Does anyone else make playlists for long drives based on all your parents' music?

[BertieBotts]

Just because I invariably associate Elton John and Tears For Fears tapes with looooong drives to my grandparents' house in Wales as a child and therefore they are essential driving music to me.

Anyone else? What is on your long journey playlist?

This is as I add "Beds are Burning" by Midnight Oil to the shared playlist and imagine DH kicking me out of the car in protest

Oh my God yes!

I love you from the bottoooooooom of my penciiiiiil case

PARENTS!!!! Tears for Fears were on the posters on my bedroom wall 😂😂😂

Hahaha I was always a youngster on here, sorry

Yep. Meatloaf, Dire Straits, Fleetwood Mac.

I only lived with my parents until the age of 7, but I remember these:

Peter, Paul and Mary
The Carpenters
Simon & Garfunkel
A bit of early ABBA

My dc listen to a wonderful mix of music that I would listen to on their playlists, especially their driving playlists, yes.

I associate The Nolans, Dr Hook and Tony Christie with holidays to North Wales 😃

I’ve just come away with my dd1 and she is driving, also sorted the play list

carpenters 😂

Hell no

Aaahhhh OP what a fantastic thread idea!

And yes I always associate long car journeys with being a kid and therefore parents music. I was obsessed with music videos too so would while away the drive daydreaming the video in my head but it was me not the love interest George Michael was singing to

Love this one!

Grandparents??? How old are you op?

Oh I thought you associated that music with your grandparents- doh!!!!

Rolling Stones
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Moody Blues
Dire (yes they are) Straits
Travelling Wilberries
David Bowie

Nowadays, no big journey is made without listening to:
Voyage Voyage
Beds are Burning (a TRUE classic, I concur!)
Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Creep
I Need a Hero
China in Your Hands

And a bunch of others I'm too tired to type!

My mum was never into music, or books or films or art or anything really. Quite sad!

Culture Club, ABBA and Lionel Ritchie. Driving to the South of France in a Triumph Dolomite with a roof rack and no air con. Wet tea towels up at the slightly open back windows to cool us down. Took 4 days. How we did it I’ll never know. Then just as soon as we got to that blissful villa on the Cote d’azure we had to turn round and come home again as my grandad was very ill. A memorable trip for lots of reasons….

Oh yes

Simon & Garfunkel
Kenny Rogers
Dr hook
Queen
ABBA
Dire straits
Neil Diamond

Carpenters, Earth Wind and Fire, Burt Bacharach

My dad has one of Spotify Premium slots so we tend to use the Family Mix/Blend playlist function in the car and we get such a great range of songs - the kids have been introduced to some classics.

Paul Simon and Labi Siffre
Wish I could remember more

Kind of related but this evening I asked Alexa to play Cutting Crew, Died in your arms (re watching S3 of Stranger Things and they play a cover of it) which she loved.

It made me happy

But for me as a kid long drives meant Christy Moore, Van Morrison, REM, Mary Black… can’t remember any others!

Oooh yes Paul Simon You can Call me Al was one my dad used to turn up loud and sing along to and move his head chicken style

I have no memories of music ever being played on journeys as a child but I suspect I am quite a bit older than you . As a family we have always had holiday play lists mostly based on stuff DH and I listened to in the 90s with a few of DS's favourites added in as years went by. I wonder if DS will continue to listen to the same music as he holidays with his partner or friends.