004-12-21T22:47:51Z")
I’ve been listening to Jay-Z’s \*\*The Black Album \*\* lately. I got some dirt on my shoulder, would you brush it off for me? ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/20 "2004-12-21T23:29:50Z")
One of my favorite bands in the whole wide world is National Skyline. Their “This=Everything” has been playing exclusively for 2 months now. I don’t drive much as of late, but I love that disk so much I just haven’t wanted to take it out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013.md?page=2)