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Let's lighten up - best car singalongs
Posted by Mousey on 2 August 2011 - 10:47am.
In the light of recent serious issues on this blog thought I'd post this -
Today it was a brilliantly sunny day in the middle of winter (here on the other side of the world) and to celebrate, this track was played on the car radio. I found myself singing along at full volume, almost in the right key, and ignoring any possible looks from adjacent drivers at traffic lights.
What's your favourite car sing along song? Where you just go for it, be like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty singing along to the Guess Who's "American Woman".
Here's the one from the radio today, the Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon"
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Something with lots of words
Like this:
Or something that just rocks, like this:
The Go Betweens - Right Here
Works especially well if you're also giving directions at the time.
But...
...it nearly always turns out like this:
We like a singalong with the old music hall favourites.
I turn off the stereo, and we launch into "Side by Side", "Show me the way to get home", "I'm a lonely little petunia", "I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts" etc.
It's what I grew up doing, so it's a tradition I wanted to pass onto my kids!
Me and a friend
sang this over and over driving back from Brighton after going all the way down for a cancelled gig. It damn cheered us up and even better when you take separate parts
Other opinions may vary but you is wrong.
Why did Constantinople get the works?
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That's nobody's business
but the Turks.....ISTANBUL!!!!!!!!
'Automobiles...that's my business'
An instant classic - we're about to drive to Brittany - this will be on heavy rotation.
Springsteen - The Car Song
When I'm in the car I like singing along loudly to
Suffragette City by David Bowie. In fact the whole of Ziggy Stardust is a good sing-along album!
Mock
Yeah
Ing
Yeah
Bird
Yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Which version?
James Taylor?
My daughter and I used to sing this on the school run
Cammell Laird Social Club by Half Man Half Biscuit...
This, their finest album IMHO, contains such singalong favourites as When the Evening Sun Goes Down, 27 Yards of Dental Floss (and She Still Won't Give Me a Smile), Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why), The Light at the End of the Tunnel (is the Light of an Oncoming Train) and our personal favourite Them's the Vagaries....Join in if you know the words..."Binmen, Thin Men, Lexicographers, Squid Yes! Not so Octopus!", to be sung at full volume.
This was the CD in my car when I first drove my girlfriend home and odd as it is, it was real laugh seeing her reaction to it, never having heard of them before. It's never going to be "Our Tune", - That's Anyone by Joan as Police Woman but it still gets brought along whenever we're travelling a distance for a sing song.
Ice will melt
Water will boil
You and I
Can shake off this mortal coil
Crowded House - It's Only Natural
I don't think I sing this song in the car. Rather, my voice is taken over by what must be the soul and heart of this gravy boy and in the space of 3 or so minutes it completely evicerates any hard knots in my stomach and stress fractures in my brain. I love it so much. Karma pop. Sigh.
Songs for the family.
There's a handful of tunes that my two young daughters request for car journeys. In amongst the Rihanna's, Lady Gaga's, etc. are these two from my collection;
Guided By Voices - Glad Girls
The Coral - Simon Diamond (also known as 'That'll Do to my youngest)
I'm such a rubbish singer
that the best I can do is a strangled call & response, so I love Spearhead's "Of Course You Can".
When it gets to the line "Can you see us in the White House?", I love shouting "Of course you can" over the top of the original "No you can't" (around 4.00 mins on this clip).
A lot has changed - this time for the better - in the last 17 years.
Love this track
Why Franti isn't a global superstar...ok I know the answer to that but still...when he's good he's bloody superb.
this does it for me ...
When I saw the title of the thread...
... "Cecilia" was my first thought. In the early 70's we lived in Zambia and BOTW was one of the few LPs my parents had. We used to sing all the songs from the album on long car journeys. At the age of about 7 and 5 respectively, neither I nor my sister had any idea of what we were singing when we yelled out the line, "Making love in the afternoon...".
Other 1971/2 car sing-a-long songs I remember are:
"Show me the way to go home
I'm tired and I want to go to bed
I had a little drink about an hour ago
And it's gone right to my head."
and "The Black Hills of Dakota"!
...just put your thumb or finger over Paul Simon's face...
...and it looks like Art Garfunkel has the most impressive moustache in history. I think this was yet another gem brought to my attention by Viz magazine.
Probably not a popular choice but...
The current tune that the whole family agree's on in the car is Queen's "Don't stop me now". Can't get lighter than that!
cracking song
that was the last song played at the disco at my sister's wedding last weekend. it rounded the night off very nicely.
Kinks of the Seat Leon
Kinks always do it for me:
Waterloo Sunset, Days, Lola, Autumn Almanac, So Tired of Waiting and many many more
I'm really sorry but Mrs Topaz forced me ...
... at gunpoint to put this up (see previous thread). DON'T PLAY IT unless you want it to be nagging at your brain for days on end
Madness Greatest Hits
The obvious track sounds great in the car.
A friend gave us a folk sampler tape some years ago
My son was in his ealry teens at the time and his favourites were:-
and
'I Went To Market' by the Watersons
would you believe !
Yee Ha.
The Girls From Texas/Get Rhythm by Ry Cooder. Thigh slappin high falutin Wayne Newton darn tootin jolly good tunes.