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June 3, 2003
Top Car Tunes
Jumping Fences lists their top ten car tunes, here's mine:
1) "I'm In Love With My Car" - Queen
"Got a feel for my automobile"
2) "Motor Away" - Guided By Voices
"When you motor away beyond the once-red lips
When you free yourself from the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so
And then the time will come when you add up the numbers
And then the time will come when you motor away
Oh, why don't you just drive away?"
3) "Passenger Side" - Wilco
"You're gonna make me spill my beer
If you don't learn how to steer"
4) "Manny, Moe and Jack" - The Dickies
"Once your inside
they won't take you for a ride
they got a good deal for you and your automobile
for the right price
they will sell you fuzzy dice
and leather hand grips for your steering whee-al"
5) "Drivin' On" - Breeders
"Drivin' on nine
You could be a shadow
Beneath the street light
Behind my home"
6) "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road" - Lucinda Williams
"Broken down shacks engine parts
Could tell a lie but my heart would know
Listen to the dogs barkin in the yard
Car wheels on a gravel road"
7) "72 (This Highway's Mean)" - Drive-By Truckers
"Seems like it's always hot down here, no matter when you come
It's the kind of heat that holds you like a mama holds her son
Tight when he tries to walk, even tighter if he runs
It's a mean old dusty highway
But it's the only one that'll get you there"
8) "Highway Patrol" - Junior Brown
"If your drivin' to fast like you shouldn't do,
You can bet your boots, I'm comin' after you
If you wanna race then get on a race track,
'Cause if you try and run away I'm gonna bring ya back
I'm here to keep all the speeders driving slow
I'm just a-doin' my job, I'm The Highway Patrol"
9) "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" - The Smiths
"If a ten ton truck smashes into us..."
10) "Riding With Mary" - X
"So the next time you see a statue of Mary
remember my sister was in a car"
