30 day music meme #7

[beer_good_foamy]

7. A song to drive to
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ramble Tamble

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There are plenty of good ol' American rock'n'roll songs about barrelling down the highway. The genius of this paranoid little runaway song (They're selling independence/Actors in the white house/Acid in digestion/Mortgage on my life/Mortgage on my life/Ooooooo, down the road I go!) is that traffic jam in the middle, with the heat and carbon monoxide and frustration piling up until it finally clears and you get to floor it again.

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[cjlasky7]

I usually don't have the car to myself. It's usually me, the wife and the boy on a family outing. The radio is set to the oldies station, which (these days) is mostly 80s. It's a workable compromise. On longer trips, we tend to listen to full albums. Favorites: Billy Joel, The Stranger and Elton John, Diamonds.

(When it's just me and the boy: Dave Brubeck, Time Out.)

When I am alone, I mostly go Classic Rock radio and turn my brain off. Ramble Tamble is just my cruising speed.

Of course, on those long drives from Stuttgart to Vienna.....

https://youtu.be/x-G28iyPtz0

[beer_good_foamy]

I mean, you can't go wrong with Kraftwerk. Then again, the other half of Kraftwerk Mk 1 put out some good driving songs too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndpi8tNZyQ

[cjlasky7]

That was....

Ungaublich!

Gotta admit, my krautrock fandom begins and ends with Kraftwerk. But I think I'm going to dig into Neu! (and Can), because that was absolutely hypnotic.

[beer_good_foamy]

Yay!

I'd suggest checking out Faust (especially Faust IV) and Harmonia as well.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I like it! Gotta love a song about running away from it all.

[beer_good_foamy]

I'm sure it felt very topical 50 years ago. Good thing everything's much better now, eh? :/

[thenewbuzwuzz]

"With every mistake, we must surely be learning" (:

[beer_good_foamy]

Touché!