Music and driving

[Tommy Martyn]

Seeing as I am still unpacking shit, I get to pull out stuff I haven't heard in ages. I listen to 99% of my sounds in the car. (Volvo has agreat sound system btw) Yesterday I had on my Last of the Mohicans soundtrack. For thos not familiar it is a booming romantic soundtrack. One track (I think it is called promentory - I've lost the case) begins with a lone fiddle repeating a reel and from there assorted strings come sailing in until the big chords take over. It is all very lush. As I was listening to this I was heading south into one of those biblical midwestern storms. As the music built so did the weather. It was perfect. The best thing is that from now on I won't be able to play it without thinking about that drive (Which was a ride.)

The other thing that I am really glad to be playing is a compilation disc called "I'm your fan" where about 20 different artists rework the greatest hits of Leonard Cohen. It is not often that Tommy tells the masses to set out for the shops but you really do need this record. (There is another working of Mr cohen that is crap with people like Bon Jovi on it - I kid you not. Beware this slice of shite.)

[Sloth]

Bon Jovi covering Leonard Cohen?

I gotta get that one...

[Tom]

I am in desperate need of some suggestions for music.

I'll take a look at it.....I too only seem to listen to music in the car these days.

Bon Jovi...hmm-they were the first concert I ever went to. It was horrible. He was flying across Madison Square Garden in a harness thing....I was scarred for many years.

The next month I went to Bryan Adams. I was in the 3rd row and fell in love. My mother wondered why I kept the album cover in my bedrom.

Mind you-I was 13 or 14 at the time of these concerts AND growing up in New York with 'dirtbag' long island kids. I couldn't help it. It was all I knew.

I don't listen to Bon Jovi EVER...but I admit to the occasional Mettallica, Scorpions and the like. I was in the gym yesterday with guido's who had arms the size of my thighs who overhead the Scorpions on my headphones..."fawkin right on man...dats some sick shit you got playin...turn that fawkin music up man!!"

I just grinned...I love observing people. The crazier the better. I get along with so many types of people. Makes life interesting.

Besides heavy metal, I am also partial to most music from the 70's. Including easy listening songs from the era. When one of those commercials for Time/Life 1970's comes on I can't help but watch.

I also admit to the occasional trance. Delirium's 'Silence', Tenaglia's 'nothing is real but the girl', Rui Da Silva's 'Touch me'.

But it's all just guilty pleasure. My true love is blues, jazz, house, Smith's. All I'd need on a desert island is Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Etta James, a good house music compilation, and Morrissey.

ok-now it's someone else's turn to talk about their guilty pleasure songs.

[Maverick]

It's a recurring theme around here. My guilty pleasure Artist is Sting, and believe me, I get alot of shit for it. So the guys an asshole, and he has kind of become a hack version of himself, but he's had a career to envy.

On the old Heavy metal guilty pleasure theme...Def Leppard! I wouldn;'t really sit down and listen to it, but if it's on somewhere, it brings backl memories.

[Tommy Martyn]

The counting crows first album. August and everything after. Spare us from that knobhead singer but this is a great set of songs.

[TragicPixie]

hmmm is Tori Amos a guilty pleasure artist... lol well she'd be mine probably. Oasis probably should be as well but... eh... I love them to death so!

[sara]

You know what I do when there’s a ghost on first, guys?

Or when I'm driving in my car

And sometimes channel surfing.

And now and then making a compilation cd.

I play ball. And try my very best to have one too.

This year on my birthday the ghost of my youth was on first, so I made a compilation cd for my family.

For my mom, two songs: My Father by Judy Collins and You are My Sunshine the Johnny Cash cover

For my dad, one: Country Roads by John Denver

For my former hubby and current best friend:
Untitled by Pearl Jam and The Two of Us by Aimee Mann and somebody, the cover off of the I Am Sam cd – you all know the original, I’m sure.

For my aunt, without whom all my childhood rock and roll would have sounded like Muskrat Love, Rhiannon

For my uncle, who was the first person to introduce me to the oh, so beautiful banjo, In the Palm of Your Hand by Alison Krauss – and I think maybe Union Station, but not sure.

For my brother, The Best of What’s Around, by cutie tootie and his band – which contains that oh, so lovely violinist who plays the most beautiful Two Step I’ve ever seen.

Let’s see, it’s been awhile, for my best girlfriend, Family Affair, by Mary J. Blige

For my best guy girl friend, Safety Dance – which I heard or read is about Nuclear something or other, but it’s damn fun to sing along to in the car, with someone who knows how to dance, which sorry, is usually a girl’s best guy girl friend.

And for the lady who gave me books, and a reason to want to grow up to be a woman, Suzanne, whose cancer is in remission, although it is scary as hell for her sometimes.

And finally for anyone and everyone who forgets how to do it, whatever it is, which is occasionally myself, but only occasionally, Good Semi-New, but sort of Old for others Blue Eyes – Jackson Browne: For a Dancer.

Yep, and now I can go to bed – I think.

[sara]

I guess living on a prayer should have been on that list, for a good friend of mine. It was playing on my radio.

I'm such a hick chick.

[mongoose]

When you're driving, it's nice not to fumble & bumble with CD wallets.. as it's hard to drive one handed and not looking at the road.

THUS we require great mixes or fantastic Albulms-

*N.E.R.D.'s latest is very nice. I love driving with this one.
*Fear Factory's latest, if you're into heavy stuff, is quite ambient, also see: *Deftones' last CD (minerva?) Ambient hardcore rock.

*Bloodhound Gang- is fantastic to mix the better tracks from varying recs.
*Chemical Brothers- In Dust We Trust... classic
*T H E Prodigy- Jilted Generation
*Jazzanova- Mix & remixed is MuY bIeN
*Desert Grooves- I'm highly impressed with a title like this.
*Offspring's Exnay on the Hombre is pretty decent for a drive
*B-52's is pretty nice too.. sometimes. Avoid like the plague w/ a hangover.
*Hieroglyphics- third eye vision
*Anything Wu-tAng

*... you aren't driving that far.

Enjoy motha fucka!