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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Charger on August 25, 2021, 04:30:23 PM
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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... >:D
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...
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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. :)
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I only know Sky Valley Mistress from that list! :D
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...
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War Cloud is good Metallica-sounding metal, I'd recommend them as well.
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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! :zomg:
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...yikes that's a mammoth task...
No doubt!
Motorhead is great car-tunage.
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... unless you're in traffic. Then, it's mocking you.
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Don't mess with the runaround man becomes Don't mess with the roundabout man?
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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.
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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.
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I agree, MH ES is superior.
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It really is...They made it actually sound like METAL which is nice as the original sounds more like a pop rock bedtime tune.
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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.
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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. ;D
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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. :D
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.
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Adding stuff to my car's music library again...
Just finished off Doro's discography and now started with DEEP PURPLE!
A monumental task...but it's fun going through the albums one by one again... I did come to the conclusion not to include anything from the Evans era because those songs just don't click right with me so I went on with In Rock onwards...
Kinda had forgotten a bit about Who Do We Think We Are....as I discovered Rat Bat Blue and Painted Horse are actually pretty darn good tracks!
Also discovered Stormbringer actually had two (!!) good songs on it! Who knew!?
Still don't own Come Taste The Band so that's a skip...
No new discoveries on Perfect Strangers, House Of Blue Light nor The Battle Rages on...
Slaves And Masters was every bit as horrible as I remembered so no tracks from that...NEXT!
Moving on to the Morse era as I'm writing this....ooohh yeah.
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Evans-era material fits better in a 60s pop/psychedelia mix more than a 70s hard rock/metal mix. Put an Evans-era track in the middle of a string of Mk2 material and you're like, "Hello... one of these things is NOT like the others!" :D
WDWTWA is a strange beast of an album. I like the songs one at a time more than as a full album. "Smooth Dancer" is a good hard rocker and I keep coming back to the simplicity of the groove in "Our Lady".
Stormbringer is another strange beast - any time Blackmore is thinking about firing someone or leaving a band, you get a strange album. DP3, WDWTWA, Stormbringer, every Rainbow album, HOBL, Slaves and Masters, and TBRO... Not that strange is always bad, it's not. But Blackmore gets a wild hair, and stuff is gonna happen.
CTTB is one of my favorites, but if you're not ready to get into the funk thing, it's not gonna be a fun time. :D
Morse era I think has inconsistencies due to the band exploring with different producers and doesn't really come together until they latch on to Bob Ezrin.
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I have to disagree with the Morse era...I think it's been the most consistant Purple era of them all...naturally it's been the longest as well lasting nearly 30 years!
The only dip in the quality was Rapture of the deep, I know Bananas makes you go bananas and not in a good way but I really like that album too...but I guess after Rapture it would still be my least favourite but that just shows how consistantly great the band has been...
The thing with Blackmore was that when he wasn't feeling it he half assed everything...that goes for both in the studio and especially live. The Battle Rages On is a great album but not because of Blackmore...more like despite Blackmore! ;D
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I'll agree the Morse era is the most consistent, for sure. LOTS of good material to pull from his time in the band.
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I decided to add some live tracks to the mix...
I took few from the Live at the BBC and couple from Made In Japan and a whole shitload from Live At The Olympia and some tracks from In Concert...including the tracks they did with Ronnie...Don't usually have a lot of live stuff in the car because they tend to be bit quiet at times but for Purple you gotta have the live stuff...I was thinking about putting some from Come Hell Or High Water but then I listened to it again and decided not to!
Back for studio stuff with Bananas ->
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Yeah, I used to think DP could do no wrong on a live album... and then I got CHOHW... :(
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Indeed...
Well I'm up to Now What?! now.... and that also was a great tour...but they did the tour with the orchestra as well where they also played Hard Lovin' Man...I wonder should I use that version or the one on ...To The Rising Sun?
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Tough call.
Either way you choose, Charger, I'll still support you. I'm there for you. :)
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Well it's time to add some stuff to the car's USB drive and I think it needs to be ALICE COOPER next!
I know I'm setting myself up for quite the task going through all of his discography! But it'll be a good excuse to do so again...there are albums that I've only listened once or twice and some I've actually never listened to. It'll be interesting but huuuuge task.
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Be sure to put on your back support belt before you heft up his musical catalogue!
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Yeah...probably should also hire a masseuse cause I'll be sitting here quite a while...
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I still haven't dared to start this project...
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Just play Thorns while you think it over.
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Oh now there's another option I could go with! TONY MARTIN! He's got quite the discog to go through with tons of great songs!
I think I might go with him first now! It's not quite as daunting task although there's a good dozen albums plus 50 or so individual songs to go through! :D
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Glad I could be of some help!
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Well I started with Tony Martin and goddamn...the man has appeared on over 70 albums total! That'll be some youtubing to find every single song to put on there! :D
So I guess I'll start with the ones that I have and then go from there... I remember that he also did a track with Avantasia but for the life of me I can't remember what it was...and can't seem to find it...
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Wow, that's going to be a lot of musical exploration, there!
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Yeah sure is...and I'm sure I still don't have the full list....the man sure kept himself busy!