Modern Buddy

I am currently listening to Foghat's Slow Ride and I got to thinking; couples have their, song -- well, what's your Buddy song?

I don't want any flames this time, or else I promise to leave - forever.


Yes I've got another half hour to waste.

ac/dc Highway to Hell

My Buddy song is the Lemonheads' laconic "My Drug Buddy," which I posted a link to in another thread recently.

What I most often find running through my head when riding? Well, i hate to be so cliché because I'm not a hardcore mod or ska fanatic, but it's the Special's "Gangsters." The rhythm is just perfect for the feel of riding. Can't help it.

To balance things out, bands whose songs most often pop in my head: Hall & Oates and ELO. After years of being a real jackass of a music snob, I eventually had to reconcile my love for certain bands from my pre-New Wave childhood.

kazoo wrote:I am currently listening to Foghat's Slow Ride and I got to thinking; couples have their, song -- well, what's your Buddy song?

I don't want any flames this time, or else I promise to leave - forever.


Yes I've got another half hour to waste.

When I read your post I had to smile at the synchronicity. We just saw Foghat last night!

I dont think I could choose one song, but I would choose a series of loud fast hardcore songs...

Morning ride to work: Usually "Gates of Steel" by Devo.
Evenings: "Not My Slave" by Oingo Boingo.

I only want to ride to Minus the Bear or the Hold Steady. It makes me bob my head.

One song? Just one song?!? It's usually the song in my head when I wake up, and that could be anything.

But one song? That may have to be Ry Cooder's version of "On a Monday". It's what I think of whenever something (Warning - NEGATIVE PERSONAL OPINION) like, oh, say, "Muskrat Love" gets stuck in my head.

Montrose-"Bad Motor Scooter"!

House of Pain- "Shamrocks and Shenanigans"

Boom sha lock lock boom Boom sha lock lock boom Boom sha lock lock boom Boom sha lock lock boom I kicks the flava, like Steven King writes horror ...

bad to the bone

riancurtis wrote:or the Hold Steady.

OMG! Really? Another Hold Steady fan?!? Good lord I thought I was the only one. Every time I mention the band I get a "who?!?!". Even called the college radio station in town and asked to hear ANYTHING by HS. "Who?!?".

My favorite band atm. Ever see them live? I did last year. Awesome live band.

"Southtown girls won't blow you awayyyyyyy....
but you know that they'll stay... "

Why just last night as I was scootin' home past a very, very long line of cars crawling along in the opposite direction, I was singing "Fahr mit mir, Fahr mit mir, Fahr mit mir durch die Welt!" at the top of my lungs.

"Ride with me, ride with me, ride with me throughout the world!" I might've been hot in my leather jacket but I was having fun. They were just miserable even with a/c.

If it's not that, then I'm usually singing Yo La Tengo's "Speeding Motorcycle".

Speeding motorcycle
Lets be smart
Because we don't want a wreck
We can do a lot of tricks
We don't have to break our legs
To get our kicks

Search and Destroy: Iggy Pop & the Stooges

Comes on in my head automatically when I start riding.
"I'm a street-walkin' cheetah with heart fulla napalm..."

Anachronistic to this board and not even about a scooter, but then again what is a scooter but a lovely thing to ride.


Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AxKTzwaEa2o

You might find a better version of song if you try.

7eregrine wrote:

riancurtis wrote:or the Hold Steady.

OMG! Really? Another Hold Steady fan?!? Good lord I thought I was the only one. Every time I mention the band I get a "who?!?!". Even called the college radio station in town and asked to hear ANYTHING by HS. "Who?!?".

yeah. the new album is killer. i freaking LOVE Constructive Summer. If you dont have it let me know. I am not sure if it is actually out yet. The Hold Steady is maybe the best band EVER
http://www.last.fm/user/riancurtis

has nothing to do with riding a 2-wheeler specifically, but i always find Ain't Life Grand by Widespread Panic playing in my head when i ride

What about "Born To Run" Springsteen?

anything Ramones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CElAOHJ ... re=related

nuttmeg75 wrote:Morning ride to work: Usually "Gates of Steel" by Devo.
Evenings: "Not My Slave" by Oingo Boingo.

NICE!


I'm going to go with "Gronlandic Edit" by Of Montreal

DJE

"The Distance" by Cake.

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line,
Engines pumping and thumping in time.
The green light flashes, the flags go up.
Churning and burning, they yearn for the cup.
They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank,
Fuel burning fast on an empty tank.
Reckless and wild, they pour through the turns.
Their prowess is potent and secretly stearn.
As they speed through the finish, the flags go down.
The fans get up and they get out of town.
The arena is empty except for one man,
Still driving and striving as fast as he can.
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up,
And long ago somebody left with the cup.
But hes driving and striving and hugging the turns.
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns.

Simply epic.

Gee I thought "Born To Be Wild" would be the obvious choice.

"GTO" by Ronnie and the Daytonas but my version is "PGO" not "GTO":

"Gonna save all my money and buy a PGO
Get a helmet and Stebel and I'll be ready to go
Take it out to Pomona and let 'em know
That I'm the coolest thing around
Little Buddy gonna shut you down
When I turn it on, wind it up, blow it out PGO"

Search and Destroy, awesome! I would love to see a Team Zissou Buddy... BudZ.

Um, it's difficult to pick one song.

Really, When I get on the scoot it's either thursday, motion city soundtrack, minor threat, or remembering never.

Those just seem to be good no matter what.

"Pressure Drop" Toots & Maytals version. (Though the Clash's ain't bad!)

Considering many of the shops are empty you might want to go the way of Johnny Cash.

(On second thought, that would mean heading to taiwan)

One Piece at a Time:

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

[CHORUS]
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

[CHORUS]
I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

[Spoken] Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?

riancurtis wrote:

7eregrine wrote:

riancurtis wrote:or the Hold Steady.

OMG! Really? Another Hold Steady fan?!? Good lord I thought I was the only one. Every time I mention the band I get a "who?!?!". Even called the college radio station in town and asked to hear ANYTHING by HS. "Who?!?".

yeah. the new album is killer. i freaking LOVE Constructive Summer. If you dont have it let me know. I am not sure if it is actually out yet. The Hold Steady is maybe the best band EVER
http://www.last.fm/user/riancurtis

I'm on the Hold Steady bandwagon, too. Just not what's in my head when scootin'!

irishtim wrote:"Pressure Drop" Toots & Maytals version. (Though the Clash's ain't bad!)

Lots of good versions of this song. I even like the Willie Nelson one.

Stupid Rockband has owned my brain lately. Regardless of going to or from work, Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is always on. That and El Scorcho by Weezer.

Right now, the song for me is "Wah Wah" by George Harrison.

I sing it when I'm riding with a "sh*tface" grin on my face and seeing the Hummers and SUVs.

yesterday it was Billy Joel- " ...even rode my (scooter) in the rain, you told me not to drive, but I made it home alive, and you said that only proved that I'm insane..."

Lately its been "Jumpin' Jack Flash" as covered by Motörhead. And oddly enough, "Crash and Burn" by Motörhead as well...

paint_lick wrote:anything Ramones

That's so true. About a quarter of my scooter-riding tunes are Ramones.

UnionZac wrote:I would love to see a Team Zissou Buddy... BudZ.

Heck yes! I'm gonna photoshop one.

I'm sorry, but I think I would be way to distracted to listen to the Ramones while riding. Either that or I would have to tune out of the tune in order to stay alive.

The Doors "LA Woman" I think would make for a good riding tune.

KRUSTYburger wrote:

paint_lick wrote:anything Ramones

That's so true. About a quarter of my scooter-riding tunes are Ramones.

UnionZac wrote:I would love to see a Team Zissou Buddy... BudZ.

Heck yes! I'm gonna photoshop one.

I appreciate stepping out of the box and hearing what others are listening too. Thanks for sharing.

Somewhat off topic. . . but when I have a good internet connection I listen to David Dye's World Cafe. Its broadcast from Phili but you can get him on npr.org when you click on the link down on the left.

Here's one that helped temporarily chase away the bedeviling bunch of barristers that are a constant source of aggravation to me.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=91310645


Kaz

"Born to be Wild " obviuos choice

" I got my Goggles on" or "Cows" or just about anything by The Suburbs

Mn got the name "Rattle my Bones" for the scoot rally from Suburbs song

If you havent had the pleasure of hearing The Suburbs and like punky/new wavey 70's/80's music check this out...... "Cows" is a riot

http://www.twintone.com/video/suburbs/index.html

Oh the youth of today! There is only ONE untimate scooter song!

The WHO Goin' Mobile

I'm goin' home, and when I want to go home I'm goin' mobile
Well, I'm gonna find a home on wheels, see how it feels goin' mobile
Keep me movin'

I can pull up by the kerb, I can make it on the road goin' mobile
I can stop in any street, invitin' people that we'd meet, goin' mobile
Keep me movin'

Out in the woods or in the city
It's all the same to me
When I'm drivin' free the world's my home
When I'm mobile
Hee-hoo, beep beep

Play the tape machine, making toast and tea when I'm mobile
Well, I can lay in bed with only highway ahead when I'm mobile
Keep me movin'

Keep me movin', over fifty
Keep me groovin', just a hippy gypsy
Come on, move now, movin'
Keep me movin', yeah

Keep me movin' movin' movin', yeah, movin', yeah
Mobile mobile mobile ...

I don't care about pollution
I'm an air-conditioned gypsy
That's my solution
Watch the police and the tax-man miss me
I'm mobile
Wheee yeah, hi-hi
Mobile mobile mobile, yeah

Maybe some Creedence? Just not anything by the Eagles...

Good Thing by FYC

Ween.

Push Th' Li'l Daisies.

Head bobbin' rhythm. Makes me smile everytime. And even better, when he goes wank at the end, THAT'S me screaming at the top of my lungs, too!

On my laptop it sounds like it could be coming from the trunk of a '63 Ford Falcon, and ohh that postage stamp image . . . That was fun. Fire up the Cows!

Buddy_wannabe wrote: If you havent had the pleasure of hearing The Suburbs and like punky/new wavey 70's/80's music check this out...... "Cows" is a riot

http://www.twintone.com/video/suburbs/index.html