Cake : Stickshifts and Safetybelts [ purchase ] Rather than describe a mode of transportation or a destination, this 1996 song from Cak...

Kevin Braheny & Tim Clark : A Perfect Night for Flying Carpets [ purchase ] We haven't posted much ambient music on SMM. Maybe ...

The Kingston Trio: M.T.A [ purchase ] If you are a city-slicker like myself then you rely public transportation to get you to where yo...

Tom Robinson Band : 2-4-6-8 Motorway [ purchase ] This song came up on my iPod the other day, and I realized that it fit the theme, ...

Robert Gordon with Link Wray: Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll [ purchase ] "Gonna rock 'n' roll all the way from Mars!...

Sailcat: Motorcycle Mama [purchase] For my money, a motorcycle anthem should roar like Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild"--...

Ani DiFranco : Gravel [ purchase Sometimes we travel farthest without physically leaving our rooms. This song’s narrative voice is ale...

Soul Train : Theme (1973) [ purchase full version ] The death at his own hands of Soul Train founder and long-time presenter Do...

Roger Miller: You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd [ purchase ] Melanie: Brand New Key [ purchase ] Roger McGuinn & Ch...

David Wilcox : Eye of the Hurricane [ purchase ] Motorcycle songs often seem to come to a bad end, at least for the driver. We saw that...

Katie Melua: Nine Million Bicycles [ purchase ] Katie Melua's sweet 2005 single Nine Million Bicycles uses Beijing doubly, as a musica...

Berlin : The Metro [ purchase ] Do you remember when every song featured a synthesizer? Then you're as old as I am! Bet you rememb...

Simon & Garfunkel : America (live bootleg, 1968) [ purchase studio version ] One of my big dreams is to one way travel coast...

Tennessee Ernie Ford: Mule Train [ purchase ] Count Prince Miller : Mule Train [ purchase ] In 1949, America went "Mule Train...

Ry Cooder : Every Woman I Know (Crazy ‘Bout An Automobile) [ purchase song ] Every Woman I Know (Crazy 'Bout An Automobile) is quin...

Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship : Starship [ purchase ] This is not the Jefferson Starship of “Miracles” (which is still a grea...

Richard Shindell: The Kenworth Of My Dreams [ purchase ] Nominally, this twangy countrified folk song is about a truck, and its new owner, w...

Pete Seeger : The Thresher [ purchase ] Even though our theme is called Getting There, the USS Thresher never did. She was a nuclear su...

Lynyrd Skynyrd: Free Bird [ purchase ] I have thousands upon thousands of cover songs in my collection, comprising hundreds upon hundreds of...

Merry Clayton: Bridge Over Troubled Water [purchase] Despite recording six studio albums of her own (the first four of which are very much ...