Not sure if this has been brought up before, I thought this might be fun. If you had to pick a theme song for your XJS what would it be? I find good music on the radio is the cherry on the top of a nice ride in a great car.

I would pick Eric Clapton's "Layla"... In fact I think I finally found a name for my car. "Layla" seems just right.

 

this should be fun

 

Warrant's "Cherry Pie"

Poison's "Don't Need Nothing But A Good Time"

AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie"

 

I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
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"But down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me
An old machine
For fifty-odd years
To keep it as new
Has been his dearest dream

I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant Red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
We'll fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime"

 

"My Happiness" by Powder Fingers, as in Eric Bana's documentary "Love the Beast"!

 

Sportsfreunde Stiller with 'Ein Kompliment' (a complement)

 

Depends on how she's running. When she's running sweetly, as she's been doing these days mostly, then perhaps Rachmaninov's sublime Ave Maria (partially as she's Lady Mary, after all....)
After the first few times she started smoking from the engine, I would probably have gone with Dies Irae from the Requiem Mass (Verdi's, of course). "Day of anger, day of mourning, when to ashes all is burning...."

 

The second one reminds me of a star wars theme

 

I wouldn't be surprised to hear John Williams was inspired by Verdi, among other composers.

 

Red Barchettta... Great pick and a great song. Abliet a bit cliche now the song is downright prophetic. One can reason the "Gleaming Alloy Air Car" is the Tesla of today and the reference to the "Turbo" or SNCF Turbo Mass Transit train is a nod to our current political leaders and there desire that we all have less personal autonomy and pile into bloated mass transit projects. Brilliant the way that song sets up that tension right from the beginning.

Other lyrics like "Shifting and Drifting", "Every Nerve aware", "Straining the limits of machine and man" All contrast our approaching dystopian future where there is no shifting or drifting, man is not in control of the vehicle, it drives itself and there is complete unawareness as the vehicle drives itself and the occupants stare at their "Smart" phones.

Personlly I enjoy this one every now and then..

 

ace of spades
or
silver machine
even though mine is red

 

Yeah well this one seems appropriate:

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Larry

 

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again '87

 

Larry, = chuck berry?

i seen Chuck Berry LIVE, mid summer 1956, my fav. is still Maybelline, i was 22yrs old!

and my car was a 1950 Oldsmobile Holiday hard top coupe, ROCKET 88.

next to Chuck my other was Ike Turner, and his song Rocket 88,(what else), and it was faster on acceleration than a NEW Jaguar XK120 roadster!

 

I'd have to go with either Jan & Dean, or the Beach Boys. I know their songs were about Muscle cars, but I love their music.
"Little old lady from Pasadena"

 

This week, as I'm tackling a differential rebuild and dropping the IRS, I was thinking of Elton John "The Bitch is Back"

 

Henry Mancini, the theme from Peter Gunn.

 

this Chuck Berry song comes to mind," No Particular Place To Go"

 

ok, had to do some diggin' but here's the Who ..grace, space, pace

Never saw Chuck Berry Ron (mores the pity) but did see these guys in the 60's when a totally unknown trio warmed up for them bringing the house down with their "Funk 49" yes - 'twas the James Gang's debut in the UK ... but I digress ...

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Larry