Was in the basement listenig to the stereo at ear splitting levels, and remembered that I hadn't heard one of my favs in awhile.

Frank Marino and Mohagany Rush, an album called What's Next. Get this, it's from the mid/late 70's and on the cover is a Dodge Shelby??? Charger??? with a Hemi, a pro-stock car.
The song is called Finish Line, a true drag race song.
Any of you old guys remember this?
Awesome hard rock album. Awesome.
Ron

She's real fine,my 409 :D

"Little Deuce Coupe" :cool:

"Little old Lady from Pasadena" ;)

I think you guys are too old....
:)
Ron

Hey man "Highway Star" byDeepPurple
and "Radar Love" are my favorites to jam down the road to. May not be true drag racing songs but they still kick A##!

There ya go! Highway Star....."Aint no body gonna beat my car, gonna break the speed of sound!
Yeah it's a killer machine, it's got everything!"

Gotta love Deep Purple...and Golden Earing.
I just might have to go crank those up as well.........
Thanks!
Ron

I like "Fuel" by Metallica and just songs for cruising since you didn't ask; THE EAGLES. My favorite cruising song by them is HOTEL CALIFORNIA. Nothing like a cool breeze through the window and the tunes on the radio.

Jesus built my HOTROD, by the Butthole Surfers is a favorite of my buddy. He's sitting here giving me his songs. That is a song you would really, really have to like to listen to over and over. I've heard it and don't like it, but he doesn't like Guns N' Roses and I love me some GNR. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Very nice Chevelle Wallace.
My buddy and I were just talking about the butthole surfers.....
Ron

Ron,
That Nova looks badass just sitting in the driveway.
Thanks for the comment about my Chevelle. I love Nova's too, I have a 74 GTO that is called a Nova all the time. Well, it's been sitting for two years, but I need to get it back on the road. I hope I can get that looking like your Nova. Yeah, the Butthole Surfers are some characters that is true...but so is my buddy. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Well thanks Wallace!
Right now it's no-ass sitting in my GF's garage.
But soon to be more badass'er....I hope.
Ron

nothing better that listening to a little chevelle while driving one too.

vitamin R

Turbo Lover.. Judas Priest..

if you like hair bands, motley's kickstart my heart or billy idol's "rebel yell"...
I always wanted that as the name of my car if i ever started to race race.. a nice white pinstripe with "rebel yell" in cursive in mid stripe..

anyway...

Can't sleep.. VERY rough holiday..

Matt

Matt,
What's so rough?
Hope it's fixable.

I knew a guy who named and painted his Camaro "No Control" which was a song by Eddie Money.
I always thought that was cool.
Ron

Street racing song...

I Speed At Night graemlins/thumbsup.gif Ronnie James DIO :D
Love early DIO graemlins/beers.gif

Out'a Control- Hoobastank graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Da Crew's Kickstart My Heart ain't bad either ;)

Not really a Metallica fan, but before it was mainstream, Fuel was good for a quick jjjolt.
Now... graemlins/boring.gif

Not an old coot or nuth'n but I really like the words to Little Deuce Coupe :D

I get pushed out of shape
and it's hard to steer
when I get rubber in all four gears
she's my little deuce coupe
you don't know what I got graemlins/hurray.gif

Ron,glad to know there is somebody else out there that likes Frank Marino graemlins/thumbsup.gif

..good stuff

Doobie Brothers - Rockin Down The Highway

Hey Rich,,,we're outnumbered by the kids on this site, have you ever heard of butthole surfers,hoobastank,DIO :confused: ? Now I can handle Guns n Roses :D

Originally posted by Rapid Robert:
Now I can handle Guns n Roses :D graemlins/sad.gif I can't....

Axles voice is like nails on the chalkboard :(

Nuns & Moses tongue.gif

all right, young bloods, "dead mans curve" by jan & dean(see, my first brand new car was a 67 camero, 396/375, 4 spd, $3000 w/tax and title)

Sammy Hagar I can't Drive 55 :D

I like the Southern influence. :cool:
Anything by Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker, .38 Special, ZZ Top, Molly Hatchet,...even a little Waylon & Willie and the boys.

Green Onions by Booker T and the MG's - the American Graffiti song

There ya go Bill, I too like the southern fried stuff :D

Shut Down is another good one. A FI Stingray and a Super Stock Dodge.

Kazzer- Peddle to the Meddle isn't bad either.

"I get pushed outa shape
and its hard to stear
When I get rubber in all 4 gears,
She's my little Deuec coup,
You don't know what I got"

Great Song
Whos got that smilie that shifts and leaves the rubber?

I gotta vote for SHUT DOWN by The Beach Boys for drag racing.

I like the one that starts the OVERHAULIN tv show.

Starts "I am gasoline..." thats all I know. wish I could find out who that is. I would buy the cd for that one line!

Milan

http://www.cdbaby.com/covers/k/i/kickingharold.jpg

Kicking Harold - Space Age Breakdown - track 4 - Gasoline

http://www.cdbaby.com/view/kickingharold/from/limeygit

My favorites come from Dick Dale

Grudge Run, Mr. Eliminator, Mag Wheels, Hot Rod Racer, etc.

Originally posted by Rapid Robert:
Hey Rich,,,we're outnumbered by the kids on this site, have you ever heard of butthole surfers,hoobastank,DIO :confused: ? Now I can handle Guns n Roses :D Yah, the Kids took over this thread, were out numbered, I'm bailing.... :cool:

Frank Marino and Mohagany Rush there is a good band. I still hear "Strange Dreams" on the radio.

"Racing in the Streets" by the BOSS is a good race song as well as "Something in the Night". Both of these are found on the album "Darkness on the Edge of Town".

Originally posted by Hi-po SS 454:
the Kids took over this thread, were out numbered, I'm bailing.... :cool: Don't let the door hit ya on the rear there old man tongue.gif

Just kidd'n ya graemlins/waving.gif

Get in your hotrod sometime...throw in "Lights Out" by UFO.
Guaranteed to make you want to drive fast.

"Little old lady from Pasadena" as was good "Shutdown" and "Dead mans curve". Liked "I can't drive 55" too. "Green Onions" by Booker T always reminds me of "American Graffiti" which was the most period correct of all the yesterday flicks as it captured the akwardness that surrounded my growing up. (Yes i'm old too). :D :D

AC/DC- Highway to HELL :cool:

Deep Purple machine head.. One of the best cruising albums of all time..
"Highway star" and "space truckin".

Also ZZ tops "Manic mechanic". ( complete with Mopar two stage starter) ..

How about "Blowin Oil" by Pist n Broke

Originally posted by thrasher:
[QUOTE] Don't let the door hit ya on the rear there old man
Make that Old Man with a lot of toys. And I have never been hit in the --s with anything except a leg with a 5 inch spike heel attached to it, never saw Her again

Happy New Year

And I have never been hit in the --s with anything except a leg with a 5 inch spike heel attached to it, never saw Her again See it as a bargain....I hear that some people pay for things like that. :D

Hoffbug, thats what I mean, went back for more but could not find Her. :D

Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

thanks 67 I gettin that!!
Thought of anotherone on the latest saliva CD The untitled track 14 I believe. Starts "I'm jumpin into my 57 chevy with flames. I'm drivin into the night. I'm like a runaway train.......

Great driving tune.. makes me drop the hammer everytime.

Milan graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Another vote for 'Radar Love!'
White Zombie ~ Thunder Kiss '65
Sammy Hagar ~ Let Sally Drive
Focus ~ Hocus Pocus


Those are mine! graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Ahhhh im 22 so no "OLD" comments from the peanut gallery but heres the line..." The cops came, they threw me in jail, they called my pappy to throw my bail, he said -Son your gonna die when your drinkin if you dont stop drivin that -HOT-ROD-LINCOLN!!" Or "Little GTO" I personally like to drive to Metallica, Pantera, Hatebreed, Thrice. Country music in general also, but im down for what ever.

I don't care if it rains or freezes...
Long as I have my plastic Jesus...
Riding on the dashboard of my car.

JUST KIDDING!!!

ANOTHER THING COMING--Judas Priest

hot for teacher van halen, listen to begining drums sound like out of control wild cam always make me pop the clutch and slam second real hard!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by Milan:
Thought of anotherone on the latest saliva CD The untitled track 14 I believe. Starts "I'm jumpin into my 57 chevy with flames. I'm drivin into the night. I'm like a runaway train.......

Great driving tune.. makes me drop the hammer everytime.
Have to check that out.I like the song they used in the LMAO movie Fast and Funny tongue.gif

Here are the songs that always add at least 10 mph to my speedometer and make me think I am undetectable to police. If I saw the blue and red's while listening to jailbreak, I can't guarantee that I would pull over until the song stopped because that song also drops my IQ by at least half. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Hendrix - Voodoo Child
The Who - Won't get fooled again
Foghat - Slow ride (Always makes me think of the ending scene in Dazed and Confused with the helicopter view of the black 70 Chevelle flying down the open road)

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (just kidding) graemlins/clonk.gif

John

dead man's curve!
I just dug up the record.
The whole song just rocks.
My .040 over 400 (409) I am ready to assemble would also have to make "409" one of my favorites.

"Headin' Out To The Highway"- Judas Priest

And John(Slowdude), that scene you're talking about in Dazed & Confused is my all-time favorite scene in a movie! It just barely beats the opening frames of Star Wars!

Pretty much any AC/DC Album will make you want to drive fast. For me the best would be: Let there be rock, Back in Black, and Flick of the Switch. Buy any one of these cd's and put them in your car, crank up the volume, and just try to drive slow, you'll be speeding without even realizing it. HAHAHA! :cool:

I have to say for cruising on a friday night the best songs would have to be Free Ride by The Edgar Winter Group and Tush by ZZ Top are some of my favorites

Looks like we have enough material for quite a compilation CD.
So who is going to begin production?
:)
Ron

You guys have mentioned a lot of the songs on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack. Most of them are great driving songs for me. I actually went and made the soundtrack the way it should have been made, and added songs that were in the movie but not on the soundtrack. It's much better. Also put them in the order in which they play in the movie. Good stuff.

Springsteen, Racing In The Streets, from the Live album. No question.

Hey isn't that the song where he says he's got a 396 with Fuelie heads, Hehe, nice going Bruce :rolleyes:

Very suprised no one mentioned Forigner's "Rev on the Red Line". "Now I need to pin those needles, got to feel that heat-hear my motor screamin as I'm tearing up the street!".

Some very good ones here-also another vote for Sammy Hagar's "can't drive 55". Springsteen's "Born to Run" always makes the right foot go down a little harder too!

Jerry was a Racecar Driver, drove so goddamn fast. He never did win no checkered flags, but he never did come in last...
Jerry was a racecar driver, 22 years old. One to many cold beers one night and wrapped himself around a telephone pole.

Originally posted by 70chevelle15:
Hey isn't that the song where he says he's got a 396 with Fuelie heads, Hehe, nice going Bruce :rolleyes: Hey now lets wait one minute here before we kill on "the boss"....maybe he had a preminition of a 4" bore/ 3.94" stroke small block motor.....huh maybe, just maybe graemlins/clonk.gif :D

Originally posted by Sid Coleman:
Very suprised no one mentioned Forigner's "Rev on the Red Line". "Now I need to pin those needles, got to feel that heat-hear my motor screamin as I'm tearing up the street!".

Good lyrics indeed, but the whole song is just so dang slow it almost puts me to sleep.
Hard to get your blod pumping when you're sawing logs.

I think that a compilation cd would be a good idea.

There would obviously need to three cd's because of the different taists here.

Classics-
Beech boys, Jan & Dean and so forth.

Rock-
Spring Steen,Foreigner,Deep Purple,Golder Earring and such.

Heavy-
Saliva-VH-Dio-Crue-Priest-AC/DC
and the likes.

Get my drift, all way different :cool:

How bout

Green Onions- Booker T and the MG's (cruise song)
Breaking the Law- Judas Preist(for all us former street racers) :D
Crazy Train- Ozzy
Rock and Roll all night- Kiss

The list goes on and on.......... :cool:

Queens I'm in love with my car.Also any old Sabbath,Deep Purple,Dio

Originally posted by mr68:
hot for teacher van halen, listen to begining drums sound like out of control wild cam always make me pop the clutch and slam second real hard!!!!!!!!! I second that.... If you have any kind of system & crank it up, sounds like a top fueler....

Wow, 5th page!! NO ZEPPELIN???!!! C'mon!!

How about Trampled Underfoot?? (and another vote for Highway Star!)

Greasy slicked down body, groovy leather trim
I like the way you hold the road, mama, it ain’t no sin

Talkin’ ’bout love

Trouble-free transmission, helps your oil’s flow
Mama, let me pump your gas, mama, let me do it all

Talkin’ ’bout love

Dig that heavy metal underneath your hood
Baby, I could work all night, believe I’ve got the perfect tools

Talkin’ ’bout love

A model built for comfort, really built with style
Specialist tradition, mama, let me feast my eyes

Talkin’ ’bout love

Factory air-conditioned, heat begins to rise
Guaranteed to run for hours, mama it’s a perfect size

Talkin’ ’bout love

Groovin’ on the freeway, gauge is on the red
Gun down on my gasoline, I believe I’m gonna crack a head.

Talkin’ ’bout love
I can’t stop talkin’ about...

Come to me for service every hundred miles
Baby, let me check your points, fix your overdrive

Talkin’ ’bout love

Fully automatic, comes in any size
Makes me wonder what I did, before we synchronized

Talkin’ ’bout love

Feather-light suspension, coils just couldn’t hold
I’m so glad I took a look inside your showroom doors

Talkin’ ’bout love

Oh, I can’t stop talkin’ about love

no zep!!!
shame on us all
Immigrant song and Kashmir!!!!!

Band: Machinehead
Album: Through the Ashes of Empires
Song: Imperium

It's more of an epic song, but it's the perfect jam. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Fried guy...machinehead slams, i definately second that one

Hey Wallace,

Jesus Built My Hot Rod is by Ministry not the Buttholes - FYI smile.gif I used to have the T-shirt, had a picture of a Hemi motor on the front and "No man with a good car needs to be justified" on the back.

1 - Dazed and Confused soundtrack - all of it.

2 - Led Zep - Trampled under Foot, Wanton Song, Kashmir, Whole Lotta Love etc etc

3 - "Heavy Metal" Don't recall the artist. Anyone remember this from the movie in '79 ? "You can hedge your bet on a clean corvette...." This one is slow but has a killer beat and that oh, so 70's guitar.

I really prefer the "period correct" stuff from muscle car era.

Over and out.

I think you are referring to the song "Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride)" by Don Felder

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Originally posted by Fried_Guy:
I think you are referring to the song "Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride)" by Don Felder That Don Felder song was S L O W!!!

Sammy Hagar also did a Heavy metal song.

Get your one way ticket to midnight
call it heavy metal

Inspirational redline

I'm with Sid smile.gif Foreigner- Rev On The Redline.
A few others:

Styx - Blue collar man, Queen of Spades, Renegade
VH- Runnin' with the Devil, Panama
Hagar- Trans Am (Highway wonderland), Baby's On Fire
Thurogood- Bad to the Bone, One Bourbon, One Scotch, and one Beer, Ridin along in my Automobile.
The Baby's - Midnight Rendezvous, Back On My Feet Again
The Donnas- Fall Behind Me, Livin After midnight
Doro Pesch- Terrorvision, Burn it up, White Wedding, Do you Like it?
Dokken- Unchain the night, It's not love, breakin the chains.

I could go on and on and on......

And yes Hagar and Felder were both on the Heavy Metal Soundtrack- Felder's song was was very Eagles style and Sammy's song rocked. It was on the Standing Hampton album too.

Yep, Don Felder thats the one I was thinking of.

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Originally posted by ACE841:
yes Hagar and Felder were both on the Heavy Metal Soundtrack- Felder's song was was very Eagles style and Sammy's song rocked. It was on the Standing Hampton album too. But did you know that it is two different recordings?

The one that is on the sound track is the good one.His voice was really "ON" that day.
He even admitted it in a radio interview I heard many years ago.I loved that version of the song.
It always seemed like the Hampton version was missing something.After that interview I knew what it was.

Oh and Dokken...You poser tongue.gif

OK now I'm going a little "RED NECK" here!!
Charlie Daniles
"Stroker Ace"
"Uneasy Rider"
Chris LeDoux
"8 Second Ride"
"HorsePower"
Hank Jr. Anything
And the list goes ON and ON!!!
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Beach Boys "Shutdown"
Sammy Hagar "I Can't Drive 55"
Judas Priest "Got Another Thing Coming"
Van Halen "Everybody Wants Some" and "Panama"
Yes, I'm getting old too!! OORAH!

I'll second the Springsteen tunes! I haven't heard of a lot of these newer bands either unless my kids happen to mention them. I think my buddy who is a complete maniac listens to the Butthole Surfers - they've been around a while haven't they?

Hey - as long as it isn't RAP I can listen.

Troy.

Come on guys. You're throwing in good songs that are not race songs. Here's truly an oldie, 1963, but the best drag racing song where the theme is REALLY about racing and not just glorifying a car has to be 'SHUTDOWN' by the Beach boys.
Another true race song is by Jan and Dean called 'DEAD MAN'S CURVE'. Still another good car song but not much "racy" written by Brian Wilson and popularized by Bruce and Terry is 'CUSTOM MACHINE'. Hey, I like Guns n' Roses too!
However, I prefer Smash Mouth or Sugar Ray.
Rain Man

I can't believe no one mentioned the rock group CHEVELLE.

Just heard one the other day on musicmatch, pre-my-era, that I really liked "HEY LITTLE COBRA" by the RIPCHORDS. graemlins/beers.gif

Little Nash Rambler was a good song. I love the way the pace quickens as time goes on. His horn went beep beep beep. Anothe vote for Hey Little Cobra.
Chris

Eastbound!!!!!!!!!! graemlins/beers.gif -----smokey and the bandit.(Jerry Reed)

Eddy.

Southern rock "kicks *ss"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bills camino : i like Lynyrd Skynyrd too!!!!!I saw them next year in holland ,great show graemlins/thumbsup.gif (Ronnie v Zant r.i.p)
And off course Molley hatchet!! graemlins/beers.gif

Eddy.

How bout...
She had a 4 - 55 rocket, Biggest block alive.
(You have to love the line.. WHo's junkpile piece of Cheeeeevelle is that?)
I also like the Commander Cody version of Hot Rod Lincoln

Regards,

the Butthole Surfers - they've been around a while haven't they? I think they've been around since the early 80's, at least... I remember some friends listened to them in like 1980/1981...


Not drag racing related, but for me, Many AC/DC songs and ZZ Top stuff... Always makes me feel good driving...

"Foreigner (http://www.somersetsongs.com/foreigner.htm)" - "Rev on the Redline." !
Hands Down !!!