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Let's see what we can come up with, you know the kind of thing, the kind of tracks that you'd find on those 'driving' albums that you could always buy on cassette (ask your dad, kids) in petrol stations and motorway service stations.
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I'll start with a couple:
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Bryan Adams - Run to You
Oh, yeah, and when posting, as yourself [i]"would DezB like this?"[/i] If the answer is yes, you probably need to try again 🙂
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Alice Cooper - Poison
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are Back in Town
Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone
Oh, yeah,
I was going to suggest 'Yello - Oh Yeah'
"would DezB like this?" If the answer is yes, you probably need to try again
but fell at the first hurdle
Great driving songs:
I can hear Dez's lip curling from here.
🙂
The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
U2 - Pride
Big Country - Fields of Fire
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
Golden Earring - Radar Love
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Cult - The Rain
Sisters of mercy - Lucretia
killing joke - the 80's
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
*how many levels can rusty spanner fail at in a single post 😆
I thought you meant 80mph.
🙂
The Alarm - 68 Guns
Gun - Better Days
Love and Money - Candybar Express
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Pogue Mahone - Dark Streets of London
Kelly Marie - Feels Like I'm in Love
Department S - Is Vic there?
WhiteSnake, Here I go Again.
*how many levels can rusty spanner fail at in a single post
Uh-huh 🙄
Once again, for the hard of thinking;
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fgh - two tribes
paul hardcastle - 19- nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn19
AC/DC - Big Gun
Maria McKee - Show me Heaven
IHN - Member
Uh-huh
I can't help it.
Some rules are meant to be broken.
For those who work for The Man:
The Ramones - Judi is a punk.
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World.
Ike Turner - Rocket 88.
Hawkwind - Right to Decide.
BOC - Shooting Shark.
Dr Feelgood - back in the night.
Roy Orbison/Cyndi Lauper (depending on preference) - I Drove All Night
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Blue Sunshine - The Meteors.
This Thread Is Useless Without A Spotify Playlist.
STW?
Blondie - Call me (and I'll text you back)
White stripes - Little cream skoda
Chemical brothers - Exit Planet X
Meatloaf - I would do anything for love (but I don't do cats)
Who Says It Won't Get One When I Get Home
I got bored
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Slackboy - good effort, but you seem to have added a lot of Big Country...
copied the damn album rather than the song.
Utah Saints - Something Good
The Prodigy - Diesel Power
Not a traditional driving track but it says diesel in the name.....
Did Tom Cochrane and Red Rider make it over here?
If so, then 'Life is a Highway'.
It was pretty much written to be a driving anthem.
Followed!
There's tonights drive home sorted!!
Did Tom Cochrane and Red Rider make it over here?If so, then 'Life is a Highway'.
Oh, well done sir, I loved (and had forgotten about) that tune
Sons of the Stage - World of Twist.
Couple of good 'uns here -
Neil young - Keep on rockin in the free world
This Lizzy - whiskey in the jar
ads678 - MemberThe Prodigy - Diesel Power
Not a traditional driving track but it says diesel in the name.....
Not so much 80's though. More '97 ish.
Obvious ones:
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Not obvious, but they're appropriate unless the point is that all tracks should be well known and well worn classics:
Cracker - Let's Go for a Ride
Soul Asylum - Just Like Anyone
Ben Harper and Relentless 7 - Fly One Time
I don't use Spotify so I'd appreciate it if someone can add these to the playlist for me. 🙂
Edit: Oops, I missed the decade requirement with all of my tunes!
How about the following to make up for it?
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing or Walk of Life
Yello - The Race
How about Sammy Hagar/Montrose 'Space Station no.5'
Good one.
🙂
How about The One I Love, REM?
Air - A Horse With No Name
White stripes - Little cream skoda
Chemical brothers - Exit Planet X
Were either of those tracks released in the 80's?
KISS - Rock and Roll all night
Nope. Total and complete failure in actually reading the brief.
Born to Run
(controversially - FGTH version, which gets in into the 80's)
Slackboy - good effort, but you seem to have added a lot of Big Country...
Absolutely no problem with that.
Berlin - Metro.
AC/DC - You Shook me All Night Long
Rainbow - I Surrender
ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
Soul 2 Soul - Back To Life
Van Halen - Jump
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger.
Eye Know - De La Soul
Night of the Living Baseheads - Public Enemy
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Ivan Meets GI Joe - The Clash
Bankrobber - The Clash
Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat
Racist Friend - The Specials
I'm sulking.
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
[s]Eton Rifles - The Jam
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam[/s] Dammit. 70s.
Blue Monday - New Order
New Year's Day - U2
Going to stop now...
Lots of not '80s stuff in this thread.
Laura Brannigan - Self Control
Mike Hornsby and the Range - That's Just The Way It Is
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love?
Win - You've Got The Power
Then Jericho - The Motive
Mental As Anything - Live It Up
I'm sulking.
Who sang that? 😆
I'm sulking.Who sang that?
Morrisey? Sounds like one of his.
or Mike Hornsby. 😉
Then Jericho - Big Area
Do you want to know which ones I've got so you can remove them from the playlist? 😛
I hope Slackboy is keeping up 🙂
or Mike Hornsby.
Now wondering who he was and how he supplanted Bruce in my memory.
Maybe he was the model trains guy.
Bruce and the Mechanics - Over my Shoulder
Anything by Motorloaf or Meathead.
Brucey! by Toni Basil
Yello: The race
Pat Banatar: Love is a battlefield
Chris Rea: Road to hell
Pet Shop Boys: Suburbia
Eurythmics: Angel
Genesis: Tonight, tonight, tonight
The Police: Syncronicity II
Roll Me Away - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, surely the epitome of an 80's driving song
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Passed my test in 1980. This one is what I used. 1600cc Corrina with suspension stiffness of French proportions. Happily upgraded to Carlos Fandango Mini 8)
I hope Slackboy is keeping up
collaborative playlist - anyone can join the fun...
Disturbed - Down with the sickness. 'OH WA HA HA HA'
you like driving fast yeah?
Joe Jackson - 'Steppin Out' ?
I remember 1983 fresh out of school driving around Birmingham City Centre after dark on way to a club in a friend's metallic green Fiat X1-9 with this playing on the tape machine. Stellar flashback!
Oh, and surely GTA Vice City OST?!
Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
In a slighty off-topic kind of way, we went to the MotoGP at the weekend and stumbled across a Mexican eighties cover band, and they were FANTASTIC. There's no eighties music like Mariachi eighties music. 😀
Depeche mode everything counts
Violent femmes Blister in the Sun
The Cure Close to me
Duran Duran Hungry like the wolf
Robert Palmer Addicted to love
David Bowie Lets Dance
Phil Colins Sussudio
Jan Hammer Crockets Theme
Well having endured a trip to Switzerland with two U2 fans, I can tell you what I would leave off.
For those of us over-biked and under-pedalled:
Weak in the Presence of Beauty by Alison Moyet
Oh, its a long time since I saw you
Well you know how time can fly
It seems like yesterday we were lovers
Now we pass each other by
But if we're left alone tonight, don't ask me to hold you tight
I go weak
I go weak
I go weak
I go weak, weak in the presence of beauty
Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
I think that long drives - especially late night ones, are great for concept albums
eg: Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters -
Jump by van Helen
(Ch)easy lover by Phil Collins and Philip bailey
Playlist all up to date. I'm going off shift now, don't forget you can add your own
Heres the link to that playlist again
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Crash by The Primitives
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Then Jericho - Big Area
Oh bravo... Well played
I'm going to counter dire straits telegraph road and suggest tunnel of love instead.
Republica ready to go. (Not 80s though)
Def Leppard photograph
Iron Maiden run to the hills
As the sun is setting on this endless dad drive..Bon Jovi, wanted dead or alive,
Definitely mainstream me:
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Frankie - Two Tribes
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Oakey and Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
Phil Collins - You can't Hurry Love
James Brown - Living in America