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A little light music for the road |
| These are a couple of road tapes I
made for Australia and New Zealand, the first time in our trip that we’ll
be doing any substantial driving. The plan is to get these shipped over along with
the relevant fieldguides and Lonely Planets. Hopefully we’ll be able to rent a car with a cassette player,
or the entire exercise will be pointless. More pointless than it already
is, I mean.
The idea behind the selection process was to choose mostly noisy, up-tempo tunes, the sort of thing that'll help keep us awake on long stretches of nowhere in the middle of the outback. Within reason of course – you always need a few slow ones to leaven the mix. Consequently these tapes represent only a partial list of favorites – there are plenty of songs I love that would unfortunately make Doreen leap out of the car at any speed (Health & Efficiency, for example) and vice versa. So what we have here is a compromise solution, the sort of stuff that we can both enjoy.
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Tape 1 |
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Roadrunner |
The Modern Lovers |
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I Saw the Light |
Hank Williams |
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Where Have All the Good Times Gone? |
The Kinks |
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Love Goes to a Building on Fire |
Talking Heads |
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Cannonball |
The Breeders |
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Sound & Vision |
David Bowie |
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I Love You, You Big Dummy |
Magazine |
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If You Gotta Go, Go Now |
Manfred Mann |
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Rock the Casbah |
The Clash |
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We Love You |
The Rolling Stones |
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Rebel Rebel |
David Bowie |
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I Am a Pilgrim |
The Byrds |
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I Can’t Stand It |
The Velvet Underground |
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Ring of Fire |
Johnny Cash |
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Eye of Fatima |
Camper Van Beethoven |
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Ship of Fools |
World Party |
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Motorway to Roswell |
Pixies |
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Spinning Away |
Brian Eno & John Cale |
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Summer Wind |
Frank Sinatra |
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Bring On the Dancing Horses |
Echo & The Bunnymen |
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Louie Louie |
The Kingsmen |
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Pump It Up |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
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Some Jingle Jangle Morning |
Mary Lou Lord |
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I’m Moving On |
Hank Snow |
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Subterranean Homesick Blues |
Bob Dylan |
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Detouring America with Horns |
Yo La Tengo |
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Still Hears Voices |
Omnivore |
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Tape 2 |
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Hawaii 5-0 |
The Ventures |
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Lust For Life |
Iggy Pop |
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Beautiful Morning |
The Young Rascals |
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I’m So Bored With the USA |
The Clash |
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Saturday Nite Special |
Lesa Cormier & Sundown Playboys featuring 16 yr. old Pat Savant & his French Accordion. Cajun vocal: Darrel Higginbotham |
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Step On |
Happy Mondays |
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Wooly Bully |
Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs |
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Lost Highway |
Hank Williams |
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Whole Wide World |
Wreckless Eric |
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Perfect Day |
Lou Reed |
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(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding? |
Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
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Waterloo Sunset |
The Kinks |
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Practice Makes Perfect |
Wire |
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Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town |
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition |
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The Price of Love |
The Everly Brothers |
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Satellite |
Sex Pistols |
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Heroes |
David Bowie |
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The Dolphins |
Fred Neil |
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Beginning To See the Light |
The Velvet Underground |
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Honky Tonkin’ |
Hank Williams |
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Good Vibrations |
The Beach Boys |
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All or Nothing |
The Small Faces |
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Darklands |
The Jesus & Mary Chain |
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Can’t Take My Eyes Off You |
Andy Williams |
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Needles in the Camel’s Eye |
Brian Eno |
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Mrs. Robinson |
Simon & Garfunkel |
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The Last Date |
Floyd Cramer with The Music City Pops |