Must Have Songs for Long Roadtrip

and shocking enough, ullanta - my friend made a cd and he put "Warm Leatherette" on there. Quite an interesting song - he tells me it's about a car accident but with sexual undertones.

"Undertones" may be an understatement - see the lyrics (http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/mewithoutyou/warmleatherette.htm).

I once had a car in which every once in a while a cassette would occasionally get stuck in the player, and start playing randomly a few days later. Finally, it got stuck in the middle of "Warm Leatherette" one day... and didn't play again for months. For months, of course, I imagined that I'd get into a nasty accident, and as I lay there in the car, the tape would finally start playing as I faded away...

With that and some of the Throbbing Gristle "songs" based on car accidents, you've got a doozy of a road-trip mood!
 
I actually made up a playlist not too long ago. Here is some of it. Many have some form of traveling theme, some have a pumping beat, some have neither but just rock out hard.

ZZ Top - La Grange
Beasties - No Sleep till Bklyn
America - A Horse with No Name
John Denver - Take Me Home Country Roads
Don McLean - American Pie
The Boss - Born to Run
Bob Seger - Turn the Page
Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere (Try memorizing this one!)
Zep - Ramble On
Skynyrd - Free Bird
Sweet Home Alabama (oh yeah!)
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Free - All Right Now
George Thurogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (Horsefilms' theme song)
Grand Funk Railroad - We're an American Band
Edwin Starr - 25 Miles
CSNY - Carry On
Cake - The Distance
Audioslave - I am the Highway
Aerosmith - Dream On
 
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