For many people the TV show Top Gear is not only the greatest TV show on TV at the moment but possibly of all time ( Not that i'm being bias or anything :P)
In one of Top Gears recent TV Season they did a segment on the top driving song of all time and requested that the audience voted on what they thought the best driving song of all time was and after season long effort to find the answer to this question the results were as follows.
- Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
- Golden Earring - Radar Love
- Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
- Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild
- Deep Purple - Highway Star
- Motorhead - Ace of spades
- Kenny Loggins - Danger Zong
- Led Zeppeling - Immigrant Song
- AC/DC - Highway to Hell
- Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Some of these songs probably more obvious as driving songs than others. I mean who hasn't heard at least 1 of these songs while driving to and from work/school or university. Personally I was voting for Radar Love to win (damn). Interestingly with this list is that most if not all these songs can be considered to be of the genre rock. Perhaps a study should be done as to a correlation between better driving and rock music :).
Source = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_(2002_TV_series)#Soundtrack
I think the reason all these are rock songs is that rock just seems to have that fast paced and high energy sound that gets your blood flowing when you listen to it, it kind of emphasizes the fun of driving especially on a nice day with the windows down. I think a lot of people feel the meaning of the songs in the freedom from the world when your driving. I think a lot of times, people would associate these songs with the 'road trip', which is the epitome of freedom. Just getting into the car with some mates and taking off. These songs portray that same kind of, do whatever the hell you want idea.
ReplyDeleteThere wasn't exactly a whole bunch of high energy jazz, blues and funk back then. Rock was it when it came to loud, rude and fast. If rap had been around though......Haha.
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