Touring - Let's build the ultimate touring compilation CD

So the idea is for everyone to post one song they thing would be perfect for the ultimate touring compilation CD. I"m thinking jam bands and songs that talk about particular cities would be ideal.

I'll start.

Going Down The Road, Feeling Bad by the Grateful Dead


Going down the road feeling bad
Going down the road feeling bad
Going down the road feeling bad, bad bad
Don't wanna be treated this a way

Going where the water tastes like wine
Well I'm going where the water tastes like wine
Going where the water tastes like wine - yes I am
I don't wanna be treated this a way


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtDd5htZ_A8

All right now I'm mad,my computer has no sound and I love the grateful dead.
But those lyrics sound a little like Canned Heats,Going up the country.

"I'm going up the country where the water taste's like wine.
I'm going up the country where the water taste's like wine.
You know I'm gonna jump in and stay drunk all the time."

Schubert's "Das Wandern" (To Wander). As one English translation puts it.... "a man must have a feeble mind who'd never leave his work behind and wander."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amFmPE7fKQ&feature=related

Actually both the Grateful Dead and Canned Heat are ripping off Woody Guthrie, who ripped off older folk artists.

Anyway, I'm putting together a mix for a tour. The "Essential" bit is about 600 songs, but if I had to pick one from the top 10 or so most played, it would be:

"Truckin' My Blues Away No. 2" by Blind Boy Fuller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi79wy97Wug

On some days it just seems appropriate and gets stuck in my head.

I have a fairly large music library, about 15,000 songs. I am listening my way through it randomly, and adding tracks to a biking playlist.

I love the Run Lola Run (Lola Renet) soundtrack for riding fast.

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A little cliche - but its gotta be on the CD:


I was born the son of a lawless man.
Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.
Lived nine lives
gunned down ten.
Gonna ride like the wind.

And I got such a long way to go.
To make it to the border of Mexico.
So I'll ride like the wind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8ftRFb2Ac

I could ride a lot of miles with this song stuck in my head, I <3 Imogen Heap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7g1xsSsvYE


Spooner, the 80's called, they want to take back that whole Chris Cross mistake. :D

i was belting along on a hot summer's day when feeling groovy came on my ipod it just hit the spot.
Slow down you move to fast gotta make the morning last.

i was belting along on a hot summer's day when feeling groovy came on my ipod it just hit the spot.
Slow down you move to fast gotta make the morning last.

Is that the Rascals?Thats another good toon.

mississippi john hurt: make me a pallet on the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RBm4tH9cA

townes van zandt: Pancho and Lefty

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=8SjwO17gsqU&feature=related

There's only one Grateful Dead song I like - the short one.

first thought:

Mr. Breeze - Lynyrd Skynyrd (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=F41&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&&sa=X&ei=ZqomTLjfMIP7lweMnbmIAw&ved=0CCQQBSgA&q=lynyrd+skynyrd&spell=1)

most of my music is on vinyl, so I have to carry it in my head.

Grateful Dead is often on my internal mental playlist, whether on the bike or not.

The title track on Houses of the Holy is good riding music. Actually any Led Zeppelin is good riding music.

mississippi john hurt: make me a pallet on the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39RBm4tH9cA

townes van zandt: Pancho and Lefty

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=8SjwO17gsqU&feature=related

Hey,I have couple of Mississippi John Hurts cd's.
I love them.
But I guess you can't go wrong with Robert Johnson's "Walking blues".

Theres not much about the road in the song but there is alot about traveling.

Spooner, the 80's called, they want to take back that whole Chris Cross mistake. :D

I was worried about posting that one - but I went on a night ride tonight and sang it the entire way....

This might not help the case - but I'm adding Jackson Browne's Running on Empty.


Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In '65 I was seventeen and running up 101
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-pkV1s0Zc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE

Depends on if I'm in the mood for loud angry music to maintain a high cadence to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o7eEjMlkCI

or something to raise morale:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQorfIX84w

or something to cruise along to in a Zen-like state:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS2yvBo8EMQ

Trans Am
Take me
Away.

Doesn't have to be far:
Skirt of the town or just circle around.
But fast,
Let's go fast.

Nathan – Trans Am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_HiFDMxngQ


Daft Punk - Around the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4


Bruce Cockburn’s Going to the Country covered by Teresa Ennis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3-LNKLLXFo

I am the highway by Audioslave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec88EIGyb6E&feature=fvst

Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34P18at0Q7s

Jimmy Eat World - The Middle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-HPOHu8mY

Perfect Day by Lou Reed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCymRC7cZTk

Waiting for the sun by Jayhawks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUMyKcNL-Vs&feature=PlayList&p=A44D264195C5128A&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=8

Johnny Cash anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApCu_w4mNso&feature=related

Hm... I guess you guys are not fans of ambient, electronic and new age stuff :D

Hm... I guess you guys are not fans of ambient, electronic and new age stuff :D

I dunno, I could definitely tour to Cyborg by Klaus Schultze or something like John Cage or William Basinsky.... would that count?

Hm... I guess you guys are not fans of ambient, electronic and new age stuff :DLove me some Kraftwerk, neat video with this one too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPowpIRVOuY

Due to repeated viewings of the movie Breaking Away, I will forever associate riding a road bike with the Overture from Barber of Seville.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OloXRhesab0

O.A.R. - That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtkBhSRTe78

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRasullweKA

But you have to go for the long version, which ranges from 12 to 20 minutes. But then again, EVERY O.A.R. song can go to 20 minutes. :thumb:

Hm... I guess you guys are not fans of ambient, electronic and new age stuff :D

I posted some NIN and that clangity song by Radiohead... :)

Johnny Cash anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApCu_w4mNso&feature=related

No YouTube here at work :(, so I don't know which song you picked out, but I'll second the idea generally. Bring on Johnny!

REM's always near the top of my list generally speaking. some of their old stuff has good tempo and a couple songs (You Are Everything and Driver 8 come to mind first) have good lyrics for traveling, too, be it by bicycle or other mode of transport.

REM's always near the top of my list generally speaking.

If you're peddling away from the Maryland/D.C. area you could play Don't Go Back To Rockville.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTakamc37D4

I dunno, I could definitely tour to Cyborg by Klaus Schultze or something like John Cage or William Basinsky.... would that count?

Klaus Schultze? Totally!


Love me some Kraftwerk, neat video with this one too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPowpIRVOuY

Tour De France? LOL, I though about that later:D


I posted some NIN and that clangity song by Radiohead... :)

A bit too heavy for my liking, that's more like Industrial genre.

From my 40,000 mp3's: I seldom tire of Kathy Mattea & Tim O’Brien's 'Gentle On My Mind' http://coverlaydown.com/tunes/gentlekm.mp3. Several versions at http://coverlaydown.com/2010/06/covered-in-folk-john-hartford/ Cover Lay Down

Dang, forgot to add in some dubstep! Dub + bassy headphones = eargasm.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6exXpiHvwA

any travel mix, in my opinion, should have the following songs:


Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches

tesla -signs

queen - bicycle

eagles - hotel california, 7 bridges road, take it easy

new order - blood rave

fog hat - slow ride

I got this stuck in my head today on my ride. Thought I was going to go crazy. Its NOT making it on the compilation CD.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZoDS8zty38

I don't know Spooner, that's a pretty catchy tune there, I might vote to include it. A song like that that would get me most of the way across Kansas before going crazy! :D

I'm always a fan of Jenny (http://www.archive.org/details/tmg2002-10-23)by the Mountain Goats. Yes, I know it's not that kind of bike, but it still somehow fits.

8675309... :)

i was belting along on a hot summer's day when feeling groovy came on my ipod it just hit the spot.
Slow down you move to fast gotta make the morning last.

The Simon and Garfunkel version was great -- and Jim's Big Ego cover is even better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDaIuzxVxAM
(actual song starts around 1:36)

Back in the day, my cadence used to find itself picking up during training rides with this one.

Radar Love - Golden Earring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9CzSSk218


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HN_fIl9i6zQ/RlRsN64W-sI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/VQYsk0uGuts/s400/goldenearring.jpg

Frank Zappa---Excentrifugal Forz

The clouds are really cheap
the way i seen them through the forz
of which there are half a dozen
on the face of my resorts
you wouldn't think I'd have to many
since I never cared for sports
but I'm never really lonely in my excentrifugal forz

there's always corla plankun
Kim and me can play the blues
and then I watch him buff that
tiny ruby that he used

Hell straighten out his turban
and inject a little ooze
along a one cell hammond organism
underneath my shoe

and then I'll call pup tentacle
and ask him hows his chin
I'll find out how the future is
because that's where he's been
his little feet got long and flexible
and suckers fell right in
the time he crossed the line
from later on,the way back when

Back in the day, my cadence used to find itself picking up during training rides with this one.

Radar Love - Golden Earring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw9CzSSk218


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HN_fIl9i6zQ/RlRsN64W-sI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/VQYsk0uGuts/s400/goldenearring.jpg

Wow! That flashback brought this song to mind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PykVUnlTqXE

Willie Nelson - On the Road Again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPJD3qcIL7s

And I'd have to add the entire album of Kyuss' album, Welcome To Sky Valley.

The rest of mt music just....wouldn't be appreciated by this crowd ;D

I personally would be rocking to Machine Head and others while pedaling down the road.

Though some might consider this... A bit hard like the Nine Inch Nails as a forewarning.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE1UHKmwnaE&NR=1

John Denver, take me home country road. (when riding in WV).

More Zappa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg6X2hsl52E), and also the most-played track of my trans-am 2010 trip!

There are a lot of interesting songs here, but I don't think I'll be buying the compilation album. Actually, I think any music you like is good bike-touring music. Songs that have some a propos theme don't get any added value in my opinion.

I find myself listening to music much less on tour than in normal riding around home. On the tour I just completed I was on the road almost three weeks. I think I only listened to music on 2 or 3 of those days. I guess I just like to listen to the ambient sounds (and traffic) when I'm out in unfamiliar locales.

I put together several playlists for my training rides around home. They'll last 2 or 3 hours - enough for a good ride. The different playlists are for different moods. However, what I'm really enjoying on tour is to just put my mp3 player on shuffle and being surprised (pleasantly) by the music it picks for me. After all, all the music on my mp3 player is stuff I chose so I like it all. One weird thing though - whenever I put it on shuffle it always starts with the same tune - an obscure song by James Taylor that I dodn't like all that well - especially when I have to listen to it at the start of every ride. Any idea why that might happen?

"Come a long way" by Michelle Shocked. About riding her motorcycle, but it's still a two-wheeled song! Stupid video, but a good song.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cJZyjF9PlQ