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If you drive, what are some of your favorite songs?
Hey everybody! 6 days until we're in WDW!!
We are going to be driving the 8 or so hours and want to take along some music for the drive! What are some of your favorite songs to listen to while traveling? Doesn't matter to us if it's 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's!! Decade doesn't matter, we enjoy music
Even though we fly, we listen to music on the way to the airport, in the airport and on the plane, but we listen to Disney music to get us in the mood!
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Besides a couple of Disney albums (one of my favorites is Mickey Where Art Thou? with country versions of Disney songs), my husband likes "Six Days on the Road" by George Thorogood (sp?), Jefferson Airplane, REM, the Beatles Abby Road album, anything by Stevie Ray Vaughn, and "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell. We also include a couple of classical albums like Vivaldi (The Four Seasons, part of which is featured in Fantasia), and Handel's Water Music Suites. Baroque is a good driving sound, according to my husband, because of the simple mathematical progressions.
I'm the driver, so every so often I put something soothing in to counter the loud rock and the scary road (pray for me, I drive I-95). I'm partial to Hawaiian music myself (NOT Tiny Bubbles!) by modern traditional performers like Kelali'i Reichel, Iz and Ledward Kaapana, and oldies like Gordon Lightfoot and the Mamas and the Papas.
.....when my wife & daughter let me put "my" music on (fyi ...there's basically been NO good music since 1983) .....I'll play a disc that I made with the following burned on it:
Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet
Highway Star - Deep Purple
Crash & Burn - Pat Travers Band
LA Woman - The Doors
Panama - Van Halen
I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
Driver Seat - Sniff & The Tears
Cars - Gary Numan
Layla - Derek and The Dominos
Low Rider - War
Fooled Around and Fell In Love - Elvin Bishop
Never Been Any Reason - Head East
Vehicle - The Ides Of March
Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers
....and ....if I still am "allowed" to keep playing my music ....I'll play the following COMPLETE albums:
Moonflower - Santana
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Endless Summer - The Beach Boys
....I need music that keeps me "involved" so I'll stay awake for 12 or 14 straight hours of driving.
I'm a cheeseball... I have a special WDW roadtrip playlist on my iPod. We drive from NJ so it's a bit longer than yours. I have done this for years! The first time was a family road trip when I was 17 with my DM, DDad, and DBs. I had a stack of 12 burnt cds that I had strategically timed out. (I was bit by the planning bug early in life.) My brothers (one of which is 11 years younger than me) still remember dancing to some of the music in the back of the car! You are creating the soundtrack of your trip!
I include lots of Disney classics to get us in the mood, plus some songs that just make me think of road trips...
"Ease on Down the road" from the Wiz
"Route 66"
"Life is a Highway"
I also try to incorporate some music that is purely my husbands. We throw the iPod on shuffle and are surprised by what will come up next!
We drive from Indiana so it's a two day trip. We listen to Disney music, including the two-disc On The Record, Christmas music if we're going during holiday time, soundtracks and classical music :-)
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We tend to play the DVD player instead of music. We try to put in films or tv shows we've seen a lot, so we don't actually have to see them to enjoy them. (This really works best with dialogue heavy shows/movies). Psych is one of our staples. If there are people in the back seats, they can watch, but the driver can enjoy listening as well.
As the usual driver, I find it much easier to stay awake listening to shows/movies than music for some reason. This is especially important on boring I-95.
I have a lot of favorites for the car. I have a weird list of songs that are sort of random in nature. Ricky Martin, Jimmy Buffet, Cher, Frank Sinatra, Queen, Lady Gaga, Kermit the Frog, Gloria Estafan, Bruno Mars, and Bette Midler. (no country and no rap) My kids think I'm nuts.
I pulled up disney music on pandora and found that they play classic disney theme music! I love it!! I will be listening to this partly on the way down!!
Holiday Road - Lindsay Buckingham
Kandi- One Eskimo
2112- Rush
L.A. Woman- doors
The Sky is Crying- S.R.V.
Sgt. Peppers(whole album) Beatles
Copperline(Album) James Taylor
Tequila Sunrise - the Eagles
Four Seasons- Vivaldi
Love Shack- B52's
American Girl- Tom Petty
Aja(whole album)-Steely Dan
Thick as a Brick- Jethro Tull
That playlist got us from Detroit to Cincinnati.
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We're doing our first drive to the World this coming weekend. I will be loading my phone with Disney music, plus some of the normal music I listen to (which is everything under the sun!).
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