The mantra of the road has always been simple. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road,” Kerouac offered. Dylan advised, “Just take everything down to Highway 61.” Iggy Pop materialized as the quintessential copilot, “we’ll be the passenger, we’ll ride through the city tonight over the city’s rip in the sky and everything looks good tonight.”
It allures the erratic, the emotive, the tranquil, the vagabond. It has no particular audience. It is the tramp’s map, a diagram for everyone. We’ve crafted the soundtrack for your journeys by car, wherever you’re headed—for the airport, for opportunities, or simply for the love of the road. Let us know your own favorite driving songs in the comments section below.
1.The Beach Boys – “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”
Time: Morning Coffee
Destination: Suburbs of Palo Alto, Calif.
2. M83 – “We Own The Sky”
Time: Dawn
Destination: Bonnaroo Music Festival
3. Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour”
Time: Date Night
Destination: Dinner, Theater & Late Evening Stroll
4. Gorillaz – “Broken”
Time: First Blanket of Snow
Destination: Winter Park, Colo.
5. Sam Cooke – “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Time: A Funeral
Destination: Walden, Mass.
6. Bon Iver – “Blindsided”
Time: Rainstorm
Destination: Home for Christmas
7. The Young Rascals – “Groovin”
Time: Sunday Afternoon
Destination: Barton Springs, Austin, Texas
8. Bob Dylan – “Like A Rolling Stone”
Time: Age 0 – 100+
Destination: Anywhere But Home
9. The Band – “The Weight”
Time: 8 A.M. Monday Morning
Destination: Your Office: Where You Tell Your Boss, “I Quit.”
10. Devendra Banhart – “Foolin’”
Time: Summer Dog Days
Destination: O’ Steen Beach, Destin, Fla.
The mantra of the road has always been simple. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road,” Kerouac offered. Dylan advised, “Just take everything down to Highway 61.” Iggy Pop materialized as the quintessential copilot, “we’ll be the passenger, we’ll ride through the city tonight over the city’s rip in the sky and everything looks good tonight.”
It allures the erratic, the emotive, the tranquil, the vagabond. It has no particular audience. It is the tramp’s map, a diagram for everyone. We’ve crafted the soundtrack for your journeys by car, wherever you’re headed—for the airport, for opportunities, or simply for the love of the road. Let us know your own favorite driving songs in the comments section below.
11. Jimi Hendrix – “May This Be Love”
Time: Insomnia
Destination: Midnight Joy Ride
12. Iggy Pop – “The Passenger”
Time: When You Need A Slow Down
Destination: Route 20
13. The Staple Singers – “I’ll Take You There”
Time: February Parades
Destination: Frech Quater New Orleans, La.
14. Phoenix – “1901”
Time: 5:00 Traffic
Destination: J.F.K Airport
15. The Animals – “Bury My Body”
Time: A Saturday in June
Destination: Best Friends Wedding
16. Neil Young – Harvest Moon
Time: In Love
Destination: Honeymoon
17. Kings of Leon – “Back Down South”
Time: Mid-September
Destination: Family Reunion
18. The Faces – “Oh La La”
Time:Job Searching
Destination: Home For Summer: After College Graduation
19. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Time: Post-Bad Breakup
Destination: Downtown Asheville, N.C.
20. The Proclaimers – “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)”
Time: Mid-Afternoon Summer
Destination: Film Screening of Forest Gump in Central Park
21. The Strokes – “Someday”
Time: High-Noon Morning After
Destination: Driving to College
22. Radiohead – High and Dry
Time: Surf’s Up
Destination: Atlantic Ocean
23. Van Morrison – “Into The Mystic”
Time: Early June
Destination: Strawberry Picking
24.The Black Keys – “Just Couldn’t Tie Me Down”
Time: Post 9:00 – 5:00
Destination: Dude Time
25. Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay
Time: In Need of Reflection
Destination: No Where In Particular