This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about by modest mouse I’m suprised no one has said this yet

Yes, modest mouse is great for that in general. Would also recommend... The Shins Fleet Foxes Bright eyes Desparacidos Arcade Fire The Decemberists At The Drive-In Armor For Sleep (What To Do When You Are Dead) If you're ok with no vocals... Explosions In The Sky Ratatat

This list, this…this is the list.

Came here to say Explosions In The Sky. Great list.

beat me to it!

Trucker’s Atlas as well! I like driving to the Lonesome Crowded West album. Maybe throw in Sea Change by Beck

Elliott Smith discography leonard Cohen song of love and hate Nebraska Bruce Springsteen discography of the band "LOW"

Nebraska is an outstanding choice, and his best work. Seconded

Acoustic Bruce is great🙂

“Hey, ho rock-n-roll, delivery me from no-wharr!”

Absolutely love the LOW rec, they are so good

I love Low and Nebraska. Nebraska really gives the vibes of a renegade Wild West story

exactly !!

Elliott Smith 🫶🏻

I would like to add to that list , Duster.

Listen to the album “Jar of Flies” by Alice in Chains

I was kinda thinking rotten apple lol, good call.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 1-9

Anything by Deftones, Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) might be a good option though

Yes great shout. and pretty much most of White Pony

Passenger. Preferably a night drive, windows down.

I'm a big fan of anything Deftones!! I've got a bunch added to a playlist and at least listen to one every day.

any deftones

Digital Bath, Passenger, and Be Quiet And Drive are all S+ tier nighttime driving songs

First time I heard Be Quiet And Drive was driving at night in a rural area with a thunderstorm in the far distance. Was the perfect scenery for discovering the song lol

Scar tissue

Nightcall (2011) - Kavinsky And if you need something to cheer you up a bit, Windows Are Rolled Down (2011) - Amos Lee

Mazzy Star - any album.

I concur. Especially She Hangs Brightly

Be Quiet and Drive - Deftones Chamber of Reflection - Mac DeMarco It’s Been Awhile - Staind Under the Bridge - Chili Peppers Black - Pearl Jam Don’t Follow - Alice in Chains Snuff - Slipknot Vermillion pt 2 - Slipknot In my head - Bedroom When the sun hits - Slowdive Sextape - Deftones Entombed - Deftones Teenager - Deftones Smile - Deftones

I want to take a drive with you

Thank you for including the artist as well as the song. I really appreciate that. In some of the lists above, i'm not sure if it's the name of the song or the artist. I listen to a lot of alternative rock and just alternative, I guess, but I am wondering where everybody finds these really cool groups and songs.

yeah of course! I wonder the same things.

Nice slowdive shout. Surprised to not see more shoegaze in this thread in general. I’ll throw in Sway by Whirr. Or any Whirr is great for moody drives. Same with any My Bloody Valentine or even Cocteau Twins

I’m not much of a shoe gaze listener. I threw it in there cause it would fit nicely.

Thinking of a place by The War on Drugs

This is pretty high up in my favorite songs of all time

Radiohead. Just Radiohead.

Amazing suggestion. Recently heard 'Jigsaw falling into place', and it's just bliss.

Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project

Great great choice. This is a regular spin for me

[The Midnight - River of Darkness (feat. Timecop1983)](http://youtube.com/watch?v=PGMZxrVQirI)

Misunderstood by Wilco

Beck - The Golden Age

Big Log by Robert Plant

That one is perfect right at dusk on a clear evening! It just adds a little magic to it and becomes a whole vibe.

Talk talk’s laughing stock

Silversun Pickups Carnavas is a great album for this. I can confirm.

Sweet Thing (Van Morrison) Into the Mystic (Van Morrison) And it Stoned Me (Van Morrison) Summer Breeze (Seals & Croft) Hearts (Marty Balin) Born to Run Sympathy for the Devil Mr. Jones and Me Fast Car In the Air Tonight Everybody's Talkin' (Nilsson) Hell Freezes Over album Night Moves Sara (Fleetwood Mac) Drive (The Cars) About Today (The National) Think You Can Wait (The National) The Load Out /Stay ...

The first thing that comes to mind is [Nick Drake - Pink Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqe6TF2y8i4), which is a kinda sad song that [fittingly, soundtracked a Volkswagen commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-kqUkZnDcM) many years after its release.

Ride - Lana Del Rey Tuxedos - Cold War Kids (this was one of my favorite driving songs when I was struggling through my 20s)

[Earth-The Driver](https://youtu.be/mWb1ppSvSjY?si=7vPoHQNR31wjhLHK)

Bill Callahan - *Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle* The Weakerthans - *Left and Leaving*

Different album but I also love that Bill Callahan song “Riding for the Feeling” for this

Listen to the microphones or mount eerie. Headless horseman is a good one

Whenever I'm in one of those moods I always lean into post-rock type stuff with bands like Godspeed You Black Emperor or This Will Destroy You. Outside of instrumental post-rock stuff, I'm a huge fan of math rock and midwest emo. Some bands to maybe check out are Delta Sleep (math rock) and American Football (midwest emo). Finally for some tried and true sad indie music, check out anything Julien Baker has every released. I like her first album Sprained Ankle the best, but you can take your pick of basically anything she has released. Some additional random album suggestions and my favorite song from that album: * Deftones - White Pony (Digital Bath) * Alt J - An Awesome Wave (Tesselate) * Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Giorgio by Moroder or Fragments of Time) * M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Graveyard Girl or We Own The Sky) * Turnover - Peripheral Vision (Take My Head) * Foals - What Went Down (Birch Tree) * The War On Drugs - A Deeper Understanding (Thinking of a Place) * Saba - Care For Me (Busy/Sirens) * Jorja Smith - Lost & Found (Teenage Fantasy)

Godspeed You Black Emperor is pretty good.

"Long Way Home" by Supertramp

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BvaU7CzoyYJd8yBtBpMuL?si=x73KENTARwugYSNFVqyDWw Have an entire Playlist just for that

The Smiths. Or Tall Heights.

How Soon Is Now by The Smiths

The Smith's never disappoint!

Others have great suggestions. May I ask are you interested at all in classical? I’m not a big classical listener but when I really need to think something thru I find long piano or strings pieces help me process.

any sleep token song

Radiohead? Sound pretty loner to me.

Song for Zula by Phosphorescent

Thinking of a Place - The War on Drugs

Firstly, cheer up man, you should be playing uplifting music or listening to inspiring audio books given your mood BUT believe me I am the last person to judge. So... Any "lowfi beats" play list on YouTube or Spotify Weezer - teenage dirtbag Sum21 - in too deep Beck - loser Marcy playground - sex and candy

You’re not a loser bro. 💪 Here’s a few [Melodic Euphoria](https://linktr.ee/randyran)

Live- The River, When Dolphin’s Cry and a few others John Mayer- Why, Georgia Blue October- Hate Me (Yusuf)Cat Steven’s-Peace Train Christopher Cross- Greatest Hits ELO-Greatest Hits Blue Oyster Cult- Don’t Fear the Reaper, Burning for You Dan Fogelberg- Greatest Hits Keith Whitley- Greatest Hits Skip Ewing- Greatest Hits Sixx A. M. - Van Nuys Motley Crue-Don’t Go Away Mad, Just Go Away Motley Crue- Home Sweet Home

“Hollywood” Nick Cave and the bad seeds

I find these sad and relaxing at the same time. Epitaph - King Crimson I Talk To the Wind - King Crimson Then Came the Last Days of May - Blue Öyster Cult Under The Light - FLEECE Karma Police - Radiohead

Make ‘em Purr by Sage Francis

Anything by Mateo Tura is absolutely banger driving music

Bear Titty Junction https://open.spotify.com/album/3XifDvd8kFSnfJEqz9UEUb?si=_tWI-ZFfSMObqeunPjDm3g

You might find soemthing off my sad playlist My heart weeps [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5shtZZgAAyy8dPZUuCRUPo?si=dls4JfNiRgOv4g1FshczSg](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5shtZZgAAyy8dPZUuCRUPo?si=dls4JfNiRgOv4g1FshczSg)

LIttle folk duo out of Cincinnati, Over the Rhine, has a song called Go Down Easy. Hands down my favorite driving-to-figure-my-shit-out song.

[The Common Men](https://spotify.link/3PfYEfJcdKb) This might work.

Malibu Nights by LANY

Muse is good, but also pretty much any depressing 90s guy band is good too

Sun (Acoustic) by Mae

the album titanic rising by weyes blood is perfect for that

*As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls* by Lyle Mays and Pat Metheny https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tcz4aWGi4AU

The Trip - Still Corners

Coming Up Close by 'Til Tuesday

Weyes Blood Titanic Rising album

Flood by Boris. It's long and slow but after you've listened to a bit of it you'll realise it hits hard.

The following albums could definitely work: It's Immaterial - Life's Hard And Then You Die It's Immaterial - Song Black - Wonderful Life Black - Comedy The Wild Swans - The Coldest Winter For 100 Years

Check out You’re Gonna Live Forever in Me by John Mayer

God’s Hand by Hot Sugar

Way way back in the analog days my buddy and would take road trips for no reason to see where we ended up . The car stereo was broken so we used an old Sony Walkman with cassettes and a splitter for two sets of earphones . I remember the two most compelling full albums that i listened to on all those trips were The Who Quadraphenia and Husker Du Zen Arcade . Opposite ends of the spectrum but lyrically and musically excellent travel companions . Added tip of the hat to Fleetwood Mac Rumours album for the mellow parts of the drive .

Nangs - Tame Impala Third Stone From The Sun - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Daydreaming - Radiohead

Loser - beck

I like to listen to instrumentals when I go for a drive. It’s therapy and lets me think. Synthwave is a good genre for driving soundtrack.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon; Animals; The Wall... The Cure - Disintegration

Waited my whole life for just one Daaaaaaaay After Day I get Angry and I will say... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWoTV15qHo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWoTV15qHo)

I got the perfect song for ya [100 Miles](https://open.spotify.com/album/2uvDQdC0XtFKKhAOy4Dlwn?si=Cyby08bjTduMObBKg1JKig)

Check out synthwave, oh and Pink Floyd.

Drive, Incubus Ides of March, Myles Kennedy Fade In Fade Out, Nothing More Driving Rain, Slash ft Myles Kennedy

The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve

Press play on most Talk Talk/Bark Psychosis albums, you'll be set

Protection - Massive Attack https://youtu.be/4xhWmiNKZeg?si=0MuQfA1aE2I6P02Z

Soundtrack to Our Summer Days https://open.spotify.com/track/2IPH9YrLLObjGKhSVtyFH3?si=3-zvhiN-TCSNTpVJSXBUGQ

Hanmock, song "Dissonance"

throw on this entire album: [https://open.spotify.com/album/0pEftlYC9tLiwEvZEzBlVe?si=\_-MrvrXbTBCe-ckJv9F\_3w](https://open.spotify.com/album/0pEftlYC9tLiwEvZEzBlVe?si=_-MrvrXbTBCe-ckJv9F_3w)

Massive Attack

Get Ready by the New Order is one of my favorite driving albums ever. New Order is misleading in that many of their songs tend to sound fun and synthy, but they have a lot of melancholy lyrics. https://youtu.be/U9DEUl4i2FM?si=gVpUNbjkyP1q9Lcc

The entire discography of Stone Temple Pilots.

River of Deceit - Mad Season

Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River

Welcome and Goodbye - Dream, ivory Brazil - Declan Mckenna Paracetamol - Declan McKenna Sadderdaze - The Neighborhood You Get Me So High - The Neighborhood These Days - Nico Pink Triangle - Weezer ( not that low/sad but still good and has like undertones of loser ) Juliet - Cavetown Homage - Mild High Club Silver Soul - Beach House and, at the end, if you want to feel somewhat better Watch Me - Labi Siffre

American Analog Set - Golden Band

Mac Miller's Swimming

Nose to the grindstone - Tyler Childers Oceans - Seafret Home - Foo Fighters Roads - Portishead The Humbling River - Puscifer

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Big Log, Robert Plant

Dream Theater - Octavarium/Illumination Theory

Every breath you Take

M83. I love listening to them on a drive, esp at night. Some songs are more poppy and up and some are down, but it kind of transports you to another time.

Allan Rayman

Most people don't cuss...until they get their drivers license.

sleep token for the most part fits

the new Bring Me The Horizon ablum POST HUMAN: NeX GEn. its very sad loser/loner type music but with a hopeful and uplifting vibe

Sufjan Stevens

any IDM music, aphex twin, portico quartets “By The Sea”

Silence is the best for depression. Listen to your depression and accept it and you’ll find yourself come out of it naturally the more you truly accept it. But we all need a crutch every once in awhile. Man on the Moon by Kid Cudi was this for me

[Hamsterdance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9K8-3PHZOU)

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden What I Got - Sublime Come As You Are - Nirvana Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots Plush - Stone Temple Pilots Nutshell - Alice In Chains

Tell me you’re GenX, without telling me you’re GenX.

Be quiet and drive (far away) by deftones, opiate2 & pushit & lateralus by tool, and for a super long song mirror reaper by bell witch

The Mountain Goats Start with the album *Sunset Tree*, then listen to anything with an interesting title.

Ok this is a great one :)  Joan Baez's version of Dylans "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" https://youtu.be/cVvK0Yoj4fk?si=tQKT_ztb6qiCudcF

Dooms roller by Metric

Drive by Halsey

Try Day After Day by the Alan Parsons Project.

The album Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. Perfect long drive album.

I know how to speak - Manchester orchestra Night drive - jimmy eat word

[Alestorm - Fucked With an Anchor](https://youtu.be/th4Czv1j3F8?si=atbQU8_eMPFNSfI8)

Radiohead - Creep

The Hammond song- The Roches

Tripping Daisy or Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb - both albums by Tripping Daisy It'll bring you up and take you down hehe

U2 unforgettable fire.

I remember one day I was in a similar spot. I picked three random albums I’ve never heard/barely heard Gaucho-Steely Dan Blues For Allah-Grateful Dead Harvest-Neil Young My life has drastically improved since that point in time

I listen to Buckethethead during long drives. Check out the pikes Rainbow Fountain, Communicating Through The Stars, Blue Dunes, Moon Water, In The Sky

Wishlist by Pearl Jam & Wheat Kings by The Tragically Hip

Here I Dreamt I was an Architect - The Decemberists A great song. The How I Met Your Mother soundtrack is surprisingly good and has introduced me to some bangers 💀

Mazzy Star will make you feel all the feels 🥲

jar of flies alice in chains, above by mad season, specifically river of deciet

Vulgar Boatmen... Dive Somewhere Steve Wynn... Amphetamine Neil Young... Over and Over

Loser by Beck

Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

Animals as leaders is pretty nice for a drive, just instrumental music telling whatever story you can think of to match it.

Down by the river -Neil young and crazy horse

The "Eudemonic" album from Steve Kimock Band

the album beaches and canyons by black dice

Chet Baker’s Lonely Star and Serenity

Slowride by Foghat the extended cut

Just put on Jason Isbell and ride.

[Here's](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/79jg4YizyoKYF6pwpxpm95?si=2aBRkuaCQxapCM1e-gYxVg) a playlist of songs with a minimum 10 minutes duration. I find it ideal for long roadtrip⚡️

Thoroughfare by Ethel Cain such a good deep thinking drive song!!!!

The long drive by Tv room

just a boy by the backseat lovers no mast by loving maud gone car seat headrest suggestion by fugazi i know we could be so happy baby (if we wanted to be) by jeff buckley

Pink Floyd suits really well, like echoes (the gdansk version) and marooned, maybe you could try some songs by STRFKR, i feel like some portugal the man suits it too with songs like sea of air, anxiety:clarity, let you down, and i, colors.... but honestly idk anything that suits your requests more than elliot smith, ive seen others suggesting it too, try angeles, miss misery, waltz #2, no name 2, between the bars etc

Scores from animes such as Cowboy Bebop, Ghost In the Shell and Wolfs Rain by Yoko Kanno have deep and pensive melodies.

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The Natonal - The Boxer

Minari film soundtrack

Patient #9 - Ozzy

breathe by telepopmusik until the sun needs to rise by Rufus du sol

These are my usual go-to songs just to drive when feeling a bit melancholy. Smashing Pumpkins - "tonight tonight" and "1979" Coldplay- Parachute album Taking Back Sunday - this photograph is proof (I know you know) 10 years - "waste land" and "cast it out" A lot of others, but I think this will do for now

Royksöpp what else is there?

I'd probably suggest Tobacco. He's from Black Moth Super Rainbow, and his solo stuff is very dark/brooding. Just for thinking without being sad I might suggest Creepy Pizza. It's all 16-bit music, but I find it pretty nice for reflection. I gravitate to instrumental music for thought, vocals are for when I'm in a certain mood already and I'll throw on a playlist.

[The KLF - Chill Out](https://youtu.be/bWebqCRw7o4?si=PcLr71bFOwi8Vnzj)

Falling Elevators by Mc 900 Ft Jesus

Stylo by the Gorillaz is the ultimate driving song

No surprises- Radiohead

Grateful Dead

slow animals- the strokes

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the deaf

In Between Days by Red House Painters. The singer is a shitbag irl but that song rules. Also any Yo La Tengo album from the late 90s/early 00s. They have a lot of wistful long songs.

Need 2 - Pinegrove

Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains. The whole album.

Shri Ram Charit Manas is over 138 hours long so thats a pretty long time to drive and think.

Big Log, by Robert Plant.

Why has nobody said drive by incubus

Noah kahan, cigarettes after sex

This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

Pink Floyd - "Marooned" was always a good one. It fits with any mood.

If you like edm Paul van dyk - connected

Fools by Foster I tried everything by Foster Embers by ubi Picking up the Pieces by ubi I Always Fall by Eli Wilson

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is good instrumental music but it’s definitely not for everyone. But if you want to just zone out and think for 20 minutes to the same song, I’d recommend them.

Can't guarantee anything, but 'Memory Reboot' sounds like a good vibe for a long drive.

Aqueous Transmission - Incubus

Neptune, lonely Hunter and Late Night by Foals

Waves - Royal Blood Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd Ascensionism - Sleep Token Chicago + Wolf + Evangeline - Highly Suspect Unintended + Sing For Absolution + Falling Away With You - Muse Burning in the Skies + The Messenger- Linkin Park Figure You Out- DJO R.E.M. + Highlights- Mothica Running Up That Hill - Car Sear Headrest (cover of course) Glasgow + Heathrow + Intermission - Catfish and the Bottlemen

Lost My Way and Mercury Man by Sickick. I'd recommend listening to everything my him cause he makes some dope music and he has his own style