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- From: kmr4@po.CWRU.edu (Keith M. Ryan)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio
- Subject: Re: DCC -- JUST SAY NO! (was: The end of cassettes,
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:52:36 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- Message-ID: <kmr4.275.722184756@po.CWRU.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.005415.888@cmkrnl.com> jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:
-
- >> *rock*". I tend to agree with that.
- >
- >Off the topic for this thread, but: I don't think this is always true! Some
- >of the best "driving music" isn't rock by any stretch of the imagination.
- >Consider, for instance, the _Back to the Future_ theme by Alan Silvestri,
- >or any of several pieces from _Star Wars_, such as the T.I.E. Fighter
- >dogfight from the first film's ("Episode IV") soundtrack, or "The Asteroid
- >Field" from TESB... I wonder how many speeding tickets each has contributed
- >to?
-
- I find Led Zeppelin's _When the Levee Breaks_ to be a most violent
- song while driving. I find the need to bob one's head violently, stomping up
- and down on the gas, pound the steering wheel. The compulsion is ten times
- worse than in Bohemian Rhapsody. I remember one time, I found myself hitting
- the gas pedal so hard, I would floor it, completely release it, floor it...
- This was in my father's Broghm, and the constant jerking set the car in a
- violent rocking motion ( his car has the "not so nice" plush right, meaning
- the shocks are too bouncy ) I guess the rythm of the drum beats in the song
- was about the natural period for the shocks... Next thing I knew, the car's
- front shocks were bottoming out! This was going down I-295. The other
- drivers probably thought I was having a seizure. [ thank god I don't have
- the desire to pound the brake pedal....]
- As much as I love the song, I do NOT play it in the car anymore
- while driving.
-