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Road Trip Playlist
These are our top 20 tunes for a roadtrip. What tunes make your long distance drives go a little quicker? Leave a comment and let us know…

Driving Indie Blues Rock you’ll recognise from the TV. Directional and rocking.
2. There’s a Break in the Road: Betty Harris
Down and dirty funk perfect for laying down rubber.
3. Mr Big: Free
Elliptical shifting from the Spinal Tap tribute band from the early seventies.
4. Driving South: Stone Roses
Manc attitude par excellence with pounding riffs from the Monkey Men.

5. Autobahn: Kraftwerk
Glorious misanthropy from the centre of Euro dystopia.

6. I fought the Law: The Bobby Fuller Four
Original Rebel Music: let the desert winds blow!

7. Left turn on arrow only: Davie Allan and the Arrows
Obscure and burning strings straight out of the Lost Highway.

8. Learn to Fly: Foo Fighters
Dave Grohl and co bring you a contemporary classic that sounds better than sex on the car radio.

9. Johnny B Goode: Chuck Berry
Essential roots rock meant for swift cruisin’.

10. Dead Man’s Curve: The Wipeouts
A dispatch from the beginnings of street racing culture.

11. Shut Down: The Beach Boys
Leave the Noseriders alone chaps. Stick to the four to the floor.

12. Phat Planet: Leftfield
A tick and a tock. Put the pedal to the metal!

13. Live Injection: The Upsetters
A downshift and a change of pace that still goes with the flow.

14. Highway to Hell: AC/DC
Nod your head and flash the steer’s horns on the highway, baby.

15. Plug In Baby: Muse
Contemporary roughness for the blacktop in our time.

16. Song 2: Blur
Whoo-Hoo indeed.

17. 2-4-6-8 Motorway: Tom Robinson
Perennial dad rock that evokes the British Leyland vehicle of your imagination.

18. Down the road I go: Johnny Jenkins
Dirty harp-driven blues from the southland.

19. Something Else: Eddie Cochran
He died in a Ford Consul in Chippenham. What a rocker!

20. Shaking All Over: Ricky Valance
We end with a slick rocking classic.
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