momof4greatkids

Here's a few of my favorites that work well for cycling, some are good tempo songs, others good suffering songs, others yet just take me to that happy place in my mind


Running down a dream, Tom Petty

Centerfield- John FOgerty

Bicycle Race- Queen

Where the streets have no name-U2

Hurts so Good-John Mellencamp

I'm bad, I'm nationwide-ZZ Top

Hurt-Johnny cash

Legs-ZZ Top

RnR High School-Ramones

***** Tonk Women-Stones

I can only Imagine-Mercy Me

Rocking in the free world-Neil Young

I've been everywhere-Johny Cash

Sweet child of mine-Guns and Roses

Into the mystic-Van Morrison

Tangled up in Blue-Dylan

Red Rider

Me, too!

Our kids gave us each an iPod Nano for Christmas. In a month I had too much music on it. That forced me to create playlists, a handy tool for when I create ride profiles for my Spinning classes. Like many of you I have a wide variety of tunes -- Fleetwood Mac ("Penguin"), Cream, Joplin, Climax Blues Band, Roy Buchanan, Moby, Banco de Gaia, INXS, and so on. No Barely Maneough, but I do have some BeeGees. "Nights on Broadway" is a terrific hill climbing song.

Never use it on the road but it's a lifesaver for indoor training & podcast-listening when I engage in subcortical housewifey activities (aka ironing, weeding, cleaning, etc.).

I have a conversion program on my laptop so I can record LPs and tapes into my iTunes library. We have about 400 LPs, so I can go without buying music for a long, long time.

Love the iPod!

BluesDawg

Good mix of songs, but leave that contraption at home when you ride your Serotta. It can take you to your happy place without electronic assistance. If you need music playing while you ride, you aren't getting what you could out of your riding. Kind of dangerous too (imho).

n4zou

I have a wireless audio device that can download streaming audio providing random selections of music, as well as sports, and news reports. No computer is ever required nor is there ever a need to plug the device into a computer running propriety software required to activate the downloaded audio content. Some of these audio players have mass storage capability allowing the user to store streaming audio for later use with no limits or additional costs. These wireless audio devices are available everywhere at very low cost. There are no fees associated with the use of these audio devices.
Can you guess what this device is?

The Weak Link

Let me preface my remarks with this brief jeramiad: DG, neener neener you doo-doo brain.

This is a sample of what I have loaded on my MP3 player that I like:

Gretchen Wilson -- All Jacked Up.
Brad Paisley -- Ticks
Whiskey Falls -- Last Train Running.
Weather Report -- Birdland.
The Who -- Baba O'Reilly.
Talking Heads -- Once in a Lifetime.
Spiderbait -- Black Betty.
Porcupine Tree -- The Sound of Muzak.
Miriam Stockley -- Morte d'Arthur
Bach -- 6th Brandenburg Concerto.
And a ton of stuff by Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke.

The only problem with any of the above is I've listened to them a tad too much, so I'm looking for new blood.

maddmaxx 

But the fidelity may leave something to be desired and the tempo is off when climbing hills. Have I guessed right.

Tom Bombadil

Ah, TWL knows about Porcupine Tree ... excellent. I have three of their CDs. My favorite genre of music is progressive rock - I must own about 20 Yes CDs.

I'll second momof4's John Fogerty's suggestion. That whole live album of his, released upon his comeback of a few years ago, is excellent.

I love blues too, and blues-rock - I have two Allman Brothers CDs in my car for traveling music.

Unlike others here, I tend to listen to entire albums, or even multiple albums from an artist, rather than mix up playlists with a variety of singles. Once I get into the mood to listen to a certain artist, I like listening to an hour or two from them.

Mojo Slim

I have a 30 gb video iPod. I play it on "shuffle" about 95% of the time. Can't live without it. Here's the approximate breakdown (talk about OCP):
3508 blues
2232 rock
255 pop
242 R&B
97 alternative
87 country
69 reggae
65 electronica/dance
60 jazz
28 folk
21 latin
21 metal
18 hip hop/rap
11 dance
10 bluegrass
4 soundtrack
4 world
2 classical
1 Big Band
1 easy listening
1 holiday
1 swing
1 spoken word

Yen

I have the same iPod...... I guess I'm way underusing it. Gotta put more tunes and stuff on it.

RedRider, would you mind telling me about the conversion program on your laptop? Hubby has many old LPs and has a desire to do the same.

The Weak Link

I like Porcupine Tree. Can you recommend other groups with a similar sound?

robtown

I've had a RIO 500 for years (129MB MMC card). I've recently tie-wrapped a set of battery powered speakers to my helmet and listen to audible books on the commute to work. Last week was Dune.
I get a few odd looks - and a lot of people I overtake know I'm coming. Some roadies get a little distraught when they can't seem to shake me but I'm not slowing down to accommodate them.

swan652

Bought an IPod for my Daughter for her birthday in April and thought I might pick one up for myself for working out and stationary bike time. I finally got around to shopping for my own last week, but when I was looking at them realized that I'm too out-of-date to use one...all the MP3's I looked at required Windows XP and I'm still operating Windows 98. When I mentioned this to the kid showing these MP3's to me he looked at me like I had just walked out of a cave wearing a loincloth. Sigh...
If I had one though, it would have blues, jazz, old rock n roll and classic country.

Mojo Slim

I have a small piece of hardware (a pre-amp, I assume) that allows me to plug my turntable and cassette deck into my computer. It was about $70 from DAK. It works great. Software is downloaded and includes a "depopper and dehisser" and an equalizer. It makes great digital music from your old analog stuff. I, too, have 400+ LPs and and as many cassettes, many of which I have converted.

Mojo Slim

And oh, I kinda like Porcupine Tree, too.

cccorlew

Podcasts. I love This American Life, Fresh Air and the Fredcast
Music wise, I love Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky, Gillian Welsh, Jackie Greene and a new guy who sings old fashion soul, Ryan Shaw

malkin

Oh Oh OH!
I Love my ipod! I have hours and hours and hours of Alan Watts on it and mostly listen to it when the late night radio is too iritating or horrifying to calm me while I wait to go back to sleep.

hoss10

Love my mp3 player, I will not buy an Ipod, (I don't know why). Anyway I tend to go on tangents and listem to the same artist until I get tiried of it. Right now I into a little known Canadian, Ron Sexsmith man can this guy write songs. Other tangents Tom Waits, The Pouges, Great Big Sea, Rawlins Cross.

wrafl

Congratulations. I have the Sandisc MP3 flash player with a collection of my favorite music from the 50's through 80's jazz, rock, elevator sound, disco and blues. Favorite artists, Harry Chapin, Eric Clapton, The Doors, ELO, Grateful Dead, Moody Blues, Queen, Spuro Gyra, etc. I don't listen when I'm riding though. I know some riders I ran into does listen on their player. To each his own I suppose. Not on my collection Barry Manilow.

Barese Rider

What is an ipod anyway?

Frankenbiker

I borrowed an iPod from ITS at the University a couple of years ago to develop a podcast program for the Dean. It sat in my desk at work for most of the year except to test the program and really didn't appeal to me as a music storage device since I couldn't stand the earbuds. Maybe it also was because it wasn't as user-friendly as I would have liked.

I have also become rather weary of contemporary pop, country, and "oldies' music that gets played over and over and over again. I have recently been listening to "unknown" indie bands and music that I find more stimulating than same-old rut "music" that music companies tend to force down our throats.

I find that the exploration and discovery of new bands on the Internet is much more fun than listening to Barry Manilow belt out Copacabana for the umteenth time. Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy.

That said, my iTunes library has 621 songs, 2 days and 6.14 GB of eclectic music ranging from everything to everything not.

Tom Bombadil

Toughie. Porcupine Tree drew their inspiration from the 1970s Yes and Pink Floyd sound, and as a tribute, toured with Yes 2-3 years back. Another progressive rock group that some like is Spock's Beard. Wouldn't say they sound like Porky Tree, but is the same genre of music.

Others who like PT like Rush or Dream Theater.

And I've read some positive reviews of a group named Blackfield from people who like PT and Pink Floyd. Steven Wilson of PT also sings with Blackfield. But I've never heard any of their music. Now that I'm thinking of it, I should order a CD from them and check them out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Wilson

Red Rider

It's called Plus! Analog Recorder. You can buy it on the web for, I think, $15, and we just found out it's not available anymore. It was a Microsoft program now available through Vista. Go to microsoftdotcom and see what they tell you. (We still run XP and have no plans to upgrade.) Sorry about that.

We have some classical LPs recorded in Hungary in the 60s that you just can't get anywhere, and I can't wait to convert them.

First I have to convert my CC&R, Cream, Led Zepplin, Beatles, you know, those feel-good and rockin' songs from a couple generations ago.

Motorad

No way Jose would I have anything in my ears that would prevent me from hearing the pickup truck that has my name on it. My luck, that pickup truck will probably also have the word (Dodge) Ram on it. I get enjoyment from the non-electronic sounds while on the bike as well.

But still being in the Fred-category of bikers, I could listen to this themesong in one ear while riding: "Flinstones, Meet the Flintstones..."

Here is a recent photo of me when I renewed my driver's license this year.
< https://www.adventurecorps.com/way/freds.html >

Halfast

What is an IPOD or an MP3 player?

Frankenbiker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3_player