What CD is in you car stereo?

Right now, the CD I've been listening to while driving is a Mix CD entitled, "This...Is...Nostalgia!!!" with an image of Gerard Butler in 300 on the cover. It contains songs I've listened to in the car with frienRAB over the past six years or so, and definitely recalls some great times. There is, naturally a bit of cheese on the mix (Case in point: Joey Scarbury's "Believe It Or Not", the theme from The Greatest American Hero) but it's probably the best "feel-good" mix I've had in my car for ages.

When I'm at home, I prefer listening to full albums, but most of the places I drive, the best I can do is get in three or four songs before reaching my destination.
 
Some are just mixtapes, some are albums with random songs at the end to fill up space. Latest one was a Muse mixtape, since I was in such a Muse-y mood from their concert.
 
i know you guys will kill me for this...

The Fray's new album has been in my (mom's) car for the past week. i would put in Eminems Recovery, but she absolutely hates eminem, and i dont feel like getting grounded again because of my musical opinions.
 
In one of the cars, London Calling.

In the other, Kid A.

London Calling is good when you're on the road, Kid A - not so much.
 
Next to an auxiliary cable port in your car, a cassette player is the easiest way to connect an MP3 player to a car stereo. A blank cassette with a cable and standard 1/4" jack that you plug into the headphone port on a CD player or MP3 player. All the other ways to connect an MP3 player to your car that I"ve seen have been those iTrip things where you hijack a dead radio station, but it gets really fussy if you're driving underneath cables and wires. I remeraber when my mom and I got an diskman for the car and could now listen to CD's when we drove to places. It was so cool because we could easily skip over songs, and play all those CD's we had been buying.
 
Lately, it has been Smashing Pumpkins' Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, first disc (I'm blanking on what the names of the discs are... the one with Zero, etc).

Found it in the case for another album, which is amusing, because I didn't have any intention of bringing it or its counterpart out here with me when I moved... three years ago now.

Glad I did though. Good surprise. I have no idea if the second disc found its way into my stuff though. I suppose it's possible...
 
I burned my Beginner's Guide to Opeth for my car this week. Sadly I had to remove their cover of the AiC song "Would?" because I was over the 80 minute limit by 1 minute and 6 seconRAB.
 
I used to title all my mixes Party Mix XX (two digit year) regardless of their contents.

I've been listening to Daft Punk - Alive 2007 and some Banco de Gaia - Maya in my automobile lately.
 
Car stereos aren't particularly expensive and most new ones have USB slots. 20 bucks you can get a 16 gig flash drive on Amazon, and I find you can often hold 200+ albums of songs(unless you're one of those audiophile Nazi folk who neeRAB everything in FLAC, even then you could probably hold at least 150 I'm guessing. Then again, I don't think many will play FLAC but eh...).

That's what I used to do before I misplaced my flash drive.
 
YES! Not the only one who notices the brilliance! Honestly, The Chrono Cross soundtrack musically is one of the greatest most eclectic albums I ever heard, if it can be considered one. Including a very strange blend of Celtic, classical, tribal, tropical(Yasunori has this strange ability to make really really dark arabient carribean music somehow), and countless other genres music very perfectly. Solid, extremely original work for a videogame soundtrack.

Any rate, since my car plays data CRAB and it scratches up commercial CD's too much, I have a data CD. I believe it's the CD with the whole of the Idiot Flesh, and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum discographies at the moment.

Think it's on Idiot Flesh's "Nothing Show" album. Can't remeraber which song I was on, though.
 
Ooh, good thread.

.Jerry Cantrell - Boggy Depot
.Porcupine Tree - Warsawa
.Praxis - Transmutation
.Sam Cooke - Greatest Hits

... And two more I can't remeraber.
 
The Sam Cooke Portrait Of A Legend compilation is one of my favorite driving albums. Other albums rarely far from my car stereo include Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, AC/DC's Highway To Hell and Back In Black (AC/DC are just great driving music, period), Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, and The Clash's London Calling
 
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