Songs/Albums You Were Listening To As You Were Being Pulled Over

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It's a terrible feeling to be pulled over by the police. Name albums or songs you were listening to as you saw blue lights in your rear-view mirror (citation optional).

1. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Speeding ticket)
2. Blood Brothers - "Ambulance vs. Ambulance" (Traffic Stop)
3. Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over the Sea (Headlight Out - Warning)

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Monday, 12 December 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

what a great topic!!!

ahhhhhhh, i've been pulled over once for something i should've never done:

DUI - Black Eyed Peas "Beyond the Front"

also, the fact that they suck now doesn't make me want to listen to them any more.

― Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wu-Tang - Protect Ya Neck

three years ago

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

Homogenic - BjÃ¶rk

March, 2005. My friend stopped the car to roll a joint and "Bachelorette" was blasting through the speakers. Two policemen approached us and handcuffed me. When they went through my pockets, they found the $500 I had there. They took them and, after sexually harrassing me, went away.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

No radio in the beat up old truck I had in 92, but I got pulled over for speeding while rapping "Bring the Noise" to myself.

"Bring the Noise" could bring out the leadfoot in anyone, though, I figure.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

last time was Wolf Parade. a month ago. almost got busted for a DUI - passed by the skin of my teeth.

everytime before that it seems I was deep into Fresh Air or some other NPR show... no dui threat those times though

― martin tremblay (geekears), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

wow. wicked topic.

i was having a car dancing with my friends and speeding to no doubt's "hella good" the last time i got pulled over.

― reo, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Rolling Stones: Can't You Hear Me Knocking

Great topic.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

If I see red & blue lights I automatically switch it over to the classical station. Just chill the whole thing out.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.houstonpress.com/issues/2005-07-14/news/news.html

The Queen song playing in that story, was, ironically, "Don't Stop Me Now." Obviously I didn't know the title or I would have put it in the story.

― novamax (novamax), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

Don't recall the last few times, but the first was The Call, 'The Walls Came Down'. Spring 1983, S. Main St. south of I-277 near Akron, OH. School zone/speed trap.

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember getting pulled over to any soundtrack, but I have had a car wreck while listening to X's "We're Desperate" and Lou Reed's "Berlin".

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

max romeo - war ina babylon

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, it was KRS One. I only wish it had been "Sound of Da Police."

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

I honestly have no f*#king idea.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

Never been pulled over, but wrecked a car during "White" by Live.

― Cheek0 (Cheek0), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago)

What's the worst speeding ticket everyone's gotten?

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

I only ask because my manager at work was once pulled over going 150 in either a 55 or 65.

― Lee is Free (Lee is Free), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

I've never had a wreck, and I don't recall what I was listening to when I have gotten pulled over.

But I have always wondered: wouldn't it be weird if you were in a horrible wreck but somehow the radio kept playing?

So, like, you're driving and singing along with, say, "Something Tells Me I'm Into Something Good" or "Galang" or "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)" or "White Christmas," and then you're in a ditch, legs broken, head bleeding, with no sounds but the spinning wheels and that song.

Can that happen? Or does God shut off the radio because it'd be inappropriate?

I think weird things.

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 05:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think the last time I got pulled over (maybe 6 or more years ago — I haven't had a car in some time) I was listening to some sick gabber mixtape by some Aussie DJ. Doing 86 MPH in a 55 MPH zone just doesn't fly with the NY state po-po, even at ~2 AM.

― Josh Witkowski (braineater), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

I crashed a van once to the strains of that awful mid-90s Rusted Root single.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been pulled over. Then again, I only had a license for one of my 32 years. But I was riding with a friend who got pulled over in Long Beach for running a red light while immensely enjoying New Radicals' "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

when i was fourteen and was arrested for the first time.. the song i had bouncing around my head was a track from the boredoms 'super roots 6'.. i always found that strange it was some boredoms song.. but that track always reminds me of that now..

― the massster, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Similar, though not totally on topic, memory: I was driving around copies of the magazine on this weird two-lane rural road, which meant about 45 minutes just straight through the country. I had on Merzbow's 3-6-9, not too loud or anything, I could still definitely hear the car noise and road. But the cacophony of it meant that I didn't realize an ambulance, with sirens wailing, had been right behind me until it veered into the passing lane and fired past me. I had just subconsciously assumed that the sirens were part of the album; they meshed perfectly and were weirdly beautiful and grounding in the context.

(Some other thread, I'll talk about an accidental dose of mushrooms and driving a couple hours in a 110° car listening to Forcefield's Lord of the Rings Modulator and how it was one of the best experiences of my life).

― js (honestengine), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

The only accident I've ever been at fault for was caused by my switching CDs from "Wu Tang Forever" disc 2 to DJ Qbert's "Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Music" - I rolled into a conversion van at four miles an hour and crumpled my hood.

― Litwack, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

'Taking Over' by Sizzla - caught speeding (on the way to the pub). got 3 points on my license and £180 fine - for doing 45mph in a 30mph stretch of dual carriageway. bastards.

― d90 (d90), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

But this night he banked that curve just a little too hard and that 442 went airborne,
Hit a telephone pole and split in two, Bobby's skull was split right in two,
And my girl was pinned in her seat, partially embedded in the dashboard
And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in the night were her screams.
And the sound of the wheel still spinning.

In a little while the ambulance came and the sound of its siren mixed with the screaming girl and the spinning wheel.

But when the story was told the next day at the graduation ceremony,
Everyone said that when the ambulance came
The paramedics could hear "Free Bird" still playing on the stereo.

You know it's a very long song.

― jonviachicago, Tuesday, 13 December 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

primus - tommy the cat

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I got pulled over at 2:30 AM while listening to Neko Case and Carl Newman doing the Everly Brothers' Bowling Green. Thankfully the cop let me off with a warning.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

First accident (friend driving) - "Invincible" by Pat Benatar (no lie)
First accident (me driving) - "This Is Not America" - Bowie & Metheny
First time pulled over - "Pink Orange Red" - Cocteau Twins

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Routine Check by The Mitchell Brothers...fortunatelly it was only a routine check.
and just yesterday autechre - LP5 very loudly, which i had to turn off in order not to provoke the policeman.

― karl76 (karl76), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I also got pulled over by a State Trooper in Mississippi with NJ plates on my car while driving 80MPH to Nirvana's Scentless Apprentice.

I was envisioning all sorts of Deliverance-type scenarios, and to make matters worse, I couldn't understand a word he was saying, his accent was so thick. So I kept saying "what?" to his questions, which prompted a breathalyzer test. Once I passed, he was actually kind of nice.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I still have my copy of New Order's Power, Corruption, and Lies with little streaks of blood on it, from my first car crash in 1983. I wasn't listening to it, though. I have been pulled over, but never while listening to anything memorable.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

speeding as a teen:
1st: NPR
2nd: sibelius' third
3rd: stevie ray vaughn's "tightrope"
4th: soul coughing's ruby vroom

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

driving over laurel canyon, age 18:
cocteau twins - "heaven or las vegas"

― bijoux (bijoux), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus and Mary Chain's remix of the Sugarcubes' "Birthday"

I think that wins.

― sympathizer (sympathizer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in the night were her screams.
And the sound of the wheel still spinning.

Wow! Call me prescient!

― Justin Shumaker (shueytexas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

i got pulled over when I was riding with an older kid when i was fourteen or so. i remember distinctly that we were listening to "Trans-Europe Express," because it was the first time I heard it and i couldn't stop laughing. of course, he switched it to 94.1 classical as soon as the cop walked up.

then last week i was upstate riding with a friend and and we were somewhere in the middle of The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.archive.org/download/baitcar_com_the_prayer_high/baitcar_com_the_prayer_high.wmv
http://www.archive.org/download/baitcar_com_oh_no_high/baitcar_com_oh_no_high.wmv

― dissonauts (capn. entropy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

Procol Harum "A Christmas Camel" (1967, first album), in approx. 1978. I didn't want to turn it down to see what the cop has to say.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Thursday, 15 December 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

And for the next twenty minutes the only sound in the night were her screams.
And the sound of the wheel still spinning.

Wow! Call me prescient!

I think the reference was actually to a Drive-By Truckers song.

I sped around a corner to "Take Me Out" right around that breakdown a couple of summers ago and definitely got a ticket.

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 15 December 2005 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

oh and when i got into my big accident last january my ipod was playing simon and garfunkel - benedictus

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

"Narakaloka" by the Mountain Goats

― Dave Gutowski (largeheartedboy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

lauryn hill - lost ones

― ✖, Thursday, 1 April 2021 06:02 (four years ago)

any excuse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRIOueTNUo
Kcee ft. Wizkid • Pull Over

― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 1 April 2021 06:41 (four years ago)

Exile on Main Street, “Rip This Joint” I believe

― assert (MatthewK), Thursday, 1 April 2021 07:42 (four years ago)

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