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Prior to selling my car (yay!) this weekend I grabbed all the CDs floating around in various compartments and lodged above the sun visors, etc. Since it’s a rather eclectic collection of music that I’ve become quite… accustomed to… over the past 2 years, I figured I’d post a quick mix of the best bits!

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1. Kasabian – Club Foot – I still don’t think anybody has created better music for high-speed, late-night, urban driving, but I’d love to be proven wrong!
2. Broken Social Scene – Lover’s Spit – This is better for nice and easy, chilled-out, rural driving. Either right at sunset, or anytime after 2 AM. Take your pick!
3. Andy Votel (w/ Jane Weaver) - Girl on a GoPed – More chillout music for quiet nights and quiet stars (so to speak). Are you noticing a theme?
4. Bob Dylan – Time Passes Slowly – I’m always telling people that “New Morning” is the best Dylan album but nobody believes me. In fact, I’m not even sure I believe myself!
5. Beachwood Sparks – Canyon Ride – I sort of prefer the later Beachwood Sparks records, but this is what was in the car, so it’s what I listened to in there, dammit!
6. Cracker & Leftover Salmon – Eurotrash Girl – Whenever I play this album for people they’re like, “WTF is that?” and/or “Can you give me a copy?”
7. R.E.M. – The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite – The copy of this album (“Automatic For The People”) that I found absolutely astounds me. I’m pretty sure it’s the very first CD I *ever* bought, and yet (unlike 90% of my other CDs) it’s completely unscratched! Just to give you some perspective on how old I am, when I bought this album (from Tower Records) it came in a frickin’ LONGBOX!
8. Velvet Underground – Rock and Roll – For some reason, this one *always* came on right as I was going through the tollbooth on the Richmond – San Rafael bridge.
9. Soundgarden – Superunknown – Well you can’t always drive at night, so it’s important to have some more energetic options too.
10. Fred Thomas – Wet as a Cloud – This album is perhaps *too* energetic in that it makes me want to drive faster than I should which occasionally got me into trouble. But let’s not dwell on the past!
11. Sloan – Deeper Than Beauty – This whole record (“Twice Removed”) is incredible. Penpals, I Hate My Generation, Coax Me, etc., etc… Even so, it’s not hard to single out the best track.
12. Mona Baptiste – Calypso Blues – This is from “London is the Place For Me, Vol. 2″ and apparently was written by Nat “King” Cole? In any case, I love the lines “Me pocket full of empty” and “Pads is where, the girl she ain’t.”
13. Scott Walker – Funeral Tango – I think one of the things I’ll miss most about not having a car is that I won’t have any place to belt out all my favorite Scott Walker tunes without feeling just a bit self-conscious. The best part of this one is the laughing between verses!