By Jeff Glucker
You sit down in your car. The seatbelt is latched and you turn the ignition. There’s a destination waiting for you and the road ahead beckons. But there’s a problem, or not depending on your outlook. The audio system in the car is malfunctioning. It can only play one song, over and over. You can’t turn it off, only change the volume up and down and you cannot change the track. The road waits for no one so you set off.
What song is playing that makes you think “This is going to be a good trip…”
This is a weird question but I find myself going down a musical rabbit hole this morning. Wandering into some 90’s nostalgia and transitioning over to older stuff, I’m not sure my mind is made up yet. I vacillate between two songs:
and:
What song are you hoping is stuck on play for your road trip?
Kamil Kaluski 
Robby DeGraff 
Ross Ballot
4’33”.
But who’s your favorite performer? I’m kind of partial to Frank Zappa’s version, although that performance by the cat on Colbert was spot on.
Hard to say. The DJ has never announced that on any of my blanking plates.
Had to look that one up. That’s… different.
There’s more to it, but basically it’s supposed to be an appreciation of ambient noise.
Weirdly, I can -and have- just listened to the same song on repeat. And I’ve done it more than once. Stones “Loving Cup”, Van Morrison’s “St Dominic’s Preview” and just a few weeks ago, coming back from the cabin, for 2 hours I only played this:
Not quite the question, but I had a borrowed CD get stuck in an old car (Luke Doucet, a Canadian indie folk artist), it had a cover of Gordon Lightfoot’s Sundown I liked enough that I’d typically switch to it whenever I got sick of whatever was on terrestrial radio.
That said, just one song on endless repeat? I’d skew towards something longer, maybe a little more ambient. I’m sure I could come up with better examples, but at over 22 minutes long (and thematically really relevant for road tripping), Autobahn by Kraftwerk would work ni