Cycling influences your tastes in music?
11-04-20, 07:36 PM
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You can't just drop a paragraph like that without giving us a link to a typical video or soundcloud file.
11-04-20, 07:51 PM
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I can't seem to link to soundcloud, and I can't open YouTube on this computer, so just punch "Jin Sung Trot" into Google and follow the YouTube links to get an idea.
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11-04-20, 07:55 PM
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Oh, damn that's awful! I tried various spots in that video and the next is even worse than the previous. Sheesh! Maybe some of my dislike is cultural, but I really, really don't like that.
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11-04-20, 08:52 PM
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I don’t listen to music on the bike because I need to hear what’s happening. I DO sometimes have music in my head while riding, but frequently it’s some snippet of American Primitive guitar stuff.
My tastes have changed, though. While I still enjoy blues and rockabilly and early British Invasion stuff, I listen to a lot more instrumental acoustic guitar, heavy on John Fahey and his disciples, sometimes more deeply into the Brazilians (specifically Baden Powell and Bola Sete), other days the British folk fingerstylists from Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn through Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. Some days I need my fix of Django Reinhardt, others I need Wes Montgomery. None of that fits neatly into workout mode, but neither do I.
My tastes have changed, though. While I still enjoy blues and rockabilly and early British Invasion stuff, I listen to a lot more instrumental acoustic guitar, heavy on John Fahey and his disciples, sometimes more deeply into the Brazilians (specifically Baden Powell and Bola Sete), other days the British folk fingerstylists from Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn through Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. Some days I need my fix of Django Reinhardt, others I need Wes Montgomery. None of that fits neatly into workout mode, but neither do I.
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11-05-20, 02:16 AM
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I listen to books on the bike, but my taste in music has not changed
11-05-20, 02:23 AM
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I don’t listen to music on the bike because I need to hear what’s happening. I DO sometimes have music in my head while riding, but frequently it’s some snippet of American Primitive guitar stuff.
My tastes have changed, though. While I still enjoy blues and rockabilly and early British Invasion stuff, I listen to a lot more instrumental acoustic guitar, heavy on John Fahey and his disciples, sometimes more deeply into the Brazilians (specifically Baden Powell and Bola Sete), other days the British folk fingerstylists from Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn through Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. Some days I need my fix of Django Reinhardt, others I need Wes Montgomery. None of that fits neatly into workout mode, but neither do I.
My tastes have changed, though. While I still enjoy blues and rockabilly and early British Invasion stuff, I listen to a lot more instrumental acoustic guitar, heavy on John Fahey and his disciples, sometimes more deeply into the Brazilians (specifically Baden Powell and Bola Sete), other days the British folk fingerstylists from Davy Graham, Bert Jansch and John Renbourn through Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. Some days I need my fix of Django Reinhardt, others I need Wes Montgomery. None of that fits neatly into workout mode, but neither do I.
11-05-20, 05:18 AM
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It changes. For awhile this year it was mostly bebop. Lately it's been a Madchester, shoegaze and trip hop flashback. Depends on whether I'm just moving my feet to get miles in, or going for a speed goal. I prefer no music if I'm pushing for a PR since I don't want to get locked into a song's tempo.
11-05-20, 05:49 AM
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Cycling got me watching the CBS Sports coverage of the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix back in the 80's. And they featured a lot of electronic music, that I managed to track down much of years later. This album in particular I find brilliant, and apparently CBS did too, since almost all the songs on it were used for their coverage.
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11-05-20, 06:40 AM
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11-05-20, 11:55 AM
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My musical tastes are influenced by significant life events and memories. Bike riding has been a constant since the 1970s for me. I doubt that it has had any affect at all on my selection of music.
And like most of the posters on this thread, I don't listen to music while I ride. I may hum a tune, or whistle or have some silly song (like the Captain and Tennille's Love Will Keep Us Together) playing on a loop in my head. Sedaka is baaack...
And like most of the posters on this thread, I don't listen to music while I ride. I may hum a tune, or whistle or have some silly song (like the Captain and Tennille's Love Will Keep Us Together) playing on a loop in my head. Sedaka is baaack...
11-05-20, 12:13 PM
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A music review in Dirt Rag is what got me into the Drive By Truckers.
11-05-20, 06:44 PM
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Cycling got me watching the CBS Sports coverage of the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix back in the 80's. And they featured a lot of electronic music, that I managed to track down much of years later. This album in particular I find brilliant, and apparently CBS did too, since almost all the songs on it were used for their coverage...
11-05-20, 07:07 PM
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I don't listen to music when I'm riding. But recently my wife has been taking care of our three month old granddaughter while my son and daughter-in-law are working. The baby has a swing that plays music, which of course I hear. Lately when I've been riding, the song "Rockabye Baby" has been going through my head. Very annoying
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11-06-20, 06:15 PM
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Not really, I listen to a wide variety of music but happily bonded with a fellow employee on a company camping trip over some Sleep and Weedeater amongst others in that genre. It was pretty epic hearing Sleep's Holy Mountain played loud on large speakers by a campfire after listening to some less than exciting music. However certainly being around more people that enjoy cannabis does help to find more cannabis oriented music even if you yourself don't partake and bike shops are certainly a good place to find those who do partake.
I find a band I like and generally explore more and pretty soon I am finding some pretty neat and odd stuff. Though sometimes I have walked into a record shop and just bought albums because they look cool or the band has a cool name. Sometimes it provides some gems and sometimes it is just good fun or potential art.
In the rare times I listen to music while riding it is pretty eclectic and not always super upbeat but in many cases I try to find more energizing songs but sometimes it is something I just love. A lot of times it is stuff I am really into at the moment or putting it on to honor a death in the band or of the singer or songwriter or something like that.
I find a band I like and generally explore more and pretty soon I am finding some pretty neat and odd stuff. Though sometimes I have walked into a record shop and just bought albums because they look cool or the band has a cool name. Sometimes it provides some gems and sometimes it is just good fun or potential art.
In the rare times I listen to music while riding it is pretty eclectic and not always super upbeat but in many cases I try to find more energizing songs but sometimes it is something I just love. A lot of times it is stuff I am really into at the moment or putting it on to honor a death in the band or of the singer or songwriter or something like that.
11-06-20, 09:43 PM
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I listen to music while riding... solo. (The one time a week I ride with someone else I don't listen to music.) I'm either listening to '80s pop or 70s funk.
Riding hasn't changed what I listen to.
When I started running I wouldn't listen to music while running because I didn't want to ruin the simplicity of Running. All you need is a good pair of running shoes and a pair of running shorts.
Unlike running, cycling takes a lot more effort. Besides shoes and shorts you need hi viz shirt, Lube chain, inflate tires, helmet, fill water bottles, turn on blinky... so adding ear buds for music isn't much of a distraction for me.
Of course if I was forced to be on a MUP for training I wouldn't wear one but then again I wouldn't live somewhere I was forced to ride on a MUP.
Riding hasn't changed what I listen to.
When I started running I wouldn't listen to music while running because I didn't want to ruin the simplicity of Running. All you need is a good pair of running shoes and a pair of running shorts.
Unlike running, cycling takes a lot more effort. Besides shoes and shorts you need hi viz shirt, Lube chain, inflate tires, helmet, fill water bottles, turn on blinky... so adding ear buds for music isn't much of a distraction for me.
Of course if I was forced to be on a MUP for training I wouldn't wear one but then again I wouldn't live somewhere I was forced to ride on a MUP.
11-08-20, 04:16 PM
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I dont listen to music while I ride. I dont think it is safe.
At home it is the oldies like folk music and old real country.
At home it is the oldies like folk music and old real country.
11-08-20, 08:20 PM
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If I'm riding a trail on a big ride I don't listen to music - out in nature i like to stay out in nature. But I just moved away from NYC after living there for 10 years - riding around the city I like to listen to music via my bluetooth speaker clipped to my messenger bag. Can't say biking has influenced my taste in music, but growing up in the punk scene I'd say my taste in music helped me get into parts of the cycling culture that goes hand in hand with punk.
11-08-20, 10:49 PM
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I almost always listen to music when I ride, because I mostly ride on a MUP with no traffic. Still call out passes, and stay in my lane so people behind me (who I don't know are coming) can safely pass. It's never been an issue, but obviously cars/traffic changes things.
I grew up a 90's alternative kid, these days I primarily listen to outlaw country/Americana etc. But, since I've been doing so much running and cycling, I've gotten more into metal/metalcore during workings, which does bleed a lot into my listening in daily life as well.
Architects, The Ghost Inside, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Deftones, Alexisonfire, a lot of fast paced music with screaming. I grew up listening to it on rare occasions, but now I listen to a lot more of it.
I'm only interested in pushing myself, whether on the bike or on my feet. Country music, usually, isn't what I want to hear during those times, as much as I love it.
I grew up a 90's alternative kid, these days I primarily listen to outlaw country/Americana etc. But, since I've been doing so much running and cycling, I've gotten more into metal/metalcore during workings, which does bleed a lot into my listening in daily life as well.
Architects, The Ghost Inside, Avenged Sevenfold, Metallica, Deftones, Alexisonfire, a lot of fast paced music with screaming. I grew up listening to it on rare occasions, but now I listen to a lot more of it.
I'm only interested in pushing myself, whether on the bike or on my feet. Country music, usually, isn't what I want to hear during those times, as much as I love it.
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11-09-20, 04:33 AM
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11-09-20, 12:28 PM
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On a log multi-day bike trip it's Mozart in the morning and Strauss in the evening.
11-09-20, 12:42 PM
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Being a teen in the 80's, I loved good heavy metal. Stuff like Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, etc. And then into the 90 with more metal, stuff like Soundgarden, Pantera. And then into the early 2000's with Slipknot, Disturbed and others.
While I rode a bit in my teens and twenty's, I really didn't start getting serious until my mid to late 30's. And I tried to listen to metal while riding. It just didn't seem to fit. It just..I dunno...not much of a motivator.
A few years ago, my daughters were into the anime/kpop scene. They offered to upload some of the more techno kpop stuff to my phone. I've always thought this stuff to be a bit cheesy. But being bored on a long ride and not wanting to listen to my metal tracks, I decided to pull up their playlist and...it wasn't that bad! Nice upbeat music, good steady beat, and it put me into a good mood. If anything, it was a good beat that seemed to fit much more nicely with cycling than guitars and screaming.
I do remember liking of the of the early EDM stuff, like Technotronic, Labouche, Snap!, etc. .These got uploaded to my playlists, and they fit nicely into my long rides too.
With the advent of streaming radio on smartphones, I've searched several stations. I've settled on one that always fits cycling, PulsRadio Dance.
Now, Ive read that as people age, their music tastes do too. And this might be the case. But for now, the upbeat EDM stuff seems to fit my cycling best, and that seems to be the genre I listen to most now, even on my drive to work.
TLDR:
Cycling made me find music more suited for this activity. and upbeat EDM type stuff has fit the bill to much that I now rarely listen to the stuff I did when I was younger.
Has cycling influenced anyone else's tastes in music as well?
While I rode a bit in my teens and twenty's, I really didn't start getting serious until my mid to late 30's. And I tried to listen to metal while riding. It just didn't seem to fit. It just..I dunno...not much of a motivator.
A few years ago, my daughters were into the anime/kpop scene. They offered to upload some of the more techno kpop stuff to my phone. I've always thought this stuff to be a bit cheesy. But being bored on a long ride and not wanting to listen to my metal tracks, I decided to pull up their playlist and...it wasn't that bad! Nice upbeat music, good steady beat, and it put me into a good mood. If anything, it was a good beat that seemed to fit much more nicely with cycling than guitars and screaming.
I do remember liking of the of the early EDM stuff, like Technotronic, Labouche, Snap!, etc. .These got uploaded to my playlists, and they fit nicely into my long rides too.
With the advent of streaming radio on smartphones, I've searched several stations. I've settled on one that always fits cycling, PulsRadio Dance.
Now, Ive read that as people age, their music tastes do too. And this might be the case. But for now, the upbeat EDM stuff seems to fit my cycling best, and that seems to be the genre I listen to most now, even on my drive to work.
TLDR:
Cycling made me find music more suited for this activity. and upbeat EDM type stuff has fit the bill to much that I now rarely listen to the stuff I did when I was younger.
Has cycling influenced anyone else's tastes in music as well?
Some bands to check out: black light discipline, blood stain child, korn (the path of totality cd), baby metal and others.
Me, I just always listen to metal of all kinds.
11-09-20, 12:42 PM
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In the last couple of years I began using a Bluetooth water bottle shaped speaker on my bike commute. I avoid Multi Use Paths on the commute.
I dislike the MUPs where I live because it is slower, because a lot of people wear ear buds and are looking at their phones, because other riders behavior is inappropriate for the setting (too fast, racing, passing etc).
So has cycling changed my taste in music? I doubt it. It could work the other way too. I'm a piano hack and synth hack since forever, and I sometimes draw inspiration from mountain biking, especially the photographs we get along the way.
Music changed my cycling when I bought Bluetooth speaker that fits into a bottle cage.
I'm empathic. I don't like hearing other people's music at high volumes. So conversely I don't want to annoy others with mine.
Hence riding solo to work on the road with music at a modest enough volume to hear traffic etc. and not subjecting others to the music.
I listen to uptempo techno, funk, and rock, like the AcDc-like band Airbourne.
I don't use the speaker on every ride, but typically once it's on, it stays on for the entire commute.
I haven't taken it on social rides or mountain biking.
When traffic virtually disappeared at the beginning of the pandemic my wife and I took out our tandem from mothballs and doubled the speakers and did some fast short not very climby rides listening to techno mixes and that was at times euphoric, intense, and a hell of a lot of fun.
In conclusion, I think I am more open to techno EDM than ever due to cycling along to it. What can seem too repetitive and intense to me in other situations, is exactly the best motivator when commuting or riding the tandem with my wife who likes the same music.
I dislike the MUPs where I live because it is slower, because a lot of people wear ear buds and are looking at their phones, because other riders behavior is inappropriate for the setting (too fast, racing, passing etc).
So has cycling changed my taste in music? I doubt it. It could work the other way too. I'm a piano hack and synth hack since forever, and I sometimes draw inspiration from mountain biking, especially the photographs we get along the way.
Music changed my cycling when I bought Bluetooth speaker that fits into a bottle cage.
I'm empathic. I don't like hearing other people's music at high volumes. So conversely I don't want to annoy others with mine.
Hence riding solo to work on the road with music at a modest enough volume to hear traffic etc. and not subjecting others to the music.
I listen to uptempo techno, funk, and rock, like the AcDc-like band Airbourne.
I don't use the speaker on every ride, but typically once it's on, it stays on for the entire commute.
I haven't taken it on social rides or mountain biking.
When traffic virtually disappeared at the beginning of the pandemic my wife and I took out our tandem from mothballs and doubled the speakers and did some fast short not very climby rides listening to techno mixes and that was at times euphoric, intense, and a hell of a lot of fun.
In conclusion, I think I am more open to techno EDM than ever due to cycling along to it. What can seem too repetitive and intense to me in other situations, is exactly the best motivator when commuting or riding the tandem with my wife who likes the same music.