Sunday, 2 November 2025

Weekend Playlist: Roads

Weekend Playlist: Roads

Here's the weekend playlist created by Adrian with help from guest curator Leigh looking at X/twitter selections (31/10/2025) with Songs that reference Roadst.
This was to commemorate the opening of the M1 on Sunday (02/11/1959).

Final Mixtape

Here's the final playlist!

Thanks to Leigh for the spotified list
[Side 1] Traffic Jam
Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
Green Day - Boulevard off broken dreams
Kelly Clarkson - High road
Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
America - Ventura Highway
Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway

[Side 2] Drive all night
Canned Heat - On the road again
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
Cyndi Lauper - I drove all night
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Van Morrison - Bright side of the road

[Bonus]
A1 - Take on me
Spice Girls - Stop
Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas

Long list

  • Arcade Fire - Keep the car running
  • Primitives - Crash
  • Trashcan Sinatras - Maybe I should drive
  • Ella Fitzgerald - Manhatten
  • Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Avenue
  • Sinead O'Connor - Raglan Road
  • Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
  • Eagles - Life in the fast lane
  • Radiohead - Street spirit
  • Chris Rea - Road to Hell
  • Bon Jovi - Runaway
  • Sheryl Crow - Every day is a winding road
  • Mercury Rev - Goddess On A Hiway
  • dEUS - Instant Street
  • Joe Dassin - Les Champs-Elysées
  • America - Ventura Highway
  • Aztec Camera - Killermont St
  • David Ford - Song for the road
  • Van Morrison - Bright side of the road
  • Jane Wiedlin - Rush hour
  • Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
  • Queen - I'm in love with my car
  • Radar Love - Golden Earring
  • Willie Nelson - On the road again
  • AC/DC - Highway to hell
  • Beatles - Why don't we do it in the road
  • Grand Funk Railroad - Some kind of Wonderful
  • East River Pipe - Down 42nd Street to the Light
  • Heshoo Beshoo Group - Armitage Road
  • Primal Scream - Kowalski
  • 3 Doors down - Road I'm on
  • Allman Brothers - Jessica (Top Gear)
  • Counting Crows - Sullivan Street
  • Stereophonics - Traffic
  • A1 - Take on me
  • Toots & Maytals - (Take me home) Country roads
  • Saw Doctors - N17
  • Billy Bragg - A13 Trunk Road
  • Gorillaz - M1 A1
  • Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack
  • Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
  • Beatles - Long and winding road
  • Go-Gos - Skidmarks on my heart
  • Ocean colour Scene - One for the road
  • Tracy Chapman - Crossroads
  • Richard Hawley - Not the only road
  • Spice Girls - Stop
  • Flaming Lips - Go
  • I Royals - Coronation Street
  • Proclaimers - King of the Road
  • Doors - Roadhouse Blues
  • U2 - Where the streets have no name
  • Kelly Clarkson - High road
  • Kraftwerk - Autobahn
  • Ian Brown - Longsight M13
  • Portishead - Roads
  • Deep Purple - Highway star
  • B52s - Love Shack
  • Kirsty MacColl - Walking down Madison
  • Doves - M62
  • Jimmy Cliff - Hard road to travel
  • Catatonia - Road Rage
  • Steppenwolf - Born to be wild
  • Billy Gibbons - I was a highway
  • Cinderella - Gypsy Road
  • Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
  • Levellers - The Road
  • Tom McRae - Silent boulevard
  • Lock - Everlasting road
  • Robert Plant - Tie dye on the highway
  • St Etienne - Like a motorway
  • Bryan Adams - Open Road
  • New Order - 60 miles an hour
  • Blur - He thought of cars
  • Rascal Flatts - Life is a Highway
  • Shara Nelson - Down that road
  • Stock, Aitken & Waterman - Roadblock
  • Green Day - Boulevard off broken dreams
  • Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
  • Zazie - Rue de la Paix
  • Tom Robinson - 2-4-6-8 Motorway
  • Canned Heat - On the road again
  • Cyndi Lauper - I drove all night
  • Satoshi Tomiie ft Kelli Ali - Love in traffic
  • Chris Rea - Driving home for Christmas
  • Ralph McTell - Streets of London

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