AS Jukebox.

[Pete-M]

Or the Autoshite 8-track or whatever.

 

I suspect we've all got tunes that remind us of epic trips or whatever. So, why not chuck some suggestions for the AS massive in 'ere.

 

Today, my tune of the day is Stevie Wonder's 'Sesame St' version of

. To be honest, it's my tune of the day most days. Apologies for the dire sound quality, but a decent recording of this doesn't seem to exist.

 

Also, if you really want to damage the speakers in your car, Dub Syndicate's Ravi Shankar will test any sound system. May be better to get a proper copy than try using the YouTube versions. Cos YouTube versions aren't anywhere near good enough...

[maxpower]

my track is also a stevie wonder song this one

i had taped this on both sides as the only song on a cassette tape and must have heard it about 200 times on a drive from southampton to glasgow

[ProgRocker]

There are so many I want to include here. Just like my favourite era of old cars, most of the music is from the 1970s. Same era as most ProgRock!

 

Here's one that blew my mind the first time the first time I heard it:

I love it when Andy Mackay's oboe kicks in (I assume connected through Brian Eno's synthesiser?) at 1:46.

 

I once sung 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder at Kareoke once about 11 and a half years ago in Gran Canaria. My favourite Stevie Wonder track is the synth-tastic 'Living for the City'

[HillmanImp]

we've all got tunes that remind us of epic trips

 

When I am tripping I like to listen to The Orb or the Future Sound of London. On the whole I try to ensure I am not driving though.

 

[M'coli]

When it's snowing, and especially when it's dark and snowing, Jean-Michel Jarre's Rendez-vous get played if the car's got a tape player - it reminds me of driving my beige Metro around Kielder whilst spectating on the 1993 RAC Rally. It was the only tape left in the car that worked in the tape player!

[John F]

Crosstown Traffic by Jimi Hendrix gets my vote, as representative of the album "Stone Free" which was one of two cassettes that would play in the tape deck of the 1979 Opel Kadett 1.2S I had when I lived out in Germany in the mid-1990s. That was an epic car, I covered some serious distance in it. And had the gleeful pleasure of legally overtaking a police car whilst speed-testing it on ze Autobahn (it managed an indicated and very scary 180 km/h, woohoo!)

 

The other album was "The Stone Roses" by... er, Stone Roses. That stereo must have been a stoner, lol.

 

Plus, I invariably gain at least 10 mph when playing Disorder by Slayer & Ice T from the "Judgment Night" film soundtrack, so that gets an honourable mention.

[retrogeezer]

I'll throw this in the mix.....came out when I first started driving and it's a great tune from a SAW.:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kawM7Mx-izQ&fmt=18

[fiatdaft]

January 1993,just passed my test and i had an e21 320 ,25 minutes after insuring iti was driving it down a wet cobbled king street in stirling and while listening to this tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_66dho7tkU getting the car completely sideways at the bottom and nearly going through the recently visited aa insurance shop window !

 

Ah happy times

[freebird]

A time and a place long ago, a Hillman Hunter with a single speaker and a shite cassette player.

Gotta love Alice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNF2KNcRm-U

[Father Ted]

we've all got tunes that remind us of epic trips

 

When I am tripping I like to listen to The Orb or the Future Sound of London. On the whole I try to ensure I am not driving though.

 

 

Papua New Guinea is ePic as is Little Fluffy Clouds. Played rather a LOT during my time in Manc training to be a Pan Handler.

 

These days most of the stuff in my car tends to be Radio 4 or stuff ripped off iPlayer on Radio 4 Xtra. If Music is to be played then currently it is the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange. A nicely eclectic mix of classical and electro pop.

[Split_Pin]

January 1993,just passed my test and i had an e21 320 ,25 minutes after insuring iti was driving it down a wet cobbled king street in stirling and while listening to this tune http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_66dho7tkU getting the car completely sideways at the bottom and nearly going through the recently visited aa insurance shop window !

 

Ah happy times

 

ANYTHING from 1993 is epic! Sadly 3 years before I passed my test tho. My bro now lives in Port Street in the flats right where you nearly pranged your motor!

 

A little earlier - 'KLF' 's 3am eternal, with super-shite Ford 'Timelord' Galaxie in the vid!

 

Drivng Jukebox shite for me would be Prodigy's 'Diesel Power' or 'Mindfields'.

 

Reminds me of arsing about in South Queensferry with my mates in Mum_L's 1.3 Fester, pulling a wee wheelspin in McD's drive through or doing handbrake turns in front of the Tourist buses down the promenade. What a numpty I was when I was 17!

 

Aslo remember listening to BT's 'Flaming June' whilst with my mate in his parents Peugeot 405 estate. I'm convinced that thing spent at least 10% if it's time airborne!

 

Going forward to my 'Barry' days in 2002, going round The Circuit in Falkirk in my Corsa Vegas, shouting above the MMV Performance exhaust and '4 Strings, Take me Away'.

 

I was a right knob then lol!

[RoadworkUK]

Wot IanL said.

 

Annoyingly, I was 12 in '93 and so 808 State, A Guy Called Gerald and early Orbital only hit me when I was 14/15 or so. My first car, the Acclaim, had a Wharfedale CD from Dixons in the dash and invariably I'd be listening to The Charlatans, Transvision Vamp, Bjork, Pink Floyd, basically whatever handful of discs were closest to hand on leaving the house.

 

When I got Rover 800 The First, when I was 18, I took great pleasure in being a total prat and driving around listening to Classic FM at high volume through the standard-fit Phillips AM/FM tape (auto reverse, natch). Or Dire Straits, or whatever I had on tape. Pretty soon I got a JVC head unit and CD Changer and could start listening to more contemporary music. However: my favourite driving album is probably still Misplaced Childhood by Marillion.

 

Although, the 2AM ton-up blast from uni at Cov to home, listening to Underworlds' Second Toughest In The Infants through my Alpine 6x9s will stay in my mind for evermore.

[Negative Creep]

My choice of music for my first ever solo drive was Metallica's Ride the Lightning

[M'coli]

My choice of music for my first ever solo drive was Metallica's Ride the Lightning

I preferred* the silence of my mum/dad not chuntering the fuck on at me to mind what I was doing(and the family Cortina only had a radio)!

[AndyW201]

Back to September 1991, the day I passed my test. My dad and me went to pick my car up, and that evening, me and my mate Dave went cruising in what was my first unsupervised drive. The car was a 1982 Austin MiniMetro 1.0. Complete with MG interior and incorrectly applied side decals. The in-car hi-fi was a 2-knob AM/FM 'Harry Moss' radio cassette. The holes that were in the parcel shelf when I picked the car up were filled with the bass speakers from an old pair of home hi fi speakers... The 2 tapes I had in the car were the MC Tunes & 808 State album 'The North at it's heights' and a home brewed tape that I'd put together from the previous weeks' Pete Tong's essential selection on Radio 1. We headed out to nearby Redcar to the local boy racer car park there, and the tune Quadrophonia by, er, Quadrophonia still sticks in my mind after all these years (and kicked off my long standing love affair with european dance and techno). The two girls from Guisborough in the mk1 Polo made a bit of an impact that night as well...

[Station]

I downloaded the first 20 Now that's what I call music compilations, and while the music is fairly crap, its a good accompaniment to driving an 80's car like being on holiday to Wales in my dads princess with the radio on.

[DSdriver]

Riders on the Storm by the Doors - great for traffic free roads on a rainy night. I had this on eight track* in my Brabham Viva.

*Youngsters will probably never have heard of this archaic form of in car entertainment.

[Lord Sterling]

A few that do stand out are:

 

Jon Secada - Just Another Day - My mate had bought probably the best Mk1 Rover Sterling I've ever driven, he'd recruited me to drive it back down to Worcester from Wirral. Some way down near Birmingham this tune came on and stuck in my mind reminding me of the trip.

 

I've also recently done a similar trip with Brad to pick another Rover 827 Sterling from brookjm. On the journey, I mostly played Smooth Classics with Margherita Taylor on the night journey from Devon to Worcester.

 

Eazy E -Eazy Duz It sticks in my mind as I played it in Ma_Sterlings Micra one afternoon at some volume whilst driving around Dudley somewhere around mid '05.

 

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy - This always used to come on when I got to the Tettenhall Road. I was driving my first Rover 800, the 827Si.

 

Tears for Fears (Particularly - Mothers Talk ironicly enough) reminds me of the days Ma_Sterling used to take with her to Wolverhampton University during school holidays inthe early 90s, she'd always play it in her then Mk3 Fiesta, and rather than going on the motorway we'd go from Telford, through Shifnal to Wolverhampton.

 

Dire Straits music pretty much reminds me when FATHA_Sterling used to have thier music on in his Renault 14TL on various little journeys around Telford in the mid 80s.

 

Pink Floyd - The Division Bell was pretty much always played Fatha_Sterlings various shitey cars he had at the time when we used to travel from Brussles to my uncles house who lives out in the Belgian sticks.

 

Others that I cant exactly explain why/not really to do with shite:

 

Music by UB40 for some unknown reason always reminds me of Digbeth and the old Bullring, this was even long before I knew UB40 were from Digbeth

 

Some stuff by Lisa Stansfield (Particularly - Been around the world) reminds me of the posher parts of Wolverhampton, possibly because she was always on the radio in the early 90s and that was the time my Fatha_Sterling used to take me and Ma over thier for a day out with his friends and thier families out in Wolvs.

 

Whitesnake - Is this love Reminds me of probably the worst place in Birmingham - Bordesley Green, I first heard it there in a take away resturant a few years ago.

[Pete-M]

Today's tune of the day is another Stevie Wonder classic.

 

Tomorrow, I'll be listenin' to Bootsy Collins for a few hundred miles.

[vulgalour]

The Cardigans - My Favourite Game

Shortly after passing my test and tootling around ALL THE PLACES in the Polo this tape was almost played to death. I hope Dad can fix my tape deck soon, it's not the same driving around to The Archers on Radio Yawn but I'm not sure it fits the Princess as a theme tune as well as it did the Polo.

 

Heaven 17 - Temptation

Blackbox - Right on Time

Soundtrack of my childhood/adolescence when in Dad's car.

[Minimad5]

Pete, are you sure you own more than one tape and or CD ?

Everytime i'm in your car, it's always Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC being pumped out of the speakers

[Pete-M]

Pete, are you sure you own more than one tape and or CD ?

Everytime i'm in your car, it's always Dreadlock Holiday by 10CC being pumped out of the speakers

 

Ah, there's a reason for that. If you're in the Jag then the CD player only plays randomly, so it's often the same tape - which does indeed have Dreadlock Holiday on. I lent my tape recorder to a mate a couple of years ago so haven't done any more tapes for it. It's meant to make me fix the cd player.

 

In the Heep the CD changer works, but I don't change the discs all that often as normally I have the radio on going to and from work. I am in the process of doing a few more cds for it.

 

Don't be surprised if next time you're in the Jag Dreadlock holiday is playing though...

 

I don't know if the tape deck in the 604 works. Radio does though.

[Guest]

Wipers - The Circle

 

Fugazi - 13 Songs

Fugazi - Repeater

 

Hot Water Music - A Flight And A Crash

 

Catherine Wheel - Ferment

 

Fu Manchu - King Of The Road

 

The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House

The Distillers - Coral Fang

 

Various - Quarantine OST

[SambaS]

Dead impressed by mentionings of The Orb, just bought their U F Orb LP. As for the cars... Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation in mums 309, her racing to catch the ferry back to the mainland on the Isle of Skye =) and myself Ferry Corsten - Right of Way album and Futureshock - Phantom Theory and any DJ Set by Fergie (male Irish Techno DJ) from my youth, the Charade/ Escort mk5/Riva/ Polo days. Hervé's Party Bombs more recently in the Talbot and lots of dubstep

[SambaS]

(Oh God it's all coming back now, sorry music and cars and happy times) when we were 14 or so my mate had a gold Montego with a cross gaffer taped to the bonnet mimicing the actual badge. We used to play Progress presents boy wonder Everybody all the time and Artful Dodger Movin Too Fast in the Subaru XT and the soundtrack to kevin and perry. Them were the days.

[SambaS]

And I hope someone knows Nick Lowe - Peace, Love and Understanding. Now i've a tape player in the FSO I've got all the old tapes out and have found that song and love it

[Shep Shepherd]

Anything by Shakatak is a pretty good bet, especially if you drive a mid-range car which was made in the period spanning the late 1970s to the late 1980s, such as an Orion GL, a Rover 2300, a Maestro/Montego HL or dare I say it, a Volvo 740SE

[boobydoo]

^^ Agree 100%. Their 'Out Of This World' LP was a cracker!

[Shep Shepherd]

^^ Agree 100%. Their 'Out Of This World' LP was a cracker!

 

"If You Could See Me Now" from that album is a favourite of mine

[meggersdog]

I equipped my first car (1972 Mini 1275 GT) with a Sanyo radio cassette wired up to an Audioline graphic equalizer.The most played tape was the first album by Tubeway army and this track was always listened to really loud http://youtu.be/LbQYtXdIk7I not only because it is a cracking tune but also the little green and red lights of the equalizer danced left and right as the song faded in and out at the end.