On a long drive, if you could only listen to one group or singer, who would it be?
25 thoughts on “Reader Friday: Music”
Product of the 60s that I am, I’d probably choose the Beatles; they’ve got plenty of variety, and familiarity helps pass the time.
I could totally do a road trip with you, Terry.
The Beatles are my favorites, too, but they only had a little over 10 hours of recorded music in their entire catalog. It would have to be a one-day road trip.
I’m old. I don’t mind repeats. By the time I get to the end, I’ve forgotten. 🙂
The Stones.
The Grateful Dead ~
I like to sing when I drive, to heck with all the stares from fellow drivers. It’s easy to sing along to the Carpenters and Neil Diamond, so I’d choose one of those two.
Only one? Oye. You make it hard. Really hard. So many country greats–Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash… But I guess I’d narrow it down to being between Alabama and George Strait.
And of those 2 I’ll take George Strait, because I could listen to “Ace in the Hole” alone about 50 billion times without moving on to any of his other very numerous hits.
Queen if my wife is along. Alone it would have to be George Thorogood or KISS.
On a long drive, alone or with company, or if I am alone in my car, I listen to books. However, if I am working in the garden I’m listening to the Beatles.
Despite what the Big Lebowski says (which I will kindly bleep), I listen to the Eagles.
Bob Seager and the Silver Bullet Band.
If I’m the driver on a long trip, I want music that keeps me energized, so I like the music of The Rolling Stones and the image of the tireless Mick Jagger leaping across a stage.
Can I refer to Broadway as a musical group?
The judges will accept this.
Rogers & Hammerstein?
Yup. Benj Passak and Justin Paul are popular now. And there’s probably a lot more that I can’t think of. Rodgers also wrote with Lorenz Hart. And there are the Gershwins.
And can’t forget Stephen Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim.
I’m on an Adele kick right now so it’d probably be her if I were driving today. However the idea of being able to play only one artist sounds like torture to me for a long drive. For the longest time a Beatles fan in the family had only their albums in his car and we’d listen to them whenever he was driving. Now I’m happy to listen to anything EXCEPT The Beatles. As fabulous as they are, it was just too much! ?
Tough questions. I love all types of music. If I had to choose, I’d go with ZZ Ward.
Trailer music (the music written for motion picture advertising) would be the genre, and if I only get to pick one studio, then Audiomachine. But it would be hard to go with them over Kerry Muzzey, Ivan Torrent, Future World Music, or Two Steps From Hell.
Fats Domino.
Gordon Lightfoot I think would be most tolerable for long periods.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Joe Bonamasa.
Or the Eagles.
Or maybe a House of Blues or Crossroads compilation CD?
Oh, Keb Mo!
…or acoustic John Mayer.
Forget it, I’ll just stay home with a good book and Spotify.
John Fogarty, James Taylor and the old time country music
Product of the 60s that I am, I’d probably choose the Beatles; they’ve got plenty of variety, and familiarity helps pass the time.
I could totally do a road trip with you, Terry.
The Beatles are my favorites, too, but they only had a little over 10 hours of recorded music in their entire catalog. It would have to be a one-day road trip.
I’m old. I don’t mind repeats. By the time I get to the end, I’ve forgotten. 🙂
The Stones.
The Grateful Dead ~
I like to sing when I drive, to heck with all the stares from fellow drivers. It’s easy to sing along to the Carpenters and Neil Diamond, so I’d choose one of those two.
Only one? Oye. You make it hard. Really hard. So many country greats–Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash… But I guess I’d narrow it down to being between Alabama and George Strait.
And of those 2 I’ll take George Strait, because I could listen to “Ace in the Hole” alone about 50 billion times without moving on to any of his other very numerous hits.
Queen if my wife is along. Alone it would have to be George Thorogood or KISS.
On a long drive, alone or with company, or if I am alone in my car, I listen to books. However, if I am working in the garden I’m listening to the Beatles.
Despite what the Big Lebowski says (which I will kindly bleep), I listen to the Eagles.
Bob Seager and the Silver Bullet Band.
If I’m the driver on a long trip, I want music that keeps me energized, so I like the music of The Rolling Stones and the image of the tireless Mick Jagger leaping across a stage.
Can I refer to Broadway as a musical group?
The judges will accept this.
Rogers & Hammerstein?
Yup. Benj Passak and Justin Paul are popular now. And there’s probably a lot more that I can’t think of. Rodgers also wrote with Lorenz Hart. And there are the Gershwins.
And can’t forget Stephen Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim.
I’m on an Adele kick right now so it’d probably be her if I were driving today. However the idea of being able to play only one artist sounds like torture to me for a long drive. For the longest time a Beatles fan in the family had only their albums in his car and we’d listen to them whenever he was driving. Now I’m happy to listen to anything EXCEPT The Beatles. As fabulous as they are, it was just too much! ?
Tough questions. I love all types of music. If I had to choose, I’d go with ZZ Ward.
Trailer music (the music written for motion picture advertising) would be the genre, and if I only get to pick one studio, then Audiomachine. But it would be hard to go with them over Kerry Muzzey, Ivan Torrent, Future World Music, or Two Steps From Hell.
Fats Domino.
Gordon Lightfoot I think would be most tolerable for long periods.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Joe Bonamasa.
Or the Eagles.
Or maybe a House of Blues or Crossroads compilation CD?
Oh, Keb Mo!
…or acoustic John Mayer.
Forget it, I’ll just stay home with a good book and Spotify.
John Fogarty, James Taylor and the old time country music