What is the best highway music?

[neoteric lefty]

Highway music as in what is the best music when you are taveling on the open road with your destination hours away and nothing to keep you busy except you mind, your music and the road. My favorite has gotta be Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. I never get tired of their Greatest Hits album when I have to take trips with the ragtop down and the wind in my hair. Makes me feel great to be alive.

[LibertyorDeath]

1. OMG you just freaked me out

I drove 3000 miles in 52 hours couple of years ago

I had a Carton of smokes

an endless supply of Pepsi & Chocolate (caffeine)

But what got me thru was

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits

I did not take it out of the deck for the entire drive.

YOU CAN STAND ME UP AT THE GATES OF HELL BUT I WONT BACK DOWN !

Cheers

[neoteric lefty]

3. You understand what I am talking about

There may be a handful of Tom Petty songs that seem to get old. The rest are classics. His music just "goes" with driving.

She was.... an American Girl!

[WildClarySage]

2. Da Boss

Bruce Springsteen's Greatest Hits album is gonna get me through 7 hours of driving to Grandma's with wildclary jr. today.

[No Mandate Here.]

4. For years, we have started family trips,

with an old UB40 tape, playing loudly. I found another copy and gave it to my college aged daughter last year; it was her favorite Christmas present.

I used to listen to old Dead bootlegs, but my mind wandered too much. LOL.

[OneBlueSky]

5. this one's always nice . . .

[SoCalDem]

6. Oldies.. like Steppenwolf...Born to be Willlllllllddddddd..Loud!!

it's a nice convertible tune..

[Jerseygirltoo]

7. Steve Earle

Especially 'Essential Steve Earle', his early stuff. I love to listen to it while I'm driving. It's got a lot of good road songs, including 6 Days on the Road, Hillbilly Highway, Guitar Town, and
best of all, Copperhead Road.

[Webster Green]

8. Lou Reed....'Rock and Roll Animal' album

'Sweet Jane' etc.

Really!

[arwalden]

9. Car Wash -- Rose Royce (The Entire Soundtrack On 8-Track)

[Shopaholic]

10. Allman Brothers Greatest Hits

I could drive all night listening to that one!

[shain from kane]

19. Jessica...... from Iowa to Boston.

Featured in the movie, Field of Dreams. Southbound, and the rest of Brothers and Sisters, one of the best ever.

[Radical Activist]

23. For Southern road trips, Allman Brothers is best

They just came out with a 2-disc anthology that looks great for anyone who doesn't already have most of their CD's. It covers their entire career.

[Burma Jones]

11. One of my Mix Disks

Allman Brothers - Jessica
JC Bach - Harpsichord Concerto
Beach Boys - Good Vibrations, Heroes and Villians
Grateful Dead - Bertha, Jack Straw, China Cat/Rider
Camper van Beethoven - Eye of Fatima, Life is Grand, Photograph
Luther Wright and the Wrongs - Rebuild the Wall
Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy
Sonny Boy Williamson - Help Me, The Goat
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Nick Drake - One of These Things First, Time Has Told Me
Jerry Garcia Band - Tangled Up in Blue

[Az]

12. Juno Reactor

Its my current fave driving music. Techno/Trance style music. Most likely know them from the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies or Once Upon A Time in Mexico. A very driving rythm and complex interwoven threads create a perfect blend for twisting roads.

[TX-RAT]

13. Grand Funk Railroad.

Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Moody Blues.
James Gang.
Black Oak Arkansas.

[Kid_A]

14. My favorite highway song is "Low Desert" by R.E.M.

It's on "New Adventures in Hi-Fi", which is chock-full of songs about travel and being on the road, but "Low Desert" is the best one.

It's about a guy who's driving through the desert and crashes his car, and hallucinates as he dies all alone. It rules!

[bif]

15. Taj Mahal

Is about the best thing you can listen to on a long trip.

[No Mandate Here.]

18. Giant Step/ The Old Folks at Home is his Best, IMHO. <nt>

[TrogL]

16. AC/DC

17. If you like them - the Grateful Dead

particularly their blues jams circa 1969-71

[Droopy]

20. I got a lot of mileage out of Black Sabbath

Some good old Metallica and Megadeth, too. Heavy metal is my favorite, but you got to watch when you listen to that stuff behind the wheel. It can make you more suseptable to road rage.

[VelmaD]

21. If you're having a hard tiem staying awake...Weird Al

I'm not kidding. I get to laughing so hard that it keeps me from falling asleep.

Otherwise I listen to Tool, The Grateful Dead, Indigo Girls, or the soundtrack to Jesus Christ Superstar. :)

[LynzM]

25. Nice picks...

I don't own much Dead, but I'll gladly sing along with the rest of that!

And I'm like "Hey, you can't have that
That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me!"

LMAO

[Parrcrow]

22. CCR Greatest Hits vol 1 and 2

and The Baddest of George Thorogood.

[FatSlob]

24. Too Slim and the Taildraggers!

Saw them at Bumbershoot in Seattle.