** Official June Chat Thread: The Flush **

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Anyways, I'm looking for a play list for this drive, so post like a list of 12-15 songs that you think would be good for making a long drive and that work well together in a play list.


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Ryan,

I have a bunch of killer driving CD's. I'll see if I can put my hands on them or if not poke through my hard drive and come up with a list. But first a couple killer suggestions (Okay, 1 killer suggestion, and 1 suggestion that pretty amusing the first couple times through but gets kinda old).

1 - I've made at least a couple CD's of TV and Movie Theme Songs. This can be a lot of fun if you pick the right themes - Like The A-Team and Star Trek and Goldfinger. Doesn't have huge, huge replay value but fun, particularly with friends, signing along.

2 - Google Old Time Radio or OTR. Wikipedia also have some good info/links. From the 30's to 50's, radio hosted a huge variety of drama, comedy and variety shows. This stuff was the television of it's day and there's prolly as much of this material as there are tv shows. If you're familiar with books on tape it's kinda like that, but way, way better. The production values are often very, very high with full casts, excellent sound fx and often big time movie stars of the day.

A lot of it is obviously really dated, but some of it holds up really, really well. Particularly if you have any interest in old movies or television. This stuff absolutely eats up the miles! A handfull of episodes and suddently you're through two or three hours of driving without even noticing it. If you're driving alone, at night, put on some of the spookier stuff and no worries about falling asleep at the wheel.

I personally only go for the dramas (I find most of the comedies really dated YMMV). Most of this material is in the public domain, btw, so you don't even have to feel guilty about downloading it (and I can post links!)

Here are some suggestions (again Google is your friend):

X Minus One and Dimension X These two series dramatised science fiction stories from Astounding Science Fiction and Galaxy Magazine. If you love golden age science fiction, this series is for you.

This [censored] is AMAZING!!! If the names Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov, Williamson, Pohl, Leiber and Sheckley mean anything to you, these series will blow you away.

Get them here:

http://www.archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

Some of my favorite episodes "A Pail of Air" (Leiber), "A Gun for Dinosaur" (L. Sprague DeCamp), The Cave of Night, "Lulungamena" (Gordon R. Dickson - A Dorsai! story).


Suspense is a thriller anthology. This was the 24 or Lost of it's day. Awesome production values with huge, huge stars. Perhaps most famous for its dramatisation of "Sorry Wrong Number".

Some episodes are horror, mystery, crime, drama, SUSPENCE!

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/SUSPENSE

Gunsmoke is one of the great western dramas that later made the jump to television and ran forever. Great writing, acting, production values. If you like westerns in the least, you will love Gunsmoke.

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_Certified_Gunsmoke



The 70's saw a bit of a rivival in radio drama and CBS Radio Mystery Theatre was at the forefront. This is a crime/horror/mystery/drama/science fiction series similar to Suspense. However where most golden age shows were a half hour CBSRMT was an hour (minus commercials in both cases, though many golden age shows include original commercials which can be pretty cool). 1,399 original episodes broadcast over 8 years ('74-'82).

Not public domain so I can't give you a link...



There's THOUSANDS of series, these should get you started (best of the best and all that) but I'll mention one more. My wife's favorite series is:

Your's truly, Johnny Dollar "The man with the action packed expense account". This is essentially a noir(ish not exactly Otto Preminger level of darkness) mystery series about an insurance investigator. Very, very good.

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/OTRR_..._Johnny_Dollar


Oh, one more, one of my personal favorites:

The Lives of Harry Lime is a PREQUEL to The Third Man, the classic Orson Welles movie. This stars Orson Welles as the title character. This is pretty noir, with a decided anti-hero for a hero.

Get it here:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheLivesOfHarryLime


Also: The Adventures of Superman (Huge series, thousands of episodes!), The Shadow, Dragnet, Nero Wolfe, I Was A Communist For The FBI, Have Gun Will Travel, The Lone Ranger.


Seriously, man, this [censored] will change your driving life!!!!