Road Trip to Astoria
Eighty-three tracks for the long drive to Astoria — the cruising-speed companion to the ‘in’ tape, programmed for the back half of a multi-hour highway run. Coldplay anchors the stadium-pop pacing that fills hour-long stretches; Red Hot Chili Peppers brings the alt-rock road-canon ballast; Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers handles the classic-rock open-window run; AC/DC drops in for the truck-stop wake-up moments where the energy needs a hard reset. Sequenced for sustained 70-mph listening — fewer hard cuts, longer song lengths, the kind of run that lets the driver forget to skip. The ‘still driving’ tape.