best ride songs

From: (Don*Piven)

recycled wrote:

16. Mercedes Benz- Janis Joplin

I came up with some alternative lyrics
some time ago while climbing up one too
many ridgelines in SW Wisconsin:

Oh Lord, won't ya buy me a titanium
frame Got dropped by a Huffy and I'm
lookin' real lame Don't want no
aluminum, it just don't ride the same So
Lord, won't ya buy me a titanium frame

Oh Lord, won't ya buy me a shiny new
bike Encrusted with Campy, that's just
what I'd like Shimano ain't classy, so go
take a hike

Oh Lord, won't ya buy me a shiny new
bike

You need to embeed a Midi into your post for those of us who don't know
the song, that way we can sing along :-3)

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From: (JCrowe)
recycled wrote:

My favorite remains Il Barbiere di Siviglia
by Rossini. Now back to your regularly
scheduled discussion.....

Whilst riding along holding an imaginary conversation with Dave Stohler.
In Italian, of course.

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What, nobody sings "Daisy" anymore? LOL

I forgot to add (in my original post), for mountain biking NOTHING beats
a good bluegrass song (yee haw)!

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Peter Cole wrote:
landotter wrote:
On Aug 3, 8:08 am, "recycled" wrote:
My list of 25 all-time favourite cycling music:

[OLD MUSIC SNIPPED]

Get with the times!!

Yeah, FYI -- good new music has come out in the last 30 years. Sorry, it
wasn't Jewel.

There have been a few good things written since 1830.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”

In article ,
(It's Chris) writes:
What, nobody sings "Daisy" anymore? LOL

Alice Cooper could probably come up with
an entertaining version.

I forgot to add (in my original post), for mountain biking NOTHING beats
a good bluegrass song (yee haw)!

I rather enjoy David Bromberg's spirited rendition of
The Boggy Road to Milledgeville (Arkansas Traveller.)

While it's not exactly bluegrass, Yes's Steve Howe's
The Clap is an amusing & frenetic li'l guitar instrumental.

There's also a bunch of Taj Mahal tunes I really like.

If you wanna sing while you ride (and make onlookers
think you're crazy) nothing beats a Willie Dixon
belter-outer. Or Leadbelly's Rock Island Line ("I got
Iron! I got ol' pig iron!")

That aria from Madame Butterfly is nice, but some of
those high notes are hard to hit; almost as difficult
as early Led Zeppelin/Robert Plant material. Better
to opt for the Willie Dixon stuff. And AC/DC's Who
Made Who, while reminiscing about the Steven King
movie adaptation of Maximum Overdrive.

I also like Pink Floyd's Learning To Fly, debut'd in
their Momentary Lapse Of Reason album --
"tongue-tied & twisted,
just an earth-bound misfit ..."

I'm sure Neil Young's Downtown could be handsomely
adapted into a Critical Mass anthem.


cheers,
Tom

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In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
Peter Cole wrote:
landotter wrote:
On Aug 3, 8:08 am, "recycled" wrote:
My list of 25 all-time favourite cycling music:

[OLD MUSIC SNIPPED]

Get with the times!!

Yeah, FYI -- good new music has come out in the last 30 years. Sorry, it
wasn't Jewel.

There have been a few good things written since 1830.

Especially Betty Crocker's Cookbook.


cheers,
Tom

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tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

In article ,
(It's Chris) writes:
13. Spirit in the Sky - Greenbaum/Dr and
Medics

-Either the original or the 80's cover
works for me and I'm not even religious.

You don't have to be, I'm not eiher. That base guitar is just too cool
NOT to loike.

If you like bass guitar, I've just gotta highly
recommend Chris Squire's Fish Out Of Water album.

It's such a knockout. To me, anyways. I really
appreciate Chris Squire's work. But that's just
my own taste.

[Old] Talking Head's Tina Weymouth is a highly
appreciatable bass guitarist talent, too.

And then there's that original guy from Santana's
band.


cheers,
Tom

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Tom Keats wrote:
In article ,
Tom Sherman writes:
Peter Cole wrote:
landotter wrote:
On Aug 3, 8:08 am, "recycled" wrote:
My list of 25 all-time favourite cycling music:

[OLD MUSIC SNIPPED]

Get with the times!!
Yeah, FYI -- good new music has come out in the last 30 years. Sorry, it
wasn't Jewel.
There have been a few good things written since 1830.

Especially Betty Crocker's Cookbook.

Lacks recipes for "long pig".

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
“Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken /
She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it’s labeled chicken.”

In article ,
(Tom Keats) wrote:

In article ,
(It's Chris) writes:
What, nobody sings "Daisy" anymore? LOL

Alice Cooper could probably come up with
an entertaining version.

I forgot to add (in my original post), for mountain biking NOTHING beats
a good bluegrass song (yee haw)!

I rather enjoy David Bromberg's spirited rendition of
The Boggy Road to Milledgeville (Arkansas Traveller.)

While it's not exactly bluegrass, Yes's Steve Howe's
The Clap is an amusing & frenetic li'l guitar instrumental.

There's also a bunch of Taj Mahal tunes I really like.

If you wanna sing while you ride (and make onlookers
think you're crazy) nothing beats a Willie Dixon
belter-outer. Or Leadbelly's Rock Island Line ("I got
Iron! I got ol' pig iron!")

That aria from Madame Butterfly is nice, but some of
those high notes are hard to hit; almost as difficult
as early Led Zeppelin/Robert Plant material. Better
to opt for the Willie Dixon stuff. And AC/DC's Who
Made Who, while reminiscing about the Steven King
movie adaptation of Maximum Overdrive.

I also like Pink Floyd's Learning To Fly, debut'd in
their Momentary Lapse Of Reason album --
"tongue-tied & twisted,
just an earth-bound misfit ..."

I'm sure Neil Young's Downtown could be handsomely
adapted into a Critical Mass anthem.


cheers,
Tom

It took some time, but I've got my iTunes library tagged by tempo, and a
custom playlist that fills my Shuffle with a random collection of songs
135 BPM that haven't been played in the last 6 weeks. Highlights of today's commute we

Devo - That's good
Angel City - Waiting for the world
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Go Daddy-o
Bruce Springsteen - Radio nowhere
Burton Cummings - Nikki Hokey
Cyndi Lauper - She bop
Joe Jackson - Memphis
The Knack - That's what the little girls do
Queen - Coming soon
The Teddy Boys - Life in the big city
Utopia - That's not right
Van Halen - You really got me
Ultravox - Serenade
XTC - Helicopter

Tomorrow it will be another 240 songs

PS: If it's blugrass that you're into, check out Hayseed Dixie's cover
of Strawberry Fields Forever. That'll stretch your brain.

It's Chris wrote:
What, nobody sings "Daisy" anymore? LOL

Sure, problem is it always sounds like the HAL9000 in my head. :-)



Shawn