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Night Time Drive Music
Akilae729
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So I've been fucking hooked on the song PDA by Interpol
This song (along with Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio) have a mood of smashing 90 miles an hour down the freeway throuhg the city lights at 3am.
They feel dark but at the same time sexy and i'm trying to find some more stuff like this.
Hook me up with more awesome songs for driving the Seattle Viaduct at 3am on the way to my girlfriends house. And consequently awesome songs for the 8th hour of an all night coding session.
td;dr: Songs that are awesome for driving late at night. Along the lines of PDA by Interpol
This song (along with Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio) have a mood of smashing 90 miles an hour down the freeway throuhg the city lights at 3am.
They feel dark but at the same time sexy and i'm trying to find some more stuff like this.
Hook me up with more awesome songs for driving the Seattle Viaduct at 3am on the way to my girlfriends house. And consequently awesome songs for the 8th hour of an all night coding session.
td;dr: Songs that are awesome for driving late at night. Along the lines of PDA by Interpol
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Tokyo Police Club?
Perfect song for what you described.
Roll the window down this
cool night air is curious
let the whole world look in
who cares who sees anything
I think i'll probably just end up doing this, what album of theirs is like the shit. What would I like the best if my experience with tool is basically the songs Sober and Schism
tokyo police club sounds like its sung by a 15 year old
You should still get the Deftones song I mentioned, it features Maynard from Tool on vocals
I just knew, KNEW somebody was going to say that...
Agreed. Grab both and put in whichever album you like best, or whichever you're in the mood for once you're familiar with them.
not really what im lookin for
Extremely brutal death metal as well but...I doubt you're looking for that.
Seriously.
Now for what I else I listen to on late night drives:
Franz Ferdinand
Bloc Party
Queens Of the Stoneage
Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie
Wolf Parade
The Unicorns
Islands
You Say Party! We Say Die!
M83
Ratatat
Kill The Lights
And really my most recommended idea would to go download the CBC Radio 3 podcast. http://radio3.cbc.ca/ It basically plays all independant Canadian music and most of it is along the line of Interpol. Would really work for late night drives.
What else...
Franz Ferdinand - Outsiders
Wolfmother - Joker & The Thief
The Strokes - Reptilia
Ratatat - Kennedy
Infected Mushroom - Scorpion Frog (trancey techno kinda stuff but still cool)
Gorillaz - White Light
Crystal Method - Bound Too Long
Muse - Knights of Cydonia and Map of the Problematique
The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
Yea most Tool songs are good too.
I heard these guys for the first time at Coachella I couldn't agree more, hard to believe it's only two guys.
-Terry Pratchett
I would also second the Trance suggestion. I've also been listening to a lot of Industrial lately, and thats very lively music. I reccomend maybe VNV Nation, Assemblage 23 or Front Line Assembly ;-)
I have this deepseated distaste for stuff like wolfmother, ratatat, bloc party, death cab... my roomate this year managed to ruin it all for me, trust me, he did
What i'm really looking for is a cinematic feel really. Imagine what song you would set to a guy in a large sedan, looking straight ahead, smashing by the city at 90 miles an hour or the road to "somewhere"
I'm really just hooked on this idea becasue my girlfriend and I got to ride in my friends 1964 at around 3am in Seattle. If you're going north on the Viaduct, on your left is the city lights and the lights of the port and on your right, you are basically driving into the city lights themselves. Its a very cool moment. And at the time we were smashing 100 miles and hour and the CD he had in the car, which I had never heard, was Turn on The Bright Lights. We did this same thing over spring break, just cruising around, but this time the soundtrack was "Ain't Nobody" by Chaka Khan which also seemed to fit the mood quite nicely.
td;dr - You have any idea of what im thinking of after all that?
http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/THE-NEW-DEAL/Gone-Gone-Gone/
And I must give a second, or third to Tool, but Tool is good any time of the day, so I don't know if they really count.
not bad
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/5851902/a/Animatrix.htm
And I'm suggesting electronica now since you just snubbed all the good indiepop bands like Interpol :P
Oh Shit if you like the Chaka Khan Stuff you want Jamiroquai and just Jamiroquai. All night long.
Also stuff by DJ Shadow sounds right up your alley. Oh and Incubus.
I'm not going to write off current indiepop shit all together, but i'm damn near close.
I think Traveling without Moving was the first CD ive bought.
It also depends on the kind of driving music you're looking for; there are chilled tracks like Bad Stone or more pulse-pounding ones like Name of the Game.
My favourites would be (sorted by album):
from Vegas - Trip Like I Do, Keep Hope Alive, She's My Pusher (all the other tracks hold up well too)
from Tweekend - PhD, Roll it Up, The Winner, Blowout (the last two are seriously awesome but I could find any samples on youtube)
from Legion of Boom - I Know it's You, Broken Glass, Weapons of Mass Distortion, Acetone
Also good is this.
I think the Velvet Underground's self-titled album is the quintessential album for driving at night or early morning. All the songs on that album are great for driving, and each for almost completely different reasons.
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Seconded, though Editors (there's no "The") is kind of a poor man's Interpol. The songs "Munich" "Blood" and "Lights" are good driving music. "Munich" also feels very cinematic and would make good background music for a nighttime driving scene in a movie. IMO, anyway.
It sounded like you were cool with stuff that wasn't strictly rock. Hope this helps the mixtaping.
Andrew Bird, particularly from the album Weather Systems- his stuff varies a great deal in style.
The Beta Band
Screaming Trees, particularly the album Dust.
Eva Luna, by Tarkio
Something by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones... maybe The Sinister Minister. Not all of their stuff fits, but some of it will.
Oh, and most of the stuff on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack.
ohhhhhhhh yeeaaaaaahhhhhh
reminds me of Metric
I second Muse, Space Dementia is a good one to have on a late night driving playlist.