Music For Traveling

[smokeygreens]

Let's get some proper discussion going here my fellow outdoor enthusiasts. When you're hitting the road for 15 hours, what are we listening to? Aside from Steely Dan How about some early 2000's shows from The New Deal for the last couple hours when you need that big thumping boost. https://archive.org/details/TheNewDeal. Check this out. What else you got?

[ScurvyBrother]

Lol man, no love for the Dan? Not trippy enough for the smoky smoke man (I mean, Mr. Green )? I mean, if we're going for some electronic music to keep you from falling asleep how about some classic late 90's early 2000's trance?

Infected Mushroom:
Classical Mushroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vs7f9Mf34k
Bp Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zed9p_ZRPfg

Now we know what Mr. Green was doing in the library with the candlestick, right? Weed deal gone awry??

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[lightningTodd]

I'm going to second the distrust of Steely Dan. I'm big into classic rock, but it sounds very corporate and dangerously close to smooth jazz to me. I'd rather listen to car commercials than Reelin in the Years.

How about some live Hendrix for that last stretch of driving?

Band of Gypsys
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... HuUUbOc-0I

Got some long and improvy stuff on Electric Ladyland too:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... U-s9o3_IZb

[ScurvyBrother]

I'm going to second the distrust of Steely Dan. I'm big into classic rock, but it sounds very corporate and dangerously close to smooth jazz to me. I'd rather listen to car commercials than Reelin in the Years.

Reelin' in the Years is my least favorite of all their songs along with My Old School. It's like anything else - they play the worst stuff on the radio. What classic rock station plays Machine Gun?

Check out this track and tell me if you think this is smooth jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ9Xk-VoGqo

I mean, listen to that guitar solo(s)! Bass, drums. This definitely gives me a boost towards the end of a long drive. Steely Dan is not corporate rock! That's Boston, Kansas, Styx, Foreigner, Kiss - the majority of what they play on the 150 or so songs in rotation on classic rock stations. Corporate rock is more product than art. Boston is product. Which is not to say that it's all bad. And some artistic music just comes out as accessible and commercially successful. The Eagles is commercial, but I think they made what they wanted to make. The purpose of Kiss was to sell records, not make any statements or evoke emotions.

Classic rock radio is such a poor representation of the artists they play and is not educational the way it should be. I'll listen to it if my brain is so fried that I can't listen to anything anymore and just want to hear some basic stuff that I've heard a hundred times and can sing in my sleep.

[lightningTodd]

Yes, it's a fine guitar solo. Surrounded by some bad singing of incomprehensible lyrics with some elevator music harmonies thrown in. It's not as bad as RITY but still not doing it for me. I'll grant that the musicianship is good and the music is complex, but complexity doesn't make music better, it just makes it...more complex. There's plenty of unlistenable proggy stuff not to mention all the Satriani style shredding music that is technically advanced but that most people don't get enjoyment from listening to.

Steely Dan not corporate, really? Seems like the music of choice for seventies era Wolf of Wall Street kind of guys to snort up a bunch of coke to. Probably right after the Eagles record was done playing. What is product and what is art is totally subjective. Where do you draw the line? Steely Dan definitely moved a lot of product for their employers. But yeah, Styx is stupid. No argument there. Even the "tough" Tommy Shaw songs (Renegade, Blue Collar Man) strike me as pretty toothless.

[kinglpc]

Our first debate. I'm so proud.

[smokeygreens]

Drum n bass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VQHExOFTQ

Are there any trippy Steely Dan songs? I'll listen to anything

[ScurvyBrother]

Drum n bass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VQHExOFTQ

Are there any trippy Steely Dan songs? I'll listen to anything

Yeah, Steely Dan and psychedelic don't normally go together.

Maybe Pretzel Logic? Maybe kinglpc can weigh in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBxZFadp9Pw

[lightningTodd]

Drum n bass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VQHExOFTQ

The title of the thread says the word "music." This is just a bunch of noise caused by pressing buttons and turning knobs.

[smokeygreens]

Drum n bass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VQHExOFTQ

The title of the thread says the word "music." This is just a bunch of noise caused by pressing buttons and turning knobs.

One of those...lol. What is the definition of music?

And that ain't nothing. You want to hear some really industrial noisy DNB you might enjoy this:

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

[lightningTodd]

What is the definition of music?

I don't know. Not that.

[smokeygreens]

What is the definition of music?

I don't know. Not that.

Come on man, try it. It's a fun exercise. And don't do some lame dictionary definition.

[ScurvyBrother]

Ooh I'll play. I like semantics and word games.

How about... structured patterns of sounds created by vocalizations, touching sound producing media, or digital programming?

[smokeygreens]

Ooh I'll play. I like semantics and word games.

How about... structured patterns of sounds created by vocalizations, touching sound producing media, or digital programming?

Why does it have to be structured. There's plenty of ambient stuff that doesn't have verses or measures. Is beatboxing vocalization - like the vocal cords aren't vibrating, right? And I don't know about the touching part either. I mean you hit some thing with another thing. Like you're touching something but not what's actually making the noise.

[lightningTodd]

And that ain't nothing. You want to hear some really industrial noisy DNB you might enjoy this:

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

Uh...what drugs are the people who make and listen to this "music" on. It seems like you might be a good source on this.

[aldiquarter]

I like some 90's alternative. It's mindless enough, catchy and accessible. I kinda wish there were more options for hearing it. Some of it (somehow) gets lumped in with classic rock, but you're not really going to hear much Soundgarden or STP on a commercial radio station not to mention some of the more obscure stuff that was on the radio back then.

[salAmanda]

ABBA! Nothing better to scream along to while being partially delirious from hours of highway hypnosis. Greatest hits, compilation, whatever.

Speaking of whatever, these first two Ben Folds Five albums are melodic gold. Easy listening.

]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUOt5AhUqKE

could only find a playlist for the second one

[salAmanda]

Well the good news is it looks like it embedded the video (automatically) again. The bad news is that I find this all very confusing, but enjoy the tunes!

[lightningTodd]

ABBA! ...Ben Folds Five ...

No and no! I couldn't stand that dumb Brick song when it came out in 199 whatever, and I still can't. The purpose of this music isn't to drive your car off the road!

[smokeygreens]

Yes you would need to scream along to it to drown out that awful whiny voice