Mountaineering music worthy of notice

by **aedwards** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:28 am

[quote="Kerstin"]Let's see...

Sirabhorn and Midwestern Nights Dream from Pat Metheny's "Bright Size Life".
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I love this album, and Sirabhorn is my fave on it.
You have good taste.

by **drjohnso1182** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:02 am

This thread is two years old and no one has mentioned

by **haivanhuynh** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:18 am

Dave Daly wrote:Mike Vanportfleet

Or

Steve Roach

.......enhance your mountain experience with some spooky ambient tunes.

WARNING: can rattle the nerves while traversing the Minarets!

amen to mr. roach. at least one album of his is always on my MD player, er, I guess now an mp3 player.

i'd also like to add darshan ambient, david parsons, cellist david darling, michael stearns, and fellow alpinist and ambient composer solyaris, aka, giorgio robino.

by **Kiefer** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:46 am

Daft Punk, Oakenfold, Assemblage-23, VNV Nation, Apopygama Berserk,
Ministry, (old) Metallica, (old) Megadeth, Aphix Twin, Front Line Assembly, Front 242
Sister Machine Gun, Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Funker Vogt & any other EBM or Industrial.

by **Thrusthamster** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:11 pm

Big Bang - To The Mountains (awesome awesome awesome song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gMOyG9TlwU

The Day After Tomorrow theme (many films about survival themes have good mountaineering music it seems)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvZHk-mK5L4

Vertical Limit theme (probably my favorite. You hear it in the beginning of this video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNW4eFBpyIU

by **Sean Kenney** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:35 pm

Steve Kimock + the Great Mojave =

by **Rogers** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:38 am

guilty pleasure - wanted dead or alive

pearl jam, led zeppelin (over the hills and far away)...maybe some social d, metallica, foo fighters or moe. depending on the day

by **Snowslogger** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:45 am

desainme wrote:Tunes once thought of that are difficult to shake: Jeopardy music, Mission Impossible, Bonanza, the Good the Bad and the Ugly Bridge over River Kwai.

Tunes you don't want to get stuck in your head during approach hikes: I'm So Tired (Beatles), She's So Heavy (Beatles), also Free Falling (Tom Petty). Especially not the first one though. :cry:

Music for the mtns: U2 - Joshua Tree, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Big Country, Neil Young.

Nobody's mentioned: Dance on a Volcano (Genesis)

by **ktnbs** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:11 pm

Bal-der-ree, bal-der-rah

by **gbrady** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:46 pm

Snowslogger wrote:
desainme wrote:Tunes once thought of that are difficult to shake: Jeopardy music, Mission Impossible, Bonanza, the Good the Bad and the Ugly Bridge over River Kwai.

Tunes you don't want to get stuck in your head during approach hikes: I'm So Tired (Beatles), She's So Heavy (Beatles), also Free Falling (Tom Petty). Especially not the first one though.

Music for the mtns: U2 - Joshua Tree, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Big Country, Neil Young.

Nobody's mentioned: Dance on a Volcano (Genesis)

How about this Genesis tune:

Me And Sarah Jane
Artist(Band):Genesis

Colder and colder, the ice is moving closer
And it gets me down.

Pack on my back, going swiftly nowhere,
Heart in my ear beating like a drum.

by **lcarreau** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:47 pm

Bal-der-ree! Bal - der - raw - raw - raw - raw - raw - raw - raw - raw!!!

"Close To The Edge" (including - "I Get Up I Get Down")

Rick Wakeman/Yes (1972)

by **blazin** » Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:55 pm

I really enjoyed Eddie Vedder's soundtrack to "Into the Wild." Not necessarily get-up-and-go upbeat sort of music, but good for long car rides.

by **mlandau3** » Mon Dec 22, 2008 6:42 pm

Also California Dreamin' by The Momas & The Papas.

by **parky** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:22 am

I defy any mountain-loving climber to say they can't relate to the lyrics of Ewan McColl's "Joy of Living". If you live in the UK you've probaly been on top of the summits he mentions in the first verse, and maybe even considered having your dust and ashes scattered on some high place, as he sings about in the last.
He wrote it when, as an old man, he finally realised he was too unwell ever again to reach the tops of the hills that he loved so much in life.

Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsXFALeGIY

Or how about Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AratTMGrHaQ

by **yaknjorgl** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:15 pm

i solo alot and am always jamming to something. I like instrumentals, words can so often get in the way, here are some selected favorite bands and albums for motivation-
infected mushroom
tool
frank zappa
juno reactor
charles mingus
"Lunar Crush" with John Medeski and David Fiuczinski
Dj Cheb i Sabbah
Slipknot
"Rise robots Rise" by Rise robots Rise
John Zorn or Edgar Varese, if yer in the mood
anything Persian or from Mali
"Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics

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