Riding tracks

[MattR]

I like to listen to music on my intercom when on longer trips. (It’s preferable to listening to my wife)
I’ve refined my track list so that now, given the correct stretch of highway and a particular combination of tracks, my face does actually melt.

Saxon - Dallas 1 pm
Drive by truckers - Goddam lonely love
Black Crows - She talks to angels
Black Sabbath - No stranger to love
Alter Bridge - Godspeed
Steel Woods - straw in the wind
Bon Jovi - Dry county
Thunder - Love walked in
Whitesnake - Blind man
Deep Purple - Soldier of fortune
And of course
Pink Floyd - comfortably Numb
Led Zep - stairway to heaven



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[patrickg450]

listen to SLAYER

 

[Sierra1]

I started with my kid's old iPod. When I installed the Sena, I switched up to my wife's old iPhone for the Bluetooth. I always ride with music. I don't know how I did before, without. Much easier now than making those old mixed tapes.

 

[RCinNC]

These threads always interest me, because frankly, I've gotten sick of the music I've listened to for much of my life and am always on the lookout for something new. After about forty years of Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Skynyrd, etc I just bottomed out. Now my phone is populated by weird stuff that I never would have listened to 10 or 15 years ago. I'd say my favorite band at the moment is the Builders and the Butchers, which is about as far from my Led Zep days as you could get.

If you want to put a smile on your face when you ride, try something like Benny Goodman's "Sing Sing Sing". That's on my playlist, right by some Johnny Cash and some Everclear, and some Beastie Boys too. I can't say it melts my face, but it does make me smile.

 

[MattR]

Yeah my track lists don’t last long before I get fed up with them and start building the next one. I normally go to sleep with the radio on and sometimes an outstanding song will awaken me (I don’t know how) and I have to download it there and then otherwise I’ve forgotten it by morning...


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[RCinNC]

LOL, I usually have little notes laying around with some song titles on it because I heard them somewhere and want to remind myself to go check Youtube and see if they're there....

 

[bigbob]

If you want to put a smile on your face when you ride, try

some Everclear

I can't say it melts my face, but it does make me smile.

Now taking this out of context, the last time I had a shot of everclear I thought my face was melting! Sure I was not smiling and not sure I was breathing!

 

[ballisticexchris]

I just have a hard time listening to music while riding. I like the solitude of normal helmet noise through my earplugs. And the occasional turn for turn directions from GPS.

Now taking this out of context, the last time I had a shot of everclear I thought my face was melting! Sure I was not smiling and not sure I was breathing!

Good lord Everclear!! That sure does bring back a memory!!

 

[nondairycreamer]

I listen to the motor, drive train, tires, wind and competing voices from somewhere inside.

 

[Sierra1]

….the last time I had a shot of everclear I thought my face was melting!....

Bahahaaaa!!!! That's a whole different everclear!!

LOL, I usually have little notes laying around with some song titles on it because I heard them somewhere....

Much of the music in my 'pod is from random songs that I hear on commercials, and shows. I used to use YouTube to find them, now I use Shazam....MUCH quicker/easier. I have enough music in my 'pod, that I don't get tired of it. The only music that I get is stuff that I REALLY like. By the time it cycles around, it's new again. Probably my all time favorite is Roll with the Changes--R.E.O. Speedwagon. A "new" one I've been liking is Solid--Eric Church. And, then of course, there's a couple of bag pipes in mixed in there too.

 

[RCinNC]

I just have a hard time listening to music while riding. I like the solitude of normal helmet noise through my earplugs. And the occasional turn for turn directions from GPS.



Good lord Everclear!! That sure does bring back a memory!!

If you have memories of Everclear, it just means you didn't drink enough of it.

 

[MattR]

So proud today.
Mine must be the first generation to be listening to Black Sabbath and being told “turn it down grandad!”


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[Sierra1]

Which reminds me....recently, my youngest son told me about this "new, bad-ass song" that he found....Eye of the Tiger-Survivor. He was very surprised to learn I was younger than he was when the song came out.

 

[eemsreno]

I have tried but just don't care for music while riding. I might be singing songs in my head but I don't want them in my ears.

 

[JJTJ2]

I have been listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. Got tired of listening to the same songs over and over. Now I am learning all kinds of interesting stuff about history. Episodes are 4 hours long and best of all.... they are free.

 

[JamesGang]

After fifty years of guitar playing and singing I can replay dozens of tunes in my head, so I really don't have a need for external auditory stimulation. I have suffered some hearing loss over the years (most likely from standing too close to the drummers cymbals) so I must protect myself with ear plugs whenever I ride.

 

[Checkswrecks]

Which reminds me....recently, my youngest son told me about this "new, bad-ass song" that he found....Eye of the Tiger-Survivor. He was very surprised to learn I was younger than he was when the song came out.

I had a similar experience in the mid 90s when the now 43 year old said that he wanted me to hear this really hot new band. They were called Led Zeppelin.

 

[patrickg450]

I have been listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcasts. Got tired of listening to the same songs over and over. Now I am learning all kinds of interesting stuff about history. Episodes are 4 hours long and best of all.... they are free.

Interesting, I have never got into PODCASTs, not sure why......I have a few friends that tease me about it. Maybe I should give them a try, IDK.

 

[JJTJ2]

Interesting, I have never got into PODCASTs, not sure why......I have a few friends that tease me about it. Maybe I should give them a try, IDK.

Your should, it is an amazing podcast. He has a voice that draws you in as he is telling the story. Not only will he reference journals of the leaders of the time like Winston Churchill but he will also read letters written by people who were actually at the event that he is talking about.

 

[Don T]

I have a playlist that I've been adding to for 10 years or so. At the moment it includes around 600 tracks - so it takes a while before the same track is playing again.
I've tried podcasts and audiobooks, but riding takes too much of my concentration for it to work for me - music as a soundtrack to my riding works better.
I have speakers built into my helmet and in combination with earplugs it works like a charm.