Cafe Racer Music?

swan said:
IndieSol, great choices, we have a very similar music pedigree. Hit up "Clash Radio" on Pandora and spends hours wrenching.
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I knew you were cool, Swan.

The Clash, The Cramps and Rev. Horton Heat were the first stations I ever set up on Pandora. I was immediately hooked. It's introduced me to some great music...Cursive, Murder by Death,etc.

I maintain that the users of this site, in general, have pretty kickass taste when it comes to most things.
 
Back 'in the day' when CD's were pretty new, vinyl and and cassettes were normal method of making compilations.
I used to have a list of 'Dangerous Driving Music'
Apart from some 'oldies' already mentioned I'd like to add (some are pretty 'slow' or things go out of control pretty quick ;) )

Meatloaf, 'Bat out of Hell' and other stuff (et.al.)
Chris Rea, 'Road to Hell', et.al.
The Who (even though they were Mod icons) 'Happy Jack', 'My Generation', et.al.
Yello, 'The Race' 'Third of June', 'Of Course I'm Lying'
Roy Wood and Wizzard, 'See my Baby Jive, Ball Park Incident', et.al.
Argent, 'God Gave Rock And Roll To You' 'Hold Your Head Up'
Mott the Hoople, 'All the way from Memphis', 'Golden Age of Rock and Roll'
From Rocky Horror Show, 'Timewarp'
Wishbone Ash, various tracks
OMD, 'Enola Gay', 'Electricity'
Thin Lizzy, just about anything they did, 'Boys are back in Town', 'Whiskey in the Jar', et.al.
Dr. Hook, 'Queen of the Silver Dollar' et.al.
The Troggs, 'Wild thing', 'With a girl Like You', 'I can't Control myself'
Tom Robinson Band, 2,4,6,8, Motorway', 'Up Against the wall'
Stranglers, 'Peaches', 'No More Hero's', All Day and All of the Night'
Leonard Cohen,'Closing Time', 'Democracy'
Beatles early stuff before they went 'Sargent Pepper' ::)
Bunch of Rolling Stone ' early' stuff
Hawkwind, 'Seven By Seven', (better know for 'Silver Machine')
The Kinks, (Ray Davis) did a bunch of interesting stuff
ZZ Top, Various tracks
Peter Gabriel, 'Solsbury Hill', 'Steam', 'Kiss That Frog' et.al
The Animals, 'We Gotta get out of this place' et.al.

There is a bunch of other stuff I like and listen to, generally it's only a track or two from any particular artist
 
Cool A F
I know what you mean about loud, when your lungs start vibrating, it may be a time to move away from the speakers ;D
 
"Easy Rider," by the 70's band, Iron Butterfly, better known for In a Gadda da Vida...

Although the grainy video shows the bend members riding choppers, this is my definitive cafe racer song.

Now if only I could find out why I can't embed the damn uTube video...
 
revheadgl said:
Stand somewhat corrected! But the piano man is not what its about.
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To each his own. If you can't see the connection between his music and the early rock stuff, so be it. As a musician, taking something and making your own IS what it's all about......
That song, as well as some others, without a doubt harken back to the "Rocker" stuff..
 
revheadgl said:
Set in my ways.....I play guitar( badly, even I have have to say, a Gibson SG...wasted on me though), just into the stuff I grew up with,, hard rock, some harder blues, punk, punk punk.....
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It's all cool. At least we can agree that he is a biker.....
 
revheadgl said:
As much as I am a musician?

Has he ridden anything faster than my car? Doubt it.

Ridden a Hayabusa perhaps, raced a bike, crashed, broken wrist or some vertebrae?

Just because you tool around on a bike and you have a few bikes does not make you a motorcyclist.
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Well, you are not speaking from knowledge now. You may want to do some homework on the matter (or, if you had been paying attention to the video, he states what his top speed has been) before tapping on your keyboard. FYI, he was riding long before he became famous, rides a lot, and was recently in a very serious wreck (lady ran a red light in NY) but still rides. He is quoted as saying riding bikes is the one way he can clear his head.
If you want to start an e-fight, come armed.... 8)
 
I can't resist here. I have to confess to being a Do The Ton voyeur for some time now and have gotten some great tips form the sight. Current project is a '79 Suzuki GS 750. With the music thing a will jump in. Motorcycle specific songs. Hondells - Little Honda probably one of the most remembered. Earlier in the post Davie Allen and the Arrows were mentioned, I think Blues Theme and the Chase from the "Wild Angels" movie are two of their best. Charlie Ryan and the Timberline Riders who did the original Hot Rod Lincoln also had Side Car Cycle (as well as Hot Rod Hades and Hot Rod Rocket). Obscure stuff now - 60s Chicago band the Crestones have my favorite motorcycle song of all time with She's A Bad Motorcycle and they also did a good one called The Chopper. Tico and the Triumphs did one called Motorcycle. The Scramblers had a whole album of motorcycle oriented songs, mostly with a dirt bike theme. Carol Connors and the Cycles - Yum Yum Yamaha. The Spats - Go Go Yamaha. Moving to the late 70s, Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm Rockers - My Little Sister's Got A Motorbike. Modern age, from Tacoma Washington the band Girl Trouble did a song call Sister Mary Motorcycle, which references many characters from 60s B-movie biker flicks. That's a few off the top of my head, I could probably come up with more but I'm stealing time from work right now. Oh yeah, Tav Falco and the Panther Burns (Memphis crazy who's into British bikes) do a great cover of the aforementioned "She's A Bad Motorcycle" and a band he managed called the Hellcats had a good motorcycle song called Wall of Death I think covered by the Headcoatees because the Hellcats are probably impossible to find.
 
Speaking of the Cramps, add them to the list with Get Of The Road, which I have on the What's Inside A Girl 12" single. I think it's a cover but I can't recall who did the original if it is.
 
Great addition with the 5,6,7,8's, I'm a bit shocked I forgot that one. Also add the Revillos _ Motorbike Beat, which was also covered by an all female English psychobilly band whose name I can't remember right now.
 
I got started and now I just can't stop. Chris Spedding - Motorbiking; Shangri-Las - Leader of the Pack; Motorhead - Iron Horse. And the band who originally did Get Off The Road mentioned above is R. Lewis Band from the movie She-Devils On Wheels by Herschell Gordon Lewis, who inspired the Cramps song I Ain't Nuthin' But A Gore Hound.
 
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