Since I’ve finally ripped (most of) my CD collection, I’m rediscovering all this music I used to love.<\/p>\n
I’ve also made a fabulous playlist for the gym, and as I listen to it, I keep going, “Ooh! I love this song! Oooh! I love this song too!” <\/p>\n
It’s strange how my brain classifies some music automatically as “music to play in the car while driving really fast with all the windows down” which is different from “music that is good to dance to” or “music I love to sing along to” or any other category my brain can come up with.<\/p>\n
But I was really thinking about “music to play in the car while driving really fast with all the windows down.” <\/p>\n
Here are some of my favorites in that category.<\/p>\n
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
\nDon Henley – Boys of Summer
\nSugar – Good Idea
\nGreen Day – Welcome to Paradise
\nReplacements – Alex Chilton
\nPearl Jam – Alive
\nSmashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
\nFaith No More – Epic
\nRed Hot Chili Peppers – Taste the Pain
\nWhite Zombie – Black Sunshine
\nCowboy Junkies – To Live Is to Fly
\nNo Doubt – Just a Girl
\nZZ Top – La Grange
\nTina Turner – What You Get Is What You See
\nUrge Overkill – Positive Bleeding
\nSmiths – How Soon Is Now?
\nRage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name
\nU2 – Pride (in the Name of Love)
\nCracker – Lonesome Johnny Blues
\nDada – Dizz Knee Land
\nToadies – Possum Kingdom
\nProclaimers – 500 Miles
\nPosies – My Big Mouth or Definite Door
\nL7 – Shitlist
\nMasters of Reality – Doraldina’s Prophecies
\nYes – the entire 90215 album
\nPrince – the entire Purple Rain album
\nTom Petty – the entire Southern Accents album<\/p>\n
I know there are lots more I’m missing–I had lots of lots of tapes, which are all gone, and they included almost all my heavy metal. And really, what’s better than heavy metal for driving fast?<\/p>\n
Now, just to clarify, I do NOT listen to these songs while driving anymore. I listen to public radio. <\/p>\n
And I haven’t gotten a ticket in more than a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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