Music and cars go together like peanut butter and jelly. Whether you roll the window down and sing to the highway, or you channel Neil Peart and drum on the steering wheel, having your jam on while driving is hard to beat.
We asked our fellow Automatic employees to give us their top 5 favorite songs to listen to on the road. We’ve collected these songs in a Spotify playlist which you can find at the bottom of the post. We’ve also linked each song to a YouTube video in case you want to sample our selection on a single serve basis.
Enjoy!
Derrick Seleska – Customer Care Specialist
“This list of songs can take care of me anywhere I am driving, whether I’m caught in traffic, hanging out with the boys, or on a back country road! I guess you have to listen to my songs to know which one is for road rage.”
- Sir Mix-a-Lot – My Posse’s on Broadway
- Pantera – Walk
- Social Distortion – When the Angels Sing
- Eminem – Rap God
- Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
Ruthie BenDor – Lead Web Engineer
“What these songs say about my driving music preferences… I have awful taste.”
- Beatles- Ticket to Ride
- Chuck Berry – No Particular Place To Go
- Dierks Bentley – What Was I Thinkin
- Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
- Big & Rich – Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
Inga Chen – Head of Automatic Fleet
“I listen to trap / hiphop / EDM while driving (and working) to 1) stay awake 2) bop/sing/dance in my seat to. It’s my natural caffeine.”
- RL Grime / What So Not – Tell Me
- Tiesto & Hardwell – Zero 76
- Dillon Francis – Get Low
- Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne – Truffle Butter
- Don Omar, Lucenzo – Danza Kaduro
Nasir Hakim – Android/iOS QA and Support Analyst
“I started listening to Bollywood music during my time at UC Berkeley because some of my Indian friends would play Indian songs during our study sessions and slowly I became really interested.”
- Bodyguard – Teri Meri
- Dhoom 3 – Kamli
- Agneepath – Chikni Chameli
- Agneepath – Gun Gun Guna
- Fanaa – Mere Haath Mein
Jennifer Tam – Operations Intern
“The songs on this list fit my mood for when I’m driving during a sunny afternoon or late at night. They are fast-paced and upbeat to keep me and my driving focused and assertive.”
- M83 – Midnight City
- Deorro – Five Hours
- Kaskade – Summer Nights
- Phantom Planet – California
- Girls’ Generation – Mr. Taxi
Arjun Mehta – Product Designer
“I generally only drive alone and when I need to get to far away places. This often makes driving an epic and introspective experience filled with seamlessly connected landscapes. To match, I’ve chosen some fairly epic, introspective songs (with their own seamless landscapes)!”
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Mladic
- Emeralds – Genetic
- Dj Shadow – In / Flux
- Barn Owl – The Opulent Decline
- MONO – The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain
But wait, there’s more!
I painstakingly put all of these songs into a palatable playlist that we’re calling “Automatic Drives, Vol. 1.” The playlist is notable for its genre diversity: you go from rap to electro to ’80s rock to Bollywood to progressive rock in just 28 tracks. Neat!
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