road trip tunes

[katster]

Alright. I'd love to hear your thoughts. And this is something I've been meaning to ask for a while anyway, so I'll let y'all have fun with it

If you were making a road trip mix, what songs would you put on it? I mean, I've got a few, but I'd love to see other takes on it. Besides, I might be forgetting a song or six.

Feel free to pass this URL onto others too, I'd love to get as wide of a cross selection as I possibly can.

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[wjhansen.livejournal.com]

Whenever we go on a road trip--i.e., our annual drive back to Michigan over 4th of July--the first CD we have to listen to is Roxette's Joyride. Other than that, we usually take a mix of CDS.....mainly country, some 80s stuff, and a little bit of rock.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The Outlaws - Green Grass and High Tides Forever
Marshall Tucker Band - Fire on the Mountain
Jerry Garcia - The Wheel
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
The Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway
Frank Zappa - Billy the Mountain
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
April Wine - Sign of the Gypsy King
The Band - The Weight
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Just a few suggestions.

[true-crime.livejournal.com]

I don't know your taste in music, but somehow I don't think this one fits, but I always take the soundtrack to Romeo & Juliet. Yes the one with Clair Daines and Leonardo DiCaprio. Works for me.

[phenyx.livejournal.com]

The last time I went on a road trip it was 8 hours either way, which is a lot of listening. I listened to a bunch of the Feynman Lectures on Physics, and a bunch of CBC Quirks and Quarks podcast episodes, but that's not exactly general listening.

I also listened to:

- the first 4 Captain Tractor albums in order
- Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (album)
- the first CD or two of my dad's 100 Mozart Melodies collection
- Horace X - Strategy (album)
- Jesse Cook - Vertigo (album)
- Shooglenifty - The Arms Dealer's Daughter (album)

And some other stuff I'm pretty sure I don't remember...

[whytraven.livejournal.com]

Truckin' - Grateful Dead
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Slap yo' Bitch up - Prodigy (not P.C. but...)
Eagles Greatest Hits esp. Hotel California & Take it Easy
You are always on my mind (I forget, it was a long time ago ;-)
Hungry Boys - Blue Oyster Cult

[tropism.livejournal.com]

TMBG stuff you can sing to, like most of Flood...
Pink Floyd: "Comfortably Numb" and "Another Brick in the Wall"...

Keep them doggies rollin' !

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

• Rawhide theme, from the Blues Brothers soundtrack, or pretty much the whole album.


• The Truck Drivin' Song by Weird Al Yankovic...


• Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads.


• I Drove All Night by Cyndi Lauper (or Céline Dion).

[ladycalliope.livejournal.com]

Movin' Right Along - the Muppets :-)

I also like origin or destination-specific tunes, like Paul Simon's Graceland (heading to Memphis for the Liberty Bowl in 1995) and Billy Joel's New York State of Mind (put on a mix tape for me when I left for college).

[bmbeaver.livejournal.com]

The Eagles Greatest Hits
Fleetwood Mac
Bob Seeger - Roll Me Away

[aris-tgd.livejournal.com]

I tend to listen to Alan Parsons Project CDs when I drive. A lot.

Other than that, blaring most of Something Beautiful has saved my sanity more than once. I made a GBS mix CD and a GBS/Runrig mix CD which are both great driving music, IMHO. For the latter I basically alternated tracks from Sea of No Cares and Amazing Things. Plus 'The Engine Room' because it is the best.

[leto-bucher.livejournal.com]

I'd say the Jagged Little Pill CD by Alanis Morrisette (I know, I know:)
Also, Cowboy Bebop's got some great driving tunes in it too...Spokey Dokey, Felt Tip Pen, Diggin' my Potato, any guitar-countryish songs like that ;)