What CD gets played in your car?

[Fastchas]

After going through my music collection a few nights ago I came across Simply Red's 'A New Flame' tape and remembered I used to play it in the early '90's on my 'auto-reverse' tape player in my car. I played it non-stop for weeks and I'm not even a Mick Hucknall fan but I bet I could sing along to every track on there even though I haven't listened to it since around 1995.

Got me wondering - What CD's gets the most 'air-time' whilst you're driving? Which would you recommend?

[HD Adam]

I can't remember the last time I played an individual CD in the car as I've had either an Ipod or Iphone for years now.

It's mostly all compilations.

[cobra kid]

AC/DC - River Plate 2009.

[HarryFlatters]

The CD player has been broken for years.

[PanzerCommander]

The current FoTM for me is Five Finger Death Punch, though its multiple albums of MP3's on a USB stick rather than individual CD's.

Normally individual CD's are put in if I have just bought them from HMV or wherever so I can listen to it on the way home, once home they are ripped to MP3 and the CD is put on the shelf with the others.

[anonymous-user]

In 9 months its gone from this



to this

[bazza white]

Radio but florence and the machine ceremonials is in the cd player. Driving up high along the welsh west coast its a great CD.

[Fastchas]

Sort of taking up bass guitar so The Cure's greatest hits gets played ATM.

[Cotty]

Mostly stuff by DJ Tiesto like Just Be or Sounds of Sunrise

[TheChampers]

Tend to always have a Gary Numan cd on the player in the car. Current six in there are:-

Numan - Sacrifice

Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always

Love Spit Love - Trysome Eatone

The Cure - Wish

Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis

Jeff Buckley - Grace

[Hoofy]

This kind of thing on the SD card: http://www.mixcloud.com/2p0r1o2/

Tend to play this kind of thing in heavy traffic, though: http://www.mixcloud.com/gaibarone/

[stitchface]

The amp on my radio has been broken for years so the only music I get is from the cd changer. For at least the past 3 years it has been as follows:

1. The Strokes - Is This It
2. Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
3. The Jam - Best Of
4. RHCP - By The Way
5. Kings of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
6. The Strokes - Room On Fire

4 & 5 don't get played too often, it has to be said

[HD Adam]

pablo said:

In 9 months its gone from this



to this

Noooooooo.

I never played my kids stuff like that in the car. They listened to what I listened to whether it was Hendrix, Ray Charles, Santana, Eagles, Motown etc.

Great fun to be had when they were toddlers by buying Kazoo's so they could be part of the Memphis Horns to the Otis Redding choons.

Now they have an appreciation of "proper music" and go to gigs with me.

[Zod]

What year is it again?

[Sharted]

The Clash, London's Burning is the only CD that has ever been in the Mrs car. She listens to the radio.

[wongthecorrupter]

I haven't found a better sound track than my speed six

[entropy]

Usually its mixes and compilations.

I can see the attraction on MP3's convenience but personally there's nothing better than rifling through cd's deciding which to play/haven't heard in a while.

[TheDoggingFather]

My car is having the battle of Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds vs Slipknot 5: The Gray Chapter. Although the Temperance Movement does get a look in quite often, especially if I have littluns on board...

[vournikas]

Well, my old E39 has radio / cassette / 6-CD changer and that pretty much caters for my needs.

Radio : hard-wired to BBC R3

Cassette : currently loaded with Superunknown by Soundgarden

CD changer : currently

• R1 Essential Mix - Paul Oakenfold Cuba (disc 2)
• Seasonal Classics
• Visions by Jakatta
• Solar Spectrums - basically a chillout album
• Dark Side Of The Moon
• Ralph Vaughan-Williams - a compilation

[Animal]

London Grammar 'If You Wait' hasn't left my car all year.