Railroad music...what do you listen to?

[Anonymous]

The Scorpions[8D][:D],Steely Dan,Def Leppard,Kiss,Judas Preist,AC/DC, and too many more to mention, then sometimes C.W McCall's " The Silverton" (The Durango and Silverton in Colorado).[8D]

[railman]

Wow...I wasn't sure what to expect when I started this thread...we have a varied musical slate on this forum, to put it lightly! And Boxcar Willie? He's great!

[Anonymous]

KFDI Classic Country at 1070AM in Wichita, KS is located next to theBNSF Ark City Sub and has been at this location for 50 yrs. When Kansas State football is not on the air you can here songs , some which have a rr theme. Midday announcer Johnny Western (who wrote the song 'Have Gun Will Travel') was a long time friend of Johnny Cash and plays his music quite often including my two favorites 'Rock Island Line' followed by 'Hey Porter'. Boxcar Willie also sang good rr tunes of the past.

[Junctionfan]

I wonder if anybody listens to east Indian music while railfaning........

[rich747us]

For me, just about anything. Normally, it's something of a rock music nature. One song in particular thats great to rock out to is by a group called The Elms. The song I'm thinking of is called 'Speaking in tounges'. Although the song itself has nothing to do with Trains, the video for it was fillmed at an Amtrak station on the west coast (hence the Surfliner equipment!). The tune just paints an image in my mind of a 'Z' train screaming down the TRANSCON. You can hear a clip of the song at the group's website: www.theelms.net . Once you get there, click on 'the boombox' in the menu on the left of the page.

[Junctionfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Nora

I don't have a tape or CD player in my work van either...how do they expect a girl to live like that?! [8D] I picked up a little FM transmitter that plugs into the cigarette lighter, and connects to a portable CD player. It works really well (and my boss doesn't care as long as I don't listen to anything offensive while I have a crew in the van, hehe).

I like a lot of fairly obscure stuff and am absolutely obsessive about music. Stacked up on my desk right now, I have Ryan Adams, the Mysteries of Life, Morrissey, Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Letters to Cleo, James William Hindle, Camper Van Beethoven, the Old 97's, Hole, the Fastbacks, Radiohead, the Blue Aeroplanes, the Vulgar Boatmen, 10,000 Maniacs, the Jazz Butcher, the Weakerthans, R.E.M., American Music Club, Haley Bonar, Belly, Sarah Harmer, Low, and the soundtrack to the movie Garden State. I guess I really ought to clear my desk off...

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Nora/

The Vulgar Boatmen? Sounds like something for boatfanning instead.

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[MP57313]

Originally posted by Mookie
Actually - I prefer a station that plays music from the 40's through the 60's. You know, the music that you could actually sing along with and could understand the words.[ /quote]
When I am railfanning out-of-town in a rental car I sometimes listen to music from these years. I did hear Mercer's "Atchison Topeka..." when I was in central Virginia once.
L.A. radio is largely corporate-congolmerate owned, over-researched, etc., so unless you have streaming audio from a web station, or one of the satellite stations, you won't hear much beyond the mass-appeal stuff. The music directors are either overworked or extremely timid.

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