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“Drive My Car” by The Beatles
From the album Rubber Soul (1965)
“Drive My Car” by The Beatles appears on 10 radio countdowns from 8 stations between 1982 and 2024. It was first released in 1965 on the album Rubber Soul. Its best result is #26 on the WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #6,629 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Rubber Soul opens with a joke and a come-on, and "Drive My Car" delivers both without breaking stride. Paul McCartney brought the tune to a writing session at John Lennon's house in Weybridge with words he knew were hopeless, and the two of them turned it into a sly little comedy: a would-be movie star offers the narrator a job as her chauffeur, love maybe thrown in, and only at the end owns up that she hasn't got a car. McCartney later pointed out that the title was an old blues euphemism for sex.
Lennon and McCartney share the lead vocal, and McCartney is everywhere else too, on bass, piano and slide guitar, while Ringo Starr works a cowbell alongside his drums and George Harrison adds guitar and harmony. George Martin produced it for the 1965 album; North American buyers found it opening Yesterday and Today instead, since it had been cut from the US Rubber Soul.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
Classic Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 499 | 95.5 KLOS | KLOS Memorial Day 500 (1982) | 499 |
| 2002 | 879 | 92.3 KGON | KGON Top 923 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2002) | 923 |
| 2007 | 653 | WTMD | WTMD Top 897 Songs of All Time | 897 |
| 2010 | 26 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) | 885 |
| 2014 | 344 | Big 100 | BIG 1000 New Year's Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2019 | 978 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2020 | 503 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2020) | 1025 |
| 2021 | 857 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 517 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Classic Rock Top 1025 (2022) | 1025 |
| 2024 | 405 | KEXP | The Best Opening Tracks of All Time | 738 |
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