This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about

[darkluna]

So I have a lot of driving to do later this week, hauling me and the ChefBoy to The Gorge and then Vancouver. I love roadtrips, and like any anal-retentive child, my favorite part is planning--specifically, planning what music to bring. I have well-entrenched opinions about what makes good driving music. On my list below, Layla etc. and Making Movies have my votes for the best driving music ever.

Derek & the Dominos: Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
PJ: Yield, and maybe a mix of the "best of" live songs
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Green Apple Quickstep: Reloaded
Neil Finn et al.: 7 Worlds Collide
Social D: Live at the Roxy
Grey Eye Glances: If I Was
Dire Straits: Making Movies
U2: All That You Can't Leave Behind
though I wonder if The Joshua Tree is not better driving music
REM: Murmur

And a couple of CDs I've been listening to a lot lately: We're All in This Alone, by the Mendoza Line (yes, I did originally buy their CD because of the band name); and that Amelia album I can never remember the name of.

So! I'm wondering! What music do you require when you go on road trips? Have I committed any glaring omissions?

Comments

[poworgen5.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! Someone else who likes (or who actually knows of) Green Apple Quickstep!!

Me, personally, I am a hip-hop freak so I always have to have some of that....also Ben Harper, Brad, Sly and the Family Stone.....Bob Marley....I have been listening to Kasabian lately and of course (for me) Green Day....OH and Foo Fighters....Live at Red Rocks U-2 is GREAT.....Depeche Mode 101 is also great driving music.....so many....have a great time and a safe trip!!!

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

OMG!!! Someone else who likes (or who actually knows of) Green Apple Quickstep!!

*goes OMG with you* :) ChefBoy got me into them.

Hmm, some Beastie Boys wouldn't hurt.

[hochopepa.livejournal.com]

I'd add Neutral Milk Hotel and maybe Mountain Goats to your list just because.

But I get really sleepy and whatnot on long drives, so I downloaded Time Enough for Love by Heinlein from iTunes and it makes 2 hours at a time (appr. audio chapter length) FLY by.

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Neutral Milk Hotel - good one! I sadly do not own any Mountain Goats, but I really need to get my hands on "No Children" for my evil twin.

[girl-about-town.livejournal.com]

Someone just gave me gobs and gobs of Mountain Goats. I can burn and mail to you if you wish.

Some other fun suggestions:
Country (don't know what you can tolerate, but it's always good for highway drives)
Pete Yorn (Music for the Morning After and Day I Forgot are both supreme)
John Mayer (again. you may be vomiting at this point)
Rolling Stones
Oasis
SonVolt (Trace, specifically) or Jay Fararr (Sebastopol)
Carole King or James Taylor
Indigo Girls (Rites of Passage or Swamp Ophelia or the "Southland in the Springtime" song, even though you are not in the south and it is not springtime)
Eagles ("Runnin' down the road tryin' to loosen my load, got 7 women on my mind)

non-music:
Download some "This American Life" tales. A good one is Crimebusters & Crossed Wires, specifically "Squirrel Cop" and "The Greatest Phone Message of All-Time"

ooh one more

[girl-about-town.livejournal.com]

Rufus Wainwright, Poses

[darkluna.livejournal.com]

ChefBoy and I both like the Dixie Chicks, so a little country would work.

John Mayer does inspire the puking for me. But I don't believe I left off Exile on Main Street. A long drive is just the time to listen to it back-to-back with Exile in Guyville.

Oooh, and Joni Mitchell.

[girl-about-town.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just got Main Street and wanted to do the Guyville comparison myself. If you beat me to it, let me know whatcha think.

[abinormal.livejournal.com]

Well, on long trips I like musical soundtracks - it's like listening to a book on tape. Also I love my Mitch Hedberg recordings for trips, he makes time fly.