tbdannyI was wondering, do you listen to music
Hi tbdanny,
I betcha you never dreamed of what you were starting with such a simple question. You certainly hit a lot of nerve endings.
Now when I hear some weirdo music (music I don't like) I'll know that there are MR's enjoying it and more power to them.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
blownout cylinder Dropkick Murphy's; Ministry, Chambers Brothers, Chemical Brothers, Motorhead, Pixies, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Roxy Music, New York Dolls------and Ramones---
Dropkick Murphy's; Ministry, Chambers Brothers, Chemical Brothers, Motorhead, Pixies, Dandy Warhols, David Bowie, Roxy Music, New York Dolls------and Ramones---
Excellent choices. XM53 Fungus. Don't forget The Damned and early Blondie. Ziggy and the Stooges, Social Distortion and MP5, The Clash and the aforementioned Sex Pistols. I knew I liked you for some reason Blownout!
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I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
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I thought this was a train site... UncBob is the only one who listens to train songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ONBQIj89qU&feature=fvw
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Deftones, System of a Down, old school Metallica, In Flames, Burst, Dir en Grey, and of course the most talented band in the history of the world RAMMSTIEN.
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mobilman44When I was 12/13, the BIG song on Chicago AM radio was "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley. It was played constantly over many stations, and yet I can't remember hearing it played since those times. Just goes to show you........................ "It was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater, on eyed, one horned flying purple people eater, one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater, sure looks good to meeeeee" Mobilman44
When I was 12/13, the BIG song on Chicago AM radio was "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley. It was played constantly over many stations, and yet I can't remember hearing it played since those times. Just goes to show you........................
"It was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater, on eyed, one horned flying purple people eater, one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater, sure looks good to meeeeee"
Mobilman44
Any 'oldies' radio station will have Purple People Eater. It's a classic novelty song from the 1960s. Back in the early 1990s I listened to an oldies station and they played it several times.
Mobilman44, when I was 12-13, a local station had a "Saturday night oldies show" where they liked to play that song a lot. They also played "Witchdoctor" by the Alvin and the Chipmunks guy...David something. It's been stuck in my head ever since...and I'm 40.
"Ooh E ooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang."
Chris
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ENJOY !
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
I don't listen to music while I'm working on my layout.
I listen to hard rock, metal and punk mostly.My favorite band is AFI (the old stuff is better, and they're hardcore punk is awesome)
No one listens to "I've been working on the railroad"?
Actually, I haven't really listened to any music when working on train related stuff.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Nice choices!
I like to throw in Chopin and Rachmaninoff piano pieces as well when in the classical mood. Serene and inspiring.
Classical for me.
Usually Beethoven chamber music (piano trios, piano sonatas), but will also listen to the piano concertos and symphonies on occasion.
Also like Brahms and Dvorak. Rossini overtures are good to model by, too.
I also prefer the rock classics. I get my modeling on with the smooth sounds from Sex Pistols, Plasmatics, Ramones, Cramps, and Dead Milkmen. Yes, I like the rock classics, Punk Rock classics that is. Oi! Oi! Oi!
Good afternoon!
My wife is a graphic designer for Kirkwood Community College, home of KCCK, and has done a lot of projects for them over the years.
Mark in California, THANKS for the CNW tune!
I'll kick-in my half-a-cent's worth of opinion here. I tend to fire up my iTunes collection on the computer. While I don't have a layout yet, I'm steadily building locomotives and rolling stock towards it. Since I'm modeling the CNW and CCP in the '87-'93 time frame, my iTunes also reflects that. What I mean is, it is loaded up with what I was listening to back then: rock, "oldies" which meant 50s-60s then, some limited country bringing back memories of family in Kansas and time spent with them. Practically every song I have has some memory associated with it, it's more than just "I like it."
A shrink would have a field day with me if I ever had to write down/say just WHAT memory/memories go with each and every selection.
At the same time, it also reflects what I would be listening to on the radio...except I've got a larger "play list" at 700+ vs. the 100 or so the radio stations keep playing over and over. Like someone else said, it's 20 minutes of commercials and a song or two. I also can't stand any of the local DJ's... No commercials, no annoying DJs... bliss!
WHEN the layout is built, and the trains are running, the iTunes will make it sound like I'm trackside again, listening to my "tunes" while watchin' trains.
Timetravel, a neat aspect of our hobby!
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.
BobL609 There is someone to listen to other than Jimmy Buffet?
There is someone to listen to other than Jimmy Buffet?
Oh, maybe one or two (like the aforementioned Sinatra), but not too many more. Love Buffet, the guy just knocks me out! White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. What more would you want, LOL?
Tom
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tbdannyCall it coincidence, but I've recently begun developing a taste for Frank Sinatra as well...
Now there, my friend, is a taste worth developing further. A Class Act all the way, IMO!
XM Satellite Radio
Lithium (54)
Alt Nation (47)
All music, no commercials
~Chris
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loathar BobL609 There is someone to listen to other than Jimmy Buffet? My favorite Jimmy B quote- During the week I'm a big rock star, but come Saturday morning, I'm just Dad makin pancakes for my kids...(kind of puts it all in perspective.)
My favorite Jimmy B quote- During the week I'm a big rock star, but come Saturday morning, I'm just Dad makin pancakes for my kids...(kind of puts it all in perspective.)
----while he's-----
--------"-----lookin' for my lost shaker of salt------"
Gotta love Margeritaville
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.
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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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.
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
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.
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"
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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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)
Todd
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