What is Your Favorite Album for a Weekend Morning Drive?

The Pretenders first album. Followed closely by The Doors “Strange Days”. Then there’s Bruce Cochburns “Breakfast in New Orleans”. Or, in a very different direction, Keith Jarrett’s “Koln Concert”. And then swing into “Something Else” by Cannonball. Closer to lunch, something by Laura Marling. Maybe “I Speak Because I Can. ” Wow, this is getting hard!!!

Sailing to Philadelphia or Clapton (2010).

Like many others, I like the radio off for the most part. However, when I want music for driving ZZ Top.

tape deck plays at half speed so I listen to the radio to obscure unhealthy automotive sounds. Pedal-down the gearbox and engine cut through enough to make itself known. Slow speeds and speed humps in carparks provide the loudest squeaks – yuk! – ’71 3 litre 6cyl 3spd column shift sedan with chrome and searingly white paint –

The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, drivin’ down “Thunderoad”.

As much as I love music, I only listen to it when driving modern cars.
In a classic I vastly prefer the deep rumbles and vivid crescendos produced by a mix of DCOE’s, cool air and mountain walls… 😉

Supertramp live in Paris (1980).

Classic car – Classic Rock!

The Wall comes to mind.

When really moving on down a twisty back road, I play ZZ Top’s “Eliminator.” On the freeway with cruise control on, Eagle’s “Hotel California,” ’cause it takes me back to a time and place that’s no longer there, which I can never leave.

screamadelica by primal scream……

I think you’ll find i’ve won ! 😉

My favorite album to play when driving is from Peter Gabriel album called “So” from 1986, it’s a fantastic album.
I always play the album in fact the cassette has been stuck inside my stereo since 86 which I cannot eject from the player. This happened as soon as I drove out of the showroom when I purchased my Ferrari Testarossa all those years ago. The dealer wouldn’t come to the party to fix it so I didn’t bother either so I listen to the album once a fortnight for the last 28 years and I never get bored.

Jane Eyre (2011) Soundtrack – Dario Marianelli Absolutely gorgeous

the car: 1991 Miata with a few upgrades
the road: twisty up to Mt. Edith Cavell in Jasper
the time: about 8 am on a weekday morning when I have the road to myself
the music: the 1955 recording of Glen Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in the Bora. It’s the only one quiet enough to listen to anything in.

Without a doubt, Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories.” Not too crazy and not too mellow, but with the right balance of funk, pop, electro, and classical to make things interesting.

Easily “[i]The In Sounds from Way Out![/i]” by the Beastie Boys. Instrumental, interesting, not too mellow, not too over the top.

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For some reason, Led Zeppelin 1 and 2, found it’s way into my Boxster 7 years ago, and when I decide to play the stereo, which is not with any regularity, I love to blast this cd. Stereo is great, and I have other cd’s, but prefer the mechanical sounds more. I am enjoying reading everyone’s choices.

The Neighborhood: I Love You.
84′ 944. Hwy 1.

It’s gotta be something sung by a fellow (although former) petrolisti: Jim Morrison. Therefore the choice is easy:
LA Woman by The Doors – a nice mellow morning motoring album.

Alone on an early weekend morning it has to be
Nick Drake – Pink Moon

This is something I will have to wait to find out, seeing as my Alfa Spider doesn’t have a properly working stereo. And even if it did, you wouldn’t be able to hear the music over the sound of the exhaust and wind noise!

In the Maser QP and the Alfa GT Junior, the opening cut from the Quantum of Solace soundtrack. In the Alfa 2600 Spyder, “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” sung by none other than the Chairman of the Board with arrangement by the great Nelson Riddle.

The Band- music from big pink or just the brown album “aka the band” album those two are perfect for a saturday morning in the TR6

Varies…

Broken Bells “After the Disco” is the current go-to

Quiet, early morning drive while the sun is coming up and the roads are empty?

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[*][i]Nilsson Sings Newman[/i], Harry Nilsson[/*]
[*][i]Greatest Palace Music[/i], Bonnie “Prince” Billy[/*]
[*][i]Rainy Day Music[/i], The Jayhawks[/*]
[*][i]Sea Change[/i], Beck[/*]
[*][i]If You’re Feeling Sinister[/i], Belle & Sebastian[/*]
[*][i]Yoko[/i], Beulah[/*]
[*]Any later Wilco album[/*]
[*][i]For Emma, Forever Ago[/i], Bon Iver[/*]
[*][i]Nebraska[/i], Bruce Springsteen[/*]
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I could go on forever here.

I’ll throw down…

Bill Callahan – Dream River
Josh Rouse – Nashville
The Walkmen – Bows & Arrows
The War on Drugs – Lost in the Dream

And if your feeling iris
The Untouchables – Wild Child

My wife and I drove up Highway 1 in Northern California and then to Portland Oregon. The one album that stood out was U2’s Joshua Tree.

GTV6 by Busso
or perhaps 440 four barrel by Mopar.

Across the plains starts with The Theme From Route 66 – Nelson Riddle Orchestra.

Driving for effect – Baba O’Riley – The Who

The Gaslight Anthem…The ’59 Sound.
Give it a listen!

Like T J says “It all depends”. For a blast over the hill to South Lake Tahoe on Hwy 50 I’d have to say Chickenfoot III. For most other leisurely cruises…anything by Joe Bonamassa. Most of the time tho’ the I-pod’s on blues rock shuffle.