“I know, honey. You’re a ride or die bitch.”
— My wife while driving the two of us to Eastport for a week of sun-soaked vacation
I am in Eastport for vacation and before I headed up here I asked the Internet what albums make for perfect road trip fodder. I am glad that I did, because between driving here, driving back, and every other related stop, we will have driven 20 hours before the week is over.
- Into the Wild Soundtrack, Eddie Vedder
- Midnight Vultures, Beck
- Chocolate and Cheese or The Mollusk, Ween
- Black and Both Sides, Mos Def
- Flood, They Might be Giants
- Nothing Shocking, Jane’s Addiction
- Pony Express, Shudder to Think
- The Tigers Have Spoken, Neko Case
- At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
- Liquid Swords, Gza
- Grievous Angel, Gram Parsons
- Sweetheart of the Rodeo, The Byrds
- Wincing the Night Away, The Shins
- So Far, CSNY
- Various radio dramas, Final Rune Productions
- Here’s Where the Strings Come In, Superchunk
- Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
- Futureworld, Trans Am
- Paul’s Boutique, Beastie Boys
- Self-Titled, Mr. Bungle
- Yanqui U.X.O., Godspeed You! Black Emperor!
- Tarot Sport, Fuck Buttons
- Abbatoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
- … Like Clockwork, Queens of the Stone Age
- 4p, Danzig
- Music Has the Right to Children or The Campfire Headphase, Boards of Canada
- The Mel Brooks episode, WTF with Marc Maron
- All Hail West Texas, Mountain Goats
- Surfin’ USA, the Beach Boys
- The Resistance or Black Holes and Revelations, Muse
- Orphans, Tom Waits
- The Anthology, A Tribe Called Quest
- Love and Theft, Bob Dylan
- Joe’s Garage, Frank Zappa
- A Mighty Wind Soundtrack, Various
- I Have Been to Heaven and Back, The Mekons
- Dr. Octagonecologyst, Dr. Octagon (AKA: Kool Keith)
- Graceland, Paul Simon
- Self-Titled, Modern Lovers
- Loaded, Velvet Underground
- Great Divide, Semisonic
What are some of your favorite road trip albums?
Danzig Buying Kitty Litter PHOTO CREDIT: Metal Injection
