1995 Coast-to-Coast Roadtrip in Your Father's 1991 Buick Roadmaster Wagon

• Regina Scime +1
• SamRobertsND +1 — Classic and contemplative, premier night driving on the range
• judd.baker +1
• Brad Stalcup +1
• Edward James +1 — I was not going to vote for this, but it just hits right especially when you think about driving through the western desert at night
• shea nowicki +1 — An immaculate vibe. I want to come along for the ride!
• Sam Ary +1
• Corey +1
• fionmul 0 — I think most people clocked that it should be 90s even tho it doesn’t have to be that late… so I’m gonna defer to the majority here
• Joseph Harvey -1

• fionmul +2 — No notes.
• ared56 +1
• Brad Stalcup +1 — What a great driving song.
• Joseph Harvey +1
• Edward James +1 — 100% yes. This is exactly how this theme sits in my mind. Also, this song is the GOAT for literally having an entire verse that’s just the opening of “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan. That makes 2 songs in this playlist that prove the theory that every musician since 1965 is just trying to be Bob Dylan.
• Sam Ary +1
• SamRobertsND 0 — Good, but others beat it. Sorry.

• Corey +3 — It's quite literally perfect.
• Regina Scime +1
• ared56 +1
• Claire +1 — This is of course the canonical road trip song on how I met your mother and that’s all I can really think of when listening to this song in this round. I feel like it could be moderately annoying as a road trip song but if it’s late enough in the day and you’re the perfect amount of cracked/slap happy, it could absolutely hit
• shea nowicki +1
• SamRobertsND 0 — You’re lucky there was an anachronism to tank the downvote
• Brad Stalcup 0 — I used to blast this and shout DAH-DAH-DAH-DAH at the chorus as loud as I could during my first year of teaching. Plus it's actually a pretty heartfelt song.
• fionmul 0 — I just hate it too much. But I dont downvote because I acknowledge this fits
• Joseph Harvey 0 — Imagine going on a coast to coast roadtrip and this is the only song you can play
• Edward James 0 — Sorry Brad, but no

Joseph Harvey: The last week of senior year, your high school sweetheart broke up with you. Heartbroken, you set out with your best friend from your childhood home in the suburbs of LA on a summer-long roadtrip to nowhere in particular in the family wagon. As the dying sun sets the canyon walls ablaze and you settle in for a long night on the road, this song comes on on the radio.

• judd.baker +1
• fionmul +1 — Compelling story here but Radiohead just isn’t a thing for my fam until more recently.
• Claire +1 — Is it really a road trip if you don’t sink into a melancholy reverie at some point?
• shea nowicki +1 — This is everything hahaha
• Sam Ary +1
• SamRobertsND 0 — Nice story, not a fan of the band.
• Edward James 0 — This was actually good, which I was sad to learn. Never been a big Radiohead guy, but props to Thom Yorke and whatnot
• Corey -1 — This may just be me, but when I hear Radiohead, I think more of a cold urban hallway than a road trip.

• Regina Scime +1
• ared56 +1
• SamRobertsND +1 — Getting out of city traffic and accelerating down the open interstate vibe. Thematically on point too
• Brad Stalcup +1 — This song deserves a boat because 1. I would definitely expect my dad to have put it on 2. I would listen to this even in the absence of my dad
• Joseph Harvey +1
• fionmul 0 — I had never heard this. It seems to fit the vibe pretty well. I will say, however, that I wished it were at least a minute shorter.
• judd.baker -1

shea nowicki: My dad picked this song hahaha

• judd.baker +1
• Brad Stalcup +1
• fionmul +1 — And he cooked
• Claire +1 — Your dad cooked with this one. Perfect vibe for driving through the CA mountains
• SamRobertsND 0 — Dad should get better taste
• Edward James 0 — I’ve just never really liked this song. Can’t describe exactly why, since by all accounts it’s very good

fionmul: 😌

• SamRobertsND +1 — Britta’s marrying, Britta’s marrying, Britta’s marrying Jeffrey Winger!
• Joseph Harvey +1 — Classic
• Claire +1 — It’s just a perfect song in general. But also perfect for driving with the windows down, reveling in the freedom of the open road, which to me was really the litmus test this round
• shea nowicki +1
• fionmul 0 — I really went a different direction. Should have asked my dad. But this is road-trip to me and the right era. But not American so my b? But maybe it’s the Irish coasts hehe my parents were in Ireland in September 1995
• Edward James 0 — Yes, of course, but also not the vibe I was imagining. If you downvoted this, know that Joe Torma knows it was you and he felt it personally
• Regina Scime -1 — Sorry, I just needed to downvote something
• Brad Stalcup -1

• judd.baker +1
• Edward James +1 — Heck yeah. Absolutely. This to me is such a road trip vibe. Also the 2nd Bob Dylan shoutout, props for that.
• SamRobertsND 0 — Brad?
• fionmul 0 — This was OK and then it got worse and I got annoyed by it

• Edward James +1 — I have to assume this is Sammy’s return to music league, and he understands what no one else in this group does. And that’s that in 1995 if you were road tripping across America, you were listening to Garth Brooks.
• SamRobertsND 0 — Lovely song, I like the idea of thinking about life on a road trip.
• Brad Stalcup 0 — What kind of sappy relationship do you expect me to have with my dad? Some kind of emotional connection?
• fionmul 0 — This is cute and it’s the sort of country song my family listens to from this era
• Joseph Harvey 0 — Loved the subversion of expectations in this
• shea nowicki 0 — It's a me problem! I'm sorry!

• Sam Ary +1
• SamRobertsND 0 — Sorry, folks, the park is closed. The moose out front shoulda told ya.
• fionmul 0 — Ok so you submitted the 2024 remaster? SMH. Jk but would love to hear all these on cassette 😔🤌🏽
• Joseph Harvey 0 — Unmemorable
• Edward James 0 — This is a banger, especially for being barely 2 min long. But not the vibe for me.

Edward James: Some of you might be too young to fully comprehend the stranglehold this song had on the entire decade of the 1990s. Doesn’t matter if your parents stopped listening to new music in 1987, they were listening to this.

• SamRobertsND +1 — Fantastic, I’d absolutely listen to this during the sunset/night driving portions
• Brad Stalcup 0 — This would be a great cruising song. Tempting.
• Joseph Harvey 0 — I don’t know it’s a great fit, but it’s a vibe
• ared56 -1
• fionmul -1 — No me gusta and toooo long

• Regina Scime +1
• ared56 +1
• Joseph Harvey +1
• fionmul 0 — Not from the 90s so I’m confused but it isn’t a terrible fit.
• SamRobertsND -1 — I like the absurdism of the pick but nothing else
• Claire -1 — I like the song well enough but downvote on grounds of anachronism
• Edward James -1 — This song came out in 2013
• shea nowicki -1 — Hahah, I love everything absolutely about this song, but gotta downvote it for the sake of historical accuracy (released 2013)
• Sam Ary -1