Complete road songs list

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38 Special
Hot'lanta

702
Where my girls at

ABBA
Dancing Queen
Voulez-vous

Aaliyah feat DMX
Come back in one piece

Allman Brothers Band
Desert Blues

America
Border
Horse with no name
Lonely People
Ventura Highway

Animals, The
House of the rising sun

Apple, Fiona
Criminal
Across the universe

Armstrong, Louis
Lazy River

B-52's
Love Shack

Bachman Turner Overdrive
Roll on down the highway

Badfinger
No matter what (Now & Then sndtrk)

Badu, Erykah
On and On

Beach Boys
I get around
In my car
Surf City
Surfin' USA

Bee Gees
Massachussetts
Stayin' Alive
Nights on Broadway

Bennett, Tony
I left my Heart in San Francisco

Berry, Chuck
You never can tell (Tarantino sndtrk)

Bet.e & Stef
Boomerang Baby
Fever
Vagabond

Bilal
Soul sista

Black, Mary
Looking forward

Blasters
Dark Night (Tarantino sndtrk)

Bloodhound Gang
Asleep at the wheel

Blues Brothers soundtrack

Bridges, Alicia
Break away
I love the nightlife

Brooks, Garth
Calling Baton Rouge

Brown, James
Living in America
Sex machine

Buffalo Springfield
Stop Children what's that sound

Byrne, David
Don't fence me in

Carpenter, Mary Chapin
I am a town

Chapman, Tracy
Fast Car
Give me one reason

Chopin, Frédéric
Nocturne

Cline, Patsy
Blue moon of Kentucky
Walking after midnight

Cochrane, Tom
Life is a highway

Cole, Nat King
Route 66

Cole, Nathalie
Route 66
Pink Cadillac
Straighten up and fly right

Cole, Paula
Mississippi
Where have all the cowboys gone

Combustible Edison
Vertigogo (Tarantino sndtrk)

Crash test dummies
any song

Creedence Clearwater Revival
Sweet Hitch Hiker

Crespo, Elvis
Luna Llena
Nuestra Cancion
Suavamente

Crow, Sheryl
All I wanna do
Crash and burn
Everyday is a winding road
Leaving Las Vegas
Mississippi
Steve McQueen

D'angelo
Cruisin'

Davis, Miles
So what

Denver, Jon
Along for the ride
Sweet surrender

Des'ree
I ain't moving
Living in the city
Trip on love

Destiny's Child
Independant women

Dick-dale and his Del-Tones
Misirlou (Tarantino sndtrk)

Dion, Céline
I drove all night
I'm alive

Dixie Chicks
Goodbye Earl

Doobie Brothers
Black Water
China Grove
It Keeps you runnin'
Let the music play
Rockin' down the highway
Takin' it to the street
Without Love

Doors, The
Riders on the Storm

Eagles
Hotel California
New Kid in Town
Life in the Fast Lane
Seven Bridges Road
The Last Resort
Take it to the limit

Elastica
Car song

Etheridge, Melissa
All the way to heaven
American girl
Breakdown
Bring me some water
Cherry Avenue
Come to my window
I'm the only one
Like the way I do
Resist
Ruins
Silent Legacy
The Prison
You can sleep white I drive

Evans, Faith
Love like this

Everything but the girl
Driving (dance remix)

Farmer, Mylène
California
Désenchantée

Fastball
The way

Fleetwood Mac
Don't stop
Go your own way
Gold Dust Woman
Songbird

Franklyn, Aretha
Freeway of love
Respect
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Think
Who's zooming you

Free
All right now (Now & Then sndtrk)

Frente
Labour of love

Fugees
No woman no cry

Garland, Judy
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
Over the rainbow

Gaye, Marvin
Ain't no mountain high enough
Hitch Hike

Gaynor, Gloria
Anybody wanna party
I will survive
You can exit

George Baker Selection
Little green bag (Tarantino sndtrak)

Go-go's, The
Our lips are sealed
Vacation

Gould, Glenn
Variations Goldberg

Grand Funk Railroad
We're an american band

Green, Al
Let's stay together

Hancock, Herbie
Cantaloupe Island

Hannibal soundtrack
Vide cor meum (B. Lazaretti et D. De Niese)

Hendrix, Jimi
Castles made of sand
Crosstown Traffic
Fire
Highway Chile
Red House
Star spangled banner
The wind cries Mary
Voodoo Chile

Hoffs, Susanna
Now and Then

Holly, Buddy & the Crickets
Rave On (Pleasantville sndtrk)

Houston, Thelma
Don't leave me this way

Houston, Whitney
Exhale
Heartbreak Hotel
How will I know
I wanna dance with somebody
I'm every woman
It's not right but it's okay
My Love is your Love
Queen of the night
So Emotional
Step by step
The Greatest Love of all
The Star spangled banner

Jackson, Janet
Together again

James, Ella
At Last (Pleasantville sndtrk)

Jamiroquai
Mr Moon
Scam
Space Cowboy
Travelling without moving
Virtual Insanity

Jesus & Mary Chain
Surfin' USA

Joplin, Janis
Me and Bobby McGee
San Francisco Bay Blues

Joplin, Scott
Rags

K.C. & the Sunshine Band
That's the way (I like it)

Kelly, R.
Fiesta
I believe I can fly
Ignition
It's gonna be a party

King, B.B.
To know you is to love you

Kool & The Gang
Celebration

Krall, Diana
Frim Fram Sauce
I've got the world on a string
Straighten up and fly right
Take the A Train

Kravitz, Lenny
American woman

Lauper, Cindy
Girls just wanna have fun

Lee, Peggy
It's a good day

Lelièvre, Sylvain
Un bout de chemin

Limp Bizkit
Rollin'

Lipps Inc.
Funkytown

Lopez, Jennifer
Let's get loud
Play
Waiting for tonight

Lyndsay, Mark
Arizona

Lynyrd Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama

Madonna
Express yourself
Holiday
La Isla Bonita
Music
Ray of light

Mamas & The Papas, The
California Dreamin'
Mississippi

Mazzie Star
Wild Horses

Meat Loaf
Objets in the rearview mirror may appear closer than they are

Mellencamp, John Cougar
Hot Dogs and Hamburgers

Metallica
It's Electric

Midnight Oil
Beds are burning

Missy Elliot
Ladie's night
Supa Dupa Fly

Monkeys
Midnight

Montand, Yves
Le temps des cerises

Morissette, Alanis
Hand in my pocket

Mya
Free (vol. I)
Movin' on (vol. III)

Nelson, Sharon
Down that road

Nelson, Willie
On the road again

Nicks, Stevie
Desert Angel

Offenbach, Jacques
Barcarolle (nuit d'amour) - Contes d'Hoffmann

Orbison, Roy
Pretty Woman

Parker, Charlie
Cool Blues

Parks, Michael
Long lonesome highway

Payne, Freda
Band of Gold (Now & Then sndtrk)

Peaches & Herb
Shake your groove thing

Pearl Jam
Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town
Rearviewmirror

Peniston, CeCe
Finally

Petty, Tom
Free fallin'

Pink
Most Girls
There you go

Pink Floyd
Echoes
Eclipse
Learning to fly
Money
San Tropez
Young Lust

Pizzarelli, John
Route 66

Pointer Sisters
I'm so excited

Police, The
Desert Rose
Every breath you take

Presley, Elvis
Jailhouse Rock

Prince
Kiss
Little red corvette

Queen
Bohemian Rapsody

Rabbit, Eddie
Driving my life away

Raitt, Bonnie
Green Light
The Road's my middle name

Rare Earth
Born to wander

Ray, Kevin feat Mike Ray
Oklahoma

Reinhardt, Django
Daphne

R.E.M.
Drive
Losing my religion
many more by REM

Rimes, LeeAnn
One way ticket

Rolling Stones
Route 66

Ryan, Charlier & the Timberline Riders
Hot Rod Lincoln

Santana, Carlos
Black Magic woman
Oye como va
Maria Maria
Smooth
They all went to Mexico

Sexton, Charlie
Graceland (Tarantino sndtrk)
Tenessee Plates

Sinatra, Frank
Fly me to the moon
My Kind of town
New York, New York

Skee-Lo
Burger song
I wish
Top of the stairs

Springsteen, Bruce
Born in the USA
Born to run
Glory Days
Spirit in the night
Thunder Road

Ste-Marie, Chloé
Je marche à toi
La route, l'île et l'été
Mishapan Nitassinan

Stealers Wheel
Stuck in the Middle with you (Tarantino sndtrk)

Steely Dan
Springtime
Trans-Island skyway

Steppenwolf
Born to be wild

Stone Temple Pilos
Big Empty
Interstate Love Song

Stray Cats
Built for speed
Rev it up adn go
Rock this town

Styx
Babe
Born for adventure
Come sail away
Midnight Ride
Prelude 12/Suite Madame Blue

Summer, Donna
Bad Girls
Hot Stuff
She works hard for the money
The wanderer

Thelma & Louise soundtrack

Tillis, Pam
The River and the highway

TLC
If I was your girlfriend
No scrubs
Waterfalls

Tragically Hip
Highway Girl
New Orleans is sinking

Turner, Ike & Tina
Mississippi Rolling Stone

Turner, Tina
Break every Rule
Girls
Nutbush City Limits
Ramblin' man
Two People

Twain, Shania
I'm outta here
Man I feel like a woman
Rock this country
That don't impress me much
Up

Two days in the valley soundtrack

Van Halen
Dancin' in the Streets

Van Morisson
Brown eyed girl

Vanity Fare
Hitchin' a ride

Vaughan, Sarah
My favourite things

Vaughan, Stevie Ray
The House is rockin'

Village People
YMCA

Vincelette, Carole
Muddy Waters

Weird Al Yankovic
Truck drivin' song

Williams, Denice
Free (remix)

Wilson, Cassandra
Last Train to Clarksville
Memphis

Winwood, Steve
Roll with it

Wiz, The
Ease down on the road

Wonder, Stevie
Signed, Sealed Delivered, I'm yours

Wynette, Tammy
Your good girl is gonna go bad

Zappa, Frank
Joe's garage

Zorn, John
Latin Quarter
NY Flat top box
The Sicilian Clan

There's nothing better than listening to John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High" and "Sunshine on my Shoulders" while you drive the Million Dollar Highway, Independence Pass or any other mountain road in Colorado!

Utahtea

James Taylor is good for certain Massachusetts trips!

You gotta listen to Dar Williams' "Road Buddy" -- an all too realistic portrait of the road-tripper relationship!

Hello.
Don't forget the greatest road song ever,
"Any Way the Wind Blows" by Southern Pacific!
Randy

Space Truckin, and Highway Star - really all of Machine Head is a must have for any road trip.

Yep, those tunes are a must have!

My favorite road trip recording is The Allman Brothers Band Live At Fillmore East. I still think it is the finest electric blues rock performance ever captured. It is best enjoyed while traveling in the Southeast (especially Georgia), but it sounds good just about anywhere.

Deep Purple....Machine Head....yikes, that was the very first 8-Track I ever owned. Yeah, that would also do quite nicely on a road trip.

Annie's Song - John Denver
Take me home country roads - John Denver
Shrek (1) soundtrack

Well, howdy stranger -- its been too long since we've heard from you.

Machine Head is still one of my favorite road trippin albums!

Mark

Just found this web site which lists hundreds of songs about (or at least mentioning) roads and highways: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/roadsong.htm

Thanks for the post. That is a cool selection!

Mark

This is a great post, tons of suggestions and no waiting.
I found this site last night, and just now came by to ask people for Roadtrip music suggestions because I felt like making a mix CD to bide time untill my next trip. Anyway, here's four more songs.
Phantom Planet - "California"
Jo Dee Messina - "Heads Carolina, Tails California"
Eve 6 - "Open Road Song"
Terri Clark - "I wanna do it all"

You forgot "East Bound and Down" (theme from Smokey and the Bandit), a version is availble that was done by Tonic and includes a clip at the end by "Dale Gribble" from King of the Hill.

Quick question. Those songs seem to be cool. Is there a way I can just download the complete compilation in one shot :)?

Surely you'd want stuff like :
"Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas"
and
"Highway to Hell and Back in Black by AC/DC"
as well as stuff like
"Stairway to Heaven and Kashmir by Led Zeppelin"

For me and my friends, anything that is on our iPod will be out soundtrack.
Lol...Although I will be playing "Holiday Road"...Theme from the Vacation movies.
Lol...

The real amusing thing here is that when this thread was created, the ipod was in its infancy and the itunes store had only been open for a few months!

I like to (when I remember) start each road trip with the opening lines of Randy Newman's "I love LA"... the part right after the spoken intro; it goes:


Rollin' down the Imperial Highway
With a big nasty redhead at my side
Santa Ana wind blowin' hot from the north
And we was born to ride

Roll down the window, put down the top
Crank up the Beach Boys, baby
Don't let the music stop
We're gonna ride it till we just can't ride it no more

Regina Spector "Folding Chair" "Let's get a silver bullet trailer, and have a baby boy! I'll safety pin his clothes all cool and you'll graffiti up his toys. I got a perfect body, but sometime I forget. I've got a perfect body cause my eyelashes catch my sweat. yes they do, they do-oh-ooh-ooo"

Matt and Kim "Daylight"

Jill Scott "Golden"

Enya various, "Anywhere is" "Only if you want to" many more

George Winston, I love him, all stuff...

Okay back on the "Beat"

Edward and the Magnetic Zero's "Janglin"

Tilly and the Wall "Beat Control"

Natasha B. "Unwritten"

Fiest "Mushaboom"

Jack Johnson.. one of my heros.. so like whatever from him.. and another good style is Bare naked ladies... okay maybe because both of those dudes do kids songs and people with kids need some good, not mind heavy all the time tunes.
That is all I can think of not mentioned above.. I love Pandora, just start exploring artists for free! One big beauty of the smart phones!!! I looooove Pandora.. I would even up grade..

As for the downloading all in one shot, yeah, that would be ping.. I have made one list but not sure how to share it.. besides.. it cost so much! I like to do my tunes in pieces.. I also like to use Pandora to get a feel before I buy.

I think road trip soundtracks differ from person to person. Some songs might trigger something within one person, but might bore another.

Personally, I adjust my soundtrack depending on who I'm traveling with. If I'm on the road with mom I mostly include commercialized Billboard songs. If it's my best friend I'm hitting it with I'll put in some mellow country music and singer-songwriter stuff.
Overall, for me, I imagine myself in a convertable at around 7 PM when the sun's setting and you look forward to showering, dressing up and going to dinner. If the song works for that; it's going on the list.

But, all in all, the songs mentioned in this thread sound pretty damn good. :D

Bread's "Truckin'" comes to mind.

John Denver's "Matthew" ("gold is just a windy Kansas wheat field, blue was just a Kansas summer sky")

And our family favorite, the song "Oklahoma" (from Rodger & Hammerstein's musical of the same name) as one crosses the state line into that state.

"Deep in the Heart of Texas" or "Yellow Rose of Texas" when traveling through that state.

"City of New Orleans" (either Arlo Guthrie or John Denver)

"St Louis Blues" (almost any version) as one pulls into St Louis

"Chicago" and "New York, NY" (Frank Sinatra) as you pull into either of those cities.



Donna

I was at a Chris Murphy concert over the weekend. Chris draws inspiration and expertise from a variety of disciplines and traditions. His violin rips and weaves through compositions that are both original and yet feel familiar and comfortable like well-loved bluegrass standards of old.

Two albums I really am intrigued by are:

"Boat Songs" and "Red Mountain Blues"

You can listen to some of his tunes here.

Mark