The “I’m really just a teenager in a grown woman’s body” edition.
Here are ten songs that either I’ve played at teenager-worthy, vibrate the side mirrors volume while alone in my car in the past two weeks, or that will be likely heard thumping from my car at some point during the summer. These songs just beg for - and hold up well under - crushing, immature volume (despite the fact that some of the songs are, well, old…):
~The Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel, released in 1989 (“ya, ya, yahhhh, YO!”)
~Einstein on the Beach by the Counting Crows, from 1991 (“what you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway…”)
~Rock Star, from 2005, by Nickelback (“I’m sick of standin’ in line to clubs I never get in..“)
~Running Out of Time by Joan Osborne, from 2000 (“if I ever sit to write the story I’ll say something nice about you when you’re dead..”)
~Dancing Nancies from Dave Matthews’ 1994 Under the Table and Dreaming album (“could I have been anyone other than me..”)
~Synchronicity II, by the Police, released in 1983 (“packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes, contestants in a suicidal race..”)
~The Girl I Can’t Forget from Fountains of Wayne’s Out of State Plates album, released in 2005 (“but that’s all I recall and when I woke up in the hall I was alone and softly groaning..”)
~Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong by the Spin Doctors, released in 1991 (“it’s been a whole lot easier since the bitch left town; it’s been a whole lot happier without her face around..”)
~The Soul Cages, from Sting’s 1991 album of the same name (“eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies, where is the child in his father’s eyes?”)
~ Kiss That Frog, released in 1992 on the US album (“Sweet little princess, let me introduce his frogness..”)
Roll down the windows and turn up the bass…
Kiss The Frog, Rock Star… I’m with ya baby!
Even though I’m not much of a “lister,” I’ll steal this idea for myself.
The songs you selected aren’t mine, BUT, I, too, like me some rock ‘n roll, and I don’t just mean the old stuff.
Rock On.
You know what one of my favorite car songs in all the world is? Well, of course you don’t. It’s “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys” by Traffic.
What does fish have to do with volume?
I’m with you on The Downeaster Alexa.
“Dancing Nancies” is one of my most favorite songs EVER and is perfect for blaring in the car! And the Spin Doctors are awesome too… Do I even need to say what I think about Sting?
Good choices!