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Wilbury 08:23 am UTC 04/14/07 |
| In reply to: | re: I'm gonna hit the highway... - Markus 12:49 pm UTC 04/13/07 |
| The only one that instantly springs to my mind is Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream. > I Drove All Night - Roy Orbison > Absolute Beginners - David Bowie > Rock And Roll Dreams - Jim Steinman > ... > > Markus. > > > Some other great 'driving' songs: > > > > Hysteria - Muse > > Thoughts of a Dying Atheist - Muse (love this title) > > Knights of Cydonia - Muse > > You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC > > All Night Long - Billy Squier > > No-One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age > > The Bitter End - Placebo > > Mr.Brightside - Killers > > Tie Your Mother Down (Live) - Queen > > American Storm - Bob Seger > > Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses > > > > I think 'Peel Out', 'Deadringer For Love' & 'Nowhere Fast' > > are Jim's best 'driving' songs. > > > > > > > > > http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL1226043120070412 > > > > > > Rock classics drive motorists over limit > > > Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:33AM EDT > > > LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Want to stay calm behind the > > > wheel? Then avoid listening to Guns N' Roses, Meat Loaf > > > and Bruce Springsteen while driving. > > > The trio are among the artists featured on the top 10 list > > > of an online survey asking which tracks got people's blood > > > pumping and in the mood to drive aggressively. > > > Some 1,700 voters have so far responded to the online poll > > > run by Electronic Arts and AOL to mark the launch of a new > > > racing videogame, "Burnout Dominator". > > > The resulting shortlist of tracks that get people revved > > > up spans more than 30 years of chart favorites, although > > > none of them actually reached number 1. > > > It includes classic rock tracks, such as Meat Loaf's "Bat > > > Out Of Hell" and Springsteen's "Born to Run", as well as > > > Motorhead's "Ace of Spades" and Guns N' Roses' "Paradise > > > City". > > > More modern tracks, including The Killers' "When we were > > > Young" and Feeder's "Buck Rogers" also featured, as did -- > > > perhaps fittingly -- "You Will Be Under My Wheels" by > > > dance act the Prodigy. | |
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