Best road trip song?

[Radical Activist]

I'm taking a net break during my weekend road trip. What is your all time favorite song to have blasting from your car stereo during a road trip? Easy Rider set the standard but I'm sure we can go way beyond that.

My pick is Blue Sky by the Allman Brothers Band. Its even more perfect for road trips in the South, the best road trippin region. I love that song. It sounds even better when you're driving down a rural highway in Georgia.

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1. Radar Love - Golden Earring

Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Tush - ZZ Topp

[mcscajun]

2. Two: the first is another from the Allman Brothers..."Ramblin' Man"

...it serendipitously came on the radio one time when I was on a road trip to Louisiana from NJ...the morning I was leaving Nashville heading south.

"I'm on my way to New Orleans this mornin'
leaving out of Nashville, Tennessee.
They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou..."

Yeee-Ha!


The second: "Travelin' Prayer" by Billy Joel.

[countmyvote4real]

3. I have two, both from Joni Mitchell's Hejira:

1. Coyote (a really good driving song)
2. Refuge of the Roads (somewhat more mellow)

Oh the hell with it. I could drive across country with my Joni and Steely Dan collections. Speaking of Steely Dan, "Deacon Blues" and "My Old School" come to mind.

But like I said, it's all good.

[Radical Activist]

6. I love Joni

but for some reason I don't have that album and I haven't heard it. I only got into her in the past year.

[countmyvote4real]

14. Get yourself a copy for the trip back: Hejira n/t

[Book Lover]

4. Running Down a Dream - Petty & the Heartbreakers

If it's just speeding around the track, though, I prefer instrumentals, like Satriani's "Can't Slow Down".

[enigmatic]

5. "I'm Over You"- The Silos

Doubles as my favorite kiss-off song as well. A monumentally underappreciated band for way too long, and Walter Salas-Humara is as nice a guy as they come..

http://www.thesilos.net/

[sasquatch]

7. "Roadcrew" by Motorhead

:headbang:

[GOPisEvil]

8. "Windfall" by Son Volt

Or "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty.

[enigmatic]

20. "Windfall" is a classic

And on the Jay/Jeff thing, I'm a Jay Farrar guy; he never wrote a better song after Uncle Tupelo broke up..

[BOSSHOG]

9. Southbound by Sammy Kershaw

Not a song to "blast" from your stereo but certainly a nice listen if you are meandering rural highways.

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. "Myrrh" - The Church

It has this really great, insistent beat that makes you think of driving fast; nothing like pumping this and opening the sunroof.

Add: "Black Metallic" by Catherine Wheel. Much slower by comparison, but also great for road trips.

And honorable mention for "Happy" by Ned's Atomic Dustbin.

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[countmyvote4real]

18. Love your SUJ... graphic.

Hope you don't mind if I use it when nothing else will do.

[fudge stripe cookays]

23. Sure.

Just wait til I change mine! I hate looking like a copycat!

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[yardwork]

11. Anything by The Kinks

[Kat45]

12. The Doors "Roadhouse Blues"

[CanuckAmok]

13. Summertime Blues, as covered by La Muerte

It's...just...WHAMADOODLE!

Or any of the White Zombie remixes of Thunder Kiss '65

[T Roosevelt]

15. Foreplay/Longtime, Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Flirtin with Disaster, and Orange Blossom Special (Hellecasters) - all nice and long, made for the open road.

[Jara sang]

16. Travelin' Man -- Bob Segar

We left Seattle last summer and had just made it over Snoqualmie Pass, it was about 11:30 at night and I just switched on the radio when that song came on(live version). It was day one of a month long road trip. That sent chills down my spine. Also Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Simple Man".

[Lady Freedom]

17. The highwayman by the Highwaymen

I was a highwayman. Along the coach roads I did ride
With sword and pistol by my side
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five
But I am still alive.

I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.

I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide
Where steel and water did collide
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below
They buried me in that great tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around..I'll always be around..and around and around and
around and around

I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again and again..

[Corgigal]

19. Steppenwolf songs

Born to be wild OR Magic Carpet Ride.

My new bob the head in the car and drive song is this though:

Gorillaz's Feel Good.

[EC]

21. Satisfaction Guaranteed

the song...really the whole CD - The Firm

[Tikki]

22. "Time Is Tight"....Booker T & the MG's.....n/t

[RetroLounge]

24. Highway Star - Deep Purple

from Live Made In Japan.

RL

[JimmyJazz]

25. Brand New Cadillac

[Neshanic]

26. Pat Metheny "See the World" drive up CA coast N of Ventura.

[Theres-a]

27. King of the road

[Shrubhater]

28. Disco Inferno

It's got a really good beat to it.

[TroubleMan]

29. "Bustin' Loose" by Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers

http://sg1.allmusic.com/cg/smp.dll?link=pufe7ifepkpunbhvrfwgwyv&z=MP3&r=20.asx

"I feel like bustin loose....like bustin loose"
"Gimme the bridge now!!"



I just went on a road trip, and made 3 cd's for it, one soul, one reggae, and one merengue & salsa.

They were all made to be the upbeat and faster songs to keep me awake and singing. Here's the soul one:

"Bustin' Loose" by Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers
"Superman Lover" by Johnny Guitar Watson
"Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose" by Teddy Pendergrass
"I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby" by Barry White
"Rhymes" by Al Green
"Kissing My Love" by Bill Withers
"I Can't Stand The Rain" by Ann Peebles
"My Thang" by James Brown
"Pusher Man" by Curtis Mayfield and the Imperials
"Compared To What" by Billy Paul
"Take Five (live version)" by Al Jarreau
"The Way You Love Me" by Karyn White
"Danger" by Erykah Badu
"It's Love" by Jill Scott
"What I'd Say, Parts I & II" by Ray Charles
"Back In Love" by LTD

There were a couple of others on there, but I can't remember off the top of my head.

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Queens of the Stone Ages' "Songs For The Deaf" is designed to be...

a road trip album. (And it's a damn good one at that.)