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Points: 1754 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2015 at 12:22
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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Points: 2223 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2015 at 12:36
Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

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
 
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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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2015 at 12:42
Hmm. Perhaps someone can start a different thread about the best prog music to play in a car instead.
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Points: 171 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2015 at 14:59
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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Neil's other car is a horse. Clown
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Points: 20752 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 12 2015 at 02:32
Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

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


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 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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ahhhh... prog and cars... here is a good story



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Points: 13430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2015 at 20:26
^ At this point, cue the song "Taxi Grab".
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 14 2015 at 21:31
Paul McCartney - "The Back Seat Of My Car"
 
The Beatles - "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"
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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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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

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.

And of course his track "Cars," an utter classic. Wink
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Points: 4812 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2015 at 13:32
And his drummer at the time was the guy from Druid (his name presently escapes me).
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Points: 356 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2015 at 17:35
Though not prog per se, I find Dire Strait's 14-minute epic Telegraph Road very suitable for driving.
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Mike Keneally "The Car Song"
 
Todd Rundgren "Emperor Of The Highway"
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Points: 5898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2015 at 08:51
The contemporary Norwegian avant-prog group Virus's first album Carheart appears to be a themed album around cars and... anthropomorphic dogs? The album booklet's full of bizarre artwork revolving around vintage 1970s cars being driven by dog-men, and things like that.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - November 19 2015 at 08:54
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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?...


Maybe it is tIme to extend this thread with any recent releases? Such as:
Big Big Train - Brooklands
or for that matter
Magic Bus (the song) by Magic Bus (the band)...

Distinctly non-Prog but many might have a soft spot for the 10 minute version of "Road to hell" by Chris Rea...
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All the albums in car.. board sleeves.
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Originally posted by hellogoodbye hellogoodbye wrote:

All the albums in car.. board sleeves.

That's...a bit stiff... LOL
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Points: 18993 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2018 at 07:44
Hi,

Hmmmmm ... I'm a fan of the Grace Slick'est of them all ... getting stopped on 101 in California for going 120mph, and the cops decided to take a look at the engine of the car instead, and not give her a ticket.

She probably got one, and it was for $5. But who knows?

As for the kind of car ... I don't think it was an American car! Those can't go fast enough to even make a cover of an album, unless your name is Mr. Chevrolet!
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 25 2018 at 07:58
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

And his drummer at the time was the guy from Druid (his name presently escapes me).

The late (very great) Cedric Sharpley.
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