Well, it's Friday and you know what that means.
Yes, the Little Sociopath(TM) and I are going to go out to find some dogs to set on fire.
Good times, people!
Anyway, posting by moi will necessarily be a little sporadic, but in the meantime, here's a fun project for you all:
Best Car Song Not By the Beach Boys!!!!
My totally top of my head Top Four:
1. "Bitchin' Camaro" -- Dead Milkmen
2. "Little Red Corvette" -- Prince
3. "Hot Rod Lincoln" -- Commander Cody
4. "Little Honda" -- The Hondells
Join in, won't you?
"Little GTO" - Ronnie and the Daytonas
ReplyDelete"455 SD" - Radio Birdman
Fountains of Wayne - "Survival Car"
The Sonics - "Boss Hoss"
The Buzzcocks - "Fast Cars"
Isn't the Little Honda a motorbike?
ReplyDeleteMan, I could go nuts here. But I'll keep myself in check.
One Piece At A Time - Johnny Cash
Cadillac - Bo Diddley
Car On A Hill - Joni Mitchell
Brand New Cadillac - Vince Taylor (also the Clash)
Maybellene - Chuck Berry
Red Chevrolet - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Rocket 88 - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats
Mercury Blues - David Lindley
Back Of A Car - Big Star
Drivin' - The Kinks
"Highway Star" - Deep Purple
ReplyDelete"Night Moves" - Bob Seger (you didn't say the car had to be moving)
"Back of a Car" - Big Star
"Under My Wheels" - Alice Cooper
"Drivin' Sister" - Mott the Hoople
"Transfusion" - Nervous Norvus
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
ReplyDelete"Long May You Run" - Stills/Young Band (Young said the song was for his first car and his first girl)
"Silver Thunderbird" - Marc Cohn
and of course the best car song ever (IMHO)
"Mustang Sally" - Wilson Picket or Buddy Guy
I'll also mention "Radar Love" but I never really cared much for that song.
"Autobahn" -Kraftwerk
ReplyDelete"Every Woman I Know (Crazy 'Bout an Automobile" - Billy "the Kid" Emerson
"Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler)" - The Playmates
"$1000 Dollar Car" by the Bottle Rockets
ReplyDelete"Kiss Of Death" by Split Lip Rayfield
"Delta 88" by X
I'll give thumbs up to "Radar Love" - love that song!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll throw in a really dopey McCartney song - "(Sitting in) The Backseat of My Car" from "Ram".
"We may end up in Mexico City
Sitting in the backseat of my car..."
And, of course, "Drive My Car" by the group he was in before Wings...
One more: Springsteen's "The Promise."
ReplyDeleteA little obscure, but still...!
Er, will you ban me for EVAR if I mention Interstate Love Song by STP? Kinda more a driving song than about a specific car. My newest fave in that vein is 92 Subaru, by Fountains of Wayne. Oh, and Drive My Car by los Beatles--about a nonexistent car, what could be cooler?
ReplyDeleteRedd Kross - SoCal V8
ReplyDeleteAnd of course......
ReplyDeleteFOW - '92 Subaru.
Someone should let Simels know that "Little Honda" actually is a Beach Boys' number...
ReplyDelete"Nova SS 68" Scruffy the Cat
ReplyDelete"Kissing Galaxy(ie)" Scruffy the Cat
Guitars, Cadillacs" Dwight Yoakam
"(I Live For) Cars and Girls" Dictators
dave™© said...
ReplyDeleteSomeone should let Simels know that "Little Honda" actually is a Beach Boys' number...
[chanelling Nathan Thurm]
I know that.
I think it's so funny you think I don't know that...
"Dodge Veg-a-Matic" by Jonathan Richman.
ReplyDeleteGillian Welch - Pass You By
ReplyDelete(it's about more than just a car, but the first verse is pure car)
"I've got an old V - 8, from the year I was born /Don't look like much, just a flat black Ford/But the engine's clean, I could paint her some day/But most of the time, I think I like her this way."
Doesn't Meatloaf count? Though that song was basically about what happened in a car rather than about the car itself...
ReplyDeleteI never liked it.
I see your Prince selection was Little Red Corvette. I'd go a bit raunchier with Lady Cab Driver.
ReplyDeleteOr how about these lyrics from the bouncy Alphabet Street?
I'm gonna drive my daddy's Thunderbird (My daddy's thunderbird)
A white rad ride, '66 ('67) so glam it's absurd
I'm gonna put her in the back seat
And drive her 2 ... Tennessee
Love that hiccupy pause before Tennessee, which at the time had the lowest marrying age of any state, 13 with parental consent. Sadly there was no follow-up song wherein Prince obtained such consent
--Space
Looking over that lyric, It occurs to me the state in question should be spelt 10essee
ReplyDelete--Space