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what is your favorite music to play while you're rowing

Posted: March 23rd, 2006, 6:16 pm
by johnlvs2run
I love the music by Eva Cassidy. Her music is the most beautiful I've heard anywhere.

Here are the 19 songs on the cd that I made of her music.

imagine
at last
blue skies
you take my breath away
natural woman
heaven
bridge over trouble water
say goodbye
danny boy
songbird
autumn leaves
i know you by heart
ain't no sunshine
what a wonderful world
fields of gold
time after time
true colors
kathy's song
over the rainbow

Here are some web sites about her:
http://www.evacassidy.org/eva/
http://www.oaksite.co.uk/bioblue.html
http://evacassidy.org/eva/q&a.htm

Eva Cassidy passed away in 1996 at the age of 33.

Posted: March 23rd, 2006, 8:56 pm
by Ben Rea
sounds like some girly music, does it actually make you row better or do you just like her as a singer?

Posted: March 23rd, 2006, 9:05 pm
by Sasha
And the problem with girly music is ??? Does boyly music make you row better?

I listen to Eva Cassidy when stressed out. *ENVY ALERT* I used to go see her at Blues Alley (Washington DC) quite often. She was wonderful in person, and died much too young.

Posted: March 23rd, 2006, 10:12 pm
by Ben Rea
boy music makes me row better :wink: . girly music is a no-no!

Posted: March 24th, 2006, 12:56 am
by MOKO
I made a few playlists for the 'ol Ipod, just the artists, let's see...

Jimi Hendrix
Soundgarden
Neil Diamond
The Doors
Muddy Waters
AC/DC
Beastie Boys
Grand Funk
John Lee Hooker
Rare Earth
Montrose
etc.

Mix 'em up and add 1 erg, gets the blood flowin'.

:wink:

Posted: March 24th, 2006, 9:48 am
by Ben Rea
now thats more like it!!! :D

Posted: March 24th, 2006, 11:24 am
by TabbRows
For a driving beat for intervals listen to the John Mayer Trio's cover of "I Got A Woman" Pino Palladino's bass will add watts to your pull. B)

Usually I take out my "ears" and get a "softer" ambient WHOOSH of the fly wheel and "naturally" tune out the gym racket . :wink:

Posted: March 24th, 2006, 12:13 pm
by BobD
Bob Seeger and the Siver Bullet Band B)

Posted: March 24th, 2006, 5:34 pm
by csabour
hmm lets see,

long pieces
Radiohead, Sasha, BradSucks, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Tiesto, Broken Social Scene

shorter more intense stuff
System of a down, Sasha, Darude, Blank and Jones, Armin Van Burren, black Label Society, Zeromancer, Digweed

Posted: March 24th, 2006, 7:29 pm
by The Hague Dragon
I play on my IPod while rowing:

Audioslave
Auf der Mauer
Bloc Party
Hope of the States
Hoobastank
The Muse
Queens of the Stone Age
Rammstein
The Stone Roses
Velvet Revolver

That's what keep me roiing on......

Posted: March 26th, 2006, 10:51 am
by paul s
I must agree with John Rupp on this one. Eva Cassidy was one of, if not the best interpreter of music that I ever heard. When she died in 1996 she was not known outside of the Washington DC area. Since then there have been 2,500,00 of her albums sold in the US and 3,500,00 others, mostly in Europe. I can think of no other musician who has done this.
She was phenomenal. Listen to her before you call her "girly"

Paul Salata

Posted: March 27th, 2006, 9:35 pm
by Brendo
I tend to go to the CD cupboard and grab something I haven't listend to in ages. Then rip the best (my favourite) tracks to the PC in the garage nest to the C2.

Then the best bit is to run media player through on random

recently added
a couple of Dido tracks (i've only ever found 2 that I like)
Bach - Cello concerto
Lots of Queen
Simply Red
Everything but the girl
Manfred Manns Earthband
Frankie goes to Hollywood
various Maria Callas Opera
Frank Sinatra
Van Morrison

and Michael Buble for my wife

I also love listening to sport on the radio (mainly cricket)

I also have an Eva Cassidy album, I'll take your advice and add some of those

Brendin

Posted: March 28th, 2006, 5:03 am
by ancho
Brendo wrote: ..
recently added
a couple of Dido tracks (i've only ever found 2 that I like)
Bach - Cello concerto
Lots of Queen
Simply Red
Everything but the girl
Manfred Manns Earthband
Frankie goes to Hollywood
various Maria Callas Opera
Frank Sinatra
Van Morrison

and Michael Buble for my wife

I also love listening to sport on the radio (mainly cricket)

I also have an Eva Cassidy album, I'll take your advice and add some of those

Brendin
Brendo: I agree with many of your musical likes, not that much on opera.

But: cricket on the radio??
I think I could fall asleep even while erging! :lol:

Posted: March 28th, 2006, 6:06 pm
by Neb154
Hmm lots of things...

Mos Def
ACDC
RJD2 (One of the best by far IMO)
Led Zeplin
Journey
Cake
Bach
Mozart
Classical (in general)
Rage Against the Machine


Just depends on the piece and how i'm feeling that day.

Posted: July 18th, 2006, 11:15 pm
by johnlvs2run
Eva Cassidy singing on youtube:

What A Wonderful World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_MaoqaC ... cassidy%22