Post by jennistarr1 on Jun 18, 2013 12:58:48 GMT -5
true story...we just road tripped and as soon as we got on the road, husband turned on his IPOD and played "Holiday Road" and every other song that ever appeared on the Vacation movies soundtrack...
Good god. Note to self: never take a road trip with protozoa.
Beach Boys - so many options, but I'd say Little Deuce Coupe and 409 are musts Beastie Boys - No Sleep til Brooklyn (mostly appropriate if you happen to be going on a road trip to Brooklyn) Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar - California Zephyr Big Star - In the Street Bobby Bare Jr. - Borrow Your Girlfriend Bottle Rockets - $1,000 Car; Indianapolis Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run; Thunder Road; Promised Land; Open All Night; Racing in the Street CCR - Proud Mary; Travelin' Band Fountains of Wayne - Bright Future in Sales Frank Turner - I Am Disappeared Free Energy - Free Energy George Jones - Hotter Than a Two Dollar Pistol George Strait - Amarillo by Morning Glossary - Shout it From the Rooftops; Natural State Gram Parsons - Return of the Greivous Angel Hayes Carll - Wish I Hadn't Stayed So Long; Little Rock Lucero - I Can Get Us Out of Here Tonight; That Much Further West Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road My Morning Jacket - One Big Holiday Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere; Rockin' in the Free World; Roll Another Number Old 97s - If My Heart Was a Car Old Crow Medicine Show -Wagon Wheel Son Volt - Windfall Steve Earle - Copperhead Road Tift Merrit - Laid a Highway Tom Petty - Runnin' Down a Dream; Free Fallin' Townes Van Zandt - Pancho and Lefty U2 - Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Uncle Tupelo - The Long Cut; Wilco - Passenger Side; Monday; Via Chicago
For most road trips, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac, Clapton, The Eagles, Don Henley, and U2 albums from the 80s (particularly The Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, and Rattle & Hum) are my choices because they remind me of driving to Atlanta when I was little (and because they're awesome). But if you're driving after dark, I want to hear Phil Collins and Genesis (for the same reason).
And if you're driving to, like, Miami or The Hamptons, no way. I'd have an entirely different strategies for those trips.