What's your favorite road trip music?

Swamp Rock, Southern Rock, Trock, Wrock and Classic Rock.

Creedence Clearwater Revival and Blue Oyster Cult.

You can run pandora through your smart phone.

Try Son Volt’s, Trace CD.

Forget all that other stuff just listen to Justice the whole ride :P

If I’m by myself, anything loud and rocking will fit the bill. If other people are in the car, I prefer nothing or something low and easy. Too many different sources of noise make me crazy (er, crazier).

First thing that comes to mind, especially when traveling during the summer, The Eagles.
Yeah! Oh, and of course Bob Marley!

Supertramp!
Since childhood, that has been my favourite band to listen to the road.

The Eagles, the Guess Who, Bryan Adams, Heart, and Fleetwood Mac also figure into the mix. Is it obvious that I go on a lot of road trips with my parents? This is definitely not what I listen to regularly…

@shadling- right on! I hear ya on that one! However, I’d have to add Wings to that list. Good times!

Soundtrack from “Knocked Up”. It’s great fun and you can sing with a lot of it.

Oh and somewhere in there cruising down the road you have to listen to Highway Star and Radar Love

Queen.
A Night at The Opera and Sheer Heart Attack

Pink Floyd.
Meddle and The Wall

Any upbeat Prince, The Killers, Otis Redding, Mika, Outkast, and Jason Mraz.

Pink Floyd: Animals.

Mmm…
My road trip list includes (in no particular order):
1979 – Smashing Pumpkins
Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Parallel universe – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Wonderwall – Oasis
Champagne Supernova – Oasis
Supersonic – Oasis
Live Forever – Oasis
Ocean Ave. – Yellowcard
Never Gonna Say I’m sorry – Ace of Base
All that she wants – Ace of Base
Living in Danger – Ace of Base
Wheel of Fortune – Ace of Base
Question of faith – Lighthouse
Don’t dream it’s over – Crowded House
Shattered dreams – Jhonny hates jazz
Everybody wants to rule the world – Tears for fears
Something something – maxwell
Colorblind – Counting crows
Hanging by a moment – lifehouse
drive – incubus
wish you where here – incubus
I’m with you – avril lavigne
just be – dj tiesto
connected – paul van dyk
I can keep going on and on :)
For pop en español:
Anything by Reik/Fonseca/soda stereo/la ley :)

I love a really queer, 90’s mix when I’m on the road.

Roll to me by Del Amitri, plenty of Ace of Base and Oasis, like flameboi recommended. Also, the Empire Records soundtrack is great for the road.

Asmonet took the words out of my mouth with CCR. Tons of awesome suggestions all around, you guys. Now I want to take a road trip!

I listen to a ton a music but I have found that when driving very long distances, more than 3 or 4 hours, putting on electronic music is great. It zones you out and the tracks blur together which makes time seem to slip by. Also if it’s really fast and up beat it kind of fells like your in a racing game haha.

Bob Marley!

Kraftwerk – Autobahn
I cant believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet

I like listening to my own band’s music. It’s all improvisational, so I can’t help but listen for my own part, and wish I had played it just a little different. It’s funny. No matter how many times I play it, it never changes!

Of course this won’t help you, since you can’t get my stuff. However, a lot of what we do is very meditative and might put you to sleep. This made me wonder, do people like fast, loud music because it wakes you up, or complex but calming music on their road trips?

“Autobahn,” yes!

Bruce Kaphan’s Slider is crucial if you’re driving anywhere desert-like or prairie-like.

He has the whole album available as free MP3s on that page – plus cover art!

Music? For long trips I listen to audiobooks. Get a good book off of like audible.com and it will easily keep you entertained for the entire trip.

Graceland by Paul Simon. Best album to listen to while driving.

Pat Metheny, especially the early album The Pat Metheny Group.

This American Life is awesome for road trips. I just hammered out about then this last weekend.

I would have to go with Phish and/or the Beatles.

Love the idea of “This American Life” playing as well. Any Sedaris would be great as well but it would kind of depend on what part of the country we were driving through. :)

damn pandora for the car…thats ingenious. haha

but for hip hop at least. i would definitely recommend Tribe Called Quest, BLACK STAR (mos def and kweli), Gang Starr (moment of truth is my favorite album), Jurassic 5, the Pharcyde, Wu-Tang, The Roots, Common, Nappy Roots

maybe some jam tunes would fit well too for road trippin’. The Allman Brothers blow my mind while driving. The Grateful Dead, Bob Marley, G. Love, maybe some Herbie Hancock

annd i don’t know if you listen to any electronica but if i were goin on a road trip i’d put some Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Girl Talk

and just a few other recommendations are the Mars Volta, some Modest Mouse.

Also, if you like funk/jazz at all (like old incubus) i can’t recommend LETTUCE enough (album RAGE). They are insane! Saw them at Allgood festival this year and i couldn’t contain myself. lol

music is kind of my passion so sorry for listing so much but throw a few of those in pandora and see what you think :) hope you have an awesome trip

@ arcoarena you have some great taste in music!

Dixie Chicks “Takin’the Long Way”

I have a giant mix of about 350 songs that I can sing along with (the kind of songs i know every single word to), and when I’m driving, especially by myself, I hook my ipod up with a tape adapter and sing away. I drive from Missouri to Georgia a lot, and it is just the right length.

That’s what I do. Ipod with tape adapter. I told her to use her smart phone for Pandora radio. I use the tape adapter for that too. Works really well.

Steve, if you think I have a “smart phone” you must have mistaken me for someone else. I have no “smart phone” – my phone be dumbbbbb. It knows how to ring when someone calls me and how to dial out when i press the right buttons, and that’s about it.

Tits, (heehee heeeheehee) do you care to share what any of these 350 songs are so I can consider adding them to my “road music” mix as well?

uberbatman, I downloaded “We are Your Friends” and I have had it stuck in my head all day!

@la chica gomela yeaaaaaa justice has that effect lol
this song is probably my favorite from them,though this is a close second

The Gourds’ cover of “Gin and Juice.”

Thanks everyone! I added Justice’s “We Are Your Friends”, Fonseca’s “Te Mando Flores”, and several Eagles songs to my mix, as well as some other new stuff. Great suggestions all around! We had an awesome trip! Thanks again!

I know I’m a little late in answering this, but this is a sampling of mine for next time:

A Bitch is a Bitch – N.W.A
All I Want is You – Barry Louis Polisar
Almost Summer – Jason Collett
Always Be My Baby – Mariah Carey
American Pie – Don McLean
Authority Song – Jimmy Eat World
Bad Moon Rising – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Better Son/Daughter – Rilo Kiley
Beverly Hills – Weezer
Big Poppa – Notorious B.I.G.
Bitches Ain’t Shit – Ben Folds
Black Velvet – Alannah Miles
Bye Bye Love – The Ditty Bops
Catch My Disease – Ben Lee
Cheated Hearts – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Clint Eastwood – The Gorillaz
Coin-Operated Boy – Dresden Dolls
The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Jones Band
Did I Step On Your Trumpet – Danielson
Don’t Matter – Akon
Drop It Like It’s Hot – Snoop Dogg
Get Up, Stand Up – Bob Marley
Going to Georgia – Atom and His Package
Head Over Heels – Tears for Fears
Heavy Metal Drummer – Wilco
Here Comes My Baby – Yo La Tengo
Here’s to the Night – Eve 6
Hey Now Now – The Cloud Room
Hips Don’t Lie – Shakira
Homeward Bound – Simon and Garfunkel
I Got Grapes – Nump
I Know We Have to Be Apart – The Bicycles
I Think We’re Alone Now – The Pipettes
I Wish I Was a Lesbian – Loudon Wainwright III
I’m A Playa – Tech N9ne
I’m On My Way – the Proclaimers
I’m On Top of the World – The Carpenters
Is She Really Going Out With Him? – Goldfinger
Italian Leather Sofa – Cake
Jealousy – Natalie Merchant
July, July! – The Decembrists
Legend of a Cowgirl – Imani Copola
Little Bastard – Ass Ponies
Make It Rain – Fat Joe
Mary Jane (The Weed Song) – Bone-Thugs-n’-Harmony
Mix Tape – Brand New
Mothers, Sisters Daughters and Wives – Voxtrot
Nessun Dorma – East Village Opera Company
Never Been to Spain – Three Dog Night
Oh, Daniel – Tafra
Oregon Girl – Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin
Pass the Dutchie – Musical Youth
Powers – Blackalicious
Remix to Ignition – R. Kelley
Say Yes if You Love Me – Acid House Kings
Sexy – Black Eyed Peas
She’d Rather Be With Me – The Turtles
Shimmy Shimmy Ya – ODB
Since U Been Gone – Ted Leo
Snap Yo Fingers – Lil’ John
Son of a Gun – Janet Jackson
Stuttering – Ben’s Brother
Summer Dress – Red House Painters
Super Tuesday – Hearts of Palm, U.K.
There Goes My Baby – The Drifters
There You Go – Pink
There’s a Girl – Dressy Bessy
This Is Why I’m Hot – MIMS
This Modern Love – Bloc Party
Tire Swing – Kimya Dawson
True Blue – Bright Eyes
Uniform – The Essex Green
We Care a Lot – Faith No More
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse
Wishful Thinking – The Ditty Bops
Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too! – Say Anything
You Know I Love You – The Pigeon Detectives
You’re So Vain – Carly Simon
Young Bride – Midlake
88 Lines About 44 Women – They Might Be Giants
99 Red Balloons – Nena

@Tits- zOMG. Please tell me you copied and pasted that. That is one impressive list.

Haha, no c&ping here; I listed them off my iPod. That’s just a sampling of this playlist… I use it when I drive from Missouri to Georgia, which is about 10 hours, and it’s the perfect length.

nothing beats Moab by Conor Oberst. i’d like to write you up a playlist but i don’t know how well the music i like fits into what you like. but i don’t think you can go wrong with Moab. “there’s nothing that the road cannot heal/there’s nothing that the road cannot heal/washed under the blacktop/gone beneath my wheels/there’s nothing that the road cannot heal…..see those headlights coming towards us?/that’s someone going back/to a town they said they’d never, yeah/they swore it on their lives”
ah it’s so good. <3