Top 5 - Road Trip Albums
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With spring fully upon us and wedding season getting into full swing, it will soon be time for many of us to hit the great American highways for road trip weekend getaways. Inevitably I spend more time picking which CDs will accompany me on the trip than I do packing my wardrobe and toiletries (this is why I usually end up forgetting socks or toothpaste, but I have enough music to last me from coast to coast). To make the cut, the album must meet two basic criteria: I must be able to listen to the entire album without skipping a song (sometimes I will even listen to the album twice in a row), and I must be able to belt it out along with each song (this generally rules out albums with more than one instrumental...also, yes, I often look like a complete jackass singing in my car...fellow roadtrippers, just be thankful that I resist the urge to bust out the air guitar and that I keep my hands on the steering wheel). So, in honor of my painstaking road trip preparations, and to help ease the pain of soaring gas prices, I offer my top five road trip albums (I've excluded greatest hits albums because there are just too many good ones): 1) The White Stripes - Icky Thump: I think that I could have put any White Stripes album here, but this one gets the nod because it is their most recent. Plus I love the gritty guitar work on the the title track. The one blemish on this album, as far as I am concerned, is Meg's contribution "St. Andrew" (but I still kind of like the trippy background music). I love turning the volume up on this album and making the soda in the cup holder vibrate like a T-Rex is on my ass.
2) Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces: This album is simply fan-freaking-tastic. The seemingly upbeat songs mask some really dark and overtly political lyrics. I mean, what other album has a song about mercenary armies that could also make you want to get up and dance? Short answer: none. Long answer: I'm not sure if I even know any other songs about mercenary armies. This is New Wave/post-punk at it's best, and it makes 40 minutes of your drive fly by.
3) Weezer - Weezer: If you haven't driven around in a carload of your friends singing "Undone - The Sweater Song" at the top of your lungs, then I refuse to believe that you actually exist as a human. Check that...I'm pretty sure that my grandma hasn't done that, and I know for a fact that she is human. Regardless, I am not ashamed to say that I love this bastion of geek rock and I am all too happy to include it in every trip I take.
4) Beck - Odelay: Truth be told, I've never actually owned this album. A friend of mine burned it for me while in college, and I still listen to that burned copy today. It produced a lot of awesome songs, and three very popular ones - "Devil's Haircut," "New Pollution," and "Where It's At." But my favorites are the lesser-known "Sissyneck" and "Readymade." Somehow these songs just seem fit for hitting the open road..in fact, if you are going on any long distance driving trips this summer and Beck is remotely in your spectrum of musical interests, I urge you to download these songs and bring them along.
5) The Clash - London Calling: You know that I had to include an album from the Clash, and I didn't want to disappoint. I won't bore everyone by extolling the virtues of this album (I could definitely go on and on), but I will say that I usually wait to listen to this album until late in the trip...because delayed satisfaction is the best kind of satisfaction, right?
By Kevin - 5/09/2008
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Windows down. Volume up.
Allman Brothers- Live at the Fillmore East
Stones- Let It Bleed
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Humble Pie- Rockin' The Fillmore
Springsteen- Greetings From Asbury Park
My top Two Road Trip Tunes...I was driving across Arizona and Cal in '71 and diggin these two:
LA Woman - Doors
Riders on the Storm - Doors
Top that
cruisin Tucumcari to Kingman....mojo was riZin ....layed in two more cases of COORS & Booked to the coast...hung out for two months in Dago - Mission & Ocean Beaches, Torrey Pines...just waitin for the man to ship my sorry ass to Nam - the call never came & now here I am & you are stuck with old Petey
Like I said before - Praise the Lord & Theres Killers on the road- minds r squirmin like a toad
PS - Thats bout all I remember of that epoch so I must of been groovin
One night: Cruisin up a canyon near Santee in my uncle's van, tossin down a few brews anong other things - Riders on the Storm comes across the AM dial,,,winding up and around the canyon- to the right then to the left in big arcing curves and over again. Cruisin? more like the Revelation
Road Trip---great movie
Really depends on how long the trip is.
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Chronicle, Vol. 1
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971
You're all a bunch of fucking douchebags
Anon, I think I used to have that album.... Sex Pistols?
Vari- My Man!
the DOORS? what? are you on a road trip to rob a bank???
Today 8======> A road trip to RETIREMENT
If you werent there in the time & place = You wouldnt comprehend
My mother was a douche bag
My sister was a douche bag
I guess that makes me one too
I got the douche bag blues
I got the douche bag blues
I got the douche bag blues
Lord I just don't know what to do
I sold dynamite to the Arabs
Bullets to the Jews
Whiskey to the Indians
And I'll get you too
I got the douche bag blues
I got the douche bag blues
I got the douche bag blues
Lord I just don't know what to do
Vinegar and water
The drink that I choose
I gotta tell ya brother
Tastes like %%$#& juice
Time flies when you're in a coma...
anything emo
brittany spears-hit me baby one more time
MIley Cirus
HIts now vol 1-26
slayer
-a night at the roxbury soundtrack
-jared
wow, the fake timjayfitz hit the nail on the head.
Some BIG time Car Tunes:
Mustang Sally- Wilson Pickett
Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
"Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
"American Pie" - Don McLean
"Cars" - Gary Numan
"409" - The Beach Boys
Dead Man's Curve" - Jan and Dean
"Drive My Car" - The Beatles
"Going Up Around the Bend" - Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Highway to Hell" - AC/DC
"Hot Rod Lincoln" - Commander Cody
"Last Kiss" - J. Frank Wilson
"Life in the Fast Lane" - The Eagles
"Little Deuce Coupe" - The Beach Boys
"Little G.T.O." - Ronny and the Daytonas
"Little Honda" - The Beach Boys
"Little Honda" - The Hondells
"Little Old Lady from Pasadena" - Jan and Dean
"Low Rider" - War
"California Sun" - Rivieras
"Mercedes Benz" - Janis Joplin
"Mr. Limousine Driver" - Grand Funk Railroad
"Pink Cadillac" - Bruce Springsteen
"Racing in the Streets" - Bruce Springsteen
"Roadhouse Blues" - The Doors
"Route 66" - Chuck Berry
"Rambling Man" - Allman Brothers
Just heard IT today - Gotta be #1 Road trip inspiration & Mother of Heavy Metal=
Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf
Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space
Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die
Born to be wild
Born to be wild
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