With thanks to Rich Hutchinson, scrounge, FreeLantz, and other Allpar folk
Entire Bands
Dodge - their CD, Mutronic Injection, has a Dodge grille on front and an Aries tail on the back. Ewald Stein said the songs were Slant Six, Ram Power, Funk Wheel Drive, Dodge City, and Tuned Car Mino. Their single, Gesture, has part of a familiar car.
Relient K - badly spelled, well played. One song is K-Car.
Slant Six - One song was “Mopar or No Car.”
Slant Six and the Jumpstarts - They’re still playing (1993 video)
Talbot Tabora - Named after the Chrysler-Europe car
Album art
Pentastar - Click through to buy the album, In the Style of Demons!
Ministry - DrMark provided this song cover (it was a single), which tells it all:
Boss Martians: Bad-a** ’71 Dodge Super Bee - “I run a ’71 Dodge Super Bee /
got a mean V8 on a dualed exaust with the Magnum 383 / Ain’t got the red for the big R/T...”
Bottle Rockets: Building Chryslers - (Not complimentary!)
Clutch: Spacegrass — “Dodge Swinger 1973, top down, chassis low; ... let the vortex pull my weight, push the seatback a little lower, watch light bend in the blower.”
Demonics: Mopar or No Car - (Not the same song Slant Six did; and the lead singer had a Super Bee featured in a Mopar magazine)
Jan & Dean—Little Old Lady from Pasadena: “Parked in her rickety old garage is
a brand new super stock Dodge... ”
Playmates: Beep Beep—An entire song about driving in a Cadillac and being overtaken by a Nash Rambler
Sacred Squall of Now: Firedome is the song, and the melody is the firing pattern (1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2)
Steve Earle: Copperhead Road, lyrics: “Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge ...
I still remember that rumblin’ sound” Listen!
Webb Wilder: How Long Can She Last (Going That Fast)—Her Daddy bought her / a baby blue Duster... that was one little mean machine... the speedometer said / One-twenty in the red
Trish Lester: Plymouth Belvedere (also the name of the album). Lyric: “...that car is killing my career, but to give it up would devastate my daddy dear, so I have to keep on driving my Plymouth Belvedere.”
Weird Al Yankovic: Belvedere Cruising (1976, unreleased). Lyrics: “No, I don’t think that I could bear /
Drivin’ somethin’ other than a Belvedere /
In a Belvedere I can really get my thrills / Goin’ Belvedere cruisin’ tonight /
Just watch me pass that Porsche on the right /
I can take you anywhere / In my 1964 Belvedere”
Where the car just happens to be mentioned
Alvarados: Dodge 440—Song title
B-52s: Love Shack—"I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20" - 1965 Chrysler 300 convertible in the video; Planet Claire—"She drove a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light"; Legal Tender —“It’s time we bought the latest model getaway Jeep”
Barenaked Ladies: If I Had a Million Dollars—"I would buy you a K car / a nice Reliant automobile"
Big Sugar: I'm a Ram—Clearly meant to be the truck
Bloodhound Gang: Boom—"I'm in your Jeep Grand Cherokee or Land Cruiser"
Delbert McClinton: B Movie Boxcar Blues—... “With two girls in a light blue Desoto”
(covered by the Blues Brothers)
Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run—"Hemi powered drones [Super Bees?] scream down the boulevard;” Jungleland—“Barefoot girls sitting on the hood of a Dodge...”; Ramrod—“Well she’s a hot-steppin’ Hemi with a four on the floor / She’s a Roadrunner engine in a ’32 Ford”; The Promise—Outtake: “And I drove a Challenger down Route 9 /
Well, now, I built that Challenger by myself ... ”
Jimmy Buffet : Fool Button —“Was the Cordoba blue or red?”
C.W. McCall: a few songs—Mention Plymouth
Cake: Short Skirt Long Jacket—“Trading her MG for a white Chrysler LeBaron”
Harry Chapin: Taxi—“We learned about love in the back of a Dodge.”
Corbin/Hanner: Scooter, Michael, Danny, and Me—Go cruising on weekends in a patched up old Plymouth, chip in for gas...
D.A. Sebasstian & The Inner Demons: Hemi Charger—In the movie Hot Rod Girls Save The World
David Bowie: Young Americans— "Lady’s got a Chrysler"
Dick Dale: The Scavenger—The car is a Dodge Newport 426, when there was no such thing.
Diesel: Sausalito Summernight—We left for Frisco in your Rambler
Eminem: Bad Meets Evil—So please leave me with the keys to your Jeep Eagle
Frank Zappa: Joe’s Garage—Band practiced in a garage with a 1954 Dodge
Grateful Dead: Sugar Magnolia—“Jump like a Willys in four wheel drive”
Haystak: Down South Players—Ooh-ee the stee-lo, they know
Tennessee tags on the back of the Durango
Demonics: Jesus Chrysler Super Stock; Super Bee—"...in my 383 Super Bee... ...she’s so fine ’69..."
Fred Horn: ’73 Charger Starts Up—Album starts with ten seconds of a 1973 Charger starting (see iTunes, ’73 Charger Pulls Away
Iggy Pop: Home—"We're gonna make it - in a Jeep"
Alan Jackson: Neon Rainbow—"... five pickers in an old Dodge truck, headin’ out to Houston for a show on Saturday night;” Drive—" .....just an old worn out Jeep. Rusty old floorboards, hot on my feet"
Joe Walsh: Ordinary Average Guy—My friend’s got a Chrysler /
I've got a Dodge
We’re just ordinary average guys
Johnny Cash: The General Lee—I'm a Charger...Charging through the night...
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers: Dodge Vegematic and Road Runner—"Yeah, it’s my Dodge Vegematic, there in the parking lot"
(Road Runner was written well before the car came out)
KRS-One: Steady Bounce—“Steady bouncing in Jeeps on the New York Streets”
Lyle Lovett: Here I Am —If Ford is to Chevrolet
What Dodge is to Chrysler...
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Outta Hell in my Dodge—I'm gonna get outta Hell in my Dodge ... Spend my life behind the wheel
Masta Ace: Fat’s Belvedere—Not sure
Mental as Anything: Looking for Bird—Bought a Hemi Pacer [Australian] in ’74 ....
Reconditioned auto-missioned
drinks a gallon every mile
Neil Young: Motor City—“My army Jeep is still alive
/ Got locking hubs and four wheel drive
/ Ain’t got no radio, ain’t got no mag wheels
/ Ain’t got no digital clock” (in a song about the decline of American automaking)
Primus: Kalamazoo—“Drives a red Barracuda, singin’ meat packer songs
... Then a 55 Chrysler where the trunk never ends... ”
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Me and My Friends—... he drives a kooky green Chrysler /
bad as anybody’s Porsche
Rob Zombie: Two-Lane Blacktop—A clean machine, a real home girl /
Barracuda, 68
Robert Johnson: Terraplane Blues—(Terraplane was a Hudson model)
Rush: Warpaint—"and the Charger in the garage"
The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Jesus Chrysler Drives a Dodge—circa 1987
Steely Dan: Glamour Profession—“...and I drove the Chrysler.”
Steve Dahl: Do you think I'm disco?—Got rid of my 280Z / Picked myself up a
Beat up old ’69 Dart
Surfaris: Boss Barracuda—Song about the fastback Barracudas
T. Rex: Jeepster—I’m a Jeepster for your love
Wally Pleasant: Chrysler Cordoba—(Name of song)
Zeke: My Hemi Cuda—name of song
ZZ Top: Mexican Blackbird—Driving a Chrysler down to Mexico
Videos
Lots of rappers featured Chrysler 300s in their videos when they had first come out.
The Rentals had a green 1972 Plymouth Valiant squealing its tires and leaping through the air, with a Dukes-of-Hazzard landing shot, in one video.
Deborah Allen drove a 1972-74 Barracuda in the video for "If You’re Not Going to Love Me" in the early-mid 90s.
