Whats on your MP3 Player?

What do you listen to when you ride? (If you listen to anything!) What keeps your pedals spinning/heart thumping/hill climbing? What makes you say I'm a GIRL and just watch me GO!!!!

This is a partial playlist from mine -

3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Christina Aguilera - Can't Hold us down
Christina Aguilera - Fighter
Clubmasters - Can you Feel it
Joe Cocker - Feelin Allright
Coldplay - Clocks
Commodores - Brick House
Concrete Blond - Caroline
Creed - Higher
Crystal method/Steppenwolf Remix - Magic Carpet Ride
Crystal method - I know it's you
Dawntreader - Domination
De Niro - Mind of Man
Def Leppard - Do ya Wanna get rocked
Edwyn Collins - Girl Like you
Fatboy Slim - Funk Soul Brother/James Brown - I feel good (remix)
Ferris Bueller soudntrack - Oh Yeah
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Foo Figters - Times like these
George Thorogood - Who Do Ya Love
Guns n Roses - You're Crazy
Information Society - Pure Energy
John Hiatt - Slow Turning
John Hiatt - Cry Love
Johnny Lang - Matchbox
Joss Stone - Super Duper Love
Journey - Walks like a lady
Lone Justice - Belfry
Los Lonely Boys - Heaven
Maylee Thomas - Something Better
New Radicals - You Get what you Give
Nickelback - Figured you out
Orbital - Halcyon
Santana - Oye Como Va
White Zombie - I'm your Boogie Man (Rehash)

My son says "Amarillo by Morning" is the perfect bike race song - once I read the lyrics I saw why!!! LOL

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mother hen warning ...

When you're listening to your tunes, can you hear cars coming up from behind you, or other riders about to pass you? Just askin'.

I have lots of Dave Matthews and Coldplay on my MP3 right now.

On the road I wear an earphone in the right ear only - and keep the volume low enough to be able to hear whats going on.

On the trainer - Im likely to plug my klipsch speakers in and crank it up!

Good girl ! :D [ /mother hen off ]

There's an area I ride which is closed off to traffic and is nice & wide so anyone coming up from behind me had plenty of room to get around, I thought that would be a great place to use my MP3 player.

Trouble is, the sound of the wind (I'm near the bay) seems to be amplified by the earplugs and drowns out the tunes. Do you find that, or is that not a problem w. the earphones you use ?

I mostly listen to mine when I'm doing yard work. It's got Santana's Shaman and Supernatural in it, as well as the original Shrek and Cyndi Lauper's At Last.

V.

I use the little bud that fits inside the ear. Yeah sometimes the wind is too loud with those. Aside from the mongo huge padded earphones though, I don't really know what would work to shut out the wid noise.

All and anything Van Morrison and Coldplay

Karen

I have 32 different albums on mine... set to random play.

Still love soundtrack from The Matrix to really get going, but it is one of many.

spazz

I ADORE the matrix sound track!!!!! I got a cd - "furious Angels" by Rob Dougan who did the clubbed to death remix on the matrix soundtrack. If you like Matrix, you will like Rob Dougan too!!!!

The shrek soundtrack is another one I really love!

The Crystal Method's "Legion of Boom" is great loud stuff too if you like that sort of electronica type motivation

I have a Paul Van Dyk (a DJ) set that inspires me.

I love running to this song that sings about being alive! Really motivates me!

Otherwise... I typically keep the tunes off when I am swimming (HA!) and cycling (since I always ride with groups and I want to chat!)!

Ok, now I feel all old and outdated. IF I had an MP3 (I have a little tape player) I'd have
The Guess Who-Wheatfield Soul
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Black Sabbath-Paranoid
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Cake
Offspring
Billie Holiday
Crystal Method
Heart
Lords of Acid
Toadies
Led Zeppelin
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack
Sugarloaf
Beatles
And stuff like that.

My first broken collarbone was to Anthrax, off the Attack of the Killer B's
and most recently I get my music from my cute and loveable 2 year old JB, who'll sit in a trailer without complaint for up to 5 hours, spending a lot of it singing songs he makes up himself and has named such inventive things as the Momma Song, Dadda Song, Baby Song etc. :) I'm so lucky!

Listening to anything requiring earbuds is a very bad idea. Think about drivers - they too are listening to music, talking on the phone, rehearsing the conversation they'll have with the boss, etc. and they AREN'T looking for you! If you are distracted or cannot hear the telltale sign of a driver about to be stupid, you lose. Simple as that.

I'm with Dogmama on this one. I know that some of you say that you are only using a single ear-bud, but I really feel that the road deserves my full attention with no distraction.

--- Denise

With the trailer I'm stuck on trails-no cars. I do have to watch out for other people though-don't ride down the middle of the trail and look behind me as well as in front before I pass. With or without music. I have not been listening to music with my kiddo because I want to stay tuned to his needs and joy.
Still, I can hear just fine over JB's songs. :)

When I'm on the road no music but for the constant drone of cars, punctuated by the sharp notes of honking and tire squeals. :(

I wouldn't want music in town but I think it'd be fine on country roads-if some guy's going to hit you while passing there really isn't going to be any way you'd know it until you were being hit and even if he had, say, a sudden tire blowout (this happened to a cyclist a few years ago around here), and swerved into you there would be no time to react and move out of the way. When I was hit by a truck coming out of a side street I was not wearing earbuds and was aware of the truck who was stopped at a stop sign. He hit the gas when I was directly in front of him and there was nothing I could do to get out of the way even though I heard the engine rev a second before I was hit. All IMO, of course.

The wind drowns out more car noise than the ear bud in my experience. I dont wear them if I am traveling in a well traffiked area, but in my neighborhood and the ones around it, I MIGHT have a car pass me 4 times max while I am out riding during the day - and they are going 30 mph.

Trust me - Im the most paranoid person in the world - If there is ANY chance that wearing the one bud would be dangerous, I dont do it.

I DO wear my MP3 player with both buds or use speakers if I am on the trainer.

I just wondered what other people listen to - not where they listen to it :)

Another good "Hammer Down" song - even if ya don't care for country much

Dwight Yoakums "Fast as You"

Makes ya wanna STAND on the pedals and run at about 120 rpm on the cadence!

When I bother to take it with me I keep it low enought to hear any traffic coming up behind me.
At the moment I'm listening toa bit of
'chilled Ibiza'
'Tom Petty'
'Nina Simone'
and
'Tim McGraw'

I've been looking into headphone alternatives for biking, like speakers on the handlebars, or there's a backpack with speakers in the shoulder straps, or speakers in a helmet...another thing I may try is a cheap pair of behind the head earphones, just hooked around my neck, and not on my ears. Though I suspect the wind may drown that out.

As far as what I have on my iPod, I've got nearly 2500 songs, so too much to name. However, I do have an account at iTunesregistry.com that has my entire library listed on it here.

I've just upgraded my mp3 player from 128mb to a lovely new 20gb. I have over two thousand tracks on it, so too much to mention. :)

I have an Ipod shuffle, and mostly what I listen to is Podcasts! There are a ton of them about biking, and triathlon, and endurance sports, and anything else you can think of, in lengths ranging from 10 minutes to an hour. Sometimes on a really long ride I will get through all the Podcasts and then I have a bunch of music on there, too. To get them, you just go to ITunes, to the Podcast section, and do a search or browse. They're free. Then, if you like one, you subscribe to it, and it gets automatically updated- new shows are downloaded as they become available.

I ride with only the left earbud, and only on trails.

Nanci