Sometimes listen to radio 4 until it shuts. Last night, floppy haired 90s northern monkey pop starlet Jarvis Cocker presented a program themed about lorry driving at night, hitchhiking and general night time highway culture.
A bloke on it described how he ended up wagon driving at nights after leaving the army. He described how crap it was and that he was throwing his life away. Left me quite depressed, given I was driving at night!
The program then moved onto night time roadside Ghosts. Then I felt all spooky and edgy.
normally i listen to heavy sh*t like black metal, viking metal, melodic metal. however my conclusion is that it does not work well on night trunks mostly due to poor sound systems and cab insulation - it just turns to be a wall of sound
i also like doom and funeral doom and this works well imho
recently tried some country stuff - Jerry Reed only actually as i completely don’t know what’s happening in country music. Not sure if anyone else listens to it as some of the songs might be really boring and a lot of country might not work. However in small portions and of the right tempo i find it a good night trunk music
Blues, punk/Rock - not sure about these two. Blues probably is a bit slow for me and rock varies a lot. Punk works and i suspect punk and “rock closer to punk” should work. So i am up for some names from you
quite surprisingly i find some old 80-90 pop stuff really nice to listen to in the truck and thing about old days. however it also varies a lot. up for names in this genre as well
Classical and jazz music - generally too boring but something fast might work. any names?
i do apologies as i did not have a chance to listen to all the names / bands mentioned above, but this is something i want to do. Also welcome your input in styles not yet mentioned
Same as at home.60’s mostly 70’s of most types from Motown to Ska and old school reggae,Slade,Eagles,ELO etc.Some 80’s wasn’t bad like Level 42,Talk Talk,Tears for Fears.Some continental music can be good like Alizee and 80’s Italian pop.
As for pre limiter running couldn’t really beat Cozy Powell Dance with the Devil or BAD E=MC2 for that.
Minger:
Fri-sun nights radio 5 live Stephen Nolan, weekday nights talk sport with the two mikes
Youngest Bain has downloaded a podcast machine for me minger,which allows me to listen to all previous “two mikes”, cuts out most of the adverts as well. Brilliant.
antogoof:
Coxy is good on radio 2 or smooth fm really, that old boy who does the 60s show on radio 2 does my head in tho!!
You mean Brian Matthew doing Sounds of the Sixties, I don’t mind it, I was there!
I find Coxy, Penny Smith and ANY DJ who stands in for Vanessa Feltz very easy to listen to, but that Feltz bird gets on my pip!
varies, mostly the voices in my head but
radio - it’s usually 5 live or radio 2 until feltz comes on.
I-pod on ‘RANDOM’ has everything from Vivaldi & Pachelbel to Led Zep, Procul Harum and Strawbs with a bit of Bangles, Blondie and Bonnie Tyler thrown in, think there’s some Elkie Brooks and Eagles in there as well
Used to fone the wife at about three in the morning and wake her up to ask if she had lost any sleep, that get her moaning at me just like through the day, hated to think she was missing out on any good moaning time
Priest:
“rock closer to punk” should work. So i am up for some names from you
Fugazi (13 songs), The Ruts (The Crack & Grin and bear it), The Distillers (Sing sing death house) are all worth a tickle.
Leatherface, Killing Joke, Pixies, Public Image ltd., Screaming Blue Messiahs■■?
For the latent hippy in you (we`ve all got a little!) try Ozric Tentacles.
For the illegal raver in you (once again…!) try Underworld.
I too got peed off with the crap speakers in a lot of units, so i bought an eye-wateringly expensive Bowers & Wilkins bluetooth speaker for my htc One. Truly brilliant indoors, but less-so in the cab. Recently, a driver came wandering into the canteen at Palletline (Brum) with the Clash blasting out at full volume from within his combat trousers ( )
He`d shoehorned a beats pill speaker into one of the pockets, and it sounded very respectable.
Priest:
Blues, punk/Rock - not sure about these two. Blues probably is a bit slow for me and rock varies a lot. Punk works and i suspect punk and “rock closer to punk” should work. So i am up for some names from you
have you ever played any of this stuff Its called, PUNK GOES POP. Its rock/punk bands covering pop songs but in there rock/punk way: youtube.com/watch?v=7p_GaQo … zxyxsHnSte
I tend to put my iPod onto shuffle. I’ve got around 30,000 songs in there. An eclectic mix of rock, heavy metal, jazz, blues, hip hop, classical, dance, reggae etc etc.
If you’re looking for specifics. I’d also say Seasick Steve makes for fantastic driving music. Think you can get his best of for under £10 in HMV.
Also, on iTunes I got a 100 greatest jazz songs compilation. Was about £4. Quite nice relaxing music to listen to one the motorway through the night.
On the heavier side. The Back In Black album by AC/DC and Ace Of Spades by Motörhead are both cracking classic rock albums without a dull track on them. Personal fans are Have A Drink On Me by AC/DC and We Are The Road Crew by Motörhead (a song written by Lemmy about their road crew in under 10 minutes one day in the studio!)
Also picked up a best of John Lee ■■■■■■ for £3 a week or so ago. Again, nice chilled music for night driving. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer is a great tune.
On my phone I have 16gb of music of all genres, somewhere amongst that lot id a CD of soft piano type music they play in restaurants, wish I could find it again as it’s quite relaxing on long drives.
If you go to a site called mp3caprice.com you can find thousands of albums with every genre you can think of. Ive found some great albums on there and lots of artists I had never heard of in my life. 1 song costs 12c and a whole album is around $1.20 so you arn’t out a lot if you buy something you end up not liking but you get to listen to a 20 second snippet of every song on the album (much like itunes) so you kind of know what the artist/album is like before you buy anyway. Its a great site for finding new artists. Plus it means you dont need to pay Apples ridiculous prices!
