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Volume Up, Windows Down
Driving around with the volume up and windows down is requisite every summer. Preferably on a wide, open road headed to the canyon, lake, mountains, anywhere except home. Ok, sometimes in town. Here are some of my favorites to listen to.
You knew this one was coming!
There are too many, but these make me happy!
Please share yours! Feel the wind in your hair and sing along!
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The best of Festus, Missouri:
I don’t drive, but let’s pretend:
From a great album by a band with a terrible singer.
From my fave ZZ Top album, the first song being relevant to me:
“Legs” and other 80s ZZ Top were the first I heard from them until I got their Greatest Hits album when I was 13. Imagine my surprise.
The liner notes for GH said “tush” was Texas slang for “deluxe”.
Very strangely I listened to that Television album last week after not doing so in some years. A few hours later there was a category on Jeopardy called Marquee Moon.
Billy Gibbons is so underrated.
LOVE that Television record.
I particularly like the first 4 songs in the OP, plus Matt’s #22 by Meatloaf.
I mostly listen to Christian music these days, and I had a Country phase before that. But the theme seems to be rock, so I’ll offer this one:
You kids really make things happen out there.
I love this one, too!
My favorite Bon Jovi song.
The Radar Gun one reminded me of Golden Earring’s Radar Love:
Only by the unwashed masses. Jimi Hendrix called him the best guitarist he’d ever heard.
For me in summer, there’s cruising down the boulevard/ through the park music, and then there’s cruising down the highway music.
Really I gots too many to list all of them (as usual when it comes to music), so here’s a few samples come to mind
Blvd :
And then there’s the open highway (like the 280 down the penisula, 2:00 AM kinda highway):
For a couple brief years they were huge. A shame it seems they’ve been fairly forgotten now. Business As Usual is full of great songs, and Cargo has a couple few standouts as well. I Can See It In Your Eyes and Down by the Sea are two of my favorite non-singles from Business.
Agreed. See No Evil has gotta embody the 70s NYC sound better than just about anything, and the title track is just magical.
“Born to Be Wild” by Steppenwolf is number one. How about “Flirtin’ With Disaster” by Molly Hatchet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta5hPRmxo8k
Throw in some “Cult of Personality” by Living Colour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
And finish with Lenny Kravitz, “Are You Gonna Go My Way”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhCd1W2V0Q
“Fool for the City” (Foghat) with conditions:
– nighttime (around 2:00 AM) & at least 10 hours into the drive on I75, hurtling into Chattanooga
– needs to be 1976
I was into Anime when we called it Japanimation
my favorite song, among many from that series, showing them singing and the recruitment of the Knight Sabers by one of my favorite Anime Characters, Celia Stingray
Yamato!
Anything thing by this guy:
That was the first one that came to my mind!
Some others (showing my age, here)
Heck, a whole lot of Tower of Power works
This one always makes me think of driving down Highway One in Southern California in the summer in a convertible.
#44 William Dean
Hendrix must have been more promiscuous with his praise for guitarists than I thought: He apparently had said that Chicago guitarist Terry Kath was the best out there.
No Beachboys for summertime?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREBD2og5iY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JasiSpmfsU&list=RDwREBD2og5iY&index=7
And Boys of Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=672F2t5dVeY
And the Anthem of Myrtle Beach when I was a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEqRMVnZNU
I guess I’m in the minority, but what about
https://youtu.be/wBjPAqmnvGA?t=25 (Charlie Daniels Band – Devil Went down to Georgia)
Hopefully, this link works.
(edited to put band and name)
Perhaps. Here’s a brief clip of Jimi and Dick Cavett, followed by Cavett interviewing Gibbons and bringing it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJxiCZwP_GI
#35 kylez
Amazon listener reviews for the CD version(s) of Tres Hombres seem to trash one or more of the remasters for having apparently re*mixed* the entire album in addition to shoehorning in various re-*recorded* parts here and there.
According to many of these outraged reviewers, Warner Brothers added reverb to the drums, for instance — on every single track; this kind of adulteration with the mix allegedly was done to bring ZZ Top’s earlier sound more in line with that of “Eliminator” which was a runaway commercial success.
Having said all this, there *also* appears to be a “reissue” CD version of Tres Hombres which kept the original mix as it was on vinyl.
All in all, I’d like to get a copy of this non-adulterated CD — but I have considerable difficulty figuring out whether it’s actually available on Amazon (whether Amazon proper or via a merchant on its platform.
Any guidance/insight you (or anyone) might be able to share? Many thanks in advance!
I pretty disappointed in myself for not thinking of this, having spent about half my life driving past Stop n’ Shops with the radio on.
The good news is that somebody else still remembers it, and it got a bunch likes.
@dotorimuk