Update! MUSICAL CHAIRS: ENTRY #3 — ROAD TRIP

Here are all of the songs listed so far!

HI Everyone!

Here is a list of all of the songs contributed! (minus playlist from Spotify and my carpool list. Sorry not sorry.)

Hopefully you guys can copy and paste the list to what ever platform you use.

If any one has any other suggestions I’m all ears!

🟡 Happy / Light / Free

• Van Morrison – Golden Autumn Day

• Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia

• Fleetwood Mac – Dreams

• Vulfpeck – (multiple tracks implied)

• Led Zeppelin – Communication Breakdown

• Led Zeppelin – Kashmir

• Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song

• Kanye West – Flashing Lights

• Talib Kweli – Get By

• Billy Joel – Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)

• The Animals – House of the Rising Sun

• Stolen Dance – Milky Chance

• Riptide – Vance Joy

• Midnight City – M83

• Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John

• What You Know – Two Door Cinema Club

• This Is The Life – Two Door Cinema Club

• Love Me – The 1975

• Float On – Modest Mouse

• She Moves In Her Own Way – The Kooks

• Happy Like You – Empire Of The Sun

• Living My Life (Golden) – Higgo / Jill Scott

• You Can Call Me Al – Paul Simon

• Blinding Lights – The Weeknd

• Beautiful Things – Benson Boone

• September – Earth, Wind & Fire

• Levitating – Dua Lipa

• Fireflies – Owl City

• Bird and the Worm – Owl City

• Cave In – Owl City

• Umbrella Beach – Owl City

• Casita – Goth Babe

• love music, pt. 1 – Ren

• love music, pt. 2 – Ren

• Clint Eastwood – Gorillaz

• Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz

• Free Falling – Tom Petty

• Ironic – Alanis Morissette

• Another Day of Sun – La La Land OST

• Baby Now That I’ve Found You – The Foundations

• Waters of March – Basia

• Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra

• We Didn’t Start The Fire – Billy Joel

• The Reeling – Passion Pit

• Tourist History – Two Door Cinema Club (album)

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🔵 Sad / Heavy / Alone

• Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy in New York

• Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness

• The Beatles – Here Comes the Sun

• The Beatles – I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

• The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby

• The Beatles – For No One

• The Beatles – She’s Leaving Home

• The Beatles – I’m So Tired

• The Beatles – Julia

• The Beatles – Golden Slumbers

• The Beatles – Long, Long, Long

• R.E.M. – Losing My Religion

• Feist – The Limit to Your Love

• Cat Power – Metal Heart

• Alela Diane – Take Us Back

• Keep the Wolves Away – Uncle Lucius

• The Wolves (Act I and II) – Bon Iver

• Somebody Else – The 1975

• Wait – M83

• Skinny Love – Bon Iver

• Space Song – Beach House

• Wash – Bon Iver

• Give Me Love – Ed Sheeran

• I Should Live In Salt – The National

• Don’t Delete The Kisses – Wolf Alice

• The Drugs Don’t Work – The Verve

• People Help the People – Birdy

• Another Love – Tom Odell

• Tracy Chapman – Fast Car

• Erik Satie – Gymnopédie No.1

• This Isn’t The End – Owl City

• My Everything – Owl City

• You’re Not Alone – Owl City

• Mountains of My Mind – Chris Stapleton

• Lying to Myself – Portair

• Overwhelmed – Royal & the Serpent

• Lonely – Noah Cyrus

• Mean It – Gracie Abrams

• It Is What It Is – Abe Parker

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🔴 Angry / Powered Up (Solo Only)

• Rage Against the Machine – Killing In The Name

• Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade

• Rage Against the Machine – Guerrilla Radio

• Rage Against the Machine – Wake Up

• Rage Against the Machine – Testify

• Eminem – The Way I Am

• Run the Jewels (feat. Zack de la Rocha) – Close Your Eyes (and Count to F***)

• Tyler, The Creator – NEW MAGIC WAND

• Joyner Lucas – I’m Not Racist

• What Kind of Man – Florence & The Machine

• Head Like A Hole – Nine Inch Nails

• Take Me To Church – Hozier

• Drown – Bring Me The Horizon

• Jungle – X Ambassadors

• Sail – Awolnation

• The Unforgiven – Metallica

• Right Here, Right Now (Camelphat Remix) – Fatboy Slim / Camelphat

• Set Fire to the Rain – Adele

• Gives You Hell – The All-American Rejects

• Fresh On a Leash – Korn

• Dirty Pop – *NSYNC

• Midsummer Station – Owl City (album)

• Messy – Lola Young

• Therefore I Am – Billie Eilish

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🟣 Group / Friends / Joyride / Carpool Karaoke

• Billy Joel – Piano Man

• Tongue Tied – Grouplove

• Safe & Sound – Capital Cities

• Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood

• Renegades – X Ambassadors

• Chocolate – The 1975

• Shut Up and Dance – Walk The Moon

• Pompeii – Bastille

• It’s Time – Imagine Dragons

• Mr. Brightside – The Killers

• Love Shack – The B-52s

• Girls Just Want To Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper

• Livin’ La Vida Loca – Ricky Martin

• Usher – Yeah!

• Phoenix – Lisztomania

• Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso – Tiny Desk Concert

• When Can I See You Again – Owl City

• Good Time – Owl City

• Cinematic – Owl City (album)

• Green Green Grass – George Ezra

• Bunk by the Beach – Connor Kelly & The Time Warp

• Riptide – Vance Joy

• Life is a Highway – Rascal Flatts

• Electric Love – BØRNS

• Classic – MKTO

• Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey

• Surfin’ U.S.A. – The Beach Boys

• Ain’t It Fun – Paramore

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⚪️ [Bonus] Kids in the Car

• Big Black Car – Gregory Alan Isakov

• The Walker – Fitz and The Tantrums

• The Sound – The 1975

• Pumped Up Kicks – Foster The People

• Home – Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

• Paradise – Coldplay

• Let It Go – Frozen OST

• Let It Go (rock version) – Frozen OST

• Laurie Berkner – (any/all songs)

• Adam, Check Please – Owl City

• Dinosaur Park – Owl City

• Under the Circus Lights – Owl City

• Field Notes – Owl City

• Patrick Stump & Disney Junior – Super Hero

• Adam Levine – Good Mood

• Postman Pat Theme Song – (classic version)

🎭 INTRO — WHY WE DRIVE

Some people drive to get somewhere.
Some drive to get away.
Or to remember.
Or to forget.
Or just because the road is the only place where the noise in your head finally matches the sound outside it.

This isn’t a playlist for driving.
This is a playlist about driving.

Not just the destination — the reason.

→ Why you got in the car
→ Why you didn’t turn around
→ Why music felt like the only thing holding the wheel with you

Because the truth is: most of us don’t remember the actual roads.
We remember the songs.

The chorus we sang when the sun hit the window just right.
The verse we cried through three times before even hitting the freeway.
The bass drop that made the whole car yell in unison.

This isn’t about genre.
This isn’t about hits.
This is about emotional GPS.

Where were you when that song came on?
And what version of you did it bring to the surface?

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🫠 Now, a quick confession...

Honestly?
I bit off more than I could chew trying to structure this like the last scroll.
I had buckets, categories, tones... a whole emotional grid planned.

And then somewhere around Track 27 I just started throwing sh*t at the wall.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m not the narrator here.
I’m a participant.
Another passenger spinning the aux dial too fast and pretending it’s a map.

So yeah — some of this is organized.
And some of it? Pure momentum.

That’s how driving works too, right?

You start with directions.
Then you miss a turn.
Then the song saves you anyway.

So here we go.
Pick a chair.
Turn it up.

Let’s drive.

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🪑 THE BUCKETS (aka, Why You’re Really Driving)

Let’s be honest — the car isn’t just a vehicle. It’s a confession booth, a stage, an escape hatch, a safe zone.

So we broke this scroll down not by genre, not by mood, but by mission.

These are the five reasons people drive.
And the songs that follow them wherever they go.

1. 🟡 Happy / Light / Free
   → “Nothing’s wrong. Let’s keep it that way.”

2. 🔵 Sad / Heavy / Alone
   → “The world didn’t stop — but I needed to.”

3. 🔴 Angry / Powered Up (Solo Only)
   → “No one’s allowed in this car but the rage and the playlist.”

4. 🟣 Group / Friends / Joyride/Carpool Karaoke
   → “We won’t remember where we went — just how it felt.”

5. ⚪️ [Bonus] Kids in the Car
   → “They’re still awake. You need music that saves the day and your sanity.”

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This scroll isn’t just about sharing songs.
It’s about naming where those songs take you — and why you keep going back.

Not every track will belong to everyone.
But every song that made it here meant something real to someone.

So don’t just pick a song.
Pick a chair.

Then tell us:

• 🎵 What’s the song?

• 🪑 Why does it belong in that bucket?

• 🧠 What does it still do to you?

Some tracks will clear your head.
Others will pull you apart.
A few might save your life a little.

And the best ones?
They’ll make the whole car go quiet — just for a second — because everyone feels it.

💬 When you’re ready, drop your additions in the comments.
Not just to share… but to chart the route.

Because the road only gets better when we build the map together.
And the best playlists aren't just music.
They're memory.

Let’s drive.

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🪑 BUCKET ONE — 🟡 Happy / Light / Free

Windows down. No pressure. Just motion and sky. The days that feel like songs before the chorus even hits.

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Ok — so once again I’m starting with a bit of a cop-out.
Classic rock is probably my favorite genre of music.
That’s not exactly a twist.

But when it comes to “happy driving” songs, it gets personal fast.
The songs I love most are situational — mood-locked, memory-tied, seasonal even.
So it’s hard for me to build one long vibe.
What feels right in October doesn’t always hit in June.
And what sounded like freedom at 17 might now feel like a goodbye.

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🍂🕶️ Vibe Seasons: Cool vs. Hot

Because winter is just Christmas noise and spring never fully lands. So I cut the year into two emotional zones — not four.

❄️ Cool Season = Fall + Spring

This is when the air feels clearer.
You drive slower on purpose.
Your head’s quieter. Your music’s warmer — not loud, just deep.
Acoustic hits harder. So does classic rock with a little dust on it.

This is Van Morrison mode.
Simon & Garfunkel weather.
The windows are cracked, not down. The light’s gold, not blinding.

"This is what I’d plant in autumn — and what I replay when the frost lifts."

🎵 Van Morrison – Golden Autumn Day
You can feel the trees thinning.
You’re not racing anywhere.
You’re just coasting through the soft light — soundtrack trailing behind you like breath.

🎵 Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
A playful song, but underneath it, a wistful kind of lightness.
It feels like laughing even while something’s slipping away.
Fall, again.

🎵 Fleetwood Mac – Dreams

“Now here you go again, you say you want your freedom…”

This song isn’t for crying.
It’s not for singing at the top of your lungs.
It’s for drifting.

Windows cracked. Head tilted.
You're not in a hurry. You're not numb.
You're just coasting on memory, confidence, and maybe a little detachment.

It’s vibing without reaching.
No destination. Just motion and mood.

Whether you’re on a long solo loop or rolling out at sunset with nowhere to be —
this is cruise-control emotion.

Scroll tag:
Emotional breeze with bassline flotation.

🪩 Funk for the Road — The Joy Seat

Some grooves are meant to be shared. Others are made for solo grins at 45mph. This chair is for both.

Funk doesn’t always shout.
Sometimes it smirks.
And the best funk for driving? It doesn’t ask for attention — it just owns the space it lands in.

This isn’t the funk that demands dance floors.
It’s the funk that makes every turn signal feel like a backbeat.

🎧 Enter Vulfpeck

The most underappreciated modern funk band you’ve probably already heard without realizing how much you liked it.

They’re tight.
They’re awkward.
They’re alarmingly clean without ever feeling stiff.

Their music doesn’t beg.
It slides.

Where most bands chase the groove, Vulfpeck sits inside it like they were born there.

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☀️ Hot Season = Summer

This is when the songs take over.
The drums drive.
You feel like you’re stealing time.

This is Zeppelin season.

Everything’s turned up.
The basslines sweat.
You’re not thinking about how the song makes you feel — you’re just moving with it.

“The tones shift. The drums start doing the driving.”

🎵 Led Zeppelin – Communication Breakdown
Track one from the discography — and the engine's already overheating.
This is summer’s speed.
This is the sweat-in-your-eyes drive.

🎵 Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
Oppressive heat, but regal.
It’s like your AC’s busted and you’re seventeen, broke, cruising nowhere in style.

🎵 Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
You don’t just drive to this.
You invade suburbia.
You blast it out the window and let the scream do the steering.

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🌇 Rap Mode: Theatrical Confidence

🎵 Kanye West – Flashing Lights
Kanye introduced the rap-as-opera lane to my drive.
It’s not just bars — it’s set design.
Even now, the beat makes me sit straighter.
Windows down, ego up.

It blends disco, strings, and synth in a way that doesn’t ask to be cool.
It assumes it is.
And when you’re driving? You ride that certainty.

🎵 Talib Kweli – Get By
This is what I cue when I want the verses to carry me.
Rap that doesn’t rush — it builds.
It doesn’t beg for joy. It works for it.

When I lock into this zone — this dense, lyrical lane — I usually don’t change genres.
I’m locked in.

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🛣 Transitional Tracks — Driving Forward, Not Inward

🎵 Billy Joel – Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song)
I remember graduating college.
I was moving out of my apartment, that chapter closing.
I didn’t choose this track.
It found me.
I opened the window and hit play.
It was a moving day — but the drive was the real goodbye.

🎵 The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
This one isn’t “happy.”
It’s forward-facing.
The type of song that clears a path in front of you — not behind.

Same with bands like The Beatles, The Eagles, Chicago…
They don’t quite fit in the angry or sad buckets for me.
They project motion — and that’s what this chair is about.

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Final Thought:

I know this isn’t a perfect “vibe.”
I drive by season and emotion.
Some songs carry heat. Some carry leaves.
But windows down?
These are the ones that feel like they blast it all back out through the glass.

This chair isn’t polished.
It’s real.
That’s why it spins.

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🪑 BUCKET TWO — 🔵 Sad / Heavy / Alone

Not okay, but driving is easier than talking. You're not crying on the floor — you're moving forward with the weight in the passenger seat.

🎵 Simon & Garfunkel – The Only Living Boy in New York

This is probably my favorite Simon & Garfunkel song.
It rides that line between happy and sad —
but I’m putting it in the Sad bucket because that’s when I reach for it.

It’s the kind of track I play when I’m already feeling low,
but want to find my way out.
It doesn’t force hope — it grows toward it.
Starts in that lonely, reflective space… and slowly expands outward.

“I can gather all the news I need on the weather report…”

It’s soft, but never weak.
Gentle, but not lost.
It’s sadness with sunlight in it.

Honestly, Simon & Garfunkel are just incredible mood-driving material —
always leaning toward melancholy, but never dragging you down.

Scroll tag:
Driving alone doesn’t always mean getting stuck there.

🎵 Pursuit of Happiness — Kid Cudi

“Tell me what you know about dreams…”

On paper? This looks like a freedom song.
But the deeper you listen, the more it becomes something else.

This isn’t a victory lap — it’s a ghost chase.

Cudi’s not celebrating. He’s coping.
He’s singing about numbness and needing escape.
He’s pretending to be high on life, but really?

“Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold…”

It’s the party-aftershock anthem.
The fake smile on the drive home.
You blast it, but you’re not dancing — you’re burning off silence.

Some songs scream sadness.
This one just hides it behind a strobe light.

Why it’s here:
Because this is what sadness sounds like when you refuse to call it that.

🎵 Here Comes the Sun — The Beatles

“It’s been a long, cold, lonely winter…”

This one seems out of place, right?
It’s warm. It’s soft. It smiles.

But that opening line hits different when you’re already tired.
When hope arrives late. When the sun shows up after you stopped expecting it.

It’s the song version of someone saying, “You’re okay now,”
right as your voice breaks trying to believe it.

You play this one when you’re driving through grief — not out of it.
When you need to be reminded that light returns,
but it doesn’t erase what the dark did to you.

Why it’s here:
Because healing feels good… and also hurts.

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🎧 SUB-CHAIR — The Beatles' Sadness Sequence

A map of feeling, drawn across decades, by the only band that gave sadness that many names.

🎵 I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

“I want you... I want you so bad... it’s driving me mad…”

This song isn’t about lyrics.
It’s about weight.

There are almost no words in it — just repetition and collapse.
But every time the same phrase comes back, it hits differently.
The meaning changes. The ache builds.
The beat changes, the rhythm shifts, the tone rolls like a boulder.

It swings. It blueses. It drags. It crushes.

This is what wallowing sounds like when you’re still moving forward.
It’s a sad drive, but not the kind where you cry.
It’s the kind where you grip the wheel tight, turn the volume up, and let the song carry the part of you that can’t speak yet.

There’s no resolution.
No final verse.
Just a long build… and then cut.

Why it’s here:
Because longing doesn’t always need closure — sometimes it just needs to be heard out loud until it silences itself.

🧭 The Rest of the Map — Sadness, Refracted

I’m not separating these songs because they’re the same.
I’m grouping them because they’re so f*ing different**.

The Beatles are my favorite band because they didn’t just write about love —
they mapped emotion.

Across decades.
Across styles.
Across entire generations of men who were never taught how to say these things out loud.

And sadness?
They hit it from every angle.

• The lonely — Eleanor Rigby

• The abandoned — For No One

• The misunderstood — She’s Leaving Home

• The exhausted — I’m So Tired

• The surreal — Julia

• The elegiac — Golden Slumbers

• The ghost-haunted — Long, Long, Long

Each one deserves its own chair.
But together, they form a sadness constellation —
a map of everything we lost on the way to becoming someone else.

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🎵 Losing My Religion – R.E.M.

“That was just a dream... just a dream... just a dream.”

This isn’t a breakup song.
It’s a breakdown song.

Not loud. Not violent. Just a slow, spiraling unravel.
Of hope. Of identity. Of believing you're still wanted.

Michael Stipe isn’t singing about God — he’s singing about being misunderstood.
About saying too much, then wishing you could take it back.
About holding on too long to something that was never actually promised to you.

This is for the kind of sadness that doesn’t come from loss,
but from realizing you never had it in the first place.

“Every whisper / of every waking hour…”

It’s overthinking, in 6/8 time.
It’s spiritual claustrophobia.
It’s what happens when longing curdles into emotional vertigo.

Why it’s here:
Because sometimes you’re not heartbroken — just unmoored.
And nothing explains that like this song does.

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🎧 SUB-CHAIR: Women Who Don’t Wallow

I don’t even know why I like these.
I don’t go looking for sad female vocals.
In fact, most of the time I skip them — not because I think they’re bad…
but because I can’t breathe in them.

Some singers want you to feel everything with them.
But sometimes I just need a voice that feels something next to me,
quietly, like a passenger who doesn't need to talk.

And somehow… these hit.
I didn’t expect to keep them.
But I didn’t turn them off.

They don’t ask for anything.
They just understand something I didn’t know I was carrying.

So here they are — the ones that stayed.

🎵 Feist – The Limit to Your Love

It’s not emotional. It’s clinical.
She doesn’t yell. She measures.
You feel like you’re watching someone realize they’ve hit the edge —
and quietly back away.

There’s grief here, but no collapse.
The whole track breathes in the pause between staying and leaving.

Scroll tag:
Sadness as self-respect.

🎵 Cat Power – Metal Heart

The delivery is low.
Heavy, but contained.
There’s no pitch chase. No drama. Just… ache.

But what makes it cut deeper is the dissonance.

There’s this clash happening underneath the whole track —
not loud, not jarring, but off.
The chords don’t quite resolve. The piano isn’t trying to be beautiful.
It’s trying to hold something broken in place.

You feel it in your stomach before your ears can name it.

It’s the sound of someone singing through emotional static —
like she’s playing one version of the song while another version is trying to pull away from it.

That’s the part that stuck with me.

It doesn’t demand sadness.
It mirrors the way your brain sounds when you're not okay and pretending you are.

Scroll tag:
Grief vibrating against itself. Harmony denied on purpose.

🎵 Alela Diane – Take Us Back

The voice is clear. Controlled.
The emotion is in the spaces between the lines, not the lines themselves.

This song doesn’t ask for pity.
It doesn’t even ask to be heard.

It just sits beside you and tells the truth.

Scroll tag:
Leaving without explanation — because what broke already spoke.

No spotlight. No explosion.
Just songs that know what silence feels like — and fill it just enough to help you keep going.

This is what happens when sadness shows up quietly,
but refuses to leave alone.

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🔴 BUCKET THREE — Angry / Powered Up (Solo Only)

No one’s in the car but you. That’s the point. The volume’s high, the feelings are higher — and the lyrics don’t ask for permission.

This isn’t “rage music” for the gym.
It’s not about smashing things.
It’s about control through chaos.
Sadness that found a knife.
Frustration that finally got a beat.

Some songs let you cry it out.
These songs let you scream it out without saying a word.

This is the car-as-release-chamber playlist.
The “don’t talk to me” chair.
The “I’m not ready to forgive anyone, including myself” soundtrack.

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🎵 Rage Against the Machine — All of it

This isn’t a song. It’s a response.

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You don’t put Rage on when you’re mildly irritated.
You put Rage on when there’s too much — too much pressure, too much noise in your chest, too much you haven’t said because you knew it wouldn’t come out right.

So instead, you drive.

And Rage speaks for you in a language that isn’t polite, but it’s fluent.
You don’t have to explain your anger.
You just have to let the volume match the voltage.

Every riff? 🔪
Every bar? 🔥
Every scream? Earned.

There’s no need to sort albums.
No favorite track necessary.
Just drop in anywhere:

• “Killing in the Name” – the obvious choice, because it still works

• “Bulls on Parade” – because sometimes all you can do is pace

• “Guerrilla Radio” – when you don’t want to talk, just move

• “Wake Up” – for when you know the problem isn’t just you

• “Testify” – because the beat is righteous even if your feelings aren’t

This isn’t about rebellion.
It’s about finally feeling seen by something loud enough to drown out the rest.

Scroll tag:
Rage not as explosion — but as fluency.

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🎵 Eminem – The Way I Am

“I’m not gonna be what my family wants me to be…”

This is the voice of someone done performing.
No metaphors. No persona.
Just Eminem with his jaw clenched, saying exactly what he means.

Perfect for slow traffic rage.
You don’t need to yell along. You just let the pressure bleed through the speakers.

Scroll tag:
Anger, not as explosion — but as refusal to apologize.

🎵 Run the Jewels – Close Your Eyes (and Count to F**) [feat. Zack de la Rocha]*

“We killin’ them for freedom 'cause they tortured us for boredom…”

If you want righteous fury wrapped in punchlines and tank-shell bass, this is it.

Killer Mike comes with conscience heat.
El-P brings the icy sneer.
Zack de la Rocha crashes through the end like a warning shot that hit.

This track feels like a riot with discipline —
the kind of rage that knows exactly who it’s aimed at.

Scroll tag:
Protest rap for solo commutes through enemy territory.

🎵 Tyler, The Creator – NEW MAGIC WAND

“I need her out my head...”

This one’s not loud at first.
It’s tight. Focused. Obsessive.

Feels like driving while gripping the steering wheel too hard.
Like trying to rationalize something irrational until it starts to shake loose from the inside out.

Tyler’s rage isn’t public.
It’s internal combustion — stylish, distorted, and freakishly in control until it isn’t.

Scroll tag:
When fury dresses well but still breaks things.

🎵 Joyner Lucas – I’m Not Racist

“You don’t know what it’s like to mind your business and get stopped by the cops…”

You don’t “bump” this.
You sit with it.

This isn’t musical anger — it’s documented frustration.
Joyner doesn’t rap at you.
He raps through the wall no one else wanted to name.

This isn’t about yelling louder.
It’s about being the only one willing to speak the ugly parts all the way out — and not pretend to clean it up after.

Scroll tag:
Rap as confrontation — and uncomfortable honesty.

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👯 BUCKET FOUR

Group / Friends / Joyride / Carpool Karaoke

🪑 aka: I’m Just Throwing Sht Against the Wall*

This isn’t curated. It’s crowd-tested.
This is the "fk it, play that one"** chair.

It’s not about what fits the vibe —
it’s about what survives the aux rotation.

• Someone throws on Billy Joel? Boom — Piano Man.

• Someone yells “skip it”? Not allowed.

• Everyone’s a lead singer for one chorus and a background dancer the next.

This chair is built out of:

• Shared nostalgia

• Hook recall

• Emotional crowd control

Some songs hit harder when you’re alone.
These hit because you’re not.

You don’t even have to like them.
You just have to know the words you didn’t know you knew.

I’m not even going to give descriptions. You all know the songs.

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⚪ BUCKET FIVE — Kids in the Car

“Clean, fun, and you won’t want to drive into traffic.”

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This isn’t Cocomelon.
It’s not Baby Shark.
It’s the miracle mix of:

• ✅ You can tolerate it

• ✅ They can sing to it

• ✅ No one’s getting grounded for the lyrics

• ✅ You’re not losing brain cells at mile 12

You’re not just trying to keep them quiet.
You’re showing them what life can sound like when it’s good.

These songs aren’t deep.
They’re not profound.
They’re just light-filled and loud enough to make the backseat sing.

This is the soundtrack to:

• Stomping in parking lots

• Asking “play it again?” 37 times

• Learning what a hook is

• Laughing at nonsense lyrics

• And slowly, without meaning to — copying your joy

You’re not curating.
You’re encoding.

They don’t know you’re shaping their emotional memory.
They just know the chorus hits — and you didn’t skip it.

Let’s Just Call It What It Is:

These are the songs that keep you from putting the car in reverse mid-highway.

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🏁 END OF THE LINE

You made it. So now what?

If you read this whole thing, congrats —
you’ve basically just sat shotgun through my memory.

Some of these songs are about me.
Some of them are about you.
And some of them are just here because we both needed something to scream, whisper, hum, or survive through.

You don’t have to agree with every bucket.
You just have to remember the one time you felt something
— and the song that let you keep driving anyway.

So here’s your call:

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💬 Drop some songs with the buckets.

Tell me what chair it sits in.
Tell me what it did for you.
Or don’t. Just spin it loud and let it say what you couldn’t.

Because if this scroll is anything —
it’s proof that driving isn’t just motion. It’s memory.
And music is the part that makes it stay.

Let’s build the rest together.

—

🎶 Your turn.
🎙️ Your voice.
🪑 Your chair.

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1. The Arena — Collapse as Content
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/would-you-step-into-the-arena

2. WTF Is NahgOS? (Arena Companion)
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/wtf-is-nahgos-the-arena-companion

3. The Arena: Free Will vs Determinism (Narrative Engine Dissection)
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/the-arena-free-will-vs-determinism

4. Board Walk Polls — Diagnostic Surface Mapping
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/board-walk-polls

5. I Don’t Guess. I Map. (Substack Analytics Diagnostic)
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/i-dont-guess-i-map-substack-analytics

6. I’m Not a Writer, But I Write (Self-reinforcing Scroll Loop)
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/im-not-a-writer-but-i-write

7. Assholes Anonymous — Tone Profile Extraction
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/ass-holes-anonymous

8. Why I Read 139 Comments on a Post (Comment Drift Forensics)
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/why-i-read-139-comments-on-a-post

9. Data Is Beautiful — Reaction Chain Analysis
   👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/data-is-beautiful

10. Shame, Language, and the Weight of Narrative (Scroll-Based Emotional Cartography)
    👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/shame-language-and-the-weight-of

11. Real Words for Real Parents — A Reflection Scroll (Empathy Through Structure)
    👉 https://nahgcorp.substack.com/p/real-words-for-real-parents-a-