it's a good city driving song, but not necessarily a good long haul/highway song

How do your criteria differ?

I'm not Lee, but I am the person who brought it up, so here I go, blathering away.

It's all fuzzy to my ears and eyes, but somehow super-Princey Prince sounded wrong when driving on a long flat road between nowhere and nowhere, surrounded by croplands and the occasional herd of cattle, with every now and then an actual my-hand-to-God tumbleweed tumbling across the highway. In that setting he sounded strangely harsh and foreign and even unpleasantly jangly, like the landscape was eating up all the grooves and rhythms and Princely goodness and spitting back a messy cud of noise.

Oddly, '60s soul and girl groups, also stuff that usually feels very city music to me, sounded fine to my ears on the 5 -- not a perfect match for their surroundings, but not mangled by them either. And an occasional Prince song on a mix, also okay. But not an entire Prince album.

Though it might work better in other landscapes -- I haven't yet listened to Prince in the desert, or winding through the crags and cliffs of the Sierra Nevada.

And this is all just in my experience, to my ears, possibly not applicable to anyone not me.

I'm guessing KR is not in Hell because he is not dead.(living without a heart should count, but, you know, I'm no Giles.) Maybe we liberals should stuff him till he bursts like the One Thin Wafer guy from Monty Python.

Hmm. I don't care, I think, where I'm driving for the music to be applicable. It's all about my mood, and that's pretty terrain-independent.

The first time I ever drove down south it was to New Orleans. Robert Johnson never sounded better to me.

I'm guessing KR is not in Hell because he is not dead.(living without a heart should count, but, you know, I'm no Giles.) Maybe we liberals should stuff him till he bursts like the One Thin Wafer guy from Monty Python.

Mr. Creasote. Sounds like a plan, or maybe we should smash his power center. Dick Cheney's too.

As a side note, how much do I love that Jon Stewart's Cheney impersonation is basically just to squack like The Penguin? Almost as much as I love his impersonation of Joe Lieberman, which is to talk like Droopy Dog.

And we can't forget the Bush "heh, heh, heh." I wonder if he'd smell a rat, Ku Klux Karl, if MoveOn started sending pizza and cheesecake. And greasy fries.

I just wish we could figure out a way to get Dick Cheney to take Rove hunting.

Be vewyvewy qwiet. I'm Wove hunting.

For those who care, the bug of the day was definitely a house centipede, and thanks to Theodosia's intel, I'm letting it live so it can kill other oogy bugs for me.

it's a good city driving song, but not necessarily a good long haul/highway song

How do your criteria differ?

a) Pretty much what JZ said
b) It really does depend on my mood as well
c) I think that for city driving I want music that makes me think more about the song, or that at least is a little bit more complex, so that I don't focus as much on the other drivers and how stupid they are being, while for long hauls I want "simpler" songs. That's not quite right, but it's the closest I can come without seriously deep thoughts or going on a road trip to figure it out.

He could tell him they were looking at his claim, Frank.