What's on your Ipod?
04-02-08, 10:02 AM
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What's on your Ipod?
Nothing like a little Dave Matthews "The Dreaming Tree" to get me climbing. Not that I would advocate Ipod usage during a road ride, but when I'm solo in the State Park or cranking intervals on the trainer a little motivational music inspires me to turn the pace up a bit. Of course there are some BFers who think that listening to their lungs pump air and chatter of the chain is beneficial. Don't get me wrong I like a nice quiet ride too. Hard to beat a little Pink Floyd,U2,Rush or maybe Inxs. What's on yours?
04-02-08, 11:16 AM
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jamie T, the streets, rjd2, with a few oldies thrown in (killers, bloc party, basement jaxx)
lately i can't get sara bareilles out of my head. not ashamed to say it's a really good album.
lately i can't get sara bareilles out of my head. not ashamed to say it's a really good album.
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04-02-08, 11:18 AM
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3 darkstep sessions - over an hours worth of aggressive drum-n-bass.
04-02-08, 11:19 AM
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Songs sorted by BPM, then for race warm up songs > 130, for general riding > 100. There's actually a band called 56x11 or something like that that's really good.
04-02-08, 11:33 AM
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Everything...
Metallica, Jay-Z, Dierks Bentley, John Mayer Trio
If it's upbeat, has a good steady rhythm and doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge, I load it on.
Just downloaded 'Beat It' by Fall Out Boy w/John Mayer playing the heavy guitar part...killer!
Metallica, Jay-Z, Dierks Bentley, John Mayer Trio
If it's upbeat, has a good steady rhythm and doesn't make me want to jump off a bridge, I load it on.
Just downloaded 'Beat It' by Fall Out Boy w/John Mayer playing the heavy guitar part...killer!
04-02-08, 11:42 AM
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04-02-08, 11:48 AM
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I'm a fan of podcasts like "Fresh Air" and "This American Life" for my commute, which has few cars and fewer people.
On real road rides I don't pod up.
On real road rides I don't pod up.
04-02-08, 12:19 PM
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Oh yeah, I forgot: Grammar Girl podcast.
She sounds hot. And when she talks about coordinating conjunctions....
She sounds hot. And when she talks about coordinating conjunctions....
04-02-08, 12:54 PM
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just bought the new little 2gig shuffle for riding:
fela kuti
the minutemen
modest mouse
interpol
alison krause + robert plant bluegrass thing
bottle rockets
heatmiser (elliot smith's band before he went solo)
the decemberists
neutral milk hotel
fela kuti
the minutemen
modest mouse
interpol
alison krause + robert plant bluegrass thing
bottle rockets
heatmiser (elliot smith's band before he went solo)
the decemberists
neutral milk hotel
04-02-08, 12:58 PM
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I think my iPod has mostly video game soundtracks on it right now.
Sins of a Solar Empire and Mechwarrior 2 that I know about for sure.
Not that I'd actually wear in on a ride, though. The one time I tried that at a closed racetrack, the noise of the wind rushing past the earbuds at even 10 mph was louder than the music.
Sins of a Solar Empire and Mechwarrior 2 that I know about for sure.
Not that I'd actually wear in on a ride, though. The one time I tried that at a closed racetrack, the noise of the wind rushing past the earbuds at even 10 mph was louder than the music.
04-02-08, 01:07 PM
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kanye west
t-pain
beyonce
man is the bas+ard
grey album (jay-z + beatles white album = awesome)
the roots
only the best sounds on my ipod!
t-pain
beyonce
man is the bas+ard
grey album (jay-z + beatles white album = awesome)
the roots
only the best sounds on my ipod!
04-02-08, 01:13 PM
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try different earpieces. the stock ones hurt like hell in my ears. i bought some soft ones that fit in the ear and it's much better. i ride with mine all the time commuting and training but not on group rides. i live in l.a. where there's always traffic and don't have a problem. i don't have the volume too loud so i can still hear the surroundings.
04-02-08, 02:59 PM
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Allman Bros. -- Eat A Peach
Bob Marley -- Greatest Hits
Lynrd Skynrd -- Greatest Hits
Marshall Tucker
Eric Clapton -- Cream of Clapton
U2 -- Greatest
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Journey
Steve Miller
Eagles
Jimmy Buffett
Brudda Iz
Vivaldi -- Best Of
Chopin -- Best Of
I am 50 you know.
Bob Marley -- Greatest Hits
Lynrd Skynrd -- Greatest Hits
Marshall Tucker
Eric Clapton -- Cream of Clapton
U2 -- Greatest
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Journey
Steve Miller
Eagles
Jimmy Buffett
Brudda Iz
Vivaldi -- Best Of
Chopin -- Best Of
I am 50 you know.
04-02-08, 03:43 PM
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Air
Angus & Julia Stone
Architecture in Helsinki
Artic Monkeys
Ben Folds
Ben Kweller
BRMC
Damien Rice
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Kanye West
LCD Soundsystem
Lupe Fiasco
Machine Translations
Neil Young
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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PJ Harvey
Professor Ratbaggy
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Royksopp
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The Dandy Warhols
The Flaming Lips
The Frames
The Shins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Thom Yorke
Angus & Julia Stone
Architecture in Helsinki
Artic Monkeys
Ben Folds
Ben Kweller
BRMC
Damien Rice
Gorillaz
Gotye
Kanye West
LCD Soundsystem
Lupe Fiasco
Machine Translations
Neil Young
New Buffalo
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Of Montreal
PJ Harvey
Professor Ratbaggy
Radiohead
Red Riders
Royksopp
Sufjan Stevens
The Dandy Warhols
The Flaming Lips
The Frames
The Shins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smiths
Thom Yorke
04-02-08, 04:30 PM
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I usually listen to NPR podcasts; Car Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me are two favorites. I'm not always near a radio when they're broadcast, so I enjoy getting to listen to them at my convenience.
WTF.... okay, I did not expect to see someone -- never mind TWO people -- post up drum corps before I did.. lol
I've got about 1400 drum corps files, only 300+ of which are full shows -- the rest are all short clips & parking lot recordings. It's really funny when I have the whole iTunes library on shuffle and it goes from, say, Norah Jones to a 3-second lick of Cadets' tenor line to Count Basie.
I've been moving my feet to music for quite a few years now (20 and counting). As a result, I base my cadence on particular songs & passages that I know well.
Strangely -- well, maybe not so strange, considering my past -- I actually have a problem jogging or cycling to music that's at a different tempo than my feet. Seriously, if the tempo's a bit off or totally different, my stride goes to hell and I feel like I'm stumbling. So, I went through a bunch of stuff that I liked, assigned a bpm number to each track, and made a playlist of just tracks that are within a few clicks of my running cadence. Military running cadences are a good tempo for me, as are choice drum corps bits like SCV '03's opener and their drumline's "farts" & giggles warmup.
It's also fun to hear some Charlie Poole field tapes every once in a while.
WTF.... okay, I did not expect to see someone -- never mind TWO people -- post up drum corps before I did.. lol
I've got about 1400 drum corps files, only 300+ of which are full shows -- the rest are all short clips & parking lot recordings. It's really funny when I have the whole iTunes library on shuffle and it goes from, say, Norah Jones to a 3-second lick of Cadets' tenor line to Count Basie.
I've been moving my feet to music for quite a few years now (20 and counting). As a result, I base my cadence on particular songs & passages that I know well.
Strangely -- well, maybe not so strange, considering my past -- I actually have a problem jogging or cycling to music that's at a different tempo than my feet. Seriously, if the tempo's a bit off or totally different, my stride goes to hell and I feel like I'm stumbling. So, I went through a bunch of stuff that I liked, assigned a bpm number to each track, and made a playlist of just tracks that are within a few clicks of my running cadence. Military running cadences are a good tempo for me, as are choice drum corps bits like SCV '03's opener and their drumline's "farts" & giggles warmup.
It's also fun to hear some Charlie Poole field tapes every once in a while.
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