So my favorite songs are really my “favorite songs to listen to while I’m driving my car…dangerously fast,” because I used to drive an ambulance, and still have a weird addiction to driving too fast while playing good music real loud (which we did in the ambulance while the lights and sirens were going…what, you thought we just listened to the siren? That’d be crazy).
1. “Little Sister” – Queens of the Stone Age (2005)
2. “Glass Mountain Trust” – D’Angelo & Mark Ronson (2010)
3. “The Perfect Drug” – Nine Inch Nails (1999)
4. “The Seeker”- The Who (1970)
5. “King Midas in Reverse” – The Hollies (1967)
6. “My Shadow” – Jay Reatard (2009)
7. “Sabotage” – The Beastie Boys (1994)
8. “Suffer for Fashion” – Of Montreal (2006)
9. “The End of Medicine” – The New Pornographers (2003)
10. “Keep the Devil Off” – Big K.R.I.T. (2017)
12. “Nathan” – Azealia Banks (2012)
13. “Going Back To Cali” – Notorious B.I.G. (1997)
14. “Yeah” – Usher (2004)
15. “Too Many Devils” – The Bronx (2013)
16. “Stronger” – Kanye West (2017)
17. “Cat People” – Tina Turner (1983)
18. “Can’t Feel My Face” – The Weeknd (2015)
19. “Funk No. 49” – James Gang (1969)
20. “Contemporary Man” – Action Bronson (2013)
21. “Let Forever Be” – The Chemical Brothers (1999)
23. “Joga” – Bjork (1997)
24. “This is America” – Childish Gambino (2018)
25. “Bubblin“- Anderson .Paak (2018)
26. “The Chauffeur “- Duran Duran (1982)
27. “I Got 5 On It” – Luniz (1995)
28. “Manic Depression” – Jimi Hendrix (1967)
29. “LOVE” – Sleater-Kinney (2019)
31. “B.O.B.” – Outkast (2000)
32. “Give It All To Me” – Royal Headache (2013)
33. “Dragula” – Rob Zombie (1998)
34. “Modern Art – The Black Lips (2011)
35. “On and On – Curtis Harding (2017)
36. “X Gon’ Give It to Ya – DMX (2007)
38. “Hell” – Foo Fighters (2005)
39. “On A Plain” – Nirvana (1991)
40. “The Color Purple” – Freddie Gibbs (2013)
41. “It Was a Good Day (Remix)” – Ice Cube (1993)
42. “Taste” – Ty Segall (2019)
43. “Hustla” – The Roots (2010)
44. “Sugar” – Stevie Wonder (1970)
46. “Immigrant Song” – Led Zeppelin (1970)
47. “I” – Kendrick Lamar (2015)
48. “Bad Obsession” – Guns N’ Roses (1991)
49. “Take You Far Away” – Emitt Rhodes (1971)
50. “Oliver’s Army” – Elvis Costello (1982)
Lou Noble was born, lives, and will one day die in Los Angeles. He works as an on-set medic for film and television, and is the editor-in-chief of The Photographic Journal.
One of the regrets I have with my own list is not laying out the criteria for my picks–or at least the criteria that explains at least 35-40 of my 50 selections. But I can now basically sum it up by noting: What Lou Said.
True, I don’t live in L.A., I’ve never driven an ambulance, and I’m only a mild speedster (rarely drive the speed limit on the highway, but am hardly reckless about it), but yeah, a good portion of my list lives behind the wheel as it were.
Great angle for a list: 50 favorite songs while driving too fast.