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Great driving songs

A number of the car songs from the 60's (Beach Boys or numbers like "Little GTO" by Ronnie and the Daytonas or "Dead Man's Curve" by Jan and Dean).

"Do it again" by Steely Dan is a good one.

"Ventura Highway" by America

Maybe the top one all time: "Route 66" by various artists
 
inspired by a post in the thread about most played albums-what are favorite driving songs that you like

I think the following will be in many people's list:

Radar Love -Golden Earring
Born To Be Wild-Steppenwolf

Also for me

Voodoo Chile-SRV version

America -either Simon and Garfunkel or Yes

Whipping Post and In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed -Allman Brothers Band

All along the watchtower-U2 version
Easy for me....Down the Highway by Stepenwolf!
 
Not a big fan but, Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" queues itself at the top my mental playlist whenever I start out on a road trip.
 
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Thought of another one....

Roll on Down the Highway by Bachman Turner Overdrive.
 
Sorry. I should have been specific. When I said "driving songs" I meant "driving a car on a road trip".

Not "driving cattle to market."

My bad

LOL...good comeback...BUT..
just try driving down the roadway with this music. Make sure you are on open highway, because you WILL be tromping down on the gas
 
Soul Survivors - 'Expressway To Your Heart'

Duane Eddy - 'Rebel Rousers'

Dick Dale - 'Misirlou'
 
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Born to Run. Bruce and the E-Street Band.

Remember driving to PSU games with friends blasting this back in the 80's.
 
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inspired by a post in the thread about most played albums-what are favorite driving songs that you like

I think the following will be in many people's list:

Radar Love -Golden Earring
Born To Be Wild-Steppenwolf

Also for me

Voodoo Chile-SRV version

America -either Simon and Garfunkel or Yes

Whipping Post and In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed -Allman Brothers Band

All along the watchtower-U2 version
Boys of summer by Don Henley
inspired by a post in the thread about most played albums-what are favorite driving songs that you like

I think the following will be in many people's list:

Radar Love -Golden Earring
Born To Be Wild-Steppenwolf

Also for me

Voodoo Chile-SRV version

America -either Simon and Garfunkel or Yes

Whipping Post and In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed -Allman Brothers Band

All along the watchtower-U2 version
 
Ravonette cover of Joy Divison's 'She's Lost Control'...

 
Freeway of Love by Aretha and Clarence Clemons (great line "new you'd be a vision in white, how'd you get those pants so tight?)
 
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Interstate Love Song - STP
Gypsy Road - Cinderella
Over My Head - King's X
Head On - The Pixies
Don't Change - INXS
Heading Out to the Highway - Judas Priest
The Hellion/Electric Eye - Judas Priest
Already Gone - The Eagles
TV Dinners - ZZ Top
Sister Havana - Urge Overkill
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
The Launch/Cool the Engines - Boston
Spirit of Radio - Rush
Highway Star - Deep Purple
When the Levee Breaks - Led Zep

I feel like taking one of the Goats out for a drive...
 
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Windfall- Son Volt
Listened to it once for 2+ hours straight on a trip from Jersey to Kentucky in the middle of the night. That song and a lot of prayers got me through the mountains of MD with a car that was begging not to go over the mountains.
Darkness on the Edge of Town album took me around the Jersey shore a lot back in my younger days. It just feels like a road trip.
 
inspired by a post in the thread about most played albums-what are favorite driving songs that you like

I think the following will be in many people's list:

Radar Love -Golden Earring
Born To Be Wild-Steppenwolf

Also for me

Voodoo Chile-SRV version

America -either Simon and Garfunkel or Yes

Whipping Post and In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed -Allman Brothers Band

All along the watchtower-U2 version

Al Bundy agrees.

 
Thomas Dolby The Flat Earth we use to drive to tower records in Philadelphia every weekend to buy cds and we would listen to that album driving there on the turnpike.
 
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