What Do You Listen To?

charlie64

Whats on your Ipod/mp3 player as you skadoodle to work?.

Cant beat a bit o The Jam or Limp Bizkit for me.... :twisted:

Paul E

Depends on how fast I want to go, as it tends to dictate my cadence and speed, if I am pootling can be anything really, if I am going for it, anything fast and bassy

supersonic

The wind in my hair and the motors.

asprilla

My own beating heart and anything that might change that situation.

CiB

I heard the whole of Shear Heart Attack one evening last week, without the benefit of any music reproductive device other than my own brain singing it through for me. Weird. Good album though.

shouldbeinbed

Asprilla wrote:

My own beating heart and anything that might change that situation.

+1 & cap doffed for that turn of phrase

Porgy

My MP3 player tells me the following are the most played:

Show Me - Dexys Midnight Runners
Secondary Modern - Elvis Costello
Psycho Mafia - the Fall
Girls Talk - Elvis Costello
For Science - they Might Be Giants
Sixteen Chicks - joe clay
She Ain't Me - Carrie Rodriguez
Soul Journey by Gillian Welch
The Lyre of Orpheus - Nick Cave

rolf_f

Wouldn't want to spoil the pleasure of free thinking time with background music.

Aguila

6music podcasts, especially the "introducing" one. Not for much longer mind

waddlie

shouldbeinbed wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

My own beating heart and anything that might change that situation.

+1 & cap doffed for that turn of phrase

Donds...

thelawnet

Asprilla wrote:

My own beating heart and anything that might change that situation.

damn straight. It's good to heart the cars/scooters/lorries coming up behind.

Bikehawk

Anything fast and heavy but tended to make the cycling a "little aggressive" and put me in stupid (dangerous) situations needlessly. After a few too many close calls now just the wind/cars etc and find I'm a lot calmer at the end of it.

Wallace1492

I like to listen to the birds singing, the gentle rustle of the wind in the trees, and the quiet drone of the bus engine as is closes up close behind me....

Can understand music for very quiet roads, or better stiff offroad, but I can't understand listening to music on main commutes. It just seems wrong to me.

Clever Pun

last night it was Shrinebuilder and today was Slo Burn

Sewinman

Wallace1492 wrote:

I like to listen to the birds singing, the gentle rustle of the wind in the trees, and the quiet drone of the bus engine as is closes up close behind me....

Can understand music for very quiet roads, or better stiff offroad, but I can't understand listening to music on main commutes. It just seems wrong to me.

+1 Seems silly to impair one of your senses when doing something as risky as cycle commuting. Each to their own though!

Clever Pun

yeah lets not get into the whys etc just what you actually listen too

hmm loads of bands so here's some genres

Metal
Doom
Sludge
Rock/classic rock

nothing chilled out though as it makes you want to find a nice grass verge and lay down rather than overtaking everything you see

il_principe

This morning it was Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Can we leave the hackneyed - 'oh oh it's sooo dangerous' arguments alone please, it's dull, been done to death, and those of us that ride with music are adults and capable of making reasoned decisions with regards to our own safety on the road...

:roll:

MonkeyMonster

Varied listening tastes...

Man, she's got a fine booty
Dude cycles like a lady
Nice bike, shame about its rider
Stupid fecking tw4ty white van man, wtf were you thinking
Nice sunny day, there's a roadie ahead lets go get him
Occasional controversial "Yes rlj'er I hope you get hit one day"
Get some fecking bike skills you twonk
Piss off outta the asl you muppety moped

Don't be too surprised if you've never heard of the artist of these gems

jedster

those of us that ride with music are adults and capable of making reasoned decisions with regards to our own safety on the road...

It's a fair point. I've been cycling with music a bit recently. I've concluded it is like cycling without a helmet or without hi-viz. All of those choices reduce your (ones) safety by a modest amount, none of them deserve to be seen as stupid of reckless.

I always wear a helmet and I've taken to wearing hi-viz more often. Perhaps that's compensating for the music

rjsterry

On the Embankment, no-one (else) can hear your legs scream

lost_in_thought

I don't like to cycle with music, I enjoy the silence and the outdoors-ness of cycling and find music mars the experience.

In the gym, however, I listen to lots of old skunk anansie, audioslave, aerosmith, deftones, korn, that type of thing. Rocky stuff. It spurs me on.

Clever Pun

rjsterry wrote:

On the Embankment, no-one (else) can hear your legs scream

yet everyone can hear my hacks chain.... needs some tlc but certainly no waterfalls

DonDaddyD

Right this instant?

Booty Luv, Boogie 2nite....

:shock:

(I think my girlfriend has been playing with my iPhone)

King Donut

This week the new Archie Bronson Outfit album.
Last week was Spanish for beginners.

Porgy

Today - "Something Else" by the Kinks - the greatest album made in 1967 (my first complete year on planet earth) - better than anything by the Beatles or the Stones during that period.

King Donut

Porgy wrote:

Today - "Something Else" by the Kinks - the greatest album made in 1967 (my first complete year on planet earth) - better than anything by the Beatles or the Stones during that period.

Good call but... I think Hendrix released Axis: Bold as Love at the end of 67. One of his best albums IMO

asprilla

At lunch time it was a combination of The Smiths and The Prodigy.

Porgy

King Donut wrote:

Porgy wrote:

Today - "Something Else" by the Kinks - the greatest album made in 1967 (my first complete year on planet earth) - better than anything by the Beatles or the Stones during that period.

Good call but... I think Hendrix released Axis: Bold as Love at the end of 67. One of his best albums IMO

I'll have to remind myself - I'm sure I've heard it (my wife had a copy) but I don't have a copy and can barely remember it.

Maybe I should have stuck to best British record of 1967 - I also forgot about Dylan and the Velvet underground :oops:

Sewinman

Il Principe wrote:

This morning it was Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Can we leave the hackneyed - 'oh oh it's sooo dangerous' arguments alone please, it's dull, been done to death, and those of us that ride with music are adults and capable of making reasoned decisions with regards to our own safety on the road...

:roll:

A. That presumes that everyone has read the 'hackneyed arguments'.
B. I dont see anyone telling anyone what to do.
C. Reasoned decisions can be stupid too.

Porgy

Sewinman wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

This morning it was Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Can we leave the hackneyed - 'oh oh it's sooo dangerous' arguments alone please, it's dull, been done to death, and those of us that ride with music are adults and capable of making reasoned decisions with regards to our own safety on the road...

:roll:

A. That presumes that everyone has read the 'hackneyed arguments'.
B. I dont see anyone telling anyone what to do.
C. Reasoned decisions can be stupid too.

a. they have
b.it's still tedious and annoying though
c.stupid is subjective

Sewinman

Porgy wrote:

Sewinman wrote:

Il Principe wrote:

This morning it was Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Can we leave the hackneyed - 'oh oh it's sooo dangerous' arguments alone please, it's dull, been done to death, and those of us that ride with music are adults and capable of making reasoned decisions with regards to our own safety on the road...

:roll:

A. That presumes that everyone has read the 'hackneyed arguments'.
B. I dont see anyone telling anyone what to do.
C. Reasoned decisions can be stupid too.

a. they have
b.it's still tedious and annoying though
c.stupid is subjective

Weak.