What's Your Favorite Hill Song?

[ivorygorgon]

AC/DC - Thunderstruck!

[snapdragen]

Snap may be a little dark.

Just a little.

Maybe a little....but it's really a catchy tune..

http://youtu.be/6bbIInzpf6Y



//saw Be Bop at Winterland a million years ago, they will always have a place in my playlist.

[marni]

I sing my sisters song to the tune of frer Jacques

I am climbing,
I am climbing,
Yes I am,
Yes I am,
This is not a real hill,
This not a real hill,
Not it's not
No it's not.

The tempo is adjustable.

marni

[Miranda]

If that don't make your booty move, your booty must be dead!

Love the climb.
Embrace the climb.
The climb is your friend!

THAT is my probably my all time favorite vids with that song! LOVE it! I sometimes use it in my Spinning classes I teach. Oh how I *wish* I could show videos!!!

[Miranda]

AC/DC - Thunderstruck!

great tune... love me some AC/DC lol.

[Miranda]

One aquired hill song that randomly pops in my head as a result of TE is....

"Can't Get Enough" by Bad Company
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2Bm6t6Ic94

Gnat23 had posted her CA Valley Death Ride vid. There were a group of guys riding, just randomly singing (note, wind to spare to sing, on said mountain) this song. It just cracked me up. Oh, and Gnat23's bar tape "I Eat Hills" lol.

So, when I'm dieing outside climbing this pops in my head occasionally. Putting a smile on my face. Plus, I do love that song. Ya... "can't get enough of hill love".

[goride]

My hill song is probably not any better than "Old McDonald Had a Farm." I am also pretty sure it doesn't say anything very good about me, but from the Wizard of Oz - Almira Gulch's song, when she is riding away on her bike with Toto in her basket. No words, just tada tada ta dada... It's okay, though, one day our group was out riding and one of the other rider's commented that the tree we had just passed reminded her of the apple-throwing tree in the Wizard of Oz. Hmm.

[Chicken Little]

The boss: There's a darkness on the edge of town.

[smittykitty]

Thanks for all the replys. This has been really fun to read. I should be able to find myself a new, motivating tune now. How to choose? Thanks.

No more Ole' McD's Farm for me!

[TsPoet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJQHG4I-jO8

I can't stand the song, and I can't ever remember the lyrics - but as soon as my legs start to burn even the littlest bit.


And I wonder how I never got the burn
And if I'm ever gonna learn
...then my mind makes up stupid stuff that sort of rhymes after that.

[tealtreak]

Wow, I feel so embarrassed that some of you have such sweet and light motivating songs, I always end up singing "knock em down" by dropkickmurphy or any other embarrassingly violent fight song! Especially on really technical uphills (which I love!) but I just seem to need that "get mad" feel............

[smittykitty]

Maybe more "mad feel" would be "more better" for getting me up those hills.

Nursery rhymes aren't cutting it. And where do they come from anyway. My kids are grown, no grand kids yet. Songs I haven't thought of in 25+ years.

[missjean]

I'm not familiar with that song, but the movie is The Big Easy, with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin. Great zydeco music.

That's it! Thanks.
Dennis Quais was so cute with that big ol' smile.

[Norse]

Driving My Life Away by Eddie Rabbit; it's an old trucker song with some good lyrics and the right tempo:

Well the midnight headlight find you on a rainy night
steep grade up ahead slow me down makin no time
gotta keep rollin
those windshield wipers slappin out a tempo
keepin perfect rhythm with the song on the radio
gotta keep rolling

Ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a better way, for me
ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a sunny day

Well the truck stop cutie comin' on to me
tried to talk me into a ride said I wouldn't be sorry
but she was just a baby
Hey waitress pour me another cup of coffee
pop me down jack me up shoot me out flyin' down the highway
lookin for the morning

Ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a better way, for me
ooh I'm driving my life away, looking for a sunny day

[spokewench]

I don't usually find a song that I sing when I climb; but quite a few years ago, I was doing a very long, epic, very technical mountain bike ride in the mountains near Show Low Arizona. We had gone about 15-20 miles - just the beginning and I crashed and took off half of one of my elbows in the crash on a rock. I did not want to stop and go back or get sagged back in so I kept riding.

At one point towards this last 1/4 of the ride, we were riding through this beautiful meadow with long grass, flowers and a small pretty stream. I was starting to lag a bit and feeling kinda low and my girlfriend behind me started singing that song that gos I'll be going round the mountain when she comes, etc. Yikes, she knew all the choruses.

I'm not sure if it was her singing or what, but I got going faster after that!