10 Songs That Make Me Think of Skateboarding and Motorcycles

I love motorcycles and skateboards.  I love everything to do with them.  I love that both of them incorporate freedom and expression.  Both activities are more of a lifestyle and a form of expression.  I got into both because I am not really a team player.  I mean, I do perfectly well working with others, but when it comes to my own forms of enjoyment I prefer there to be no rules, hence why I like skateboards, motorcycles, art etc.  No rules.  Here are 10 songs that make me think of skateboarding and motorcycles.  In the spirit of no rules, they are not in any particular order.  Enjoy!

• Metallica “Motorbreath” While the song’s opening pretty much sounds just like a motorcycle engine this song makes me think of right around the time I started skateboarding and couldn’t handle a song like this.  I am pretty sure that the eight-year-old version of me had some pretty heavy internal conflicts about whether I should draw skeletons on motorcycles or skeletons on skateboards.
• Speedwolf “I Am The Demon” I am fairly certain that if you dislike Speedwolf, you just are against having a good time.  The band is essentially a Marvel Comics “What If” issue where you get to have Misfits era Danzig fronting Motorhead.  This song will make you want to wear a leather jacket without a shirt on and a chain for a belt and just do donuts on a parking lot on a motorcycle after drinking a case of something domestic.
• Doomriders “Black Thunder” What is essentially one of the best bar fight songs ever written,
  this song is such a fun level of chaos. The song sounds like it should be the party jam for any of the beasts in the cult classic Werewolves on Wheels.  I think if someone busted a whiskey bottle over my head, and this song was playing, I’d probably forgive them and buy them a shot.
• Poison Idea “Plastic Bomb” Music is a really visceral thing for me.  If I like a song I will automatically get a picture in my head.  This song BEGS to be put into a skateboard video with the epic piano intro that just needs a nice slowmo slam section synced to it. The rest of the song is just excellent hardcore, complete with the “Who-ooa” in the chorus that just makes you wanna go that much faster on your board.  Seriously, is this in a video?  If it isn’t I’d really like it to be.  Maybe I should just put it over another crappy song in some other video.
• Minor Threat “No Reason” I am a skater and I am from DC.  There is no way a Minor Threatsong wasn’t going to end up in here.  This song just begs to have a hill bombed to it.  I think it’s the bass and the drums, there’s also that little break that would probably make me need to push down the hill even faster and still try and ollie as many manhole covers as possible without eating it.
• The Dwarves “Back Seat Of My Car” Hahaha!  I can’t mention The Dwarves without laughing.  They just crack me up.  This song is such a mini-ramp jam.  I don’t why specifically mini-ramps, it just is.  Maybe it’s all the, “Hey, hey, hey” business going on.  I also picked this because a lot of skaters and bikers embrace the dirt.  Most of my favorites are total scumbags, but in the best way.  Not the type of scumbag to steal from you; actually they’re quite the opposite, always willing to share a brew.  I mean the type of scumbags who walk outside and just get dirty standing still.  You know the ones, I am talking about the dudes that blow their nose on their shirt.  The Dwarves are supreme scumbags, probably the bad kind of scumbag too.
• The Misfits “Halloween” I love Halloween and Halloween is a favorite holiday of most of theskaters and motorcycle riders I know.  I love the part of this song that says, “Little dead are out in droves” and, “This night anything goes” because it captures the fun part of Halloween.  Two Halloweens ago, I was painted up as a zombie and pulled behind a motorcycle through my neighborhood.  Seems about right.
• Motorhead “The Ace Of Spades” Alright, I know this song is a super clichéd pick, but it’s perfect.  It’s haphazard as hell and it goes over equally well with both skaters and bikers.  Even though it’s a fun song it maintains this sense of danger throughout and plus… it’s got the Midas touch of Lemmy.  I dare a skater or a biker who knows who Lemmy is to say something bad about him.  It is impossible.  “That’s the way I like it, baby!  I don’t wanna live forever!”  Dude just had a documentary done on him not too long ago and it’s solid gold.
• High On Fire “Rumors Of War” Ugh.  Man, this song is nasty.  I’ve liked skateboarding and motorcycles for over 2/3 of my life.  My very first vehicular accident, even before a skateboard accident, was on a motorcycle.  I was tossed off a bike on some California fire roads when I was four years old.  I was too small to ride on the back, so my dad just plopped me on the gas tank. Four-year-old me would not be able to handle “Rumors Of War.”  I’d get way too hyped on my air guitar and probably do that thing where I fall down and run around in a circle.