Road Cycling - Personal Soundtracks

G'day All,

Ok. If your life had a soundtrack, (like in the movies), what would yours be when you go out riding your 'roadie'. I would like something really cool. You'd have a shot of me with the new carbon 'you beaut go faster machine',gleaming in the spotlight, (gotta have a spotlight), slippin on the Rudy's....(i'm about 10 kg lighter than I am at the moment)...the roller door of my garage come up, as i step out into the sun light....& the band is playing 'She caught the Katie' (from the original Blues bros soundtrack!)....y'know......dondah, dondah, dondah, dondah...DAADAAAHHHHH....(hmmmm this is so cool I might have to swap the Rudy's for raybans!).....So whats your soundtrack?

cheers,


Hitchy

Hmm...I dont know that I have a soundtrack, but I do have something useless to contribute to this thread! :p


I would love to be able to listen to music while I ride....but I dont trust traffic that much. Too bad there arent any good bike paths around here.

In Flames - Cloud Connected
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Infected Mushroom - Over Mode
CCCP - Punk Islam
DJ Yahel - Ball Dance

And I know you said only as a roadie, but seeing as I'm not really a roadie but rather a fighter... my soundtrack for pro fighting:

Bleeding Through - Revenge I Seek
As I Lay Dying - 94 Hours
Trivium - Ember to Inferno
Marilyn Manson - Seizure of Power
Killswitch Engage - Temple from the Within
Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days
Lamb of God - Ruin
Shadows Fall - First Noble Truth

If my ride had a soundtrack, it would be from the Grease soundtrack "You're the One that I want"

Koffee

Josh Groban - You Raise Me Up

just added that song to my MiniDisc player
very inspiring :)

"freewheel burnin'" by judas priest.

Down by 311 or just about anything from 311 for that matter.

Might have to be "Rush" by Talib Kweli, could also use Kweli's lyrics of "If they put my life on the screen then it's GOT to be the IMax".

U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
The Who - Baba O'Reily
Rollins Band - Up For It
John Cougar Mellencamp - Authority Song
Green Day - Chump
Police - King Of Pain
Cake - I Will Survive
Prodigy - Firestarter
Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror
Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters

Personally, U2 - With Or Without You has more meaning to me, but it isn't as good a riding song as Where The Streets Have No Name.

That's really interesting, gcasillo. I have always used the song "Where The Streets Have No Name" to motivate me to wrestle. Always made me think of the past Olympic greats for some reason.

Grateful Dead --- Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad

Motorhead- Ace of Spades

What, no Crazy Train?

Actually, anything fast works for me. Speed metal is fabulous for speed workouts.

Love Shack.

Hitchy, I don't know what you look like, but I can totally see your garage door opening up and that song playing, mist rising, bright silver and blue light glaring from behind you. You clip in, slip on your shades, and peel out with the worlds loudest squealing burnout, two 3 foot wide, 100 foot long streak of black smoking behind you as you accelerate past the camera, which pans beside you for a moment, simultaneously moving down to get a shot of you aiming up from about 65 degrees. You fly away from the camera as it is lifted into the air above the white smoke, all the while zooming in to follow your every pedal stroke. It follows you through the trees lining your arrow-straight road until you become a small dot racing up a nearby mountain before losing you. Oh yeah.

Cole

Sex Pistols "Never mind the Bullocks here come the Sex Pistols"
The Cult "Electric"
Jimmy Hendrix "Electric Ladyland"
Anything by Led Zepplin
Anything by Rage Against the Machine

For motivating me up the last part of the hillclimb
"Joy and Pain" -Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock
"Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
"Ride Wit Me" - Nelly
"Days Go By" - Dirty Vegas
"Police on my Back" - The Clash
"Keep On Movin" - Soul II Soul

Love Shack.

Hitchy, I don't know what you look like, but I can totally see your garage door opening up and that song playing, mist rising, bright silver and blue light glaring from behind you. You clip in, slip on your shades, and peel out with the worlds loudest squealing burnout, two 3 foot wide, 100 foot long streak of black smoking behind you as you accelerate past the camera, which pans beside you for a moment, simultaneously moving down to get a shot of you aiming up from about 65 degrees. You fly away from the camera as it is lifted into the air above the white smoke, all the while zooming in to follow your every pedal stroke. It follows you through the trees lining your arrow-straight road until you become a small dot racing up a nearby mountain before losing you. Oh yeah.

Cole


G'day Cole,

LOL.........that's it!....get outta my head!....maybe after talking about 'personal soundtracks' we can talk 'personal video clips'!...you've got the job of directing mine!....It's not Cole Spielberg by any chance?

cheers,

Hitchy

Ramones - Blitkrieg Bop
Nazareth - Razamanaz
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Jeff Beck - Situation

That should get me through the warm up...

I'm eclectic so my soundtrack would probably reflect that.

Three Bikes in the Sky by Tangerine Dream
Bicycle Race by Tangerine Dream
Long Island Sunset by Tangerine Dream
29 Palms by Tangerine Dream
Special K by Placebo
Everybody's Free to Wear Sunscreen by Mary Schmich, Baz Luhrmann, et al.
Tears by Cruxshadows
Halcyon by Orbital
Belfast Wasted by Orbital
Canon in D Major - Techno remix by Pachelbel, remixed by Minister
Das Boot theme song techno remix by Klaus Doldinger, remixed by U96
Crash by The Primitives
The Bottom Line by Big Audio Dynamite
Adam's Song by Blink 182
Peace, Love and Happiness by Elvis Costello
Headhunter by Front242
Echoes of Yesterday by Ghost in the Machine
Stars by Hum
Some Postman by The Presidents of the United States of America
Such Great Heights by The Postal Service
Where Is My Mind by The Pixies
Kyrie by Mr. Mister
Dreams by Van Halen
Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel
Coming Back to Life by Pink Floyd
Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd
Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters
Closing Time by Semisonic


Of course, I'd have to have several compilations... vol. 1, vol. 2, etc...

That song thats all like "I'm on my way, from misery to happiness. . . ahuh ahuh ahuh ahuh I'm on my way" i think it describes my rides

Heavy Duty - Judas Priest
You got another thing coming - Judas Priest
Pain Killer - Judas Priest

EDIT: Feels So Good - Chuck Mangeone (Awsome Flugle horn!)

Hmm, is there any other group? Oh yeah, Iron Maiden, but none of them really fit the cycling thing.

Man, I like all kinds of stuff. The ideal, if I'm climbing a hill would be something by Cake. Maybe Going The Distance, or Comfort Eagle. For long hauls...it really runs the gamut. I throw together mix cd's with MP3's. You will usually find:

The Ojays
Alecia Keys
Bjork
Zeppelin
STP
Alice In Chains
Marvin Gaye
A Tribe Called Quest
Jay-Z
Disturbed
Nellie McKay
Stevie Wonder
The Temptations
Hall n Oates
Allman Bros
The Who
The Beatles
The Stones
Chili Peppers
Puddle of Mudd
3 Doors Down

A ton of various rap and hip hop...

And on and on it goes.

On Saturday mornings, it's NPR: Car Talk and What Do You Know?

Anything to keep me from getting bored.

Mine would be:

TNT - AC/DC
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
Slow Ride - Foghat
Welcome to the Jungle - GnR

Can't slow down - Joe Satriani
I Can See For Miles - The Who
The Bicycle Race - Queen (Obvious but who cares)
Tour de France - Kraftwerk (see above)
Wall of sleep - Black Sabbath

and finally....

Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden

Here's my ride soundtrack:

The Spirit of Radio - Rush
to begin the day

Dreams - Van Halen
to get my cadence going

Peace of Mind - Boston
time to crank out the watts

Ain't No Mountain High Enough - (Michael McDonald's version)
ok, some climbing now

Independence Day - Martina McBride
coasting downhill weeeeeeeeee

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
to warm down

Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
to take me home

Milk and cereal, cereal and milk.... nuff said

"hey yah" - Outkast - on the flats it's a great tempo song
Slipknot (don't know the name "I felt the air rise up in me. . .") for sprints and attacks
"Learning to Fly" - Pink Floyd - When I'm riding along a mountain top ridge
"Burning Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash - Climbing
"Like a Stone" - Audioslave - More Climbing
"Moonlight Sonata" - long sweeping descents