We know what it’s like. You get in the car with your friends to enjoy a day out in the sun, and they can’t stop arguing about what music to put on! But worry no more, we’re here to compile the definitive driving playlist.
Use the comments box below to suggest the songs that you think we can’t do without on our summer playlist and we’ll choose the best ones. Extra marks for everyone who makes us laugh! And no fighting now….
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Apply some Pressure - Mark Ronson/Paul Smith
Prayer - Disturbed
Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters
Starlight - Muse
Wake Up - Rage Against the Machine
Living Is a Problem Because Everything Dies - Biffy Clyro
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
Underneath the Gun - Limp Bizkit
Karma Police - Radiohead
What I’ve Done - Linkin Park
Touched - VAST
This Moment - Disturbed
The ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane - Nick Cave
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
Democracy - Leonard Cohen
1969 - Iggy Pop and The Stooges
Waiting for the man - Lou Reed
Anti-Christ Television Blues - Arcade Fire
Light and Day - The Polyphonic Spree
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
I can see where this list is going which is great for those who like it and I’ve nothing against them. I’ll probably stick to Radios 3 and 4, and hope that a good radio provision continues to be available in the cars, which I very much appreciate - though not when I find I have to reprogramme the stations I like because their buttons have been taken over by local radio or R1.
Ignore the heavy stuff, stick on a bit of:
Annie Lennox - Walking on broken Glass
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffanys
Oasis - Headshrinker
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
I like to hear:
Razorlight (pretty much anything)
The Killers - Joyride
Ciara - Love, sex & magic
Rihanna - Disturbia
Always take the weather - crowded house?
Coldplay - viva la vida
MUSE -
DIDO - COCAINE
AEROSMITH- I DONT WANNA MISS A THING
NO DOUBT -
COUNTING CROWES
EVENSCENSE - FALLEN
Any Beach Boys
Santana
For Summer listenign any latin/spanish eg. Gypsy Kings
We need something bright cheerful and something you can dance to whilst driving (only kidding)
These are my absolute faves to drive to, a mix of (relatively) old and new for everyone…
01 Bedouin Soundclash - “When the night feels my song”
02 Mark Ronson - “Just” (Radiohead)
03 Alice Russell - “Humankind”
04 Jellybass - “Vulgar”
05 Beats International - “Dub be good to me”
06 Madcon - “Beggin”
07 Dizzee Rascal - “Dance Wiv Me”
08 Wiley - “Wearin my Rolex”
09 U2 - “Beautiful Day”
10 Embrace - “Ashes”
11 Snow Patrol - “Run”
12 Muse - “Knights of Cydonia”
My preference is Classic FM, but if the family are along its something horrible like radio 1 or noisy local stuff - with you on that one Angela!.
To keep us all happy with some CDs:
- once through on Horrid Henry (urgh!) is quite enough;
- Bodega and their eponymous album, especially ‘Wagon Wheel’ (yeah! rock me mama!);
- and a Hank Williams compilation
are the best.
It depends who gets control of the CD player!
The best driving songs ever are:
Radar Love GOLDEN EARRING
Grey Cortina TOM ROBINSON BAND
Car trouble ADAM AND THE ANTS
I HATE driving, but if I have to, I will gladly tune to Classical Radio which rather operates like a background noise rather than actual music you listen to.
This way, I can keep all of my concentration to watch the road, and more specifically other cars.
If there’s no traffic (or passenger in the car), I will play any Red Hot Chili Peppers or the Ramones and sing along.
Definitely some Bedouin Soundclash in there! And I have to agree with Biffy Clyro if you’re doing some motorway driving!
For me, you’ve got to have plenty of reggae on a summer playlist. Some Toots and the Maytals would work perfectly, either “Funky Kingston” or “54-46 What’s My Number?”
NOTE FOR LATER: Ask my colleagues and friends to lend me some Bedouin Soundclash CDs- never heard of them but everybody is on about how great their music is…
I feel super silly! 8/
You’ll have probably heard “When the Night Feels My Song” on a T-Mobile advert that was on TV back in 2007.
They’re a really chilled out reggae/ska/rock/pop type band, absolutely perfect for a hot summer’s day!
Here’s a driving playlist we did for MotorTorque.com a couple of years ago. I think they key constituent is Crockett’s Theme (this is a Spotify url):
http://open.spotify.com/user/robinbrown78/playlist/4ZECfeZoCMNLYskofLM8jc