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Flashback! Party Sequence


[please don't drink and drive]

The week is SXSW, St. Patrick’s Day and Spring Break, which are three huge reasons to what? Road trip, or as I like to say, Bro Trip.

When the night sets in, drivers on the road wear thin, your pals pass out and you’re battling drowsiness, a great playlist is key towards making it another hundred miles or so. This week’s Flashback! Party Sequence is dedicated to the drivers traversing new territory this week. Good luck, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

To start is one of the greatest travel songs of all time, as dubbed by Wes Anderson. Hot off the Darjeeling Limited soundtrack is the Kinks’ “This Time Tomorrow,” moments this epic can only happen once per day.

Just because an epic Kinks moment can only happen once per day doesn’t mean that these memory-makers are over, we’ve got lots of eras to cover! Another awesome and universal roadtrip tune is the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Today.” Yes, the song may be written about suicide, but when you compose a piece that gets as Titanic as this it really belongs to our global society for interpretation, lets just say it’s about a roadtrip that will change your life.

But, as far as road trips go, nothing beats a great time with your pals and, of course, Neil Patrick Harris.

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay: Driving with NPH

FMLY’s Road Trippin’ MiniMixtape
The Kinks – This Time Tomorrow
The Smashing Pumpkins – Today
The Thermals – Our Trip
Adventure – Travel Kid
Peter & The Wolf – Safe Travels
Fruit Bats – Traveler’s Song
Animal Collective – Sweet Road
Nephews – Sorefinger Road (Live on FMLY Radio)
The Robot Ate Me – On Vacation
nordloef – these streets belong to us

Related:
F!PS 14 – Hole, Baby Bash, Boyz II Men, Coolio
F!PS 13 – Pharoahe Monch, Blackstreet, Ginuwine, Klaxons (covering Blackstreet)

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I take off on an 1800mi road trip to SXSW in several hours, so farewell for the next week or so. Gray and Matte will continue to keep your ears occupied.

Will the Kinks be "Top of the Pops"?

According to the BBC, The Kinks are three quarters of the way to reuniting. Lead singer Ray Davies says that his main concern is that they don’t just do their old songs. “My pitch to the other guys in the band – because I’m really for it – was what would we have written if we hadn’t have had our first hit, You Really Got Me?” he said. Although in history, they aren’t seen as the most groundbreaking band of the time they are certainly one of the most influential. I don’t know if there is a better time for them to come back, with their songs always appearing in great soundtracks like The Darjeeling Limited Soundtrack and Juno’s soundtrack and so many bands owing their sound to The Kinks. “The amazing thing is that The Kinks are the only band, of that period, where the only original members are still alive,” Ray Davies added. I can’t wait to see what The Kinks have to offer and you can guarantee I will be in the front row at the reunion. The Kinks last performance was in 1996.

The Kinks – Strangers