Music for a six

[sohlman]

After a post in a previous topic about music in a six and what is best to listen to i order to test a system i thought i would try and make up a top 10 in no particular order that sixes should have playing in them.

It goes without saying that louder is better to truly apreciate these number and these are some of my favourite tracks that i never grow tired of.

Lets hear your top 10's

Mine is as follows.

1. Obviously The Eagles: - Hotel California from Hell Freezes over
2. Rainbow: - Since you've been gone
3. The Who: - baba O'Riley
4. Dire Staits: - On Every Street
5. Derick and the Dominoes/Clapton:- Lela 12 minute version
6. Queen: - Bo Rap
7. Aerosmith: - Janie's got a gun
8. Sheril Crow: - Greatest Mistake
9. Bon Jovi:- Dry County
10. Muse:- Hysteria for something more recent.

Being a bit of a rocker at heart this list demonstrates that.
I have had fun making my list. Now it's your turn at making yours.

James

[kevs635csi]

heres mine

metallica for whom the bell tolls & the call of ktulu
black sabbath : war pigs
black sabbath : children of the grave
black sabbath : paranoid
led zeppelin : sick again
led zeppelin : ten years gone
the who : wont get fooled again
guns n roses : live & let die
deep purple : highway star
sex pistols : holidays in the sun
jimi hendrix : voodoo child



plus many more from K-tel

[sohlman]

havn't got any black sabeth. i will have to look those tracks up.

was thinking of having some G&R.

have now put my 10 up could have another 50 tracks that are as good.

nice one kev

[sharkfan]

Hi all,

I thought this'd be easy but as you get to eight or nine songs you realise how many tunes you've missed;

This is the list of the tunes I can't get out of my head - as you can see, some have been there an awfully long time, and they may not really mix well together; but find me an open road and this set will get played.....

(in no particular order!)

Wild Wood - Paul Weller (live version)
It was a very good year - Frank Sinatra
November Rain - G'n'R (again the live 12 min version)
Lullaby - Shaun Mullins
Me and my Monkey - Robbie Williams
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber (test track for bass and high end response and oh so reaching)
I'm with you - Avril Lavigne
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Mr Bojangles - Neil Diamond

A fairly wide mix, and these are a few that didn't make it to the final cut;

Riders on the storm - The Doors
The winner takes it all - Abba
Hurt - Johnny Cash
If you tolerate this your children will be next - Manic Street Preachers
Kiss the Rain - Billie Myers
Bitter sweet symphony - The Verve
and almost any anthem by U2

Who's up next????

Sharkfan

[UKDaveJ]

When I can argue myself into a 10 then I'll post, at present I keep changing my mind......

DAve

[UKDaveJ]

AC/DC - Back in black
Whitesnake - Wine, women & song
The Eagles - Hotel California (got to be off Hell Freezes over - LIVE!)
Live - Lightning crashes
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Bad Company - Can't get enough
Ian Gillan - Running, white face, city boy
Emma Franklin - (Take a little) Piece of my heart
Donna Summer - Hot stuff
Led Zeppelin - Rock n roll

Jeez, I've left out so much really good stuff.....
I'll post this before I change my mind....

Never mind, if I can suss how to transfer some of my vinyl stuff onto MP3 then, hey, my car is going to rock! :?

Dave

[Brucey]

some, ahem, 'varied' tastes there, guys....

I'm not sure I should inflict mine on you.....

cheers

[sohlman]

Go on brucy you know you want to. And we want to know

ACDC back n black is a great song

So many good tunes, such a hard task. Keep them comming.

We could make up a big coupe MP3 cd of all our favourite tracks.

[horsetan]

.....We could make up a big coupe MP3 cd of all our favourite tracks.

Yes, but not all of us actually have the requisite MP3 player in the car.... :?

[UKDaveJ]

.....We could make up a big coupe MP3 cd of all our favourite tracks.

Yes, but not all of us actually have the requisite MP3 player in the car.... :?

'We' could get this CoupeMP3 copied onto tape for you Ivan, no probs, should only equate to about a dozen C-90's.......

DAve

[sharkfan]

My good lady bought an Ipod last year, 20mb, but never got round to putting much more than 200-300 songs on it from her work lappie (our home PC was a wind-up model from the dark ages). But to play the tunes in the car(s) we bought one of those cheappie-cheap cassette insert things with a jack plug and just popped it in the earplug socket - the sound playback is astonishingly good considering the set-up

Now we've got a PC with every whistle and bell I've started downloading to the Ipod with a vengance; it's currently swallowed 1700 songs and is barely a third full. The great thing is with this fab little gadget is that by constructing 'Playlists' you can effectively make your own album's up from your complete music libraries

This isn't a plug for Apple - I haven't got any shares - I just thought I'd share my experience with anyone upgrading their technology.

Sharkfan

[Brucey]

I'm not too surprised at the reasonable sound quality from an MP3 via a cassette adaptor. Even an allegedly crummy cassette player would cope with 12KHz plus frequencies; the reasons they typically sounded bad were that a) the tapes were usually of poor quality, especially pre-recorded ones, and b) the movement of the tape over the head created 'hiss'.

With an adaptor for a MP3 player, no more hiss, and you won't be stretching the bandwidth of the electronics- MP3 contains nothing above 10KHz......

I'm still thinking about my top ten... might do it yet...

cheers

[horsetan]

...'We' could get this CoupeMP3 copied onto tape for you Ivan, no probs, should only equate to about a dozen C-90's.......

Feck off

[UKDaveJ]

...'We' could get this CoupeMP3 copied onto tape for you Ivan, no probs, should only equate to about a dozen C-90's.......

Feck off

[Kaotiq635]

Well I had an CD/MP3 in my E30, and soon will have a Sony one in my E24.
Its great to be able to have that much music on a disk and not have to change it..

Now wait for those DVD/MP3 players

An Ipod would be nice, but having a little hard disk inside makes we worry
about dropping it, I bought a little mp3 player that plays from SD/MMC cards, picked up a 1Gig one of them and I'm set when I go for a run or
down to the gym. Oh and no white "mug me" earphones.

Now what to play, tricky, my musical tastes are well, eclectic, so for me that means almost anything except Country.

So I really can't narrow it down to one list.

Sorry to wimp out

Iain.

[Brucey]

After much rattling through the CDs, LPs tapes etc sorted out a few top tunes (tho' it'd be different next week I expect).....couldn't quite bring myself to whittle it down further.....so, in no particular order then....


Come On ; Jimi Hendrix
Suicide Drive; The Seahorses
Jump Around; The House of Pain
Nothing Is Easy ; Jethro Tull
New Values ; Iggy Pop
Loco ; The Fun Lovin? Criminals
Barracuda ; Nyack
Hard to Handle ; The Black Crowes
Connection ; Elastica
Only Happy When it Rains; Garbage
We Want a Rock ; They Might Be Giants
Somethin? Else ; Stray Cats (feat. Jeff ?Skunk? Baxter)
Baby Please Don?t Go ; Them
Roadhouse Blues ; The Doors
Teenage Angst ; Placebo
Radar Love ; Golden Earring
On the Road Again ; Canned Heat
My definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style; Dream Warriors
The only One I Know ; The Charlatans
Garbageman ; The Cramps
Monkey Gone to Heaven; The Pixies
Naked Twister ; Mansun
Cold Blooded Old Times; Smog
Basket Case ; Green Day
Tomorrow Man ; Gus
Walk On By (long ?white EP? version); The Stranglers
Come Find Yourself; Fun Lovin? Criminals
Clampdown ; The Clash
Cloudy Day ; J.J. Cale

Incidentally, if anyone can claim to have heard every single song on this list before, consider me truly gobsmacked

cheers

[UKDaveJ]

Some fantastic music in that selection there mate.

Now, just trim it down to 10 songs...............

[Kaotiq635]

I haven't posted a list because I coundn't get it down to 50 tracks, never mind 10

And even that 50 changes day to day, or is it hour to hour

And people wonder why I like having MP3 CDs with 200 tracks on them.

Cheers,
Iain.

[horsetan]

Why not Mack the Knife

After all, the first couple of verses are about a shark....

Oh, the shark has pretty teeth dear
And he shows ?em, pearly white
Just a jack knife has macheath dear
And he keeps it way out of sight

When that shark bites with his teeth, dear
Scarlet billows begin to spread
Fancy gloves though has macheath dear
So there?s never, never a trace of red

On the sidewalk, one sunday morning
Lies a body, oozin? life
Someone?s sneaking ?round the corner
Could that someone be mack the knife...

[Brucey]

Ivan,
yours might need an overhaul ('Christine' style) if it is in the habit of that sort of behaviour......

cheers

[horsetan]

Ivan,
yours might need an overhaul ('Christine' style) if it is in the habit of that sort of behaviour......

Enough to worry the ladies......

[ScottAndrews]

CHeck out the Phatnoise PhatBox.. It works with a variety of head units and basically changes the CD disk buttons on the head unit to Genre buttons. You can then search your 10K mp3s using a voice syste,

There is a hard drive cartridge in the trunk that you plug into a cradle on your PC to download songs intot he car.

Ther eis also the Rockford OmniFi system that syncs the MP3s in the PC with your car using a WiFI wireless network.

[horsetan]

...the Rockford OmniFi ...

I remember a TV show called The Rockford Files Think it had James Garner in the lead role.....

[ScottAndrews]

Well. Rosanante is spanish of course, so top of the list is B-Tribe.. Sort of techno flamenco... Very cool for scary fast driving on undulating roads...especially at night with those hella bright Hellas...

B-Tribe - Fiesta Fatal!/Nadie Entiende (they sort of run together)

Amanda Marshall - I Believe in You (and Marry Me-This is technically not part of the 10, but I practiced it a lot while driving because I played it on my guitar and sang it to my wife as a surprise at our wedding reception last summer)

Van Moirrisson - The Philosopher's stone

Train - Counting Airplanes

Five For Fighting -100 Years

The Byrds- Eight Miles High

Indigo Girls - Shame on You (we' been - lookin' for illegal immigrants, can we check your car? Isaid hoeny I think we were onthe same boat back ing 1694)

Indigo Girls - Leeds

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

Mozart's Requiem

[Kaotiq635]

In no particular order

Joaquin Rodrigo - Concerto Aranjuez (Probably my favourite piece of music)
Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River (off a fantastic album)
Coldplay - Clocks
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil ( a few stones tracks could go here)
The Clash - I Fought The Law
Bjork - Army Of Me
Alpha Team - Speed Racer
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (well )

Quick better post this before I change my mind

Cheers,
Iain.