Help me built the "Ultimate Driving Music Playlist"

[GilpinGuy]

What's your #1 driving song?

I'm driving overnight to Iowa Thursday night. I'll pick up the wife from work at 2300 and we're gone. She will crash immediately. I'm looking for the best driving tunes for the 11-12 hour ride.

I'll probably just build a playlist from this thread, in order - hopefully there's stuff I haven't thought off or even heard of.

I'm into almost anything from Rush to Slayer, Pink Floyd to Beastie Boys, so really nothing is out of bounds (except pussy boy band shit and whining girl songs).

I'm starting with:
Rush: Red Barchetta.
[rockon]

[Erni]

No. Sleep. Till. Brooklyn.

Radar Love.

Maybe Happy Song

[Ah Pook]

Fav driving music;

Tom Waits- Black Rider
Chris Isaak-Forever Blue
Concrete Blonde
Iggy Pop- American Caeser
Jimi Hendrix
Johnny Cash
Morphine-Cure For Pain
Primus-Pork Soda

Those are the standards. [Rock][Punker]

[ray1970]

Wouldn't be complete without Highway to Hell by AC/DC.

[Fentonite]

Scorpions - Big City Nights

Hadn't thought of that song in years, but after reading the songs above, it popped into my head.

[ray1970]

I would also have to add a few more for sure.

Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart

Metallica - Seek and Destroy

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

Slipknot - Spit It Out

[davsel]

CCR
Petty
Skynyrd

[CS1983]

Townes Van Zandt's entire body of work. Twice.

[Honey Badger282.8]

My tastes tend to skew heavy.

Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole
NIN - Wish
NIN - Every Day is Exactly the Same
Danzig - Mother
Helmet - Driving Nowhere
Helmet - Unsung
Helmet - Crashing Foreign Cars
Fear Factory - Zero Signal
Fear Factory - Linchpin
Ozzy - Hellraiser
Soulfly - Prophecy
Strapping Young Lad - Love
Filter - So I Quit
In Flames - The Quite Place
Lamb of God - Remorse is for the Dead
A Perfect Circle - Passive
Machine Head - Days Turn Blue to Gray
Sevendust - Praise
Sevendust - Enemy
Meshuggah - Rational Gaze
Mudvayne - Not Falling
Trivium - In Waves
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Tool - Forty Six and Two
Tool - Lateralus
Periphery - Muramasa
Periphery - MK Ultra
Jerry Cantrell - Anger Rising
Living Colour - Cult of Personality

[Great-Kazoo]

Tom Waites Nighthawks at the Diner

Pink Floyd.......... ANIMALS.

Devotchka

Robert Earle Keene

Beck Odelay

Clapton, From The Cradle

SRV

The Black Crows, Southern Harmony Musical Companion

The Black Keys

Skynrd Street Survivors

The Who, Quadrophenia

U2.. ACTUNG BABY

NIN

DIO

AC/DC HIGHWAY TO HELL or Black in Black

Janes Addiction Ritual De Lo Habitual (10 minutes of 3 days)

Krokus HEADHUNTER.



When you gas up in Kearny, hand your spouse the noise cancelling headphones.
I try setting the music up to get me comfortable for the beginning of the trip. Finger tapping music during the midway point. With (your choice) of play it loud selections to get me to the end of the trip.

[MrAK]

I enjoyed listening to every Led Zeppelin album all in a row during my solo trip from Washington DC to Austin Texas years ago

[Mykidsdad]

Molly Hatchet - Flirtin With Disaster

[Martinjmpr]

Dang there sure are a bunch of headbangers here on COAR-15! [Coffee]

I have a "Road Tunes" playlist on my phone. It's actually my favorite playlist so I tend to throw everything I REALLY like in there.

I like bluesy stuff, and a lot of 80's music as well.

For an alternative to chord-crunching, groupie-groping maximum degenerate chainsaw rock n' roll, here are a few suggestions:

The road - Aaron Watson

Four Wheel Drive - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Transmaniacon MC - Blue Oyster Cult

The Golden Age of Leather - Blue Oyster Cult (both BOC songs are "biker" songs)

Hollywood Nights - Bob Seger

Get Out of Denver - Bob Seger (because how can you leave this one off?)

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen

On the Road Again - Canned Heat

Oooh Las Vegas - Cowboy Junkies

Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure

Route 66 - Depeche Mode (Probably my favorite version of that song)

Riders on the Storm - The Doors

Guitar Town - Steve Earle

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

Twist of the Knife - The Fabulous Thunderbirds

If You Don't Start Drinkin - George Thorogood

Everlong - Foo Fighters

Birth, School, Work, Death - The Godfathers

If I Only Had Time - The Godfathers

Rockin' Heven Down - Heart

Gypsy Man- JJ Cale

Perfectly Good Guitar - John Hiatt

Tennessee Plates - John Hiatt

Human Wheels - John Mellencamp

Sailing to Philadelphia - Mark Knopfler

What it is - Mark Knopfler

Gunbarrel Highway - Midnight Oil

By the U in Buick - John Coinman

Unknown Legend -Niel Young

Baby's in the Mountains - Peter Godwin

Cuts you up - Peter Murphy

Mach 5 - Presidents of the United States of America

Hazard - Richard Marx

King of the Hill - Roger McGuinn

Those are just some non-country recommendations.

[StagLefty]

Rollin with the "Stones" for me !!!

[BladesNBarrels]

I'll pick up the wife from work at 2300 and we're gone. She will crash immediately.



No, No - no crashing.

On the Road Again, Willie Nelson
Born To Be Wild, Steppenwolf

[thvigil11]

Jessica- Allman Brothers

[fj605]

Where in Iowa are you headed?

Pearl Jam
Chris Stapleton - Tennessee Whiskey
Kenny Wayne Shepard Band - blue on black
Temple of the Dog - hunger strike
Highly Suspect - Lydia
Volbeat
Shinedown
Chevelle