Ullo Johnās Got a New Motor had me laughing like an idiot.
I hadnāt seen or heard Gomez before. Very cool! Thatās a great video, really cool song, and great sounding band.
How has this one not been included yet?
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I had a gold vinyl edition of New Boots & Panties by Ian Dury and the Blockheads. What a great band.
Speaking of Cortinas ā¦ This was tucked away on the album titled Power In the Darkness: Grey Cortina - YouTube
And this big hit wasnāt on the album in its original vinyl release: Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway - YouTube
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You should have a look at their performance of Phantom of the opera, itās absolutely brilliant, Symphonic metal at its best!
Classic OGWT !!
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Haha, loved the Tardis-trip back Alexei Sayle town, @TheMadman_tobyjenner 
Iām coming to the end of my āmust-includeā list, although Iām sure there are many more out there to be (re-)discovered.
I was in two minds recently when I decided to cover a Sisters of Mercy song, the one below or āVison Thingā. Some might recall that I plumbed for the latter.
Here are a couple for me.
Meat mentions, āBut there aināt no Coup de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack boxā
And no cars mentioned but it makes me think of cars because they are called Cars.
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Hi Brian,
Look what I found in the basementā¦ 
The next song is from one of my favorites and also a Dutch band,ā¦with a very strange nameā¦
ā¦and Iāve never understood the last few seconds of the song with those bells 
ā¦and the singing is bilingualā¦
Greetingsā¦
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Oh man, if you go Meat Loaf, you gotta go with:
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You could make a rock ānā roll automobile song hall of fame with just songs by the Boss. But the best one has to be:
āFor all the shut down strangers and hot rod angels
Rumbling through this promised land
Tonight my baby and me, weāre gonna ride to the sea
And wash these sins off our hands.ā
Haha 8 months later 
Surely that has to be the record so far for the biggest ābumpā since we moved from the forum.
Nice tune, makes me nostalgic for my favourite mode of travel- hitchhiking.
@jjw absolute classic. I think I shared that one when he left for heaven/hellā¦
Ah the Boss, Indeed. Iād probably go for The River, which has a bit of driving in it 
Seeing as itās been resurrected, Iāll throw in this Roger Waters song about hitchhiking from Beirut. Itās a bit long, and maybe not his finest musically, but as I have been on that road many times and itās an anti-war song as well, here you go
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Better late than never:
Chris Rea - Road to hell
Sniff nā the Tears - Driverās Seat
Joe Bonamassa - Drive
come to my mind.
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Hi Andrea and everyone else,
The road to hell from Chris Rea is a lovely song to let your C-major fly (or your A-minor pentatonic) all the time,ā¦you canāt go wrongā¦
Greetings
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My neighbors know these pretty well I thinkā¦ 
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Doh! I hadnāt realized this was an ancient thread. Oops.
As for The River, itās pretty hard to argue against it, I admit. Maybe it really is the best Bruce car song. Ask me tomorrow, though, and I might say Stolen Car or Wreck on the Highway or even My Hometown.
That doesnāt matter at allā¦better to bump older threads than open new threads all the time, as is often the case,ā¦itās even a starting question when opening a topic,ā¦is this topic there already?..Fun fact OUDE maasweg means OLDā¦
I have found more fun / good old and older, but that will comeā¦and I donāt mean Brian himself, that would be a lame oneā¦ 
Greetings,ā¦
Edit:I now see/understand what you mean You respond to Stefan,ā¦but Brian responds to me, because I had reopened the thread 
Woah, your Sniff ānā the Tears just sent me down a deep rabbit hole
40 years ago as a teenager, I used to record mixtapes from the radio. Iād always have one in my cassette player ready to press ārecordā whenever the opening couple of bars of a song sounded promising.
One day a new wavish song came on and I pressed record, not realising that I hadnāt wound the cassette to the next empty bit, taping right over the middle of Driverās Seat. The result was strangely pleasing as I felt they fit quite nicely together and I grew very fond of this new āBrundleflyā.
I never found out who the song in the middle was by until last night when I was chatting to an old friend in Switzerland and found out he had copied and digitalized my tapes and sent me the mp3.
This morning I even popped both tracks into Reaper to splice them together and recreate this masterpiece, only to discover that my pink nostalgia glasses are not as strong as I thought and the past couple years learning guitar has made my ears more critical 
Ah well, ou canāt get into the same river twiceā¦
Hereās the track in question. Small band based in Germany, quite an Ultravoxy vibe
That wasnāt my intention at allā¦but obviously youāve found the exit before someone like @roger_holland could close the lid to protect himself from your sarcastic comments 
(uups, sorry, just kidding!).
Yes, thatās the same rabbit hole for meā¦ so many songs are connected to personal stories and experiences.
Donāt know why, but you setted off an avalanche in my head with those carson(g)s. Another two popped up today:
as an former resident of Switzerland you know them for sure
from the Black City Parade album where Nicolas Sirkis is driving through Berlin by night.
Indochine is a French New Wave Band I know well from the 80ās, as I participated at several student exchange programs to France. āTes Yeux Noirsā was one of my favourite songs and is connected to a lot of memories. Somehow they accompanied me until today, as they managed to stay popular (in France) over the last 40 years. So, finitoā¦
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