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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2018 at 08:02
Red Barchetta is one of my favourite songs because I relate to it.

As the owner of a TVR Chimaera 4.5, it resonates. The eternal green agenda, the relentless crackdown on speed (even where it's safe) with endless speed bumps - I feel like that driver in the song. Persecuted. (And before you ask - I've got no speeding convictions at all, so I'm not a maniac).

The only problem is that my car is blue, not red.
A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Points: 1741 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2018 at 10:50
Now that Elon Musk's red Tesla named Starman (after the Bowie song) is flying in space to a playlist of Bowie tunes (Starman, Space Oddity, Life on Mars), this topic seems as relevant as ever:)
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Porcupine Tree - Heartattack in a Layby
Porcupine Tree - Open Car

I totaled my first car ('76 Porsche 914) in a 5-car accident (my fault) because I was trying to find just the right mix of bass & treble for Traffic's "Low Spark of High Heeled Boys" which I had just put into my cassette deck.  I didn't notice everyone else had stopped...

Every time I hear that raunchy saxophone, I'm reminded of how a 914 can literally disintegrate.

Edited to add: I had that car for 3 whole weeks.  When I reflect back on it all (which I try to do very infrequently), I'm amazed I made it out of my somewhat troubled youth more or less unscathed.


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Well the guy with the Kliban avatar mentioned 'Kerb Crawler', which was the obvious one I was thinking of, but on the subject of other Hawkwind tracks, I'd argue that 'Silver Machine' is essentially a car song (or a drug song; it seems to be much the same thing) - as is 'Orgone Accumulator' - a piece of technological hardware that gets you high - all three written by Calvert. Though it's worth noting that whereas 'Kerb Crawler' and 'Silver Machine' are communal highs, 'Orgone Accumulator' is 'a one-man isolator'.

And sticking with Hawkwind, why stick to cars as exciting modes of transport? Chuck in 'Magnu' and 'D-
Rider'.

Come to think of it, an awful lot of classic Hawkwind songs are about getting high by means of some machine/device/animal/drug/vegetable/gas/psychic ability/weapon/tupperware.

Oh, and I forgot 'Death Trap'
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 'A Motor-Bike in Afrika'

Not exactly a resounding endorsement of the biker life, but a Hammill song nonetheless.

Possibly add 'Sitting Targets', in a J.G. Ballardesque sort of way.


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I'm just seeing this thread now for some reason. A few examples that most on here probably know but what the heck:

Yes- White car
Rush - Red Barchetta
King Crimson - Neal and Jack and Me (mentions a 1952 Studebaker)
Gary Numan - In Cars (technically not really prog but close imo)
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Originally posted by Braka Braka wrote:

And sticking with Hawkwind...

More broadly speaking, I think Hawkwind was influenced by the "motorik" beat originating with Neu! (see "Hallogallo") and used by other so-called Krautrock bands like Can and Kraftwerk (see "Autobahn"), and which was meant to emulate driving on a motorway.
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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

Originally posted by Braka Braka wrote:

And sticking with Hawkwind...

More broadly speaking, I think Hawkwind was influenced by the "motorik" beat originating with Neu! (see "Hallogallo") and used by other so-called Krautrock bands like Can and Kraftwerk (see "Autobahn"), and which was meant to emulate driving on a motorway.

There do seem to be more prog songs that are evocative of driving (often completely instrumental) than there are of prog songs about cars.


Here’s another good one, IMO (though it does start slow):


 





Edited by AreYouHuman - March 08 2018 at 21:20
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