In a desperate attempt at distraction (my Coop is due next week), I'm asking for help in compiling the perfect CD (music-only) for long-distance motoring or for the daily commute (man, this is going to be fun)!

What do you suggest? Although I'm a big blues fan, I pretty much listen to everything (before coming back to the blues)...

Thanks in advance for helping to keep me distracted...

 

I'll listen to just about anything (except country). Not allowed to have AC/DC in the car now I just seem to keep going faster.

 

Hello there shadowjack. You are not too very far from us here in Uptown Hooterville.

I listen to XM radio & hardly ever listen to cd's anymore. Too my mind any music while driving your MINI is wonderful music.

Make sure to check out the Mid-Ohio Motoring club forum. https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...splay.php?f=46

Happy motoring

 

Thanks! I already have the next Quaker State and Lube outing on the calendar - looking forward to it.

 

After a quick review, my initial playlist, in no paticular order is:

The Guess Who
- Undun
- American Woman
- No Time

Grateful Dead
- Friend of the Devil
- Uncle John's Band
- Turn on Your Love Light
- Golden Road

Green Day
- American Idiot
- Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Jars of Clay
- Liquid

John Mayall
- Ramblin On My Mind

Johnny Lang
- Matchbox

Keb' Mo'
- Every Morning

Little Feat
- Texas Twister
- Those Feat'll Steer You Wrong Sometimes
- Rad Gumbo
- Dixie Chicken

Molly Hatchet
- Let The Good Times Roll

Gabriel
- Sledgehammer

Ray Lynch
- Celestial Soda Pop

Rickie Lee Jones
- Danny's All-Star Joint

Roy Orbison
- Mean Woman Blues

Santana
- You Are My Kind

Steely Dan
- Deacon Blues
- Home At Last

Stevie Ray
- Pride and Joy
- Crossfire

U2
- In God's Country

Uriah Heep
- Easy Livin'

The Who
- Going Mobile

B-52's
- Love Shack
- Channel Z

King/Clapton
- Key to the Highway

Blues Traveler
- Run-Around

Dylan
- Gotta Serve Somebody

Marley & The Wailers
- Get Up, Stand Up

The BoDeans
- Texas Ride Song
- Lookin' For Me Somewhere
- Naked

Boz Skaggs
- Lido Shuffle

Bruce Hornsby & The Range
- On the Western Skyline

Springsteen
- Ain't Got You

Cherry Poppin' Daddies
- Dr. Bones
- Drunk Daddy

Cream
- I Feel Free

CCR
- Susie Q
- Run Through The Jungle

Dire Straits
- Heavy Fuel

Dirty Vegas
- Days Go By

Doobies
- Long Train Runnin'
- Rockin' Down The Highway
- Evil Woman
- Sweet Maxine
- Neal's Fandango
- 8th Avenue Shuffle
- You Just Can't Stop It
- Tell Me What You Want

Clapton
- Blues Leave Me Alone
- Pilgrim
- Rollin' and Tumblin'

Yardbirds
- Boom Boom
- Who Do You Love
- Honey In Your Hips

Fleetwood Mac
- Tusk

Sting
- If Ever I Lost My Faith In You


Anyone have cool driving tunes to add?

 

Will you have your new MINI by then? I'd like to check it out.

You have a great play list there. I think you'll need more than 1 cd.

 

Nice list you have there, shadowjack.

Just to throw in my $.02, I never go anywhere without some Rush. "Red Barchetta" fits the theme of a driving playlist, and "The Spirit of Radio" is good, too.

As for other stuff, here's a few of my favorites for listening in the MINI:
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Hey Driver - Lucky Boys Confusion
Last Day - Silver Sun
Flying High Again - Ozzy
DOA - Foo Fighters
On Edge - Authority Zero

 

Ooooo, some excellent additions...

Thanks!

 

I should have my mini by then - looking forward to showing it off! Multiple CD's may be needed - planning some long drives

 

Get an iPod hooked into your Mini!

Here's one of the iMixes I put together.

http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.../sf=143441/xml


After Midnight - Eric Clapton

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Are You Experienced? - Jimi Hendrix

Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf

Burn - Deep Purple

Contact - Simon Stinger

Crazy On You - Heart

Crossroads (Live at Fillmore) - Cream

Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins

Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen

Fool for the City - Foghat

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter

Free Ride - Edgar Winter

Going Down - Jeff Beck Group

Going Mobile - The Who

Going up the Country - Canned Heat

Good Rockin' Tonight - Montrose

Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

Highway Star - Deep Purple

Hot Legs - Rod Stewart

Hummingbirds - Venus Hum

I Got the Fire - Montrose

Impressive Instant - Madonna

It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I feel fine) - R.E.M.

Kick It Out - Heart

Layla - Derek & The Dominos

Legs - ZZ Top

Montana - Venus Hum

My Wife - The Who

On the Road Again - Canned Heat

One Week - Barenaked Ladies

Pinball Wizard - The Who

Precious Declaration - Collective Soul

Radar Love - Golden Earring

Ramblin' Man - The Allman Brothers Band

Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin

 

I was zipping around the country roads where I live the other day listening to "Red Barchetta." It worked. Not a bad choice if you like Rush.

 

Everclear - Speed Racer.

I say just make a CD of your favorites and listen to them LOUD!

 

My favorite song all time ,Love Reign O'er Me by The Who but crying and motoring dont go together so for MINI motoring my favorite is Broken Boy Soldier by the Raconteurs.

 

Woo - Gromit - thanks! How could I have missed Fat Bottomed Girls (among many others)? Excellent stuff!

 

I was a DJ once upon a life, long ago.

 

As a recent Mini owner...I still don't have a nice playlist...BUT everytime I step into my mini and turn on the radio, the Shop Boyz "Party Like a Rockstar" comes on. It never fails! With that i'm just rolling the streets slowly with my little pepper white mini!

 

Now I have to ask what you've named your Mini?

 

Hate to admit it but that a new one for me - guess it's time to visit iTunes...

Thanks!

 

- another worthy addition. It will certainly make my brother's day - biggest Rush fan I know.

 

I hear ya - no question about the loud part. The whole neighborhood knows when I get home from work and I turn down the volume before getting there...

 

+1
But, my vote goes for songs like She's The One and Jungleland.

With her killer graces
and her secret places
that no boy can fill...

or:
Tonite they meet 'neath
the giant Exxon sign that brings this fair city light

 

I know you probably won't go with mine, but I love listening to God Module while cruising down the road. It's a great sound and just keeps you rolling. When I picked up one of their albums a while back I stuck the CD in teh car and started to drive. Got half way to San Fransisco before I relaized that it was a dumb idea and turned around and went home. But the music just kept me going.

 

Checked them out on iTunes. Not bad, kind of an industrial sound. I might have to pick some of that up.

I listen to lots of different types of music and I do like other electronica, mostly trance. Guys like Digweed, Sasha, and Oakenfold are amazing. And they're all from the UK so I think the MINI actually plays them louder.

 

I love to listen to King's X on the road. If you never heard of them, you should check them out; I like to think of them as a really heavy version of the Beatles.

 

Anything on Velvet Revolver's Libertad CD.