Hi again!
There was a Lionel commercial in the late '50s in the Chicago area that had a jingle that is still heavy in my mind - even when working on the HO layout.
It went....... "That's real smoke a puffin, that's a whistle I hear, I'm a Lionel (whoo whoo) engineerrrrr"
Sometimes while working on the layout that gets in my head and replays over and over and over. Does anyone else remember it?????
Mobilman44
ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
I guess I'm the first poster to list musicals and operas. The last one was the anniversary edition of Les Miserables.
On the whole I don't listen to music that much, though. Most of the time I have my radio scanner on so I can listen to the massive number of fire & EMS calls in the metro area.
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
I'm surprised. Since most model railroaders are senior citizens or older, I thought for sure I'd hear some Benny Goodman or some Big Band music
Sometimes I listen to Wu Tang or some other Urban Hip Hop. There are times i listen to groups like Yes, Anekdoten, Daevid Allen's Gong, Hawkwind, Gentle Giant or Christian Vander's group--Magma.
Then I'll just throw in Black Sabbath, Trouble or something from a french guitarist Richard Pinhas---then throw in some Stravinski, Rimski-Korsakov, Bach, Brahms or Schubert.
Jazzier days do require Count Basie, Duke Ellington then John Coltrane and Joe Lovano or Peter Brotzmann.
I'm just over the map here----
Or for quieter days the purring of 'Spring'
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
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Driline I'm surprised. Since most model railroaders are senior citizens or older, I thought for sure I'd hear some Benny Goodman or some Big Band music
Funny you should mention that, though I ain't "senior" just yet...
I've always been partial to the Count Basie Orchestra, but sometimes Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey might slip in as well. Or, I'll play some of my bluegrass collection. Both genres seem appropo to railroading. Got the ol' stereo set up with a couple of speakers at the work desk and a couple more under the layout.
Then again, I have four kids and two dogs in the house. Oftentimes, disappearing into the basement and not having any noise at all truly is golden!
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
I listen to smooth jazz-funk music that, to me, conveys the image of riding a fast passenger train as it gently sways on the track ( Yes, I've ridden passenger trains ).. I also enjoy listening to music that relaxes me while I'm working on my models.
Here are two samples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUQCHypx-xQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM7r-Vlgmd0&NR=1
Joyce Cooling, Paul Brown, Chuck Loeb, Bobby Lyle, Acoustic Alchemy, and the late Wayman Tisdale just to list a few.
I like this type of relaxing cool tune when I'm detailing an item that can be a bit tedious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AH_hywcHtE&feature=related
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Sorry, there. I'm a Senior Citizen and still an active Classical Musician by profession. Never liked Big Band. Too 'Thunky.' Stuck inexorably in 4/4 metre and never gets out of it.
Actually, I don't listen to music when I'm working on my MR, Classical or otherwise. One is my Profession, the other is my Hobby. I don't intermix them. Once I was listening to the second movement of Copland's Third Symphony while running a big Mallet over my mountains. My Mallet stopped. The music didn't. 'Atmosphere' was ruined. Haven't repeated the experiment.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
I listen to Classic Rock, oldies from the 50s and 60s, REAL Jazz, big bands, and sometimes disco.
I do not listen to music while I'm "workin' on the railroad", however, I do listen to talk radio, both national and local stations. I find that I can "tune in and tune out" at will rather than having to try to watch TV. Music seems to distract me more so than does talk. I've been an amatuer musician (Bass/Vocals) for over 35 years so I get my fill of everything from 50's to 2000's music most week-ends. Also, I like to keep as current as I can as regards local/regional/national news etc. I agree that Rod Stewart's layout was a real piece of work, though I doubt that he did all the work by himself. Just my opinion.
Jimmy
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tbdannyCall it coincidence, but I've recently begun developing a taste for Frank Sinatra as well...
Put him in front of the Basie band or Nelson Riddle Orchestra - now that is Good Stuff!
And twhite, take a listen to Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band. They throw out a wall of sound that'll knock your socks off. No "thunky" there.
shayfan84325vsmith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DDkR8RtkY That was like a root canal!
vsmith http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DDkR8RtkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DDkR8RtkY
Well, well, whaddya know. There's actually something WORSE than Rap!!!
My personal preference?? Classical. No, not classical (fillintheblank.) Classical, as in Beethoven, Brahms and a whole bunch of long dead Russians...
And then there's Honneger's Pacific 2-3-1. The announcers usually call it, "Pacific Two-Thirty-One," which cracks me up. (2-3-1 counts axles, 4-6-2 counts wheels...)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Beethoven Symphonies, preferably the odd-numbered ones, especially the first and last movements; and Overtures, the Lenora group are favorites. Mozart Symphonies, especially the later ones. Overtures too. Throw in some Mendelssohn, Rosini, and a handful of others. This is barn-burning, thundering classical at its best. If these don't get your blood pumping... better check for a pulse!
Jim
tomikawaTT And then there's Honneger's Pacific 2-3-1. The announcers usually call it, "Pacific Two-Thirty-One," which cracks me up. (2-3-1 counts axles, 4-6-2 counts wheels...) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Great piece. I like Honneger a lot. The original title was "Toccata for Orchestra: Pacific 231". He also wrote another Toccata for Orchestra called "Rugby".
There's a neat French short film that uses "Pacific 231" as its soundtrack. Yup, it's a film about a locomotive from start to finish. Pretty stunning, just like the music.
AlreadyInUseHits River Junction at seventeen toat a quarter to ten you know it's trav'lin again"
There you go! All I can do to keep from quoting the next line! I'm still in the basement preparation phase, so I just have FM radio on the local AAA / NPR station, WXPN. Unless the Phillies are playing, who definitely are worth hearing this year.
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
LHS mechanic and geniune train and antique garden tractor nut case!
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 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 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......
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.
Todd
Central Illinoyz
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superbeRadio 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
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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:
Bill
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig"
mobilman44Coincidently, 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
Terry in NW Wisconsin
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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.