You Don’t Need Another Playlist after This! The Best English Road Trip Songs Right Here

Road trips with family and friends are a great chance to spend some quality time with one another. The company is amazing and the upcoming vacation already has you in high spirits- all that you need now is the right music to get you there. No time to compile a playlist? Look no further- We have the best English road trip songs right here for you!

1. Mustang Sally — The Commitments

Get the beat going as you hit the road with this evergreen number!

 

 

2. Start Me Up — The Rolling Stones

Fan of the classics? Make sure you have some Rolling Stones on your playlist.

 

3. Hit the road — Jack Ray Charles

There is a little bit of jazz in all of us. Sing along with this hip number from the 1920s.

 

4. Highway to Hell — AC/DC

This is the song to play when the window panes are down and everyone in the car is singing at the top of their voice, giving chorus to all the commotion.

 

5. Paradise — Coldplay

As the mood turns a little sombre, it is time for some reflection with the soothing voice of Chris Martin.

 

6. Here I am — Bryan Adams

This is the song to steal a kiss and hold her hand as you glide off into the sunset.

 

7. I Drove All Night — Celine Dion

A favourite of any girl gang, Celine Dion rises the temperature as the tempo picks up with this upbeat number.

 

8. Shut Up and Drive — Rihanna

Change gears and push down the accelerator when this one comes over the speakers.

 

9. A Thousand Miles — Vanessa Carlton

This is one song the entire girl gang will sing along to.

If I could fall into the sky
Do you think time would pass me by?
'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles
If I could just see you tonight

 

10. Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd

A little bit blues, a little bit country, and a whole lot of guitar-driven hard rock- Sweet Home Alabama has a bit of everything.

 

11. Where the Streets Have No Name — U2

An old one from U2’s glory days, this song has inspired many highway warriors to venture out to those places where the streets truly have no name.

 

12. Here I Go Again — Whitesnake

This power ballad works better on an open road. Just crank up the stereo and sing along-

An' I've made up my mind,
I ain't wasting no more time
But, here I go again
Here I go again

 

13. Paradise City — Guns N’ Roses

Don’t tell me you haven’t heard this one! No? Cue it up right now!

Take me down to the paradise city
Where the grass is green and the girls are pretty
Take me home (oh won't you please take me home)

 

14. Hotel California — Eagles

With its very apt lyrics, this is the ultimate road trip song. Rest one hand on the steering and the other on your open window and let the best guitar coda ever, wash over you.

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air

 

15. Lenny Kravitz — Ain't No Sunshine

A testimony to the women we have loved and the women we have lost- There ain’t no sunshine when she is gone.

 

16. Home — Chris Daughtry

Well I'm going home,
Back to the place where I belong,
And where your love has always been enough for me

When the adventures of your memorable road trip are over, let this one lead you back home.

If you could take the top down and cruise along the interstate for a vacation, would you take off now? I would!