Stamped hands and plastic wristbands cover the sweaty crowd as lights flick on at the end of the show. Crowds bump and grind to the bathrooms as eyes adjust and ears pop. Minutes later you pile into the car with your friends and buckle up for a slow, traffic-jammy trip out of the lot, down the highway, and home to bed.
Killing an hour on your way home from a concert is a piece of cake, though. Just roll down those windows, pump those fists, honk that horn, and get ready to scrape that scratchy throat.
Because folks, it’s time for the loud, screechy sing-a-long version of Tonight’s Greatest Hits.
AWESOME!
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25 Comments
December 4, 2009 at 12:22 am
LY2YMF
December 4, 2009 at 12:27 am
When you’re stuck in the parking lot after the concert (because you refuse to be one of THOSE people who leaves before the encore to avoid the traffic) and you blare the music for all around you to enjoy resulting in a mass sing-along… Now THAT’S awesome!!
(ily2,ymf2)
December 4, 2009 at 4:47 am
Woah. That’ll be super awesome! I’ll try that next time!!
Why didn’t i ever think of that. XD
It’ll be fun!
April 21, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Yes, yes it is. That’s one of the best parts of a concert. Good way to meet awesome people.
December 4, 2009 at 2:22 am
I love singing the songs you’re about to hear on the way TO the concert! I’m usually asleep on the way home.
December 4, 2009 at 3:06 am
I try not to listen to the band within 24 hours before the concert.
February 28, 2010 at 10:57 pm
My husband and I have concert rules. One of them is that you can listen to the band as much as you’d like on the way TO the concert. But once you get in the car after the concert, it’s sacrilegious to listen to the band’s tunes. (There is ONE exception: When the band didn’t play that one song you REALLY wanted to hear; but then you may listen to that – and only that – one song.)
Among other concert rules…never wear (to the concert) the t-shirt of the band you’re going to see.
December 4, 2009 at 5:03 am
I’m with Chad on this one… When you listen to them on CD (or radio), they’ve been so edited that sometimes they don’t even sound like themselves! If you give yourself a little breathing room between recorded and concert, they sound so much better live! And then you rock out on the way home… :)
December 4, 2009 at 7:39 am
That is cool. I usually sing the Beatles songs every day otherwise.
December 4, 2009 at 10:42 am
Who needs the concert when you can have your own in the car? Car concerts are awesome!
December 4, 2009 at 11:44 am
I love this one! This summer, my daughter and I accidently got caught in the post-concert parking lot crush from the Killers concert. We weren’t even at the concert, but we still enjoyed the car-concert afterwards!
December 4, 2009 at 2:49 pm
If there was 1000AnnoyingThings, getting stuck in the traffic from an event that just got out would be number one in my book. At least you were stuck with good tunes and happy people.
December 7, 2009 at 11:20 am
Yeah, we were thinking, “D’oh!” until the car in front of us started blasting our favourite tune, and then we just went with it!
December 4, 2009 at 11:52 am
One of my FAVORITE things to do. I absolutely adore this and am so glad that I’m not alone with this.
December 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm
amazing when you can pretty much still hear them in your head from a few minutes ago
December 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm
that really is one of the most awesome things ever. i hate those people who leave before the encore, i mean, what’s the point of coming?
December 4, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I love that! Even if you have almost no voice after so much shouting. I think there has been no concert we haven’t done that. Even after Queen + Paul Rodgers concert, which was held at a stadium which is one block from my house, my brother and I came back walking and singing Bohemian Rhapsody.
♥
December 5, 2009 at 9:10 am
I love to sing in the car. On the way home from the concert? awesomer!!!!
December 5, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Reminds me of seeing Coldplay in Ottawa with my sis!
December 6, 2009 at 3:31 am
I have an awesome-thing suggestion:
Sleeping on a hammock.
In the weak winter sun.
AWESOME!
December 6, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Takes me back to concerts as a teen with my best friend Holly. With our ears still ringing and our voices hoarse, we’d sing along to the cassettes/8-tracks in the hatchback on the way home. Maybe I shouldn’t mention that we were singing Rick Springfield? LOL!
Love this blog! Found it on postsecret a couple weeks ago and now visit daily for my smile. :) Terrific writing style!
December 9, 2009 at 10:14 am
My friend always said that listening to the band right after you’ve just seen them is like masturbating after sex.
Beforehand, though, is just good foreplay!
December 15, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I love singing in the car all the time!! I just never get to share with anyone like in the picture above..must do it alone..for obvious reasons!!
Thanks for a great awesome thing!!
@spreadingJOY
February 1, 2010 at 9:08 am
haha fun especially with parents
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