Bands on your Car's music library?

[Charger]

So I was thinking as I started making a new playlist on my car...what's in your driving music library?

Or do you rahter listen to the radio while driving? That is also an option...a bit boring one to be honest but still an option... 


Mine consists (at the moment) from following bands: (in alphabetical order)

Anthrax
Black Label Society
Blaze Bayley
Candlemass
Cathedral
DIO
Iced Earth
Judas Priest
Metal Church
Nightwish
Ozzy Osbourne
Rainbow
Rob Zombie
Savatage
Sons Of Apollo
The Dark Element


I know I know Purple and Sabbath are missing but honestly both of those come with such a huge ammount of songs I haven't really dared to go there yet...

[Zzzptm]

If I'm driving with others, I prefer to keep it calm and play music that everyone can agree to: classic rock hits, Motown, sing-a-long pop tunes, stuff like that.


When I'm driving alone, it's my Bandcamp tunes on tap, because that stoner/desert stuff is perfect for driving.

1000mods
Arrowhead
Bantha Rider
Black Sky Giant
Blind Dog
Cojones
Deaf Radio
Dog Days
Drive By Wire
Electric Mountain
Fusskalt
Honeymoon Disease
Kaiser
Lowrider
Mad Monkees
Mos Generator
Novadriver
Ozone Mama
Sasquatch
Sky Valley Mistress
Spacegoat
Stonerror
Truckfighters
War Cloud
Wo Fat

^ Those are my main go-tos. I've got others, but those are the ones I'm most likely to be in the mood for.

[Charger]

^^^
I only know Sky Valley Mistress from that list!

Which actually reminds me eventhough I don't really like single albums to be on the playlist I might have to add that one...it is brilliant.

I'm also thinking about doing one with Exodus but honestly I only have 4 of their albums so it is also gonna be a short one....I did let my car rip Tempo Of The Damned off already so that's on the car's hard drive and I listen to it quite often...it is a killer album...but I do need to get more of their stuff on too...

[Zzzptm]

War Cloud is good Metallica-sounding metal, I'd recommend them as well.

[Charger]

Well I'm going through Motörhead discography for the next band on the car library...yikes that's a mammoth task...

I'm at track #90 now and I'm only at Inferno! 

[Vyn]

...yikes that's a mammoth task...

No doubt!

Motorhead is great car-tunage.

[Zzzptm]

... unless you're in traffic. Then, it's mocking you.

[Charger]

 Don't mess with the runaround man becomes Don't mess with the roundabout man?

[Zzzptm]

Something like that. I once had Highway Star, Overkill, and Delivering the Goods all lined up for a freeway ride... got stuck in 2mph traffic and the three songs MOCKED me.

[Charger]

Haha! Thankfully I sit very rarely in severe traffic.


Well finished my Motörhead collection... 132 tracks! Even added the Metallica covers they did Enter Sandman and Whiplash...both of which are actually pretty good versions. ES especially sounds better and heavier than the original...much less radio friendly sounding.

[Zzzptm]

I agree, MH ES is superior.

[Charger]

It really is...They made it actually sound like METAL which is nice as the original sounds more like a pop rock bedtime tune.

[Zzzptm]

So let me ask, do you need different playlists for different moods, or is the rule, "If I'm driving, it's gonna be metal"? (General question to the forums, not just Charger)

For me, I've got different playlists for different drives. Long hauls in Texas pair very well with Texas-based Outlaw Country acts, for example. Late night drives I need goa trance, deep chill, acid lounge, or deep dish house. But when I did the 50-70+ minute commute back when I worked in the next city over, it was stoner/desert rock that kept me awake and focused.

[Charger]

Well for me it's pretty much metal only at the moment anyways.

For the old car's cd collection I did have Mel C (obviously), Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blackmore's Night, Sarah Brightman and few cds of mixed material from the 60s onwards rock, pop, metal, pop metal and so on...

But I haven't gotten that far with this whole usb-drive thing yet....

But any kind of mellow music is pretty much a no no for driving...not because it would make me feel tired or anything (I've never had any problems with that even driving all night long...I'm always 100% alert when driving and I don't understand people that aren't...) but because I want atleast some sort of drive in my music while driving if you get the drift.

[Zzzptm]

I do get that - you want the music to sing along with the motor.


But, I have times when I'm doing drives with passengers that don't always appreciate the musical stylings of Jesus Christ Muscle Car, so I need to have a compromise playlist on hand so that we don't wind up on the "Queen's Greatest Hits" YouTube Music channel or its equivalent that INVARIABLY plays Don't Stop Believing either before or after Stuck in the Middle with You. EVERY DAMN TIME. Drives me up the wall... and if I'm driving, I like to enjoy the music that I'm listening to. When I'm the passenger, I know the rule: driver picks and I let it ride.

But I do have peremptory veto strikes on songs if there's been a chain of suffering that I've had to endure.

Speaking of good hard rock for the drive, how about this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CcSueV5yzE May Blitz - For Madmen Only, an early 70s proto-metal track.