Aug 092011
Nothing cures the summer time doldrums like hopping in the car for a road trip.
I’m looking for songs containing the sounds of a car/motorcycle revving up and/or pealing out. The automotive sounds may be real or artificially created.
I’ll start off with the number one Billy Joel song that I love to hate: “Moving Out.”
“Rev Up” (The Revillos)
“Detroit Rock City” by KISS.
TB
Roxy Music, Love is the Drug
“Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syckLQQBShc&feature=related
Montrose – Bad Motor Scooter. That’s an awesome one, and good enough to be the winner!
Kick Start My Heart by Motley Crue
Love and Rockets – “Motorcycle”. Artificial but still cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFS_85UXE0
Bonnie Hayes: “Shelley’s Boyfriend”
“I’m In Love With My Car” – Queen.
Steve Miller Band – “Living In The USA”.
Boy that’s a blast fro the past. I really loved that album.
Helen Wheels – Wings
A subtle one: The Undertones’ “Girls Don’t Like It”! Now let me get back to recording chickenfrank’s bass and guitar parts. Maybe we’ll add a car noise to one of the songs we’re working on to ensure winning this challenge.
Davie Allan & The Arrows – “Theme from Wild Angels”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WBaYjDGF58
I swore that Bat Out of Hell by Meatlump had a peal out but I tried to confirm it on youttube and I couldn’t find where it was in the song. Now I have a headache. I still consider that song up for grabs so if anyone can ID where it is in that song, I will will gladly give them credit.
Where are the car sounds? I can’t hear them.
Does the beginning of the Kinks “Apeman” qualify? Incidentally, I had never seen this promo film before! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlM52fUrNz4
Beach Boys – “409”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKKP_cZuk54
The Specials (or is it the Special a.k.a.? I’m not going to check) “Gangsters”.
The Doors, “LA Woman.” LMS!
Havana 3AM, “Joyride”
http://youtu.be/pYaPr9Og1TE
Pink Floyd – “Run Like Hell”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO-gryuO-c
The Minutemen “D.’s Car Jam and (bonus answer!) “Three Car Jam”.
Jan & Dean, “Dead Man’s Curve.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukunx21UHCA
The Tigers – “GeeTO Tiger”. Pontiac and Hurst briefly got into the rock and roll business with this attempt at self-promotion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UenM1XMZ6Os
The 5.6.7.8’s – “Motorcycle Go Go Go!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erdt3NRiirU
“Chocolate” by the Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgyItZKTpQE&feature=related
Sonic Youth – Scooter and Jinx.
Grateful Dead: Hell In a Bucket
LMS!
LMS? Don’t be so sure about that.
The Detergents – “Leader of the Laundromat”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4dEuqKAgn8
Art of Noise – Beatbox (around the 4:30 point)
Anarchy and the anti-Jonbenet Ramsey: Art of Noise (again) with “Close to the Edit”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sFK0-lcjGU
Another Art of Noise – “Kiss (The AON Mix)”. AON also used a engine start/rev sample on a few songs like “Peter Gunn”.
Here’s a hot little number: The Duals with “Stick Shift”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CNcehcJayc
Madness – “Driving In My Car”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faP-B_gEElE
I see your excellent Madness and raise you with Pink Floyd “Run Like Hell” (at the 3:47 mark).
Wow, you made me go listen to it and I now wish my memeory of Linda making some semi car shitfting noises at the end was real. It’s not. And that makes a weak song even weaker!
I thought that too! But I hate it so much I couldn’t go as far as you. You should have saved it. Who would have called you out?
Yeah!
Sorry, but I already put that one in earlier this evening.
Mungo Jerry – “In The Summertime” at 2:02 (I really, really loathe this song).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDY4nR1IqCs
Thick and Thin by the Black Crowes.
Panama by Van F’n Halen
Elton John – “All the Girls Love Alice” at 3:50.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQ6yCIJEAk
Faster by George Harrison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaRtxKOO9Eo&feature=related
Hod Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody
Steve Miller Band “Living in the USA” Somebody get me a cheeseburger!
This song doesn’t meet the criteria but I’m posting it anyways since it’s nice. It uses processing of the sound of cars going over a metal-topped bridge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_WyUJ201v4
And in the meantime, how about the Latin Playboys doing “Latin Trip.” I couldn’t find a video of it on YouTube but there’s a car start up at the :18 mark.
Jan y Dean – “Rockin’ Little Roadster
http://youtu.be/axAftP_9d1A
For his birthday today, I just gave Mr. Royale Ariel Pink’s last album, “Before Today.” The album/first song (“Hot Body Rub”) opens with a car pealing out.
Also recently posted in the songs that reference themselves in the lyrics LMS: Joyride by Built to Spill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gncB-kQUUgQ
Eminem “Stan” (when Stan drives his car off the bridge). New LMS.
There are multiple automobile noises at the beginning, including the prominent one the zooms by, right as “She’s A Rainbow” starts.
Harry Nilsson – “Driving Along”.
Big Stick – “Drag Racing”
http://youtu.be/bYRBnz2IXvs
Soul Survivors – Expressway to Your Heart
I know there are car horns, but aren’t some of those sounds in Lovin’ Spoonful’s Summer in the City car or motorcycle engine sounds?