Music to model railroad by

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MILW-RODR

On a side not does anyone just listen to the tv or a movie when they're at the layout? Some times it's nice just have a little back ground noise.

Some old musicals on DVD. I tend to stay away from the tube when doing MR'ing--I end up watching the dang thing!!

[BerkshireSteam]

Jake1210

 Slipknot

 Disturbed

 

Good, I'm not the only one. But you forgot Marilyn Manson, Godsmack, Slayer, System Of A Down, Motorhead....and I just forgot 80% of the death metal list I had in my head. As for non-death Green Day, Pink, Shinedown...oh heck I'll make it easy, what evers playing on the rock station. But, couple weeks ago I hit the jackpot in 33 1/3's at the Goodwill so now I have 6 REO albums to listen too, not to mention the Bach, Mozart, Pachbel, Cannon, Holst, Tchiovasky, Beethoven. Or the Nate Cole LP's I have, then there's the couple of Disco records, oh oh and the Grease and Grease 2 sound tracks on record I got for the wife, although I don't listen to the sepperate Olivia Netwon John records (then again neither does she ). Lets see I got my....5 AC/DC albums, I think I have some Eric Clapton, I KNOW I have some Journey (although not near enough). There's also some burned CD's of popular rap songs from around 2001 (when I actually listened to that crap). Then there's the techno CD's. And of course, if I don't feel like listening to any of my various CD's, cassettes, or vynal, I can always plop on WNPR and listen to some classical, or the RAZR for rock, lets see WIXX plays all the nex crap, the APPL plays classic rock, WPNE usually has some good talk radio on it, either 1360 AM or 1400 AM has Rush on in the morning (been long time since I've listened to that).

It's too bad I could NEVER convince my dad to give up the old 8 track player he found before christmas. Wow, do I like the media and music types made before I was born (1983).

On a side not does anyone just listen to the tv or a movie when they're at the layout? Some times it's nice just have a little back ground noise. 

 

[duckdogger]

 Anything with a descent beat from the 70s - 80s.  Unless my grandson is here, then it's Elmo's Greatest Hits - Vol 1.  Let's hope there is no Vol 2.

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Last night's list included some prog like Anekdoten, Kraan, Guru Guru and a bit of Faust/Tony Conrad---then I slid over to Cathedral, Trouble, Testament and Sepultura. My wife then wanted some AC/DC, Queen, Kate Bush and Metallica--and we finished off with the Adverts, Generation X, Prodigy, Vandals and Black Flag----

[mononguy63]

northernsubpcrr

Usually Conservative news talk radio.

I can't do that. Too distracting, because I keep yelling, "You tell 'em!" and knocking over my paint bottle. 

[cahrn]

salt water cowboy

Judas Priest

 

 

YES. Judas Priest is an all time favorite. For me its mostly metal from the "classics" of the 80's and early 90's to all kinds of contemporary metal from regular heavy stuff to the obscure Gaelic and Viking metal.

 

On occasion some Celtic/Gaelic punk can get into the mix, just depends how Irish I feel that day. 

[SteamFreak]

 It varies depending on my mood. Maybe a little progressive like Renaissance, or Karnataka.

Or maybe some Curve, David Sylvian, and maybe even the KLF - Last Train To Trancentral. (Looks like a tender drive to me. )

[IVRW]

I have the same story with Rod Stewart, though I do not listen to him. I actually met a Model Railroader who helped work on his layout.

[nik .n]

 Or stuff like "16 Tons" or "Battle of New Orleans."

[P5se Camelback]

I like to listen to contemporary jazz.  I use that term because there are so many forms of jazz.  So really, I listen to Four Play, Spiro Gyra, Yellow Jackets, Gerald Albright, The Brecker Brothers, Jeff Golub, David Sanborn, Warren Hill, and stuff like that.  Keeps me awake, motivated and ... groovin'!!!

BiL

a.k.a. P5seCamelback

[DougF]

I listen to mostly jazz and blues.  On line is WEMU.org.  Our local PBS station.  Good variety of old and new. 

[Left Coast Rail]

Good Ol' Grateful Dead and Jimmy Buffett on XM, Warren Zevon Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd on CD.

[drums1427]

Metallica, Tool, Dropkick Murphy's, Incubus, and Explosions In The Sky just to name a few.  I also enjoy soundtracks playing, especially in the winter.  The Dark Knight, Sleepy Hollow, The Transformers score, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

 Lee

 

 

[dm9538]

I listen to a lot of 80's and early 90's stuff which is also the time period of my layout and also the time period when I liked to listen to new music. I've also begun listening to Christian music as well but I don't havw alot on CD yet and can't good FM radio reception in the basement

[northernsubpcrr]

Usually Conservative news talk radio.

[wholeman]

You can't go wrong listening to Willie Nelson's City of New Orleans, Johnny Lee's Cherokee Fiddle, or Kenny Rogers' The Gambler.  I don't think anyone has mentioned those.

[mobilman44]

Hey, how come no one mentioned the Stones, Beach Boys, or some of the "doo wop" groups?   And what about Bo Diddley????????

Mobilman44

[wjstix]

Back in the seventies/eighties I often worked on the layout while the Prairie Home Companion was on, back when it was a local show with mostly bluegrass / folk / old time string music. After the original house band, the Powdermilk Bisquit Band, broke up (around 1979 IIRC) the show kinda started going off on a tangent and I haven't listened to it for many years now.

[trfindley]

Here are some 45s I converted to MP3 format:

www.trfindley.com/records

http://www.trfindley.com/records/Purple_People_Eater___Sheb_Wooley.mp3

http://www.trfindley.com/records/Witch_Doctor___David_Seville.mp3

More fun:

http://www.trfindley.com/records/Flying_Saucer_Series___Buchanan_and_Goodman.mp3 

 

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Right out of my crazy collection---groups like: Einsturzende Neubauten, 13th Floor Elevators,  the Nephilim, Can, Faust, Rameses II, Moby Grape, Orb, Le Orme, Motorhead, Metallica, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, Current 93, Laibach,Grobschnitt, This Heat, Keiji Haino, Merzbow---also a couple of locals---63 Monroe and Warpig

Country doesn't get ignored--Cash, Bill Monroe, Carl Stanley( Stanley Bros), Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Lorretta Lynn, and others

In the classical realm I have Rimski-Korsakoff, Stravinski, Shostakovich, Gorecki, Mussorgski, Rossini, Holbrooke, Williams,

Meh, Like I said, all over the place---

[CPD95]

Doctor Demento, German Military music, Lady Gaga, occaisional broadway show tune, TV themes.....DOH!!

[AndyManCNR]

I like to listen to anything that will get me to sing along or dance. I like eurodance, trance, pop and happy hardcore among others. I also LOVE anything Michael Jackson.  

[AntonioFP45]

trainman6446

I stream jazz from www.kcck.org.  Or I open up my channel in Pandora. Sometimes i put on a cd.

Love Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Miles Davis, Weather Report, David Sanborn, Spyro Gyra, Dave Douglas, Bill Frisell, Al Di Meola, etc.

I need some music on when i work on the rr. NO TV allowed!!!! Get enough of that already.

 

 Wow, at last a fellow cool jazz fan! 

Hi Five 

[Ron_P]

 I listen to the Vinyl Cafe

It is a Canadian Roadshow of sorts that the host Stuart Mclean travels the Country and tells stories. The stories have a unique Canadian flare and I am betting even some of you americans would get a kick out of the weekly podcast available on their site. www.vinylcafe.com

[Medina1128]

Ride of the Valkyries!!! With or without chopper and explosions, from Apocalypse Now.

[Seamonster]

mobilman44

Hi!

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 

I know what you mean about "classic rock" being 70s and 80s now. Like you, I'm a "war baby" and stuck in the 50s and 60s music-wise--and good memories too. But, don't forget, as time marches on, what's old marches forward in time too. My children consider the stuff they listened to in the 80s as "oldies" now. We are fortunate in having an oldies AM station here but they too seem to have a limited play list. So I usually listen to my CD compilations when I'm working downstairs. And there's always Sirius Radio if I could figure out how to get my computer audio into the basement.

[miniwyo]

When I am working at the Depot its usually Country Radio, or more often I put in a Chris LeDoux CD. When I am home, usually a movie on the TV or something on Hulu.com

[nik .n]

 Anytin' bluegrass, or from any of the Railroad Tycoon games.

[steemtrayn]

Phoebe Vet

  UncBob is the only one who listens to train songs.

 

 

and the only one to even mention Hank Snow.

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