What's the right music to listen to while driving to a high power launch?

[Buckeyegator]

When I go to a launch, I want to get there fast. What makes me drive fast is..........................................Foo Fighters!!!
I normally listen to a lot of YES, Floyd, Zepp, and Older Genesis because I am a product of the 60's and 70's, but Foo Fighters downright wakes my butt up.

Terry

[Dr. Quigley]

I think something to suggest you're a dangerous lunatic who should not be let within 50 miles of any high-power experimental rocket launch is in order. Maybe some heavy metal rendition of neutron strikes of a Geiger-Muller tube from a radiaton source in the trunk sent through a glass of beer as a resistor and played via plasma speaker resting precariously on your dash would do perfectly at this task.

On the other hand, if you're just an average lunatic, maybe the theme song to the Wiggles.

[closet astronaut]

I think something to suggest you're a dangerous lunatic who should not be let within 50 miles of any high-power experimental rocket launch is in order. Maybe some heavy metal rendition of neutron strikes of a Geiger-Muller tube from a radiaton source in the trunk sent through a glass of beer as a resistor and played via plasma speaker resting precariously on your dash would do perfectly at this task.

On the other hand, if you're just an average lunatic, maybe the theme song to the Wiggles.

[J Blatz]

Alright. Some stuff I dig when I am on the way to fly:

Anything by the Minutemen, esp. classic album "Double Nickles on the Dime". Though not on this CD, my favorite lyric is "Here comes the line...I'm loaded with rocket fuel."

Dead Moon out of Portland, OR.

Social Distortion, 90's era.

Cake.

Neil Young and Crazy Horse.

Yes, I can be odd.

[caveduck]

Love all these responses, huge variety!!

I'm in the eclectic camp too...
Beethoven 5th symphony...also the 9th
Blue Oyster Cult early/middle stuff
Rush 2112 "we have assumed control"
Muddy Waters
Bo Diddley
piano rags - Joplin and others
B-52's
Led Zep, Pink Floyd, AC/DC for blistering the paint
Clash / Cars
Foo Fighters
& let us not forget the classic anthem - Elton John's "Rocket Man"

[KenRico]

Love all these responses, huge variety!!

I'm in the eclectic camp too...
Beethoven 5th symphony...also the 9th
Blue Oyster Cult early/middle stuff
Rush 2112 "we have assumed control"
Muddy Waters
Bo Diddley
piano rags - Joplin and others
B-52's
Led Zep, Pink Floyd, AC/DC for blistering the paint
Clash / Cars
Foo Fighters
& let us not forget the classic anthem - Elton John's "Rocket Man"

2nd that on the 2112 !

Kenny

[The Rocket Kid]

+2 on the 2112

[gdiscenza]

Much of what is listed above, plus Tom Lehrer, "Wierd Al" Yankovic, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Charlie Daniels Band.

Oh, and David Bowie a.k.a. Ziggy Stardust!

G.D.

[cwbullet]

You can't go wrong with CDB.

[McKailas Dad]

How about bustin out some old Van Halen? Light em up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSbqKCEX7s

[evil ed]

Gotta be stuff from Meat Loaf!
"Bat Out of Hell" is great to crank up and pull into a launch to!

[AndyC]

You can't beat RUSH!

If you need something different, this will get the blood flowing:

[JPVegh]

Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul, Salina, Cher....

[Eric1]

Three of these are doable, Non of these are in my playlists.

[The Rocket Kid]

+1 on the ac/dc
+1 on the van halen
+ 10 on the weird Al
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
Think I'm just too white and nerdy
First in my class here at narcon
Got skills I'm a champion at DD (dual deploy)
The LCO is my favorite M.C.
I'll take your fourty to buy some acpc
My fins are never split quite to the contrary
You'll find they are quite singulary
All my estes are cherry
Mark Canepa in my library
My TRF page is all totally pimped out
Got people begging for my top EX recipes
you know thrust to weight ratio to 10 whole places
Ain't got no vinyl but I don't fly naked
I order all my reloads with ejection charges
I'm a wiz at roc-sim I could play for days
once you see my sweet paint job you'll stay amazed
My skidmark will set the place ablaze
Theres no pro 150 I haven't flown
At open rocket well I'm number one
Do barowman equations just for fun
Ain't gota thor but I got a wildman
elton john's rocket man is my favorite theme song
I could sure kick your butt at a game of can sat
I'll ace any L2 quiz you bring on
I'm fluent in metric as well as inches
heres the part I launch on
I've been browsein inspectin
vintage estes catalogs you know I collect them
the ignitors in my range box you know I must protect them
my ergonomic dremel never leaves me bored
shopin at ldrs for some deals from the wildman
I edit The Rocketry Forum
I memorize intructions really well
I can write them for you right now and have you rotflol
I got a buisiness doin' custom centering rings
My friends need some G10 who do they call
I do plywood for them all
even made a rocket for my dog
Yo I got my self a friuty chute
They were having a sale down at Jacks
spend my nights with a tube of epoxy
Hope no one see me get sticky
I'm nerdy in the extreme
And whiter than white lightning
I was in the nar and tripoli and even the tarc team
The only question I ever thought was hard
Is can we make that motor fit?
Spend every weekend at BALLS
Even got my name on my dog barf
Cause I'm so white and nerdy YO!

[Enigma]

Mariah Carey, Paula Abdul, Salina, Cher....

That's when your rockets blow up; is when you listen to these ?

[paul.nortness]

Mini Kiss

[mhanna]

Sound track to Apollo 13, puts me in the right mode and has some good "oldies". (Besides, when else can I listen to it?)

[RocketT.Coyote]

Venus & Mars Rock Show/Jet--Paul McCartney & Wings "Wings Over America"

Spaceman--Harry Nilsson

Yeager and The F-104--Bill Conti, The Right Stuff Soundtrack

[Zeus-cat]

Lawrence Welk... A one-ah and a two-ah

[dlb]

++1 on Rush 2112

how about
Sytx = "Come sail away"
Blues Image = "Ride Captian Ride"
Aurther Brown = "Fanfare Prelude, Fire"
Alice Copper = "Killer"
Savoy Brown = "Hell Bounds Train"
ELP = "Fanfare for the Command Man"
it's a long list!

[JPVegh]

++1 on Rush 2112

how about
Sytx = "Come sail away"
Blues Image = "Ride Captian Ride"
Aurther Brown = "Fanfare Prelude, Fire"
Alice Copper = "Killer"
Savoy Brown = "Hell Bounds Train"
ELP = "Fanfare for the Command Man"
it's a long list!

I always play 2112 if I find it on a Juke Box, I like getting my moneys worth.

[chadrog]

Mini Kiss

Saw them a few years back - what a hoot!

I listen to the same things as any other day, nothing special for launch day.

Queensrych
Tool
Foo Fighters (who ROCKED Milwaukee last week!)
Puscifer
Rage
System
The list goes on and on...

[BlueCollar Rocketeer]

Django Reinhardt is great driving music or for Saturday mornings in the fabrication shop.

Next choice is Janis Joplin. She has such depth and soul.

[Peartree]

Gotta be stuff from Meat Loaf!
"Bat Out of Hell" is great to crank up and pull into a launch to!

Crazy Train

[cwbullet]

You guys are making sales on iTunes. Thanks for all the suggestions.

[Rokitman88]

I usually listen to talk radio going to a launch, you know, to keep my mind sharp, but going home is when I put on the music! Pink Floyd's Division Bell to relax with followed by Stevie Nick!

[LW Bercini]

Interesting...

So what is the best music for driving to an LPR launch?

And for that matter, what is the best music for going to the grocery store?

Exactly how *do* you pronounce perchlorate?

And what about Naomi?

[GDJ]

Interesting...

So what is the best music for driving to an LPR launch?

And for that matter, what is the best music for going to the grocery store?

Exactly how *do* you pronounce perchlorate?

And what about Naomi?

Same music.

pEr-clOOR-ATE.

As far as Naomi.....what?

[LW Bercini]

Same music.

Yeah...precisely my point.

pEr-clOOR-ATE.

A reference to another post that many of the participants here regarded as unworthy of a serious response

As far as Naomi.....what?

Do a search for "Love of Chair" - "...and what about Naomi?" was always the final question posed at the end of every episode.