since everyone here has amazing taste in music, i need some help with a mix (well, mixes) i'm making for an upcoming road trip...
not necessarily looking for cliche road trip songs, just good ones...
any ideas?
since everyone here has amazing taste in music, i need some help with a mix (well, mixes) i'm making for an upcoming road trip...
not necessarily looking for cliche road trip songs, just good ones...
any ideas?
I JUST did this for a friend....here's a small list of what I included (sorry, I have to include some cliche ones...:) )
"Running on Empty" Jackson Browne
"Let it Ride" Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
"Right Moves" Josh Ritter
"Big Easy" Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers
"Listen to the Music" The Doobie Brothers
"Rockin' Down the Highway" The Doobie Brothers
"Take it Easy" The Eagles
"Beautiful Day" U2
"Sir Duke" Stevie Wonder
"The First Single (Cause a Scene)" The Format
"Streetlights" Ludo
"Tangled Up In Blue" Bob Dylan
"Good Day Sunshine" The Beatles
"Suspended" Matt Nathanson
"Instant Karma" John Lennon
"Been There Before" Hanson
"Day Tripper" The Beatles
"Hello, Goodbye" The Beatles
"Detriot Waves" Matt Nathanson
Way more where that came from......I realize I probably went a little overboard with this post...but whatever. Nothing like a good mix tape.
In January, my friend and I took off for Cedar Rapids on a whim for a Sixers show...and I threw together 3 mixes for the road trip...
We Might Be Hallucinating This Volume 1
1. Iowa Stubborn - The Music Man Soundtrack
2. See You Later, See You Soon - Sixers
3. Golden Brown - The Stranglers
4. Closer - Joshua Radin
5. Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
6. Don't Stop Me Now - Queen
7. Grace Kelly - Mika
8. Shiny Shiny - Haysie Fantayzee
9. Let It Ride - Ryan Adams and The Cardinals (haha great minds think alike)
10. In Front of the World - Sixers
11. Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother - Sufjan Stevens
12. Steve's Last Night In Town - Ben Folds Five
13. Into The Dark - Ben Lee
14. Shake That - Eminem feat. Nate Dogg
15. Flower In Rain - Sixers (fast version, from 4.4.07)
We Might Be Hallucinating This Volume 2
1. Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse
2. Sweet Talkin' Woman - Electric Light Orchestra
3. Somebody to Love - George Michael and Queen
4. Wagon Wheel - Sixers
5. The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani feat. Akon (a share guilty pleasure, ha)
6. One Of Those Nights - Heath Brandon
7. I Am A Passenger - Iggy Pop
8. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver
9. Centerfold/I Want Your Sex - Stephen Kellogg (from 5.1.02)
10. Harder Now That It's Over - Ryan Adams
11. Starting To Blur - Boots
12. Stay - Michelle Featherstone
13. Never Ending Story - Limahl
We Might Be Hallucinating This Volume 3
1. Mais Que Nada (Ma-sh Kay Nada) - Sergio Mendes
2. She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze
3. Guitar and Tambourine - Stephen Kellogg
4. Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
5. The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders - Sufjan Stevens
6. And She Was - Talking Heads
7. Way She Is - Stephen Kellogg
8. Circle of Life - Lion King Soundtrack
9. Chin Up, Cheer Up - Ryan Adams
10. Valerie - Amy Winehouse
11. 11:11 - Rufus Wainwright
12. Love Love Love - Tristan Prettyman
13. A Little Respect - Erasure
awesome mixes!..thanks!!
Don't know if you roadtrip already happened, but I browsed my iTunes and these would be some that aren't that well known but are amazing (and duh, Sk6ers are a given!)
Time is a Runaway - Alternate Routes
Witch Doctor - Alvin and the Chipmunks (don't laugh - such a good song to drive/dance to
)
In a Rush - Ari Hest
Sundress - Ben Kweller
Blessed - Brett Dennen
Bubbly - Colbie Caillat
Crazy 'Bout Ya - Dave Barnes
Oh! - Eric Hutchinson
Overrated - Five Times August
The Compromise - The Format
How to Save a Life - The Fray
Chemical Party - Gavin DeGraw
Better Together - Jack Johnson
You Give Me Something - James Morrison
Better Than - John Butler Trio
Human - Jon McLaughlin
Why Can't I? - Liz Phair
Come on Get Higher - Matt Nathanson
5:19 - Matt Wertz
Mary Poppins' Birds - Nathan Angelo
Love and Memories - OAR
Fidelity - Regina Spektor
Many the Miles - Sara Bareilles
Baby Don't You Change - Tyrone Wells
it did already happen (it was to state college for the april 3 show...) but amazingly, i think i had at least half of those songs on the mixes i made haha
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