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« Reply #75 on: December 10, 2015, 09:43:23 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6eSmECG4IQ
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« Reply #76 on: December 11, 2015, 05:26:31 PM »

What's your all-time favorite car songs?  Doesn't have to be just Beach Boys car songs.  Studio......live versions......let's have your top 10 favorites!

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« Reply #77 on: December 11, 2015, 09:56:42 PM »

LONG MAY YOU RUN........   " Maybe the Beachboys have got you now.....with those wave singing "Caroline Noooooo"

"Rollin down that empty ocean road, getting to the surf on time"........

Right out of Neil's heart for old cars.   Smiley
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« Reply #78 on: December 12, 2015, 01:42:52 AM »

Anyone recall a 1980s song called something like Every Guy's Got to Have An Automobile by the Stickshifters? Never been able to track a copy down…

John, did you ever locate this? I found a Ry Cooder song called "Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQC0F3ec9w

First I thought there might be an "answer song" to it but as far as I can see there isn't.

The Stickshifters connection has me entirely stumped! Little Village, a band Cooder was in, is the closest I could get. And they used to do a live version of that song:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015LOP0CM?ie=UTF8&ref_=dm_ws_tlw_trk6
   

Never found it yet. I said 80s but I'm wonderińg if it was 70s? It came late, in the wake of that rock and roll/doo wop revival that hit the UK charts in the form of Darts, Showaddywaddy, Rocky Sharp and the Razors/Replays, Shakin' Stevens et al.
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« Reply #79 on: December 12, 2015, 03:32:48 AM »

Anyone recall a 1980s song called something like Every Guy's Got to Have An Automobile by the Stickshifters? Never been able to track a copy down…

John, did you ever locate this? I found a Ry Cooder song called "Crazy 'Bout An Automobile (Every Woman I Know)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQC0F3ec9w

First I thought there might be an "answer song" to it but as far as I can see there isn't.

The Stickshifters connection has me entirely stumped! Little Village, a band Cooder was in, is the closest I could get. And they used to do a live version of that song:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B015LOP0CM?ie=UTF8&ref_=dm_ws_tlw_trk6
   

Never found it yet. I said 80s but I'm wonderińg if it was 70s? It came late, in the wake of that rock and roll/doo wop revival that hit the UK charts in the form of Darts, Showaddywaddy, Rocky Sharp and the Razors/Replays, Shakin' Stevens et al.

I'll keep an eye out, as Murry might have said. I love looking for stuff. Grin 

How could I have forgotten this by one of my idols, Gary Numan?

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« Reply #80 on: December 12, 2015, 04:10:52 AM »

Anyone recall a 1980s song called something like Every Guy's Got to Have An Automobile by the Stickshifters? Never been able to track a copy down…

Here you go: :=)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7acMlFAxk

I found it here:

http://rockandrollrevival.blogspot.nl/2008/01/looking-for-corner.html
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« Reply #81 on: December 12, 2015, 05:10:46 AM »

A couple of them...

"The Breeze" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"On The Road Again" - Canned Heat
"Flirtin' With Disaster" - Molly Hatchet
"Jesus Built My Hot Rod" - Ministry
"Highway 61 Revisited" - Bob Dylan
"La Grange" - ZZ Top
"How Are You Getting Home" - Sparks
"Maserati GT" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Pink Cadillac" - Bruce Springsteen
"I've Been Everywhere" - Johnny Cash
"Sweet Hitch Hiker" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
" 5 Minutes" - The Stranglers
"Cars And Girls" - The Dictators
"Long May You Run" - Neil Young




 
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« Reply #82 on: December 13, 2015, 11:30:59 AM »

"Cadillac Ranch"
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« Reply #83 on: December 13, 2015, 11:54:43 AM »

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« Reply #84 on: December 13, 2015, 03:37:21 PM »

Anyone recall a 1980s song called something like Every Guy's Got to Have An Automobile by the Stickshifters? Never been able to track a copy down…

Here you go: :=)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By7acMlFAxk

I found it here:

http://rockandrollrevival.blogspot.nl/2008/01/looking-for-corner.html

Oh my golly blimey!!!! Many thanks indeed. First time I've heard that in decades. I misremembered enough of the band's proper name and the song lyrics to misdirected Google etc, but you nailed it. That you so much!
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« Reply #85 on: December 13, 2015, 03:45:30 PM »

-Just What I Needed
-My Best Friend's Girl
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« Reply #86 on: December 13, 2015, 05:20:32 PM »

-Just What I Needed
-My Best Friend's Girl

 LOL LOL LOL LOL but I always go with "Heartbeat City".
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« Reply #87 on: December 14, 2015, 10:13:25 AM »

The Beach Boys did some great car songs, no doubt.  Other faves of mine that haven't yet been mentioned include...

Hot Rod Lincoln
One Piece at a Time
Mercury Blues
Mercedes Benz
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« Reply #88 on: December 14, 2015, 10:21:54 AM »

The Beach Boys did some great car songs, no doubt.  Other faves of mine that haven't yet been mentioned include...

Hot Rod Lincoln
One Piece at a Time
Mercury Blues
Mercedes Benz
Oh wow. Janis. How did that not get listed yet?
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« Reply #89 on: December 14, 2015, 10:37:51 AM »

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-My Best Friend's Girl

Wouldn't the ultimate Cars song be "Drive."  It's The Cars singing about driving a car!!! 

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« Reply #90 on: December 14, 2015, 10:42:28 AM »

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Wouldn't the ultimate Cars song be "Drive."  It's The Cars singing about driving a car!!! 


Ha.  That's true. Cars ^2
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« Reply #91 on: December 14, 2015, 10:49:45 AM »

The Beach Boys did some great car songs, no doubt.  Other faves of mine that haven't yet been mentioned include...

Hot Rod Lincoln
One Piece at a Time
Mercury Blues
Mercedes Benz
Oh wow. Janis. How did that not get listed yet?

Not really a car song per se, I guess.  More an anti-materialism anthem of sorts.  I like it, whatever it is.
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« Reply #92 on: December 14, 2015, 11:07:09 AM »

Ooh, I forgot one that is only a couple of years old, with subject matter that touches upon a pet peeve of mine...Junior Brown's "Hang Up and Drive".  That's the same Junior Brown that covered Brian's "409" on the Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1 album.
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« Reply #93 on: December 14, 2015, 12:46:21 PM »

Don't think these have been mentioned yet:

Freeway Of Love----Aretha Franklin
Cruising For Burgers----The Mothers of Invention

And at the controversial end of the spectrum:

Highway To Hell----AC/DC
Dead Joe----The Birthday Party

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