Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Best Car Songs For The Holidays

None of the songs in this article are on my iPod (I can link up the |Ipod to the car's stereo). I'll tell you what are the worst songs for driving - anything by Enya, or Sarah MacLachlan.

What is unusually nice though is listening to children's song - old songs - and singing along to them.

My current favourite pop songs:
1. Miles Away - Madonna
2. Disturbia - Rihanna
3. A Million Miles - Gravity's Grace
clipped from blog.wired.com
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Being car guys, it occurred to us that there are approximately 1.2 gazillion songs about cars. Has any topic short of love so often been the subject of song? We don't know for sure but we'd bet Karl Benz had no sooner fired up his Motorwagen before someone was writing a ditty about it. Cars are as much a part of rock-n-roll as sex, drugs and Marshall stacks.

7. The Beach Boys - 409. Everyone cites Little Deuce Coupe, but for our money, this B-side to 1962's Surfin' Safari is the best of the Boys' many car songs because nothing says "bad ass" like a mid-60s Chevy with lousy brakes and an obscenely large engine putting out 425 horsepower.

1. Prince - Little Red Corvette.
This song isn't really about a Corvette, it's - spoiler alert! - about
a one-night stand. Prince wasn't the first to use a car as a metaphor
for a woman and he won't be the last, but his catchy tune from the
album 1999 will always rank among the best.

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