Now that summer is officially here (thank you, Ra), road trips will predictably increase in frequency. The key to any trip in a car is music. For any of you who may doubt my expertise on this issue, let me just say (1) that hurts, (2) one summer I lived in southern Illinois and did not spend a single weekend there, meaning I logged about 7,000 miles that summer, (3) I have driven both to Ft. Lauderdale and Charleston, SC from Bloomington, Indiana and back, (4) my wife and I lived in different states for the two years before we were married, (5) I have had IU football season tickets since I graduated law school back in aught three, and (6) piss off.

Until late 2006, I had various cars where my only option for car trips was a tape player, so I made a lot of mix tapes, many of which were made solely as "driving" mixes. These "driving" mixes contained songs that were generally uptempo, often longer than four minutes, sometimes instrumental, and always awesome. It was hard to narrow them down, but here are what I consider to be the ten best.

Let me know your favorite driving songs.

(This was originally posted at https://gmyh.blogspot.com/2009/06/tuesday-top-ten-driving-songs.html)