With summer vacations are well underway, weekend travels, or getaways before the school year begins, there is bound to be some travel as a part of your trip. Whether it's flying, driving, road-tripping, biking, swimming, boating, etc., there is a definite possibility that you need a new playlist of music to listen to while on the road/water/in the air. Don't worry, I got you covered.
As follows, a laundry list...well, not so much a list, more of a jumble of thoughts...that will give you an ultimate jam out for your next upcoming vacation, whatever it may be.
Starting off with the 'beachy' vacation...
You're on a flight to a tropical destination. You need some relaxing music before you get there to get you in the palm-tree-pina-colada-and-beaches mood. First song up is Oceans by Coasts, a summer tune that you really can't get enough of after one play. This song has been one of my favorites for years and still is.
What comes next on shuffle mode?
Heartbreaker by The Walkmen. A bit of a different tone, but enough to get your mind racing with thoughts. This one will keep you up and groovin' in your airplane seat. Along with Million Dollar Bills by Lorde. Wow, what a woman, and what a song. Following these, Worry by Little Comets, except you won't be worrying once this vacation, amirite! Next up, Pressure by Youngblood Hawks, and then Tapioca by New Navy.
At this point, you're singing out loud, and the guy in the window seat next to you is silently wishing you would have just watched a quiet movie and leave him be. Not this time buddy! You're too busy listening to Let's Dance by David Bowie, Deadroses by Blackbear, I Know A Place by MUNA, It's Only (feat. Zyra) by ODESZA, and finally, No Control by One Direction, to top it all off. After about a half hour, you should be dozing off with Ghost Stories (entire album) by Coldplay lowly playing in the background. Enjoy sweet dreams of sunbathing before you reach your destination!!
If not the beach, you're going on a sight-seeing vacation...
This mini-list is actually helping me out as well, considering in less than two weeks I will be on my way to Portugal before going back to school! These jams are a bunch that I'm picking out of my favorites to get me in the mood of days filled with sight-seeing.
Starting it off, obviously, with Portugal by Walk The Moon. (I love this song more than life.) Up next, Drive All Night by NEEDTOBREATHE, which is a heavy guitar song that puts me in the best mood every time I listen to it. Wild Ride by Jimkata, a cool, trippy song that makes you imagine yourself in a cartoon-fictional world.
At least I feel that way. A classic, Roxanne by The Police, to put you in a nice head space. Running On Empty by Jackson Browne, Heat Of The Moment by Asia, Back Down South by Kings of Leon, Starlight by Matt Cardle, and Lost! by Coldplay are all hits that should make their way on shuffle at some point. It's the feel-good music that makes you forget about the nasty jet-lag you may have and the quality leg room you were missing out on for a few hours.
