# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/41 "2004-12-22T19:02:30Z")
order unknown: BR549 Nick Drake Blink 182 Cindy Lauper Beautiful South Linkin Park Jesus and Mary Chain Gypsy Kings Patsy Cline Ben Lee Compilation of Aussie 70s and 80s punk x 2 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/42 "2004-12-22T19:58:30Z")
The wind and ambient traffic. I had my radio stolen almost two years ago, and have never seen the need to replace it. I miss NPR a little, but I enjoy the “quiet time” (though if we’re ever on longer road trips, my wife notices its absence a bit). ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/43 "2004-12-22T20:54:12Z")
In the CD player right now is Disc 1 of **Iron Maiden** ’s [_Ed Hunter_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00001R3FZ/qid=1103748587/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-3543308-3317451) set, which I got on Saturday as an early Christmas gift. (I love me some Bruce Dickinson! 😃 ) I keep a Case Logic CD wallet in the car with a bunch of discs that I swap out from time to time. Let’s see what I can remember of the contents from off the top of my head: **Rent** ; the **Triplets of Belleville** soundtrack; a handful of homemade mix CDs; the other _Ed Hunter_ disc and one other Iron Maiden album; two **Cowboy Mouth** discs; two **Linkin Park** discs; and some other stuff I can’t remember right now (though there’s probably some **Billy Joel** and some **Beatles** in there). I’ll be listening to Maiden for a while. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/44 "2004-12-22T21:57:14Z")
Del McCoury - Del & The Boys Jimi Hendrix - Blues Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess Herbie Hancock - Headhunters De La Soul - Three Feet High & Rising The Beatles - Revolver Anthony Newman Plays Bach - 24 Preludes and Fugues Ice Cube - The Predator Eclectic, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/45 "2004-12-23T03:32:02Z")
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty Doors - LA Woman Strokes - Is this it Franz Ferdinand - eponymous Bobbie Gentry - best of and the sixth spot in my cd changer is currently a compilation I made up of the first 20 5\* rated songs on my iTunes. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/46 "2004-12-23T06:23:22Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > 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.[/SIZE] This wouldn’t work for me, since I invariably find myself humming the last godawful Christmas song that I heard in a store or other public place. My own music can drive that out of my head if I play it loud enough. Right now, I have: **Radiohead** , _OK Computer_ **R.E.M.** , _New Adventures in Hi-Fi_ **David Byrne** , _Feelings_ **Oingo Boingo** , _Good For Your Soul_ Nothing even remotely recent, but music I know well works best to tamp down the excess holiday cheer. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/47 "2004-12-23T06:31:23Z")
:rolleyes: **I’m not in my car! [sub]and I doubt if any of the rest of you are either.[/sub]** ---
**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 23, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/48 "2004-12-23T07:11:13Z")
> [@Genghis Bob](#): > > vinyl LP’s (hey, it could happen) [It did happen!](http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=2495&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2311) ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/49 "2004-12-23T08:16:46Z")
I don’t know the names of the albums just the artists, mostly they are of the “greatest hits” variety. Waylon Jennings Lynard Skynard Jimmy Buffet Queen Sheryl Crowe Dixie Chicks Bonnie Rait Assorted comedy ---
**Author:** ![START](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@START](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/START)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/50 "2004-12-23T09:00:03Z")
> [@Genghis Bob](#): > > 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? Something LOUD enough that you can hear me coming a block away 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/51 "2004-12-23T11:01:48Z")
In my 6 CD changer: **Jimmy Buffett** : _Meet Me In Margaritaville_ 2 CDs **Brad Paisley** : _Mud On The Tires_ **Nickel Creek** : _Nickel Creek_ **Clint Black** : _Spend My Time_ **Bonnie Raitt** : _The Best of Bonnie Raitt_ ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/52 "2004-12-23T18:35:11Z")
I’m such a sucker for these threads that I’ve come back to post again . . . this time, with the contents of my Case Logic wallet at hand. :D[ul] [li]8 homemade mix CDs[/li][li] **Andrew Lloyd Webber** - The Premier Collection: The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber[/li][li] **Bond** - Born[/li][li] **Bond** - Classified[/li][li] **Cowboy Mouth** - Easy[/li][li] **Cowboy Mouth** - Uh-Oh[/li][li] **Melissa Etheridge** - Lucky[/li][li] **John Mellencamp** - The Best That I Could Do 1978-1988[/li][li] **Jimmy Buffett** - Songs You Know By Heart[/li][li] **Maroon 5** - Songs About Jane[/li][li] **Linkin Park** - Hybrid Theory[/li][li] **Linkin Park** - Meteora[/li][li] **Chess** - Soundtrack[/li][li] **Glenn Miller** - The Best of Glenn Miller[/li][li] **Rent** - Soundtrack[/li][li] **Triplets of Belleville** - Soundtrack[/li][li] **Rascal Flatts** - Feels Like Today[/li][li] **Iron Maiden** - Ed Hunter[/li][/ul] No Billy Joel or Beatles after all . . . huh. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013/53 "2004-12-24T01:03:36Z")
Primarily, it’s mix cds, but I also have a few albums that I can’t listen to at work due to excessive weirdness or profanity, so those come in the car sometimes. Right now, it’s **Paul’s Boutique** by the Beastie Boys, **Get Away From Me** by Nellie McKay, and **Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots** by the Flaming Lips. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-listening-to-in-your-car/281013.md?page=2)