The best long weekend road trip playlist, according to London's music scenesters
CBC
With the last long weekend of summer underway and the fall colours coming, some Londoners may find themselves on a road trip. Wherever your wheels take you, London music aficionados agree that a long drive is not complete without a road trip playlist.
"There needs to be an arc," said Sarah MacDougall, a London-based producer and musician.
"You need some upbeat songs that you can sing along to that are inspiring and make you excited for an adventure," MacDougall said. "And then you need some more melancholic, slower songs on the way back."
The city's music scenesters agrees that a good road trip playlist involves variety.
"It's got to have something for everybody," said Marty Novak, director of operations at Palasad Socialbowl.
"Sometimes depending on the mood of how the weather is when we're driving, it changes," Novak said. "If it's foggy or misty, we switch to indie folk and mellower stuff [but] if it's bright and sunny, we go classic like Queen and Neil Young."
As Londoners say goodbye to summer, here are some of the music scene's picks for a great road trip playlist.
MacDougall said she starts every road trip listening to Bruce Springsteen's "The Promised Land."
"It kind of gets my heart pumping and gets me excited for what's to come," said MacDougall. "Like the promised land, I'm going somewhere."
MacDougall, whose version of road tripping is going on tour as a musician, said the song's lyrics are about driving, which makes it an even more fitting road trip song.
Novak and his family road tripped from London to Algonquin Provincial Park last week. His favourite song from that trip was "Weighty Ghost," by Halifax rock band, Wintersleep.
"For us, it gets us head-bopping while we're driving straight down the highway," Novak said.
He said he tends to gravitate toward indie-rock music when on the road.
Tom Petty's "The Apartment Song" is a must-have on Londoners' road trip playlists, says Ned Currie, a sales associate at music equipment store Music City.
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