TOP 5 ROAD TRIP ALBUMS
edith head
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some eno.
some dylan.
This has been bumped by my father and I on a few road trips, along with anything by Sade.
POR FAVOR, BELIEBIT!
fuck. anyone who hasn't heard this, needs to. It haunts me, and the road is always there.
I was forever dismissing this as hokey until I actually heard it. One of my top 3 evarrs.
2 - Good for sea-side driving on a cloudy day
3 - Good for pulling into a city when you're fresh off the highway and still on the outskirts before the buildings get too tall (Co-sign)
4 - Good for hearing a record in a whole new light: listening to it in Georgia as opposed to listening to it in Toronto
5 - Good for the city and the country
Modest Mouse has made some questionable records in the past few years, but this one and Lonesome Crowded West capture the feeling of highway driving like few other albums.
For me:
1.) Neil Young, Harvest
2.) Van Morrison, Astral Weeks or Blowin' Your Mind
3.) Mississippi John Hurt, Avalon Blues
4.) Zepplin, III
5.) Luna, Penthouse
I also played the heck of the first half of that new Feist album
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Fugazi - Red Medicine
Charles Mingus Sextet - Cornell '64
Jimmy Smith - Root Down
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up
Harvey, I am really surprised by this:
I haven't heard this album, but they just don't strike me as a band that a dude like yourself would dig. I know a lot of bands and people that they have toured with them and I've heard that they are "almost too nice."
Whoa. I've seen that movie a bunch of times - Warren Oates is my favourite actor of all time - but for some reason, the score never left much of a mark on me. I'd like to rectify this particular character flaw. How easy/difficult is this to come by?
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
3. Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
4. The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau
5. Band of Gypys Live at The Fillmore East
It was never released properly until this (last?) year, so it's easy to find on CD currently. I've never seen the movie.
i might be alone on this one. i realize it doesn't make any sense since there really is no geographic connection, but I listened to this a lot driving around the twin cities area.
traffic jam.
especially driving in LA
this one is for when you're riding shotgun (so you can cardance/car hype man better)
bonus! driving from seattle to SF in 1.5 days and falling asleep behind the wheel... this will wake you up:
Well just so you know...I also like REM's Life's Rich Pageant, The first Stone Roses album, The Sundays' Reading Wrriting & Arithmetic, etc. and Eisley hits that same chord for me. The clincher was seeing them perform in Zilker Park a couple of years back on a perfect sunny Texas afternoon. After that sheer pleasure, I picked up the album and have found it to be amazing...especially during the backmeadows drive to and from Port Aransas. Don't ask me why I didn't just go to see them Monday night performing an aucoustic set...
i think if i listened to this in a traffic jam, it would be bad news
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"Song of the Minerals" and "Dog & Pony Show" =
The two minute thought process of: "hey... i don't know if i can swing my ride up the curb for a second and run just a bit over that lawn... i can hit that turn lane and make this light... but i might get caught..." turns into "I AM PLAYING SHELLAC VERY LOUD AND DO NOT VALUE HUMAN LIFE. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE."
it's therapeutic.
ditto
also got to say these things have worked pretty well on them overnights to Las Vegas
and these two has been nice for the hour plus of traffic daily
Love the film and the score... don't have the CD yet, but I loved the music enough to tape portions of the soundtrack off the DVD when it came out a few years back.
recently had this on for a long drive. ambient enough that you can still have a conversation too.
does a mix cd count?
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places and spaces-donald byrd
best song
gary burton- las vegas tango
SHIT YES. This is my #1 road trip album. I had countless St. Louis to Nashville to St. Louis hellified loud singalongs to this.
AND NOOOOOOOOOOOOOW WE ARE OOOOOOOONE
IN EEEEEEVERLASTIIIIING PEEEEEEEEEEEEACE
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