Ultimate Summer Touring Playlist!

[hobbner]

I haven't seen a post like this on here so i thought I would try something different, I am trying to create the ultimate summer motorcycle riding playlist playlist I am planing a few three day weekends and want to create a long list of music. I think if everyone contributed we could discover some awesome new songs, and also a few gems from the past we have forgotten about. I am open to all genre's and years of make for music, in fact I encourage everything from bluegrass to punk as I want a diverse playlist.  Lets shoot for mostly upbeat music but something calm and relaxing is good also to slow things down and unwind.  In short the only rule is would you listen to it on your ultimate ride?

I threw in a few in no order to get things started, feel free to add one or a bunch of songs to the list.


Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Aint no Easy Way (with a name like that of course!)
Bob Dylan- Hurricane
Bob Dylan Highway 61
New Radicals You get What you Give
AC-DC Highway to Hell
Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
Allman Brothers Band midnight rider
Meatloaf Bat out of Hell, (why not!?)
blues Brother Rawhide
Snoop Dogg and the doors Riders of the Storm
Garbage- Lick the pavement
George thorgood -Who Do you Love
Golden Earing - Radar Love
Jack Ingram -Love You
Rolling Stones- Route 66
Kill Hannah -Lips like morphine
Kings of leon- red morning light
Kula Shaker- Hey dude
Motley Crue - Wildside
OAR- I feel Home
Sigur Ros -SaeGlopur
The Bryds _Ballad of Easy rider
The Rolling Stones Brown Sugar
The rolling Stones -Start me up

[The Shepherd]

Motorhead - Built for Speed

[Seahawk80]

Some personal faves:

Montrose - Bad Motor Scooter
Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
Hagar - Privacy (great "unknown" driving song)
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Springsteen - Racing in the Streets
Commander Cody - Hot Rod Lincoln
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Kiss - Lick It Up
VH - 5150
Bob Seger - Roll Me Away
Brooks & Dunn - Days of Thunder

[desert_rider]

Grateful Dead's cover of : Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
Jackson Browne - I'm Alive

[Leanintree]

White Zombie/Rob Zombie-
-Thunderkiss '65
-Man w/o Fear
-Dragula
-Demon Speeding
-Never Gonna Stop

Rush-
-Red Barchetta
-A Passage to Bangkok
-Finding My Way
-Distant Early Warning

Ministry-
-Jesus Built My Hotrod
 
Iron Maiden-
-Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
-Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Widespread Panic-
-Airplane
-Ain't Life Grand

Jimmy Eat World-
-Get it Faster
-Lucky Denver Mint

Just off the top of my head...  

Leanintree

[Spectre]

  FreeBird 

[Malber]

Rush-
-Red Barchetta
-A Passage to Bangkok
-Finding My Way
-Distant Early Warning

Add their new single "Far Cry" to that list. Great riding song! Check their website or iTunes.

[Orson]

This is in the Beginner's Forum?  

is it beginner's music?  

[Nimh]

White Zombie/Rob Zombie-
-Thunderkiss '65
-Man w/o Fear
-Dragula
-Demon Speeding
-Never Gonna Stop

Rush-
-Red Barchetta
-A Passage to Bangkok
-Finding My Way
-Distant Early Warning

Ministry-
-Jesus Built My Hotrod
 
Iron Maiden-
-Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
-Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Widespread Panic-
-Airplane
-Ain't Life Grand

Jimmy Eat World-
-Get it Faster
-Lucky Denver Mint

Nice! - Playlist name = "SpeedingTicket"    I haven't heard some of Ministry's stuff in quite a few years.  I must dig it back up.

I sampled Wolfmother on tonight's ride through some twisties.  Enjoyable.

[kam]

How about the sweet sound of gasoline + oxygen when combined w/a sparkplug and a Staintune exhaust....


Had to do it.  

[hobbner]

This is in the Beginner's Forum?  

is it beginner's music?  

I umm accidentally put it in here, I meant for it to go in 'general discussion'

[Wanderer]

I've always liked U2's Johsua Tree for Slab or Semi-slab.  "In God's Country" is perfect for those lonely reservation roads near 4-corners.  
Aside from that, some punk music like Rancid or NOFX, or some Save Ferris or Bosstones (ska)
A-ha's "Take on me" makes my mpg go way down for some reason.  

[SlakeMoth]

Country-tinged, but I pulled this playlist ("40 greatest road songs") off bittorrent

  01 Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
  02 Roger Miller - King of the Road
  03 The Allman Bros. Band - Ramblin' Man
  04 John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
  05 Johnny Cash - I've Been Everywhere
  06 Asleep at the Wheel - Get Your Kicks on Route 66.
  07 Hank Williams - Lost Highway
  08 Kathy Mattea - Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses
  09 Alan Jackson - Drive (for Daddy Gene)
  10 Brooks & Dunn - Red Dirt Road
  11 Merle Haggard - Movin' On
  12 Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
  13 Hank Snow - Ninety Miles an Hour (Down a Dead End Street)
  14 Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road.
  15 Jerry Reid - East Bound and Down
  16 Alan Jackson - Mercury Blues
  17 Clint Black - Nothin' But The Tail Lights
  18 Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night
  19 Lee Ann Womack - A Little Past Little Rock
  20 George Strait - Amarillo by Morning
  21 Highwaymen - Highwayman
  22 Montgomery Gentry - Speed
  23 Bobby Bare - Detroit City
  24 Jo Dee Messina - Heads Carolina, Tails California
  25 Rodney Crowell - Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
  26 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs
  27 Trisha Yearwood - On A Bus To St. Cloud
  28 Merle Haggard - White Line Fever
  29 Bobby Bare - 500 Hundred Miles Away From Home
  30 Martina McBride - Cry On The Shoulder Of The Road
  31 Asleep At The Wheel - Hot Rod Lincoln
  32 David Ball - Riding With Private Malone
  33 Ricky Skaggs - Highway 40 Blues
  34 Terri Clark - A Little Gasoline.
  35 Dave Dudley - Six Days On The Road
  36 Junior Brown - Highway Patrol
  37 Little Feat - Willin'
  38 Julie Roberts - Break Down Here
  39 Steve Wariner - Drive
  40 Keith Urban - Where The Blacktop Ends

Of course, I had it on shuffle on my player with Thrill Kill Kult, System of a Down, the "40 greatest drinking songs" playlist and a bunch of other miscellany - made for an interesting soundtrack.

[kurtw]

I was listening to this one yesterday and was again struck by what an awesome song this is:

Mark Knopfler - Speedway At Nazareth

Great touring playlist material.  

Edit, while I'm listening to Mark Knopfler now it occurs to me that the following also have a place in the summer touring playlist:

Long Highway (somewhere at the early morning beginning of the playlist)
Coyote (fits the theme)

[Seahawk80]

Mark Knopfler - Speedway At Nazareth

Excellent choice! (of course I'm partial since I live a few miles from Nazareth)

From that album, I'm also partial to "The Last Laugh" with Van Morrison.