Sound of the Open Road

[PinayDiver]

Call for song recommendations!
Looking out the window as the sun's coming up (pulled an all-nighter to meet a work deadline), I realized it’s the first day of April, first day of Philippine summer…and the expected surge of people to the beaches would mean a slow-going road trip to and from the dive resorts.
Time to refresh the iPod playlist (every bit helps in keeping temperatures at an even keel )
And so, wanting to go beyond what I think I like, I’m very interested in hearing what the customized road-trip music of you divers here include…


Now playing as I'm about to click submit: “Summertime and the living is easy, fish are jumping, the cotton is high…”

[Sarah]

I can think of an excellent, sing-along road song:

[Zero]

I can think of an excellent, sing-along road song:

Ill ride shotgun

My must have would be:
Red War by Probot
Shake Your Blood by Probot
Bombs Over Bagdad by Outcast
Voodoo People by The Prodigy
Slam by Pendulum
Most Metallica Machine Head Sepultura S.O.A.D R.A.T.M Guns n Roses.......
Anything metal or fast to match the driving speed

Matt

[PinayDiver]

Ok Sarah and Matt, adding metal to the summer playlist. An officemate (who's been trying to turn us on to it since he joined the workteam) was only too glad to hijack my iPod and load two CDs worth of S&M (from "The Esctasy of Gold" to "Battery")

He also sat me down to listen to Metallica's:
...And Justice For All
Breadfan
My Friend of Misery
One

Megadeth's
Skin O' My Teeth
Holy Wars
99 Ways to Die

and Rage Against the Machine's
People of the Sun
Bulls on Parade
Down Rodeo

...beaming like a proud parent throughout. I'm getting an education alright

Anymore suggestions?

What about when you're back in your resort room at the end of a 2-dive-day, trying to wind down, knowing you have to wake up early the next morning for a pre-breakfast dive date with thresher sharks?

[Sarah]

Yes,

Etlon John's classics, like

Tiny Dancer
60 years On
Funeral for a Friend/Love, Lies Bleeding
High Flying Bird
Levon
Roy Rogers
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters
Madman Across the Water
Harmony

And since I just saw him play Saturday night at the Staples Center where the Lakers call home, Josh Grobin.

[Zero]

Why wind down? Just keep charging hard.
Good Aussie band thats soft is The John Buttler Trio. Got a few of their albums
Jerry Cantrell ex Alice in Chains is also pretty good.

Matt

[seasnake]

I like that Goo Goo Dolls, Matchbox 20 kinda sound. But when divin' and drivin', nothing like some good ol' Canadian East Coast Celtic Rock. Check out the band Great Big Sea.

[SoCalDiveGirl]

Pink Floyd, White Zombie, Chili Peppers, GnR, any & all of the 80's hair bands...

And of course the classic summertime band, The Beach Boys!

[Daddy-h2O]

To wind down -
Anything by Van Morrison, Tom Waites, Bruce Springsteen, John Prine, David Bromberg, Jim Croce, Jerry Jeff, Muddy Waters, Charlie Musslewhite,Cats Stevens, Bob Dylan... Blues and Folk

Gettin Fired Up -
Tom Waites, Mojo Noxon, Saxon, Judas Priest, Jello Barafi (sp) The Gorilazas, AC/DC, Ray Charles, Ronnie Montrose, Old Rolling Stones (nothing past emotional rescue), Bob Seager, Tom Petty... Rock and Jazz

[Sarah]

I really like music from the classic rock era.....

I need to add the Scorpions, and from the Stones, I so like Ruby Tuesday, Paint if Black and

As far as Pink Floyd, our publisher brought me back a DVD from the Philippines probably made in China that has 12 of their albums and he said it cost 90 pesos which is less than $2.

There's Shine On You Crazy Diamonds, and of course....