# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/21 "2004-12-22T00:00:50Z")
Mostly NPR but lately some of my older CDs such as Alan Parsons Project _Tales of Mysteryt and Imagiantion: Edgar Alan Poe, The Story of the Clash_ and Mojo Nixon with Skid Roper _Bo-Day-Shus_. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/22 "2004-12-22T00:15:41Z")
CAKE: Comfort Eagle CAKE: the one with the pig cover The Legendary Hucklebucks: self titled Satan’s Teardrops: self titled Anson Funderburg and the Rockets featuring Sam Myers: live bootleg (recorded with permission of artist) ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/23 "2004-12-22T02:36:00Z")
In the CD player right now: The Moulin Rouge soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/24 "2004-12-22T02:52:17Z")
Well, if my cassette player actually worked in my aging car, I’d be playing all kinds of tapes. As it stands, I listen to an alternative rock station. No CD player in the offing just yet. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/25 "2004-12-22T02:54:45Z")
I’ve got a stack of CDs in the passenger seat of the truck. The three I’ve listened to most recently were a Christmas medley, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, and a collection of random music ranging from Modest Mouse to Hank Williams III. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/26 "2004-12-22T03:12:25Z")
Standby blues favorites: - John Lee Hooker - Albert King - Albert Collins - Howlin’ Wolf - Fenton Robinson - Steve Ray Vaughan - Jimmy Hendrix - BB King CD’s of Bands I’ve heard live: - Rod Piazza - Hot Rod & the Blues Devilles - Jim Diamond & The Groove Syndicate - Larry Garner - Big Al and the Heavyweights - Willie Pooch - Studebaker John - Chef Chris and his Nairobi Trio - Byther Smith Alternative Music: - Micheal Hedges ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/27 "2004-12-22T03:18:05Z")
If I’ve got the radio on, it’s set to the NPR Talk & News station here. (There’s actually TWO NPR stations within reception distance here!) Otherwise, I got my Neuros fuck the iPod playing on the radio. Mostly comedy… heavy on the Carlin, some Lenny Bruce, and any number of oddball comedians whose tapes I’ve picked up at truck stops while on road trips. I’m taking a very long drive down to California in a coupla days, so I got a couple of audiobooks (The Universe in a Nutshell, Fast Food Nation) to listen to. The way I’m going, there aren’t a whole hell of a lot of radio stations. ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/28 "2004-12-22T03:37:56Z")
Modest Mouse’s Good News, Moloko’s Do You Like my Tight Sweater, Cake’s newest, what’s it called?, The Flaming Lips Hit to Death in the Future Head (or something like that) and Handsome Boy Modeling School (what was I thinking? So not a driving cd) and Bran Van 3000. I’ve got a five hour drive coming up and I’m bored of all my CDs and the audio book rental place only has romance novels and Rush Limbaugh. Eek! ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/29 "2004-12-22T03:54:18Z")
My current playlist includes [ul][li] **Juanes** , _Fíjate Bien_[/li][li] **Shakira** , _¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?_ and _Pies Descalzos_[/li][li] **Dido** , _Life for Rent_[/li][li] **Ciara** , _Goodies_[/li][li] **Paulina Rubio** , _Paulina_[/li][li] **Aimee Mann** , _Lost in Space_[/li] **Mediæval Bæbes** , _Undrentide_[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/30 "2004-12-22T04:00:49Z")
In my six-disc CD changer: REM - Eponymous Social Distortion - Social Distortion Ray Charles - Genius Loves Company Eva Cassidy - Songbird Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me Plimsouls - Everywhere At Once Honest ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/31 "2004-12-22T07:10:44Z")
A huge stack of burned-at-home CDs containing everything from Dean Martin and Reba McIntyre to Adam Ant, Pink Floyd and Dashboard Confessional. A bunch of folkie CDs: Seelie Court, Minstrels of Mayhem, Brollywacker, Seamus Kennedy, Hair Of The Dog, Gaelic Storm. Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Christmas CDs (all three, now). My daughter’s Bowling For Soup CDs. I NEVER listen to the radio. In my husband’s car, we have Sirius satellite radio and we mostly listen to Roadhouse Country, First Wave, The Bridge and whatever the folk station is called. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/32 "2004-12-22T09:02:23Z")
Hmm. In the player right now, Green Carnation’s ‘Light of Days, Light of Darkness’. It’s a pretty awesome CD, I say. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/33 "2004-12-22T14:09:15Z")
In my CD player right now is Eminem’s Encore. Haven’t listened to too much else lately. Normally, these are my favorites: 50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Outkast - Big Boi and Dre Present … Outkast Dr. Dre - The Chronic or 2001 Busta Rhymes - Genesis John Denver - Greatest Hits Bob Marley - Legend Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/34 "2004-12-22T15:44:17Z")
Currently on heavy rotation are: Ru Paul, HO HO HO (Xmas CD) Cyndi Lauper, Merry Christmas, Have a Nice Life Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak And I have about 50 others floating around in various CD storage spaces and devices throughout the car, everything from cast recordings to greatest hits compilations to this freaky-deeky punk compilation notable only for the song “You Broke My Dick.” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/35 "2004-12-22T16:33:56Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > Hmm. In the player right now, Green Carnation’s ‘Light of Days, Light of Darkness’. It’s a pretty awesome CD, I say. 😃 Excellent choice, my friend. Word is they’ve got a 4th album due out early next year. I’ve got a few mixes in my car right now (mostly metal, one specifically doom metal) and a few full albums. Katatonia - Viva Emptiness (I love this album) Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone (not bad, worth a few spins) Flaw - Endangered Species (not so great, but not bad either) Opeth - Still Life (Best. Opeth album. Ever.) Nightwish - Once (this album is soooooo good) Ayreon - The Human Equation (the most brilliant album released this year) Atmosphere - Seven’s Travels (I loves me some good rap) Antimatter - Lights Out (some cool dark ambient) Lacuna Coil - Comalies (can’t believe I haven’t grown tired of this album yet) Mercenary - Everblack (some really kick ass heavy metal) Samael - Eternal (not tired of this one yet either) Tool - Lateralus (I’ll never get tired of this one) This may change soon, as I’m seriously thinking about getting an XM radio, especially with the little handheld ones they have now. But there are certain CDs that will always travel with me in the car, like the one **lizardling** mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/36 "2004-12-22T18:05:02Z")
Right now I have the excellent 4-CD Faces compilation _Five Guys Walk Into A Bar_ in the changer. With a total of 67 tracks, 31 of which are previously unreleased, I’m having a grand time! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/37 "2004-12-22T18:34:10Z")
Blessed silence. The [seasonal glurge-track at my workplace](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=292422) has not only put me off music, but all metered or extraneous sound. Maybe forever. I’m dumping my huge and marvelous collection of eclectic tapes and CDs off at St. Vincent de Pauls. I don’t even want to hear rustling branches, birds twittering or the rhythm of the moonlit sea. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/38 "2004-12-22T18:38:04Z")
Scissor Sisters Brian Setzer Orchestra’s Christmas Album ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/39 "2004-12-22T18:47:18Z")
Let’s see…in my CD player right now are Charlotte Church, Cat Stevens, a multi-cultural CD from the Nature Company, John Denver, Dionne Warwick, a hammered dulcimer instrumental, James Taylor, Sarah Brightman, Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel. It’s getting pretty crowded in there - I ought to let them all out for Christmas. StG ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/40 "2004-12-22T18:49:24Z")
I have some Our Miss Brooks shows on tape. I totally want Mr. Boynton, he’s so hot and passive. Also :o Gwen Stephani :o but I only listen to the first few songs! I get up to the one about being Luxurious like Egyptian Cotton and then I go back to the start. I also have Nina Simone After Hours which is the one that’s on the most and the one with the most cred. There are several Misfits tapes in the thingie between the seats for when I feel like regressing to grade 10. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013.md?page=3)