Songs that describe the feeling of bicycle touring
09-09-07, 01:29 AM
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Beach Boys, "I Get Around"; and, of course, Grace Jones, "Warm Leatherette," for those of us who cannot afford the very best.
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Franz Schubert, "Das Wandern", from Die Schone Mullerin.
While not a song, the first movement of the Mendelssohn Symphony #4 often pops into my head when pedaling. It was used in the film Breaking Away.
And yesterday while trudging through a metric century with a companion who never varied his cadence, Leroy Anderson's "Syncopated Clock" came to mind.
While not a song, the first movement of the Mendelssohn Symphony #4 often pops into my head when pedaling. It was used in the film Breaking Away.
And yesterday while trudging through a metric century with a companion who never varied his cadence, Leroy Anderson's "Syncopated Clock" came to mind.
09-09-07, 09:38 AM
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When days get rough on a ride, I think of John Denver's "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones"
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Carole King's So Far Away and Home Again are guaranteed to work if you need a good cry somewhere along the way. Dang, now I'm all verklempft!
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What songs do you feel best describe the essence of bicycle touring.
My #1 pick would be Snowin on Raton -Townes Van Zandt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxC1u...elated&search=
My #1 pick would be Snowin on Raton -Townes Van Zandt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxC1u...elated&search=
"Both sides now" by Joni Mitchell (happy times or sad!)
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd (when doing a lonely, foggy mountain climb)
"Sad Lisa" by Cat Stevens (when I am really grinding up a hill)
"Land of Make Believe" by the Moody Blues.
there are others, but these were the big four on my world tour.
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09-09-07, 04:51 PM
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09-09-07, 05:02 PM
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Roll Me Away - Bob Seeger
Couldn't find a good example.
Couldn't find a good example.
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This fleeting glimpse i often get on a bike tour.
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
09-09-07, 07:13 PM
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Songs that describe the feeling of bicycle touring
George STRAIT - Peace of Mind
https://artists.letssingit.com/george...f-mind-3xfq3fr
I go anywhere that ol' wind blows
Down a blacktop road, anytime
No strings attached, no ties to tie me down
So why hang around, when I can fly.
Ricky SKAGGS - Casting My Shadow In the Road
https://artists.letssingit.com/george...f-mind-3xfq3fr
I go anywhere that ol' wind blows
Down a blacktop road, anytime
No strings attached, no ties to tie me down
So why hang around, when I can fly.
Ricky SKAGGS - Casting My Shadow In the Road
09-09-07, 08:22 PM
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"I've Been Everywhere"
It was orginally written with a list of Australian places, and was subsequently adapted to include North American places, and another version was written to include even more Canadian places. There are other versions as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere
However, for the Australian, North American, and Canadian versions, I can say ... I've been almost everywhere.
It was orginally written with a list of Australian places, and was subsequently adapted to include North American places, and another version was written to include even more Canadian places. There are other versions as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I've_Been_Everywhere
However, for the Australian, North American, and Canadian versions, I can say ... I've been almost everywhere.
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Bike shorts get dirty while touring. Sometimes you have to go to the laundry mat. Other times you sing about it...but continue to smell like $hit
https://bustheband.com/busblog/MP3s/Laundry%20Mat.mp3
https://bustheband.com/busblog/MP3s/Laundry%20Mat.mp3
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1) Turn the Page (The Metallica version, although the Bob Segar version works too)
2) Alive, by Edwin, if you arent a Canuk, you probably won't know it, so here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxaAfaCln8
2) Alive, by Edwin, if you arent a Canuk, you probably won't know it, so here's a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxaAfaCln8
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I don't know any songs that describe the essence of bicycle touring, but there are often spngs that fit a particular tour. The theme song for my New Zealand tour was "It's Raining Again" by Supertramp. For my Alps tour it was "Just Over This Mountain", by The Skydiggers.
09-11-07, 09:34 AM
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"Amarillo Highway" and "The Road Goes on Forever (and the party never ends)" by Robert Earl Keen.
Both are suitable for high-volume bellerin' while riding.
Both are suitable for high-volume bellerin' while riding.
09-11-07, 02:00 PM
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This fleeting glimpse i often get on a bike tour.
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
"Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
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09-12-07, 02:43 PM
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Queen - Bicycle Race
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
Metallica - Wherever I may roam
And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one
RHCP - Walkabout
High dessert skies are what I spy
So flyÑyou've got to wonder why
The stingrays must be fat this year
Moving slow in my lowest gear
The digirido original man with a dream
I believe the Aborigine
On a walkabout
Bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like
Metallica - Wherever I may roam
And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one
RHCP - Walkabout
High dessert skies are what I spy
So flyÑyou've got to wonder why
The stingrays must be fat this year
Moving slow in my lowest gear
The digirido original man with a dream
I believe the Aborigine
On a walkabout
09-12-07, 07:37 PM
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A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
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09-13-07, 09:07 PM
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no touring yet but I want to play
sweet home alabama...skinard...where I ride right now
free bird...skynard..for when I ride other places someday
take me home country roads....john denver...for the end of a ride/trip.
free fallin..tom petty...riding off the mountain.
seasons in the sun...westlife?...not sure why
https://www.petalia.org/Songs/seasons_sun.htm
five hundered miles away form home...bobby bare...not yet (more like 15 (30 RT) so far)
sweet home alabama...skinard...where I ride right now
free bird...skynard..for when I ride other places someday
take me home country roads....john denver...for the end of a ride/trip.
free fallin..tom petty...riding off the mountain.
seasons in the sun...westlife?...not sure why
https://www.petalia.org/Songs/seasons_sun.htm
five hundered miles away form home...bobby bare...not yet (more like 15 (30 RT) so far)
09-13-07, 09:20 PM
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Two songs that stuck in my head one day, while climbing a pass in a rain/hailstorm where...
Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
And it worked!
Mr. Blue Sky - ELO
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles
And it worked!
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