Osler's Razor

Three words. De-li-cious.
 

Delicious and spicy variety. Just don't drive angry!
 

I like a little bass with my driving.
 

The song that immediately springs to mind is CCR - Up Around the Bend, but I pretty much like anything with a driving beat.
 

Anon 1:11

If by "de-li-cious" you mean Kim Deal or her twin Kelly, I agree. That was her side project from the Pixies.
 

A few of my favorites:

Uncle Tupelo's "Graveyard Shift"

Son Volt's "Windfall"

The Marshall Tucker Band's "Long, Hard Ride"

Pink Floyd's "One of These Days"
 

"Mother" by Danzig.

I'm hardcore.
 

Alright, Danzig. \m/

I find that a little "Freya" by the Sword, or perhaps "Maiden, Mother and Crone" gets my foot on the gas pedal. Or "Generator" by Bad Religion.
 

I heard that RRL only has an AM radio in his van.
 

(and it's a VW van).
 

The IPLawDaughters now regularly request/DEMAND the following:

-Smoke on the Water, by Deep Purple
-Summertime Blues, by the Who
-Boris the Spider, by the Who
-Pinball Wizard, the Who
-Lazy, Deep Purple

I'm very proud.
 

"Driving Music" is just about the only music I like. In addition to my daughters' requests, recent faves include:

-"Its Only Rock & Roll" by the Stones
-Just about anything from the White Stripes, esp. the first album
-"Paranoid" by Black Sabbath
-"Let the Dominoes Fall" by Rancid
-"Its Not the Fall That Hurts" by the Caesars.
-Almost anything by the Hives
-"Rave On" by Buddy Holly
-"Shake Some Action" by the Flamin' Groovies
-"Twisterella" by Ride
-"Way Down Now" by World Party
-Anything by Little Richard
-Anything by the J. Geils Band
-"Shakin Street" and "Kick Out the Jams" by the MC5
-Almost anything by Zeppelin (not "Going to California" and nothing from "In through the Out Door")
-Little Walter
-Howling Wolf
-Muddy Waters
etc. etc.
 

Oh, and the Best Driving Tune of all,

"Train Kept a' Rollin'" - Yardbirds version. The Jeff Beck rave up is AWESOME.

Anything else by the Yardbirds is excellent too.

-"Dear Mr. Fantasy" and most, but not all of Traffic's tunes
-"All Down the Line" by the Stones. (Most of the Stones' tunes are great, but they put out plenty of dreck too)
-"Fresh Air" by the Quicksilver Messenger Service
-"Don't Do It" by The Band
-"Red Hot" and "Flying Saucer Rock and Roll" by Billy C. Reilly
-"I'm Down" and "Boys" by the Beatles

I could do this all day.....
 

Hey man, AM radio is cool. Nothing like rolling down the windows in my van and blasting NPR at full volume.

Driving Songs:

"You Don't Know What Love Is" - White Stripes
"1901" - Phoenix
"Summertime Blues" - The Who
"Ain't to Proud to Beg" - The Temptations
"Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding
"Can't You Hear me Knocking" - Rolling Stones
"BYOB" - System of a Down
"46+2" - Tool
"Bulls on Parade" - RATM
"Walk of Life" - Dire Straits
"Centerfold" - J. Geils Band
"Here I Go Again" - Whitesnake
"Pour Some Sugar on Me" - Def Leppard
"Same Old Situation" - Motley Crue
"Tie Your Mother Down" - Queen
"Bring it On Home to Me" - Sam Cooke
"99 Problems" - Jay Z
"BOB" - Outkast
"Cruisin" - Smokey and the Miracles

Anything by Prince (but most particularly "Lets Go Crazy")

Anything by Zeppelin (though I agree with IPLawguy's restrictions)

Anything by GNR (most particularly last 3 minutes of "Rocket Queen")

And absolutely anything by ACDC (though particularly "Highway to Hell" and "Thunderstruck")

And then there are songs that are only really acceptable to listen to in a car with the windows down cruising:

"Slowride" - Foghat
"Low Rider" - War
"Tush" - ZZ Top
"Free Ride" - Edgar Winter Group
"Detroit Rock City" - KISS
"Radar Love" - Golden Earring
"Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
"I Can't Drive 55" - Sammy Haggar
"King of the Road"
"Truckin" - The Grateful Dead
 

By the way, on a more important note...

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I want to take a road trip with Osler, IPLG and RRL - who has the fastest car and best stereo? Great song suggestions!
Denise
 

I've been on car trips with Osler. He has some odd choices and has to be strictly monitored.

-The Beat Farmers are excelent too.
-"Photograph" by Def Leppard.
-Speaking of Foghat, "Fool for the City" and "I Just Want to Make Love to You" are as good as Slowride. I defy anyone not to bob their head to the Rhythm guitar in the latter.
-Most of Springsteen's stuff from his first five LPs (Asbury Park, Wild & Innocent, Born to Run, Darkness and the River)
-Bo Diddley! esp. his tune "Road Runner"
-Junior Walker & The All Stars and his tune "Road Runner," as well as "Shotgun" and others.
-The Temptations -- most of their hits.
 

Three absolute classic top 5 all-time driving songs I forgot earlier:

"More Than A Feeling" - Boston
"The Boys are Back in Town" - Thin Lizzy
"Funk #49" - The James Gang

In the strictly a southern drive kinda mood:

"Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" - Neil Young
"Dixie Chicken", "Willin", "Fatman in the Bathtub" - Little Feat (all off the Waiting for Columbus live record
"Whipping Post", "Ramblin Man" - Allman Brothers
"Southern Cross" - CSN
"Down South in New Orleans" - Bobby Charles and the Band
"Don't Do It", "The Weight" - The Band
"Caravan" - The Band and Van Morrison
"Wiser Time" - The Black Crowes
"The Man in Me" - Bob Dylan
"Stay With Me" - The Faces
"Running on Empty" - Jackson Browne
"Blue", "Miss Williams' Guitar", "Ten Little Kids" - The Jayhawks
"Rocky Mountain Way" - Joe Walsh
"Country Road" - Toots and the Maytals
"Casino Queen", "Outtasite (Outta Mind)", "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", "ELT" - Wilco
 

Dancing Queen by ABBA and Moonlight Feels Right by those guys with the xylophone.
 

Green Onions - Booker T. & The M.G.'s. Or Hold On, I'm Coming - Sam & Dave. Or any Rammstein.
 

RLL, I was with you until you got to "Southern Cross." That's not driving music, that's pull off the road and shoot yourself music. Or maybe get high with your fellow hippies or something.

The only "driving music" by CSN(Y) would be "Woodstock." Stephen Stills has some great solo stuff before he got neutered, like "Almost Cut my Hair Today," but its not really driving music.
 

Okay, I checked back to see and no one, I mean NO ONE, mentioned Miley Cyrus and Party in the USA. How can that not be a great driving song? It is great. I will pack it for the road trip.
Denise
 

If you're lucky enough to find yourself in San Antonio, just tune to KZEP (104.5 on your FM dial). It serves up heapin' helpin's of Sabbath, Ozzy, Rush, Zeppelin, ZZ Top, and everything else you need to make the most of the twisties on 281 between downtown and the Quarry.

And though you probably won't hear it on terrestrial radio, Garbage's "When I Grow Up" adds a solid 10 horsepower to any car.
 

Somehow I think that Brad 12:14 does not have the last name Toben.
 

Whenever I take a road trip, I always listen to Counting Crows' August and Everything After. I listen to it from beginning to end without interruption. It starts even, then takes me up, then down, then finishes me off with a very hopeful feeling.

There is no other album that has the same effect on me.
 

I'm not old enough to drive (legally) so I can't offer too many suggestions.

RRL--

I briefly confused "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" with its album-mate "Less Than You Think", a.k.a. the Revolution 9 of the 2000's. I'm glad that I corrected myself before I wasted a dollar on fifteen minutes of Jeff Tweedy.

Denise--

I plan to write an essay for school at some point about the astounding and baffling inconsistencies, both thematic and direct, in the lyrics and music of "Party in the USA".
 

Correction: before I wasted a dollar on fifteen minutes of Jeff Tweedy wasting space to get a full LP out of A Ghost is Born.

Also, did you know that you can pay 99 cents for the privilege to own the classic Wilco anthem "27 Seconds of Silence" (it is just silence, but it's only 26 seconds long) on iTunes?