Music for the Road

I’m often stuck with a single CD in my car’s player for many days. Limited choice of music can really hurt sometimes.

If you were to carry just one CD for a long road trip and you had the choice to fill it with any music (say 150 songs in mp3) you that you want, what would you fill it with?

For me, there has got be some oldies :

May be I should really start with Peter Paul and Mary who created in addition to creating melodies, picked up songs with excellent lyrics. Music with sense.

Peter, Paul and Mary

• Blowing In the Wind
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• If I Had A Hammer

Continuiung on melodies based on literature, there has got to be Simon and Garfunkel. I like Sony’s compilation of S&G the best. 20 Greatest hits. It has got to be there.

Simon and Garfunkel

• America
• At the Zoo
• Bridge over Troubled Water
• Cecilia
• Cloudy
• El Condor Pasa
• For Emily Whenever I may Find Her
• Hazy Shade of Winter
• Homeward Bound
• I am a Rock
• Keep the Customer Satisfied
• Mrs. Robinson
• Old Friends Bookends Theme
• Scarborough Fair Canticle
• Song for the Asking
• Sound of Silence
• The 59th Street Bridge Song
• The Dangling Conversation
• We’ve got a Groovy thing Goin’
• The Boxer

There are other oldies, I remeber only in singles

• Chubby Checker – Let’s Twist Again
• Chordettes – Lollipop
• Marianne Faithful – As tears go by
• Julie Andrews – DO-RE-ME
• Neil Young – Heart of Gold
• Bomber wings- Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yello polka dot bikini
• Petula Clark – Never on a sunday
• Brian Hyland – Sealed with a kiss
• Patsy Cline – Seven lonely days
• Nancy Sinatra – Summer wine
• Jame Taylor – You’ve got a friend

I’m a big time fan of the King so:

Elvis Presley

• Jailhouse rock
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Love Me Tender
• Wooden Heart
• Are You Lonesome Tonight
• Return To Sender
• King Creole

Perhaps should also briefly re-live the Beatlemania

The Beatles

• A Hard Day’s Night
• Eleanor Rigby
• Yellow Submarine
• Cant Buy Me Love
• Yesterday

Any compilation of any kind is incomplete without Micheal

Micheal Jackson

• Black or white
• Heal the world
• Remember the time
• Another part of me
• Bad
• Dirty diana
• I just can’t stop loving you
• Just good friends
• Liberian girl
• Man in the mirror
• Smooth criminal
• Speed demon
• The way you make me feel
• Baby be mine
• Beat it
• Human nature
• Billie jean
• PYT [pretty young thing ]
• The girl is mine
• Thriller
• Wanna be startin’ somethin

My gate way to english music, Boney M

Boney M

• Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday
• Rasputin
• Rivers of Babylon
• Sunny
• Belfast
• Happy Song
• Mary’s Boy Child

Moving on, then there should be just the key songs from my main stream bands

Dire Straits

• So Far Away
• Money For Nothing
• Heavy fuel
• Sultans of the swing

Bon Jovi

• Always
• Blaze Of Glory

Eric Clapton

• Cocaine
• I shot the sheriff
• Tears in Heaven

Guns ‘n Roses

• November rain
• Paradise City
• Sweet child of mine
• Knocking on heaven’s door

U2

• With Or Without You
• Desire

Greenday

• When september ends
• Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

Pink Floyd

• Another Brick in the Wall
• Comfortably Numb

Bryan Adams

• Everything I do I do it for you
• Please forgive me

Some thing of the other bands:

Air Supply

• Here I Am
• Making Love Out of Nothing
• Two Less Lonely People In The World

Kenny Rogers

• The Gambler
• Lady
• You Decorated My Life
• She believes in me
• Reuben James
• Ruby ! Don’t take your love to town

Bill Haley

• Mambo Rock
• Rock Around The Clock

Aqua

• Barbie Girl
• Doctor Jones

Madonna

• Hung Up
• La-Isla-Bonita
• Papa Don’t Preach
• Die Another Day

Deep Purple

• Smoke On The Water
• Black Night

Lou Bega

• I Got A Girl
• Mambo No 5

Wham

• Last Christmas
• Careless Whisper
• Wake Me Up Before You Go
• Father figure(as George Micheal)

Jennifer Lopez

• Love Dont Cost A Thing
• Jenny In The Block

The Doors

• Roadhouse Blues
• Light My Fire

A few songs which I consider to be classics

• Eagles – Hotel California
• Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven
• Sting & Police – Every Breath You Take
• Europa – Final Countdown
• Glen Mederios – Nothing’s gonna change my love for you
• Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly
• Aerosmith – Janie’s Got a Gun
• Bob Dylan – Masters of war
• Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A Changin’
• Micheal Bolton – How Am I Supposed
• Queen – We will rock you
• Stevie Wonder – I just called to say, I love you
• John Lennon – Imagine

Pack some dance tracks, may be

• Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe
• London Boys – Kimbaley
• Los Del Rio – Macarena
• Los Lobos – La Bamba
• Modern Talking – Cheri Cheri Lady
• Vengaboys – To Brazil
• Venga boys – We are going to ibiza

Movie tracks

• Patrick Kicken – Somebody to love (Cable Guy)
• Celine Dion – My heart will go on
• Tina Turner – Golden eye

Then there are so many singles I just love:

• Fools Garden – Lemon tree
• Foreigner – Waiting for a Girl Like You
• Leo Sayer – More than I can say
• Lobo – I’d love you to want me
• Neil Sedaka – One Way Ticket
• Paul Anka – Put Your Head On My Shoulder
• Shakin Stevens – Because I Love You
• The Cars – Drive
• The Clovers – Love Potion No. 9
• Ace of Base – All That She Wants
• Baltimora – Tarzan Boy
• Chris DeBurgh – Lady In Red
• Dr Alban – It’s My Life
• Dr Hook – Cover of the Rolling Stone
• Rod Stewart – Downtown train
• Billy Ray Cyrus – Achy breaky heart
• Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys – Cotton Eyed Joe
• Glenn Campbell – Rhinestone Cowboy
• Eddie Rabbit – Drivin’ My Life Away
• Ferlin Husky – Wings of a dove
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
• Elton John – Sacrifice
• Phil Collins – Another day in paradise
• Hank Williams – Jambalaya
• John Denver – Country roads
• Tracy Chapman – Fast Car
• Enrique Iglesias- Bailamos
• Jefferson Airplane – Somebody To Love
• R.E.M. – Losing my religion
• Haddaway – What Is Love
• Mr. Mister – Broken Wings
• Terence Trent D’arby – Sign You Name
• Nana Mouskouri – Autumn leaves
• Nana Mouskouri – I Have A Dream

I really got to stop after typing so much.

I’d really like some more song suggestions, if anyone can think of better choices of songs to listen on a long road trip.

But the conclusion now is that there is no real conclusion.

Like A.R.Rahman says in the World Space ad, “There is so much to hear”

Too bad there isn’t enough lifetime .

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