Road trip music

Here's some songs with subject matter that kind of fits...
Tom Petty- Runnin down a dream
Willie Nelson-On the road again
Deep Purple- Highway Star
Led Zeppelin-Kashmir
The Who-Going Mobile
The Beatles-Two of us
Bruce Springsteen- Promised Land
Judas Priest- Heading out to the highway

I'm not a huge lover of road trips....or flying

 

Cassettes? Exactly how old a car you taking on a road trip?I’m lamenting losing a CD player

 

I suppose it may be a receiver with a (1/8 ") line input to allow for a portable cassette tape player? That or it's time for a trade-in.

 

Faves are:
Steppenwolf - s/t thru For Ladies Only
Doobie Brothers - s/t thru Takin It To The Streets
Allman Bros. - s/t thru Win Lose or Draw
Grateful Dead - most any live recording. (for me: the Pigpen era)
James Gang / Joe Walsh - all
Marshall Tucker Band - s/t thru Running Like The Wind
CS&N - couch album
CSN&Y - Deja Vu
Stephen Stills - s/t
Loggins & Messina - 1st 3 LPs
Any Tumbleweed or Biscuit City label LPs

 

When I had a cassette player I kept these in car all the time
Dylan-BOTT
PF-Animals
Genesis-Seconds Out

 

Overnight driving is when I end up listening to fusion jazz.
Speedy heavy metal always goes good with daytime road trips.

 

Some great “road” songs:

“Route 66” - I prefer Nat King Cole for a classic version and Depeche Mode for a modern version.
“America” - Simon & Garfunkel
“Road Runner” - The Modern Lovers
“Take it Easy” - The Eagles
“Ol 55” - The Eagles
“Life is a Highway” - Tom Cochrane or Rascal Flatts version
“CB Song” - Legendary Shack Shakers
“Long White Cadillac” - The Blasters
“Helen Wheels” - Paul McCartney
“Little Red Corvette” - Prince
“The Passenger” - Iggy Pop
“Maybelline” - Chuck Berry
“I’ve Been Everywhere” - Johnny Cash
“Promised Land” - Elvis Presley
“Radar Love” - Golden Earing
“Ventura Highway” - America
“Born to be Wild” - Steppenwolf
“Rockaway Beach” - The Ramones
“Road to Nowhere” - Talking Heads
“Brand New Cadillac” - The Clash

 

A semi-obscure band that creates fantastic post-rock/ambient music, ideal for driving: Hammock.

 

The Grateful Dead

 

I made a multi CD comp of the Beatles A - Z.

 

Aw geez, I LOVE Hammock! Thanks for the reminder!
I suggest these three from Koop: "Summer Sun", "Come To Me", & "I See A Different You"...zippy, sugar-pop lounge jazz, with riffs and grooves sampled from various space-age bachelor pad LP collections!
Deodato's "Rhapsody In Blue", and the live version (to be quadraiffically re-released by Dutton-Vocalion this month) of "Do It Again"
What the heck, Patrick Williams' "concerto for cop shows", the album Threshold has some toe-tappin' big-ass band tracks that'll get you groovin' down the road!
And, since you can't drive to Ibiza from here, grab the Weekend Players album Pursuit of Happiness - don't forget your don't-get-it-wet swimsuit, and grab that strappy black number for the Casino.

BTW, those of you with USB sticks will get frustrated with your always-predictable/always-alphabetical song selection, after the first few plays. Elsewhere on this board, there's a thread about freeware programs you reside on your flash stick, which turns your selections into random playlists, just by inserting a random sequence of numbers in front of whichever tag field you assign it to (your Aerosmith becomes "03547Aerosmith", etc). And many of these programs can re-order the random numbers, so you can scramble them all for the next road trip! Look for that thread!

 

Well, I wouldn’t just recommend the Dead for anyone traveling, but I will agree that on the road I like some longer, meandering tunes to follow over the miles

Yo LaTengo - Pass the Hatchet, I’m Goodkind; The Story of ...
Wilco - Spiders
Sonic Youth - Rain on Tin, Disconnection Notice, Stones, Dripping Dream, Sympathy for the Strawberry, Hits of Sunshine
The Decemberists - The Tain, The Hazards of Love

 

Duran Duran - Greatest Hits (or many songs from that disc get put on the playlist)

 

Robert Plant's "Big Log" and his cover of Dylan's "One More Cup of Coffee" would fit in here!

 

The Beatles "Love" CD will make an hour and 18 minutes on the road fly by. ..... a fun listen.

 

2000 S-10

 

I just drove 1300 miles from SW Florida to Chicago with my dog. I plug my Pono player with the line in to my 2009 Genesis. Here is what I listened to.

Iggy Pop - Post Pop Depression
Velvet Underground- Velvet Underground (Valentin Mix)
David Bowie- Bowie at the Beeb
Eno - Another Green World
Eno Moebius Roedelius - After the Heat
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Margo Price - Midwest Farmer’s Daughter
Margo Price - Weakness EP
Margo Price - Live in Austin Texas January 2018 (audience recording)
Jozef Van Wissem, Squrl, and others - Only Lovers Left Alive (OST)
Fugazi - Instrument
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Dos - Justamente Tres
Roxy Music - Stranded
Roxy Music - Country Life
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Jack White - Boarding House Reach
The Who - Odds & Sods

 

Wasn’t that what the Terminator was driving in T2 when they’re about to be slammed by the 18-wheeler? “Step on it!” “This is the vehicle’s top speed.”

 

It could've been an S-10, i'm not sure. It's been awhile since I last saw Terminator 2.

 

Used to take endless road trips. Huge quantities of Pat Metheny added texture and life to the landscape.

 

I prefer to make mixtapes for my roadtrips, but these albums invariably make it into the mix:

Bananarama - Deep Sea Skiving
The Bangles - Greatest Hits
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
The Rolling Stones - December's Children

 

Just took a road trip last month. Brought along a bunch of music, but the best for blasting down the highway were McCartney's "Run Devil Run" and John Prine's "Tree of Forgiveness."

 

Roger Waters - Radio KAOS