Kamis, 26 Februari 2009

Moving Song Ideas

By Al Keser

You have a cross-country moving trip planned. You will spend perhaps around 2 weeks of your month-long trip around the USA in your car. You need an express solution to pass the time: good music. Or you might go crazy. Before your trip across the USA, first of all, make sure you have all the necessary items to an enjoyable music listening experience:

An MP3 player with long battery life.

A device to car stereo hook-up.

The below songs.

In need of energy. There will be those times when you just got on the road at 5 in the morning and you need that song that you may have heard way too many times, but will get you going. When you are moving across the USA and you stay at that little motel across the express way, you will most likely come to depend on these songs to keep you on the road. And at the end of a long drive, you will most likely need the same songs.

Moby, Lift Me Up

Bon Jovi, It's my life

AC/DC, you shook me all night long

Lenny Kravitz, Fly Away

Tom Cochrane, Life is a Highway

New Order, Blue Monday

General Elektriks, Tu m'intrigues

Rihanna, Drive

Feel-good songs. These songs are those you put on when you just get started on your moving trip across the USA and want to have music going in the background that is motivating for such a long trip. You are about to travel a long distance and need some songs that will give you some positive energy and keep your heart pumping blood to your head in case you fall asleep at the wheel after waking up so early.

Bill Withers, Use Me

MGMT, Electric Feel

Coldplay, Viva la Vida

Paul Anka, Smells Like Teen Spirit

Joe Cocker, Woman to Woman

Herbie Hancock, Cantaloupe Island

Nelly Furtado, Say It Right

Nikka Costa, Like a Feather

The Kinks, All Day and All of the Night

Miss Fairchild, Vanilla Place

Sing-along songs. Imagine you are halfway across the USA already and your moving trip has taken a toll on your conversation topics. You have little to talk about, but are in good spirits. It's time for some good songs that you can sing to and perhaps express how you felt about the music and remember times in the past when that song came on etc.

Bob Marley, Buffalo soldier

Alanis Morrisette, Ironic

Eric Clapton, Layla

Beatles, Day Tripper

Rod Stewart, Maggie May

Daniel Bedingfield, Gotta Get Through This (Acoustic)

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sweet Home Alabama

Stealers Wheel, Stuck in the Middle With You

Road-rage songs. These are the songs you'll need as you enter major thoroughfares of USA express moving routes. Big cities mean wild drivers. If you are in a moving van or truck, you will need some of these songs that will keep you motivated and tough against any aggressive drivers who may be playing rough.

Nine Inch Nails, Only

Grits, Ooh Ahh

The Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet With Butterfly Wings

Johnny Cash, Personal Jesus

Make-you-think songs. These songs are for the calm after the storm. You are cruising in the plains of Kansas or over-looking a Rocky Mountain valley and want some food for thought. Here you go:

Tracy Chapman, Fast car

Beirut, Nantes

Sting, Fields of Gold

Frou, Let Go

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Road Trippin'

Incubus, Drive

Pete Yorn, Every Fallen in Love

The Postal Service, Brand New Colony

Jarabe de Palo, Bonito

Al Keser is an international traveler who has gone from home to home, moving and ending up in the USA. He feels that most people in the USA express moving anxiety because they are too sedentary.

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