I Just Died In Your Car Tonight, It Must Have Been Something You Said

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Today for your delec-tick-tion we have Power Ballads: The Greatest Driving Anthems In The World...Ever! Whether you own a driving licence or not, we've all been passengers in a car at some point and therefore may pass comment on the following hits! To make things more interesting, canon rules apply - THIRTEEN ticks only. VROOM!

[Poll #1047473]

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Man it was a wrench un-ticking Starship.

Anyway - this is a very strange compilation - about 50/50 split between actual 'driving music' (ie Dadrock as it is Dads Who Be Doing The Driving) and power ballads. I mean, that Foreigner song is amazing but why is it on here and not eg Chris Rea's 'Road To Hell'? Surely the latter is a mandatory inclusion on All Driving Albums Ever?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the same thing: power ballads != driving music. And The Cars' Drive is neither, despite the name.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Also, what is that bluddy Meredith Brooks song doing here? Has it escaped from a neighbouring POWER OF A WOMAN compilation or summat?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I find the whole thing rather depressing. There are probably 13 "any good at all" songs here, but... pfffft botherd.

For me, 'driving music' = always American, specifically songs for cruising the California highways to. Stuff like "The Boys of Summer", Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" and so on.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Which is why I thought this might be interesting poll fodder. Obv the compilation is trying to cash in on two markets, but to avoid alienating each half has left off traditional genre exponents (e.g. Eagles for your highway driving, Cher for ridiculous canon-striding), leaving a curious mixture.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I am about three over, but I'm only human, of flesh and blood I'm made, etc.

Also Bonnie FTW!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Indeed - however I think Holding Out For A Hero would have been a better 'driving' choice?

[whalefish.livejournal.com]

Putting I Drove All Night and Drive on a driving rock compilation is just lazy! Especially when it's missing a few driving rock CLASSICS.

I never realised Because The Night was anything to do with Patti Smith. Goodness. Unless I'm missing something.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Who is Pat Benatar? The name rings a bell.

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[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD!! come on!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

a) do you own this?
b) can you bring it along saturday? :-D

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[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Love is a Battlefield lady. Dates probably dried up after that one.

Worthy inclusions:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(ie that cover both power balladry and appropriate driving music)

Both Meatloafs
Poison
Huey L & The Ns
Blinda
Heart
Forrigner

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Alas no, on both counts :(

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[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

SECHS AS A WEAPON

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[whalefish.livejournal.com]

She did that Love Is A Battlefield thing.

Also, she was ahead of her time! She had an album called Gravity's Rainbow years before Klaxons nicked the title.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Also they could have put REM's Drive and... hold on, no matter how many songs called driving we can think of, there's probably a compilation not unlike this that includes them.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I don't know what a love is a battlefield is, but LIL' KIM sampled her!

[cis.livejournal.com]

No Tom Petty, no credibility

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

I had a really tough time getting it to 13.

I ticked Nickeback cause I was scared nobody else would and I thought it deserved at least one tick. The Roxette choice should have been "Listen to Yr Heart" or "Fading Like a Flower", but this one is tickworthy anyways. Had to untick Billy Idol at the last second :(.

[justfanoe.livejournal.com]

So bizarre. I guess Joan Osborne and Paula Cole turned them down.

[cis.livejournal.com]

also haha watching TV's Supernatural has ingrained it in my head that, as well as open-road open-top california pop-rock, the other most appropriate kind of driving music is AC/DC.

Other great driving music = Eurobeat! but possibly only if you want to go REALLY FAST. Also, oddly enough, Boredoms' 'Seadrum'.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I found this incredibly hard - first run through I had about 27 ticks, and I was being restrained. Of all those tracks there's only about four proper duffers and a ton of bona-fide genius. It's amazing how this selection closely resembles that of the forthcoming Singstar Rock Ballads which I cannot wait to get my hands on.

The omission is Tom Petty's American Girl, though that's significantly more upbeat than most of the stuff here I suppose.

[dickmalone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, power ballad compilations are always disappointing--I could put together a fantastic one, but most commercial comps are limited to a budget which means they can't get, say, "Wind of Change" AND "Patience," both of which would be required for any authoritative Power Ballads comp.

I had no problem getting to 13! Yall crazy. Ones I feel strongly about:

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Mr. Big - To Be With You
Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

That Mr. Big song in particular is great!

o hai lil sista, waht is ur supermans

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Eyes Without A Face is so awesome