+Le Derp You re fucking stupid, stupid thinking, yeah vote for meat loaf to piss the trio off because you like them. Fuck logic dont care tho, I dont vote
In a top gear book, they were jokingly running ideas for replacement presenters by the producers. One guy was rejected for not fitting inside the cars, followed immediately by a rejection of Meatloaf for not being able to fit in the studio
One of the best love song EVER written. get over the stigma of a guy on a bike, The man is trying to get out and forget his girl that dont love him no matter how hard he tries. And in the end he dies, classic love - death scenario, classical scripting. stop reading anymore into this song than what it is. Listen to the Lyrics!!!!.
Methinks they got lucky simply by the virtue of it being early in the show's life, in the early-mid 2000's. I bet you a lot of cash that if it was done in 2017 or even this year, pretty much everyone would vote for Meat Loaf because "lol memes".
Shaihan Rasheed yeah I remember watching the episode not long ago. The winner was queen but when it came to presenting the award they had a problem: Brian May doesn’t like that song, Freddie Mercury was busy being dead, and they couldn’t remember the 4th guys name. So it went to Roger Taylor. But the trophy had little room and the engraver was a muppet so it read ‘Stop Me Now’.
Don't forget that May is a classically-trained pianist, and might be expected to have strong prejudices. That might also explain why TG found so many worn out pianos over the years.
Am I the only one curious to know what ranked at 6-20? I did notice stuff like "Song 2" by Blur, "Highway to Hell" by AC/DC, "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans, and "Go With The Flow" by Queens of the Stone Age in there, but can't tell much else.
I'd nominate an obscure one: "Bad Motherfucker" by "Biting Elbows" It's damn good, and the slow bits make for amazing tension when it breaks into the chorus. Time that with the right red light, DAMN
Best driving song ever??... that is just impossible!!! It's a bit like shaggin, there's so much to choose from, it's just about wat you fancy at the time!!!
Imagine how cross they would've been if it had won. Also it feels more like its just James that hates it, and the other two are just pretending because they got fed up of arguing with him.
Someone should make a challenge in which they have to drive a Volkswagen Beetle, across that really straight road from the muscle car special, all while listening to Meat Loaf.
My mum had two copies of this song on CD. The first one was destroyed at a party when some guy opened the CD out of its case and threw it against a wall, smashing it to pieces. She bought another copy. The second copy was also destroyed at a party when a different guy took the CD to the kitchen and scratched the disc reader side with a knife
Had to come here when I saw Meat Loaf had died when I checked Twitter when I woke up. RIP Meat Loaf. I had literally watched one of the films that featured him (51st State/Formula 51 - 2001) yesterday.
Meat Loaf is awesome and yet I still love these three idiots no matter what they say about one of my favorite bands, also I'm only 20 and my mom got me on them.
1. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now 2. Golden Earring - Radar Love 3. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell 4. Steppenwolf - Born to Be Wild 5. Deep Purple - Highway Star
When I watched this back when the series was being released, I never got the impression they hated Meat Loaf. Jeremy features Meat Loaf on a Greatest Driving Anthems CD (Hammond pokes fun at Jeremy because of this fact). I always thought they had to dissuade viewers from voting for Meat Loaf because they were just "a pokey little motoring show" and the winner would be on the show and they couldn't afford him.
Every time I go to work, I have to go on a highway, and in my head, I hear ‘I’m gonna hit the highway like a battering ram’ and squeeze a few more km onto my speed.
Driving song let me think on that list no brainer Golden Earring Radar Love. Going off piste and music that would give Jeremy a heart attack Celtic Frost singing Into the Crypt of Rays, I have had two speeding tickets over the years when listening to that song. It was a school run as well but I opened up when the kiddies in school.
Rest in peace Meatloaf. Came here after Jeremy tweeted about him and only felt it necessary. Meatloaf is the reason my autistic ass gave music a chance
the best is in my opinion queens bohemian rhapsody a great song and easy to sing along with. for city driving i use classical music as it calms me down and aids in slowing down after a motorway journey.
What's wrong with something like Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") or something operatic? FYI: By the way, "Bat out of Hell" was used by TG as background music at least once, besides this time.
