Five Great Road Songs

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 8:19 am

Turbines - Rules of The Road
Joe Ely - Lord Of The Highway
Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me
The Cramps - Bend Over I'll Drive
Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:27 pm

the grateful dead - truckin
george thorogood & the destroyers - ride on josephine

and that's all I can think of right now. I shall ponder further whilst wal-marting.

Post by **BlueChair** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:37 pm

ugh wal-mart

The Beach Boys - Little Honda
The Beatles - Drive My Car
Canned Heat - On The Road Again
The Clash - Brand New Cadillac
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (sort of

)
Jimi Hendrix - Highway Chile
The Kinks - Drivin'
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Harry Nilsson - Driving Along
Tom Petty - Running Down A Dream
Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street
Tom Waits - 'Ol 55

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:35 pm

"The Road" - Tenacious D
"Trailer Park Jesus" - Glassjaw
"Fear and Loathing On Capecod" - Piebald
"Solid Gold Telephone" - Head Automatica
"Third Engine" - Saves The Day

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:36 pm

Any fast-paced bluegrass music -- as in the entire Flat & Scruggs score from "Bonnie and Clyde" as it is the perfect accompanient to fleeing them danged state troopers.
It Takes a Lot to Laugh, it Takes a Train to Cry -- Bob Dylan
Road to Nowhere -- Talking Heads
Fly Me to the Moon -- Frank Sinatra/Count Basie
The Road -- Fastball (I might have the title, band name wrong here, but it was that 90's one hit wonder that sounded a bit like Rockpile or some other 80's power pop band doing a song inspired vaguely by "Besame Mucho")

And, obviously...

King of the Road -- Roger Miller

Post by **BlueChair** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 3:29 pm

bobster,

I think you're thinking of "The Way" by Fastball. I quite liked that song, but it suffered from its ridiculous amount of overplay. Never thought of the Rockpile connection, but you are definitely right.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 5:21 pm

2-4-6-8 Motorway by The Tom Robinson Band
On the road again by Willie Nelson
Ticket to ride by The Beatles
Cars by Gary Numan
Fast Car by Tracey Chapman
1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson
Silver Thunderbird by Marc Cohn
Mercedes Benz by Janis Joplin

WHAR....I dig the way you did an 'in your face' post with the bands that we didn't know from the CD-burning thread!! Nice one!

girl out of time · Post by **girl out of time** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:32 pm

drive all night/ bruce springsteen
road hog/ humble pie
(if you haven´t heard them yet, check ´em out!

born to be wild/ steppenwolf
old 55/ tom waits
24 hours from tulsa/ gene pitney or dusty springfield

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:27 pm

Six Days on the Road (Dave Dudley)
Radar Love (Golden Earing)
Surf City (Beach Boys)
Texas Radio (Wall of Voodoo)
Drive She Said (Stan Ridgeway)
Hot Rod Lincoln (Commander Cody)
Dead Man's Curve and Little Old Lady From Pasadena (Jan and Dean)

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Tue Apr 20, 2004 2:48 pm

White Line Fever- Motorhead
Motorway to Roswell - Pixies
Hiway Star - Deep Purple

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:01 am

shatterproof, was your road trip ten years ago? Just asking...