Do you sing while driving?

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Either by yourself or with the radio? I punch the ceiling to the beat when I'm really excited. or bored.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 17 January 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah all the time, I tap the wheel to the beat with my right hand. It can be embarassing at traffic lights when someone is looking at you and you've been going a bit overboard.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aye, loud as well, I bang the steering wheel liek a drum.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

uh-huh.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I love it when someone sees you and you've been going a bit mad, I use it as an excuse to go a bit madder.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

A slick dude in a tricked-out pimpmobile once pulled up on one side of me and nodded along to the Shuggie Otis I was playing. That's the day I learnt I was baaaaaaaaaad.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Often.

When I ad aircooled volkswagens wit no stereos I had to sing at the top of my voice to keep myself entertained. Mainly folk song cos i know the words.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't drive, so singing when driving's out for me, although i like to sing while cooking.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 17 January 2003 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't sing, but I like to cook while driving.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

How N? I mean you'd need to have both hands on the wheel and also most cars don't have the facilities? What do you mean??????

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

on the freeway tonight i saw someone taking a gigantic bite out of a hamburger and doing a bongo solo with the other hand on the steering wheel - hats off!

― minna (minna), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

You wrap things (potatoes, poussins etc) up tightly in foil and secrete them throughout the engine. A long drive bakes them nicely.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds great, diesel flavoured potatoes. I hate eating while driving. Also drinking, there's a cupholder in the car but it's right under the radio and so the glass/bottle keeps turning the volume up.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

That's why you wrap them tightly. No diesel.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:22 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not really cooking while driving though N, your definition of doing things simultaneously is a bit too liberal, do you also consider yourself to be cooking while driving when you leave the oven on at home with potatoes inside and go cruising around glasgow looking for trouble?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

What is your definition of cooking? Do your hands have to be touching meat at all times?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

No but there has to be some need for you to get involved besides turning on cooking device and then turning off cooking device and taking up food. I mean I'd take singing while cooking to mean frying pan in hand and stirring device in the other, not sitting watching tv while the microwave is whirring away in another room, or the oven has come in.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I find the word "driving" in the question too limiting. Even when my mouth isn't open, I'm singing. I constantly have a song in my head and am subconsciously singing along with it at all times.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes! I have no radio and I go out of my gourd while driving. I talk to myself. I make up characters. I sing anything I can half remember. Once I cracked myself up by spontaneously singing Tears for Fears' Shout in some kind of Col Klink accent: "deez ah ze sings I can doo vissout, kom on, I am shpeaking to yooo, kom on." I am losing it, obv.

― g.cannon (gcannon), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't got a car and I can in fact sing. I made it all up. Happy?

People do do that thing with foil in engines though - I saw it on TV.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I apologise if I ruined your fun. There was that Simpsons with the engine fried eggs, I'd believe the engine cooked food was nice when I ate it and thought "that was nice". Not before.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not much of a sentence.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

can you cook, N?

[other than a couple of things] I cannot.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I always sing when I drive. I especially like it when a U2 song comes on when I'm about 6 hours into a 7 hour drive. I BECOME Bono.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

there is a cookbook devoted to cooking stuff in your engine while driving.

― chris (chris), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I never know how to answer that question, RJG. I mean, I can follow a recipe and it usually comes out OK. I'm not much of a 'hmmm what's in the fridge? - I'll knock up a savoy cabbage and camembert souffle' kind of person though. Also I am a lazy sod and intimidated by my own kitchen.

I can also sing OK sometimes and drive badly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm conserving my brain power for the exams. I can sing ok, cook ok, and drive quite well. (though I did fail my test last time around)

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't drive, I make up for this with my cooking.

― chris (chris), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

no but i do on the bus.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

my driving is erotic and I think my singing is the same way.

I've never actually tried following a recipe.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

But Anthony, what about your singing? HAW HAW HAW okay that was lame.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Dear god, Dan.

As I don't drive, I don't sing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still in new-driver mode, so I concentrate quite hard while driving and don't sing along, but I'm sure when I'm more used to it I'll sing.

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 17 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I sing whilst driving. I sing whilst walking. I even sing in my sleep. Well, not really in my sleep but I might as well. Does anyone else here dance whilst driving?

― Shaz (Shaz), Friday, 17 January 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

lotsa people on the highway do when in traffic. i've been known to.

what's especially embarrassing when singing in the car is when you're belting something out on a summer day and have forgotten that the window's down. i do enjoy making an idiot of myself, but not when people can hear me.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Sometimes, especially if REM is playing on the radio or I'm trying to amuse any passengers.

there is a cookbook devoted to cooking stuff in your engine while driving.

Manifold Destiny: The One! the Only! Guide to Cooking on Your Car Engine

― j.lu (j.lu), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

One night about 3am this past summer, i found myself with the windows down and Erasure's "Respect" on full volume, with me equally singing in full volume and doing some feminine hand gestures.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 January 2003 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

The other day I was on I-94 and really wailing along with the Swinging Blue Jeans' "Hippy Hippy Shake," which honestly requires a lot of body movement, and when I looked to my right a guy in a passing vehicle was laughing at me. Yes, I am a car singer. Other things I have enjoyed singing with recently: falsetto bits of Justin Timberlake "Cry Me a River," hilarious faux-sexy bad lyrics on the Church's "Terra Nova Cain" (samples below), Cracknell-but-not-Burgess on "I Was Born on Christmas Day," Emperor, the Descendents, Catching Up with Depeche Mode, trying to keep up with sped-up vocals on Max Tundra's "Lights," and that Human League album from 2001 where the pretty-obvious lyrics make it very easy to sing along even if you don't really know the words.

(Church examples as promised: "I'll show you how the ancients traveled [deep sly voice] they used to call this a Chevy" vs. "she put her foot down on the oscillation pedal -- she was a [deep sly voice] transdimensional speeder.")

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't sing, just play air guitar.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I sing and play air drums. You have to rememeber not to go for the kick bass though. I usually drive with my knees so I can do proper air drumming and then I don't accidentally hit gas/brake since my knees are already occupied!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, but I always lapse into doing harmonies with the singer instead of singing the melody

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Hah I do that, too! It's rally fun riding in cars with friends who sing because we spontaneously create four- or five-part harmonies for everything on the radio.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Church examples as promised: "I'll show you how the ancients traveled [deep sly voice] they used to call this a Chevy" vs. "she put her foot down on the oscillation pedal -- she was a [deep sly voice] transdimensional speeder."

Proof that they're Marc Bolan fans, number 43213431251.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

i mime using a remote control to work my non-existent in-car DVD player

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 17 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a rotten voice, so I try not to sing so as to bother people generally. This means I only sing quietly on the street or tube, with my walkman. When I'm alone in a car, with the volume up unreasonably loud, I sing very loudly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yep, I sing, I also play air drums and occasionally air guitar, but that's usually reserved for sitting in traffic on the freeway when I have at least one friend playing drums and singing as well. People see me all the time, some laugh, some sing along, some just stare like I have crabs crawling out of my ears. I don't care, I gotta get my groove on...

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 17 January 2003 19:47 (twenty-three years ago)

yes yes yes. i sing everywhere. i cannot be made to shut up. if i hear a song i like on the radio in my car, i turn it right up, and sing at the top of my voice. i do not care if my window is down and the pedestrians are pointing and laughing.

― di smith (lucylurex), Saturday, 18 January 2003 09:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I write entire songs in my head while driving. Once I came up with the greatest 15/4 bassline EVER while going to drop off/pick up some drycleaning. Then I went home and put a beat under it on the RS7o0o and haven't figured out what else to do with it at all.

Other times I just come up with fantastic lyrics for songs that will hopefully never see the light of day, like my magnum opus 'meteorologist girl' about unrequited love between a brain surgeon and his favorite weather woman, and 'running errands' about being a guy who runs errands for himself in the thrid person.

(this is FOR REALLY)

― Tom Millar (Millar), Saturday, 18 January 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

YES. the first little while after i started driving, if i was alone i used to put music on and sing to it out loud to keep myself calm and distract myself from the fact that i was alone in the car. i still sing in the car, but it's not because i'm scared.

― sand.y, Saturday, 18 January 2003 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I always sing in the car when alone, and frequently with people in the car as well. I always sing along with Sloan.

When I was in high school, my friend Eric would sing along with King Diamond in the car, except he always changed the words so they were incredibly inane. For example, he would sing the song "the invisible guests" as "the invisible desk", he could spontaneously re-invent the song so it was really about an invisible desk.

― webcrack (music=crack), Saturday, 18 January 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Singing in the car takes on a whole new dimension when you fit one of those 12 volt PA amps that they sell at Maplins,and hook it up to a PA horn under the bonnet.Just hang your chosen microphone from the sun visor,and let everyone know about your vocal talents.It's not as if anyone will complain,as you should have buggered off by the time they get round to finding the number for enviromental health in the phone book.This same system can be used to good effect on unsuspecting drunks that you may be passing.Becoming the voice of the Almighty and damning them to hell at will can be quite amusing,although too much vocal abuse will almost certainly result in a dented car.
And slightly off-topic,if you are one of those people who like to scare and bewilder the public through the use of car-and-stereo,my favorite is fitting a huge bass-box and suitable amp(1000watts is a nice round figure)into a non-descript old banger.Then park up in a multi-storey car park and stick Urban Shakedown/Mickey Finn "Some Justice" on the cd player.forward it on by 1min 23sec and pause the track.Then turn up the volume as far as it will go,and wait for a few passers-by.Then let it play,and watch their faces for the "WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT???" expression.If they have any kiddies in tow,at least one will cak it's pants and start to blub.

― Eugene Speed (Eugene Speed), Sunday, 19 January 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

i just drove about 150 k this pm as part of my dumbass job but it was redeemed by now having 3 of the car stereos speakers working and singing along very loudly to alex chiltern dusted in memphis at the top of my lungs with the windows down....

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Sunday, 19 January 2003 03:44 (twenty-three years ago)

oops i mean alex chilton

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Sunday, 19 January 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

seven years pass...

Yes, I do. Well, together with my husband. We're like Band of Bros, singing shitty songs and feeling great. lolz

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 08:52 (sixteen years ago)

i sing while i ride my bike

― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 09:59 (sixteen years ago)

one of the most awesome car trips i ever took was bumming a ride back over the cascades from spokane late at night with a middle aged black couple and singing along to oldies comps and stevie wonder albums the whole way back

― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 10:01 (sixteen years ago)

oldies = motown, more specifically

― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 10:01 (sixteen years ago)

Oh man that sounds fucking AWESOME.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 10:04 (sixteen years ago)

They could sang, too. I remember "Bird of Beauty" was playing as we went over the pass at midnight-ish.

I randomly ran into the dude later that summer when I was working at an expensive dinner/fundraiser w/ Michelle Obama that he attended.

― i don't care if big daddy kane signed your mommas tits (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 10:21 (sixteen years ago)

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