40 Songs For Night Drivers For A Safe And Enjoyable Ride

"I made it through the scariest deep snow night driving the night of my youth with this song, so it’s always my go-to."

User No 1 replied: "That song is a musical definition of the word nostalgia."
 

"The video is all driving around at night, and you can feel the loneliness of an unrequited love."

Veritas3333 comments: "Man, this is the only song I've ever called into a radio station and requested. It was super late, I was driving home after dropping my girlfriend off at her house, and the guy on the radio station asked for requests. I didn't think I'd actually get through and get on the air! But the guy played it, and I cranked it up for the ride home!
Ahh, the days before iPods..."

"When you’re night driving in the summer with the windows down and it comes on there’s no better feeling."

"I'm going to get a speeding ticket because of this song one day."

notvithechemist comments: "This is such a good one for driving on a warm night with the windows down."

"That guitar tremolo is the very definition of bad a*s."

"Something about it always makes me cry during warm night drives."

"Streets of Philadelphia” hits differently after dark."

"Literally the best driving around thinking about stuff song to me."

"I was driving back to college from home one night on a nearly deserted interstate with the moon shining bright and it was an almost ethereal experience with this song on blast."

"I remember I was about to pull into my driveway and this song came on the radio. Needless to say, I did a few loops around the area."

chantlernz replied: "Any song from that album really. A great album for late-night listening."

Bulleit_Hammer comments: "As a teen driving home from work at night I’d start Everlong just as I pulled off the main road. If I drove fast enough I could get into my driveway during the last note of the song."

"I feel like it depends on where you are driving and what the mood is but driving to Life is a highway never fails to make me smile."

vacant_terror replied: "Maynard blew this one away. I'm glad Chino had him sing it. A lot of the slower Deftones songs are perfect for a night drive."

faramaobscena replied: "Anything by The Cars is perfect for driving, I have a feeling this is where the name of the band comes from."

"QOTSA is on shuffle a lot when it’s dark out. Just the tone of the song, the desert rock feel, the fact that Dave Grohl is on drums, the sick bass riff leading into the solo, it feels tailor made for late-night listening. Personal recommendation at least, just watch out for deer..."

toughcentaur9018 comments: "I especially listen to this on seven-hour flights and forty-five-minute drives."

"It's pretty hard to not feel like you're driving towards your destiny with those drums going."

 a57782 replied: "Say what you want about Motley Crue in general, but talking bad about Kickstart My Heart is fighting words."

goofy1771 comments: "This and Fire Woman, back to back. Almost makes its own story."

hanky2 replied: "I’m mostly an electronic, alternative, pop kind of person but this and Holy Diver make it into my driving music rotation a couple of times a month."

"Mainly saying this because there is no better time to blast guilty pleasure songs than at 2 am alone in your car."

malachimf comments: "That song makes me wanna drive in a convertible by the ocean lol."

"That chugging percussion and ornamental, ethereal guitar could play for hours on repeat on a dark highway. The song essentially restarts midway through, and when it does I'm thinking 'hell yeah, let's keep going.'"

"Desert Plains is my go-to when driving across the desert southwest."

1nfam0us replied: "I'm literally watching Drive for the first time right now. It's so strange how I discovered the song before the movie."

"It's so awesome to holler out the badass, yet sorta silly lyrics out the window! A lot of Priest songs are good for this, like "Leather Rebel," "Ram it Down," and "Blood Red Skies," to name a few!"

"Hell, the whole Mezzanine album."

StalinsPerfectHair replied: "That feel when the sax drops."

SeductiveGodofThundr said:
"I think it’s one of the most evocative songs ever written. The song sounds like what it’s about more than any other song I’ve ever heard."

"Perfect late night driving through the city song."

never_on_time replied: "Do your thang, but don't drive drunk."

"Honestly, you could pick basically any song by The Midnight and it would be great night-driving music."

"I remember being 19 when that song was all over the radio and I’d drive around Chicago at night just lost in thought, worrying about things I shouldn’t have given a second thought to."

"420 always sounded like something you'd hear in the middle of nowhere in the desert at 2 am."

"This has always felt like a driving-with-the-windows-down-and-singing-out-loud song for me."