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A car crash turned a kid's hair "from black into bright white" because "the cars had smashed so hard." "Motorcrash" The Sugarcubes: 1988: From the album Life's Too Good "Motorist" Jawbox: 1994 [4] "Mr. Ambulance Driver" The Flaming Lips: 2006: From the album At War With the Mystics. Frontman Wayne Coyne has described the song as a "teenager car ...
The Car (song) La Carcacha; Cars (song) Cars with the Boom; Chasing Cars; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song) Cop Car (Keith Urban song) Crash (Gwen Stefani song) Cruise ...
"Hot Rod Race" is a Western swing song about a fictional automobile race in San Pedro, California, between a Ford and a Mercury. First recorded by Arkie Shibley, and released in November 1950, it broke the ground for a series of hot rod songs recorded for the car culture of the 1950s and 1960s. [1]
"Faster" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his self-titled 1979 studio album.The song was inspired by Harrison's year away from music-making in 1977, during which he travelled with the Formula 1 World Championship, and by his friendship with racing drivers such as Jackie Stewart, Emerson Fittipaldi, and Niki Lauda.
The car race is described between two hot rod cars, the narrator's Ford Model A (with a Lincoln motor) and a Cadillac. The song says the Ford's "got 12 cylinders", overdrive, a four-barrel carburetor, 4.11:1 gear ratio, and safety tubes. The narrator ends up being arrested by the police for his high-speed driving and describes the exasperation ...
A car song is a song with lyrics or musical themes pertaining to car travel. Though the earliest forms appeared in the 1900s, car songs emerged in full during the 1950s as part of rock and roll and car culture, but achieved their peak popularity in the West Coast of the United States during the 1960s with the emergence of hot rod rock as an outgrowth of the surf music scene.
The song is about a racing car, a Ford Mustang, called "Black Sunshine." Iggy Pop recorded the spoken word vocal intro and outro of the song "Black Sunshine" as well as playing the character of a writer in the video shot for the song. He is singled out for special thanks in the liner notes of album.
"Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" was the fourth Primus single, after "John the Fisherman", "Too Many Puppies" and " Mr. Knowitall" from the 1989 live album Suck on This and 1990's debut studio release Frizzle Fry. "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" received heavy airplay on rock radio, and peaked at number 23 on the Modern Rock Tracks in 1991. [3]