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Ever wonder who sings the most about cars? The Beatles? Bruce Springsteen? Eminem? Ludacris (pictured)? According to a recent scientific study by Gold Eagle, the musician who sings about cars the most is Lil Wayne. In fact, after analyzing more than 100,000 songs, they note that their list was dominated by rap and hiphop artists. …
Cake.
Can't link right here from work, but I'll give you my favorite "car songs":
Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen
Hudson Commodore, Jason Isbell
Lincoln Park Pirates, Steve Goodman
Pickup Truck Song, Jerry Jeff Walker
I don't know. What about Richard Thompson. A long line of automotive related songs and lyrics.
1952 Vincent black lightning
MGB-GT
You dream too much (lyric 'She's got a chassis like an XJ-S'
Actually, that's all I can think of right now, but I'm sure there's more.
I would have guessed Fu Manchu would have been pretty high up on the list at least.
.......aaaand there you have it. They arent even on lyrics.com therefore not included in the study.
Ric Ocasek.
Every song he sang had the Cars involved ;)
failboat said:I would have guessed Fu Manchu would have been pretty high up on the list at least.
.......aaaand there you have it. They arent even on lyrics.com therefore not included in the study.
failboat. steam: ratr0
Wait, what?
Was Chris Rea big over here? Remember this album cover with his Caterham on it?
Wait.... how did the Beach Boys not get on that list? They've probably put out at least 88 car related songs next to Bruce Springsteen's 88 isolated references.
Kind of surprising that Punk rated the lowest car mentions, but has some of the coolest car-related album covers.
For favorite songs about cars, I'm going to nominate Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time".
Sir Mix-A-Lot is a legitimate enthusiast and arguably one of the more creative rappers with his automotive references.
Most notably, he has a line about a turbo Vette and an entire song title Carz with gratuitous V12 noises.
Rob Zombie/White Zombie
MadScientistMatt said:Wait.... how did the Beach Boys not get on that list? They've probably put out at least 88 car related songs next to Bruce Springsteen's 88 isolated references.
Kind of surprising that Punk rated the lowest car mentions, but has some of the coolest car-related album covers.
For favorite songs about cars, I'm going to nominate Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time".
Not that they're really legit punk these days, but Rise Against mentions cars or has car-related metaphors in a ton of songs.
Of course one of the best known car-related songs is the one in my signature......
Ram50Ron said:Sir Mix-A-Lot is a legitimate enthusiast and arguably one of the more creative rappers with his automotive references.
Most notably, he has a line about a turbo Vette and an entire song title Carz with gratuitous V12 noises.
Most of the songs off "Mack Daddy" reference cars someplace:
Testarossa - duh
Swap Meet Louie - "76 Cutlass"
One Time's Got No Case "Keepin That Porsche in Fifth"
Mack Daddy "Four-door Rolls with the black exterior, Turbo Bentley, white interior"
Baby Got Back "Fonda Ain't Got a Motor in the back of her Honda"
Seattle Aint B**lsh*tting "Caddillac was the car I wanted And I got that seven-seven Coupe with the trues and straps"
LL Cool J Back Seat of My Jeep
Snoop drops car references all over the place
In reply to irish44j :
Forgot about those. The turbo vette line just always stuck out to me.
Ram50Ron said:In reply to irish44j :
Forgot about those. The turbo vette line just always stuck out to me.
"As I approach the end of my tach
My lyrical horse power blows to the max
Red line is reached to the peak of my speech"
I haven't listened to that song in a decade until now, and man, the lyrics are brilliant as relating to cars. Has to be the best straight-up car analogy song ever written.
Though it makes me laugh when at the end he's like "two hundred thirty [horsepower] up on ya." Ah, back when 230hp was badass :)
Also, 100% of country songs mention pickup trucks ;)
But Sir Mix a Lot's white Gemballa has no door handles!
Ram50Ron said:Sir Mix-A-Lot is a legitimate enthusiast and arguably one of the more creative rappers with his automotive references.
Most notably, he has a line about a turbo Vette and an entire song title Carz with gratuitous V12 noises.
I came in here to say this, I was just at his show a few weeks ago!
From my best guess it's about driving around and smoking weed in classic cars. I could be wrong though, but I love this song nonetheless.
The Spinal Tappets. 100% about cars with very high Triumph content.
Prince wrote a song about a Little Red Corvette, but that had nothing to do with a car...
Cake refers to cars a lot, as mentioned.
One other surprising band that makes a noticeable number of car references is Soul Coughing.
Ram50Ron said:Sir Mix-A-Lot is a legitimate enthusiast and arguably one of the more creative rappers with his automotive references.
Most notably, he has a line about a turbo Vette and an entire song title Carz with gratuitous V12 noises.
This!!!!!!!
songs about cars:
Testarossa
Posse (on broadway) - talks about AMG and low profile tires + speakers
My Hoopty!
turbo vette (baby got back)
and there a few more B sides talking specific gearhead lingo too I just can't think of them right now
In reply to Adrian_Thompson :
He had a few songs that got decent play. His "Road to Hell" song being the most memorable. (great song by the way) He also has a song about Daytona.....complete with engine noises towards the end.
No list is complete without a mention of "Snowman" Jerry Reed!
Eastbound and Down...... Good Lord Mr. Ford...... etc.
The only guy who could get away with calling Chet Atkins "son"!
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