I play a lot of racing games and I always liked putting this song on when I'm playing Need for Speed. I felt like it would help me especially the change up near the end.
I think the Damned's "Neat Neat Neat" would work pretty well, based on Baby Driver.
Time to check the suspension system. 8)
The last couple of minutes of Hang Up Your Hang Ups. Preferred vehicle: a battered Lincoln Continental. Headrests optional.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqtki6I-VTY&t=315s
Lydon, Levene, Wobble and Walker. Incredible at maximum volume. 8)
Quote from: ribbons on Sep 23, 2023, 03:54 AMLydon, Levene, Wobble and Walker. Incredible at maximum volume. 8)
Ahh, so that's where U2 got their early sound 😄 at least that soaring guitar above the bass line at the end reminds me of them.
I like it (and early U2)!
Dont forget about that classic car chase anthem ...................
Lesley Gore - Sunshine Lollypops and Rainbows
DJ already mentioned Pendulum, but I've always thought this track would work super well for an action-packed scenario like a car chase.
Nice idea for a thread, MonaSomona :thumb:
Here's guitarist Dave Edmunds going flat out all the way, just slowing down for a second or two when he has to take a tight corner:-
Quote from: ribbons on Sep 19, 2023, 06:34 PMTime to check the suspension system. 8)
:laughing:
My car's ok, but I don't think that I personally could keep up with Iggy Pop. In fact, I'm struggling to imagine you, ribbons, sitting in Iggy's passenger seat, as you lean forward with the excitement of the car chase ! Clearly you have a wild streak that I never guessed at. ;)
Quote from: Guybrush on Sep 23, 2023, 10:56 AMAhh, so that's where U2 got their early sound 😄 at least that soaring guitar above the bass line at the end reminds me of them.
I like it (and early U2)!
Yes! I suspect The Edge was influenced by Keith Levene's "crackly white lights" tone (as Levene himself described it), as was a host of other post-punk and alt-rock guitarists. Levene's impact as a sonic pioneer was massively undervalued, imo.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Sep 23, 2023, 04:15 PM:laughing:
My car's ok, but I don't think that I personally could keep up with Iggy Pop. In fact, I'm struggling to imagine you, ribbons, sitting in Iggy's passenger seat, as you lean forward with the excitement of the car chase ! Clearly you have a wild streak that I never guessed at. ;)
Well I need to escape the Amish farmstead once in a while. :laughing: And maybe Iggy should be in "The Passenger" seat; don't think we can trust him behind the wheel. 8)
Quote from: ribbons on Sep 24, 2023, 04:52 AMWell I need to escape the Amish farmstead once in a while. :laughing: And maybe Iggy should be in "The Passenger" seat; don't think we can trust him behind the wheel. 8)
:laughing: ^ That's a really nice song! If you were driving Iggy around, I suppose you had to turn down The Beatles offer:
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Sep 25, 2023, 04:01 AM:laughing: ^ That's a really nice song! If you were driving Iggy around, I suppose you had to turn down The Beatles offer:
I would never turn Paul down for anyone. Iggy will have to go get a taxi. :laughing:
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I think I'd like to groove Brazilian style if I was being chased. Doug Rauch was a very groovy bassist who played with Santana. The percussion section such as congas and bongos are top class too. This clip (live concert around 1973) for me is up there with Bullitt and French Connection.
Good spot, TH.
Coming up, American car chase music versus European and North African car chase music. All of them are a mayhem of sounds which encompass jazzy chords and bass licks. All in all, a delightful combination of anticipation, panic and sonic escape..
Quote from: Saulaac on Nov 02, 2024, 09:40 PMGood spot, TH.
Coming up, American car chase music versus European and North African car chase music. All of them are a mayhem of sounds which encompass jazzy chords and bass licks. All in all, a delightful combination of anticipation, panic and sonic escape..
^ Well that all sounds very intriguing, Saulaac ! In the meantime, here's some good old, driving rock: (best version of this song I've ever heard) :-
i mean is there any other song ..to be going 120 down a highway
This is my highway at 120 song.
Quote from: Norg on Nov 03, 2024, 08:17 AMi mean is there any other song ..to be going 120 down a highway
Yes there is.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
An appropriate tune when one is being chased through a city:
Strauss: Also sprach ZarathustraHold on a sec! that's the wrong version.
This is the version to be weaving through multiple intersections whilst those to your left and right screech to a halt, honk their horns and holler at your recklessness (hence the horns reference, plus trombones and trumpets of course. When I say course I don't mean race course.. Well, in fact it could be).
Or, perhaps they are cheering you on, throwing wanker signs at the guy behind you, and willing
you to safety. Car horns are difficult to decipher sometimes.
Salinas - Straussmania (1973)
Sometimes a major 7th, or a minor 3rd, or the relative minor, or a sus4 can throw out a hell of a lot of shrapnel. That is to say there is a lot to understand from yesteryear. Let's just keep trying to understand the music played before us. Do I understand it all? Hell no.
The first track I associate so much with slow moving objects that in no way would it fit a car chase scene. It's always used in space scenes with a slow moving object now the second track I can get down with being used in a car chase scene even though it's usually associated with fight scenes from that era.
Apols for taking a while to get back to you, DJ. That's an interesting take, that there might be a slight difference between car chases and fight scenes in terms of how composers/arrangers might have gone about depicting those scenes. I had always lumped car chases and fight scenes together as high-octane situations which called for the major and minor to sweat it out by using jazzy chords (sus, dimininshed, maj 7) on the keys, choppy wah-guitar, latin-infused percussive rips and colourful basslines.
Perhaps there's a subtle difference between 'car chase' and 'fight scene' in the mind of the composer. You've got me interested in that difference!
Some of my favourites include Rhythm Heritage's S.W.A.T, Edwin Starr's Airport Chase, Hancock's Hang Up You Hang Ups, a lot of Lalo Shifrin, Patrick Williams' Streets of San Fran, Mark Snow's Hart To Hart, Isaac Hayes (obvs), Oliver Nelson's Bionic Man soundtracks, Johnny Pate etc. I don't know many of the Blaxploitation soundtracks well but they're probably on YT so I try and go through them.
And I think the US definitely had the upper hand versus the Brits, although we did quite well with Laurie Johnson's Professionals!
I didn't realize how well these two tracks fit with car chase scenes. In my mind I guess I associated them with fight scenes I do need to re watch more blaxploitation flicks.
Found a fight scene with a groovy track to it.
That talk about gallopbury the other day got me thinking about the gallop versus the canter.
This is what I would call a tune which canters along, with the drums and bass operating on a syncopated two-note theme, i.e. quaver then dotted crochet, quaver then dotted crochet etc. (as a cantering horse would move).
Compare the above to a three-note theme (i.e. two semi-quavers then quaver, two semi-quavers then quaver etc. (in the spirit of William Tell, as a galloping horse would move).
This tune is a bit romantic but imo it contains enough jazzy tension to justify using it in the context of crime and car chase. All encompassed in Italian charm and romance. Beautiful! :love:
They didn't call them Italian Stallions for nothing, ya know. Those guys knew their canter from their gallop!
Listened to the 3 songs posted above by tristan and DJ and they were brilliant! All a bit different, and thanks for posting them in a short space of time so I could click on them all conveniently.
"Death Grips" was quite Hard Techno, to which I'm no stranger, having raved a few times in Manc in the 90's. The vocals "Gotta live my life, gotta live my life!" is poignant.
"She Wants Revenge" reminded me a lot of Bowie. The vocals are very strong.
N.E.R.D was really nice as well. The bridge at 2 minutes, lasting about 30 seconds where they go through a range of scrunchy chord progressions and rhythmic syncopation is, well, nutritious to say the least. Detected a bit of Santana in there, and I'm sure I missed a lot of other references.
It would need to be a semi-cheesy retro crime thriller.
^ Five top-quality selections on this page already! My equal-first-place favourites are:
Death Grips: Feels Like A wheel - with a female voice that reminded me of
Yellow And Black Taxi Cab She Wants Revenge: Tear You Apart - Yep, Saulaac, now you mention it, the vocalist does sound like Bowie. What I first noticed, though, was how the song borrows (or builds on) a "Motorik Beat". Given the unofficial name for their style, how have we missed putting something by Neu in this thread so far ?!
Criminal$: The Cops Are Coming - nice car whizzing sounds front and back, but then the piano breaks away completely and refuses to be chained down to the chase metaphor. Good (obscure) call.
^ Not a high-speed urban car chase: this is the song you want to listen to when it's a long cross-country chase and you're just keeping sight of the car ahead by the dust plumes it throws up.
^ Perhaps it's more for cruising than chasing, but surely at least one track from Neu's first album (1972) deserves a place in this thread.
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Nov 03, 2024, 02:07 AM^ Well that all sounds very intriguing, Saulaac ! In the meantime, here's some good old, driving rock: (best version of this song I've ever heard) :-
I popped back into this thread specifically to see if Radar Love had been posted. :beer:
Quote from: Saulaac on Mar 17, 2025, 01:38 AM"She Wants Revenge" reminded me a lot of Bowie. The vocals are very strong.
It's a good tune, but it's a rip-off of Interpol's style who themselves aped Joy Division.
Quote from: ᑕᐧᔐᔫᓂᑯᒑᔥ on Mar 17, 2025, 06:51 PM
Now this speaks my language, ᑕᐧᔐᔫᓂᑯᒑᔥ. I didn't know this Pat Williams track. It's a big band @{#~%{(ffg! funky jamboree! 8)
His work on the Columbo soundtracks was solid and I have his 'Streets Of San Francisco' CD on my shelf.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 18, 2025, 09:24 PMI popped back into this thread specifically to see if Radar Love had been posted. :beer:
Yep, Radar Love has a great groove. Didn't pick up on Lisna's earlier post, but I tend to miss a lot of what pure rock has to offer.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 18, 2025, 09:26 PMIt's a good tune, but it's a rip-off of Interpol's style who themselves aped Joy Division.
Joy Division defo :checkmark:
Who is that other band who you have posted about in the past
@SGR ? You know, the band who was picked up by John Peel in the late 90's with the three white guys and the black guy. There is a lot of funk bass in there, and defo aligned with early 70's crime punk funk imo.
Quote from: Saulaac on Mar 18, 2025, 10:25 PMJoy Division defo :checkmark:
Who is that other band who you have posted about in the past @SGR ? You know, the band who was picked up by John Peel in the late 90's with the three white guys and the black guy. There is a lot of funk bass in there, and defo aligned with early 70's crime punk funk imo.
Hmm you might have me stumped - when you talk about groups I post about related to John Peel, I immediately think about The Fall (no black guys, picked up by John Peel long before the late 90s). But late '90s with three white guys and a black guy? I'm not entirely certain. Massive Attack almost fits that bill - but they were three black guys and a white guy. And they were never picked up by John Peel. :laughing:
Just remembered them. Fonky as fock. These geysers, you were talking about.
Quote from: SGR on Mar 18, 2025, 10:55 PMHmm you might have me stumped - when you talk about groups I post about related to John Peel, I immediately think about The Fall (no black guys, picked up by John Peel long before the late 90s). But late '90s with three white guys and a black guy? I'm not entirely certain. Massive Attack almost fits that bill - but they were three black guys and a white guy. And they were never picked up by John Peel. :laughing:
You're absolutely right, Peel and A Certain Ratio were indeed late '70s instead of the '90s. I was only out by a couple of decades tho. (Whata mistaka to maka.) Sorry about that,
@SGR. I was tired.
Also thanks
@Buckeye Randy for suggesting Turnstile. You know your album covers! A heavy track but one which is growing on me quite quickly.
Quote from: Saulaac on Mar 20, 2025, 11:12 PMYou're absolutely right, Peel and A Certain Ratio were indeed late '70s instead of the '90s. I was only out by a couple of decades tho. (Whata mistaka to maka.) Sorry about that, @SGR. I was tired.
No problem buddy. Your only other problem was that I've never talked about A Certain Ratio at all. I've never heard of them until now. The closest band I've heard of is A Perfect Circle. :laughing: :laughing:
^I'm pretty sure it was you who posted A Certain Ratio, fella. Around the same time you posted The Sound? Same kind of stuff.
But more importantly, I need to listen to A Perfect Circle which I'll be doing in the next day or two. Thanks for the rec, SGR!
Quote from: Saulaac on Mar 21, 2025, 12:00 AM^I'm pretty sure it was you who posted A Certain Ratio, fella. Around the same time you posted The Sound? Same kind of stuff.
But more importantly, I need to listen to A Perfect Circle which I'll be doing in the next day or two. Thanks for the rec, SGR!
Well yes, I definitely have posted The Sound but...I...uhh...
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I just re-read this post and realised it is quite ambiguous and doesn't mean much, so I scrubbed it. I'd had a few beers and I have no idea why I wrote that 'I was not backing down' lol. I probably thought it was a funny thing to write at the time.
^ I know nothing about these guys, but that's a great track, SGR. I love the way the music, from a standing start, has several sections of surging, inexorable acceleration which pushes the beat forwards, not just once but several times. Nice.
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Here's another track in the "can't believe we missed it" category, this time by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers. I was listening to this on my way to work yesterday, but in my mind, for four mins and four seconds I was flooring it like the guy who shot the video:-
I consider everything about this song to be glorious, including the cray cray lyrics: "
...I'm in love with the modern world....I'm in love with Massachusetts..." and "
...Roadrunner once ... Roadrunner twice...". Evocative, or nonsense? I'm not sure which, so I'm going to go with "brilliant"..
Quote from: Lisnaholic on Mar 28, 2025, 04:28 PMI consider everything about this song to be glorious, including the cray cray lyrics: "...I'm in love with the modern world....I'm in love with Massachusetts..." and "...Roadrunner once ... Roadrunner twice...". Evocative, or nonsense? I'm not sure which, so I'm going to go with "brilliant"..
I consider this the first punk song, I've loved it since I first heard it