The Making of the Road Trip Soundtrack

I have had the pleasure of going on road trips with friends, but some of these trips have been marred by unfortunate soundtracks.

Next weekend, I shall be embarking on another road trip with Rem and Mabie (if she doesn’t pull another Jerico – which is to say, confirming but ultimately not showing up). If you have just tuned in to this writer, our previous excursion in a vehicle involved a little VW bug named Mo, a giant swervy bus, and a failure to reverse.

I also went on a road trip with Rem a few months back when we popped my Baguio virginity. Long story short, it involved a thick fog (it was my first time and it was terrifying for me), ACW-236 (we owe our lives to the driver of that van who we followed through the Silent Hill fog and thus we didn’t come rolling down the mountain screaming and flailing), and ABBA.

Yes, ABBA. The Best Hits of ABBA, I believe. We were driving back, and we were both tired and sleepy. The only way to keep us from falling asleep and driving into a ditch or plowing into the back of a truck was listen to the radio and shamelessly sing along. The unfortunate thing was, there was only one (working) CD in Rem’s glove box, ABBA. So the trip back, we listened to Chiquitita, Dancing Queen, and many other songs my brain is refusing to remember.

The other time was when I went to Batangas with my call center friends. The van’s radio was broken, and it would only assent to play CDs. The only two CDs we had were… Nina Live! and MYMP. I could not begin to recount the torture of hearing Nina wail Piano in the Dark a few hundred times.

The point, to which I am getting to now after 5 intro paragraphs, is: I want a real road trip soundtrack this time. The problem is, I am an audiotard. That is why I invite you, my friends, to suggest what music I should download on my phone. We are going to Baguio, remember, so some emo music may not be appropriate since Rem’s car Subbie may decide to suddenly roll off a cliff.

So ayun. Help please?

PS. I’m including Vanessa Carlton’s A Thousand Miles.