Wednesday 21 July 2010

Drive Time

I will be doing the drive between Canberra and Melbourne a few times over the next month. I have the complete works of Lady Gaga, several Muszikas CDs, Schubert's Winterreise and a few downloads of short stories from the New Yorker site. It's not going to be enough. Can anyone recommend music for road trips? All suggestions gratefully received.

10 comments:

  1. Stars - Set yourself on fire
    Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous
    Both Amy MacDonald albums

    great driving albums, and not too blokey! Enjoy!

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  2. Ella Fitzgerald singing the Cole Porter songbook. All the Brandenburg Concerti. And my current favourite, a double CD called Nightfever which contains all the greatest disco hits from the 70s and 80s - really good for keeping you pepped up when the eyelids start to droop.

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  3. Worm - Completely new experiences await me (I'm guessing Amy Macdonald is not 'the lovely Amy Macdonald from At Last the 1948 Show'?)
    Sophie - my husband has that Ella Fitzgerald CD. He loves her, but I try to but don't, (I did once go and see her - at the London Palladium, I think ). I wonder if we have the Brandenburgs, will go and look. Nightfever sounds ideal, I like that kind of mindless exhiliration you get listening to v commercial music while whizzing along

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  4. Hey Worm, I've just started listening to This is the Life, thank you so much, I love it. She may not be THE lovely Amy Macdonald, but she is lovely

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  5. glad you like it - I suggested it because I've yet to meet someone that didn't!!!

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  6. ps - two more if you haven't heard them already -

    damien rice - o
    paolo nutini - sunny side up

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  7. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/favorites

    Try some of these.

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  8. You beauty - Mark Colvin was telling me about these the other day and I immediately forgot what they were called. Are you definitely finished in Melbourne? All sorted (up to a point)?

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  9. Polly, am I mad or do you have to pay for all but the current one? And, even with that one, you have to subscribe to a podcast feeder?

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  10. I know you can stream them, but a bit tricky while driving.

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