What CD is in you car stereo?
 

What do you like to listen to while your driving??? Do you like the BOOMING bass stereo that people can hear from a mile away???

Vanessa Carlton.

1. A real bassy dubstep mix. (Dubalicious 2)
2. Some shitty band my cousin is in. (Deathvayne..or some shit like that)
3. Mix a friend gave me-acoustic indie stuff (Songs that boys sing vol. 1)
4. Anthony Green/Dallas Green and their groups (The Grass is Greener)
5. Eminem SSLP
6. Mix from a huge series my buddy from Cali and I trade monthly featuring Portugal. the man, animal collective remixes and other remixes and B sides. (Mix Numero Quince)

Just a driving mix I made a few days ago:

The Stooges - "Raw Power"
Carcass - "Tomorrow Belongs to Nobody"
Mastodon - "Blood and Thunder"
Gallows - "Orchestra of Wolves"
Boris - "Buzz-In"
The Smalls - "Payload"
Acid Bath - "Jezabel"
White Zombie - "More Human Than Human"
Murder City Devils - "Press Gang"
The Villains - "Sad Song Killer"
Queens of the Stone Age - "First It Giveth"
The Offspring - "All I Want"
Mclusky - Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues
Blood Sucking Zombies From Outer Space - "Blood On Satan's Claw"
Failure - "Magnified"
Killing Joke - "Invocation"

So far it's done a great job

A few random mixes to appease people who are riding in the car with me, Phish's "Junta", Phish's "Rift", Trey Anastasio's "Bar 17", a mix of some of my favorite live tracks from this most recent Phish tour, Queen's self-titled album, Queen's Greatest Hits vols. 1-3, Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea", Trey Anastasio's senior thesis "The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday", The "Where the Wild Things Are" soundtrack...

And, in the CD player, Tim Buckley's "Goodbye and Hello".

In one of the cars, London Calling.

In the other, Kid A.

London Calling is good when you're on the road, Kid A - not so much.

1. Random stuff from the Chrono Cross soundtrack to Drake.

2. Yes, please.

Ooh, good thread.

.Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
.Porcupine Tree - Warsawa
.Praxis - Transmutation
.Sam Cooke - Greatest Hits

... And two more I can't remember.

The Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend compilation is one of my favorite driving albums. Other albums rarely far from my car stereo include Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, AC/DC's Highway To Hell and Back In Black (AC/DC are just great driving music, period), Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, and The Clash's London Calling

Brand New - Daisy
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
MewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
All That Remains - Overcome
The Used - Lies for the Liars & Artwork

Off the top of my head, or what I've been spinnin' recently -

Alice - Tom Waits
Attack & Release - The Black Keys
Donuts - J Dilla
Hooray for Boobies - Bloodhound Gang
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Aw yeah, dread.

Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
O'Death - Head Home

Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur.

Wu Tang Clan- 36 Chambers

There can be only one.

Some are just mixtapes, some are albums with random songs at the end to fill up space. Latest one was a Muse mixtape, since I was in such a Muse-y mood from their concert.

i know you guys will kill me for this...

The Fray's new album has been in my (mom's) car for the past week. i would put in Eminems Recovery, but she absolutely hates eminem, and i dont feel like getting grounded again because of my musical opinions.

Lately, it has been Smashing Pumpkins' Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, first disc (I'm blanking on what the names of the discs are... the one with Zero, etc).

Found it in the case for another album, which is amusing, because I didn't have any intention of bringing it or its counterpart out here with me when I moved... three years ago now.

Glad I did though. Good surprise. I have no idea if the second disc found its way into my stuff though. I suppose it's possible...

That pretty much sums up a music issue a friend of mine has. She loves Eminem, but she can't play any in the car because her mom doesn't like it.

yeah i got grounded for a week for blaring it out of the stereo system in my room. :banghead: tell your friend i feel for her.

a made up cd full of remixes, such as boys noize, erol alkan, shinichi osawa etc. <3

Eminem - Recovery

Guns n Roses—Appetite for Destruction
Motely Crue—Dr. Feelgood
Van Halen—Van Halen
Van Halen—1984
Electric Wizard—Dopethrone

Just in rawk kind of mood, I guess.

Let's see... I believe it's Paramore. I LOVE their latest album!

i never use the cd player any more because i just hook up my ipod to the aux port but...the albums ive been listening to lately on the road are..

See You On The Other Side by Korn
Swan Songs by Hollywood Undead

F**k you guys and your cd players, my car has a cassette player :D I usually just hook my ipod up to it with a car cassette adapter or sometimes i make the occasional mixtape. I just couldn't be bothered paying €100 or so to replace it with a cd player.

Next to an auxiliary cable port in your car, a cassette player is the easiest way to connect an MP3 player to a car stereo. A blank cassette with a cable and standard 1/4" jack that you plug into the headphone port on a CD player or MP3 player. All the other ways to connect an MP3 player to your car that I"ve seen have been those iTrip things where you hijack a dead radio station, but it gets really fussy if you're driving underneath cables and wires. I remember when my mom and I got an diskman for the car and could now listen to CD's when we drove to places. It was so cool because we could easily skip over songs, and play all those CD's we had been buying.

Sugarland I think...

At the moment. Emily Jane White - Victorian America
Eels - El Hombre Lobo
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk

YES! Not the only one who notices the brilliance! Honestly, The Chrono Cross soundtrack musically is one of the greatest most eclectic albums I ever heard, if it can be considered one. Including a very strange blend of Celtic, classical, tribal, tropical(Yasunori has this strange ability to make really really dark ambient carribean music somehow), and countless other genres music very perfectly. Solid, extremely original work for a videogame soundtrack.

Any rate, since my car plays data CDs and it scratches up commercial CD's too much, I have a data CD. I believe it's the CD with the whole of the Idiot Flesh, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum discographies at the moment.

Think it's on Idiot Flesh's "Nothing Show" album. Can't remember which song I was on, though.

I miss having a car and driving around with toons! :(

The Sickness - Disturbed

Gotta get to that second disc man. Thru the eyes of ruby and by starlight are NOT songs to be missed.

Rod Stewart - The Great American Songbook: It Had To Be You
I like feeling all nostalgic when I drive. It feels like everything I pass up is a park full of young lovers.

I make themed mix tapes for my car.

CDs 1/2: Wake Up (Rock, Metal, Hardcore)
CDs 3/4: Calm Down (Alternative, Soft Rock, Pop)
CDs 5/6: Everything (anything I feel like listening to)

It's fun to make new ones every 6 months or whatever

Right now, the CD I've been listening to while driving is a Mix CD entitled, "This...Is...Nostalgia!!!" with an image of Gerard Butler in 300 on the cover. It contains songs I've listened to in the car with friends over the past six years or so, and definitely recalls some great times. There is, naturally a bit of cheese on the mix (Case in point: Joey Scarbury's "Believe It Or Not", the theme from The Greatest American Hero) but it's probably the best "feel-good" mix I've had in my car for ages.

When I'm at home, I prefer listening to full albums, but most of the places I drive, the best I can do is get in three or four songs before reaching my destination.

I burned my Beginner's Guide to Opeth for my car this week. Sadly I had to remove their cover of the AiC song "Would?" because I was over the 80 minute limit by 1 minute and 6 seconds.

Car stereos aren't particularly expensive and most new ones have USB slots. 20 bucks you can get a 16 gig flash drive on Amazon, and I find you can often hold 200+ albums of songs(unless you're one of those audiophile Nazi folk who needs everything in FLAC, even then you could probably hold at least 150 I'm guessing. Then again, I don't think many will play FLAC but eh...).

That's what I used to do before I misplaced my flash drive.

Dude Ranch - Blink 182

There are many other things that are far more important in the grand scheme of things when it comes to my car. Besides an upgraded stereo, I need to replace one of the speakers because I blew it out by playing Kyuss with the bass cranked while driving through the Mojave desert. I usually use my 120 gb Zune to play my music, but the volume of the Zune and the volume of the stereo need to be tweaked just right to minimize the distortion from the damaged speaker. However if I use straight CD's, I can listen to my CD's without any feedback or distortion. Besides I've been loving the fuck out of making mixes lately, so creating ones for me to listen to in the car is an enjoyable pastime.