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[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 7 - An alternative song to DRIVE to. ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ’จ (lemmy.world)
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DAY 7 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

R-R-R-R-ROOOOOOOAD TRIIIPPPP!!!!!!! Let's hear those amazing songs just meant for the road, y'all!

Each day Iโ€™ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

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[-] StarkestMadness@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I know it's not the most original choice, but I'm sticking to my guns: One Headlight is the best driving song you could ask for.

https://youtu.be/P4AFXn7b9Ys

[-] StarkestMadness@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Second choices:

  • "Somewhere Along the Way," Dawes
  • "Sedona," Houndmouth
[-] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

I love that song!

[-] AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm going to hit you with a full playlist that I put together (as a CD) several years back. Can't remember the proper placement for Death Valley Blues offhand, but it works where I have it now.

Truck Stops & Coffee Pots (YouTube)

It was all road-centric songs. But one of my favorite highway driving songs is F.N.T. by Semisonic. That guitar riff sounds like speeding.

[-] pastatheturtle@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Cake - the distance

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Queens of the Stone Age - You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire

Really the whole album is perfect for road trips through the desert but this is my first pick!

[-] ren@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

never got into QotSA, BUT... the stuff I've heard, I could totally see that!

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is probably their most successful album commercially, if you're interested in them at all though, I recommend ...Like Clockwork from a few years back (well 10 now, ouch).

It may be (IMO) the greatest rock album of the past 20 years. Tons of texture and nuance and some heartbreaking lyrics and vocal deliveries from Josh Homme who usually comes off as more of a party / tongue in cheek sort of fella.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

actually, somehow your comment got Social Distortion in my head! lol https://lemmy.world/post/3289818

[-] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

That's a great correlation honestly!

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Interstate Love Song - STP

[-] kvn@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I always like Kurt Vile on a long drive.

Wakin on a Pretty Day - Kurt Vile

[-] Kill_joy@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

M83 - Midnight City

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe a little on-the-nose, but I'd say "Driving Song" by Spinnerette

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

One more:

Apples in Stereo - Go

https://yewtu.be/m0iJZLuV9A4

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Big Black Car - Big Star

https://youtu.be/HzSU1r3ZTw8

Lol, not sure this is what you were driving at, ren, but I do love it.

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror - https://youtu.be/nLsnJAj5cms

[-] Aesecakes@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

The Fauves โ€“ Long Load

[-] misericordiae@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Angus & Julia Stone - On the Road

[-] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Camper Van Beethoven - Borderline song was practically designed for this...

https://youtu.be/7LPODGpRvrQ

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Not a song about cars or driving, but a perfect song to drive to on a gray autumn day:

The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure (Spotify, Tidal, YouTube, YouTube Music)

The whole Lost In The Dream album is a good driving soundtrack.

[-] nhombrenovalido@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Vines -Outtathaway

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