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By Alyce Wilson

I spent way too many hours in my truck this weekend, enough to come up with an incomplete list of great driving songs, many of which I heard during my journey. Here they are, in the order they occurred to me.

(By the way, you know you've hit a dry patch of radio when you're scanning through the stations, hear "Maggie" by Rod Stewart and consider stopping on it.)

• "Radar Love" - Golden Earring
• "Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf
• "Mrs. Robinson" - Simon and Garfunkle
• "Ballroom Blitz" - Ark
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
• "On the Road Again" - Canned Heat or Willie Nelson
• "Proud Mary" - Creedence Clearwater Revival or Ike and Tina Turner
• "The Bitch is Back" - Elton John
• "Walking on Sunshine" - Katrina and the Waves
• "White Wedding" - Billy Idol
• "Faith" - George Michael or Limp Biskit
• "Crocodile Rock" - Elton John
• "With a Little Help from My Friends" - The Beatles or Joe Cocker (preferred)
• "Brown Sugar" - The Rolling Stones
• "Get it On" - T. Rex
• "Jeepster" - T. Rex
• "All the Young Dudes" - Mott the Hoople (awww, yeah!)
• "Walking on the Sun" - Smashmouth
• "Blister on the Sun" - Violent Femmes
• "Cannonball" - The Breeders
• "Smooth" - Santana
• "Young Americans" - David Bowie
• "Suffragette City" - David Bowie
• "Rebel Rebel" - David Bowie
• "One Headlight" - The Wallflowers
• "One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer" - George Thorogood
• "Wonderwall" - Oasis
• "Happy Together" - The Turtles
• "One Week" - Bare Naked Ladies
• Anything by Led Zeppelin
• "Zoot Suit Riot" - Brian Setzer
• "Gimme Three Steps" - Lynyrd Skynyrd (not "Freebird"!!!)
• "Freefalling" - Tom Petty
• "Shout" - Tears for Fears
• "Twist and Shout" - The Beatles
• "Personal Jesus" - DePeche Mode
• Any Latin music
• "Sympathy for the Devil" - Rolling Stones
• "Turning Japanese" - The Vapors
• "One Night in Bangkok" - Murray Head

Copyright 2003 by Alyce Wilson

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