Need Recommendations: Good Spinning Songs

I'm a child of the 70's. Here's my favorite albums. I used to burn mixes
of various tracks but it became too much of a pain to do. Usually I throw
on a CD, strap on my HRM spin for the length of the disc.
Alan Parsons Project: Instrumental Works
Jethro Tull: Aqualung
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King
Santana: Best of Santana
Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell
Another thing I recently did was subscribe to MSN Music. They have
streaming 'mood' stations. I tried the workout station and found it to be
obnoxious and overbearing. Kind of like going to the local Golds Gym but
without the gym bunnies to eye up.
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What's you favorite songs to spin to? I have several more
weeks indoors up here in WI.

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I usually think of this sort of thing in album terms.

Arrested Development: "3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the
Life Of...,"

Social Distortion: "Social Distortion"

Talking Heads: "Remain in Light"

I'd think of more, but weather's warm enough to ride outside
here in Virginia, yay!

-Luigi

Talking Heads: "Remain in Light"

Good, but TH77.

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On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 21:32:54 -0500, "Eric S. Sande" <[email hidden]>

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Talking Heads: "Remain in Light"

Good, but TH77.

I'll keep it under advisement.

The other thing to do is ride to the album of "Stop
Making Sense."

but I have to fight the temptation to do the Big Stupid
Suit dance.

-Luigi

"We dress like students, We dress like housewives Or in a
suit and a tie-- Changed my hairstyle So many times now I
don't know what I look like"
- "Life during Wartime"

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Talking Heads: "Remain in Light"

Good, but TH77.

'Psycho Killer' would be right up there.

'No Compassion' might require BioPace, since it's so
syncopated.

'Thank You For Sending Me An Angel' (from 'More Songs About
Buildings & Food'😉 might be good to spin to.

When ppl ask about what songs they should listen to, maybe
the timing and phase of the moon has much to do with the
suggestions given. Right now I'm tempted to suggest a bunch
of those Telemann concertos with recorders in 'em, and
Paganini's Caprices. And maybe some Alice Cooper. And the
2nd movement of Beethoven's 8th symphony.

I dunno. Maybe when ppl have to ask what to listen to,
something ain't right. Folks should know what they want from
the outset.

I'm gonna listen to the Fred McDowell 'You've Got to Move',
and then listen to some mellow Al Stewart 'Year of the Cat'
stuff. And then kick into some Led Zep -- especially the
heavy 'No Quarter' on The Song Remains the Same. And then
play my own rendition of Johnny Horton's 'Honky Tonk Man' on
my home-built hammered dulcimer. And then go to bed. After
eating a couple of hot dogs. Anyhow, I've gotta pee like a
plough horse right now, so g'night.

cheers, Tom

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What's you favorite songs to spin to? I have several more
weeks indoors up here in WI.

Well, since one of my legs is shorter than the other, I like
to spin to a waltz.

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fly a midget on a kite over Central Park."
J. Moran

On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:38:24 -0800, [email hidden] (Tom Keats)

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Talking Heads: "Remain in Light"

Good, but TH77.

'Psycho Killer' would be right up there.

See, Psycho Killer has some pluses and minuses. It's not
fast enough to get a decent cadence going unless you're
climbing out of the saddle....

The big plus is that you can shout out those bits in French:

"CE QUE J'AI FAIT--CE SOIR LA! CE QU'ELLE A DIT--CE SOIR LA!
REALISANT MON ESPOIR, JE ME LANCE VERS LA GLOIRE....!"

Okay, so I confess to doing that occasionally when on the
road.

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'No Compassion' might require BioPace, since it's so
syncopated.

'Thank You For Sending Me An Angel' (from 'More Songs About
Buildings & Food'😉 might be good to spin to.

See, I prefer the "Remain in Light" album as spin fodder
because it's relentlessly upbeat almost the whole way
through. "Born Under Punches," "Crosseyed and Painless" &
"The Great Curve" keep you spinning away at a respectable
cadence...and when you sprint at the end of "curve" you have
a nice recovery with "Once in a Lifetime," just before you
pick it back up again with "Houses in Motion."

Plus, those Brian Eno keyboard bits are great for
spinning to.

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When ppl ask about what songs they should listen to, maybe
the timing and phase of the moon has much to do with the
suggestions given. Right now I'm tempted to suggest a bunch
of those Telemann concertos with recorders in 'em, and
Paganini's Caprices. And maybe some Alice Cooper. And the
2nd movement of Beethoven's 8th symphony.

Paganini: yes.

I'm surprised nobody's picked any opera-- the Soldiers'
Chorus from "The Decembrists," for instance, or Nixon's
"news" aria from "Nixon in China." And, since it's Lent,
there's always Verdi's Requiem--nothing to motivate you
to greater heights of self-denial like the very trumpets
of doomsday!

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I dunno. Maybe when ppl have to ask what to listen to,
something ain't right. Folks should know what they want
from the outset.

Yup!

I forgot an indispensible album, though: Gin Blossoms "New
Miserable Experience." Not only does the title aptly
describe a session on the trainer, but it's just upbeat
enough to follow, with enough bits mixed in for recovery.

-Luigi

"well tell me do you think it'd be all right if I could just
crash here tonight-- You can see I'm in no shape for ridin'
and anyway I got no place to go"
- apologies to Gin Blossoms, "Hey Jealousy"

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There's a lot of good tunes on the latest Tiferet CD :-)

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here in WI.

Heh heh.. "Flight of the Bumblebee"? "Die Walkere"? "Orange
Blossom Special"?

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Heh heh.. "Flight of the Bumblebee"? "Die Walkere"?

well while we're in the classical repretoire:

"Sabre Dance" from Aram Katchaturiam's "Bartered Bride" The
Barber of Seville overture, by Rossini Tchaikovsky's 1812
Overture "An American in Paris" by Gershwin (gee, almost
like commuting!)
J.S. Bach's "Goldberg Variations," as performed by Glenn
Gould "Rodeo" by Aaron Copeland

-Luigi

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"Orange Blossom Special"?

Folsom Prison Blues? On the Road Again? Me and Bobby McGee?

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Heh heh.. "Flight of the Bumblebee"? "Die Walkere"?
"Orange Blossom Special"?

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 20:55:33 -0600, Mike Schwab <[email hidden]>

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Folsom Prison Blues?

Johnny Cash while cycling is *great*. "Wreck of the Old 97"
is also a sentimental fave of mine.

-Luigi

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It's funny, but what I find myself thinking about most of
the time in the saddle are trucking songs. The theme from
"Smokey and the Bandit" (East Bound and Down), "Driving My
Life Away" (great tempo) and "Six Days on the Road" come to
mind immediately.

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Heh heh.. "Flight of the Bumblebee"? "Die Walkere"?

That's my climbing music.

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My all-time favorite is "The Allman Brothers Band: A Decade
of Hits, 1969-1979." There are alternatives, though. I wrote
a column on this topic for Bicycle Retailer & Industry News
a couple years back, and here it is for anyone who's
condemned to riding inside on a Monday morning.

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Going to a go-go. - The Miracles

BY PATRICK O'GRADY

Thinking ahead is not my long suit. I muddle around in the
moment, waiting for my past to catch up with me, while the
future lurks in some dark alley up ahead, probably with a
piece of lead pipe in one knobby hand.

The past caught up in February, when I realized that I
hadn't ridden a bike in weeks (it wasn't much of a chase;
about like Gord Fraser reeling in Nathan Lane).

The future was peeking around the corner of late March, when
I was to be at Sea Otter, where people often ride bikes and
insist you accompany them.

I checked the thermometer and its festive sheath of icicles.
Still loitering around zero, with the ever-popular wind out
of the northwest. I checked my legs. All wrong. Hairy,
white, and weirdly muscled from running around in the snow
like an Iditarod musher thrown from his sled.

Time to start riding the wind trainer.

Get Down, Get Down

Now, the only thing I despise more than USA Cycling, right-
wing zealotry, politicians, sobriety, the Eternal Revenue
Service, Boulder, Fords, payment 60 days after publication,
dopers in Lycra, SUVs, Las Vegas, Motel 6, mass merchants,
the Front Strange, retarded motorists, Critical Massholes,
cows on my 'cross course and winter, is the wind trainer.

I can't even look at one of the infernal contraptions
without remembering a friend's tales of his dad's World War
II service. He and the rest of the 101st Airborne were
trapped at Bastogne, during the Battle of the Bulge, and
one of his duties was pedaling a wind-trainer-like
generator that kept a radio working. At least he was
generating electricity; all I've ever generated is boredom,
sautéed in sweat.

Twist And Shout

Still, I will turn to the wind trainer in extremis, the
equivalent of a GI making a trench confession before heading
into battle. But I can't simply hop onto the damned thing
and start cranking out watts. I must have distractions.

Thus, after bolting an elderly Steelman onto the Cateye
Cyclosimulator, I reached for "The Allman Brothers Band: A
Decade of Hits, 1969-1979." By far the best "Symphony for
Wind Trainer" ever scored, it is an hourlong interval
workout, from the high-cadence warmup of "Statesboro Blues"
through the brutal seven minutes of "Jessica" to the leg-
breaking pinnacle, "One Way Out." "Midnight Rider,"
"Melissa" and "Blue Sky" provide recovery between efforts.
And what better way to wind up a ride to nowhere than with
"Whipping Post," the final tune on the CD? "Good Lord, I
feel like I'm dyin'Š."

And Now, The Resurrection Shuffle

But even this failed to stir me. "Christ, if the Allman
Brothers can't get me on the bike, who can?" I sniveled. And
then KRCC-FM, our area's National Public Radio affiliate,
launched into "Vintage Voltage," its Friday oldies show,
anchored by GT (no, not the bike company; a dude name of
Gary Tatel, who knows a damn' sight more than Pacific Cycles
about spinning a righteous disc).

Bam, I was on the bike and rockin'. Sly and the Family
Stone, "Dance to the Music." The Drifters, "Save The Last
Dance for Me." Otis Redding, "Shake." Wilson Pickett, "Land
of 1,000 Dances." And the finale, with my rear tire smoking
and sweat droplets sprinkling the living-room carpet,
"Dancing in the Streets," by Martha and the Vandellas.

It was only one ride, but it was a start. And while summer
may not be here, the time was right, and when I hit Monterey
I was dancin' in the streets.

Kept the jeans on, though, even when it was warm enough for
shorts. Not even the wind trainer and Wilson Pickett can do
anything about those Day-Glo legs.

(c) 2002/Patrick O'Grady/Mad Dog Media

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Stevie Ray Vaughan albums are my favorite, with "Couldn't
Stand the Weather", "Texas Flood", and "In Step" at the top
of the list. Smokey

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Exile on Main Street -- The Rolling Stones.

Regards, Richard Stanz

And what about Eddie Rabbit and his song about driving
in the rain?

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It's funny, but what I find myself thinking about most of
the time in the saddle are trucking songs. The theme from
"Smokey and the Bandit" (East Bound and Down), "Driving My
Life Away" (great tempo) and "Six Days on the Road" come
to mind immediately.

All for different reasons of course....

Wabash Cannonball (Dixie Dregs) Need to be prepared for
cardiac arrest if you plan to pedal in synch.

Too Much Time on My Hands (Styx) You are on a trainer ,
after all.

Dizz Knee Land (Dada) You are on a trainer, after all.

1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) Good long warm up with a long
high-paced workout/sprint towards the end. Punch it in time
with the cannons!

Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2) You are on a trainer after all

:-)

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