Side A
Artist	Song
Peter and the Wolf	Safe Travels
Aqua	Around the World
Bad Religion	New America
The Plimsouls	A Million Miles Away
Atherton	California
The 6ths	San Diego Zoo
The Moog Cookbook	Hotel California
Social Distortion	Highway 101
The Ramones	Rockaway Beach
Everclear	Santa Monica
Green Day	Going to Pasalacqua
Goldfinger	San Simeon
The Distillers	City of Angels
The Go-Go's	La La Land
Rilo Kiley	Glendora
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes	San Francisco
The Travoltas	Pacific Coast Highway
Middle of the Road	Sacramento
The Volcanos	Lahaina
Lisa Loeb	My Little Grass Shack
Lindsey Buckingham	Holiday Road
George Strait	The Seashores of Old Mexico
Potshot	Mexico
The Specials	Ghost Town
The Unicorns	Ghost Mountain
Aimee Mann	Ghost World
Wilco	Hotel Arizona
Nirvana	Lake of Fire
Loretta Lynn with Jack White	Portland, Oregon
Mountain Goats	Going to Alaska
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Tarkio	Mountains of Mourne
South Park	Mountain Town
Allister	Fraggle Rawk
Bowling for Soup	My Hometown
Hans Zimmer	Fort Walton, Kansas
Rancid	Memphis
Los Straitjackets	Dreamland
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Sweet Home Alabama
Loretta Lynn	High on a Mountain
Ben Folds	Jesusland
Bright Eyes	Road to Joy
Of Montreal	Oslo in the Summertime
Iron and Wine	South Sodom, Georgia
Say Anything	The Writhing South
Jimmy Buffett	Margaritaville
Bruce Springsteen	Atlantic City
Less Than Jake	Rock-N-Roll Pizzeria
Tom Petty	Zombie Zoo
311	Beyond the Gray Sky
Elliott Smith	King's Crossing
Built to Spill	Twin Falls
That Dog	Minneapolis
Electric Six	Gay Bar
Atom and His Package	Punk Rock Academy
Animal Collective	Leaf House
Ben E. King	Spanish Harlem
Billy Joel	River of Dreams
They Might Be Giants	New York City
Goo Goo Dolls	Broadway
New York Dolls	Rainbow Store

Comment:

Just a lark or a mix, but like most of my whims, it spun out of control and became ludicrously overlong. The organization is sloppy but mannered - I started with song titles about California, since that's where I live, then moved east around the world (although I found pretty much nothing to use for any of Asia, alas), and for the in-between places (that is, aside from series of titles about New York, London, and Ireland, or ones that name a specific location) and a few gimmicks (like the ghost titles and the ocean stuff) I tried to order the tracks by where the artists were from - i.e. Tarkio's from Montana, hence they're situated in the mid-west section, Elliott Smith is Nebraskan hence that, Animal Collective are NY-based so they go there, etc. It's not exact science but I made an effort. And actually, though I formatted it here like a cassette, it was actually about 6 CDs, but I didn't want to waste everyone's time by making a separate entry for each one, so I collected them here as well as I could. The 2nd volume covers the rest of the East Coast then moves across the sea. Even though most of the songs aren't really about traveling or even necessarily the places they cite, it's all music I love, and bound by a thin idea, so I got what I wanted. Bon voyage!

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