Period music for period cars

[Stick Legs]

Do you match your music to your car?

When I had 1980’s cars Robert Palmer or Duran Duran always seemed so appropriate.

Not exclusively but from time to time, especially with a classic I think it enhances the experience.

So in light of that here are some car / music combinations I think would be perfect.

Late 1960’s





Late 1970’s





Late 1980’s





Mid 1990’s

[Mr Tidy]

Early 2000s.

[hidetheelephants]

Stick Legs said:

Herb Alpert or maybe some Matt Monro.

Mantovani or Percy Faith

Andre Rieu

House of Pain, Vanilla Ice or some other terrible 90s white boy rap.

[Bobupndown]

Nope, my 1963 Mini doesn't have a radio and I listen to the same Dire Straits / Status Quo / Queen genre of music that I have for the last 40 years in my daily cars.
Good shout re the Fleetwood Mac / Range Rover though!

[Soloman Dodd]

Fleetwood Mac for Austin 7 owners.

Lettuce leaf anyone?

[horsemeatscandal]

[Gigamoons]

Haha, it’s a nice idea but I just listen to what I fancy in the car I’m in, the joys of Spotify / DAB radio.

Except the old Porsche… I have to listen to whatever radio station it can pick up that day.
And even then I can’t really ‘listen’ to it as it’s the bog standard OEM system from back in the day, which is possibly the world’s crappiest sound system. I’m sure it was designed to ensure first buyers said ‘yeah, I’d better pay for the upgrade pls..’.
With the roof down it’s just a tinny annoyance so best left turned off and listen to ‘pleasant but muted symphonies in flat-six’ instead

[generationx]

Stick Legs said:

Mid 1990’s

Nah, got that wrong:

[HealeyV8]

Lambo Miura and Matt Munro , On days like these, of course.

[swisstoni]

This thread is an excellent accompaniment to the current ‘Look The Part’ thread.

[Levin]

I'm open to period appropriate music for the Sierra. It's a 1991, so in theory Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots are all valid, but I find I'm more likely to be listening to '80s stuff in it. Somehow Ultravox, Duran Duran, the Stone Roses, and Simple Minds are more likely to crop up in my playlist when driving it than the usual medley I'd be listening to (today, for instance, was Black Sabbath).

[RGG]

The Who

My Generation

"I wanna die before I get old"

Me, on the way to the "100 Classic"

[Pica-Pica]

RGG said:

The Who

My Generation

"I wanna die before I get old"

Me, on the way to the "100 Classic"

More like:
‘ why don’t you all ffffff..fade away’

[generationx]

Pica-Pica said:

RGG said:

The Who

My Generation

"I wanna die before I get old"

Me, on the way to the "100 Classic"

More like:
‘ why don’t you all ffffff..fade away’

O/T that’s an epic ferry scene!

[Robertb]

I played a 2003 Spotify playlist the other day in my 2003 911 C4S.

Was not a good year for music.

The highlight was probably The Cheeky Song by the Cheeky Girls, that’s how bad it was.

[jimmytheone]

80's Citroen = Jean Michel Jarre


I tried it - its a bit limiting, there's only so much far-out future pop i can handle

[RGG]

generationx said:

Pica-Pica said:

RGG said:

The Who

My Generation

"I wanna die before I get old"

Me, on the way to the "100 Classic"

More like:
‘ why don’t you all ffffff..fade away’

O/T that’s an epic ferry scene!

Totally surreal night.

I was stressing - just got to get there in one piece - do the parade laps - Planning to and did cruise down the autoroute at 60-65mph

29 Bentley Boys - Just had dinner with Prince Michael - Some had driven down from Aberdeen - The autoroute journey - They said, Oh, we cruise at 75-85mph and they did.

0700hrs they passed me at 75mph wearing rolled up white overalls and flat caps - Total Respect

[RGG]

Pica-Pica said:

RGG said:

The Who

My Generation

"I wanna die before I get old"

Me, on the way to the "100 Classic"

More like:
‘ why don’t you all ffffff..fade away’

I always try to fit in with the crowd and think I did rather well that evening.

[generationx]

Levin said:

I'm open to period appropriate music for the Sierra. It's a 1991, so in theory Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots are all valid, but I find I'm more likely to be listening to '80s stuff in it. Somehow Ultravox, Duran Duran, the Stone Roses, and Simple Minds are more likely to crop up in my playlist when driving it than the usual medley I'd be listening to (today, for instance, was Black Sabbath).

I’m Too Sexy - Right Said Fred

[2172cc]

I do...mostly have Heart80's on in my 1983 Sunbeam playing on a 80's looking Blaupunkt[ but modern DAB] head unit complete with graphic equaliser for full effect.