Nobody Gonna Take My Car: Songs About Vehicles

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

My pick number 6... I may have included it in top 10 we did (but I forget), but something about the London Underground seems to suit this thread...

The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

rJust love this song, at the time they were my favourite band, this would be mid-late 1978 from theit All Mod Cons album.

[Charger]

The most obvious Saxon songs have already been mentioned here so I'm taking the one they clearly named after me then.

Well I guess they didn't as it is about drag racing....and ofcourse the title refers to Super Charger's on the engines. But non the less, great tune that is so filled with SPEEEEEED and POOWEEER that even Jezza would approve.

[Vyn]

Not really my "thing" but I love this song because I think it is hilarious. And not in a mocking way - I have a good time listening to it. The entire concept of "pirate metal" and these guys play it up! And what's more pirate metal than the pirate ship?! For some reason the entire album makes me think of what the Sex Pistols would sound like if they did metal.

Black Sails at Midnight - Alestorm

[Zzzptm]

^ Three great tunes, fun times for all!

Now I make some adds for the day...

"Train, Train" by Blackfoot. Song was written by the singer's grandfather, who also plays harmonica on the tune. Nice family get-together!

Next one is an ode to the intricate connections between skateboarders and the swimming pool construction and maintenance industry, "Blue Tile Fever" by Fu Manchu:

The blue tiles in question are the ones at the top rim of the swimming pool, indicating the maximum height of a skateboard climb before a jump, grind, or turn became necessary to continue the journey.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick #7 - Victorian Iron Clad battle ship...


Jeff Wayne - Thunder Child

From the concept album War of the Worlds by Jeff Wayne which came out in 1978. I do wonder if this song isn't quite as impactful as it might being removed from the environment of the full story. The song is sung by Chris Thompson and the narrator is the legendary Richard Burton.

Note: The song is at the end of side 2 so there is some additional stuff at the end of the video.

[Charger]

My 7th pick comes from MEGADETH!

Again there were quite a few to choose from...Mission To Mars, 1320, Mechanix and so on but I went with my favourite MOTO PSYCHO from The World Needs a Hero!

This is about street racing or just hitting the streets with you're powerful machine and leaving the rest of the world behind.

Kick ass track in my book!

[Zzzptm]

Thrash attack from Russia! The band is Master and the track is Bulldozer:

Then some Swedish biker metal from Honeymoon Disease, "Four Stroke Woman":

[Vyn]

Lots of stuff being posted that is new to me - awesome!

Up next: 1984's Freewheel Burning by Judas Priest

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick number 8

Hawkwind - Space Ship Blues

Surprisingly few Hawkwind songs directly relating to transport. I immediately thought about this one, but thought I'd check their catalogue for others... maybe 3 or 4. Lots of SciFi imagery and all that, but transport is rare!

Anyway I like this one from the 2017 album Into the Woods.

[Vyn]

Ninth: Low Rider by War

A song about a car and a culture, from 1975.

[Charger]

Either someone's day ahead or I'm day late and a dollar short...either way...

My number 8 comes from BENEDICTUM's final album OBEY and it's called APEX NATION

And yes you guessed it...it's about motor sports!

[Zzzptm]

I'm on my 9th day, did the count back for it.

Vyn ninja'd me on the Low Rider. Not gonna hate at all.

I do a lot of flying for my job(s) and one track I like to play at the airport, landing or taking off, is "Jet Airliner" by The Steve Miller Band. Given that I actually got caught up in some funky shit going down in the city, it's even more my story now than it was before my last employer...

With that, there's also the gang in Foghat and their question... "Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you ready to take a slooooooooooooooooooooow ride?" 

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Pick Number 9

Golden Earring - Radar Love

Guy drives home to his lover because he gets a telepathic message from her. Often voted as one of the greatest driving songs.

This is the album version which I don't think I've heard before as the single/radio version is a good 2 minutes shorter!

[Charger]

So final two left....


And the second to last is a track from IRON MAIDEN...I actually considered putting Run Silent Run Deep here just to have one about a submarine BUT eventhough it's among the better songs on No Prayer it's still not a very good song in Maiden standards...so I went with the one about second world war pilots instead... ACES HIIIIIIIIIIIIGH!

This is one of the few Iron Maiden songs that actually only features verse chorus verse chorus structure.
A great tune and Bruce really pushes his vocals on this one...up to a limit that he could never reproduce live...but this is one of those iconic Maiden fast rockers.

[Vyn]

Last one from me:

A song in the grand tradition of storytelling songs about a contemporaneous tragedy. A boat song! The boat sank in 1975, the song came out in 1976. Fantastic.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot