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Car Audio Prep

With my new car arriving on Friday, I’ve spent this lunchtime sorting out the most important thing…

What song should be the first to be played on the stereo?

The past two cars I had were inducted with Bohemian Rhapsody (an idea nicked off Wayne’s World), so maybe it is only right that the TT should be the same… however I have compiled the following Shortlist on my iPod, currently ordered by artist:

  • Girl From Lebanon (Europe)
  • Superstitious (Europe)
  • Prisoners in Paradise (Europe)
  • I’ll Cry for You (Europe) – probably not this one, it’s an acoustic track
  • Sucker (Europe)
  • The Final Countdown (Europe)
  • Layla (Derek & The Dominos) – Although this gets boring towards the end, it’s the main riff I like
  • You know my Name (Chris Cornell) – Probably more suited to a Ford Mondeo :p
  • Dude (Looks Like a Lady) (Aerosmith)
  • Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars (Bon Jovi)
  • Demolition Man (Def Leppard)
  • Money For Nothing (Dire Straits) – although mainly for the drum intro – the TT stereo is not the best, and probably wouldn’t have the acoustics to do this justice
  • Paradise City (Guns N Roses)
  • Numb/Encore (Linkin Park/Jay-Z)
  • She’s a Little Angel (Little Angels)
  • Too Much, Too Young (Little Angels)
  • Young Gods (Little Angels)
  • Ten Miles High (Little Angels)
  • Solsbury Hill (Peter Gabriel)
  • Hot Fudge (Robbie Williams)
  • No Easy Way Out (Robert Tepper) – from Rocky IV, where Rocky is driving in his car
  • Real Gone (Sheryl Crow) – An early leader, this is the main title theme from Pixar’s ‘Cars’
  • Look But Don’t Touch (Skin)
  • Unbelieveable (Skin) – originally by EMF, but the Skin cover rocks more.
  • Jump (Van Halen)
  • It’s all about the Pentiums (Weird Al Yankovic)
  • Truck Drivin’ Song (Weird Al Yankovic) – probably not appropriate as I’m not driving a truck
  • Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry)
  • Legs (ZZ Top)
  • Sharp Dressed Man (ZZ Top)

Then again, I think the first drive will be without the stereo – there is a reason I went for a 3.2 litre engine… it sounds so sweet.

So Bo-Rhap or new song? what a dilemma…



One Response to “Car Audio Prep”

  1. Herr Mark Says:

    September 4th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
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    Mein commant ist:

    Whilst many of those songs are particularly great, and also the sound of a 3.2 v6 is particularly great, what you really want to be doing is driving your girly car down to an alfa garage and getting a proper 3.2 v6 engine that makes a proper sound. Alright, the new alfa spider doesn’t actually go round corners, or over bumps, or in fact anywhere that isn’t an aircraft runway, but it’ll still sound better than your overblown hairdryer :-)

    In terms of music however, i think i’d avoid g’n'r at first due to the likelihood of you burying your new car into a hedge when they get into the hectic second half of Paradise City. Clearly the most appropriate song here (and probably the only song you should ever play in your car) is ‘Dude looks like a lady’.