Driving/Road Trip albums?

Octahedron

Anybody have any good driving albums?

I think my favourite would have to be "Live" by AC/DC. It's just got a really great sound and vibe for a live album and the standard edition, single disc, takes the best moments of it and it makes a really cracking driving album!

This week I've been trying to get back into taking a CD in the car, listening to one on the way to work and something else on the way home. My drive to work can be a bit trying and so I've been trying to build up the collection a bit and hopefully re-kindle my love of driving albums.

I remember being on a trip home (visiting Aus from the UK) before, few years back now, the new JET album had just come out. So that was always on when we were driving around. Their 3rd and final album and probably their best IMHO. 

And I remember driving around in the USA to Buckcherry's 15 album, that had just come out at the time.

This week so far I've got lined up...

- Toys in the Attic

- Led Zeppelin II 

- Highway to Hell

- Appetite... 

Can't argue with that. 4 classics. And then I've got some other new stuff to listen to. The new Cheap Trick, Hollywood Vampires... lots of different stuff. Last week I had A's "Hi-Fi Serious", P.o.D's "Satellite"... re-living my early 00s stuff!!

Honestly. It's just good to stick CDs on in the car. I feel like it just needs to be a thing again. We miss out on so much with the download/stream/individual song/single culture the digital age has generated.

And I'm only young and I'd rather go back to "the old ways"  

chromatuna

A couple of good ones for for me are Exile On Main Street and Sticky Fingers. Also some good ol' Grateful Dead, 1972 being my favourite year

xSkarloey

Stone Roses: The Second Coming

Traffic (ironically...): John Barleycorn, Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory

Jeff Beck: Wired,Blow by Blow, There and Back.

Small Faces: Ogden's Nut Gone Flake

Kraftwerk.

Physical Graffiti.



No jazz. Too much going on musically. Distracting.

No classical. Dynamics in the music and road noise. render quieter parts inaudible.

Reverend

I make playlists with with all kinds of Rock.
ZZ Top
Grand Funk
Sabbath
Mayblitz
Leafhound
Maiden
Captain Beyond
Mountain
Montrose
Ashbury
Through to stuff like Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol and the like.
Motown works well.

Folk and ambient gets lost, whilst extreme metal becomes a wash of noise.

RocknRollDave

Joshua Tree

HAL9000

Dr Feelgood - Singles:The UA Years 

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA 

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

stimpsonslostson

Songs for the deaf: queens of the Stone Age. Oh, and anything by Clutch.

Octahedron

stimpsonslostson said:

Songs for the deaf: queens of the Stone Age. Oh, and anything by Clutch.

I forgot about that. It is, I agree. QOTSA are good.

guitarfishbay

Feeder - Echo Park. I also like Generation Freak Show but think EP is the better album, lots of decent pop rock songs with sing along choruses.

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish. More 00s grooves

Mick

Rush by Rush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZNS0wUDSLs

Sesh

Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power

Dopesick

For sunny days, nothing beats Kyuss.

tone1

Best of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Iamnobody

Sesh;1085203" said:

Iggy and the Stooges: Raw Power

Also a good driving one from the eighties is a live Iggy Pop album called Power and Freedom.

Flink_Poyd

Octahedron;75927" said:

Honestly. It's just good to stick CDs on in the car. I feel like it just needs to be a thing again. We miss out on so much with the download/stream/individual song/single culture the digital age has generated.

And I'm only young and I'd rather go back to "the old ways"  

I've discovered and listened to more music since having Spotify for streaming, I don't see how it's made me miss out on anything at all. There's playlists dedicated to driving that would throw stuff up I wouldn't normally think of listening to

speshul91

Five finger death punch soundtrack to your road rage.

Phil_aka_Pip

Deep Purple - so long as you don't mind a ticket for tracks such as Speed King, Highway Star, Space Truckin' ...

Reverend

speshul91;1099131" said:

Five finger death punch soundtrack to your road rage.

Surely road rage would need something aggressive?

fob

Tends to be the radio nowadays but when I was younger the tapes I always seemed to have in the car were 'This Year's Model' - Elvis Costello, 'Dry' - PJ Harvey, and some sort of 'best of ska' that was Specials heavy.

Rave

Rush- Rush
Rush- 2112
Rush- Hemispheres
Prince- 1999
Prince- Purple Rain
Prince- Dirty Mind
Prince- Controversy
Prince- Sign O The Times
Prince- The Truth
Prince- Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic
Prince- Rainbow Children
Prince- Parade
Prince- LoveSexy
Prince- Musicology
Prince- 3121
Prince- For You
Prince- Prince
Prince- Diamonds & Pearls
Prince- Emanicpation
Steve Vai- FlexAble
Vai- Sex & Religion
Frank Zappa- Apostrophe
Frank Zappa- One Size Fits All
Frank Zappa- Overnite Sensation
Frank Zappa- Joes Garage Acts I,II & III
Frank Zappa- Shut Up 'n' play yer guitar
Frank Zappa- Man From Utopia
Frank Zappa- Freak Out!
Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Frank Zappa- Live at the Roxy
Kyuss- Blues For The Red Sun
La Dispute- Wildlife
La Dispute- Somewhere at the bottom of the river between Vega and Altair
Pantera- Far Beyond Driven
Mike Keneally- Nonkertompf
Alice In Chains- Facelift.