Long drive playlist

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I will be doing a long drive soon and I want to make a playlist and I'm looking for inspiration.
Whats everyone's favourite road trip songs, favourite songs in general? Anything goes genre wise and when the songs are from looking to have a big mix of songs on the go. Thanks!

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ZzTop - most things, but especially the Eliminator album
Chris Rea - Road to Hell and Fool If You Think It's Over
Beatles - there's a really good version of Saw Her Standing There from when Billy Joel played Shea Stadium and had Paul McCartney as a guest for that song.
Toto - Hold The Line
Queen - live version of Somebody to Love from Montreal
The Cars - Just What I Needed and You Might Think
Halestorm did a fabulous cover of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance
Can't go wrong with a bit of John Denver either

Great start! I didn't think anyone was going to answer haha.
I had the beatles and Queen on my list but will investigate the rest, I'm intregued by the halestorm cover...

Have you considered an audio book as an option? I really enjoy listening to one on a long journey.

@Nochoiceleft yes, I've listened to them in the car and enjoy them but will have kids in the car for part of the journey so wouldn't be able listen to the books I would enjoy, but it's a good suggestion!

Let me know what you think. I stumbled across it by accident and discovered not only an excellent cover (better than the original in my opinion), but a really good band too.

Hanoi Rocks did a good cover of Up Around The Bend
Van Halen - pretty much anything but the Balance tour live version of Jump is amazing.
Great White - Rock Me
ELO - Turn to Stone
Miley Cyrus - Heart of Glass cover, and Jolene cover (Dolly is her godmother apparently)
Eric Clapton - Bad Love, Forever Man, Pretending
Micheal Bolton - Steel Bars, but only the version where he duets with Orianthi which has killer guitar.
On that note, Orianthi's first album is pretty good.

I'm trying to pick some less obvious stuff for you.

@HappiestSleeping would be very interested in hearing the heart of glass cover as i really enjoyed her version of Jolene.
Good to see the mix of stuff that is coming up though.

She did a live version at the iheart festival. It's on Spotify. Not a bad version at all.

So,would I

I like 70s

Cruel to be kind - Nick Lowe

Billy Ocean - Red Light

ELO - Rockaria

Queen

Spotify have a songs to sing in the car playlist, it's a great starting point!

Ooh, Billy Ocean, cracking track! Good call.

Steve Miller Band - the Joker, Abracadabra
Joe Satriani - Summer Song
Santana - Smooth
TRex
Squeeze - Labelled With Love, Tempted
John Lennon - Watching the Wheels
Quiet Riot's cover of Cum on Feel the Noise
Mama's Boys cover of Mama We're All Crazy Now
Def Leppard - Photograph, Live in the Round version of Hysteria
Cass Elliot - Dream a Little Dream
Prince - Rock 'n' Roll Love Affair
Ritchie Sambora - Stranger in this Town, We All Sleep Alone (he wrote it for Cher, but his live performance is better)
Divinyls - Touch Myself
Extreme - Rise, Get the Funk Out
Blue Murder - Jelly Roll, Valley of the Kings
REM - What's the Frequency Kenneth

Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell.
Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody.
Proclaimers - 500 miles
Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline

Are your children at the age they’d enjoy the Harry Potter books read by Stephen Fry. I’ve listened to the with my DDs as we’ve driven miles and miles and enjoyed them just as much as they did!

If it's a loooooooong journey, Meatloaf's 'Bat Out of Hell' Album will probably take you halfway there. Can't really do a long journey with it.

some brilliant suggestions
You have to do this though

or this one!

@HappiestSleeping I've listened to both those covers and really enjoyed them. I had heard of halestorm but not listened to them so I think I'll have a listen to some other stuff. It also reminded me to stick lacuna coil, flyleaf, evanescence and within temptation (not listened to in donkeys) on the list somewhere.
Love Miley, and that song so that is also going on.

@justjuggling we listened to James and the giant peach not too long ago, not sure they are quite HP ready but trust me when they are it will be going on as I love Steven Fry reading them. I admit this song inspiration is totally for me as they will be quite happy in the back, we bought little lap tray type things so they can colour, go on their tablet etc. I'm stuck driving lol.

Great mix of songs going on, some I haven't heard of so will give them a listen too. I just thought if I'm stuck in a car for ages and get fed up of listening to the same stuff this was probably the best place to get a good mix of things across different genres and times!

So would people recommend Spotify opposed to say YouTube music or amazon etc?

Glad you're enjoying the suggestions. I'll keep thinking and trawling my playlists.

I used to use Google Play music, but when it switched to YouTube Music the functionality reduced so I stopped it. My wife has Spotify, so we just use that, however if you have neither, then YouTube may be worth a look in case it also gives ad free access to YouTube on the TV. If it does, and you are a viewer of YouTube on the TV that may well be a deciding factor. I watch YouTube more than 'normal' TV now, and the ads drive me nuts.

I love Spotify

Fleetwood Mac - go your own way

Daydream Believer- Monkees

Listen to the music - Dolby Brothers

Shotgun - George Ezra

Queen - Fat bottomed girls (not very pc)

Orange crush - REM

Northern Lights - Renaissance

Elvis Costello- pump it up

Tourists- so good to be back home

@greengreengrass25 great suggestions I love a bit of Fleetwood mac! As for the non pc / kid friendly I can save those for when they aren't in the car 😆

I randomly heard T'pau - China in your hands on the way to work so thats getting added as well.

FBG was played at We Will Rock you

Think my own dc used to hear it many a time on Queens greatest hits on car journeys

@greengreengrass25 oh the kids have heard Queen loads, I was thinking for other songs that may go on my list really, sorry I probably wasn't clear!