# Road song compilation **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899 "2000-08-10T22:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/1 "2000-08-10T22:43:59Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/2 "2000-08-10T22:48:09Z")
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_. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/3 "2000-08-10T22:49:25Z")
You need a good version of _Route 66_. ---
**Author:** ![Boots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@Boots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boots)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/4 "2000-08-10T23:00:34Z")
I’m rather partial to anything by the Doors – maybe because it goes so well with the desert. And lucky you, a road trip! ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/5 "2000-08-10T23:03:26Z")
_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… ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/6 "2000-08-10T23:09:46Z")
_The Rolling People_ by The Verve ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/7 "2000-08-10T23:21:26Z")
“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 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![pLt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb9ed0/32.png) [@pLt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pLt)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/8 "2000-08-10T23:35:31Z")
99 Luftballoons … (the german version) Affirmation by Savage Garden ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/9 "2000-08-10T23:40:36Z")
The Knack’s _My Sharona_. ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/10 "2000-08-10T23:43:26Z")
_Fly Away_ and _American Woman_ by Lenny Kravitz. ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/11 "2000-08-10T23:45:42Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Red\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a5b964/32.png) [@Red\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_2)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2000, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/12 "2000-08-10T23:47:30Z")
Rush - Tom Sawyer ---
**Author:** ![Brood\_McEto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@Brood\_McEto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brood_McEto)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/13 "2000-08-11T00:59:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/14 "2000-08-11T01:57:59Z")
“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.” ---
**Author:** ![Bluepony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Bluepony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluepony)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/15 "2000-08-11T05:12:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/16 "2000-08-11T05:33:34Z")
_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.) ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/17 "2000-08-11T06:13:16Z")
One Piece at a Time by Johnny Cash 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/18 "2000-08-11T08:16:48Z")
Ska? Blech. No road CD is complete without **Dire Straits** ’ _Tunnel of Love_. ---
**Author:** ![Frannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Frannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frannie)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/19 "2000-08-11T12:25:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > No road CD is complete without **Dire Straits** ’ _ **Tunnel of Love** _. Hmmm… another Springsteen song/album. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2000, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899/20 "2000-08-11T12:31:18Z")
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 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-song-compilation/28899.md?page=2)