Radio

This article lists all Radio tracks appearing in Driver: Parallel Lines and Driver 76.

Description

All vehicles in Driver: Parallel Lines, including motorcycles and emergency vehicles, are equipped with a radio. The radio will play a song at semi-random each time when entering a vehicle.

Songs can be cycled through on PC and Wii using (previous track) and (next track), or skipping tracks on Xbox and PlayStation 2 using . Songs can be selected within the pause menu in Driver 76 on the PSP.

The playlist order is randomized each time the game is loaded, meaning the player can cycle through tracks indefinitely and the order they will play in will not change unless they reload the save game, enter a mission or mini-game, or switch eras

Each era features songs appropriate to that year, i.e., 1978's playlist features classic rock, punk, funk, pop and soul music, while 2006 features songs themed around metal, punk rock, indie rock and hip-hop.

Driver 76 features most of the same music from the 1978 era of Driver: Parallel Lines.

As well as playing in cars, songs from the radio may also be heard in other circumstances:

• During cutscenes
• During Job Low-Downs.
• Inside Ray's Autos.
• Songs scripted to play during missions, including playing on the radio or playing around the map.
• During the game credits.

Playlist

Check all available platforms

1978 Playlist

Preview	Song Title	Artist	Year	Genre	Platforms
					Xbox	PS2	PC	Wii
	Bump and Boogie	The Wrecking Crew	1974	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Bump Meat	Sir Mack Rice	1974	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Bustin' Loose	Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers	1978	Funk/Jazz	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Cracklin' Bread	Dave Hamilton	1968	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back)	Maceo And The Macks	1975	Funk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Dizzy Dizzy	CAN	1974	Krautrock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Expansions	Lonnie Liston Smith	1974	Jazz/Soul	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Express Yourself	Charles Wright	1970	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Free Your Mind	The Politicians Ft. McKinley Jackson	1971	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Gang Bang	Oscar Brown Jr.	1972	Jazz/Soul	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Getting Uptown (To Get Down)	United 8	1972	Funk	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Ghost Rider	Suicide	1977	Synthrock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	I Got Some	Billy Garner	1971	Funk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	I'll Bet You	Funkadelic	1970	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	I'm Tired	Savoy Brown	1969	Blues rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Loose and Juicy	The Pazant Brothers	1975	Funk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Love the Life You Live	Black Heat	1974	Funk	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Low Rider	War	1975	Funk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Neighborhood Threat	Iggy Pop	1977	Rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	One Way or Another	Blondie	1978	New Wave	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Outa-Space	Billy Preston	1971	Funk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Papa Was A Rollin' Stone	The Temptations	1972	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Peaches	The Stranglers	1977	Punk reggae	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	People Say	The Meters	1974	Funk	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Pick Up The Pieces	Average White Band	1974	Funk/Jazz	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Red Hot Mama	Parliament	1970	Psychedelic Rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Running Away	Roy Ayers	1977	Funk/Jazz	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Shifting Gears	Johnny Hammond	1975	Funk/Jazz	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
King Errisson - Sleep Talk on YouTube	Sleep Talk	King Errisson	1976	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Smash It Up	The Damned	1979*	Punk rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Street Lady	Donald Byrd	1973	Jazz	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Subway Joe	Joe Bataan	1968	Soul	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Suffragette City	David Bowie	1972	Glam rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	The Vulture	Labi Siffre	1975	R&B/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Trouble Man	Marvin Gaye	1972	Jazz/Soul	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

2006 Playlist

Preview	Song Title	Artist	Year	Genre	Platforms
					Xbox	PS2	PC	Wii
	We're Adjusting Ourselves	Warren Suicide	2002	Alternative rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	A Different Age	The Dead 60's	2005	Alternative rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Hey, Scenesters!	The Cribs	2005	Indie rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
Queen Adreena - Racing Towards The Sun on YouTube	Racing Towards the Sun	Queen Adreena	2006	Hard rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Louis XIV	Louis XIV	2005	Garage rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	O.F.G.	zZz	2003	Garage rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Tito's Way	The Juan Maclean	2005	Electronica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Intro (Reprise)	ILS	2005	Electronica	Yes	Yes	No	No
	My Favorite Mutiny	The Coup	2004	Hip-hop	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Can't Get Enough	The Infadels	2005	Dance-punk	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Oh My God	Kaiser Chiefs	2004	Alternative rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Tribulations	LCD Soundsystem	2005	Electronica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Worth It	Narco	2004	Alternative rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	I Changed My Mind (MC's Rattle Snake Remix)	Lyrics Born	2005	Hip-hop	Yes	Yes	No	No
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Sealings on YouTube	Sealings	Yeah Yeah Yeahs	2006	Rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Way Out	London Funk Allstars	1996	Electronica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	White Noise	The Vacation	2004	Garage rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Volume	Lifesavas and Libretto	2004	Hip-hop	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	New Health Rock	TV on the Radio	2005	Garage rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Muscle Car (Sander Kleinenberg's Pace Car Mix)	Mylo	2003	Electronica	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
- Dr. Rubberfunk feat. Mr. Guder & The Quincy Sparks - The Cookie on YouTube	The Cookie	Dr Rubberfunk	2005	Funk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	BOOM!	The Roots	2005	Hip-hop	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Cool Boots	Automato	2004	Electronica	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Nowhere Again	The Secret Machines	2006	Alternative rock	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Against the Wall	Tom Gandey	2004	Electronica	Yes	Yes	No	No
	The Mask	DANGERDOOM	2005	Hip-hop	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Chin High	Roots Manuva	2005	Hip-hop	Yes	Yes	No	No

Composed Soundtrack

 Nimrod announces that they will be music supervisors for the next Driver instalment. Following the critical acclaim of the Driv3r soundtrack featuring Iggy Pop, Nimrod will aim to create another musically significant and cool soundtrack. With Narco and Plastic Man teaming up to create the original score under the watchful eye of Nimrod's producers, plus a host of exciting artists TBA things are set for something special... 

―Nimrod Productions on Nimrod's World, 2005.

As well as licensed tracks from worldwide artists, numerous tracks were composed specially for the game.

In 2005, it was announced that Nimrod Productions would be supervising "another musically significant and cool soundtrack" for Driver: Parallel Lines, having previously worked on the original score for Driv3r. They would later host a collaboration between Narco and Plastic Man, among other artists, to create an original score for both the 1978 and 2006 eras.

Nimrod received an MTV Music Award nomination in 2006 for the soundtrack of Driver: Parallel Lines.

• No Consequences - Narco
• Come and Get it - King G and The Reflections
• Mango Man - King G and The Reflections
• Monkey Nuts - King G and The Reflections
• New York Pity - Marvin Gaye & King G and The Reflections
• Plastic Boys - King G and The Reflections
• Smack The Bird - King G and The Reflections
• Want What I Got - King G and The Reflections
• Amplified Sin - Narco
• Bleach City - Narco
• I Can't See You - Narco
• My DJ Is a Driver - Narco
• Song of Innocense - Narco
• The Spin - Narco
• Vertical Flip - The Vox
• Big City Streets - The Vox
• You Don't Look Like a Cop - Narco

Collaborative Artists

Some songs were listed as collaborative with Atari and Ubisoft in the Driver: Parallel Lines Manual.

• Addicted to Speed - Paul Oakenfold
• Driver - Lifesavas
• (Everybody) Reverbarate (The Return To New York Mix) - Arthur Baker
• Get Out of My Way - Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
• Narcistic Fix - Public Enemy
• Now What You Gon Due - Chuck D and Professor Griff
• Pop The Blue - Suicide
• Rock Til I'm Rol'in - Audio Bullys
• You Will Pay - Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five
• Too Cold - Roots Manuva

Cut songs from Beta (Jan 6, 2006 prototype)

• Bobbi Humphrey - Jasper Country Man
• Clor - Magic Touch
• Eddie Henderson - The Kumquat Kids
• Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
• Gene Harris - Higga-Boom
• Gil Scott-Heron - The Bottle
• Jambo - Harrambee
• Marvin Pontiac - Bring Me Rocks
• Sly & the Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher
• Sly & the Family Stone - If You Want Me to Stay
• Stevie Wonder - Living for the City
• The Rimshots - 7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle)
• The Soul Searchers - Blow Your Whistle

Trivia

• Sealings, by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, is played during Ransom, when Terry Kidumms is released from prison after 28 years, while You Will Pay, by DJ Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, is played on Wii version.
• Gang Bang, by Oscar Brown Jr, is played during Ransom, when Terry Kidumms is shot by Corrigan in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions, while in the PC and Wii versions, Neighborhood Threat by Iggy Pop plays instead.
• Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, by The Temptations, plays during the post-mission cutscene for Kidnap.
• Suffragette City, by David Bowie, (Bustin' Loose, by Chick Brown and The Sould Searchers, on Wii version) is played during Introduction, in the first cutscene.
  • It also plays in the first cutscene after completing the prologue mission of Driver 76.
• Express Yourself, by Charles Wright, plays inside Ray's Autos in the 1978 era in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions, while in the PC and Wii versions, Lowrider by WAR plays instead.
• I Changed My Mind (MC's Rattle Snake Remix), by Lyrics Born, plays inside Ray's Autos in the 2006 era in the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions, while in the PC and Wii versions, Muscle Car (Sander Kleinenberg's Pace Car Mix) by Mylo plays instead.
• I'm Tired, by Savoy Brown, and Big City Streets, by the Vox, play during the end credits for both Driver: Parallel Lines and Driver 76.
• Worth it, by Narco, also made it into Driver: San Francisco.
• The album in which 'One Way or Another' was released is called 'Parallel Lines'.
• There is an anachronistic song in the 1978 era - Smash It Up by The Damned that plays on the radio, despite being released in 1979, a year after the game takes place.
  • In Driver 76, there are 5 anachronistic songs; Bustin' Loose by Chuck Brown, One Way or Another by Blondie, Peaches by The Stranglers, Running Away by Roy Ayers and Neighborhood Threat by Iggy Pop. These songs are released between 1977-1979, despite the game taking place in 1976.
• Monkey Nuts, by King G and The Reflections, plays in the main menu of Driver 76.

Credit Errors

In the rolling credits, as well as in the Driver: Parallel Lines Manual for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions of the game, there are various errors within the music credits section:

• The Damned's "Smash It Up (Part 2)" is credited as "Smash It Up Parts 1 & 2", despite the game only using Part 2.
• The song title of Mylo's "Muscle Car" is incorrectly credited as "Muscle Cars".