Okay, her is the scene, hot hot summer night, say 2:00am pitch black, you're driving down an old country road, all the windows are down, a light warm breeze flowing through, not another car in sight as you drive, your headlights are the only lights for miles.....................what song do you pop into you CD player??
Mine is a no brainer, Robert Plant "Big Log" from Principle of Moments. That song almost puts me in a trance like state..............maybe not he best when you are behind the wheel but thats my choice!
This might not have been my first pick, but when you mentioned trance, these two popped into my head.
I'd start with:
WMA by Pearl Jam
then follow with
Car Seat (God's Presents) by Blind Melon
Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer", live version from the Weld album.
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Hard Road - Sam Roberts....the ultimate driving tune
audioslave - show me how to live
deftones feat. mjk (maynard james keenan) - passenger
gotta love the plant and blind melon picks..mine would be highway star by deep purple if i'm in a rockin mood, and if i wanna chill out, zephyr song by the chilis
cochise Wrote:Mine is a no brainer, Robert Plant "Big Log" from Principle of Moments.
Omigosh, cochise, that post stuck such a chord with me that I actually got a gigantic chill and goosebumps when I read it, not just because of the 'song scenario'you set up (because one particular song jumped right into my head), but because of a link between my song and yours.....
My song is
Four Sticks(Led Zeppelin). I remember having an epiphany/spiritual revelation/out-of-body-experience once when I was about 17 as I drove my Ford Mustang though the warm, humid, rural Ohio countryside one night in August with the windows down. I swear that thick riff and Plant's voice wailing out "
and when the owls cry in the night / baby, baby how do you feel?" had me in such a trance that I literally had to snap myself out and park the freaking car. I'll never forget how that all made
me feel....
Good topic. And BTW,
Big Log is another one of those-type songs, except for me, it's a urban-freeway-with-light-traffic-at-dusk type of thing.
A third song has a similar significance for me. It's a blustery-dark-winter-night-with-horizontal-snow type of thing (for some odd reason), and another Zep tune:
In the Light .
A fourth Zep tune is a foggy-damp-creepy-night type of thing:
No Quarter
So, is it obvious that alot of my 'coming of age' is directly tied to driving through the countryside listening to Led Zeppelin?
:roll:
For me, the first song that pops into my head would be Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer".
Green Onions by Booker T and the MG's~~~~~
Hey Hey What Can I Do, by Zeppelin
Rocket by the Pumpkins and Learning to Fly by Tom Petty. I have a 72 Chevy 1/2 ton that my Dad and I restored. It only gets pulled out a couple of months a year and those 2 songs are always the first to get played.
For some reason I was thinking KISS too!!! However, I was leaning more towards Rock N' Roll All Nite....
And from the Hip catalogue.....give me some "Jacques Cartier...right this way!!"
Goulet!!!
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