There are times in your life when your context suddenly and perfectly meshes with a tune that's playing. Might be in the car, in your earphones whilst at the supermarket (You know who you Mr Miles Davis does Tesco) or setting your generic mp3 player or online streaming music service to shuffle and getting blown out of your socks when an awesome intro kicks in.
Roadtrips are built for tunes to mark the miles and as my steed for the trip comes ready and willing with a USB input, it would be rude not to stuff it to within an inch of it's life with choonage.
Now I know there are several
There's at least 100 hours of driving to do so, at 4 mins a song, that's 1500 tracks to get through. Post your comments and suggestions below...
Golden brown - stranglers
ReplyDeleteCalifornia dreaming - mammas and pappas
ReplyDeleteNot bad, good for sunsets I reckon
ReplyDeleteRoute 66 - stones
ReplyDeleteAlmost Anything by the beach boys.
Learning to fly - Tom petty
The album 18 - Moby
The album infected - the the
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann. Listen to every word as you ponder life...
ReplyDeleteMr. Mister - Broken wings.
ReplyDeleteLove listening to this whilst driving in the sun & windows down & glasses on rocking away!!
Damo
..and I thought you were a hard man. Soft Rock-mungous.
ReplyDelete...... There is always a soft side!! :P
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to tomorrow, what's the plans boss?
Where the Streets have no name U2
ReplyDeleteSweet Home Alabama
One Vision - Queen
You Shook me all night long ACDC
Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
The Killers Mr Brightside
Santana - Smooth
Quite a strange mixture of songs but all great in the car!
- Born to be Wild/Steppenwolf
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Gotta have - and you were!
(Two wheels I know - but it features a road!
Avoid the Rednecks!)
- Jessica/Allman Brothers
For obvious reasons!
- Me and Bobby McGee/Kris Kristofferson
(from Monte Hellman's Two Lane Blacktop)
- Agree any Beach Boys, esp Little Deuce Coupe!
- Any Jan and Dean too
- Stick Shift/The Duals - great engine!
- Ridin' with the Blues/Ry Cooder from Album "I Flathead" - more engine grooves.
- Agree Santana - Album: Supernatural - cool driving in hot climes!
- Album: Man in Black/Johnny Cash
- Album: Drive/Robert Palmer
- Album: Blue Moon (26 Doo Wop classics)
- Any Tamla Motown!
- Album: Atlantic Soul (definitive classics)
- Album: Complete 1953 Studio Masters/Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker Quartet (cool West Coast Jazz for California segment - but includes Carson City Stage for Nevada!)
I could go on.
Enjoy!
Big D
Tracks by State...
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- Colorado
Rocky Mountain High/John Denver (sorry)
- Utah
From a Jack to a King/Ned Miller
- Nevada
Stop in Nevada/Billy Joel
- California
Do You Know the Way to San Jose?/Dionne Warwick
- Oregon
Louie Louie/The Kingsmen (yess!)
- Idaho
Hot Rod Lincoln/Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen
- Wyoming
Western Movies/The Olympics
- South Dakota
The Deadwood Stage/Doris Day!
(you could also have: Please Mr Custer/Larry Verne)
- Nebraska
Good Rockin' Tonight/Wynonie Harris