Key Spins: Key Trips (Night)
This is Part 2 of a two episode series of 100 songs for road tripping or club hopping. Part 1 is Key Trips (Day).
The dashboard glowed a soft blue as the wipers kept time with the rhythm of the rain. Outside, the world blurred into streaks of neon and shadow—streetlights stretching like liquid gold across the wet asphalt.
While Key Spins: Trips (Day) was about open roads, driving beats and fun lyrics, about the music imprinting on the scenary, Night is about the smearing of dark and artificial light, about rain and the moon at night, and the music that makes this the best canvas.
Rain demands The Blue Nile. It’s science.
Rain falls. Windows blur. The interior lights, orange with electricity, and the dancers in pas de bourrée drip with the rain on the corner studio flying by. Lightning cracks. Thunder roars. Both in time, like their footsteps, signal minimal distance to the strike. Song starts. Synths rise. Drive like an eagle my friend.
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The Songs
Bring your rain coat. Here are the 50 songs for your night drive.
Steve Miller Band – Space Intro
Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
The Avalanches, Rivers Cuomo, Pink Siifu – Running Red Lights
SPARKLING, Digitalism – Keep Running
Clan of Xymox – A Day
M83 – We Own The Sky
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Perfume Genius – Spitting Off the Edge of the World
Ladytron – Flicking Your Switch
Julee Cruise – Rockin' Back Inside My Heart
The Doors – Riders on the Storm
10cc – I'm Not In Love
Uriah Heep – Stealin'
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
The Psychedelic Furs – Heartbreak Beat
The Lone Bellow – Honey
Future Islands – Back in the Tall Grass
The War On Drugs, Lucius – I Don't Live Here Anymore
The 1975 – Somebody Else
Brian Eno, John Cale – Spinning Away
The Knife – Heartbeats
Cocteau Twins – Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops
Amon Tobin – Slowly
Section 25 – Looking from a Hilltop (Megamix)
Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
Trentemøller – Evil Dub
Tricky, Martina Topley-Bird – Hell Is Round The Corner
Red House Painters – Medicine Bottle
Kepler – I'm a Parade
The Blue Nile – Let's Go Out Tonight
Andy Bell – madder lake deep
The Church – Under the Milky Way
Washed Out – Eyes Be Closed
Interpol – Untitled
my bloody valentine – Sometimes
Wolfsheim – Kein Zurück
Vampire Sound Inc., Sigi Schwab, Manfred Hübler – The Lions and the Cucumber
Jean-Pierre Mirouze – Sexopolis
Echo & the Bunnymen – Back of Love
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound
Tame Impala – New Person Same Old Mistakes
ODESZA, MARO – Better Now
Soulwax – Run Free
Tahiti 80 – Lost in the Sound
Classixx – Holding On
Underworld – and the colour red
Tone Of Arc – Goodbye Horses
Steely Dan – Deacon Blues
Chromatics – Shadow
The Cars – Drive
Pink Floyd – Breathe (In the Air)
Miss Part 1? See Key Spins: Key Trips (Day)