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Yes, music is definitely essential for a road trip. I have to admit though… I’m much more like your friend. My favorite road trip CDs (Yeah, I still listen to the old fashioned things too) are:
Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles and Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Come On Come On
Generally speaking, I usually prefer slower ballads at all times anyway. The only time I need something fast is when I’m working out.
I agree, music is definitely essential- I always listen to music in the car. What I listen to always changes though, like recently it’s Neko Case, Kelly Clarkson and Martina McBride all shuffled together.
Any portion of the catalog of Patty Loveless is my essential traveling companion. There is a Loveless song for every mood and every occasion. But always, Patty’s music is always there, a ready and reliable friend for any listener.
Or Bluegrass…sometimes I put on “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” when I’m driving fast, and pretend I’m in a chase scene…(Yeah, I know, I know….I may need professional help. 😉 )
But Country music in general, is ideal for the car, whether for a long road trip through the countryside, or short hop to the city, Country is especially well suited to travel. It is also perfect for a movie soundtrack., and hey, isn’t the road just a metaphor for life in general?!
I don’t have a CD player in my car, but I have an adapter to play my iPod through the cassette deck (I really hope there’s nobody here that doesn’t know what a cassette deck is 😉 ). I’m always listening to music in the car. What I’m playing just depends on what kind of a mood I’m in. Lately I’ve been playing a lot of Conway Twitty and Waylon Jennings.
That’s how I play my iPod too- that’s why I love my car.
I am one of the fortunate few to have a combo CD/cassette player in my car, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!
Yep, old school to be sure…:)
must have music in the car – but on some occasions, I will switch to listening to the old time radio classic shows, but that is only when I am driving for long distances —
JR – you were about 10 minutes from me…I am in the arena district…..
I saw Reba at th Germain (formerly Polaris) Amphitheater in 2004, Lanibug.
So did I….
Love music in the car. I prefer the faster tunes though, especially on the highway. It’s kind of hard to hear the slower stuff over the noise of the highway for me.
It used to be CDs for us, but it’s always one of our ipods now. I like to put it on shuffle and be surprised.
I listen on cassette tapes as well ; I can’t see replacing a paid for, runs fine vehicle just to get new technology. I rarely listen to the two ‘country’ stations here as I can’t stand the Flat Rascals or Kenny Cheesey.
I listen to an eclectic mx of Irish, folk and country. This morning it was Garth’s Fresh Horses, yesterday it was the Rovers. Tomorrow? Who knows.
JR, I presume you live in either Delaware or Union County? I’m in Columbus, on the west side.
Well, you could just replace the stereo inside the car instead of getting a whole new car. 😉
Yeah, that’s what we did–replaced the stereo….much less expensive than getting a new car.
True, but the cassette player isn’t broken, so I can’t see replacing it, either 🙂
No, I live in Scioto County – in southern Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River. Columbus is north of me – not I north of it, as would be the case with Delaware and Union Counties.
But it’s great to have so many fellow Ohioans here!
I cannot understand why you would not want to listen to our lovely country stations — when one only plays Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts and at least the other one is better, but you have to like the older country music — since I live in Champaign County and work in the Arena District — I only listen on my way into town for the traffic…..
Music is essential in the car, yes!
I spend 2 hours a day in a free ride, so I listen to music that fits on my friend’s taste, and it’s terrible! hahaha
His radio plays always the same songs that are success today, as Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and things like that, when it don’t turn to samba, funk and other freak stuffs…
I don’t have the permission to drive yet (just with 18 here), neither have a car, but I guess I’d play the faster tunes, as Leann said.
I’ve got a CD player with an aux input on the front panel for the mp3 player (not ipod), so I’m pretty well set up. Tempo isn’t a big consideration for me, but I do usually prefer songs I know the words to so that I can sing along. Being alone in the car is one of the few opportunities I get to sing out loud without anyone reminding me that I sound terrible, so I take full advantage of that time.
When I’m driving with someone else in the car, I usually opt for something that will make them think I’m cool. Also, to that end, I don’t sing.
My husband is like that; he finds music that will make his passenger think he’s cool.
I do that too, I play songs that I think they would like or songs I’m recommending to them.
I also sing very loudly; I think I do an amazing rendition of Sugarland’s “Stay”. xD