what do you listen to?

[Wild Dingo]

When doing long distance driving?

I was thinking about updating my travelling cds since I seem to be doing the 1400+ clicks to Kalgoorlie so flamin often... I mean I do like my Randy Travis, John Farnham, Cheech an Chong along with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee albums and can only take Jimi for a few miles then switch over to Janis before getting all country again... if I listen to the Canadian sea shanty singing fella whos name has sorta slipped overboard from my mind just now I tend to get rollickinly LOUD! and a headache ensues...

Sooo what do you listen to as your driving along doing the endless miles?

[Paul Pless]

The Zeppelin catalog could cover the whole route. :D

Anything from the Beetles after the White Album.

And of course the Great American Folk singers:
Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

Maybe throw in some contemporary Blue Grass from The Bad Livers.

[Keith Wilson]

I've found that unabridged audio books make the miles go much faster than any kind of music. Nothing too heavy - Patrick O'Brian is best, anything by Dorothy Sayers, a good rousing popular history book . . . and of course, the Grateful Dead when I need a break from the talking.

[Wild Dingo]

BUT KEITH!!! If Ive got someone else yakkin who the hell is gonna listen to me natterin away?? :eek: I tend to sing yarn sing mutter and sing the whole distance... amazing the arguments you can have with yourself!!... and whats even more amazin is when your other self WINS the flamin argument! :mad: gawd I hate that!! tongue.gif

Ive tried Led Zep and the Grateful but mate I gotta admit Im a little too cruizy for that LOUD stuff... put that on and the cd player automatically flares up to 10 on the richter scale... and mate after a few clicks that HURTS!!! :(

Bluegrass? mmmmmm hadnt thought of that... could be a real goer there Paul... seein meself drummin away on the steerin wheel with deliverance duelin banjos oooohhh yeah... thankee kindly :cool:

[ 04-28-2004, 12:07 PM: Message edited by: Wild Dingo ]

[Shang]

I raid the local library for audio books before each trip.
Often our travels last longer than the library's check-out time, and while I could telephone back home to renew, I prefer to pay the fines when we return. The library runs on a short budget so the overdue fees I pay are appreciated.

Listened to The Testament. by John Grisham, from St. Louis to Syracuse; and on the return, to Dan Brown's The da Vinci Code which took us from Lake Champlain to Terra Haute.

[Wild Dingo]

Okay I will try it... but mates I dont know how Im gonna get on... I mean its rude for someone to start talking when Im already yackin!! I can imagine me gettin iritated with whoevers yakkin and tossin them overboard!... cant get any satisfaction from slappin a cd now can I mmmm?

[Gresham CA]

When I hit the road for a long trip, I just have the radio on for some background noise. I find myself getting distracted from what I'm 'spose to be doing (that's driving) if I'm actually listening to something.

[Wild Dingo]

aahhh see now Charles thats the problem out there... the radio stations cut out about 200 clicks east... then hop back on for a couple of miles during the day in the towns then out again once outside the town limits... can always get ABC I guess... but want music!!

[ 04-28-2004, 12:35 PM: Message edited by: Wild Dingo ]

[cs]

Okay Mr Dingo, road music is something that is very dear to me. Depending on who is in the car and whether they are awake or not depends on what I play. Now for just pure driving on the open road I like to put in some Joe Sataraini. If I feel like I need to sing to stay awake, but I'm still on the open road it might be something like Megadeth or AC/DC. Now sometimes I will put in John Denver or James Taylor and I've even been known to put in TLC. Before the kid got headphones I would sometimes have to listen to groups like Dreamstreat. If the wife is awake she tends to put in my favorite, Alice Cooper.

It it's to Loud you're too old. :D

Chad

[Gresham CA]

Shane, I would have to invest in satelite radio if that were the case around here. I get tired of just one artist. If I had a CD changer in the truck then maybe it would be a different story.

edited for damn fat fingers

[ 04-28-2004, 12:53 PM: Message edited by: Gresham CA ]

[Master Johnson]

Im with Shang. I always get a good book on tape for a long drive.

[Meerkat]

A couple of good symphonies would get you through... Of course, if those make you sleepy, put on some opera - all that caterwauling is enough to irritate the dead into wakefulness. ;)

[Iceboy]

Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Junior Brown

[Garrett Lowell]

Depends on who's in the car with me.

The Wiggles
Best of Disney
Muppet Show Music and Mayhem
Animal Crackers In My Soup

OR

Best of BB King
Keb 'Mo (Live,of course)
Charlie Musselwhite
Robert Johnson
Jimi Hendrix
Vince Guaraldi
Bobby Blue Bland
The Doors
Mozart
Vivaldi
Paganini
Rossini
Gershwin

Edited to add: Booker T and the MGs. No road trip is complete without a little Green Onions and Sweet Potato

[ 04-28-2004, 02:20 PM: Message edited by: Garrett Lowell ]

[Bruce Taylor]

if I listen to the Canadian sea shanty singing fella whos name has sorta slipped overboard from my mind just now I tend to get rollickinly LOUDStan Rogers? Yep, he'll do for a few miles.

[Figment]

Pink Floyd. "Dark Side of The Moon" and "The Wall"
Handel's "Water Music"
Mozart "La Nozze de Figaro"
Nine Inch Nails, for when the eyelids get heavy.
pretty much anything by Dave Matthews.

oh, and the CD's we burned for the music for our wedding: Showtunes, sinatra, buffet, elvis....

[Keith Wilson]

Hot Tuna!! Jeff, I should have known you were a fine fellow of discerning taste!

[ccmanuals]

The old lady :(

[Ross M]

Go native! Crowded House/Neil Finn, INXS, Midnight Oil, etc. There is a lot of great music from Australia.

[Boomkin Joe]

Some group of whales. Can't recall their names, silly me.
But I'll get a better sound from a cold-moulded hull, I've been told. smile.gif

[Memphis Mike]

No better travelin music than the Allman Bros.