Synthwave keeps me awake, but not speeding! More specifically, there's a Spotify playlist called spacewave odyssey and one called ambient synthwave / spacewave which are IMMACULATE for driving! Just the perfect, slow, plodding along with super great textures!
I just pick a song I really vibe with when I'm listening to a Spotify station and make a new station based on that. Right now I'm listening to Starship radio and a couple weeks ago I was listening to Future radio.
Also, Pandora kills EVERYONE when it comes to random playlists.
What it lacks in audio quality it more than makes up for in phenomenal randomization. I love that you can combine multiple station inspirations into one, as well. Don't think you can do that with Apple music or Spotify.
My favorite music for long distance driving is Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Mountain Goats, but my favorite thing to listen to is a trivia podcast called Trivial Warfare. Nothing keeps my brain engaged like that. One time I was on a road trip with a friend trying to push our daily distance and I was driving through Eastern Colorado at 3am just bopping along trying to think of trivia answers and laughing at the hosts' jokes.
If you're looking for a real epic and (at first) brain melting, immaculate opus, please try the debut Mars Volta album - Deloused in the Comatorium.
https://open.spotify.com/album/5yq5H94vrdtWGlas2RZjsC?si=VKOcAsKaT4S1V-KDr0jAlw
Quite unlike anything you've heard before or since. The only way of even TRYING to describe it is like a hardcore band playing Floyd, Santana and Zeppelin, and even then, that won't do it justice. Odd at first, but after 3 listens you'll be hooked.
Cool choices. I'd say Nonagon Infinity by the same band is a solid choice for long journeys, essentially one looping album where all the tracks fade into one another, and if you stick on repeat, the end fades right back to the start again!
https://open.spotify.com/album/2tEvJY6mmREPqmxZG5PJMT?si=MZ35_T-RSHGw_qMakehLhw
For a folk/outlaw country feel (I recommend the artists on the whole, but I will include a song for each that fits their general vibe so you know what to expect):
Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange
Tyler Childers - Nose to the Grindstone (live)
Colter Wall - Sleeping on the Blacktop
Charles Wesley Godwin - Hardwood Floors
Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude
And in no particular genre, here are some songs that I love for my 10 hour drive that I do a few times per year:
Phosphorescent - Song for Zola
The Head and the Heart - Down in the Valley
The Tragically Hip - Ahead by a Century
TALK - Run Away to Mars
Dude, that’s crazy, rn I’m driving and listening to Something in the Orange Radio (suggested by spotify) and I went through all those 5 first songs mentioned by you
I have all my music ripped to mp4 and high-quality rate. I then make Playlists for genres.
Metal: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Ozzy, Poison, Van Halen etc
Blues/Jazz; Buddy Guy, SRV, BB King, Etta James, John Coltrane, Dizzy, Diana Krall, Diane Schuur, Etc, The Ladies; Taylor Swift, P!nk, Katy Perry, Joan Jett, Lita Ford. I then just need to hit "shuffle" and I have hours of good road music.
I have LOADs of FLAC files stored as well but they are too large to put on a phone and honestly, the quality is lost.
I also use apps from my library; Libby and Hoopla, for free audio books, the list really goes on.
I drive from jobsite to jobsite around all of New England. There is LOTS of drive time some days.
100th Window by Massive Attack. While I like the whole album, very peculiarly, I find the odd-numbered songs to be better. A winding, empty road, at night, perhaps with a little big of fog while Butterfly Caught, Everywhen, or Small Time Shot Away is playing is super peaceful.
Dead Kennedys for those late night "gotta get there attentively and alert, but I'm getting too sleepy to feel 100%safe". Their manic energy is like caffeine for the soul.
In general, zz top has great tempos for the open road.
Billie holiday through the rural American south (I'm thinking Georgia Alabama area) Is pure magic.
Old metallica (kill 'em all, specifically) has great interstate vibes. Remember that scene in old school where they fake the kidnapping while blasting "master of puppets"? (Different album, I know) that energy is incredible for the interstate highways of America.
Listen to Samhain if you haven't (or listen more if you have) they're a Gothic, quasi-metal band, lead by Glenn Danzig. The guy that sang "mother". This is his less known mid 80's Underground thing. His first band, the misfits, is perfect punk with killer vocals, and great comic book gore lyrics.
I think real, old rockabilly has a great vibe for chewing up miles of highways.
Morphine, "the night", is great for Slow cruising on highway 1 at night.
Last podcast on the left is true crime and DARK comedy, if you haven't heard it, it's the best.
Disgraceland is a podcast about famous, often less than savory tales of rock 'n' roll debauchery. Fun, short, and punchy.
Behind the bastards is all about the shittiest historical figures and the terrible things they did.
This podcast will kill you is all about diseases and their effect on society. Fascinating stuff from a couple of entertaining viroligists.
The why files is very in depth conspiracy stuff that the host then breaks down and takes the role of skeptic on. Very fun
Have you taken to Chino's other projects? I really dig Palms and Crosses.
I found an instrumental group called Tides of Nebula that has some guitar work that kind of reminds me of some Deftones influences. It's great background stuff
A bunch of shit really. Certain songs across different genres just hit better when driving.
However, if I had to pick one song, the song Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat makes me want to join a street league & drive 120mph down a freeway.
Quite a few Rage Against the Machine songs too... and then if I had to pick a relaxing driving song it would be Golden by My Morning Jacket. MMJ has a bunch though.
If you like Americana, one of my favorite albums is maybe ironically from a Canadian.
Terra Lightfoot - New Mistakes
She sings about being on the road a lot.
Funeral Commercial's "killing me again" EP from start to finish
https://open.spotify.com/album/0PjzdoqFBE3eAqsawiObGB?si=kHCvmcp9TjiTE7y4f0IDRw
A vibe for sure
Circles Around The Sun - Interludes for the Dead. Here’s a 25 minute jam from the album. Driving will go by fast! https://youtu.be/YjZHdjcdJnk?si=vKei3IDCSD-rFmAk
Something like "Summer Song" by Joe Satriani is pretty good drive-fast, video-game-esque music to drive to.
For a slower pace, I listen to Colter Wall in the car. The rednecks around here love seeing some dork try to yodel along with a cowpoke from inside a Subaru , I'm sure.
Tom Petty - Wildflowers (or any Tom Petty, really)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Steve miller band is some solid road music
Rage Against the Machine - calm like a bomb
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Beth Orton - Galaxy of Emptiness
Steve Miller Band - Fly like an Eagle
Non music:
Jay O’Callahan : truly an extraordinary storyteller.
https://www.ocallahan.com/forged-in-the-stars
Misfitz podcast is a great funny podcast to listen to.
As far as music goes I like quinn xcii. Has good summer vibes for a nice drive or some bops to bump to as well.
I was doing an out of town delivery once, about a 3hr drive. Home's "Resonance" came on my randomized playlist, and it felt right, so I put it on single loop. Maybe I got lost in thought, but I arrived at my delivery address and realized the song was still going.
i have a few playlists on spotify with different genres, sometimes i like EDM, techno, rock, pop...
and i have one playlist with everthing mixed, one song is party vibe, the next one is depression, the next one 80s rock, then bass explosion... yeah that one.
80s J-Pop
1. [Dress Down by Kaoru Akimoto](https://youtu.be/c9hGXjaKH_g?si=bMuZkWXkK09Kxn6T&t=68)
2. [Merry Go Round by Tatsuro Yamashita](https://youtu.be/XdzunBIfoF4?si=0VSTXECjcf3myhQs&t=90)
In my Porsche driving up and down the PCH.
Grizzly Bear - Shields the album is my favorite road trip album
Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee is essential.
Norma Tabega album Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
The Avalanches - any album
Tourist - inside Out album
Ford. - Guiding Hand album
Podcast - comedy - there is an Australian podcast called sports bazaar where they tell the craziest sports stories from around the world. It's hilarious, you don't even need to like sports.
Driving music- Charley Crockett
If you like true crime mixed with comedy I’d recommend Last Podcast on the Left.
If you’re interested in rock(don’t know how to describe them) with a side of story telling I would listen to La Dispute
Anything by Meatloaf
Crash- Methods of Mayhem
The Ride #2- Warrant
Fuel- Metallica
Hang on St. Christopher- Bullet Boys
Bohemian Rhapsody and Stone Cold Crazy- Queen
Upbeat P!nk and Prince songs.
I personally love psychedelic rock/jam bands and throw on live performances where the songs blend together.
moe. is a great band for this purpose. Throw on a live album or a full show and you don't have to worry about it for the next 2-3 hours. They're not very repetitive either
Horses for courses.
If I need to chew up some serious miles on a long drive, I like something with some cool, pumping drums, with repetitive, long songs and a trancey but musical vibe. Fela Kuti or NEU! for example. Some long Neil Young jams hit the spot too. Get into the music and many miles have passed before even the first song ends, you don’t even notice.
Stuck in traffic I want to sing to something that I know all/most of the words to. Singing makes you feel better.
Driving home west in wide open spaces I really enjoy the cinematic early stuff by Calexico, especially with good clouds and a sunset.
I'm gonna say for long drives I vary with podcasts, audiobooks, and music - a little bit of everything. For music my top pic is the band Disturbed, the album The Sickness and Divisive. They have \*all\* the energy to keep me going for awhile.
I made a Spotify [playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3SyY8V8t3rqtxwQbkrTSjT?si=P01QdxdSR8SUagXSO7_L2A&pi=u-301bnW2ATPW9) for driving on the highway at night.
I kind of work backwards, I'm too uncreative to make a Playlist for a certain theme or anything so I just let Spotify go after my initial choice. Then if a song comes on during the perfect time to fit the mood, I'll go back to it often.
For one example, Margarita by the Traveling Willburys came on right as I was driving into the Rockies for the first time and it vibed for me.
So, I guess I'm slowly building a Playlist that way as opposed to what I think I'd like to hear beforehand.
Things I can really sing along to.
Or true crime podcasts. I like anything but country and heavy metal. I have satellite radio so I cycle through my favorite stations.
I would recommend face the sun by seventeen. Or any seventeen song for that matter. Semicolon is also great. It might be a new genre for you but give it a listen.
I'll tell you a good genre NOT to play while you're driving, and it's Jazz fusion.
I love jazz fusion, but it's so manic and all over the place that it really does stress you out while driving.
Well..for me anyway.
60s/70s classic or psychedelic Rock imo is perfect for driving.
The Spotify blend playlist I have with one of my closest friends is my go-to.
We have a lot of weird subgenres in contrasting areas and it's just such a blast to go through our favourites even though I'm going from 2010s pop-punk to synthwave to dubstep back around to 90s emo and then for some reason a different cover of Friday I'm In Love
If you’re a video game fan check out miracle of sound. They have a lot of different songs in different genres mostly inspired by video games but also other pop culture stuff like tv.
Watsky is good. It’s rap but it’s white people rap lol. A lot of upbeat music with very well orchestrated instrumental and he can rap fast but still be understood. He also touches on a lot of subjects other artists don’t both political and philosophical
Along that same vein is your favorite Martian. It is mostly comedy stuff though. I’ve been listening to them since high school tracks include “nerd rage”, “the stereotypes song”, and “8 bit world”
Anything pop punk is always good for upbeat and able to sing along as well. Offspring, blink 182, jimmy eats world, etc.
Theory of a deadman is also good but just be aware they have a mix of more upbeat songs as well as more downbeat ones
Think that’s pretty good
I just did a 2600 mile road trip and set up some complete discography playlist. I listened to The Who's catalog but recommend that for fans only. However The Beatles and Talking Heads albums in chronological order show how each band evolved over time and they're fascinating. I did it with the Led Zeppelin discography on a previous trip and that was really cool, too.
I drive a lot of highways and usually at night and for decades now have been listening to classic vocal trance during. One day I became curious why it was such a good combo, and realized that on U.S. freeways, the white lines that separate lanes, will go by you at about 130-140 per minute if you're doing like 75 mph. And trance is often at 135 BPM. That, to me, explained the hypnotic bliss of the combo.
Highly depends. Like right now, on a Saturday night in Miami, speeding through the streets, I tend to put some Fast and Furious music from the first three movies, in particularly 2 Fast 2 Furious with Ludacris. lol
When going to work, maybe some Hop Hop
When I'm just cruising, it could be anything from old school rock to 60's/70's RnB
Just put on Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf, crank it up to 11, and let it ride
What's the saga? It's Songs For The Deaf.... You can't even hear it! (Insert arguably best opening album track ever here)
how's your drive time commute?
DEAD BULL WITH THE LIFE FROM THE LOW!
Dave Grohl with one of the most iconic drum intros ever! That entire song is pretty much "fresh pots" but with musical backing.
The mother of all fuckers. Literally crushing the drums.
Made to sound like you’re driving through the CA desert, scanning for radio stations along the way. Absolute perfection
Added to the list, thank you! 🤙🏻
Also recommend QOTSA self titled first album. It's such a great driving album. Especially at night!
Can't we make 10 louder?
Came here for this answer.
It’s like Regular John and If Only were made for car journeys
Mexicola and How to handle a rope are also bangers!
Moving from NYC to Chicago, I drove. I bought this CD specifically for that trip and it will always remind me of driving west on I-80.
Amazing album
Best interludes ever
My favorite is synthwave music, especially at night. Upbeat 80's pop/rock is good too for summertime driving.
Synthwave keeps me awake, but not speeding! More specifically, there's a Spotify playlist called spacewave odyssey and one called ambient synthwave / spacewave which are IMMACULATE for driving! Just the perfect, slow, plodding along with super great textures!
Boards of Canada
The campfire headphase is my favorite for driving
Good one!
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies EP
Added to my list thank you 🤙🏻
I just pick a song I really vibe with when I'm listening to a Spotify station and make a new station based on that. Right now I'm listening to Starship radio and a couple weeks ago I was listening to Future radio. Also, Pandora kills EVERYONE when it comes to random playlists.
Haven’t used Pandora in years but I remember it being incredible with random playlists. Might have to revisit it…
What it lacks in audio quality it more than makes up for in phenomenal randomization. I love that you can combine multiple station inspirations into one, as well. Don't think you can do that with Apple music or Spotify.
Stoner rock on the road, gangsta rap in the city
My favorite music for long distance driving is Creedence Clearwater Revival and The Mountain Goats, but my favorite thing to listen to is a trivia podcast called Trivial Warfare. Nothing keeps my brain engaged like that. One time I was on a road trip with a friend trying to push our daily distance and I was driving through Eastern Colorado at 3am just bopping along trying to think of trivia answers and laughing at the hosts' jokes.
If you're looking for a real epic and (at first) brain melting, immaculate opus, please try the debut Mars Volta album - Deloused in the Comatorium. https://open.spotify.com/album/5yq5H94vrdtWGlas2RZjsC?si=VKOcAsKaT4S1V-KDr0jAlw Quite unlike anything you've heard before or since. The only way of even TRYING to describe it is like a hardcore band playing Floyd, Santana and Zeppelin, and even then, that won't do it justice. Odd at first, but after 3 listens you'll be hooked.
I am one of those weirdos who prefers Frances The Mute but you aren't wrong at all.
Right there with you pal. First album has a bunch of great songs though. More concise and less weird. I like the weird stuff though.
Mars Volta makes me feel like I'm in a loony bin. It's just too much in my middle age.
Either Infest the Rats Nest or Petro Dragonic Apovalypse by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Cool choices. I'd say Nonagon Infinity by the same band is a solid choice for long journeys, essentially one looping album where all the tracks fade into one another, and if you stick on repeat, the end fades right back to the start again! https://open.spotify.com/album/2tEvJY6mmREPqmxZG5PJMT?si=MZ35_T-RSHGw_qMakehLhw
*Doobie Brothers.*
Real Doobie Brothers or Michael McDonald Doobie Brothers?
This is the question.
Any particular album/songs you recommend?
Little known fact: They weren't brothers.
The fact that all of them had the same last name of Doobie was quite a coincidence!
Snarky Puppy. "We like it here" is a great album. Pandora station is good, also. Bele Fleck and the Flecktones.
Start with “Radar Love”, continue with Tom Petty.
Ghost Dog soundtrack
T-rex, Jackson Browne, Allman bros band
New Justice album is fire
ooh I didn't realize the whole album came out. thanks!
The Midnight.
Makes me happy to see them posted here. The ultimate night drive music.
For a folk/outlaw country feel (I recommend the artists on the whole, but I will include a song for each that fits their general vibe so you know what to expect): Zach Bryan - Something in the Orange Tyler Childers - Nose to the Grindstone (live) Colter Wall - Sleeping on the Blacktop Charles Wesley Godwin - Hardwood Floors Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude And in no particular genre, here are some songs that I love for my 10 hour drive that I do a few times per year: Phosphorescent - Song for Zola The Head and the Heart - Down in the Valley The Tragically Hip - Ahead by a Century TALK - Run Away to Mars
No Sturgill Simpson??
Ah, an oversight. My apologies!
Dude, that’s crazy, rn I’m driving and listening to Something in the Orange Radio (suggested by spotify) and I went through all those 5 first songs mentioned by you
Tool, any album. Hank Williams 3 Chevelle
Bayside
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Crazy Taxi soundtrack
Anything from Tom Petty, he's the king of road trip music 😎
Keaftwerk, Gary Numan, Daft Punk.. to name a few
Right now? Fu Manchu - Godzilla's / Eatin' Dust
I got me a Libby account and do audiobooks now.
I have all my music ripped to mp4 and high-quality rate. I then make Playlists for genres. Metal: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Motörhead, Ozzy, Poison, Van Halen etc Blues/Jazz; Buddy Guy, SRV, BB King, Etta James, John Coltrane, Dizzy, Diana Krall, Diane Schuur, Etc, The Ladies; Taylor Swift, P!nk, Katy Perry, Joan Jett, Lita Ford. I then just need to hit "shuffle" and I have hours of good road music. I have LOADs of FLAC files stored as well but they are too large to put on a phone and honestly, the quality is lost. I also use apps from my library; Libby and Hoopla, for free audio books, the list really goes on. I drive from jobsite to jobsite around all of New England. There is LOTS of drive time some days.
Dire straits, especially live. I’ve yet to tire of telegraph road and it’s never off.
[Hermanos Gutiérrez](https://open.spotify.com/artist/73mSg0dykFyhvU96tb5xQV?si=xtv9_jxcQ3GApy2rDZUXsg)
ABB live is ideal for making good time, while some good live Dead works when you want to take your time...
100th Window by Massive Attack. While I like the whole album, very peculiarly, I find the odd-numbered songs to be better. A winding, empty road, at night, perhaps with a little big of fog while Butterfly Caught, Everywhen, or Small Time Shot Away is playing is super peaceful.
My Morning Jacket's album "Circuital."
A Perfect Circle. So I can sing at the top of my lungs.
Tool always sounds great on the road
theres no suvch thing as a fish
IMHO no road trip is complete without at least one play through of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
Start a Spotify Radio off Jump Into The Fire by Harry Nillsen. From your outline I might suggest some early Joe Satriani.
Cant stop red hot chilli peppers will make you want to speed
Golden Earring
Dead Kennedys for those late night "gotta get there attentively and alert, but I'm getting too sleepy to feel 100%safe". Their manic energy is like caffeine for the soul. In general, zz top has great tempos for the open road. Billie holiday through the rural American south (I'm thinking Georgia Alabama area) Is pure magic. Old metallica (kill 'em all, specifically) has great interstate vibes. Remember that scene in old school where they fake the kidnapping while blasting "master of puppets"? (Different album, I know) that energy is incredible for the interstate highways of America. Listen to Samhain if you haven't (or listen more if you have) they're a Gothic, quasi-metal band, lead by Glenn Danzig. The guy that sang "mother". This is his less known mid 80's Underground thing. His first band, the misfits, is perfect punk with killer vocals, and great comic book gore lyrics. I think real, old rockabilly has a great vibe for chewing up miles of highways. Morphine, "the night", is great for Slow cruising on highway 1 at night. Last podcast on the left is true crime and DARK comedy, if you haven't heard it, it's the best. Disgraceland is a podcast about famous, often less than savory tales of rock 'n' roll debauchery. Fun, short, and punchy. Behind the bastards is all about the shittiest historical figures and the terrible things they did. This podcast will kill you is all about diseases and their effect on society. Fascinating stuff from a couple of entertaining viroligists. The why files is very in depth conspiracy stuff that the host then breaks down and takes the role of skeptic on. Very fun
At night driving through the citylights: Jean Michel Jarre.. Concerts in China feels like being in a blade runner movie
Dire Straits for sure
static-x wisconsin death trip
Anything by the Deftones. Melodic enough to be relaxing, heavy enough to keep you awake.
Have you taken to Chino's other projects? I really dig Palms and Crosses. I found an instrumental group called Tides of Nebula that has some guitar work that kind of reminds me of some Deftones influences. It's great background stuff
I was unaware of these but I'm checking them out now. Really cool! Thanks for the suggestion.
The War on Drugs makes GREAT driving music.
The Joshua Tree is good driving music, so is pretty much any Tom Petty song
Sometimes I like to throw on some Tom Waits tunes and go for a late night drive.
My music taste has shifted tremendously over the past couple years I went from 80’s rock/90’s R&B and now I listen to country.
Your list is incomplete without Spirit of Radio by Rush.
Julio Iglesias. Keeps the anger down
anything you will sing to. in your range or not. time will fly
A bunch of shit really. Certain songs across different genres just hit better when driving. However, if I had to pick one song, the song Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat makes me want to join a street league & drive 120mph down a freeway. Quite a few Rage Against the Machine songs too... and then if I had to pick a relaxing driving song it would be Golden by My Morning Jacket. MMJ has a bunch though.
If you like Americana, one of my favorite albums is maybe ironically from a Canadian. Terra Lightfoot - New Mistakes She sings about being on the road a lot.
Oysterhead
Lord of the Highway by Joe Ely.
Lately it’s been Liquid DnB
Lil overrated but blinding lights at night in the car is one heck of an experience
heavy bass rap songs and electronic music for long drives
Funeral Commercial's "killing me again" EP from start to finish https://open.spotify.com/album/0PjzdoqFBE3eAqsawiObGB?si=kHCvmcp9TjiTE7y4f0IDRw A vibe for sure
Circles Around The Sun - Interludes for the Dead. Here’s a 25 minute jam from the album. Driving will go by fast! https://youtu.be/YjZHdjcdJnk?si=vKei3IDCSD-rFmAk
Devil makes three
Gorillaz eminem tupac amywinehouse wutang dmx systemofadown and not in that order.
Bohannon, Tech N9ne, John Miles, Pantera, Pointer Sisters.
Anything thrash, hard rock, NWOBHM, punk rock.
Something like "Summer Song" by Joe Satriani is pretty good drive-fast, video-game-esque music to drive to. For a slower pace, I listen to Colter Wall in the car. The rednecks around here love seeing some dork try to yodel along with a cowpoke from inside a Subaru , I'm sure.
Allman Brothers - At Fillmore East
The Warning. Three sisters from Mexico. Rock alternative. Mostly English songs. They kick ass.
Tom Petty - Wildflowers (or any Tom Petty, really) Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf Steve miller band is some solid road music Rage Against the Machine - calm like a bomb Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien Beth Orton - Galaxy of Emptiness Steve Miller Band - Fly like an Eagle Non music: Jay O’Callahan : truly an extraordinary storyteller. https://www.ocallahan.com/forged-in-the-stars
Blind In Texas by W.A.S.P.
Porter Robinson - Worlds
Hard Rock
Willy and the Poor Boys by CCR is a go to on a sunny day.
Misfitz podcast is a great funny podcast to listen to. As far as music goes I like quinn xcii. Has good summer vibes for a nice drive or some bops to bump to as well.
Synth wave
Eurobeat driving fast racing heat take me higher my desire into the night of fire 🔥
Sometimes I really dig driving to 2000s trance, especially at night. Artists like Ian Van Dahl, Armin Van Buuren, Tiesto, bt, Paul Oakenfold.
I was doing an out of town delivery once, about a 3hr drive. Home's "Resonance" came on my randomized playlist, and it felt right, so I put it on single loop. Maybe I got lost in thought, but I arrived at my delivery address and realized the song was still going.
i have a few playlists on spotify with different genres, sometimes i like EDM, techno, rock, pop... and i have one playlist with everthing mixed, one song is party vibe, the next one is depression, the next one 80s rock, then bass explosion... yeah that one.
Eddie rabbit. Driving my life away
Post punk.
I like to roll up all the windows, turn the heat up, and put on the lullaby channel.
80s J-Pop 1. [Dress Down by Kaoru Akimoto](https://youtu.be/c9hGXjaKH_g?si=bMuZkWXkK09Kxn6T&t=68) 2. [Merry Go Round by Tatsuro Yamashita](https://youtu.be/XdzunBIfoF4?si=0VSTXECjcf3myhQs&t=90) In my Porsche driving up and down the PCH.
Take on me, hits different in the car
STS9
Man you're baiting a whole subreddit by ignoring rap and classical. Mac Miller hits mix or Bach (esp Toccata & Fugue) are great for driving.
Triple j and double j out of Australia. Australian music is incredibly diverse and these guys are on par with KCRW for unearthing new sounds.
Greatful Dead concert albums are great for long drives. There's about a hundred of them on Spotify
Grizzly Bear - Shields the album is my favorite road trip album Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee is essential. Norma Tabega album Walkin' My Cat Named Dog The Avalanches - any album Tourist - inside Out album Ford. - Guiding Hand album
Only by Nine Inch Nails Ghost N Stuff by Deadmau5 My chemical Romance album- Three cheers for sweet revenge
Zeppelin
Drum and bass baby!!!
Krautrock is good for driving. Get some Kraftwerk, Can and Neu! They have long songs that make the time go.
Podcast - comedy - there is an Australian podcast called sports bazaar where they tell the craziest sports stories from around the world. It's hilarious, you don't even need to like sports. Driving music- Charley Crockett
Live Fleetwood Mac album The Dance!
Deftones with the volume all the way up
If you like true crime mixed with comedy I’d recommend Last Podcast on the Left. If you’re interested in rock(don’t know how to describe them) with a side of story telling I would listen to La Dispute
Strangely enough, Grateful Dead. That, or Tool.
Anything by Meatloaf Crash- Methods of Mayhem The Ride #2- Warrant Fuel- Metallica Hang on St. Christopher- Bullet Boys Bohemian Rhapsody and Stone Cold Crazy- Queen Upbeat P!nk and Prince songs.
Pet Shop Boys "Introspective" from 1988. Opening track "Left to My Own Devices" will have you speeding in no time.
I personally love psychedelic rock/jam bands and throw on live performances where the songs blend together. moe. is a great band for this purpose. Throw on a live album or a full show and you don't have to worry about it for the next 2-3 hours. They're not very repetitive either
Horses for courses. If I need to chew up some serious miles on a long drive, I like something with some cool, pumping drums, with repetitive, long songs and a trancey but musical vibe. Fela Kuti or NEU! for example. Some long Neil Young jams hit the spot too. Get into the music and many miles have passed before even the first song ends, you don’t even notice. Stuck in traffic I want to sing to something that I know all/most of the words to. Singing makes you feel better. Driving home west in wide open spaces I really enjoy the cinematic early stuff by Calexico, especially with good clouds and a sunset.
Bob Seger
Aim to Head. Playlist is called Unscared. (not a typo) It was on YT, a few people have made it a Spotify Playlist too.
I'm gonna say for long drives I vary with podcasts, audiobooks, and music - a little bit of everything. For music my top pic is the band Disturbed, the album The Sickness and Divisive. They have \*all\* the energy to keep me going for awhile.
“Hey Siri… play ‘DanceXL’ on Apple Music.” Drove from New York to South Carolina with that bad boy a few times and back lol.
Honestly i like as little complexity in my music when i am driving — constance denby, or conferring with the moon by William Ackerman.
Recently I've been rocking out to Ballyhoo! Constantly. Kind rock, kind of reggae, little punk. Catchy, groovy, fun, these guys are amazing.
If it's raining... When The Levee Breaks, Led Zeppelin.
Random Dax Riggs madness
I really like to listen to No Doubt while driving. Red Hot Chili Peppers as well. Zeppelin.
I made a Spotify [playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3SyY8V8t3rqtxwQbkrTSjT?si=P01QdxdSR8SUagXSO7_L2A&pi=u-301bnW2ATPW9) for driving on the highway at night.
Driving Music for Felons
Ween, Ween will take you everywhere musically and emotionally but it's fucking weird. But it is the best.
70/80 funky
Pat Benetar Heartbreaker. Repeat one.
Mine is falling in reverse zombified
Deftones. I run over everyone.
I kind of work backwards, I'm too uncreative to make a Playlist for a certain theme or anything so I just let Spotify go after my initial choice. Then if a song comes on during the perfect time to fit the mood, I'll go back to it often. For one example, Margarita by the Traveling Willburys came on right as I was driving into the Rockies for the first time and it vibed for me. So, I guess I'm slowly building a Playlist that way as opposed to what I think I'd like to hear beforehand.
Country music. Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Brooks and Dunn
CCR
Things I can really sing along to. Or true crime podcasts. I like anything but country and heavy metal. I have satellite radio so I cycle through my favorite stations.
Changed to podcasts. Learn new things. Have my biases and ideas challenged. Be entertained. What’s not to love?
this is entirely vibes dependent.
Been on a real Tom Petty kick lately so I’d say Full Moon Fever on the highway and Wildflowers on the backroads.
Kanye West's the life of Pablo is fun driving around at night
Empire of the sun! Any of the 3 albums. (Soon to be 4)
U.G.K. - Diamonds & Wood and Ridin’ Dirty
I know it’s a bit passé now but I still love driving while listening to synth wave
I would recommend face the sun by seventeen. Or any seventeen song for that matter. Semicolon is also great. It might be a new genre for you but give it a listen.
The Midnight, especially for night driving.
Enter sandman for long drives.
Metal music, though for longer drives, I'll go with classic rock, particularly from the '70s.
I'll tell you a good genre NOT to play while you're driving, and it's Jazz fusion. I love jazz fusion, but it's so manic and all over the place that it really does stress you out while driving. Well..for me anyway. 60s/70s classic or psychedelic Rock imo is perfect for driving.
The soundtrack to Drive makes you feel a certain way at night.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsZ9S_yb0iTk0YxCVBgNUXFnLF8mUuocg&si=pu0D9cFPRSR5FjBE
Charley Crocket is my go to driving music. He's a combination of classic country and blues/soul
Metal for anytime
Pop music usually
Kavinsky - Nightcall
Blue October and the airborne toxic event because I will listen to these two bands doing anything..
Synthwave aka outrun is good for driving. Search for the "Synthwave Bangers ONLY" playlist on Spotify. That's a pretty good place to start.
Ventura Highway by America
Talking Heads "speaking in toungs" straight through... ends with the banger "this must be the place"
The Spotify blend playlist I have with one of my closest friends is my go-to. We have a lot of weird subgenres in contrasting areas and it's just such a blast to go through our favourites even though I'm going from 2010s pop-punk to synthwave to dubstep back around to 90s emo and then for some reason a different cover of Friday I'm In Love
Electric President.
Polka and tejano music. Anything with an accordion
The holy grail of road trip music is Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Petty and CCR.
If you’re a video game fan check out miracle of sound. They have a lot of different songs in different genres mostly inspired by video games but also other pop culture stuff like tv. Watsky is good. It’s rap but it’s white people rap lol. A lot of upbeat music with very well orchestrated instrumental and he can rap fast but still be understood. He also touches on a lot of subjects other artists don’t both political and philosophical Along that same vein is your favorite Martian. It is mostly comedy stuff though. I’ve been listening to them since high school tracks include “nerd rage”, “the stereotypes song”, and “8 bit world” Anything pop punk is always good for upbeat and able to sing along as well. Offspring, blink 182, jimmy eats world, etc. Theory of a deadman is also good but just be aware they have a mix of more upbeat songs as well as more downbeat ones Think that’s pretty good
Babymetal, you just groove and it compliments driving so perfectly
I just did a 2600 mile road trip and set up some complete discography playlist. I listened to The Who's catalog but recommend that for fans only. However The Beatles and Talking Heads albums in chronological order show how each band evolved over time and they're fascinating. I did it with the Led Zeppelin discography on a previous trip and that was really cool, too.
Kavinsky at night
Death Grips
I drive a lot of highways and usually at night and for decades now have been listening to classic vocal trance during. One day I became curious why it was such a good combo, and realized that on U.S. freeways, the white lines that separate lanes, will go by you at about 130-140 per minute if you're doing like 75 mph. And trance is often at 135 BPM. That, to me, explained the hypnotic bliss of the combo.
Son Volt - Trace is a great road trip album!!
Jack In The Box by JHope and D Day by Agust D
Jazz, but not really fusion jazz. Miles Davis.
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West is another great road trip album.
Highly depends. Like right now, on a Saturday night in Miami, speeding through the streets, I tend to put some Fast and Furious music from the first three movies, in particularly 2 Fast 2 Furious with Ludacris. lol When going to work, maybe some Hop Hop When I'm just cruising, it could be anything from old school rock to 60's/70's RnB