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One For The Road
Created by:	johnny_luddite
Tracks:	20
Length:	01:05:35
Keywords	1. Mix Contest 14 2. Mix Contest 14 3. Mix Contest 14
Created on	7/26/07 3:01pm
Level	5
Points	2123
Total visitors	71
Unique visitors	43
This mix was ranked #7 out of 13 entries for this contest

description:

Back in the day I spent a lot of time on the road in the UK and elsewhere. Theatre tours, band gigs, we were always going somewhere to work. There were all kinds of stupid things we did to try and pass the time, but I liked it best late at night, maybe on the way back from a show up North, heading back to London in time for breakfast. I could curl up on the seat and imagine that every now and then, the road trip could be just about the road, and not the destination. Here is the soundtrack to that trip...

tracklist

1	The Allman Brothers Band : Midnight Rider
	The road did seem to go on forever. To a cold tired guitarist huddled up in the back of a van after playing to a less than packed club in some unspeakable English town, road songs like this always seemed impossibly romantic. SHOW MORE
	Track 1 from Idlewild South Length: 00:02:59 Year: 1970
	Track Description: The road did seem to go on forever. To a cold tired guitarist huddled up in the back of a van after playing to a less than packed club in some unspeakable English town, road songs like this always seemed impossibly romantic. SHOW LESS
2	The Rolling Stones : Route 66
	Rather than hurtling down the A1 in a broken down Bedford van, it was fun to imagine going to all the places in this song. Even back then, I seriously doubted that Oklahoma City did look so pretty, but I felt sure at the time that it beat Milton Keynes on a wet Wednesday. SHOW MORE
	Track 2 from The Rolling Stones Length: 00:02:25 Year: 1964
	Track Description: Rather than hurtling down the A1 in a broken down Bedford van, it was fun to imagine going to all the places in this song. Even back then, I seriously doubted that Oklahoma City did look so pretty, but I felt sure at the time that it beat Milton Keynes on a wet Wednesday. SHOW LESS
3	The Grateful Dead : Truckin'
	Never been a fan of the Dead, but I did always like this little ditty with its 'life as a journey' metaphor. "What a long strange trip it's been." SHOW MORE
	Track 3 from American Beauty Length: 00:05:03
	Track Description: Never been a fan of the Dead, but I did always like this little ditty with its 'life as a journey' metaphor. "What a long strange trip it's been." SHOW LESS
4	The Beach Boys : Little Deuce Coupe
	We may have been driving to the Fiesta Club, Stockton, or some other hell hole, but it was fun to imagine heading down to the beach! SHOW MORE
	Track 4 from Endless Summer Length: 00:01:41 Year: 1974
	Track Description: We may have been driving to the Fiesta Club, Stockton, or some other hell hole, but it was fun to imagine heading down to the beach! SHOW LESS
5	The Modern Lovers : Roadrunner
	The genius of Jonathan Richman and the perfect road trip tune. SHOW MORE
	Track 5 from The Modern Lovers Length: 00:04:05 Year: 1976
	Track Description: The genius of Jonathan Richman and the perfect road trip tune. SHOW LESS
6	Chuck Berry : No Particular Place To Go
	When you are travelling to be somewhere by a certain time, the idea of just cruising around (whether you are trying to unbuckle your friends safety belt or not) seems irresistable. SHOW MORE
	Length: 00:02:44
	Track Description: When you are travelling to be somewhere by a certain time, the idea of just cruising around (whether you are trying to unbuckle your friends safety belt or not) seems irresistable. SHOW LESS
7	Ry Cooder : Every Woman I Konw (Crazy 'Bout an Automobile)
	I listened to a lot of Ry Cooder on the road too in the 80s. This buys into the same cars=sex myth that Chuck B sold all those years ago. SHOW MORE
	Track 7 from Borderline Length: 00:05:07
	Track Description: I listened to a lot of Ry Cooder on the road too in the 80s. This buys into the same cars=sex myth that Chuck B sold all those years ago. SHOW LESS
8	Junior Walker & The All Stars : I'm A Roadrunner
	Junior lived the life he loved and he loved the life he lived and pretty much I do (or at least did) too! SHOW MORE
	Track 8 from Shotgun Length: 00:02:49
	Track Description: Junior lived the life he loved and he loved the life he lived and pretty much I do (or at least did) too! SHOW LESS
9	bruce springsteen : Born to Run
	Junior Walker put it much more simply perhaps, but this has always been a favorite song to help propel me from a to b. SHOW MORE
	Track 9 from Born to Run Length: 00:04:30
	Track Description: Junior Walker put it much more simply perhaps, but this has always been a favorite song to help propel me from a to b. SHOW LESS
10	Jimi Hendrix : Crosstown Traffic
	Things do get frenzied on the road from time to time, so a bit of guitar frenzy is in order! SHOW MORE
	Track 10 from Experience Hendrix Length: 00:02:19 Year: 1998
	Track Description: Things do get frenzied on the road from time to time, so a bit of guitar frenzy is in order! SHOW LESS
11	Grace Jones : Pull up to the Bumper
	I love the introduction on this. When I was on the road a lot in the 80's, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare were doing a lot of productions for Island records, and I listened to a whole lot of stuff like this on my original walkman as we whizzed through the night. SHOW MORE
	Track 11 from Island Life Length: 00:03:38
	Track Description: I love the introduction on this. When I was on the road a lot in the 80's, Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare were doing a lot of productions for Island records, and I listened to a whole lot of stuff like this on my original walkman as we whizzed through the night. SHOW LESS
12	Madness : Driving In My Car
	If I did ever to get to ride about just for fun, this song was closer to the reality. No ride of mine was ever 'quite a Jaguar.' SHOW MORE
	Track 12 from The Heavy Heavy Hits Length: 00:03:18 Year: 1998
	Track Description: If I did ever to get to ride about just for fun, this song was closer to the reality. No ride of mine was ever 'quite a Jaguar.' SHOW LESS
13	Chris Rea : The Road To Hell pt1
	A song about having to leave the bosom of your family in the North of England to go and drive down to the evil city that is London. I always saw it the other way round. London was my home, my playground, populated with all the weird shit needed to make me happy. I liked coming from a place where the rainbows weren't just in black and white and wherever we were, it was always good to get home. SHOW MORE
	Track 13 from The Road To Hell Length: 00:04:58
	Track Description: A song about having to leave the bosom of your family in the North of England to go and drive down to the evil city that is London. I always saw it the other way round. London was my home, my playground, populated with all the weird shit needed to make me happy. I liked coming from a place where the rainbows weren't just in black and white and wherever we were, it was always good to get home. SHOW LESS
14	ZZ Top : Arrested for Driving While Blind
	Early ZZ Top is the kind of thing that would keep me (in)sane on the way to another crappy gig. SHOW MORE
	Track 14 from Tejas Length: 00:03:08 Year: 1976
	Track Description: Early ZZ Top is the kind of thing that would keep me (in)sane on the way to another crappy gig. SHOW LESS
15	Vince Taylor : Brand New Cadillac
	I first heard this on the road on a free cassette compilation that I think came with a long dead music mag called Vox. It is an obscure early British rock and roll track which Joe Strummer used to do in his 101er's days. A coda to all this is that Vince Taylor never made it in the UK but was for a while a star in France. By the mid sixties he was fading from music and the planet generally. He was convinced that aliens existed and that spacemen were here among us. He used to hang around the same Soho coffee bars as one David Jones (A.K.A David Bowie)and he would tell the soon to be great man of his ideas and beliefs. It is ages since I read or indeed thought of any of this, but I believe I read that these meetings may have planted a seed that bore fruit when Bowie came to write Ziggy Stardust. SHOW MORE
	Track 15 from Sex:Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die (Compilation) Length: 00:02:40
	Track Description: I first heard this on the road on a free cassette compilation that I think came with a long dead music mag called Vox. It is an obscure early British rock and roll track which Joe Strummer used to do in his 101er's days. A coda to all this is that Vince Taylor never made it in the UK but was for a while a star in France. By the mid sixties he was fading from music and the planet generally. He was convinced that aliens existed and that spacemen were here among us. He used to hang around the same Soho coffee bars as one David Jones (A.K.A David Bowie)and he would tell the soon to be great man of his ideas and beliefs. It is ages since I read or indeed thought of any of this, but I believe I read that these meetings may have planted a seed that bore fruit when Bowie came to write Ziggy Stardust. SHOW LESS
16	Little Feat : Truck Stop Girl
	In my days on the road there was not too much monkey business, but there was certainly a little. SHOW MORE
	Track 16 from Little Feat Length: 00:02:32
	Track Description: In my days on the road there was not too much monkey business, but there was certainly a little. SHOW LESS
17	Flying Burrito Brothers : White Line Fever
	The hymn for all those speeding through the night, shall we say. SHOW MORE
	Track 17 from Best Of Length: 00:03:24
	Track Description: The hymn for all those speeding through the night, shall we say. SHOW LESS
18	Gary Numan : Cars
	This was another one which was slaughtered by the in bus choir! SHOW MORE
	Track 18 from The Radio One Recordings Length: 00:03:15 Year: 1979
	Track Description: This was another one which was slaughtered by the in bus choir! SHOW LESS
19	Chris Spedding : Motorbikin'
	Always a favorite for community singing in the van/bus/whatever. I used to like changing the "Going down the wueen's highway looking like a streak of lightning' to 'Going down the Queen's highway looking like a streak of piss'. Cheers Dave! SHOW MORE
	Length: 00:02:39
	Track Description: Always a favorite for community singing in the van/bus/whatever. I used to like changing the "Going down the wueen's highway looking like a streak of lightning' to 'Going down the Queen's highway looking like a streak of piss'. Cheers Dave! SHOW LESS
20	The Beatles : Drive My Car
	Well, I never did get to be a star, the theatre tours are long gone, but I am gigging again with a band in California. Beep Beep, Beep, Beep, YEAH! SHOW MORE
	Track 20 from Rubber Soul Length: 00:02:21 Year: 1965
	Track Description: Well, I never did get to be a star, the theatre tours are long gone, but I am gigging again with a band in California. Beep Beep, Beep, Beep, YEAH! SHOW LESS