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HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

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Music can be good when you ride. Discuss the stuff you like listening to while you ride, give or ask for recommendations, and expose your lovely taste.

To start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpDn4-Na5co
Someone recommended that as a soundtrack for that cyberpunk short fiction that Reel Big Lizard (?) wrote in AI a couple years ago.

I've been really into heavy psych and some fuzzier prog lately.
Mondo Drag is kind of like if Rick Wakeman played with Sabbath.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmzULD12FE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gso6JZu74sA

And Temples is fun too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUGEnXz4EG8

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Duck_King
Sep 5, 2003

leader.bmp
Discovered Stone Gods a few months ago. Really like this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEEy67VdaQA

This is a Bay Area punk band I'm a big fan of. Seeing them in concert in about two weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MPFQE5h-lE

And a classic Slash track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FddCGr7mD54

M42
Nov 12, 2012


Mad Max Fury Road soundtrack owns for the track

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




I have always been kinda not sure about riding with music. I fear it will take my concentration off the road. In 29 years of riding I have never once ridden with music playing. Do you find it distracts you?

:ohdear:

M42
Nov 12, 2012


I'm one of those weird people that gets concentrates better with music. ESPECIALLY on the track. I mean, just give it a try on some city streets.

Also +1 on lazerhawk, daniel deluxe is good also.

e: to clarify, I generally don't listen to music in heavy traffic, but on like backroads and off peak hours, it's tyte bro. Otherwise my mind starts wandering when I'm just listening to the same engine drone all the time.

M42 fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Sep 3, 2016

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

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I can only listen to music on back roads, and then only when I'm warmed up to the point that I can feel the engine speed without hearing it.

Can't do it in town or when I need to navigate. Any time there is traffic, I have to hear stuff.

Duck_King
Sep 5, 2003

leader.bmp
I listen to it on my way to and from work every day, but it's usually on a really low volume so I just kinda hear it in the background.

BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJoo79OwZEI

prukinski
Dec 25, 2011

Sure why not

M42 posted:

I'm one of those weird people that gets concentrates better with music. ESPECIALLY on the track. I mean, just give it a try on some city streets.


Likewise. I find it much easier to get into a rythmn with music. I've culled pretty much anything fast from my ride playlist though because that throws off my concentration. The fastest I've ridden has probs been to 'Laura' by Bat For Lashes but anything slow and naff is good for fast times as far as I'm concerned.

Z3n
Jul 21, 2007

I think the point is Z3n is a space cowboy on the edge of a frontier unknown to man, he's out there pushing the limits, trail braking into the abyss. Finding out where the edge of the razor is, turning to face the darkness and revving his 690 into it's vast gaze. You gotta live this to learn it bro.
Music on the street, but not on track. Overwerk, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySB3BUs73ik

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

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Oh man this was very much my poo poo in high school and college before motorcycles. I loved me some LTJ Bukem and Goldie.

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

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Jim Silly-Balls posted:

In 29 years of riding I have never once ridden with music playing.

How old are you, greybush?

Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002
Since the bulk of my riding is my 1 hr commute (each way), and a lot if it is very early mornings (I used to leave work sometimes at 4am, though my current schedule has me waking up to go into work around that time instead), I have a mix of slower, moderate tempo stuff that's suited to the dead of night, mostly stuff that feels like it should be music in a spy movie, because I like to feel I'm James Bond when I'm riding in the dead of the night.

Here's most of the songs from my late-nite list, all songs that have the feel of tension that belongs in a technothriller movie or capture the feeling of being out past midnight for me:
Curve - Alligators Getting Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VrumnCaxI
Archive - Nothing Else https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JotndMyINE
Puscifer - The Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQOBcFfEj0
Pat Benatar - Invincible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A4xBp2rizQ
Alphastates - Champagne Glass https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXF5-HDXWGg
Kavinsky - Pacific Coast Highway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FKNViujeM
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDdKb7XnWAw
Latimore - Let's Straighten It Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKXVOywj7T0
Portishead - Sour Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7gutsi1uT4
Allanah Myles - Black Velvet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4d1LQy4es
Fitz and The Tantrums - MoneyGrabber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3WRXYYBwRA
Powerglove - Motorcycle Cop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqe7jPX6DQY
Onra - Send Me Your Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCbDi5SaLvI
Kidneythieves - Arsenal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjFArjCMj8
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
The Birthday Massacre - Play With Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8GVzyU6fcY
Curve - Beyond Reach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj3C7SkZM44
Stevie Nicks - Stand Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gSKeCvSCpw
Bill Withers - Who Is He And What Is He To You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vlM1ekJ144
Jakalope - Pretty Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t1EglpxYew
The Gap Band - Early In The Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aobIboK_z34
A Split-Second - Mambo Witch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYOS4tWVzxU
Chromeo - Needy Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5JoePzqwg4
Massive Attack - Angel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k
Sarah Fimm - Be Like Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQkxfvmR_VM
Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bwC1zJE49U
Queensryche - The Thin Line https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nXMHR0UScw
Hall and Oates - Maneater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek
T.A.T.U. - Perfect Enemy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovaZ0KfIWiE
Shakespeare's Sister - The Trouble With Andre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNLQxurOlM
Leonard Cohen - By The Rivers Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcKvJRBUE6o
Phil Collins - I Don't Care Anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6PNc9KN50M
Karyn White - Secret Rendezvous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVmOMJ_Vcnw
Archive - Headspace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FchUNFdDgsU
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_aYibUx1B8
A Split-Second - The Heat (Legs Akimbo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyMHNEI7dNY
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqeKV2UYq1Q
Ray Parker Jr. - Until The Morning Comes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkoRaTaV4s
Bat For Lashes - All Your Gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXK0Ejzin4c
(didn't do embedded videos because this many may choke someone's browser if they have embeds on)

I tend to organize playlists not by musician or genre, but by songs with similar themes and feelings (or that evoke certain feelings for me). I also have other playlists made for sunny days out on the open road, playlists of songs I love to sing along to, etc.

prukinski posted:

Bat For Lashes
:hfive:

prukinski
Dec 25, 2011

Sure why not
Just went through my ride playlist and I can't believe I forgot this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIb6AZdTr-A

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




HenryJLittlefinger posted:

How old are you, greybush?

35. I started really young. Rode dirt exclusively till I was in my early 20's

35 years to figure out basic subtraction too I guess, since I started riding at 7, which would be 28 years ago

:math101:

clutchpuck
Apr 30, 2004
ro-tard

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I have always been kinda not sure about riding with music. I fear it will take my concentration off the road. In 29 years of riding I have never once ridden with music playing. Do you find it distracts you?

:ohdear:

I like it on open straight highway but usually the thunderstorm vtwin is music enough for me.

Ola
Jul 19, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zndpi8tNZyQ

Looped fifty times.

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




I imagine if I did listen to music and ride it would be this

https://youtu.be/yryD_vA8wHw

cursedshitbox
May 20, 2012

Your rear-end wont survive my hammering.



Fun Shoe
I always ride with tunes. depending on mood but generally NDH.

hot sauce
Jan 13, 2005

Grimey Drawer
Great idea for a thread.

Beck - Wow
https://youtu.be/6ZlbahhoEIo

Vespertown - Fancy
https://youtu.be/T4SWnXvasRU

Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (W&W remix)
https://youtu.be/gruyw8y0KJs

Major Lazer - Night Riders
https://youtu.be/tpleNoWqvsc

Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
https://youtu.be/_AWIqXzvX-U


I'd be a bad goon if I didn't mention this one:
Akira - Kaneda's theme
https://youtu.be/hpDvtIt6Lsc

hot sauce
Jan 13, 2005

Grimey Drawer

Z3n posted:

Music on the street, but not on track. Overwerk, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySB3BUs73ik

Definitely adding this to my playlist. Electronic fits the mood for riding in a number of situations.

Retarted Pimple
Jun 2, 2002

An eclectic mix.
Some classic rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NFaQcTJsg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9vhJtLveY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy9BXuy5_FA&index=6&list=PLQvYcstPNHWovFh6TNJdaurVF3jGmLEBk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2h1MY70uag

Some metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QSP51TNTdQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjttbm48LXc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J51LPlP-s9o

Some goth metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks8XTrxLmKg

Some heavy prog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5OVUBDK2Po
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMrKTXebotE

Some prog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRJ_x5u5Mp8&list=PLFc9rGAZmDumaTIK4yeNQb535anaoKApg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFNMSYp2K9c

A lot of post rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyrKi9miV2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_Zpz0fIPMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qoc8MYyu_J0&list=PLF01C28731E96D050
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDWiw16acTQ

post rock...prog..ambient? I'm not sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Q5RISm2cU

Some alt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QGO-fXh_w4&list=PLDdjexgjElXSTWp_GU_urkCaVdhWLmHPr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJoMSDceVHo

Some Dubstep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cXDgFwE13g

karms
Jan 22, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Yam Slacker
Who has time for ride-specific music?

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

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Who cares so little about music that they can't see that some music fits specific activities?

edit: Someone who says "eh, pretty much anything but country or rap," that's who.

HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Sep 4, 2016

karms
Jan 22, 2006

by Nyc_Tattoo
Yam Slacker
A good song is a good song no matter the surroundings though? I don't live my live like it needs its own personal soundtrack. :spergin:

Retarted Pimple
Jun 2, 2002

Sometimes I just want to hear music instead of wind noise, especially on a long trip.

hot sauce
Jan 13, 2005

Grimey Drawer
It's fun to turn on music that better fits your surroundings.

HenryJLittlefinger
Jan 31, 2010

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HotCanadianChick posted:

Since the bulk of my riding is my 1 hr commute (each way), and a lot if it is very early mornings (I used to leave work sometimes at 4am, though my current schedule has me waking up to go into work around that time instead), I have a mix of slower, moderate tempo stuff that's suited to the dead of night, mostly stuff that feels like it should be music in a spy movie, because I like to feel I'm James Bond when I'm riding in the dead of the night.


That's a wild list. I'm kind of the same way, but it all has to be basically the same genre or my concentration gets thrown off. Like I've got my playlist of trance/psytrance that's got a bunch of Shpongle, Infected Mushroom, Juno Reactor, etc, and then there's a playlist of bluegrass and country songs about roads and driving, and there's the playlist of really long-winded noodly jam band stuff (mostly Umphreys McGee) and on and on because I'm neurotic about my music setting a mood.

But no way could I go from Portishead to Pat Benetar to Hall and Oates to Kavinsky.

Coydog
Mar 5, 2007


Fallen Rib

100% my jam also :respek:

I used to be wary of music while riding, but my riding music is pretty chill and it actually helps me ride more responsibly. Melodic Progressive House or Deep House are my usuals.
Melodic Progressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3ONnuMgqc
Deep House
https://soundcloud.com/gai-barone/gai-barone-patterns-193

Shadowlz
Oct 3, 2011

Oh it's gonna happen one way or the other, pal.



Swirl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8B5AOljhsY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZv9-TWdBJM

Fifty Three
Oct 29, 2007

For night riding around the city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G02wKufX3nw

For countryside riding during the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spIyzp8XDn4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPVBrRd9wCo

????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ApY1nY6IYg

BlackMK4
Aug 23, 2006

wat.
Megamarm

Coydog posted:

100% my jam also :respek:

I used to be wary of music while riding, but my riding music is pretty chill and it actually helps me ride more responsibly. Melodic Progressive House or Deep House are my usuals.
Melodic Progressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3ONnuMgqc
Deep House
https://soundcloud.com/gai-barone/gai-barone-patterns-193
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkd8SBlMmBI

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

Oh man this was very much my poo poo in high school and college before motorcycles. I loved me some LTJ Bukem and Goldie.

:)
Oh man, I grew up on D&B, jungle, and trance. I have a lot of good memories... gently caress, I'm getting old.

BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Sep 7, 2016

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




:same: to all those Dnb/jungle/techno thoughts. The 90's were the halcyon days of good edm and amen breaks.

:allears:

Shadowlz
Oct 3, 2011

Oh it's gonna happen one way or the other, pal.



Come to Baltimore/DC, it's still very much alive over here. Here was the last party I was at(RIP Paradox):
https://www.facebook.com/events/1102902323115075/

Spinscott was loving awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPRcoQCHVbM

The scene isn't as strong as it was in the mid 90s early 2000s but it's still alright. I wish I got to see buzz before fox5 killed it.

Beve Stuscemi
Jun 6, 2001




Milwaukee was a cool place to be in the 90's if you were into EDM of any sort. A ton of clubs popped up who's main goal was showcasing DJ's and music (RIP Club Metropolis), and Milwaukee's close proximity meant we got a ton of spillover from both the Chicago House scene and the Detroit techno scene.

My only regret is not knowing about a lot of it at the time, since the internet wasn't as all-encompassing as it is now, a bunch of stuff went unnoticed and was spread by word of mouth.

i.e. things like this, that happened and then later would become huge cultural phenomenas: http://www.spin.com/2013/05/daft-punk-oral-history-first-american-show-even-furthur-1996/

e: and video proof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87NzeuM6GT8

Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 15:14 on Sep 7, 2016

Fifty Three
Oct 29, 2007

Forgot to mention, basically anything by Odesza is good for night cruising.

clutchpuck
Apr 30, 2004
ro-tard
OK I'll admit to queueing up some Monster Magnet for those I-90 blitzes. Dave Wyndorf and the drum roll of intake noise make a nice background to the mountains of Montana. Or classical music. I don't like more rhythm-oriented music when I'm on the bike because I tend to sync my inputs with the music and I'd rather not fall into that trap. Generally though, bikes + guitar solos = good.

clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Sep 8, 2016

solarNativity
Nov 11, 2012

Music helps me concentrate, and music/earplugs/anything that muffles the bike's exhaust make me ride better. I've got all kinds of anxiety about all kinds of things and I always get really self-conscious about the revs.

I generally listen to poo poo like this though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgAMSMNJ5W8

GriszledMelkaba
Sep 4, 2003


Just get drunk and perc'd out and put this in your headphones for a little ridey ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguPH0XBxdw

If I were to ride with music again I would probably put this in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4acxk8vc1uk

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Militant Lesbian
Oct 3, 2002

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

That's a wild list. I'm kind of the same way, but it all has to be basically the same genre or my concentration gets thrown off. Like I've got my playlist of trance/psytrance that's got a bunch of Shpongle, Infected Mushroom, Juno Reactor, etc, and then there's a playlist of bluegrass and country songs about roads and driving, and there's the playlist of really long-winded noodly jam band stuff (mostly Umphreys McGee) and on and on because I'm neurotic about my music setting a mood.

But no way could I go from Portishead to Pat Benetar to Hall and Oates to Kavinsky.

It's really not as jarring as you would think- as long as the tempos aren't too far off, and there's no large stylistic changes (going from heavily distorted crunchy guitars to a soft piano ballad, for example) you can make most anything gel well.

I spent a couple years as a DJ doing an industrial music night at a club back in the 90's, and if there's one thing I became an expert on during that time, it was how to get wildly different songs to fit into the same set without having abrupt transitions that would drive everyone off the floor, as there was far more variation in sound in that one genre than any other; for example, the following would all be songs I may have played on any given night at the club:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsEPpW2XdLA (My Life With the Thril Kill Kult)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zS8mX9J03Y (KMFDM)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsoDcyBab_s (Skinny Puppy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1M8u9okm0 (Pigface)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJZnNq-RXX4 (Leaether Strip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDwxhkOaZjQ (Ministry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuhoNvqC1sM Murder He Wrote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=545i3kMnxCI Nitzer Ebb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zq9oqI26vE (Gracious Shades)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j7zDFU9Reg (Hate Dept.)

Not one after the other, of course, but I would pick and songs in between those that would gradually get me to the right tone and tempo after 2-3 songs to get the next one on that list going smoothly. Compared to something like that, the playlist I posted earlier in the thread is downright harmonious.

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