I’m trying to put together a custom CD of road songs for the upcoming trip to the Vegas Dopenfest and am looking for suggestions. The only thing that is verboten is Born to Be Wild So far I’ve got:
Hot Rod Lincoln Cdr. Cody
Radar Love Golden Earring
I used to live in a place where I could only get country stations on my radio and I grew kind of fond of Kathy Mattea’s 455 Rocket.
You need a good version of Route 66.
I’m rather partial to anything by the Doors – maybe because it goes so well with the desert. And lucky you, a road trip!
Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin. It’s about a long drive through the desert.
Crosstown Traffic, Jimi Hendrix
Lost in America, Alice Cooper
Anything by Ted Nugent…
The Rolling People by The Verve
“Shut her down” by the Beach Boys is always a good song to make you want to punch the gas pedal a little harder.
Now that I think about it that might not be the exact name of the song, but I’m sure sombody will correct me if it isn’t 
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99 Luftballoons … (the german version)
Affirmation by Savage Garden
The Knack’s My Sharona.
Fly Away and American Woman by Lenny Kravitz.
From the thread title, I thought you were going to post the lyrics to the songs from those old Bing Crosby and Bob Hope road pictures.
You know what I mean: The Road to Morocco, The road to the Yukon, etc…
~~Baloo
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Put in some ska! Ska is almost always upbeat and happy. You need that during a long trip. Most of the songs from Reel Big Fish’s ‘Turn the Radio Off’ are good Sell Out and Beer being the two I like the most. Also Goldfinger has a few good ones out there, and cover a few 80’s hits, so you get the best of both worlds. I have 99 Balloons and Rio to name a couple of good ones. Also Here in your bedroom and Superman are good too. Save Ferris’s first album is a keeper too.
Don’t put any Eminem on there, tho. If you are bad with road rage, you will definitely feel more anger. I do. That’s why I have to stop listening to that CD after a couple of weeks.
There’s that one song, I don’t know the title, but the chorus is I Can’t Drive…55! I think it’s by Van Halen.
Oh, for a bit of a laugh, put down some ‘Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.’ They take hit pop songs from the 70s and ska/punk them out. Their last album was music from musicals. ‘Favorite Things’ has to be the best song on there, oh, and ‘Rainbow Connection’
And anything you know the words to.
“I Can’t Drive 55” was Sammy Hagar.
I say put on anything by Rev. Horton Heat–great driving music, or David Bowie’s “Lodger.”
lemme see…
Van Morrison’s, or John Mellencamp’s, version of Wild Night. Cruising Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, California in my '64 Chevy Impala, summer of '76. Catholic school kids gone bad.
Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen. Almost lost the Chevy in a ditch while drag racing on Elder Creek Road in south Sacramento County. At seventeen, we were immortal.
Bob Seger’s Turn The Page. Visions of purple desert sunsets on the I-10 somewhere east of Tucson driving away from ex-wife #1, re-enlistment papers fresh in hand after all-night drinking binge, heading to Basic NCO Course, Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia and an unknown future, spring of 1984.
Car Wash
Brothers Under the Bridges
Pink Cadillac
Two for the Road
Soul Driver
Randolf Street
Spare Parts
Out in the Street
Cadillac Ranch
Stolen Car
Ramrod
Drive All Night
Wreck on the Highway
Racing in the Street
Streets of Fire
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
Thunder Road
Backstreets
Streets of Philadelphia
Highway Patrolman
State Trooper
Used Cars
The E Street Shuffle
Incident on 57 Street
Highway 29
Working on the Highway
Bruce Springsteen
(There might be more, but a couple of my Springsteen CDs are in the car.)
One Piece at a Time by Johnny Cash 
Ska? Blech.
No road CD is complete without Dire Straits’ Tunnel of Love.
Hmmm… another Springsteen song/album.
While I realise “Tunnel of Love” is also a song/album by the Boss (1987, IIRC), it is also a song by Dire Straits, off their 1981 album “Making Movies”. But you knew that, right 