100 Songs that name car brands

97. Swervedriver - "Son Of Mustang Ford"

96. Prince - "Little Red Corvette"

95. Cadillac (Bruce Springsteen, "Pink Cadillac"; Aretha Franklin, "Freeway Of Love")

this thread will end when the rappers show up...

94. The Clash - "Brand New Cadillac"

Then...no rappers

how about if brands can only be listed once, going forward?...

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93. Jaguar-the Who

92. Waiting on the Bus-ZZ Top ("Waiting on the Bus till I Cadillac")

91. "Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh
90. "Jaguar and Tunderbird"- Chuck Berry

89a. Honda - Tyvek
89b. Little Honda - Beach Boys

88. Leonard Cohen - "Democracy"
("It's coming from the silence on the dock of the back/The brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet")

dock of the bay

87. The Big Three Killed My Baby - White Stripes (car = Tucker)

86 - Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
85 - White Cortina - Nun Attax

pretty much all the good springsteen songs

84. High Fashion - The Family ("I'm ridin' in back of a Rolls Royce limo custom-painted plaid!")

86. My Struggle - Black Lips ("got a Nissan Truck, it'll take me away")

Make that 83.

weird that it hasn't been mentioned yet:

82. Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz

"Corvette" is not a brand, FYI.

81. King Crimson - Neal & Jack & Me (mentions a Studebaker coupé, probably no brand neither but why be so strict)

80. Stray Cats - Look At That Cadillac

(I was gonna say "Fun Fun Fun" and "Little Deuce Coupe" but those aren't brands are they?)

79. Bob Dylan--Romance In Durango (hehehe)

"pretty much all the good springsteen songs"

So he never mentions cars?

78. Maybelline - Chuck Berry (Cadillac & Ford)

77. Cool - The Time (I bought a '87 Cadillac Seville/Girl, I got a Mazeratti too)

Interesting side note: the song came out in '81. Where'd he get that '87 Caddie?

76. You're Gonna Get Yours - Public Enemy (Oldsmobile)

75. Welcome to the Machine - Pink Floyd (Jaguar)

First Springsteen mention that comes to mind is the "all-set Cobra Jet" in Open All Night. But that's just an engine. Probably in a late 60s Mustang(?), but he never actually says so. Born to Run is even less specific. You do get "skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets" in Thunder Road and "the bumper of a state trooper's Ford" in Darlington County. Buicks in My Hometown and Highway Patrolman, a Dodge in Jungleland, a Chevy in Racing In the Street.

74. Dodge Veg-O-Matic - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

73. Night Drive - Model 500 (Porsche)

72. Simon Says - Pharoahe Monch (Lexus, "Range")

71. Fountains Of Wayne-- '92 Subaru
70. Blondie--Rapture "Cadillacs, Lincolns too.."

69. Peach N' Cream - 112 (Bentley)

68. "Dear Dad," Chuck Berry
67. "Be Thankful for What You Got," William DeVaughn
66. "The Lady is a Tramp," Frank Sinatra

65. "Mercury Blues" Alan Jackson

64. "Guitars, Cadillacs" Dwight Yoakam

63 - Grey Cortina - Tom Robison Band (European cars are a lot harder to spot in song than US ones - and as for Japanese ones....)

62. Grateful Dead "Sugar Magnolias" (Willys)

61 -Reconnez Cherie - Wreckless Eric (..all those nights in my Zodiac)

60. A Number of Names - "Sharivari" ("cruising with his hot playmate in his porsche 928")

60. the who, "call me lightning" ("my xke is shining so brightly...") (xke is a kind of jaguar)

59. missy elliott - whatever the fuck song it is on under construction where she mentions her (lamborghini) murcielago

58. Commander Cody - "Hot Rod Lincoln"
57. Don McLean - "American Pie" (Chevy)

58. Johnny Cash - "One piece at a time" (Caddy)
59. Bob Seger - "Night Moves" (Chevy)

53. or so: "Sweet jane"- Velvet Underground ("Ridin' around in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim, those were different times...")

52. Oasis - "Supersonic" (Can I ride with you in your BMW)

51. Kool and the Gang - "Misled" (She's as heavy/as a Chevy)

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Richard Thompson, "MGB GT"

48. Cactus-"Brother Bill" ("they found him in the backseat of an old abandoned Ford")

47. Hot Chip - Playboy ("Drivin' in my Peugeot...")

46. Heatmiser - "Buick"
45. The Motels - "Into The Heartland" ("going to drive that Pontiac straight into the heartland")

44. Serge Gainsbourg - "Ford Mustang"

43. A.R.E. Weapons - Black Mercedes

a panda car is not a brand of car, ffs. It is a black and white police vehicle.

42. Calexico - "Ford Fairlane"
41. Bob Dylan - "From A Buick 6"
40. The Romancers - "She Took My Oldsmobile"
39. Bob Seger - "Makin' Thunderbirds"
38. Combustible Edison - "Cadillac"
37. Spirit - "Cadillac Cowboys"
36. Generation X - "Night Of The Cadillacs"
35. Tom Waits - "Eggs And Sausage (In A Cadillac With Susan Michelson)"
34. Pere Ubu - "Stolen Cadillac"
33. Tom Waits - "The Pontiac"

32. Boards Of Canada - "'84 Pontiac Dream"
31. Human League - "Toyota City"

30. ZZ Top-"Chevrolet"

29. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - "'91 Dodge Van"
28. Timbuk 3 - "'49 Plymouth"
27. Ramones - "Go Lil' Camaro Go"
26. Gene Vincent - "Pink Thunderbird"

25. Skee Lo, I Wish ("a '64 Impala")
24. Pavement, Passat Dream
23. Carter USM, Prince in a Pauper's Grave ("in Ford Capri orange, and Volkswagon yellow and gold")
22. Elton John, Made in England ("like a bluuuuuuee Cortina")
21. Lionel Ritchie, All Night Long ("party, macrame, Fiesta, forever")

ok scratch that last one :)

82. Janis; also, "...my friend's all drive Porsche's..."

20. The Kinks - C-A-D-I-L-L-A-C
19. Don Hendley - Boys of Summer (Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac)
18. Alice Cooper - I Like Girls (..driving in my Porsche and i'm headed to Grand Rapids)
17. Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant (VW)
16. Joe Walsh - "My Maseratti does 185..."
15. Jan & Dean - Little Old Lady from Pasadena (...brand new, shiny red Super Stock Dodge...)
14. Jan & Dean - Dead Man's Curve (...then I saw the Jag slide into the curve...)
13. Roger Waters - 4:33am (...She'd just seen my Green Lamborghini...)
12. T.Rex - Children of the Revolution (...I drive a Rolls Royce 'cos it's good for my voice...)

11. beck, "debra"
10. gucci crew II, "who's cadillac is that"

9. cadillac don & j money, "peant butter jelly" (a 2-fer if you count cadillac don)

8. B-52's - Love Shack (got me a Chrysler, it's as big as a whale)
7. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge)
6. Thee Milkshakes - Jaguar

5. "no money down" - chuck berry

As I was motorvatin'
Back in town
I saw a Cadillac sign
Sayin' "No Money Down"
So I eased on my brakes
And I pulled in the drive
Gunned my motor twice
Then I walked inside
Dealer came to me
Said "Trade in you Ford
And I'll put you in a car
That'll eat up the road
Just tell me what you want
And then sign on that line
And I'll have it brought down to you
In a hour's time"

I'm gonna get me a car
And I'll be headed on down the road
Then I won't have to worry
About that broken - down, ragged Ford

"Well Mister I want a yellow convertible
Four - door de Ville
With a Continental spare
And a wide chrome wheel
I want power steering
And power brakes
I want a powerful motor
With a jet off - take
I want air condition
I want automatic heat
And I want a full Murphy bed
In my back seat
I want short - wave radio
I want TV and a phone
You know I gotta talk to my baby
When I'm ridin' alone"

Yes I'm gonna get that car
And I'm gonna head on down the road
Yeah, then I won't have to worry
About that broken - down, ragged Ford

"I want four carburetors
And two straight exhausts
I'm burnin' aviation fuel
No matter what that cost
I want railroad air horns
And a military spot
And I want a five - year guarantee
On everything I got
I want ten - dollar deductible
I want twenty dollar notes
I want thirty thousand liability"
That's all she wrote

I got me a car
And I'm headed on down the road
No money down
I don't have to worry
About that broken - down, ragged Ford

It looks like Caddys are the most rock and roll car. You wouldn't know that from the Granny driving the Seville going 5 mph I was stuck behind this morning.

4. Steely Dan "Daddy Don't Live In That New York City No More" (Cadillac El Dorado)

3. Steely Dan "I Got the News" (Studebaker Lark)

I hate to name it as it's the worst song of all time, but:

2. American Life - Madonna
"I drive my mini cooper, And I'm feeling super-dooper"

*cuts off typing fingers*

I was disappointed to find out that "Barchetta" was a classification, rather than a model or a make.

That just leaves number one....

1. Ice Cube - Jackin' For Beats (Jack a fool for his beat and then I’m Audi)

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1a. neil young, "who's driving my car now"

jeep, datsun