I have two mixes I'm trying to fill out and my music library is failing me, as it iTunes Genius and Pandora.

One is sort of a "How to get a speeding ticket on a sunny day", songs that are best at full volume and stompy and happy. I've got Modest Mouse, The Killers, Arcade Fire, Muse, "Dreams" by The Cranberries.

The other I only have two songs for: "Turn on Your Radio" by Marc Cohn "Low Rising" by The Swell Season

I guess they're sort of soul/blues/rock. Everything I have is either too sleepy or too bouncy and up. Or just straight up Soul/R&B.

Any suggestions?

"I Can't Drive 55"

Speeding Ticket Songs: "Why I Drink" - Go to Blazes; "Deja Varoom" - Southern Culture on the Skids; "Moving" - Suede; "Neat Neat Neat" - the Damned. They all make me lean on the accelerator.

Just off the top of my head and all available on request.

Soul/Blues/Rock? But neither sleepy nor bouncy? Hmmm.

Well, that's kind of a huge genre. You probably need a slightly tighter focus. You've got all the Southern Rock bands - Skynyrd, Allman Brothers. You've bluesier songwriters like Lucinda Williams. The Stones. I've got the demos for Let It Bleed and they're amazing. The album I've got of John Hammond covering Tom Waits songs would probably work. He's got a more conventionally appealing, rich bluesy voice and things like "Get Behind the Mule" have a fantastic non-sleepy, non-bouncy groove. Southern Culture on the Skids also have a ton of bluesy rock songs.

Hot Rod Lincoln by Commander Cody?

Because I'm sure my words have been and will continue to be inadequate ("chill but not sleepy, long slow heavy beats but not loud, grooving but not hopping")

Slow Rising [link] Turn on the Radio [link] (it's no. 15 in the playlist)

For some reason, these two songs are married in my head.

For the speeding mix, I (predictably) recommend "Hurtin' Albertan" by Corb Lund, "Girl Named Go" by Cory Branan, and "The Devil and Maggie Chascarillo" by Lucero.

eta I can provide all those, I believe. And if I can't others surely can.

Rowland S.Howard, RIP. [link]

Can people stop dying, please?

One is sort of a "How to get a speeding ticket on a sunny day", songs that are best at full volume and stompy and happy.

My favorite one of these is just about anything from Big Pig's Bonk, but especially "Hellbent Heaven," which starts out "Drivin' down the road / On the Devil's highway."

Can people stop dying, please?

Seriously.

I second smonster's speeding ticket recs, and add in "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger.