music for loooooooooooooooooooong car trips (or trips in general.)

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for the night time driving: Massive Attack

― A Nairn, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Droney and ambient stuff, no, but c'mon guys- motorik Kraut doesn't make you sleepy at all. Autobahn works brilliantly, it really does. Nobody ever lets me put my tapes on in the van, so I don't know how well they really go, but I heartily suggest 'Hats Off To Larry' by Del Shannon. Although if you're going to see your missus (which I believe you are, aren't you?) then it might not be so apt...

― emil.y, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

billy joel

nothing is funkier than "big shot" on a car stereo

― ddd, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Just make a bunch of mix CDr's of your favorite tracks. It may sound weird, but I think a lack of musical variety is a good thing on a car trip. Rather than 50 albums, try 5-10 cdr's. The reason being that it forces those songs to truly become a soundtrack as you listen to them over and over in the context of your trip.

of course, I am one of those people who perfer to really know a few great records, than just glance over a bunch of material. Also, if you are not traveling alone, take more music, just to please your other passengers.

― mt, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

left frizzell, johhny cash , sally timms, hank iii , robbie fulks, carter family and cake

― anthony, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Recently, I found _Laughing Stock_ to be perfect accompanyment to a rain-drenched drive on the highway. Almost any music with a good sense of space & dynamics makes for quality car listening on long journeys (sez he that drives 3 hours round-trip to Boston quite often) - that covers the ambient beat-happy stuff, and all the cool rock albums. (_Go Forth_ & _Change_, for instance.) (And _A Series of Sneaks_, oh yeah!) I'm sure there's some hip-hop that meets these criteria, but I can't think of any right now.

― David Raposa, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I agree with the comment that a lack of variety can work well. The instinct is to pack as much variety as space will allow in order to be prepared for whatever yen may arise, which means not selecting more than one or two things by any one artist. However, think about including several CDs each of a few artists you've been meaning to spend more time with. Or different artists that share a style. Or a box set. I've turned to doing this on road trips, and it can be a lot more satisfying than always mixing things up to avoid boredom, which becomes boring in itself, because it's just like being at home.

― Curt, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Depends if your travelling alone or not. Otherwise Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92. Sloan One Chord To Another, if you have passengers sleeping GYBE F#A#howdoyoudoinfinity is grate as long as you arent tired too. Screamadelica was surprisingly not well recieved at all by those in my van but Rheostatics Melville was. Any Spiritualized album is a good bet as well.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You need to tape different genres: Definitely singalong pop so people can gawk at you when they pass you by in the car. Secondly kling klang noizzz when you enter the city. Minimal music which will be perfect when you roam the streets at night. Rock when you want it confrontational and in YOUR FACE. And of course singer songwriter music. You can lipsync to that. People will give you the money you need to move to other city.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Skynyrd. No kidding, only good for long tired drives. Also, just listen to the country music on the radio.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Detroit Escalator Company , or for that matter anything from the motor city, a mp3 cd with :
Carl craig - Landcruising,
Detroit Escalator Company - black buildings
True People : The Detroit Techno Album
Model 500 - Classics
Robert Hood - Internal Empire
Jeff mills live at the liquid room

all on shuffle, i'd never stop driving ..

― jk, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I had some MP3s on my laptop when I was in NY with my cousin. Played "Addicted to Bass" so much my cousin is now thinking about buying the CD. hah! She also liked Cold As Ice.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I was passenger a couple of days across South Australia. Surprise CDs that 'worked' in that context were Plone (the "For Beginer Piano" -I think that's the title - one), Add N to X's "Avant Hard" and that Air one that came after Moon Safari (the compilation of singles). Eno's "On Land" is good for twilight/early evenings...

― Loop Dandy, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Comedy tapes.... Andrew Dice Clay, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy. Try to tune into a multicultural radio station and get cantonese/mandarin sessions...either there'll be awesome hong kong dream-pop or hilarious clucking banter where the dudes may try to freestyle... Also I love stopping at gas stations, buying some weird compilation tape, listening to it, and, whether I enjoyed the tape or not, chucking it out the window later on....makes me feel wealthy (I am).

― Ramosi, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Saint Etienne are ace for watching street lights pass in the dark, especially the early stuff.

― Graham, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Graham is so right here.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You want bangin' techno/hardcore/rave/industrial for this trip. One of the best car rides I've ever been on involved my father and me driving from the Twin Cities to Chicago with the following soundtrack:

_Speed Limit 140+ BPM, Vol. 2_
_XL Recordings Chapter 3_
_Experience_ - The Prodigy
_Bad Mood Guy_ - Severed Heads
_Showtime_ - Nitzer Ebb
_Disintegration_ - The Cure
_Tour Of East Asia_ - Harvard Glee Club

Admittedly, those last two CDs are not techno/hardcore/rave/industrial.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

You should bring one of those Morricone compilations-appropriate for the city, the grainbelt, the high desert, the Continental Divide, you name it.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 6 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

g-funk!

― richelleux, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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