Wedding Playlists 9: On The Road mix

1. Road To Nowhere by The Talk­ing Heads (4:28 ) — We thought this would be a funny set of lyrics to start out a road trip mix to! And we love the Talk­ing Heads!
2. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC (4:12 ) — Todd was raised on AC/DC, and has very slowly got­ten Joan to accept and even­tu­ally like this music. It took about 5 years.
3. Detroit ’67 by Sam Roberts (4:05 ) — Amaz­ing Cana­dian artist that Joan got into while still liv­ing in Detroit, and an amaz­ing song about the place she called approx­i­mate home for nearly two decades.
4. I Feel Free by Cream (2:51 ) — This is a true song for the open road. If you were Jeff Stolt­man, you’d have all the win­dows down and the sound sys­tem pumped up for this track.
5. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Look­ing For by The Buena Vista Social Club fea­tur­ing Coco Free­man and U2 (4:53 ) — We love U2, so find­ing a new twist on an old clas­sic was cer­tainly a treat for us, and we hope you’ will agree!
6. Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John feat. Vic­to­ria Bergs­man (4:39 ) — This song was used dur­ing episodes of two of our favorite shows, Cal­i­for­ni­ca­tion and Par­ent­hood (star­ring Joan’s cousin), so it holds a spe­cial place in our hearts, and rocks to whis­tle to!

This is the playlist for the first of two discs in the Wed­ding Road­trip CD set that we gave all of our male guests as a wed­ding favor. Again, because most of our guests were cou­ples, they got both this set and the set I blogged about on July 21st & July 22nd, so a total of four discs and two sets. Con­fused yet? The rea­son we did a road trip clas­sic rock mix is really all about our audi­ence: almost every­one was com­ing in for the wed­ding week­end from out of town, so giv­ing them some more upbeat, rec­og­niz­able music to rock out to on the road was really the point. Plus, if each of our aunts, uncles and cousins have one thing we love about them most, it’s their taste in music! Every­one in our fam­i­lies is not only well-versed in an expan­sive range of gen­res and decades and artists, but they’re also really open and inquis­i­tive. Mix CD’s really just made sense. This par­tic­u­lar CD is just for rock­ing on the road, but the other CD in this set com­bines lyrics about love with some pretty solid rock. Enjoy!

1. Road To Nowhere by The Talk­ing Heads (4:28 ) — We thought this would be a funny set of lyrics to start out a road trip mix to! And we love the Talk­ing Heads!

2. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC (4:12 ) — Todd was raised on AC/DC, and has very slowly got­ten Joan to accept and even­tu­ally like this music. It took about 5 years.

3. Detroit ’67 by Sam Roberts (4:05 ) — Amaz­ing Cana­dian artist that Joan got into while still liv­ing in Detroit, and an amaz­ing song about the place she called approx­i­mate home for nearly two decades.

4. I Feel Free by Cream (2:51 ) — This is a true song for the open road. If you were Jeff Stolt­man, you’d have all the win­dows down and the sound sys­tem pumped up for this track.

5. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Look­ing For by The Buena Vista Social Club fea­tur­ing Coco Free­man and U2 (4:53 ) — We love U2, so find­ing a new twist on an old clas­sic was cer­tainly a treat for us, and we hope you’ will agree!

6. Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John feat. Vic­to­ria Bergs­man (4:39 ) — This song was used dur­ing episodes of two of our favorite shows, Cal­i­for­ni­ca­tion and Par­ent­hood (star­ring Joan’s cousin), so it holds a spe­cial place in our hearts, and rocks to whis­tle to!

7. Star­man by David Bowie (4:14 ) — Joan loves Bowie, has for awhile, and finally clinched her vic­tory of hav­ing Todd love Bowie too with this song. Now they sing Bowie together, it’s quite a sight!
8. Back In Black by AC/ DC (4:14 ) — Another great dri­ving song and Todd Swatling bonafide favorite.
9. Sun­day Bloody Sun­day by u2 (4:42 ) — Truly an essen­tial song on any mix intended for a road trip. The drums are steering-wheel wor­thy, and the song begs for the vol­ume to be pumped up loud!
10. This Land Is Your Land by Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings (4:31 ) —  Joan hated the movie that gave this song air­play and atten­tion last sum­mer, but was grate­ful that peo­ple were finally talk­ing on a national level about Sharon Jones et. al. She’ is the true bomb! Doesn’t this song make you play fin­ger sax­o­phone and horns? It does for us!
11. Kodachrome by Paul Simon (3:33 ) — We love Paul Simon, so it was hard to choose what of his illus­tri­ous oeu­vre would be most widely appre­ci­ated on a road trip mix, but we’ are sure this awe­some 1973 track is a safe bet.
12. It’s Only Me (The Wiz­ard Of Mag­i­cland) by The Bare­naked Ladies (2:34) —  BNL is great to drive to, hands down, and always sing-a-long-able, but this song is espe­cially super-catchy, and has great lyrics!
13. Peaches by The Pres­i­dents of the United States of The United States Of Amer­ica (2:51 ) — All hail weird songs of the 1990s that have sustained.
14. Jenny Says by Cow­boy Mouth (3:19) —  This is the pre­em­i­nant Stolt­man Fam­ily road trip song, since the late 90s. All seven know the lyrics through and through, all seven scream the third chorus.
15. Overkill (Acoustic Ver­sion) by Colin Hay (3:47 ) — If you’re a Scrubs fan, you will cer­tainly rec­og­nize this artist and song. If not, appre­ci­ate this incred­i­ble solo acoustic cover of an old Men At Work song by the band’’s for­mer lead singer.
16. You Never Give Me Your Money by The Bea­t­les (4:03) —  Joan’s favorite Bea­t­les song to sing to Todd, even though it isn’t true. We’re both big Bea­t­les fans, we were raised that way, and we will raise our own that way.
17. Funk 49 by The James Gang (3:52 ) — Joe Wal­sh’ was in this Cleve­land band in the 1960s and, as you can plainly hear, they rocked hard.
18. Semi-Charmed Life (Radio Edit) by Third Eye Blind (3:40 ) — Ooh, ooh! Clas­sic 1990s! You bet­ter learn all of the lyrics because it’s way more fun to sing along to than just to listen!
19. Silly Boy by The Blue Van (3:21 ) — Cait Stolt­man intro­duced us to this song last sum­mer, and we’ve both loved it ever since! Its so much fun to sing in the car!
20. Black Betty by Ram Jam (2:32 ) — It’s obvi­ously a great rock song and wor­thy of a road trip mix, even with­out hav­ing a story attached to it.  But this song is spe­cial to us because it always reminds us of dri­ving in Buf­falo with our dear friend Flo­rie. She rocks crazy hard to this song!
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