General Discussion (Model Railroader)

Music? We don't need no stinking music!

http://www.railroadradio.net/

For me its light jazz or piano jazz.  The Rippingtons, Pat Methany, Basment Jaxx, Vince Guarldi (peanuts music)   I work better if I stay relaxed and focused.  if not in a music mode, I have a TV in the room and I can put it on CNN Headline news, History Channel ect.   Cheers  Mike

You guys all have unique and interesting taste in music! Model Railroaders are probably the must interesting and diverse people you can ever meet.

I got my first train set back in 1974, and later that year I bought a couple more locos, some extra track, a couple of switches, and a few more freight cars.  I always had the radio playing when I ran trains, and I was really 'into' model railroading and listening to music in late 1974 - early 1975.  Here's a list of the songs I remember hearing back then:

Star - Stealer's Wheel

I'm A Train - Albert Hammond

Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Passing Time - Bearfoot (c)

Longfellow Serenade - Neil Diamond

When Will I See You Again - The Three Degrees

Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas

Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder

Dancin' Fool - The Guess Who (c)

Dark Horse - George Harrison

Bungle In The Jungle - Jethro Tull

Lady Ellen - James Leroy (c)

Can You Give It All To Me - Myles & Lenny (c)

I'm A Fool To Do Your Dirty Work - Songbird (c)

Mandy - Barry Manilow

I Wouldn't Want To Lose Your Love - April Wine (c)

Some Kind Of Wonderful - Grand Funk

Ready - Cat Stevens

Black Water - Doobie Brothers

Lonely People - America

Magic - Pilot

(c) stands for Canadian content.  Canadian radio stations were required by law to play at least thirty per cent of music recorded by Canadian artists.  And I didn't mind that at all because there was some really good Canadian rock and pop music to listen to during the early to mid 1970s.

Aloco,

   Coincidently, the selections you quoted are all among the songs that cause me to "change the station".  I honestly reviewed each one and just had to laugh.  Ha, its a good thing we aren't working together. 

But hey, it just goes to show you, we all have different tastes - not a bad thing of course.

ENJOY,

Mobilman44

mobilman44:

I prefer the "classic rock" for the most part, but now find what the radio calls "classic rock" is just not all that "classic" - and is more a mix of late '70s and '80s stuff.

Classic rock - to this "war baby" - is mid '50s thru early '70s.  I also like "classic country", but again the radio's definition doesn't quite match with mine.

As an aside, there are tons of classic country & rock songs out there, but the stations here (Houston area) seem to have about 100 song playlist and everything else is verbotten!

For what its worth......

Mobilman44 

Sounds like the radio stations here. I don't listen to the radio much at all. When I do, for the most part the same songs are playing, with a few exceptions, that I heard a month ago.

superbe:

Radio doesn't play my kind of music any longer so I am strickly CD

Same here. And for the most part it's.....(drum roll) Waylon Jennings. It don't get no better 'n at!! (well, to me anyway)

 I play my RR CD created from my music collection

1. Chattanooga Choo Choo --Glen Miller/Tex Beneke

2. AT&SF--Pied Pipers

3.Wreck of Old 97--Hank Snow

4. Ben Dewberry's Last Run --Jimmie Rodgers

5. City of New Orleans--Willie Nelson

6. Pan American--Hank Williams 

7.California Zephyr--Hank Williams 

8.Freight Train Blues--Roy Acuff

9.Fireball Mail--Roy Acuff

10.Night Train to Memphis--Roy Acuff

11.Wabash Cannonball --Hank Locklin

12.Orange Blossum Special--Johnny Cash

13.Midnight Special--Leadbelly

14 Waiting For a Train--Merle Haggard 

15. So Long Train Whistle --Merle Haggard

16. Canadian  Pacific---George Hamiltown

17. Engine Engine Number Nine --Rodger Miller 

It depends on what I'm doing.  If I'm putting all of Kato's little details on one of their diesels, then I prefer silence so I can concentrate.  During less intensive kit-building or decaling, classical, jazz, Pat Metheny, Watermark or any solo instrumental pieces work well.  And since my synthesizers are in the same room that I work on the trains in, sometimes I listen to whatever musical projects are in progress at the time.  To wit:

mobilman44:

Coincidently, the selections you quoted are all among the songs that cause me to "change the station".  I honestly reviewed each one and just had to laugh.  Ha, its a good thing we aren't working together. 

The top 40 AM pop stations were all I had to listen to back in those days.  I was also 12-13 years old at the time.

I listen to a wider variety of music nowadays, and I've written and recorded a few of my own songs. 

But I since I've gotten more serious about the hobby I find that I can't listen to music while I'm working on model railroad equipment.  It breaks my concentration.

There is someone to listen to other than Jimmy Buffet?

I'll join in with the rock'n'roll crowd......Aerosmith, Sabbath, Genesis, Yes, Van Halen, Nickleback, AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynrd, Metallica, Judas Priest, Kiss, Molly Hatchet, Zeppelin, The Cars, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Heart, ZZ Top and everything in between!        Course I cant' forget to mention the BEST BAND EVER (imho) Canadian trio> RUSH.............

Matt

 Generally I click on the local public radio, doing classical music or their news channel. Back when I was single and used to work on the layout a lot at night I would put the news channel on to hear BBC programming.

Blues for me. Any and all. Kenny Wayne Shepard, Vaughn ,Clapton, Delbert McClinton, Blues Brothers, Et Al.

Terry

 Big ELP fan, have collection of CD's installed on a 50 CD player BUT here's something else.

Get WinAmp online then visit

the mod archive

http://modarchive.org/

not all the music might be your cup of tea but you may find some goodies, some fun, some odd, some unique, just about anything, and there are some that have a railroad theme/sound/etc

Being a music person, played guitar, own a synthesizer, I like stuff like thats at the mod archive.