Turning the Volume Up

I'm in the car yesterday and Tina Turner singing Proud Mary comes on the radio. My immediate reaction was to turn the volume up all the way. There are others songs that affect me the same way. What do you want to hear at maximum volume?

Anything rollicking that I want to sing along with.� Lots of oldies.

This is totally different to what I'd turn the volume up for at home while chilling out. That'd be the mellower, deeper stuff that you just lay back and absorb. Especially in headphones.

There's a ton I'd turn up...� you mentioned oldies, I know I like to crank up "Gimme Some Lovin'" by Spencer Davis Group...� The opening guitar from "Money For Nothing" by Dire Straits gets turned up...� there have to be more, they're just not rolling to the front of my mind yet. :)

-- Pauley

I don't hate anything enough to blast it through my horrible speakers (anything above the halfway point drowns in rattles.)� But my high volume choices are along the same lines as Andrea's.� Oh, and I love blasting ABBA and the Bee Gees when I'm driving past college transit stope.� The looks you get are priceless. :-)

I'll do that with just about any song that has a really good mix. I do it to be surrounded by the song and feel more into it.

it happens with lots of Guster (Barrel of a Gun, Airport Song, Red Oyster Cult, and just about everything on Parachute), Ben Folds (Jackson Cannery, Don't Change Your Plans, Magic, Annie Waits, Gone), Fruvous (Down from Above, Love Set Fire, Gulf War Song), TMBG (End of the Tour, Ana Ng), most We're About 9 songs from "Engine," and a bunch of others... Aimee Mann's Ghost World just came on my iPod and I turned the volume way up and listened to it a couple of times in a row.

Any song by Hum must be played at full volume for adequate enjoyment.

Bargainville. You Will Go To The Moon. Those are PUTV albums for me. Also Indigo Girls.

When my sister and I are roadtripping we always put on Cool in the Backseat by The Nields when we get out on the highway. Pump that up. Its our theme song.

Ani is also good for pumping up, especially when you're really pissed.

or even when you are not really pissed

Let's Get it On. The opening riff requires maximum volume. Every time I play it, I crank the volume. Sometimes I turn it down after the opening.

I'm an both an 80's music fan and a sappy romantic music fan, so seeing this thread keeps earworming me with Eric Carmen:

o/` Turn the radio up for that sweet sound...
Hold me close, never let me go...
Keep this feeling alive,
Make me lose control...

When I look in your eyes, I go crazy...
Fever's high with the lights down low...
Take me over the edge,
Make me lose control... o/`

(this song�should, of course, also be cranked up. :-P)

-- Pauley

You'd crank up Eric Carmen?� Brave... very brave.

well, that song I would. I like it.

So nyeah. ;) *snicker*

-- Pauley

It just seems so wrong to turn up the volume on a song that tells you to turn up the volume.� ;-)

My choices would be "Brown Sugar" and Start Me Up" by the Rolling Stones, great beats, so much power, "Willie and the Hand Jive" Bo Diddley version (as if that would be played on the radio) "Love Struck Baby" by Stevie Ray Vaughan and "Papa was a Rolling Stone" by the Temptations, just to name a few

Aerosmith. Almost anything they do makes me turn up my volume. Once I even had a friend come by and turn up the volume on my headphones while I was sleeping. Scared the living daylights out of me! Esp. Walk on Water, Just Push Play, and Walk This Way. Also, if I hear a band that I like that I never usually hear on the radio, I will turn them up full blast!

Stevie Ray Vaughan. Most anything of his but particularly�If The House is Rockin' or Pride and Joy. George Thorogood's One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer.

And anything Big Band. What can I say,I'm a trumpet player, I like my wall of brass.

ok.. I've got really geeky "blast it at full capacity" music.. :

Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell album,
Blessid Union of Souls "Hey Leonardo![She likes me for me]
Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Empty"

and of course, from anyone who knows me.. anything off of Jeff Buckley's "Grace" album.

pretty much all music that i like, i want to hear at maximum volume. alas, that could also be because i have slight hearing problems... and could also be the cause of them, if i think about it :P

the best ones to hear at full volume:
Bif Naked, especially "lucky"
Radiohead, especially OK Computer
Great Big Sea. all of it.
Sarah Slean, "sweet ones"
Martina Sorbara, "claudia" and "eggs over easy"

Well, as far as turning up stuff on the radio, it's so rare for me to hear something I'm REALLY into get any exposure, so if it's anyone I know personally, I freak out and turn it up.� Same goes for TV (case in point: the Mitch and Mickey performance at the Oscars).� The only act that's getting airplay right now where I can turn up the radio is the THORNS... but I love turning up School of Fish's "Three Strange Days" for its amazing guitar riff... and anything if I'm in the mood to rock out... or folk out!

had to get a new car, and it has a 300 watt stereo system and a sub-woofer. i cannot wait to hear stevie wonder "superstition" full blast with the bass up. i also like jacking up the volume for jason mraz "curbside prophet" and bright eyes "falling out of love at this volume" among many others.

Most anything rockin' works for me as a PUTV song. I even made a couple of "Rockin' Mix" CDs full of PUTV songs.