Best driving songs....ever!

[NZRoadtrip]

In a couple of months I'm going on week long campervan trip around New Zealand and I've been adding songs to my road trip playlist for the last couple of weeks. I've got thousands of songs in my library but I end up skipping through loads of them so I think I need a cull.

Looking for suggestions for some decent driving music, I've got 200 songs currently but ideally I'd like to double that so I'm not listening to the same songs over and over. I don't like rap, dance, garage, techno, R&B, boy/girl band music (Westlife, Girls Aloud etc.) but I do like indie, rock (not metal), bit of country.

Any ideas?

Walk the Moon, Surrender.

Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time and Babies

Stereophonics - Dakota

Crowded House - Weather With You for some NZ Flavour

Toto - Africa

Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns & Roses
Locked out of Heaven - Bruno Mars

Hollywood Nights, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

Get some Dire Straits on there too, and Baba O’Riley by The Who, ooh and some Fleetwood Mac. I’m looking at my own NZ truck playlists…. I’m tempted to buy a flight back now 😂

The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Desert Rose - Sting
i don’t want to go to Chelsea - Elvis Costello
Smooth - Santana
You See the Trouble with me - Barry White
Plug in Baby - Muse
Ooh La La - Goldfrapp
Its my Life - Talk Talk

I could go on forever - driving while listening to music is my thing.

Just a selection of a few tracks I have belting out of my Mazda 3 on route to an adventure:

Black velvet Alannah Myles
Love Song Simple Minds
Handle with care The Travelling Wilburys
Genius of love Tom Tom Club
Dirty Work Steely Dan
Don't bring me down ELO
Music for chameleons Gary Numan
The message Grandmaster Flash
In you room (live 1993) Depeche Mode

By Train :
50 ways To Say Goodbye
Bulletproof Picasso
Drive By
Hey Soul Sister
Angel In Blue jeans
Save Me Sanfrancisco

By Hall & Oates
You Make my Dream Come True
Kiss On My List

From Nashville Show (Upbeat songs not sad)
Don't Put Dirt On My Grave Just Yet
Trouble Is
Wrong Song
Ball & Chain

So they would be on my list because they're upbeat & I can sing along to them easily.

Got all these already 👌

Quite a lot of songs I've never heard of on here so I'll give them all a listen at some points.

Thanks for the recommendations all

Dire Straits, The Woo and Fleetwood Mac already feature quite heavily

How about

Northern Skies - I Am Kloot

You and I - Skerryvore

Crazy World - Aslan

Deva Deva - Pritam (film version)

The last one is a Bollywood soundtrack, it's different, but road trip worthy.

They are all new ones on me, I'll have a listen. Thank you!

Thunder Road - Springsteen (ultimate driving song)
Somewhere in my heart - Aztec Camera
Mr Brightside - Killers
Here I go again - Whitesnake (for a bit of cheese)
Get it On - T-Rex

I hope you’ve already got C.W.McCall’s Convoy 😂

Stan Walkers Maori version of Dont Dream its Over, breathtaking!

Bohemian Rhapsody..
You have to do the headbanging bit as per Wayne's World. Its the rules.

Pretty much any Bob Seger. Roll Me Away is such a road song.
Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young/Nowhere Fast - Fire Inc from the soundtrack of Streets Of Fire. Best thing Jim Steinman ever did.

My driving playlists always include Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower for that Withnail vibe.

Other frequent appearances:

Road rage - Catatonia
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
All or nothing - Small Faces
We gotta get out of this place - The Animals
London calling - The Clash
I bet you look good on the dance floor - Arctic Monkeys
My favourite game - The Cardigans
Vaseline - Elastica

And others that have already been mentioned.

You must have Chesney Hawkes The One and Only

Bob Seger - Old Time Rock n Roll
ZZTop - Greatest Hits or Eliminator album
Chris Rea - Fool If You Think It's Over / Road To Hell
REM - What's the Frequency Kenneth
The Cars - You Might Think / Just What I Needed
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
ELO - Turn to Stone
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Van Halen - Jump
Ten Pole Tudor - Swords of a Thousand Men
Jacksons - Blame it on the Boogie
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Billy Ocean - Love Really Hurts Without You / Red Light Spells Danger
Extreme - Get The Funk Out / Rise

Here I go again - Whitesnake
The boys of summer - Don Henley
Don't you forget about me - Simple Minds
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

Temptation - Heaven 17

Best driving song ever

Does anyone have time to put these all on a shareable Spotify playlist? 🙏🏼

Forgot to mention the ULTIMATE (to me anyway) driving song.

Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd