Roadtrack soundtrip: the 110 songs we're listening to on the road

Driving twelve thousand-plus miles means you're in the car A LOT.  Let's say we manage to drive an average of 60 mph over the course of the entire trip.  That's 200 hours of driving.  Almost ten days of dotted yellow lines and butt-flattening highway (and a lot of backroads) to fill.  Anyone who knows us is familiar with our impeccable -- shall I say trailblazing? -- taste in music.  Artists from Beethoven to Miley Cyrus have suggested that we have been and continue to be the primary inspiration for their best work.  This is, of course, just plain fact.  Look it up on your Google machine.  It's not bragging if it's true, right?

Actually, we're not above listening to crap.  Total crap.  Like, even Pitbull.  [Ugh, Pitbull.  What a waste of a human.]  Whatever makes the hours between destinations a tiny bit more entertaining is pretty much our only standard.  I thought I'd go back and check the stats on what our most frequently played songs are.  So, here it is, the definitive road trip soundtrack for Boomtown, USA 2011 -- one hundred and ten songs from our iPods, dozens of radio stations, a few CDs, and friends' playlists.


Elizabeth & The Catapult - Smaller Children
LMFAO - Sexy And I Know It
The Joy Formidable - Whirring
The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness
Coldplay - Paradise
Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
Adele - Someone Like You
Coldplay - Charlie Brown
LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem
Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven

The Strokes - Machu Picchu

The Strokes - Taken for a Fool
Coldplay (feat. Rihanna) - Princess of China

Cobra Starship ft. Sabi - You Make Me Feel So

Tom Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance

The Head and the Heart - Cats and Dogs

Ryan Adams - Lucky Now
Rihanna - We Found Love
Childish Gambino - Bonfire
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - The Hardest Part

tUnE-yArDs - Gangsta

tUnE-yArDs - Bizness
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Let It Ride

Kings of Leon - Back Down South
Nikki Minaj - Super Bass

The Head and the Heart - Lost In My Mind

Ryan Adams - Desire

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow

The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine

Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands

Greatful Dead - Casey Jones

Greatful Dead - Uncle John's Band
Young the Giant - My Body

The New Pornographers - From Blown Speakers

Young the Giant - Guns Out
King of Leon - Pyro
Young the Giant - Cough Syrup

Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)

Foster the People - Helena Beat
David Guetta ft. Usher - Without You
Rihanna and Nikki Minaj - Fly

tUnE-yArDs - For You

Britney Spears - I Wanna Go
Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me
Feist - 1234
Ke$ha - Blow
Adele - Set Fire to the Rain

Adele - Rumor Has It

Lana Del Rey - Kinda Outta Luck
Florence and the Machine - All This and Heaven Too
Beirut - Santa Fe

tUnE-yArDs - Powa

tUnE-yArDs - Killa
Airborne Toxic Event - Changing
Feist - I Feel It All
Fitz & The Tantrums - MoneyGrabber
Fitz & The Tantrums - Don't Gotta Work It Out
Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
Katy Perry ft. Kanye West - E.T.
Arcade Fire - Ready To Start
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
The National - England
The National - Secret Meeting
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Phoenix - Long Distance Call
Kate Nash - Foundations
Kate Nash - Merry Happy
T-Pain ft. Wiz Khalifa & Lily Allen - 5 O'Clock
Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night
John Butler Trio - One Way Road
John Butler Trio - Better Than
New Radicals - You Get What You Give
Wilco - I Might
Wilco - Born Alone

Arcade Fire - Rococo

Arcade Fire - Empty Room
Wild Light - California On My Mind

Phoenix - Napoleon Says

A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug
LMFAO - Sexy and I Know It
Gym Class Heroes - Stereo Hearts
Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger
Sara Bareilles - Uncharted
Bloc Party - Banquet
Bloc Party - This Modern Love
Weezer - Buddy Holly
Death Cab for Cutie - You Are a Tourist

The National - Squalor Victoria

The National - Fake Empire
Cowboy and Indian - Troubled Tracks
The Antlers - I Don't Want Love
Say Hi - Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Wilco - Kamera

Wilco - Pot Kettle Black
Those Dancing Days - I'll Be Yours
Austra - Shoot the Water
Freelance Whales - We Could Be Friends
Cults - Bumper
John Butler Trio - Ocean (Live)
Katie Herzig - Lost and Found
Alex Winston - Velvet Elvis
fun. ft. Janelle Monae - We Are Young 
Lightyear - It Beats
Martin Solveig - Hello
Dev - Dancing in the Dark
Alexandra Stan - Mr. Saxobeat
Christina Perri - Arms