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.
Continued…
Kerosene — Miranda Lambert (plus Look at Miss Ohio, Baggage Claim, Mama’s Broken Heart)
Walk — Foo Fighters
January Hymn — The Decemberists
Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men
Do You Love Me — Guster
Don’t forget Miranda Lambert’s “Gunpowder and Lead”. That’s my favorite!
(Still laughing at “road head”…)
1. Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel
2. Cool Change – Little River Band
3. Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin
4. Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Brother Iz
5. Plush – Stone Temple Pilots
More than 5, but a random sampling of some current faves that are also available on Spotify:
Break My Heart Around You – Atomic Tom
Shake It Out – Florence + The Machine
Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye
Turn It Gold (IdoZ Remix) – Hesta Prynn
Block After Block – Matt & Kim
Sweetness – Pearl and the Beard
Bells and Whistles – The Spring Standards
Brooklyn (Acoustic Version) – Wakey!Wakey!
Fun – We are Young
4 Non Blondes – What’s Up
Home – Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
Neneh Cherry – Buffalo Stance
John Cougar Mellencamp – Jack & Diane
Way to hard to pick just 5
Still Going…
Roll Away Your Stone – Mumford & Sons (Plus Awake My Soul, Dust Bowl Dance, Hold On to What you Believe)
Lost In My Mind – The Head and the Heart (plus Down in the Valley and Couer d’Alene)
Runaway Baby – Bruno Mars
Shake it Out – Florence + The Machine
Stay Young, Go Dancing — Death Cab for Cutie
I’ll throw my name in the hat.
Keep in mind these are my favorite songs AT THE MOMENT.
1. Of Monsters and Men-Little Talks
2. Foo Fighters- Walk
3. The Black Keys- Tighten Up
4. Fun- We Are Young
5. The Airborne Toxic Event-All I Ever Wanted
When the kids are asleep…
Won’t Back Down — Eminem
Stomp — The Roots
Ni**as In Paris — Jay-Z and Kanye
Sleazy REMIX 2.0 – Ke$ha feat Lil Wayne, Andre 3000, Wiz Khalifa, & TI
Roman’s Revenge — Nikki Minaj feat Eminem
Here they are:
Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith It’s a catchy tune to tap your toes as you are drinking out of your red solo cup while Andy is driving!
13 going on 30 soundtrack – you can’t go wrong…..
Anything on the Play Deep by the Outfield – just a great CD that brings back the best memories of getting drunk, the beach and hot men!!!
Sexy and I Know It – LMFAO how could you not sing along? You’re sexy and you know it, so let the world know!!!
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol…..need I say more?
Safe travels!!!
The Stone – Dave Matthews Band
Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones
Halloween – Dave Matthews Band
Won’t Get Fooled Again – The Who
All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
Sorry – Definitely a classic rock/jam band theme going on, but it’s what I’d want to listen to on a long road trip!
I love this list!!!
Does it count if I list an entire album or two?
1. September – Earth, Wind and Fire
2. Mumford and Sons- The entire CD
3. Uprising- Muse
4. Apologize, Stop and Stare, All The Right Moves, and Good Life- One Republic
5. Simple Song- The Shins
1. Songbird – Fleetwood Mac
2. Fade into You – Mazzy Star
3. A Case of You – Joni Mitchell
4. Heavenly Day – Patty Griffin
5. Home – Karla Bonoff
Dave Matthews Band – Two Step
Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonnaise
Anything Friendly Fires – but Hawaiian Air is super fun
Anything Foster the People – but Helena Beat is my fave
Adele – Rolling in the Deep
Wow, i feel like this is Hi-Fidelity.
1. Sade- by your side
2. Dream Theater- basically the whole Scenes from a Memory album. Its like one big song
3. 311- love song
4. Sick puppies- white balloons
5. The band Perry – if i die young
cont…
6. Sail- Awolnation
7. Home- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
8. If I Die Young- The Band Perry
9. Jack and Diane- John Cougar Mellencamp
10. Friends in Low Places- Garth Brooks
I’m going to pick my 5 favorite somewhat CAR themed songs, cause that’s funner. These are all “Sing at the Top of my Lungs” songs too.
Cake – Race Car YaYas
Billy Ocean – Get Into My Car
Cake – Satan is my Motor
Beatles – Drive My Car
Bowling for Soup – Two Seater
Also: The Theme from Mortal Kombat (the movie). It’s not car themed, but it makes me want to drive 1000 mph.
I just had to refrain from squee-ing out loud in a meeting because someone mentioned Bowling For Soup. Best band ever! They’ll be in my list when I get time to post one of my own.
Joker – SMB
Please Dont Tell Her – Jason Mraz
Battle of Who Could Care Less – Ben Folds Five
Proud Mary – CCR
Toxic – Britney (Everybody needs a little Britney on their road trip)
Holy crap. That was way random.
Lady GaGa – you and I
Bruno Mars – everyday it’ll rain
Kelly clarkson – stronger
Adele – set fire to the rain
Rihanna – we found love
(I know, I’m pretty much a teenager. At least my ears are.)
Pitbull – Bon Bon
Don Omar & Lucenzo – Danza Kuduro
Yerbatero – Juanes
Dierks Bentley – Señor
Brantley Gilbert – Country Must be Country Wide
(Weird mix, I know! Also, the Spanish songs rock so hard you don’t need to understand Spanish to love them.)
Ok so I saw your previous comment about not too much country – Country Must be Country Ride totally rocks and is not typical “country” (none of the new stuff is anyway) and Señor is soulful, but a little twangy. And I’m not sure why I switched my format and put song-singer for Juanes’ song. More coffee!
Riiiiiiight. You should have had a cap on the number I could suggest; this is what happens when you work in a music store for three years and all of your closest friends are full-time musicians. To keep it easier, if I had multiple songs by an artist I simply separated them with a semi-colon. I can’t wait to see your list.
The Proclaimers: I’m Gonna Be (500 miles)
Foo Fighters: Everlong; Monkey Wrench; The Colour and the Shape; Best of You; The Deepest Blues Are Black; Learn To Fly; These Days
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Three Little Birds
Blues Traveler: Hook; Run-Around
Björk: Violently Happy; Army of Me
Billy Joel: The Longest Time; Piano Man
Ben Folds Five: One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces; Kate
The Beatles: Hello Goodbye; With a Little Help From My Friends
ABBA: Money, Money, Money
Man Man: Doo Right; Van Helsing Boombox; Rabbit Habbits; Easy Eats or Dirty Doctor Galapagos; Harpoon Fever (Queequeg’s Playhouse); Mister Jung Stuffed
The Presidents of The United States of America: Ladybug; Stranger
The Wannadies: You and Me Song
The Bird & The Bee: Fucking Boyfriend
Cake: Short Skirt/Long Jacket
Michael Jackson: Billie Jean; Smooth Criminal
M.I.A.: Bird Flu; $20; World Town
Jem: Save Me; They
The Statler Brothers: Flowers On the Wall
The White Stripes: Little Ghost; Blue Orchid; Fell in Love with a Girl; Seven Nation Army; Ball and Biscuit; It’s True That We Love One Another; White Moon; I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet); Icky Thump; Conquest; Effect & Cause; Hotel Yorba; We’re Going To Be Friends
Gogol Bordello: Let’s Get Radical; Through the Roof ‘n’ Underground
Jimmy Eat World: The Middle
The Soggy Bottom Boys: I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow
Queen: Killer Queen; Somebody To Love; Bicycle Race; Raspberry Beret
Prince: Black Sweat [probably not good with little ‘uns]; Gett Off
Queens of The Stone Age: 3’s & 7’s
Tori Amos: Mr. Zebra;
Joe Cocker: Come Together
Sublime: Santeria;
Under The Influence of Giants: Ah Ha
Three Dog Night: Joy to the World
The Zombies: She’s Not There
Gin Blossoms: Hey Jealousy
Sondre Lerche: My Hands are Shaking
Flight of The Conchords: Business Time;Mutha’uckas;Hiphopopotamus Vs. Rhymenoceros; Bowie;
The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You; Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise; And It Spread; Murder In The City
Bon Jovi: Shot Through The Heart
Butch Walker & The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites: Bethamphetamine (Pretty Pretty)
Regina Spektor: Samson; That Time
Spoon: My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
Believe it or not, I went back and read the comments and I left out so very many songs!
Turning Tables- Adele
You Oughta Know- Alanis Morissette
Bottoms Up- Nickelback
Highway 20 Ride- Zac Brown Band
Collide- Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow
Road Trip Music!!
Walking on Sunshine, Katrina and the Waves
Ants Marching, Dave Matthews Band
The Boys of Summer, Don Henley
Free Falling, Tom Petty
Bird House in Your Soul, The Might Be Giants
My kind of lover-Billy Squier
Can’t you see- The Marshall Tucker Band
Goldmine Blues- Trocadero
The dream- The Birthday Massacre
Night Moves- Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
For road trips, I usually pick a single artist and listen to their entire catalog. Some driving favorites: Kid Rock, Def Leppard, Garth Brooks, or Bruce Springsteen (the old stuff), or even an entire movie/film soundtrack like “Wicked”, “Hairspray” or even *gasp* “High School Musical” … a guilty pleasure.
Have a safe trip!
You- Chris Young
The Trouble With Girls- Scotty McCreery
Drink On It- Blake Shelton
Forever and Ever Amen- Randy Travis
Red Solo Cup- Toby Keith
That last one is a joke…kinda…but not really.
I Never Told You- Colbie Caillat
Oh Darling – Plug In Stereo
Raise Your Weapon – Deadmau5
Hometown Glory – Adele
Valerie – Amy Whinehouse
White Wedding – Billy Idol
Songs are hard – I’m an album kinda person…but…these sound like staring out a window at passing scenery with a variety of tonal qualities…
Circles and Squares – We Were Promised Jetpacks
Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second – Starfucker
Nothing to Worry About – Peter Bjorn & John
Is This It – The Strokes
Baby Don’t Dance – Mother Mother
Incubus- Privilege
Rolling Stones- Paint It Black
Silverchair- The Year 2000
Led Zeppelin- Misty Mountain Hop
Alanis Morisette- You oughta Know
That’s right. I just took you on a trip down memory lane. You’re welcome.
My current favorite driving songs, which I know are all over the map:
When the Levee Breaks – Led Zeppelin
Black – Pearl Jam
Murder of One – Counting Crows
Roll Away the Stone – Mumford & Sons
Cheers (Drink to That) – Rihanna
Right now:
1.) Azealia Banks, 212
2.) Little Dragon, Ritual Union
3.) Tune Yards, Gangsta
4.) Maverick Sabre, I Need
5.) Selah Sue, Raggmaffin
Lights – Ellie Goulding
Somebody that I used to know – Gotye
Call Your Girlfriend – Robin
Digest – Ben Taylor
My Body – Young the Giant
Well….yeah. I have many! I will just cough up a few faves.
Just like a Pill- Pink
Rumor has it-Adele
Red Solo Cup-Toby Ketih
Little Black Backpack-Stroke 9 (when my son was little, he LOVED this song..ha!)
ANYTHING by Billy Joel…he just make the ride sooo much better for some reason.
Little Wonders – Rob Thomas
Carry You Home – Nashville Skyline
Pulling on a Line – Great Lake Swimmers
Murder in the City – The Avett Brothers
Robots (Need Love Too) – Dan Mangan
Crazy Bitch– Buckcherry
Call of the Warrior–Volbeat
Facedown– Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Never Too Late– Three Days Grace
I Kissed a Girl– Katy Perry
Send me on my way- Rusted Root
Settle Down- Kibra
Bloodbuzz Ohio- The National
Heartlines- Florence and the Machine
Brackett, WI- Bon Iver
Colours – Grouplove
Shake Me Down – Cage the Elephant
2 Wicky – Hooverphonic
Front Row – Metric
Sunspots – Nine Inch Nails
Have fun on your trip Brittany & Family! Stay sane everyone.
My all time favs for a road trip:
American Girl – Tom Petty
One by one – Foo Fighters
anything on the acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill by Alanis
Everyday is a winding road – Sheryl Crow
Stay – Lisa Loeb
1 . U Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
2. Poison – Bel Biv Devoe
3. Under Pressure – David Bowie & Queen
4. Tubthumping – Chumbawumba
5. Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
I’m nothing if not diverse.
5. Lovely Day-Bill Withers
4. For Once in My Life-Stevie Wonder
3. Jen-Less Than Jake
2. Lean on Sheena-Bouncing Souls
1. Literally anything by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes…seriously.
1.Every Teardrop is a Waterfall -Coldplay
2.The Whale Has Swallowed Me -Hugh Laurie
3.Rio -Hey Marseilles
4.Little Lion Man -Mumford & Sons
5.This City’s A Mess -Said The Whale
Happy Travels! :)
Hugh Laurie sings? When did that happen?
1) Drops of Jupiter – Train
2) Set the fire to the third bar – Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainright
3) Never gonna leave this bed – Maroon 5
4) Monsoon – Tokio Hotel
5)Vanilla Twilight – Owl City
Weird mix, right? LOL I love all kinds of music! Hope you enjoy your trip!
Okay, I’m not officially entering because I’m canadian and I don’t even know what spotify is. So I’m just going to say some song stuff and you can use it if you want.
1. The Glee remix of Rumour has it and Someone like you
2. B 52’s Love shack and Rock Lobster (but not back to back)
3. Crystal Bowersox Farmer’s Daughter
4. Pink (well really, anything by Pink)
5. Annie Lennox Little Bird
6. Solomon Burke Cry to Me
7. Janis Joplin Cry Baby
8. Mott the Hoople All the young Dudes
9. Joni Mitchell Both Sides Now (the new one where her voice is all husky, play it at sunset)
10. Van Morrison Into the Mystic
11. Any Dixie Chicks (I love truth number two-I think that’s what it’s called)
12. Holy shit this is too much fun. Gonna stop now.
Happy Driving.
You have got the road trip with kids plan down. Nice work! On to the music…
1. Robin “Dancing on My Own”
2. Walk Off the Earth “Somebody That I Used to Know”
3. Kimbra “Settle Down
4. Darlingside “Catbird Seat” (mellow choice)
5. Williams Fitzsimmons “Good Morning”
Pass the Mission – Tori Amos
Raspberry Swirl – Tori Amos
Wild Horses – The Sundays
Glitter – Pink
Great Wide Open – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Fast Car- Tracey Chapman
Drive- Incubus
Drive In Drive Out – DMB
Foot In The Rain- Led Zep
About Mr Brown- OAR
Seek Up – DMB
Kyles Song- Moe.
Shine On You Crazy Diamonds – Pink Floyd
Sex On Fire- Kings Of Leon ( in only for the ROAD HEAD lyric)
BIG Jam Band fan.. so if you add any of the Jam songs, get a good live / show version , not stuido releases!!
** suprised myself by not having an entire DMB list!!
* FOOL In The Rain… not foot!
Waste- Phish!
forgot that one!
Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
Walking in Memphis – Marc Cohn
American Pie – Don McLean
When You Say Nothing at All – Alison Krauss
Devil’s Dance Floor – Flogging Molly
I haven’t looked into spotify yet but some of my favorite songs from my current playlist are:
1. Kill Your Heroes – Awolnation (actually I’m really loving the whole Awolnation CD which is called Megalithic Symphony)
2. Shake it Out – Florence + The Machine
3. Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
4. Shuffle – Bombay Bicycle Club
5. Princess of China (featuring Rihanna) by Coldplay
6. Somebody that I used to know – Gotye (also the cover by Walk off the Earth is awesome if only for the video)
7. Bang Bang Bang – Mark Ronson & The Business Intl.
8. Polish Girl – Neon Indian
9. Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men
10. 6 Foot 7 Foot – Karmin
I couldn’t stop at 5… Enjoy!
Knights – minus the bear
Animal backwards – minus the bear.. Actually anything by minus the bear
Down river – the temper trap
True stories – datarock
Percussion gun – white rabbits
Pda – interpol
Reptilia – the strokes
Everyone nose – nerd
I gotcha – lupe fiasco
Slight work – wale
Everlong – foo fighters
One more..
Give it up – datarock
Britney Spears – Gimme More/Piece of Me, etc. etc.
Roots – Seed 2.0
Kara Dioguardi or Katherine McPhee – Terrified
Foo Fighters – Rope
Kings of Leon – Crawl
1. The Head and The Heart – Rivers and Roads (the entire album is amazing, but if you just pick one it has to be this one)
2. Band of Horses – No One’s Gonna Love You
3. Widespread Panic – Saint Ex
4. Dave Matthews Band – Watchtower, 41 and Granny (ok so thats 3 but they are super good road jammimg songs)
5. John Butler Trio – Don’t Wanna See Your Face
and i have to add another DMB one, just bc im a hippie like that…LOL
6. Dave Matthews Band – Pig
Don’t Burn the day, away!!
I was so excited when I saw that they were #7 on Yahoo trending with the 2012 tour announcement!