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Not prog, but parts of Gary Numan's Tubeway Army (his best, but there are proggy instrumentals of his that appear elsewhere) really rev me up while on the highways, byways, and thoroughfares.
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Paul McCartney - "The Back Seat Of My Car"
 
The Beatles - "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"
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^ At this point, cue the song "Taxi Grab".
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ahhhh... prog and cars... here is a good story



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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:


Are there many prog tracks about cars, driving, life in the fast lane, dark desert highways, highways to hell, Trans Ams, Maseratis, Cadillacs, James Dean, the open road, running on empty, trucking, crusing on a motorcyle, magic buses, crosstown traffic and freeway jams, racing down the street, making out in the backseat?...

I can think of a few. Kraftwerk's Autobahn, Rush's Red Barchetta, Neu!'s Hallogallo (their motorik beat was meant to soundtrack driving a car), Radiohead's Airbag, the aforementioned Queen's I'm in Love with My Car.
Hawkwind - Kerb Crawler (which might be what you are after, as it is as much about the intentions of the driver as the car), Damnation Alley ("Driving through the burning hoop of doom, In an eight wheeled anti-radiation tomb") and Motorway City
The Dregs - Cruise Control Big smile
and that song by Golden Earring...which seemed to be on high rotation here in Adelaide way back in the years when the Australian Grand Prix was being raced around our city streets...

EDIT: to add more Hawkwind...they may have done more songs that I don't know about...


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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Regarding prog and cars..I never really noticed any connection.
Confused

I guess we're liable to find more references to spaceships and unicorns than to Chevys and VWs in prog.. LOL


True enoughLOL

Hippies had their VW combis, 50's their hot rods, early-60's had their (obligatory) convertible surf cars, mods had the dressed-up Vespa, Rockers had their Harleys, etc....

progheads, nothing representative.

Some of my Toronto buddies had their fixations on late-60's and early-70's cars like Mustang Shelbys, GTO "the judge", Chevelles, Chargers, Challengers, Firebird Trans-Am or Z-28 Camaros, but it wasn't limited to progheads
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

This works when driving in the vastness of Wyoming under the Big Sky

Neil Young


 
That's a really nice tune and that first Young album is unique ....one of my favorites from him and he never did another quite like that one.
 
Regarding prog and cars..I never really noticed any connection.
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Hmm. Perhaps someone can start a different thread about the best prog music to play in a car instead.
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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Regarding prog and cars..I never really noticed any connection.
Confused

I guess we're liable to find more references to spaceships and unicorns than to Chevys and VWs in prog.. LOL
 
and that's the way it should be.  Cars are interesting to drive but not so interesting to talk about, Top Gear notwithstanding.
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Regarding prog and cars..I never really noticed any connection.
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I guess we're liable to find more references to spaceships and unicorns than to Chevys and VWs in prog.. LOL
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Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

This works when driving in the vastness of Wyoming under the Big Sky

Neil Young


 
That's a really nice tune and that first Young album is unique ....one of my favorites from him and he never did another quite like that one.
 
Regarding prog and cars..I never really noticed any connection.
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Nacionalna klasa do 785 kubika ("National Class Category Up To 785cc") 1979 movie & soundtrack, feat. Dado Topić (ex-Time)
 
 
 


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When it comes to cars, I'm with Mark K as prog and cars don't mix.
 
Just ask Deep Purple.


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Originally posted by emigre80 emigre80 wrote:

We never owned a car when I was growing up (lived in NYC with great public transportation) so the whole romance-of-the-open-road thing for me was restricted to reading Jack Kerouac.

Great point about Kerouac. No self-respecting rocker was without a worn-out copy of On the Road, especially in the US! Wink

Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

My first car was a red '65 VW with a Craig Pioneer 4-track tape deck and four speakers.
Since surf music and hot rod music were closely related my memories of cars and music would be I Get Around by The Beach Boys, Dead Man's Curve, Little GTO, etc.
A little before Prog though.

I've often thought how funny that is. We think of the Beach Boys as surf music, yet so many of their songs are actually about driving to the beach LOL


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..Yugo sometime, and sometimes you don't.

Q: Why do Yugo's have heated rear windows?
A: To keep your hands warm when pushing them.

Q: How do you double the value of a Yugo?
A: Put a litre of petrol in the tank.

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A: With a tow-truck

All Yugos come with anti-theft devices as standard - you have to pay extra to have them de-badged.
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I had a '65 Lincoln with suicide doors in the back. I could fit about 10 people in there. I put in a Pioneer Supertuner 8-track (it had a round radio dial if I recall correctly) with Jensen speakers. My god, was that boat fun to drive around.
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My first car was a red '65 VW with a Craig Pioneer 4-track tape deck and four speakers.
Since surf music and hot rod music were closely related my memories of cars and music would be I Get Around by The Beach Boys, Dead Man's Curve, Little GTO, etc.
A little before Prog though.
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2015 at 17:37
Playing Red Barchetta when howling round Croft racing circuit at 150mph in an open top TVR is probably the best experience you can have fully clothed.
A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life.
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Originally posted by cstack3 cstack3 wrote:

I was born in 1955, and so I reached legal driving age in the US by age 16, which was 1971.  

Our earlier cars only had AM band radios, and coincidentally, prog bands like ELP, Yes, and Focus began to generate huge AM radio hits in this time period.  "In the Beginning," "Roundabout" and "Hocus Pocus" all had heavy rotation.  Other bands, such as Tull and Flash, had minor AM radio hits.  

In this manner, I believe that the American automobile experience definitely helped to boost the rise of prog.  A bit later on, our cars commonly became equipped with the 8-track cassette music system, which increased access to the music while driving.  

I'm very glad to have experienced it at the age that I was, I have fantastic memories of Yes playing in the largest Chicago venues to enthusiastic crowds.  It was a golden age, the likes of which we probably will never see again.  Lady GaGa sells the biggest venues now.  Pity.


 
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