Artist	Song
Urge Overkill	Sister Havana
The Clash	Guns on the Roof
Black Sabbath	Fairies Wear Boots
Bobby Womack	Across 110th Street
Blue Oyster Cult	Harvest Moon
Deep Purple	Hush
Lou Reed	Dirty Blvd
Patti Smith	Persuasion
The Pretenders	Mystery Achievement
The Beatles	I've Got a Feeling
T-Bone Burnett	Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
The Sex Pistols	New York
That Petrol Emotion	Big Decision
XTC	The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead
Sugar	A Good Idea
The James Gang	The Bomber
Sly and Robbie	Let's Rock

Comment:

A few of my favorite rockers for an eyes-wide-open road trip. I like several of the mellower, folk, or country-oriented road trip mixes listed on the site, but this is supposed to be nothing but energy (with the obligatory hooks or hit-potential) all the way.

Just a couple comments on the songs:
After hearing the Bobby Womack song in Jackie Brown, I just had to have it.
The BOC song is relatively new, and imo a good one
The Patti Smith song was discovered when a friend gave me Gung Ho, and somehow it must be heard. Why I can't find an FM station that plays stuff like this, I'll never understand.
The T-Bone Burnett song is from a 1982 EP, and to me it is the hit that wasn't. Great lyrics.

My motivation for this one was one very bad day in the mid 80's. I was driving across the country in the hot summer to start a job in Detroit. I stayed the night in Las Vegas, expecting to stop in the Salt Lake City area the next day. Instead of going to bed at 11pm to get an early start for a fantastic drive the next day (I'd never seen Utah), I very, very weakly went to the strip with $50 to lose at the $2 blackjack tables. To my detriment, I did OK at the tables, playing and playing until at about 6 am when I casually mentioned to the dealer that I was heading to Salt Lake City that day. I'll never forget hearing her say "Dear, when I go there this time of year I'd have been on the road an hour ago. It gets hot out there." Well, I bolted, went back downtown, threw my bags in my packed, air condition-less car, and was on the road by about 7:00. The sun was in my eyes and big trucks were heading towards me on a two-lane road. It started getting tough about 9, with the heat and my fatigue rapidly increasing.

Doubtless, I should have stayed the extra day in town rather than risking my life on the road. I thought I was going to die, and I recall counting out loud from 1 to 100 shouting as loud as I could to keep concentrating on the road in front of me, and the lorries whizzing by me. After getting far enough from Vegas I remember driving on a banked, curving highway hugging a river through a canyon, and through a large, pretty valley heading north in southern Utah. It should have been a great drive, but it was hell. . This CD, played at maximum volume, may have helped that day.

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