Always take the music...and the weather with you...
OK we’re wading into contentious waters here but below is clearly THE best driving music to accompany your RentAClassic experience. However we haven’t made it easy on ourselves oh no, as the songs have to come from the same decade as the car. And thanks to our high fidelity UE Roll Bluetooth Speakers available for hire for $15 a day, you’ve got no excuse not to download them onto your SmartPhone or any digital media player, pair up and prove us right!
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Decades of THE Best Driving Music.....ever!
For the MG BGT & Alfa Spider S2….the best driving music from the 1970s
We’ve painted a sensational 70s soundscape for making groovy progress that would just about fit on a C120 cassette before it snapped. OK so the last 2 songs aren’t from that decade but how many cars have had songs written just for them?
Name | Artist |
Can’t Let Go | Earth, Wing & Fire |
Jumpin’ Jack Flash | The Rolling Stones |
Long Train Runnin’ | The Doobie Brothers |
Harvest for the World | The Isley Brothers |
Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing | Stevie Wonder |
Live and Let Die | Wings |
Sweet Home Alabama | Lynyrd Skynyrd |
Genevieve | Andrew Gold |
Sunny | Boney M |
Lowdown | Boz Scaggs |
What A Fool Believes | Doobie Brothers |
Life In The Fast Lane | The Eagles |
Baby Don’t Change Your Mind | Gladys Knight |
The Groove Line | Heatwave |
From East to West | Voyage |
September | Earth, Wind & Fire |
What Can I Say | Boz Scaggs |
Ride Like the Wind | Christopher Cross |
London Calling | The Clash |
Take The Long Way Home | Supertramp |
MGB GT | Richard Thompson |
MGB GT | Peter Tork |
And for everything else….the best driving music from the 2000’s
With iPods and iTunes and iDon’tKnowWhatElse it became a lot easier to take your favourate music anywhere….and with RentAClassic you can hire our Portable Speaker and beam yours via BlueTooth or plug in your SmartPhone using the audio jack cable to play…as long as it’s from the list below.
Name | Artist |
All Summer Long | Chris Rea |
In These Shoes | Kirsty McColl |
New Jazz City | New Jazz Hustlers |
American Dream | Jakarta |
Drive | Bic Runga |
Soak Up The Sun | Sheryl Crow |
Stolen Car(!) | Sting |
Universal Traveller | Air |
River Song | Bebel Gilberto |
She Saw The World | Blue Nile |
Vertigo | U2 |
That’s How Life Goes | Janitta |
Turn Around | Sola Rosa |
Magnificent | U2 |
Stepping Stone | Duffy |
You Sent Me Flying | Amy Winehouse |
Like A Beautiful Smile | Sting |
Flawless | George Michael |
Yahweh | U2 |
Twilight Stolen | Module |
Quartett | Orbit Expereince |
Cool Me Down | Black Seeds |
For the Saab 9-3, Spider S4 & Jag XK8…the best driving music from the 1990s
For wind in your hair, feeling not a care, and hopefully no seagulls lurking anywhere, this is the definitive feel good, fresh air top & foot down tracks from the 1990s that everyone should hear, and will do if you’ve got the roof down and volume loud enough.
Name | Artist |
Love Shack | B-52’s |
Driving | Everything But The Girl |
Circle Of One | Oleta Adams |
Sensitivity | Ralph Tresvant |
Where Do We Go From Here | Chris Rea |
Imagining America | Everything But The Girl |
Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You | Robert Palmer |
Am I the Same Girl | Swing Out Sister |
Notgonnachange | Swing Out Sister |
If I Ever Lose My Faith In You | Sting |
Parklife | Blur |
You Gotta Be | Des’ree |
Prayer for the Dying | Seal |
My Lover’s Box | Garbage |
Laid So Low | Tears For Fears |
Everything Changes | Iona |
Fastlove | George Michael |
Life’s a Miracle | Prefab Sprout |
Bitter Sweet Symphony | The Verve |
Auberge | Chris Rea |
Godsend | DC Talk |
Breather 2000 | Afterlife |