road trip.. the cd

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We have, unfortunately and not very ishlike, had to make a number of road trips recently, due to going to a funeral etc.

These are to the wrong side of the country.. take ages, and one of our favourite ways to kill time is to dream up playlists based on a theme. we had a lovely time with 'bad taste funeral songs', have done 'space' as a theme too.. but at the mo we are on 'road trip' - and ... being fuddy duddy old farts wot don't own ipods.. plan to make a cd to play in the car.

So far we have:

I like trucking - not the nine o clock news

Beep Beep - the playmates

King of the road - version by the proclaimers

Convoy - from the film

Is this the way to Amarillo - Tony Christie

Radar love - Golden earing

The race - Yello

Road to nowhere - talking heads

Born to be wild - Stepenwolf

Mercedez benz - Janis Joplin

On the road again - Canned heat

Road rage - Catatonia

Roadhouse blues - The doors

The passenger - Iggy pop

I’ve been everywhere - Johnny cash

The Chain - Fleetwood mac

hit the road jack - the hit crew

take me home country roads.. - John Denver


So.. by now you can prolly work out im in my 40s... but the question is.. what road themed songs have we missed out?

[Millymollymandy]

I'm still giggling over I like Trucking by the not the nine o'clock news team, I know it's not part of the theme but I loved their Made in Wales/Made from Whales/Laid in Wales songs.

[Milims]

The JCB song
Who's gona drive you home - by the Cars
I've set OH on to think of some more!

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oh good suggestions - particularly road to hell and who's going to drive you home

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I'm still giggling over I like Trucking by the not the nine o'clock news team, I know it's not part of the theme but I loved their Made in Wales/Made from Whales/Laid in Wales songs.

yes - on our last 7 hour trip... we bought the not the nine oclock new cd ... had quite a laugh over that.. blast from the past....

[the.fee.fairy]

Cars - Gary Numan

oooh oooh and that one that starts 'i am driving in my car...its not quite a jaguar' that i can't remember the name or that artist for...

I want to ride my bicycle - Queen

[Milims]

I think it's by Madness

[the.fee.fairy]

Probably, its got a Madness feel to it...

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excellent

[the.fee.fairy]

Argh...i thought of another couple last night when i was trying to sleep...can't remember what they were.

There was one by the Red Hot Chili Peppers...

oooh:

Jeepster: T-Rex
Truck on Tyke - T-Rex

[Shirley]

Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Every Day is a Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
The Road to Home - Amy Macdonald
Route 66 - Doctor Feelgood (others too)

[Uller]

There's one by Bob Dylan about '90 miles an hour down a dead end road' - that might even be the name of the song. Particularly appropriate (in a bad taste kind of way) for a road trip to a funeral?

[sleepyowl]

Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol

Roads- Portishead

Drive- Incubus

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

Mrs Luvpie said i'd be up all night thinking about this and yes she was right!!

fast car - Tracy Chapman
traffic - Neds Atomic Dustbin
crash - The Primitives
the distance - cake
east easy rider - Julian Cope
2 4 6 8 motorway - Tom Robinson
speedway - Morrissey
N17 - Saw doctors
cars and girls - prefab sprout
Police car - Larry Wallis
Drive my car - the Beatles
do anything you wanna do - Eddie and the Hotrods (a bit tenious I know, but a fantastic song )

[Cloud]

How about Last Chance Texaco by Ricky Lee Jones,
Or The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles