Suggestions for Road Trip Tracklist

[BSully828]

Going away for a much needed vacation on Thursday and I've got a 5 hour drive to get there. I'm going to be with four other people in the car and would like to keep conversation to a minimum - anyone care to recommend a few tunes to make up a good road trip mix?

I saw the road trip thread from a few weeks ago but that was 90% EDM and I've got that side covered - I'm looking for a more varied mix of tunes. Any genre is cool, I just need some ideas.

Much appreciated!

[tiddles]

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get this box set imo

[fletcher]

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Ulrich Schnauss's new album "Goodbye" is great - you should get that

[lilsensa]

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I'm going to be with four other people in the car and would like to keep conversation to a minimum

No talking god damnit!!!!!!!!!

[diegoff]

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Pantera - Cowboys from hell nobody will talk

[TomTom]

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I'm going to be with four other people in the car and would like to keep conversation to a minimum

Thanks for that! With whom are you driving? Family and Saddam? Or just boring people you have to drive with?

[poults]

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Rage against the machine-rage against the machine

[88Mariner]

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Oakey, Creamfields '99.

[BSully828]

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Thanks for that! With whom are you driving? Family and Saddam? Or just boring people you have to drive with?

All friends, but friends that I'm going to be camping with for four straight days. I know by the end of the trip I'm going to be sick of them anyway so I don't want to speed that process up by having to listen to them for the entire ride to Maine!

These guys/girl aren't into house but are into pretty much everything else - so I'm looking for a quality, cross genre mix. Since 95% of my music library is house, I got about an hour and 20 minutes of music lined up, but that won't even get us to Boston! That's why I need some good recommendations for you folks.

[toasty]

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These guys/girl aren't into house but are into pretty much everything else - so I'm looking for a quality, cross genre mix. Since 95% of my music library is house, I got about an hour and 20 minutes of music lined up, but that won't even get us to Boston! That's why I need some good recommendations for you folks.

I just went on a float trip and was responsible for selecting the tunes for a group of about 40 people of diverse musical taste, so I hear where you're coming from. Pull from a bunch of different genres and you'll be fine -- you're never going to please everyone with every single song, but if people recognize every other song, and like 1 out of 3 or 4, they'll be content. For example, I pulled from:

A healthy smattering of current top 40 and alt rock stuff
New Order
U2
Fugazi
Jurassic 5
The Roots
Gnarls Barkley
Blackalicious
Simon & Garfunkel
Big Head Todd
Jay Z
Linkin Park
Elton John
Billy Joel
Coolio
Underworld
Zero 7
The Orb
The Herbalizer
Toadies
Goo Goo Dolls
Morphine
Some EDM single tracks
etc., etc., you get the idea

There's obviously a wide, wide range of different stuff in there, but it ended up being pretty well-received. It's tough to get people who only listen to mainstream music to quietly listen to 5 hours of shit they've never heard before, but even the folks with pretty limited musical taste will warm up to new stuff if it's interspersed with stuff they recognize.

My $.02

[toasty]

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BTW, PM me if you'd like and I can send you the tracklist

[BSully828]

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Done and done.

Thanks man!

[day_for_night]

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Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

the best road trip album ever...

[tato2001us]

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play some Cradle of Filth no one will talk, but they will never ride with you again

[dusk]

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^^^ lol, so true... too bad your friends arent' into EDM... 5 hours is perfect for a whole range of EDM