Driving, freedom, and the road.

The road has been on my mind a lot lately.The first Audioslave album remains among my favorite driving albums of all time. So many of the songs on that album speak of the joys of the road. Included in this entry are the originals and some of my favorite covers from that album as well as some of my favorite driving tunes. enjoy.

First off, here's The original version of "I Am the Highway"


A while back, I was listening to a pandora channel based on the band "Apocalyptica" and found a group called "The String Quartet" who does classical covers of a lot of different bands. They did a great cover of "I Am the Highway". here it is:


Gasoline. This song pretty much nails what I expected when I heard "Chris Cornell" and "Everyone except Zach from RATM". You have the drums and bass from Rage, the "Soundgarden" vocals... and it's one of the few Audioslave tunes where Tom Morello really does his thing on guitar. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of his other stuff with the band, but just listening to the guitar on this song and say "bulls on parade" or "testify" and you can tell it's the same musician.

Roundabout remembrances.

Okay, so I was on the interwebs wasting time, as is my custom, when I suddenly stumble across a discussion forum thread detailing the latest purchases of said forum members. One member had purchased a rather elegant pen. As a response to this, another member posted a youtube clip of the business card scene from "American Psycho". Now, this movie has been on my "to watch" list for some time. I immediately head off to Netflix to see if it was available for streaming... it was not. So, I then started searching my external hard drives. By some miracle, these drives became stuffed with media during my college days. A search for "Psycho" failed to turn up an appropriate movie file. It did however turn up a band I hadn't thought about in years: Treble Charger.

here's a sampling.
American Psycho


Red


Cheat Away

Angry... Stressed... feeding those feelings with music.

Going through some stuff... need songs that are loud and screamy followed by songs that make me chill the hell out.

first comes loud and screamy

Nonpoint - Bullet With A Name


Maximum The Hormone - What Up People


now for the chilling
This is one of my favorite Pumpkins' tunes.
Smashing Pumpkins - Drown

modern blues.

I've come across some interesting stuff lately. Very bluesy, rap lyrics that address real socio-political issues rather than simply glorifying excess. Not much else to say, I'll let these poets speak for themselves. I should note, that I do not necessarily share the political views contained in these songs, but found them thought provoking.

Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn.


Atmosphere - Guarantees

NOSTALGIA!!!!

The guy I carpool with has XM, and most mornings we're listening to Lithium or Liquid Metal. The other day on the drive home, Lithium started playing this infectious little tune:


I fully expect to be sick of this song within a week... such is the case with mid-90s one-hit-wonders. They're really catchy, and you find yourself humming along... only to overplay them and thus become sick of them. Then you forget about them for a decade only to rediscover them when you least expect it.

I've been listening to a lot of early post-grunge lately. Here's some stuff I keep coming back to:

Sister - The Nixons


Casual Affair - Tonic


Lame - Seven Mary Three


Punch in Punch out - Seven Mary Three