Most Hard-Driving Music?

[sbrothy]

Ah these sweet ballads:

 

[sbrothy]

 

[robphy]

Here's another one from Japan

(2019) おとぼけビ～バ～Otoboke Beaver - Don't Light My Fire ハートに火をつけたならばちゃんと消して帰って [Official Music Video]

OTOBOKE BEAVER - "I Checked Your Cellphone" Live 16,06,2023 at a SOLD-OUT Kanayama Brazil Coffee.

(see also
&t=15m40s I Checked Your Cellphone - Otoboke Beaver: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music) ;
&t=2m20s Don't Light My Fire - Otoboke Beaver: Tiny Desk Concert (NPR Music)
)
https://www.youtube.com/@otobokebeaver22/videos

 

[symbolipoint]

Look for other versions if you want, but the meaning of the subject title fits for "hard driving".

"Wipe-Out", The Surfaris

 

[Hornbein]

Here's some classier intermittently hard driving music.



Imagine you're riding in a carriage trying to escape a gang of highwaymen. In such situations it could be prudent to equip the footman with a blunderbuss.

By the way I think it is silly to have the chorus sit there silently for three movements. Western classical music is full of such weird traditions. Even kabuki theater is more flexible.

On second thought it makes more sense than having them sit backstage for those three movements. So maybe it isn't silly.

 

[sbrothy]

Tried to find one specific live performance with "In Flames" where they have a giant Swedish flag in the background but I can't remember the track name even though I've had the video on my HDD for years. It's maybe not full hardcore but it has the quality that the vocals are decipherable.

 

[sbrothy]

From "classical" music, the first thing that comes to my mind is Hekla by the Icelandic composer Jón Leifs, which is intended to depict an eruption of the volcano with that name.

Well, I'm not sure about hard-driving but intense? Absolutely.

 

[sbrothy]

And since I'm talking classical I'm surprised noone mentioned Peer Gynt's In the Hall of the Mountain King:



The reason I picked this version is (aside from it being pretty short) because the soundtrack from this somewhat weird movie is a nervy (but strangely good) collection of eerie horror-esque classical pieces.

 

[BWV]

Bartok wrote some hard-driving classical music

 

[BWV]

But here is probably the least hard driving great piece of classical music

 

[sbrothy]

But here is probably the least hard driving great piece of classical music

I like how we managed to completely corrupt the OPs intentions with this thread!

 

[Hornbein]

European classical seldom has such a heavy beat. Well, a minuet IS dance music.

 

[difalcojr]

haven't seen any blues here yet.

 

[difalcojr]

old punk was pretty drivin'

 

[difalcojr]

 

[difalcojr]

well, this is what happens when you take a day off from what you are supposed to be doing, and listen to music online. This thread has me thinking, and here's 2 very popular, hard drivin' songs from the late '60s, when rock and blues music were both starting to really flourish, when big record companies began to sign and record a lot of their music. First time for blues artists in U.S. then.

 

[difalcojr]

or, how about blues' first-cousin, gospel, for hard driving:

 

[difalcojr]

Santana's early albums had lots of hard driving songs. "Soul Sacrifice" from the 1st album, or this one from the second album. They were the hottest band for some time, driving music, rock with Latin beat and bongo and conga along with drums.

 

[BWV]

Some more blues

 

[difalcojr]

slow, hard drivin', had never heard R.L. Burnside, good one. Here's rock again, one that sounds pretty hard driving to me, like a miner in a hard rock mine advancing a drift.

 

[BWV]

Black metal

 

[difalcojr]

well, that's pretty awful sounding stuff, but it is hard driving, all right. Superhard driving. Wouldn't consider those songs, but might if any of them could sing at all. :) Music, still. Gotta have a beat, though, I think, to make your body move to be considered as hard drivin'. Move you back and forth, like @Hornbein suggested, or your head nodding up and down.

 

[difalcojr]

Had "Scatterbrain" here by Jeff Beck, but not sure if it fits the OP exactly. This one does, I think. Johnny Winter played a lot of hard driving music, here from his second album.

 

[robphy]

Another energetic song from a Japanese band.
(I don't know what the song is about.)

(2010) 八十八ヶ所巡礼「仏滅トリシュナー」
88kasyo junrei - Butsumetsu Torishunā

 

[difalcojr]

Ten Years After played their instruments faster than any of the other contemporary bands, I thought.

 

[russ_watters]

Not my favorite band (although I did enjoy "The Dirt"), but this tune straight-up kicks a$$:

That was the first time I noticed a car being marketed to me. It kinda worked (I bought the car). It's fine, not like when I started noticing them pushing mini-vans on me...

 

[difalcojr]

Cream rose to the top with this one, I think.

 

[difalcojr]

would you consider this hard driving?

 

[difalcojr]

Some more, hard driving Eric Clapton guitar leads, rock and gospel. The gospel entry starts slow and builds, to the end when Preston and Clapton trade leads on the main theme, back and forth, starting around 3:30 into.

 

[Andy Resnick]

That was the first time I noticed a car being marketed to me. It kinda worked (I bought the car). It's fine, not like when I started noticing them pushing mini-vans on me...

omg that's hilarious!