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Artist:Gomez [ more ]
Song:Airstream Driver
Album:A New Tide [ info ]
Released:2009
Last Played:May 23, 2013 - 14:17
Avg. Rating:7  (Total Ratings: 500)
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1 votes: 7 (1.4%)2 votes: 3 (0.6%)3 votes: 17 (3.4%)4 votes: 11 (2.2%)5 votes: 19 (3.8%)6 votes: 61 (12%)7 votes: 196 (39%)8 votes: 123 (25%)9 votes: 40 (8%)10 votes: 23 (4.6%)
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Tana
(Lancaster, PA)
Posted: Feb 18, 2013 - 09:17 

 lily34 wrote:
i love gomez. this isn't my fav of theirs, or even off this cd...but they are awesome.
 
My thoughts exactly.
melissakennedy
(Mission, BC)
Posted: Jul 27, 2012 - 15:09 

i really love this song. it makes me dance in my seat!
rdo
(DC)
Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 12:33 

 sirdroseph wrote:


A year later, the bands have changed, but you have a point. Now it is the Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel and the like. But......if Bill likes em, then he is gonna play em. After all, above all, it is his station, not ours.
 

This is true.  However.  As Americans, it is our God given right to complain.  My complaint is that we need more Gomez!
lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jun 11, 2012 - 21:14 

i love gomez. this isn't my fav of theirs, or even off this cd...but they are awesome.
gemtag
(Texas)
Posted: Apr 09, 2012 - 08:42 

Great song.
fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Dec 04, 2011 - 09:48 

 Businessgypsy wrote:
Y'know, Airstream did make a motorhome in their signature silver turd mode. This isn't it.



 
That is one spectacularly ugly vehicle. It looks like a camper van eating a saloon car. A head-turner, right enough.

Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Aug 11, 2011 - 05:54 

Vintage Airstream holidays near to where we live in the UK. 

http://www.vintagevacations.co.uk/trailerdetails.htm


haretic
(toward Abad, just south of Maitri)
Posted: Jul 31, 2011 - 10:36 

Too cool!
Thanks for this chronicle! I'd never seen one of these before now.
Do you care to enclose a photo of your Tortuga Blanca? Even if it is not in the Airstream tradition, it sounds pretty interesting!

 
Businessgypsy wrote:
I used the same platform for my stealth camper, Tortuga Blanca - but made up for 1/4 the cost
The originals are very cool, however and pretty rare.



Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: May 29, 2011 - 09:34 

Y'know, Airstream did make a motorhome in their signature silver turd mode. This isn't it.

Is a cool use of a Toronado, the first production front wheel drive made in the US, however.
NASA uses a vintage AIrstream motorhome to take astronauts from the Command Center to the launch site

and Jet Blue employs a fleet made up in their livery for promotion purposes

Airstream is now using the Mercedes Sprinter as a compact motorhome, priced at $127K+++

I used the same platform for my stealth camper, Tortuga Blanca - but made up for 1/4 the cost
The originals are very cool, however and pretty rare.



Poacher
(Brighton, UK)
Posted: Mar 06, 2011 - 12:25 

 sirdroseph wrote:


A year later, the bands have changed, but you have a point. Now it is the Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel and the like. But......if Bill likes em, then he is gonna play em. After all, above all, it is his station, not ours.
 
I don't know. . . I'd say these is a good chunk of listener control. I often see new tracks that have pretty dismal ratings and don't seem to get played again. That is not to say Bill has his faves that linger here, and that is fine too. 

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 04:45 

 toomanyollys wrote:

Yeah, know what you mean. I love RP, but some songs/artists seem to be played way too much (Gomez, Coldplay, U2, Neko Case...). It seems like the music's aimed more at the 'every now and then' listeners as opposed to someone like me who listens at work every day...

I never used to notice this much repetition (been listening for years), it seems like a fairly recent thing..?

Don't get me wrong - RP is still the best thing out there by a looooooong way. I even managed to convince my boss to let me hook up some speakers so the whole room can enjoy :)
 

A year later, the bands have changed, but you have a point. Now it is the Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Peter Gabriel and the like. But......if Bill likes em, then he is gonna play em. After all, above all, it is his station, not ours.
MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 04:44 

 Danimal174 wrote:
Hair-Cream Driver

 
I'm a Dapper Dan man!

Nice to have some gratuitous cowbell to start my morning!  

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 03, 2011 - 04:42 

Gomez is extremely diverse. Sometimes that is good, sometimes not so much. This one is good.
adrew
(DFW, TX)
Posted: Oct 31, 2010 - 14:36 

This song has the most unexpected and satisfying drum solo, however brief.
cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Oct 20, 2010 - 18:02 

Maybe it's just me, but I like to hear good songs more than once!
Danimal174
(Upstate South Carolina)
Posted: May 14, 2010 - 11:34 

Hair-Cream Driver


fevertree
Posted: Apr 23, 2010 - 13:05 

Eeeek! I like this song! {#Dancingbanana_2}
james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 16:42 

 BillG wrote:


FYI, this has never been played more than once per day & was only played 2 days in a row when it was brand new (< 1 mo. old). 
 
Go, go Anchoring Heuristic!

You can probably draw conclusions about how firm people's opinions are (love or hate the song) based on their perception of how often it is played. 

crockydile
(Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way)
Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 16:40 

Ice cream driver? I'll take 2 drumsticks. {#Tongue-out}
robco1
(Chicago, IL)
Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 20:20 

 peter_james_bond wrote:
Hippostar wrote:
I have no doubt that today our own U.S. auto labor workforce would also agree that this vehicle, built completely by foreign labor, by one of the largest foreign automotive "huge corporations" and transported halfway across the globe by boat is a very progressive and people-oriented statement.
robco1 wrote:
Kind of like the people-oriented decision-making that the big three execs made when they decided to market gas-guzzling giant SUVs instead of building practical and reliable cars that people would want? The auto worker unions that worked hand-in-glove with those same executives to lobby against an increase in CAFE standards? Oh, it is the leftie progressives' fault for not wanting to pay $60k+ for an ungainly truck that gets 4 mpg to "support the Amer-cun werker..."

 {#Beat}
Wait a second, you could argue that the auto-companies were only giving the people what they wanted. Until gas prices started to spike, sales of the gas guzzlers were high. People wanted the big SUVs and half-tons. Even now sales of half-ton trucks are strong. I agree that the companies were very happy to sell the big vehicles to people because they made a bigger profit on them. In addition they did fight tooth and nail against higher emission and gas millage standards, so they certainly have to shoulder some of the blame, but lets not forget that most consumers weren't marching in the street demanding better gas mileage and smaller vehicles.

  But that would ignore 25+ years of coordinated marketing by the industry to get suburbanites to buy a vehicle that had been a niche market product for the outdoors set. But yes, the easily-manipulated public can certainly take their share of the blame for the mess we're in. Here endeth the soapbox. Great Gomez tune!

KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 13:09 

 Jelani wrote:

friends don't let friends drive Prius's.
 
Boy howdy! {#Mrgreen}.

ick
(S.E. La Jolla)
Posted: Feb 08, 2010 - 13:04 

 The_Enemy wrote:
I've heard this song a lot on RP and only today did I look at this page.

All this time, I thought they were singing "ice cream driver".

7
 
No, no, no, it's "our esteemed driver"!  You see, they really like their chauffeur.

The_Enemy
(The Sewer)
Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 12:21 

I've heard this song a lot on RP and only today did I look at this page.

All this time, I thought they were singing "ice cream driver".

7
Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague)
Posted: Jan 29, 2010 - 12:17 

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

It would get better mileage without all the stickers.
And what about all the oil products used to make those stickers?
Or the wasted backing material from those stickers clogging our waterways and landfills? {#Mrgreen}
 
friends don't let friends drive Prius's.
KurtfromLaQuinta
(Yep. I'm still here in La Quinta.)
Posted: Nov 19, 2009 - 09:43 

 MrGreg wrote:


Left-wing driver?
 
It would get better mileage without all the stickers.
And what about all the oil products used to make those stickers?
Or the wasted backing material from those stickers clogging our waterways and landfills?
Or for that matter... all that battery acid and lead waste!  {#Mrgreen}


helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 08:15 

I hear a little syntheziser backgrounds, that reminds me to some old music tunes!
Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 08:13 

I might think about taking back what I just wrote!
Sounds better and better...
Stingray
(Cologne)
Posted: Nov 06, 2009 - 08:10 

a girlie band?
WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 15:52 

 RockinBlueVoodoo wrote:

 
{#Lol} Awesomely funny!

Geecheeboy
(under a crescent moon and palmetto tree)
Posted: Oct 16, 2009 - 15:50 

Cowbell AND the main guitar lick is Jailbreak!!!! Love it!
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