Crank it up
 

Okay give it up. I know you have some and you can't hide from the light any longer. I busted a girl on the way into work for it, and she knew she was 100% guilty as soon as she saw the look on my face.

Friends, I'm talking about car singing. Actually more along the lines of performing. Singing, dancing, actions, emotion....the whole bit. We all have a list of a few songs that cause us to temporarily lose our sh*t completely. Whether you can sing or not is irrelevent here. Talent matters not. What matters is that these songs are so great that even the meekest of people can give a balls out performance.

So...out with it. What songs make you bust out the car dancing/singing? Or while showering, grocery shopping, studying, family planning, plotting, etc? I'll start:

Early 80's Madge (Burning Up, Borderline, etc)
Rock & Roll (Preferably the orginal, but I rock it to Heart's version too)
Stand Back (LIB is a good version for the car)
Don't Stop Believing
Anything Motown
and as of last weekend, Whitney's I Wanna Dance with Somebody :laugh:

anything. seriously. but my most egregious moments have occurred during ...

-crazy on you
-stand back
-the chain
-angel
-walking on broken glass
-eo17 (natch)
-gypsy
-hanging on the telephone

yeah, too many to list. :laugh:

We SO need to drive together:laugh:

absolutely! we would get into a wreck, tho. :laugh:

it would be worth it.

other songs:

-pretty much anything from she's so unusual
-like a prayer
-thunder road
-cat house blues (shut up)
-OH! 9 to 5. jesus christ. 9 to 5.

Mac-related:

Doing The Best That I Can (I literally throw invisible cards :laugh: )
Straight Back
Show You How
Edge of 17
TISL
Honey Hi

Tony - Patty Griffin
What About Love - Heart
Take the Money & Run - Stevie Miller Band (hand claps mandatory)
Change of Heart - Cyndi Lauper




Can't wait to see Strand's list. :laugh:

Awwww ****. I will tear up some Like a Prayer. I do a mean Live to Tell too.

And I'll see your Thunder Road & raise you Rosalita.

naturally. i do a weird little jaunty dance during "walking on broken glass" that probably causes accidents. :laugh:

hand claps are always necessary.

and i should include COH. major major dance number for me.

:laugh:

****, i just had a good one and i forgot it!!! dammit.

oh yeah! billie jean. naturally.

I sing all the time. I don't give a damn who sees or hears me. :lol:

Preach it on sista woman!!!!!!!!!

Ditto...
 

but I can carry a tune, so it doesnt annoy the canines of the world.

When U Were Mine is a definite performance. Like A Prayer and True Blue as well:) Dolly is just a given.

There isn't much to say on that except :xoxo:

Now..I wanna hear your "Live To Tell"!!!

Oh I'm a complete and total car singer. I think it might be physically impossible for me to be in a car and NOT sing.

I'll sing to anything and everything I know...and I don't care who sees me, if I get a funny look I just belt it out at whoever is looking at me funny :lol:

Some of my favorite car hits:

Def. Like a Prayer...
Time After Time
Goodbye to You
Bohemian Rhapsody
We Are the Champions
Let me Roll it
Lips of an Angel :lol:

Ok...there are a lot...I sing. All the time.

:lol: too funny!

My brother and I do a mean air guitar for "Murrow" :laugh:

Stuff that makes me go bananas in my car:

- go your own way (what? it's all about the guitar solo)
- smile at you (a capella. dude, I scream)
- the ledge (i love me some tusk in the car :nod: )
- so: tusk
- tango in the night ('come' works also, btw)
- led zeppelin - whole lotta love (oh man, perfect for when you are on a road rage)
- golden earring - radar love (dude, it's a car song)
- steppenwolf - born to be wild (so sue me for unoriginality)
- beatles - helter skelter
- stand back and edge (duh)
- wrong
- alanis morissette - you oughta know
- babys - isn't it time (:laugh: it's on a mix cd that's in my car stereo right now, and it works)
- definitely 9 to 5
- CHER (walking in memphis, if i could turn back time, shoop shoop song, you know, basically everything by cher)
- bette midler - when a man loves a woman (oh, the screaming)
- bonnie tyler - total eclipse of the heart
- bryan adams - summer of 69
- BTO - you ain't seen nothing yet :lol:
- chi coltrane - go like elijah
- madonna (like...a lot)
- chicago soundtrack :laugh:
- dixie chicks - can't hurry love
- the doors - la woman and roadhouse blues
- faith hill - this kiss
- nena - 99 luftballons :lol:
- fisher-z - marliese
- lots of queen stuff, queen's good car music
- heart - crazy on you
- melissa etheridge - like the way i do, bring me some water, i want to come over
- janis joplin - piece of my heart
- chris isaak - baby did a bad bad thing
- vaya con dios - neh nah neh
- marco borsato - ik leef niet meer voor jou (sorry, but it's a good car song)
- steve and cockney - make me smile
- pointer sisters - fire
- almost everything shania twain (man i feel like a woman, i'm gonna getcha good, that don't impress me much...ya know)
- u2 - beautiful day, i will follow, walk on, desire

(I have (had) all these songs on a cd in my car at one time or another, that's why I remember :p)

^^^ OMG how did i miss bohemian rhapsody? christ on a clamshell, that may be my tour de france (thank you rose nylund). :laugh:

:lol: :lol:

Bohemian Rhapsody may be one of the best car tunes ever. How could ANYONE forget it?? :p

I have been singing in the car since I was a kid. The only time I got stopped by a policeman for speeding while singing was to an Elton John song CD. lol I got a warning since I personally knew the policeman from our small town and he was SHOCKED I was going faster than 40 MPH:laugh: I drive like a grandmother which I wasn't at that time:D

On road trips, I always take my Fleetwood Mac and Stevie CD's. My hubby hates it too:xoxo: I am a terrible singer but it makes me happy:D

It's not a good tune for me...
 

to drive too, since I emulate the scene from "Wayne's World" with Wayne & Garth headbangin' to "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Oh I'm no great singer, but I don't care :lol: It's usually just me, and I belt like a fool. When people are with me I tone it down some, but again, I can't NOT sing in a car....

Ha..I do a watered down version - a road friendly version if you will - a bit of head bobbing...but I've never been into the head-banging thing (though I had a brief period of headbanger wannabe-ism in middle school)...so Bohemian Rhapsody remains an ok car song :D

^^ solsbury hill - absolutely! also red rain and a multitude of others. PG rules.

I wear out...
 

steering wheel covers because when I drive I tend to drum out the drum pattern to the song that's playing. And yes (!!!) I double bass kick the floor board during a heavy tune. Odd, considering I am the safest driver you can ever ride with :shrug:

Brian "Drummer trapped in a bassist body" j.

:lol: that's right.

We should demand insurance discounts.

I forgot to mention - if there's nothing good on the radio (common) or I'm sick of cds and didn't bring my mp3 player - I'll sing accapella man!

And when I do that I'm all about musicals...

Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Newsies
Lion King
Little Mermaid

:lol:

This would be pretty representative of my list. Much more Heart, of course. When Barracuda comes on, I have to watch that I don't start going really, really fast.
More Blondie, too.
All Mac/Stevie, all the time.

yeah, i was going to add more heart and blondie, but i didn't want to end up listing half of their discographies.

haha, i typed dicography. dickography. hahahahaha.

:lol: The picture of you driving in my head is very amusing. I've combined the Wayne's World thing with your drumming and bass kick...:p

Oddly enough I don't drum in the car. I do it EVERYWHERE else while listening to music, but not in the car :shrug:

:lol: :lol: Well I don't hold my musical reviews when there are people in the car. I can be a bitch, but I'm not CRUEL! :p

ooh. Now you just cross the line. that song is illegal in my car. It'll get you my full musical review of Titanic..and that ain't pretty.

Good one, although I slightly prefer "The Warrior," mainly because of the "bang bang" hand gestures.

Best.Post.Ever. :laugh:

:laugh: it's all downhill from here. :wavey:

Well, here are some:

Madman Across the Water
Crazy On You
Shooting Star
The Joker
With Or Without You
Solsbury Hill
The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
St. Teresa
Sisters Of the Moon
Help Me
Wish You Were Here
Aqualung
Roundabout
Suite Judy Blue Eyes
Somebody To Love

Lady (I didn't know I needed to sing with this, until it came on in a friend's car: "don't be thinking that I don't want you...")

I am totally guilty of this :laugh: I was doing it less than an hour ago, in fact, plus the drumming on the wheel, the whole business... I have that ability to remember lyrics, even to songs I haven't heard for years and years, so I can drivel on to thousands of songs with nooo problem :D I like to compare my puny range to that of whichever singer I'm listening to, and I'm closer to Paul Rodgers than anyone else. But uhh.. he's good and I ain't :laugh:

Any song I know the words too. I'll sing it. Badly. :p

:laugh:

ok, that's pretty much true for me, too. except i don't need to know all the words, just the chorus, sometimes not even the whole chorus. no, people do not like to drive with me. :laugh:

It gets bad when I make mixes for my friends that are desiged to be driven to. Most of the songs are new wave or alternative 80's hits that only I would know the words to. :laugh:

Of course you do.

So basically what I'm seeing here is the need for two things.

1. Ledgie get together
2. A vehicle large enough to accomodate us and our talents.

Oh God. I'm having flashes of Ledgies in a yellow VW bus...trekking cross country so Jazz can compete in the Little Miss Stevie contest :p

oh. my. god.

especially hilarious since i just watched that movie this morning. :laugh:

edit: this is officially my favorite post of yours, ever. :thumbsup:

personally, i love you. :xoxo: :laugh:

ok, how did that happen. I went to edit it and it deleted?

wtf?

well...at least you saw it. :laugh: