And now for we’re all friends I think it’s time to talk about …

I was just thinking about some of the most emotional ski runs of my life, and I realised that nearly every one has been accompanied by great music!

It occurred to me that with the ability of an MP3 player to store 1000’s of songs I’d like to make up some new playlists from suggestions made by the good people of this site!

The problem with asking “normal” people for “good” music suggestions is that they just don’t get what makes great music to ski to … They ain’t got rhythm ?

So, I’d like to tell you mine but if you’ll tell me yours! – Deal?

Ok, I’ll go first. (In some but no real order)

1. Plastic Bertrand - Ça plane pour moi – Just amazing energy. Perfect for giving you a boost ready for a last run.
2. Oasis – Champagne Supernova - Great atmospheric start to do huge sweeping carves to then @ 2:00 mins it changes enough to give some perfect timing for shorter turns
3. Underworld – Born Slippy - The sense of antisipation as the first minute builds is awsome, then keepin up with the beat after 1:35 makes any run mad but worth every ounce of sweat!
4. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb – The tempo is perfect for carving crazy, lazy sweeping turns (yes with one hand in the snow) first thing in the morning on cordouroy piste. Just watch out for the guitar solo, you just might drift off into paradise. Personally, I prefer the version on “A Delicate Sound of Thunder” it’s just so majestic.
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama – The rhythm changes make it great for testing your “jazz” skiing.
6. Mark Knopfler - Cannibals – Short swing training heaven! Then try doubling the rate so you are always on the same edge on the beat – Crazy …
7. Anne Murry – Snowbird – Somehow just seems to evoke the right feelin’, but maybe that’s just me … I can’t help just kinda drifting along to this, there’s no way you can get all tense and nervous with this wafting in your ears ?
8. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Over the Rainbow – If you are feeling a bit jaded after that long lunch and second Schnapps then this will get you back and going again! (If you haven’t heard of MFATGG look em up, they are fab!)
9. Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitaruim) – Just somehow sounds like it should be a soundtrack to a Warren Miller film, although not the greatest tune for ski rhythm, maybe one for the lift up with a stunning panorama unfolding beneath.
10. The Dixie Cups - Iko Iko (Original)– Yeah, go on, keep your feet still, I DARE ya :twisted:
11. Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach – Maybe just a personal favourite ‘cos it was in the charts and being played a lot on a ski holiday in the 70’s, but still the atmospherics seem good in the mountains (to me)
12. Tom Russell - Hong Kong Boy – The guitars and Tom’s vocal on this makes we want to ski in a really aggressive way, Muppets beware! Why does it make me feel aggressive? Ask my shrink :wink:
13. Pink Floyd – Learning to Fly – Cruzin’ tune. Nothing hard, difficult or taxing about this but soar with the guitars and your skiing will follow!
14. Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven – Find a quiet spot overlooking an awesome view, get rid of anyone else. Make a seat by digging your skis into the snow by the tails, place your ski sticks over the front of the heal piece and sit down. (Ah, Pav is this #101?) Now clear your mind of all thoughts and play this song. If you get to the end of the song with tears running down your cheeks, congratulations, you are human and have sufficient emotion to make a truly great skier!

Well I’m gonna hop off the couch now and let someone else have a go.

By the way a simple list of tracks isn’t any good, I want to know what makes it worth putting on my iPod!

Happy boogying,

Jan

I have a couple of playlists, the shorter one is below.

"Catch The Rainbow","Rainbow","Dio","Catch The Rainbow: The Anthology" "Soldier Of Fortune","Deep Purple","D.Coverdale/R.Blackmore/Ritchie Blackmore","Stormbringer" "Angel","Massive Attack","Massive Attack","Collected" "We're No Here","Mogwai","Mogwai","Mr. Beast" "Nothing Else Matters","Metallica","James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich","Black Album" "All Along The Watchtower","Jimi Hendrix",,"The Ultimate Experience" "Riders On the Storm","The Doors",,"L.A. Woman (40th Anniversary Mixes)" "Black Velvet","Alannah Myles",,"Songs You Know" "Shape Of Things To Come","Audioslave","Brad Wilk","Revelations" "False Flags","Massive Attack",,"Collected [Bonus Disc]" "Stormbringer","Deep Purple","D.Coverdale/R.Blackmore/Ritchie Blackmore","Stormbringer" "Wide Awake","Audioslave","Audioslave","Revelations" "In the Air Tonight","Phil Collins",,"Face Value" "White Rabbit (Stereo Version)","Jefferson Airplane",,"Surrealistic Pillow (Remastered)" "Brothers In Arms","Dire Straits","Mark Knopfler","Money For Nothing" "No One Knows","Queens of the Stone Age","Josh Homme"," Mario Lalli & Nick Oliveri" "Seven Nation Army","The White Stripes",,"Elephant" "Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing (Remastered Version)","Chris Isaak",,"Best of Chris Isaak" "Will You","Hazel O'Connor",,"A Singular Collection: The Best of Hazel O'Connor" "Broken","Unkle featuring Gavin Clark","G.Clark/J. Lavelle/R. File.C. Goss","War Stories (Bonus Track Version)" "Down In A Hole","Alice In Chains",,"KERRANG! THE ALBUM" "Hallelujah","John Cale",,"Scrubs" "Sinnerman (Stereo)","Nina Simone","Nina Simone","Verve Remixed 2 / Verve Unmixed 2" "The Valley","Los Lobos",,"The Town and the City" "Comfortably Numb","Pink Floyd","David Gilmour & Roger Waters","Delicate Sound Of Thunder"

I'd add in Don't Stop The Rock by Apollo440.

I have two files on my Ipod!

One is for those alone moments riding lifts or in caferia.

The second list is my active "ski" music!

Here is the second list! The skiing list

My Hey Hey-- Neil Young
Don"t Stop Thinking About Tommorrow Fleetwood mack

Learning to Fly Pink Floyd

Winds Scorpions
Cruising Together Lewis/ Gwen
Like a Rock Seeger
If I could fly Satriani******
The Best of Times Styx
Don't Stop Fleetwood Mac
Knocking Heaven's Door Zeppling
You Can't Always Get what you want Stones
Suktans of Swing Dire
High Blunt
Soulshine Allman Bros.
Gypsa Nicks
We built this city Springstein
Free Falling Petty
Where the streets have no name U2
Winds of Change Scorpions***
Gloria Brannigan
Eye of the Tiger Foriengner
Lucy in the Ski Elton
Stop Dragging my heart Nicks
One U2
By my side INXS
Knights in white satin Moody blues
Don't Stop me now Queen
Stand Back Fleetwood
Light Up Styx
Rhiannon Fleetwood
Good Vibrations Beach Boys
Can't Get you out of my head Kylie
Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
Sailing Awya Styx
You'll Accompany Me Seeger
Rise Gabriella
Take a Chance on Me ABBA
Its in the Kiss Sher
White Room Cream
Higher CCC
Edge of Seventeen Fleetwood
Don't bring me down ELO
Another Brick in Wall Pink Floyd
Night Train Guns&Roses
One (acoustic concert) Sting
Unchained Melody U2
Let your love flow Bellamy Bros
Turn to stone ELO*****
Fortunate Son CC ****
Shine on your crazy Diamonds Pinky Floyd
I'll Stand By you Roxette
Have you ever seen the rain CCC
Oh Happy Days ( gosple) Aretha

Traveling Man Seeger
Jet McCarthey
Classical Gas Feliciano
Lady Styx
Don't Leave me this way Commudors
Summer of 69 Adams
Jessica Allman Bros
Blue Sky Allman Bros
Born to Run Springstein
Pink Cadillac " "
Down on the corner CCR
Have you seen the rain CCR

Very very fast hard skiing
Summer song Satariani
Motorcycle " "
Good Times Bad times Zeppling
First Guitar Adams
Sweet Dreams Lennox

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Black Betty Bad Company
****only if you have insurance, strong legs and heart!
If you can ski this song from start to end ,and keep beat (while skiing) I will send you a wine bottle any where in the world!

Hope this helps you Jan find some great songs!

Massive Attack-Teardrop
Kasabian-Shoot the Runner
Jimi Hendrix-Crosstown Traffic
Kings of Leon-The Bucket
Interpol-Slow Hands
Maximo Park-Graffiti
Futureheads-Stupid and Shallow
Dr. Dre-Xxplosive
All American Rejects-Swing Swing
The View-Streetlights
Arctic Monkeys-D is for Dangerous
The Ataris-Boys of Summer
Bob Marley-One Love
Deltron 3030-Madness
Foreigner-Waiting for a Girl Like You
Hard fi-Living for the Weekend
Kanye West-Family Business
The Strokes-Barely Legal
The Stone Roses-Sally Cinnamon
Morrisey-First of the Gang to Die

I just took my Ipod and listed songs.
Now Jan wants some form of "explanation"

I will have to sit down and "analyze" why each song touches me as skier! It might be too close to truth and after all your comments about my use of baby wipes, I am becoming defensive!

You never know, my boys might find this site or some of you will come to ski over the pond! I will really have to hide!

One thing I have discovered about music. It has therapeutic effect! If ever you have serious pain, try some Pavarotti Puccini's Nessum Dorma or Tubular Bells by ELO! It works!

I will try to make some form of comment list after I find the FTPIPTP solution!

Just one -

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fall Down

maybe a few more -

Pennywise - Society

The strokes - reptillia

Greenday - several....

Trencher

linkin park and jay-z, the whole EP, always makes me want to go faster.
undertones teenage kicks, i feel like a teenager when on slopes, and no one can tell otherwise when my helmets on...
randomly, andrea bocceli (spl?) pavorotti or the like when the suns out and the slopes are quiet. so not often.
as for a memory of a particular run to music, happened to be on ace of spades for a particularly good run couple years ago and always think of that when hear it now.