What’s your musical score to a special journey?

We toured the eastern states of America in 1988 in a large motorhome, and took with us an album (in cassette form) that was very popular then, - U2's The Joshua Tree. I only have to hear "Where the streets have no name", or "I still haven't found what I'm looking for" , any of the other tracks and I'm right back there on those long country roads.

I had a caravan near Delamere Forest in Cheshire and I used to love listening to Elgar and Vaughan Williams as I tootled round the country lanes.
They went so well with the beautiful countryside.

Just showing my age I’m afraid! ?

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I think it’s called a playlist these days…

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I think it’s called a playlist these days…

I like lots of different music, but any BeeGees album was always our choice on a long journey.

On a glorious golden late summer afternoon sometime in the 1980s, my dad and I were driving from Kyle of Lochalsh towards Dornie. Sunroof open, windows down and the Alleluia Chorus on the radio. We sang along at the tops of our voices.

It was one of those brief moments of perfect content and now I cannot hear Handel's wonderful, uplifting piece without, in my head, being right back there on the A87 in the sunshine.

Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac Rumours, and Clannad Legend (the theme music from 'Robin of Sherwood') were our favourites for any journey.

David Grey on the long road from Dublin to Cork singing Babylon at the top of our voices
,On the last stretch of road towards Cornwall for our first visit we played a CD of Native American music with fantastic drums, loud,really loud and we took the same CD for the same very boring stretch of road the next year too

.Heading home from Fort William and praying for an open petrol station on a Sunday it was Dire Straits, when we play it we remember freewheeling downhill to save fuel and the relief when we finally saw the lights on a petrol station ahead .

I got my first and only points when listening to Hotel California in 1992 - I always blame The Eagles. I was going Christmas shopping in Harrogate on a gorgeous late November day, sunglasses on, singing my head off and couldn’t believe that the Police car speeding in the outside lane on blue lights was trying to catch me!

Lots and lots of Alan Parsons.

We sometimes have very long car trips, and will play mixed cd's. Years ago we ordered one of those collections advertised on late night tv, 'singers and songwriters of the 70's'. There is some very good music in the collection, and songs that we can sing along (badly) with.

Not on every journey but on a few i play Guns 'n' Roses or Queen, my husband isnt happy when Guns 'n' Roses go on but then again im certainly not happy when his song choices are played....

When the children were young we always travelled on long journeys to the sound of Phil Collins

i have borderline agoraphobia so i use a mp3 player when i am out, all the music is from 60s and 70s but i visit my dad in england once a year and i have the corries flower of scotland cd playing on the train, for some strange reason it helps me feel less stressed.

Bruce Springsteen" Dancing in the dark "and lots of his other C.D's.At her wedding, DD danced with her father to Dancing in the dark and we always jocked on holiday when he appeared in shorts it's "handsome Dan from his song "Better than the rest. The beach boys always make me think of our seaside holidays when dds were small they were played on repeat.

One piece I can’t go to the West Country without hearing on the way is the Wasps overture by Vaughan Williams. I don’t know why it always conjures up Devon and Cornwall for me but it does. The rest of the time we travel with Fleetwood Mac!

Bohemian Rhapsody. I blame Wayne’s World.

Queen on any long trip.

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba as we drove through Monument Valley. Memorable in every way!

Loved when the summer school holidays started as that meant Camping in France with the kids. As soon as we left the ferry in Caen to travel somewhere south it was time to wind windows down and Leonard Cohen played.

We used to listen to the Eagles' Hotel California when travelling from the Midlands to the ferry port at Plymouth on our way to Brittany.