Thought I would share my latest Ipod cycling tracks:

gtvlusso
gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
edited June 2009 in Commuting chat
1, Down the Drain - Chickenfoot
2, War - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
3, His Nibbs - Neil Cowley Trio
4, Baby got back - Sir Mixallot
5, Louis Louis - The Kingsmen

Top five that get me to work!

Anyone got anything else I should listen to...? What do you listen to?
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I need to make a playlist for the relay race - 6 hours on the bike on a flat 3-mile circuit may require outside stimulation. I also need to find some decent earbud headphones as my big old cans won't fit with the obligatory helmet...

    GTVL - how about downloading a couple of the "Nuggets" compilations of 60s garage and fuzz nastiness? Sounds like it'd be your thing.
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  • R_T_A
    R_T_A Posts: 488
    biondino wrote:
    I I also need to find some decent earbud headphones as my big old cans won't fit with the obligatory helmet...

    Try this site http://www.headphoneworld.com/c/In_Ear_Headphones.htm?page=2

    I've got some Shure sound isolating ones, although not sure if you want to block out all noise? Also depends on how much you're willing to pay for a pair of 'phones that will get all sweaty and nasty :shock:
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  • sampras38
    sampras38 Posts: 1,917
    I listen to Faithless on a lot of my long rides.
  • reckless_rat
    reckless_rat Posts: 63
    i go for either ministry of sound summer selection's or something like the killers , iron maden , pendulum etc...
    Ride it like you Stole it !

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  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    biondino wrote:
    GTVL - how about downloading a couple of the "Nuggets" compilations of 60s garage and fuzz nastiness? Sounds like it'd be your thing.

    That is a GREAT album: Dont Look Back by the Remains is just about my favourite song and I would imagine would encourage anyone to mash the pedals a bit harder...
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    I tend to listen to Adam and Joe's podcast or Melvin Bragg's "In Our TIme" - mind you if it's music a bit of Hank WIilliams doesn't go amiss - or Steve Earle, Wilco, Johnny Cash.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Porgy wrote:
    I tend to listen to Adam and Joe's podcast or Melvin Bragg's "In Our TIme" - mind you if it's music a bit of Hank WIilliams doesn't go amiss - or Steve Earle, Wilco, Johnny Cash.

    +1 to "In Our Time" although I'm not sure I could cycle to it, I find lying down in a darkened room the best option, it's the only way I can get me head around most of the ideas and concepts they discuss.

    As for music, I never listen to anything when cycling. In town I like to hear the traffic and in countryside I like the peace and tranquility that comes from being at one with the bike :lol:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Rich158 wrote:
    +1 to "In Our Time" although I'm not sure I could cycle to it, I find lying down in a darkened room the best option, it's the only way I can get me head around most of the ideas and concepts they discuss.

    As for music, I never listen to anything when cycling. In town I like to hear the traffic and in countryside I like the peace and tranquility that comes from being at one with the bike :lol:

    I'm with you in the countryside - i like the quiet. But I consider commuting to be a chance to catch up with the weeks podcasts.

    If I try to listen to In Our Timwe in a darkened room i usually fall asleep after about 20 minutes. :oops:
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Currently listening to Metric's new album - Fantasies as well as the debut from Official Secrets Act and In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy.

    Lost my new iPod shuffle on Friday night. Forgot my shorts have a hole in the back pocket and it must've fallen out. That's 2 shuffles lost via my back pocket this year. I must do something about that hole and my memory!
  • gb2gw
    gb2gw Posts: 81
    Okay so this might make me sound like an old fuddy, and I'm new to commuting, but I'd always thought the concept of plugging yourself into music when taking to the roads, was a bit not recommended?
  • DancesWithSheep
    DancesWithSheep Posts: 51
    Porgy wrote:
    I tend to listen to Adam and Joe's podcast or Melvin Bragg's "In Our TIme" - mind you if it's music a bit of Hank WIilliams doesn't go amiss - or Steve Earle, Wilco, Johnny Cash.

    +1 Steven!
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    DancesWithSheep wrote:
    Porgy wrote:
    I tend to listen to Adam and Joe's podcast or Melvin Bragg's "In Our TIme" - mind you if it's music a bit of Hank WIilliams doesn't go amiss - or Steve Earle, Wilco, Johnny Cash.

    +1 Steven!

    Just coming! :D
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    3, His Nibbs - Neil Cowley Trio

    pure unadultered genius.

    For those moments when you need your cadence to go high, how about a little Hello Meow - Squarepusher or Hard Love - Kid Spatula
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    gb2gw wrote:
    plugging yourself into music when taking to the roads, was a bit not recommended?

    Depends on who you talk to.

    I'm finding myself singing "The age of Aquarius" a lot recently - not sure if it impacts my "safety envelope" but it does make me smile.
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    Greg T wrote:
    gb2gw wrote:
    plugging yourself into music when taking to the roads, was a bit not recommended?

    Depends on who you talk to.

    I'm finding myself singing "The age of Aquarius" a lot recently - not sure if it impacts my "safety envelope" but it does make me smile.

    Surely that just makes you a hippy :wink:
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    biondino wrote:
    I need to make a playlist for the relay race - 6 hours on the bike on a flat 3-mile circuit may require outside stimulation. I also need to find some decent earbud headphones as my big old cans won't fit with the obligatory helmet...

    GTVL - how about downloading a couple of the "Nuggets" compilations of 60s garage and fuzz nastiness? Sounds like it'd be your thing.

    Aha! Cheers Blondie, I am gonna MP3 myself up imminently with said compilation!
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    gb2gw wrote:
    plugging yourself into music when taking to the roads, was a bit not recommended?

    Depends on who you talk to.

    I'm finding myself singing "The age of Aquarius" a lot recently - not sure if it impacts my "safety envelope" but it does make me smile.

    Damn it, now I find myself singing it.

    This is the dawning of the age of.... (tails off into humming)
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Let the sun shine.....

    let the sun shine



    Let the sun shine in
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    Let the sun shine.....

    let the sun shine



    Let the sun shine in

    YOU.

    ARE.

    NOT.

    HELPING.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    blu3cat wrote:
    For those moments when you need your cadence to go high, how about a little Hello Meow - Squarepusher or Hard Love - Kid Spatula

    I find that what makes me want to up the ante are songs that speed up - say "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground or "French Kiss" by Lil Louis.

    (I never normally use headphones while riding as I want all the aural help I can get)
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh stop it, I catching 70s hippieness.
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    get back to the 60's, this weather has induced a huge portion of Beach Boy's greatness on the i-pod this afternoon :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    +1 to the VU by the way
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    blu3cat wrote:
    aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh stop it, I catching 70s hippieness.

    Just let the flow go brother.
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    Greg T wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh stop it, I catching 70s hippieness.

    Just let the flow go brother.
    aaarrrrgggghhh

    Trouble is I'm with Cartman when it comes to hippies.

    Go hug a dolphin or something. :wink:
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

    FCN = 3 - 5
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  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    blu3cat wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh stop it, I catching 70s hippieness.

    Just let the flow go brother.
    aaarrrrgggghhh

    Trouble is I'm with Cartman when it comes to hippies.

    Go hug a dolphin or something. :wink:

    Cartman's a nut :?
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    Porgy wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    Greg T wrote:
    blu3cat wrote:
    aaaarrrrrrggggghhhhh stop it, I catching 70s hippieness.

    Just let the flow go brother.
    aaarrrrgggghhh

    Trouble is I'm with Cartman when it comes to hippies.

    Go hug a dolphin or something. :wink:

    Cartman's a nut :?

    Hippie :D
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

    FCN = 3 - 5
    Colnago World Cup 2
  • King Donut
    King Donut Posts: 498
    Rich158 wrote:
    get back to the 60's, this weather has induced a huge portion of Beach Boy's greatness on the i-pod this afternoon :lol::lol::lol::lol:

    +1 to the VU by the way

    The weather definitely plays a part - I've been getting all melodic lately. I'm currently (not right this second) cruising along nicely to Cesaria Evora.

    Haven't heard a good album since The Duke Spirit early last year. But that is as much due to me being out of touch lately. I just get in to old bands. Eels get me bobbing along nicely on the bike.
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    Oh yeah - Warmth of the sun - Beach boys.....wonderful!
  • Porgy
    Porgy Posts: 4,525
    Anything by Brian Wilson for me on a sunny day.
    8)

    I also like to set off to "Mr Blue Sky" by ELO.

    Quickly followed by "Who Loves The Sun" VU; and "Here Comes The Sun" (almost any version including Harrison's original)


    and then "Paint It Black" by the Stones - seems to set it all off nicely.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    The Velvets also have the magnificent - and magnificently titled - "Ride into the Sun".
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