Your Perfect 5 playlist

Try a couple of these

The Doors Soul kitchen
Blamange feel me now
Prodigy smack my bitch up
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Leftfield open up

Mark

 

I like music threads...
I couldn't possibly pin it down to 5 tracks though, no way. I like my music LOUD, and real, none of that 'manufactured' rubbish, electric guitars and real drums all the way with me, definitely an oldskool rock fan, I have the tinnitus to prove it !!
I have ridden bikes for 40 years, and only recently (when it's too late) with earplugs, and spent most of my yoof travelling the country to listen to heavy rock bands
And, I don't listen to music when I'm riding the bike - it's dangerous. But I do when I'm in the car, or on my pushbike - go figure...

 

Wrong so far guys

The first on starting the ride is a classic road song and it has to be the one playing as you ride out onto the road: -
Steppenwolf, Born To Be Wild.
Led Zep, Whole Lotta Love
Metalica, Enter Sandman
Free, All Right Now
Runrig, Proterra

OK so I know some of you are saying RUN..WHO, check them out on Youtube, Malcolm Jones is the best guitarist you have never heard of and they have been performing for over 40 years.

 

Reet then, these are taken from my most played list on my ipod, but the list changes regularly...
In no particular order
Alternative Ulster - Stiff little fingers
Ballroom blitz - The sweet
House of love - Skin
Pretty fly for a white guy - The offspring
Never again - Nickelback
The first cut is the deepest - Little angels
Lights - Journey
Feel like makin love - Bad company
Jailbait - Motorhead
Be lucky - The temperance movement
Higher ground - Red hot chilli peppers
Down at the doctors - Dr. Feelgood
Lights out - UFO

 

Good point DD, I'm dead superstitious !
In that case I will add
Travellin band - CCR
White trash millionaire - Black stone cherry
Diary of a workingman - Blackfoot
Jesus of suburbia - Greenday
Mr.Crowley - Ozzy

 

I've just lifted my response from the last thread.... except with a few further thoughts about suitable music that I thought about cycling home from the pub so apologies now for going off on one.

If I was listening on a bike rather than at home or in a car there are different criteria. Riding a bike is noisy, engines and the wind means that anything too subtle will get lost. Say goodbye to Portishead.

Complexity has to be avoided and it has to be relatively simple. Intricate patterns, changing time signatures and significant textural variations have to wait until I get home.

Acoustic folk guitar probably won't work although I might make an exception for Bob Brozman or Leo Lottke who hit the strings so hard they would never get lost in the general noise. Django unfortunately would get left behind.

The dynamics generally found in classical pieces will mean the quiet sections will be utterly lost. Then again, what about a selection of famous last movements (Brahms' 1st or Beethoven's 9th come to mind)? The 1812 or Ride of the Valkyries are suitably energetic but I get the feeling I'd start riding like a madman.

Repetitive stuff like Kraftwerk would work and I'm ashamed I've only just considered them. A continuous loop of Autobahn may well be the nearest to the perfect accompaniment to a long motorway ride (I suspect that may have been the idea )

So a steady beat, relatively strong melody and simple arrangements but with enough variations to keep an interest without distractions.

And so to my original post before I went off on one..... (I blame London Pride)

I won't listen to music when I'm riding. I've suffered from tinnitus for a long time. Too many gigs with a loud fiddle player and riding bikes without ear protection did for me over the past 30 years. I've tried to use some specialized helmet speakers but the music has be loud enough to make sense which is not doing my ears any favours, cuts out too much ambient noise and I start to lose touch with the outside world.

If I were to listen to music though I think it would be a very different list now than what it may have been 30 years ago with less emphasis on hard rock for songs with a more relaxed groove (goes with the cruiser I guess ) So plucked from my ipod "favs" playlist. All of them give me a sense of movement, of open spaces, and I can almost see those bends rolling off in the distance.....

African Velvet - Black Velvet
September Gurls - Big Star
Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence

 

Specifically for riding along to - my top 5 would be -

Back in black - AC/DC
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
Born to be wild - Steppenwolf
The weight - the Band
Hard to handle - the Black crows

 

Best Driving Tunes Evva!! Volumes 1,2,3,4 and 5

 

Top 5 all-time driving music:

"Radar Love" - Golden Earring

"Alright Now" - Free

"Born to be wild" - Steppenwolf

"Wish you were here" - Pink Floyd

"Get offa my Cloud" - THE Rolling Stones

The list would have been different yesterday and will be different tomorrow. There's so much brilliant music out there it's impossible for me to put up a definitive list.

Please note I said "driving music" not riding music - I would never have earpieces in, whilst riding, too distracting.

Dave

 

No arguments there and I especially agree with the last sentence

Has anybody ridden a bike with speakers? Isn't it embarrassing riding through a town like the brain dead morons in "souped-up" Astras with a boot full of bass bins or do you switch it off I wonder?

 

Ask any member of the Goldwing forum

 

now you are stereotyping them,seen a few Harleys with these they don't look any better

 

yeah....stereotypes don't come any bigger than Harley/Goldwing riders
Shoot me

 

probably cos your a bit more intelligent than me !

 

Has anybody ridden a bike with speakers?....................Guilty as charged, road two hundred miles on Goldie with the volume cranked all the way up because me and her ont back could not hear the Music or SatNav.....I'd switched it to speakers and not headphone...............it was only a crowd of people looking when the Sat Nav said..................take the next turn on the left......that we realised what was happening.

 

It would appear that by the track suggestions ... and the fact that we have Goldwing riders present
that I'm clearly the baby of the group ..... and I'm 38!!

I couldn't possibly narrow it down to 5 tracks .... or even 5 artists/bands

I don't listen to music on the bike (the car is the place for me try to understand music..... big fan of Dream Theatre and believe it or not King Crimson and Yes .... well before my time but great musicians)

.... however I once did listen to music on the bike ..... and listening to Thrash metal such as Megadeth certainly makes your right wrist twist a bit further...