Typical playlist of a Nicaraguan bus driver

I mentioned in my post about surviving a chicken bus trip that Nicaraguan bus drivers have a soft spot for either latin romantica or 80’s power ballads.   To give you an indication of what I’m talking about, here’s the actual playlist for the 2 hour bus trip from Rivas to Managua (yes, I sat there noting down each song as it came on).   Enjoy!

• “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – Bonnie Tyler
• “Without You” – Mariah Carey
• “Reunited” – Peaches and Herbs
• “Making Love out of Nothing At All” – Air Supply
• “Horse with No Name” – America
• “Torn Between Two Lovers” – Mary MacGregor
• “I Want to Make it with You” – Bread
• “Never Going to Let You Go” – Sergio Mendes
• “Woman in Love” – Barbara Streisand
• “Mandy” – Barry Manilow
• “Forever and Ever” – Demis Roussos
• “Because I Love You” – Stevie B
• “Call Me” – Blondie
• “Heart of Glass” – Blondie
• “Its a Heartache” – Bonnie Tyler
• “Holding Back the Years” – Simply Red
• “Love is in the Air” – John Paul Young
• “Seasons in the Sun” – Terry Jacks

For those of you who are Air Supply fans, I can highly recommend coming to Nicaragua and riding the buses. You will invariably hear at least one of their songs and apparently they toured here a few months ago!  There was even a question about Air Supply in the Trivia Quiz I did in León a month or so ago!