Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - song suggestions for presentation

In October, I am giving a presentation to a group of Occupational Therapists about my work as a Driver Rehabilitation Specialist. In short, my job is to evaluate fitness for driving with individuals that have suffered disease or disability that may interfere with their ability to operate a motor vehicle. It is a fun and exciting job, and I'd like the presentation to be just as exciting (pehaps not as dangerous as we will not be riding around with people with dementia like I do on a daily basis! ;) ). SO....I thought I'd toss in blips of car-related songs throughout the talk...you know, like: Mustang Sally, or that one from the Doors (keep your eyes on the road yer hands on the wheel)...for example. What do y'all think? any ideas?

thanks!
Liz

if you are using a slideshow presentation, you could use random picture of cars in insane crash positions (wedged lengthways between buildings or trees) or even short videos?

Brendon

great idea! I will incorporate that....add the sizzle to the substance. I only have 90 minutes and that, amazingly, goes pretty fast, so I'll have to be careful with my time. Thanks!

Here are some ideas off the top of my head. Since you're just using snippets rather than whole songs, you can avoid the bits that might get you fired (i.e., some of the more objectionable lyrics of Little Red Corvette)

Cars - Gary Numan
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Pink Cadillac - Aretha
Thunder Road - Bruce
Mercedes Boy - Pebbles
Fire - Pointer Sisters / Springsteen
Runnin' on Empty - Jackson Browne
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Little Deuce Coupe - Beach Boys
Hot Rod Lincoln - Charlie Ryan (or Asleep at the Wheel's cover)
Route 66 - Nat "King" Cole
Meatloaf - Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Beatles - Drive My Car
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

Hope that sparks some ideas.

brilliant! I just knew that there were some audiofiles on this forum! thank you very much! wheels are spinning now (pun very much intended!).

Radar Love - Golden Earing

That song IS driving

Good call on Highway Star, timwat

Copperhead Road, by Steve Earle, has some choice auto-centric lyrics, but I'm not sure it would fit with your presentation. Megadeth's 502 might work, as well. Here's a nifty list(for no reason):

If I Had A Car - Electric Boys
Drive Me Home - The Evinrudes
On The Road Again - Willie Nelson
Dragula - Rob Zombie
I Wasn't Meant To Feel This/Asleep At The Wheel - Suicidal Tendencies
Getaway Car - Audioslave
Car Wash - Rose Royce
Car Thief - Beastie Boys
One Piece At A Time - Johnny Cash

Only other one that hasn't been named that I can think of is Bad Habit - Offspring, and that might get you in trouble without some editing....

thanks guys!
Karldar, wow! brings back memories...haven't thought about Suicidal Tendancies in a very long time....showing my age, eh?

Liz

Liz,

Great idea! I did a similar thing for a uni assignment on transport geography studying the development of transport systems and styles over time through the medium of music. I used Telegraph Road by Dire Straits throughout the presentation as the linking song as it really hit on the key theme of the presentation, but I don't know if it will fit with yours or not (I love Dire Straits - great music). Anyhoo, here are some others that may help:

Canned Heat - On The Road Again
The Beatles - Drive My Car
J. Geils Band - Hard Drivin Man
The Clash - Brand New Cadillac
Shannon Noll - Drive (you may not have heard this one - a relatively recent Aussie one)

Good luck, let us know how it goes (and what songs you use!).

Whose Cadillac is That: War
Drive: The Cars
I'm in Love with My Car: Queen
Hot Rod Lincoln: Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
Roll on Down the Highway: Bachman Turner Overdrive
Also, Four Wheel Drive and Free Wheelin: BTO
409: Beach Boys
Little Deuce Coupe: Beach Boys
Big Black Cadillac: Stray Cats
Autobahn: Kraftwerk
Born to Run: Springsteen

The Truck Song and Wallisville Road by Lyle Lovett.

Gear Jammer - George Thorogood And The Destroyers
Motorbreath - Metallica
Big Truck - Coal Chamber
Big Truck Driver - Mystikal

And, I can't believe we forgot this...I Can't Drive - Sammy Hagar

How about

"Out of Control" Hoobastank...I'm spinning outta control, outta control!

On second thoughts...maybe not!!

thanks, again; great ideas! i'll be working on it this weekend, so I'll let you know what makes the final presentation.

OK, so I am a dork! I had this great idea to infuse my presentation with snippets of songs about driving and got LOTS of great ideas and was so very excited to put it all together, only to find out in the 11th hour that I do not know how to do that!!! put song snippets in Power Point, that is....

so, thanks again for your great ideas, and one of these days, i'll figure out how to mess with it; hopefully before my next presentation... the presentation on Sunday went well without it (must be my charming personality!), but it would have been fun with the tunes!


signed,
the dork

Dork!


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For next time -

Under My Wheels, Steal That Car and Slick Black Limousine, all by Alice Cooper.

Glad this round went well. Congrats!

Dork!


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well said! :p

For next time -

Under My Wheels, Steal That Car and Slick Black Limousine, all by Alice Cooper.

Glad this round went well. Congrats!
Thanks! I have a nice list of songs to choose from, I will add these to it!

Here in my car, I feel safe at home