In seven days I leave for a very long road trip with the family. We rented a van with two tv’s, and my mom just discovered she can read books on her cellular smart phone, so that will leave me completely unbothered, and free to stare out the window and try to find people who look like they’re getting road head, paint my toenails on the dashboard, and listen to whatever music I want.
(Andy doesn’t let me drive because, while I prefer cars to airplanes, I am afraid of roads when there are other people on them, and have been known to drive off them crying when trucks come to close. I’m considering hypnosis, which I assume will be a less deadly option than drinking.)
But, now that I have all this freedom, I’m stumped trying to put together a playlist to get me through the next 1500 miles.
Which is, ahem, where you come in.
Share you top 5 favorites, and I will share my mega-rad playlist with you on Spotify, plus, I’ll pick one of you to win a $100 Visa Gift card to buy a year’s worth or Spotify with, or liquor, honestly, I don’t care what you use it for, it’s your money.
All you have to do is leave me a comment with 5 of your favorite songs. Have more than 5? No problem, you can enter as much as you want.
I’ll close this contest tonight (February 16th) at 11:59pm EST, then I will randomly draw one (1) winner, and mail the prize upon email confirmation.
These are some of my tops lately….
Looks like Sex – Mike Posner (Only if you get to wear your headphones during the trip! Definitely not child appropriate.)
Someone Like You – Adele (Duh?)
Blackout – Breathe Carolina (Much more fun than initially thought)
Glad You Came – The Wanted (self explanatory!)
I figured a few more were in order too!
Called Out of the Dark – Snow Patrol
Down – Anberlin
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People
Princess of China – Coldplay & Rihanna
Our Song – The Spill Canvas
For road trips, I particularly like
1) We Didn’t Start the Fire – It’s long and involved so it helps with mile marker monotony
2) Love Story – I know its Taylor Swift but the songs are so perfect for on the road belting
3) Freefalling – Cliche thanks to Jerry Maguire but so good on a road trip
4) Lose Yourself – anything to feel like a bad ass when you still have 600 miles to go
5) We found love – Glee version. Really, most songs from Glee :)
what is the mood of said road trip…need some playlist guidance. Booty-shaking? Nerve-calming? Butt Rock?
Definitely an escape. And I listen to almost anything from classic rock, hipster/indie, rap, girl stuff, just not TONS of country.
–>For road trips:
Regulate – Warren G
Summertime – Will Smith (and DJ Jazzy Jeff)
Wish You Were Here – Incubus
Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
Vultures – John Mayer
I have a lot of playlists inluding my most recent one called RIP which is Michael Jackson, Heavy D and Whitney Houston.
“Carry on My Wayward Son” – Kansas
“Someone like you” – Adele
“Shake it out” – Florence and the Machines
“Piano Man” – Billy Joel
“Can’t Help Falling in Love” – Elvis Presley
“Never Gonna Give You Up” – Rick Astley
“Super Freak” – RICK MOTHERFUCKING JAMES
OH AND ANYTHING BY THE CIVIL WARS, THE BEATLES, SKILLET, LED ZEPPLIN OR EVANESCENCE.
Also, I can make playlists that are rap oriented, country, “slow jam r&b” (patent pending,) rock, 80’s hair metal or alternative. Cause I’m awesome like that. Good luck on the road trip!
You need road trip songs… I got yer road trip songs right here.
Everybody’s Talkin’ – Harry Nilsson. Should start off every playlist of every road trip.
Baba O’Reilly – The Who. Nothing like a singalong to get things moving.
Graceland – Paul Simon. You may not be on your way to see Elvis, but… it’s a metaphor anyway.
Another One Goes By – The Walkmen. A criminally under-appreciated goodbye song.
Tiny Dancer – Elton John. It’s almost a cliche, but it’s absence on such a playlist would be noticed.
Try to enjoy yourself!
Totally has to be guilty pleasures so here is my 5 guilty pleasures that are a must on my roadtips:
Summer of 69-Bryan Adams
Juliet-LMNT (I may be there only fan left)
I’ll be There for you-Bon Jovi (actually the entire Crossroads album except for the ballad of livin on a prayer)
Papa Don’t Preach-Madonna (Anything Madonna upto her Like a Prayer days anything after 1990 don’t bother!)
Summertime-NKOTB
OMG…I love sharing music, even if I don’t win anything!
Strangeness and Charm – Florence and the Machine (honestly anything by them is top billing!)
White Blank Page – Mumford and Sons
Barton Hollow – The Civil Wars
Hearing Damage – Thom Yorke (New Moon Sountrack FTW)
Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men
Enjoy! And have fun on your road trip.
Can’t Touch This – because when I’m sitting down I can TOTALLY do the leg movements to the Hammer Dance.
The Lazy Song – Bruno Mars
Stronger – Kelly Clarkson
Just a Kiss – Lady Antebellum
Without You – David Guetta
Paris (ooh la la) – Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People
Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna
Government Hooker – Lady Gaga
Stuck in the Middle With You – Stealers Wheel
Well it would depend on your mood, if your after a sort of indie playlist to listen to as you look out of the window and pretend you are Clare Danes in a arthouse style film;
Skinny Love – Bon Iver
Oh Boy – She and Him
Islands – The XX
Take a Vacation – The Young Veins
Lions Roar – First Aid Kit
Or if you want something totally upbeat and life affirming that you can boogie in your seat to;
Down with the Trumpets – Rizzle Kicks
Movin on Up – Primal Scream
Wearing my Rolex – Wiley
Steady as she Goes – The Raconteurs
Mama Knows Best – Jessie J
Those would be my choices. I am in the UK so don’t think I can enter the contest but happy to share my musical choices anyway.
I recently spent 14 hours on a coach trip and music was the only way I got through it. Have fun!
1. Sweet Child of Mine- G & R
2. Empire State of Mind- Jay Z
3. Your Love- The Outfield
4. See You Again- Miley Sirus
5. Romeo & Juliette- Dire Straits
Favorite songs (at least right now):
1. All Will Be Well – Gabe Dixon Band
2. Lover of the Light – Mumford and Sons
3. Fix You – Coldplay
4. The Show – Lenka
5. As I Rise – The Decemberists
Five favorites? Oh goodness, how about just five from this week?
Keep Breathing- Ingrid Michaelson
Amen- Edens Edge
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go- Miley Cyrus
(Look, I know, I KNOW, but it is very good.)
Shelter- Ray LaMontagne
Naleigh Moon- Josh Kelley
(Be still my heart, one of the sweetest lullabies, ever basically.)
I’m all about the calming, quiet, leave-me-alone, music this week.
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
Islands in the Stream – Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
Cupid Shuffle – Cupid
Single Ladies – Beyonce
Telephone – Lady Gaga (feat. Beyonce)
Some of my favs:
Twisted Serenade-Big Pain Ticket
The Lazy Song-Bruno Mars
Starry Eyed-Ellie Goulding
Lighters-Bad Meets Evil
Pause-Pitbull
5 favorite songs right now:
Someone like you – Adele
Mean – Taylor Swift
Emmylou – First Aid Kit
Rolling in the Deep – Adele
Paradise – Coldplay
Um, yeah. I have MULTIPLE road trip playlists. With wack titles like “Shake Your Groove Thing”, “Sing Into Your Hairbrush”, and “You Know You Know All The Words.” *dork alert* Ahem. Anyway…here’s some of my faves. (cue shot of adorbs painted toes out the window and that gorgeous mane of hair flowing in the breeze…)
Afternoon Delight-The Starland Vocal Band
In Da Club – 50 Cent
Breakout – Foo Fighters
99 Luftballons – Nena
Hey Hey Hey – Michael Franti & Spearhead
Pump Up The Jam – Technotronic
Summertime – Will Smith
Take A Picture – Filter
Once In A Lifetime – Talking Heads
Hips Don’t Lie – Shakira
Bleed It Out – Linkin Park
Roll To Me – Del Amitri
Together Again – Janet Jackson
Hard Day – George Michael
Dog Days Are Over – Florence + The Machine
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
Send Me On My Way – Rusted Root
Beautiful Day – U2
Forget You – CeeLo Green
Paradise City – Guns N Roses
Have a blast!!!
ps-I never transferred all of these to my Spotify from my iTunes, but since we’re friends on Spotify, I can if you want access to ALL my stuff on your trip-just let me know. :)
More favs:
Pumped Up Kicks-Foster the People
Wicked Game-Stone Sour
Best Intentions-Go Monaco
Criminal In Bed-L2
Moves Like Jagger-Maroon 5
5 Favorite Songs with colors in the title:
Purple Rain – Prince
Yellow – Coldplay
99 Red Balloons – Nena
Paint it Black – Rolling Stones
Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith
Weightless – Courtney Jones
Fly – Nicki Minaj & Rihanna
Young Blood – The Naked and Famous
Shake It Out – Florence & The Machine
You Are a Tourist – Death Cab for Cutie
Those are the most played songs on my spotify playlist. If they can get me through the workweek they can definitely get you through a roadtrip! Have fun. :)
Well that is a lot of ground you are covering, so you have to sprinkle in some group participation sing-as-loud-as-you-can songs every so often just to freak the kids and your mom out…
Bohemian Rhapsody
Push-It
Gin and Juice
Humpty Dance
Summer Nights – From Grease (Andy has to sing John Travolta’s parts)
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
I Can’t Drive 55 – Sammy Hagar
I’m Sexy and I Know It – LMFAO
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
Love Shack – The B-52’s
Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol
ENJOY!!
MGMT – Electric Feel
Michael Jackson – PYT
Avicii – Levels
Fun – We are Young
Bon Iver – Re:Stacks
“Sweet Caroline”- Neil Diamond
“Take it Easy”- The Eagles
“What’s My Age Again”- Blink 182
“What’s Your Fantasy”- Ludacris
“A Day in the Life”- The Beatles
I did a 5 song random sort on my road trip playlist on iTunes…and here it is!
5 songs I listen to the most:
Give it to me – Nelly Frutado, Timberland, Justin Timberlake
The Captain – Kasey Chambers
Maybe I’m Amazed – David Grohl & Norah Jones
Emmylou – First Aid Kit
Patience – Guns N Roses
Laredo – Band of Horses
Three More Days – Ray Lamontagne
Helena Beat – Foster the People
Let the Light In – Bob Schneider
Zero – Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
I picked the first five songs from my “Stuff Kim Likes” playlist on Spotify ……. Pretty good choices I’d say…..
The Kooks – “Junk Of The Heart”
Fountains of Wayne-“Radiation Vibe”
Semisonic- “DND”
They Might Be Giants-“Birdhouse In Your Soul”
Blow Monkeys-“Digging Your Scene”
Shut Up and Let Me Go-The Ting Tings
22 Seven Deadly Sins 2-Flogging Molly
Make Me Wanna Die-The Pretty Reckless
Breakeven-Xenia from The Voice last year
Colours-Grouplove
Oooooh, this is fun.
Charlie Brown-Coldplay
It’s Time-Imagine Dragons
Tokyo-Imagine Dragons
If It’s The Beaches- The Avett Brothers
Fire-Augustana
Have a great trip.
This year- the mountain goats
Better than fine- Fiona apple
The river- head and the heart
Here I am – al green
The start of something-voxtrot
Enjoy!,
All Over You – The Spill Canvas
Set Fire to the Third Bar – Snow Patrol & Martha Wainwright
Windows – Paulson
You & I – Lady Gaga
Do You Remember – Jack Johnson
Rumor Has It — Adele
Dead Man’s Bones — Dead Man’s Bones (Ryan Gosling’s band!!!!)
Mood Ring — Paul Thorn
Chocolate Jesus — Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa
Signs — Tesla
There’s a crapload more of songs and genres I just can’t even think of fitting into a list of five! But this is a nice little sampling…and perfect for road tripping. :)
Hey, Princess-Allstar Weekend
Accessory-Jordyn Taylor
Drive-R.E.M.
Push It-Jessie and the Toy Boys
Lunatic Fringe-Red Rider
I haven’t had a moment to find new music since having my kid, so this top five list is dated…yet, still contain many of my favorites.
1) Chelsea Dagger – Fratellis
2) Banquet – Bloc Party
3) Fluorescent Adolescent – Arctic Monkeys
4) Moving to New York – the Wombats
5) Soundtrack to Mary – Soul Coughing
I dare you to find a list with something for everyone on it any better than the following:
Kanye West: Golddigger
James: Crazy
Lil’ Wayne: Mr. Officer
Semisonic: Closing Time
The Kinks: Lola
Flaming Lips: She Don’t Like Jelly
Jay Z and Beyonce: Bonnie and Clyde
Michael Jackson: The Way You Make Me Feel
Heavy D: Now That We Found Love
Juvenile: Back That Ass Up
Etta James – I’d Rahter Go Blind .. Or ANYTHING! <3
Amy Winehouse – Valerie
Duffy – Mercy
Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
Kiss – Beth
These are some of our go-to car songs:
Tricky – Run DMC
Slow Ride – Foghat
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen (super entertaining to listen to kids try to sound out ‘scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?’)
Train, Train – Blackfoot
Money – Pink Floyd
For road trips, I need something where I know the lyrics, so I can sing badly. However, this means I’m limited to 80s power ballads for the most part, but I’ll try to leave those out. Here are the first five that come to mind:
Skidrow: I remember you (I said I’d try)
Beastie Boys: Brass Monkey
Queen: Fat Bottomed Girls
David Bowie: Let’s Dance
Fugees: Killing Me Softly
It’s a Good Day – Peggy Lee
The Chain – Fleetwood Mac (actually Rumors is just good to have on hand)
Oh Darling! – Beatles
The Lengths – The Black Keys (Ohio.. what what?!)
You Make My Dreams Come True – Hall and Oats
California – Joni Mitchell
After Midnight – Pasty Cline
Billie Jean – MJ
Dang it, everyone’s suggestions are clouding up my head!
These are my top road trip songs because they keep me awake while I drive:
Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) — Mika
Annie Waits — Ben Folds
Airplanes — B.o.B.
Tik Tok — Ke$ha
Just The Way You Are — Bruno Mars
Womanizer — Britney Spears
Breathe Me- Sia
Somebody that I used to know- Gotye
Hey ya- Obadiah Parker version
High Times- Landon Pigg
Re: Stacks- Bon Iver
I tend to like depressing stuff.
Steph
My kids like some dance music for the car. My husband is more of an Eagles/CSNY car trip guy, but he gets out voted by me, our 3 year old, and my 9 month old (who sleeps to techno music). So here’s some “dance” songs.
We Turn it Up – Oh Land
Julius – Starfucker
Do You Want it All – Two Door Cinema Club
The Reeling – Passion Pit
Go Outside – Cults
Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People
I have a lot of favorite songs, which I’m pretty sure is the opposite of how the word favorite is supposed to work. Whatever. I’ll stick to five songs.
Innerpartysystem – Out of Touch
Hey Champ – Cold Dust Girl
Radiohead – 15 Step
Royskopp – Only This Moment
The XX – Islands
Have a fantastic trip!
Uprising – Muse
No Leaf Clover – Metallica S&M
Not Your Fault – Awolnation
99 Red Balloons – Nina
Dance Without Sleeping – Melissa Etheridge
Chicago by Sufjan Stevens… I always imagine the scene in Little Miss Sunshine.
500 Miles by the Proclaimers, because duh.
Boys in the Hood by Dynamite Hack. There’s nothing like a song that makes you feel gangsta while simultaneously reminding you how incredibly white you are.
Light and Day/Reach for the Sun by the Polyphonic Spree. They played it on Scrubs, so of course it’s good.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love by the Darkness. How can you resist singing along?
There is nothing worse than a road trip without good music. Good luck! :)
So, as I sit here trying to think of the 5 best roadtrip songs, I realize how hard it is to commit to just 5. Apparently I have commitment issues. As if songs had feelings and the ones I left out are sitting in a corner crying. Or are going to break up with me and refuse to play anymore. I need them to know they are all special. I have a problem. Here are my random top picks:
Hey Mama- Mat Kearney
Whatta Man- Salt N Peppa
Royal Gregory- Holy Fuck
California Love- Tupac
Pancho and Lefty- Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
Well despite being a teenager in these trying times, I do not like all that new hood rat music, but rather music where you can look out the window and act like its your background music. It;s very random I must warn.
1. One And Only – Adele
2. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
3. Roslyn – Bon Iver
4. Uptown Girl – Glee Warbler Edition
5. Brass Monkey – The Beastie Boys
6. My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion (In honor of the 3D re-release)
7. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
8. Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen
9. Jessie’s Girl – Rick Springfield
10. You Make My Dreams – Hall & Oates (For the great moustaches)
p.s my computer is telling me that ‘Moustaches’ is spelled wrong, but wont tell me how to spell it. I apologize.
I hope you enjoy my favorites !
Any Road — George Harrison
America — Simon and Garfunkel
Every Day is A Winding Road — Sheryl Crow
Intergalactic — Beastie Boys
Pink Moon – Nick Drake