Thank you to One Dad 3 Girls for tagging me in his Ultimate Summer Driving Playlist post. If you’ve not heard about the meme The Boy And Me created, you can read about it and join in here.
To me an ultimate summer driving playlist has to include music with a feel good factor. You know exactly what the song is as soon as you hear the first chord. You’ve already upped the volume. You’re smiling from ear to ear and you’d be singing into your hairbrush if you had one.
My choice of music varies depending on the time of day and my mood. The Eighties was an influential era for me but I also love most musical genres. Below is my ultimate summer driving playlist – just five songs from a long list of many!
This meme is open until the end of August. I’d like to tag the following people to get involved:
The Ramblings of a Formerly Rock N’ Roll Mum
Don Henley – The Boys of Summer
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’Mine
I met Axl Rose after the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992. All the artists came to a bar I was working in. It was an incredible night.
Train – Drops of Jupiter
Prince – Purple Rain
I saw Prince in concert in the Eighties. He came in via a zip wire from the back of Wembley Arena much to the surprise of the audience. We thought he was on stage but it was in fact a body double in the shape of a beautiful woman!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOLEF-N3oQ
Ooh some great tunes! Thanks for the tag, but you were beaten to it by Sarah from Mum of Three World, she nabbed me last week so my list is already up on the blog! 🙂
Thank you Sonya – I was super slow at getting this up. Got sidetracked by YouTube! Heading over shortly 🙂
I think I am a music tart! I will listen to whatever comes on the radio or what evrt the kids put in the CD player. I think my own music appreciation stopped somewhere in 1990 when I stopped being a teenager! Had a little lirsten to your list and they sound like great driving tunes.
Thank you Fiona – a well trained music tart by the sounds of things! We do make allowances when POD is in the car like listening to Ben & Holly for example 🙂
Drops Of Jupiter…Heaven! One of my faves along with Iris! Brilliant choice! #PoCoLo
Thanks Jade – there are some varied tunes in there 🙂
I need to get this bad boy done! lol x
If you fancy it lovely – just a bit of fun 🙂
That’s an eclectic bunch! I went to see the Freddie Mercury Tribute! I was 18 and it was one of the most amazing experiences ever. Although tragic that Freddie died so young, I was a massive fan!
Oh my goodness I missed your comment! It must have been incredible to go to that concert, I loved Freddie Mercury too – tragic he died way too early
oooh wow we could SO share a summer drive together. Iris is one of my favourite ever!
Hurrah! Really tough this one, I’m sure I have about 50 driving songs!
What an ace idea! Would find it really really hard to narrow it down though! Jerry gives me such stick for my taste in music!! x #PoCoLo
Thank you – it was really tough narrowing it down. In doing so I seem to have offered up quite an eclectic mix!
Prince. Purple Rain – classic. Extended version only 😉
It’s an awesome tune isn’t it – I love Purple Rain. Usually quite loud 🙂
All brilliant, brilliant songs :). What a GREAT list. Thanks for linking to PoCoLo x
Thank you lovely – they’re great tunes 🙂
Now some of these are very cool and some are so cool that I’ve never heard of them. Love ‘Drops of Jupiter’! Thanks for joining in.
You’re welcome, it was good fun. Really tough narrowing it down to five but a varied selection at least! I don’t think I’m that cool though 🙂
Great choices! I love Iris and Drops of Jupiter and Purple Rain – can I have a lift please?!
Of course! Purple Rain is a brilliant brilliant song – I’ve loved it for years. Nice I got 3 out of 5 🙂
Bit more of a chilled out suggestion here than what you have listed but it really works. Well I say that, but I’m biased because I listened to it over and over driving Highway 1 in California, and the floaty, bubbly chilled-out-ness of it really suited the beautiful scenery, rugged coast and the waves….All I Need by Air.
I did also have Iris on the same playlist…
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