Por Vagner Mastropaulo
Em 02/09/21

Se você for detalhista, deve ter notado a ausência de "rock" ou "metal" no título, decisão intencional, pois queríamos abordar o assunto e "Pedal to the metal! It’s 45 of the best songs about cars and driving", texto de 30/08/20 redigido por Karen Haynes, é bem abrangente ao incluir artistas incomuns ao Whiplash.net, casos de Rihanna, Grace Jones, Halsey, Kesha e A Tribe Called Quest.

Por outro lado, é costumeiro ler matérias a respeito de David Bowie, AC/DC, Iggy Pop, The Beatles e The Rolling Stones, também fechando em meia dezena. Logo, aceitas as ressalvas, dá para apreciar a lista original da The Forty-Five, página sediada em Londres especializada em música e com equipe exclusivamente feminina, oferecendo perspectiva única às postagens.

Curiosamente, mesmo prometendo quarenta e cinco composições, a publicação entregou uma a menos ao pular o trigésimo nono lugar num ranking sem classificação, embora numerado. No mais, curta o conteúdo, no padrão "faixa – play (ano de lançamento) – banda" e links do YouTube:

1) Route 66 [The King Cole Trio Cover] – The Rolling Stones (64) – The Rolling Stones

2) A13, Trunk Road To The Sea – Life’s A Riot With Spy Vs Spy (83) – Billy Bragg

3) Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf (68) – Steppenwolf

4) Driving In My Car – Driving In My Car [Single] (82) – Madness

5) 92 Subaru – Traffic And Weather (07) – Fountains Of Wayne

6) Roy Orbison – King Of Hearts (92) – I Drove All Night

7) Thunder Road – Born To Run (75) – Bruce Springsteen

8) Autobahn – Autobahn (74) – Kraftwerk

9) The English Motorway System – The Facts Of Life (00) – Black Box Recorder

10) Shut Up And Drive – Good Girl Gone Bad (07) – Rihanna

11) Pull Up To The Bumper – Nightclubbing (81) – Grace Jones

12) Drive My Car – Rubber Soul (65) – The Beatles

13) Drive – Badlands (15) – Halsey

14) Gold Trans Am – Warrior [Deluxe Edition] (12) – Kesha

15) Highway To Hell – Highway To Hell (79) – AC/DC

16) Roadblox – The Day Is My Enemy (15) – The Prodigy

17) My Favourite Game – Gran Turismo (98) – The Cardigans

18) The Passenger – Lust For Life (77) – Iggy Pop

19) Bad Girls – Matangi (13) – M.I.A.

20) On The Road Again – Honeysuckle Rose (80) – Willie Nelson

21) Car Song – Elastica (95) – Elastica

22) Cars – The Pleasure Principle (79) – Gary Newman

23) I Live In A Car – Live Kicks [Live] (79) – UK Subs

24) Drive [With Black Coffee Feat. Delilah Montagu] – 7 (18) – David Guetta

25) Plastic Jesus – Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (93) – The Flaming Lips

26) 19-2000 – Gorillaz (01) – The Gorillaz

27) Drive – Heartbeat City (84) – The Cars

28) Road To Nowhere – Little Creatures (85) – Talking Heads

29) Always Crashing In The Same Car – Low (77) – David Bowie

30) Red – Red (12) – Taylor Swift

31) Bus Driver’s Prayer – The Bus Driver’s Prayer & Other Stories (92) – Ian Dury

32) I Left My Wallet In El Segundo – People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm (90) – A Tribe Called Quest

33) Fast Car – Tracy Chapman (88) – Tracy Chapman

34) Get In The Car – What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? (99) – Echo & The Bunnymen

35) Cars And Girls – From Langley Park To Memphis (88) – Prefab Sprout

36) Shoot – Dirty (92) – Sonic Youth

37) The Road To Hell – The Road To Hell (89) – Chris Rea [na dúvida, aí vão ambas as partes]

38) Scooby Snacks – Come Find Yourself (96) – Fun Lovin’ Criminals

40) White Walls [Feat. Schoolboy Q / Hollis)] – The Heist (12) – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

41) Love Shack – Cosmic Thing – The B-52’s

42) No Particular Place To Go – St. Louis To Liverpool (64) – Chuck Berry

43) Low Rider – Why Can’t We Be Friends? (75) – War

44) On The Road Again – Boogie With Canned Heat (68) – Canned Heat

45) Drivin’ On 9 – Last Splash (93) – The Breeders

"Motorcycle Man" (Saxon) não vale! Tampouco a metafórica "Drive" (Incubus). Este escriba ainda se lembrou de "I’m In Love With My Car" (Queen) e dos clipes de "Like I Roll" (Black Stone Cherry) e "Go With The Flow" (Queens Of The Stone Age). No metal, "Cadillac Rock Box" (Anthrax) e "Road To Hell" (Bruce Dickinson), além de menção honrosa a "Aces High" (Iron Maiden) – nada a ver com automóveis, sua letra traz o ponto de vista de um piloto da Força Aérea Britânica, certo? Sim, mas dirija ao som dela e repare no que acontece...