No. 73

Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf (1968) Video - There's so much to say about this song that I'll have to be careful not to turn it into a novel.

"Get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for adventure, and whatever comes our way!"

First of all, there's no better road trip song. Secondly, no other song is tied so closely to a movie as this is to Easy Rider. If you consider yourself a film or music buff and haven't seen the movie, that should be your next rental, but only if you're by yourself because it's best appreciated in solitude, much like Basic Instinct but for entirely different reasons. The mind-blowing news is that this may not even be the best song in this movie (The Weight) or even the best Steppenwolf song in the movie (The Pusher). There's nothing more American than Road Trippin' and Rock 'n Roll, except that this song's actually Canadian, it was written and eventually performed by Canadian rockers Mars Bonfire.