Vehicles in Songs

[rednotdead]

Roger Waters - It's a Miracle

We've got Mercedes
We've got Porsche
Ferrari and Rolls Royce
We've got a choice

[Penelope Stopit]

Anyone posted Mercury Blues ?

[carlove]

I can’t remember what the songs called, but there’s a song that goes “I’ve got an off black Cadillac, midnight drive got that gas pedal leaned back taking my time” quite nice for a midnight drive, although I’ve got a red Vauxhall.

[SpudLink]

Isn’t there a song by The Sweet about a small VW hatchback?

Fox on the run.

[67Dino]

SpudLink said:

Isn’t there a song by The Sweet about a small VW hatchback?

Fox on the run.

There’s also that Elvis Costello song about “Oliver’s RV”

[Johnspex]

The Who
Hotrod Humber (One at a time)
Grace pace space Jaguar.

[gazza285]

No Saxon yet?

Wheels Of Steel
Motorcycle Man
Princess Of The Night
20,000 Feet
747
Dallas 1PM
Stallions Of The Highway

And no doubt others.

[hoegaardenruls]

underwhelmist said:

Carter USM - Sherriff Fatman

In a hatchback from Notre Dame
The one and only Sherriff Fatman

And also from Prince in a Pauper's Grave

And go to the park
Where vicars and tarts
Prey for their tormented souls
By the American graffiti
From Elephant and Castle
In Ford Capri Orange
Volkswagen yellow and gold

[MikeT66]

gazza285 said:

No Saxon yet?

Wheels Of Steel
Motorcycle Man
Princess Of The Night
20,000 Feet
747
Dallas 1PM
Stallions Of The Highway

And no doubt others.

Good calls. 747 (Strangers In The Night) is lyrically a great song - based on real/similar events, I believe.

[droopsnoot]

Have we had "Car Song" by Elastica yet?

something something siesta
In my Ford Fiesta

[Halmyre]

Tom Waits - Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six

"tore out the buckets from a red Corvette"

Bonus points for actually using car parts (a brake drum) as percussion

[Mark-C]

Waded through the thread and Tom Robinson Band "Grey Cortina" springs to mind.

Hawkwinds "SIlver Machine" may or not be about a vehicle

There are plenty of other vehicle references in their songs - Death Trap for starters --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLRzKBShYjw

[SpudLink]

Mark-C said:

Hawkwinds "SIlver Machine" may or not be about a vehicle

But David Essex’s ‘Silver Dream Machine’ is.

[spyder dryver]

Baker's van.

The one driven by "Two-ton Ted from Teddington".

[Levin]

Bob Seger - Makin' Thunderbirds.
"Back in '59 we were makin' Thunderbirds."

[Boringvolvodriver]

Have we had Born to Run yet? Guessing so although

Thunder Row mentions Chevrolets

[Meteor Madness]

"Jesus Chrysler Drives A Dodge" and "Twin Cadillac Valentine" both by The Screaming Blue Messiahs

Also, from their song "Killer Born Man" ...

Zoom zoom - gimme room, gimme room
'cos I was born in a baby boom
I'm coming up on the Westway
in a 350 SS Camaro
I'm gonna go over an underpass
and get some gas!

[P5BNij]

Two from The Velvet Underground's 1970 album 'Loaded'....

'Rock & Roll' has ''two TV sets and two Cadillac cars''.

'Sweet Jane' has ''riding that Stutz bearcat Jim''.

[Halmyre]

Thought this was a Springsteen song but after a search found it's Sammy Hagar - Trans Am.

"From Daytona Beach down to Riverside/If there’s a race, she’s qualified/And my 6.6 gets a little too heavy/For a big boss Ford or a 350 Chevy’.

[PomBstard]

We Didn't Start The Fire - Edsel and Studebaker get a mention