Ever been stuck with ONE cd or cassette on a trip?

[epbrown]

I can't be the only person this has happened to: you've got a long drive ahead of you, thru tons of areas with no radio reception, and discover you've got one CD in the car you had to play ad infinitum. What was it?

For me, there are two: when I started as a delivery driver for Domino's Pizza one of the delivery vehicles had no radio, just an 8-track with ONE tape: AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." Night after night of 8-hour shifts permanently ingrained the song list, despite the many nights I opted to listen to just road noise. No one ever admitted supplying the tape, and none of us ever tracked down something else to listen to since 8-track was long gone.

When I movd to Chicago, I loaded up the car with all my belongings and forgot my briefcase (remember those) of cassettes. There was only one tape in the car for the 8-hour drive - Hall and Oate's "H2O." Worse, when I had a free weekend, I drove home to get my cassettes, enduring another 8 hours of it, only to discover my younger brother had jacked all my cassettes ("You left'em, I figured you didn't want'em anymore!"). Since we had vastly different tastes, he'd distributed them among his friends - none could be recovered. Another 8 hours back to Chicago with Darryl and Jon. I didn't listen to that album for another 20 years.

[Joeaksa]

Took one time... Get XM and be rid of this problem!

[billybek]

Guns and Roses, Appetite For Destruction.
5 hours with two sleeping drunks in the back of a new (then) Toyota Supra.
Couldn't reach the tape case.
I was vibrating for two days after.

[Baz]

Ha ha - good stories. Not so much for me on long trips but just daily sometimes I only have 1 album and at the end of the day it is put at the back of the rotation.

Having an iPod with the road trip device is the answer. XM radio is good as well but I like having my own selections to listen to usually.

[Jim Bremner]

Ever been stuck with out 1 cd or tape?

[masraum]

I used to mostly just listen to 1 tape, but I guess never really on a long trip. The music was often background anyway. I could listen to Led Zep, Aerosmith (old stuff), etc... over and over again anyway if I had to. These days I have an iPod with what probably equates to a couple of days of music on it in the car at all times.

[pwd72s]

How about a week long elk hunting trip with my buddy's kid brother having only an 8 track of "In Ga-ga-da vida"? 4 days was all we could take...the tape "vanished".

Today? Ipod in the Mustang...over 1900 songs. I just set it to shuffle play & go.

I let the satellite radio expire. Simply don't drive the car enough to justify the $200 a year they wanted.
I mean, that's a few tanks of gas, right?

[imcarthur]

I listened to Side 3 of Jimi Hendrix's Axis Bold as Love for an entire summer night back in 1973. Over & over again (the record player's thingie was up so it went into permanent repeat). Oh yeah . . . acid was involved . . .

Kinda the same thing . . .

Ian

[rcecale]

January, 1982: Young Private First Class Cecale found himself serving on 3 long weeks of Marine Corps mess duty in the middle of the Mojave Desert: Marine Air-Ground Combat Training Center (MAGCTC) Twenty-nine Palms, California. The local radio station you could pretty much set your watch to. Same songs, every day of the week, same rotation, literally, you could set your watch by it. Got real old long before the end of the first week.

Fortunately, one of the guys I worked with found a cassette tape: Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere...how appropriate! LOL Not a huge NY fan at the time, but this was so much better than the slop they were playing on the radio. Marie Osmond's "Paper Roses" was not a song Marines were wanting to hear, out in the desert. We played it non-stop, 13 hours a day! I quickly became a fan of Mr. Young.

By the end of the third week of mess duty; two weeks of Neil Young's droning whine of wanting to live with with a Cinnamon Girl was old...no, ancient! "Down By The River", I would have been happy to shoot HIM, and let "my baby" run free! LOL

Fortunately, nobody was hurt, nobody found a "Cowgirl In The Sand" and we all returned to El Toro and a much more varied music selection on the radio. (This was long before CD's) To this day, I have a difficult time listening all the way through any song from that tape on the radio. Not to say they suck, it's just that the scar tissue is still sensitive, after all these years!

Randy

[rattlsnak]

1980, brand new custom van, complete family of 5, loaded down, heading on a family vacation. 36 hour drive from New Orleans to Quebec, then 36 hours back. 5 miles into the trip we realize that we have one cassette aboard. Journey...

We still talk about that trip to this day! Every time I hear a song from the album it brings back good memories!

[livi]

700 miles with two discs. Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks..

[Bill Douglas]

rem orange crush always make me drive WAY to fast. It's a CD I got suck with and I loved being stuck with it.

[svandamme]

i hardly ever put cd's in my car stereo anyway... it's a guaranteed way to get bored with that cd.
There's FM radio for driving, and plenty to choose from around here

[Schumi]

I once had a tape jammed in the deck of my 89 Corolla - listened to it several hundred times.

INXS - Welcome to Wherever You Are


Still love that album, not a bad track on it IMO. I bought the CD and still have it, play it on the way to work every few months.

[tevake]

Cross country trip, Fla. to LA, then Seattle. 1969, driving an MG A mid winter thru blizzardfull Texas. Mostly by myself. Occasional hitchhikers, Music two 8 tracks Janice Joplin with big brother , and Jimi Hendrix, it was a rockin trip!

Cheers Richard

[GH85Carrera]

I have one disk in my cars. It is a MP3 with over 100 CDs that I own that I ripped to it. I put it in random and forget it.

[porsche4life]

Worse is an 11hr trip with my dad, xm radio, and him in controll. We listened to '70s on 7 for way way too long...

Oh and he has worked around heavy machines most of his life, and is a bit deaf, so the radio in his pickup is always cranked up. Headphones and an Mp3 player are nearly useless.

[craigster59]

Mott The Hoople "All The Young Dudes" was stuck in my deck in high school. I still like the album even after listening to it a couple hundred times. I drove trucks when I got out of the Army, one had an 8 track deck, the only tape in the truck was The Doors "L.A. Woman", that wasn't so bad. Drove cross country and back once with 2 cassettes, Johnny Winter "Winter of "88" and David Lindley "Very, Very Greasy".

[gr8fl4porsche]

Due to satellite radio and an iPhone - no need for CD's in the car (or the house for that matter).

But here is my tip for long drives - audio books.

Pick out a good electronic audio book. Download it on the iPhone or iPad.

Plug in and watch the miles go by. I can knock out 12-13 hr drives no problem.

Usually I'm so into the book that I lay in bed at the end of the day trying to finish the story.

[vash]

did 1200 miles with 6 CD's my wife burned for me. she picked the music SHE THOUGHT i would like. it was insane.

now i just yank the sirius out of my work truck and cobble it together in my other ride. to be honest, even sat radio can get pretty repetitive.