For the past few days WXPN has been playing their listener-voted top 885 top road trip songs. Here were the top ten.
1 Steppenwolf Born To Be Wild
2 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
3 Golden Earring Radar Love
4 Bruce Springsteen Thunder Road
5 The Grateful Dead Truckin’
6 Willie Nelson On The Road Again
7 The Allman Brothers Band Ramblin’ Man
8 Tom Petty Runnin’ Down A Dream
9 Simon & Garfunkel America
10 The Allman Brothers Band Jessica
First of all, the number one pick should be either Born to Run or Thunder Road. Ramblin’ Man should be replaced by In Memory of Elizabeth Reed. If you are going to include a Tom Petty tune, it has to be American Girl. I also think that Truckin’ is inferior to more than a dozen Dead tunes about being on the road. For example, Jack Straw, Estimated Prophet, Bertha, and Friend of the Devil would all be better choices.
In any case, my list would only include the two Springsteen songs. I’d flip a coin to choose which one was number one. How about you?
