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

sledgehammer · Post by **sledgehammer** » July 19th, 2006, 10:43 am

Tough to beat Ray Wylie Hubbard's "Snake Farm" for those long slow pieces...

http://66.36.229.168:8083/3610LSM1.wma

Byron Drachman · Post by **Byron Drachman** » July 19th, 2006, 7:29 pm

various Maria Callas Opera

Brendin,
I'm in the Renata Tebaldi camp.
Byron

csabour · Post by **csabour** » July 20th, 2006, 9:16 am

i can listen to this guy all day.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid= ... =steve+vai

the one and only steve vai.

this guy is alien.

LJWagner · Post by **LJWagner** » July 30th, 2006, 5:04 pm

For a more upbeat piece to row to, or PB, consider Eric Clapton's piece "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes. One version is 7:05, good challenge for a 2K piece.

marathonoflife · Post by **marathonoflife** » July 31st, 2006, 9:54 am

I put all 3 albums of the band called "bond" into my mp3 player.

They play classical instruments, but with a very catchy, upbeat rythm which is great for my rowing as well as my track work.

-marathonoflife

torpedo · Post by **torpedo** » July 31st, 2006, 10:21 pm

These guys lately:
Apocalyptica
"Hall of the Mountain King" for PBs

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005 ... ue&ie=UTF8

2ndRow · Post by **2ndRow** » July 31st, 2006, 10:23 pm

Hatebreed.... Blood for Blood....

I use the same music I like in life as I do when I do cardio.

Adrenaline, baby.

TabbRows · Post by **TabbRows** » August 2nd, 2006, 10:32 am

My son just called...my Eva Cassidy "Live at Blues Alley" cd just arrived from Amazon.com... Along with my upgrade of Miles Davis "Birth of Cool" to replace the old now warped vinyl

I'll plug Eva in when I row tonight.

Going for RWH's SnakeFarm next.

Scout · Post by **Scout** » August 2nd, 2006, 12:08 pm

Some good stuff has been mentioned, but some other good folks:
Andy Hunter
KT Tunstall
some stuff by U2
whatever is in my husbands CD Player

Occasionally, I'll open the garage door, watch the neighborhood, and "zen out" to focus on my stroke rhythm and power. No music- just counting strokes.

KateB

TabbRows · Post by **TabbRows** » August 2nd, 2006, 2:52 pm

Occasionally, I'll open the garage door, watch the neighborhood, and "zen out" to focus on my stroke rhythm and power. No music- just counting strokes.

Scout that's me most of the winter months. Open the garage door, leave the head phones in the house, take my extra ears out and watch the kids romp around the neighborhood. Summers, after convincing my wife to allow the erg inside, I'll use the headphones but on occassion, I'll slip in Xeno's rowing DVD, since you don't need the sound on, take out my ears and let the "softer" whoosh mimmick Xeno's splashes.

laupi · Post by **laupi** » August 5th, 2006, 9:51 am

I like to listen to "My heart will go on" of Celine Dion.....

johnlvs2run · Post by **johnlvs2run** » August 5th, 2006, 5:22 pm

Youtube.com has some amazing songs.

I just happened to find this one today by TerraNaomi.
She started putting her songs on there and now has a cd out from those!

Here is one of them.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ARHyRI9_NB4& ... ed&search=

Sisu · Post by **Sisu** » August 13th, 2006, 9:29 pm

Tangerine Dream "Live", "Rubycon", and others..
Pink Floyd "Shine on you crazy diamond"
Rabih Abou-Khalil "Blue camel" (and others)
Pharoah Sanders "Black Unity" - for 10 k rows.

for PB attempts: Some pieces by
Billy Cobham "Spectrum"
Deep Purple "Made in Japan"

....and so forth. Not all works. Some music that I usually really like, won't work at all with the rower.

Prefered row: Outside in the dark, with an alarm clock or family to tell when when time's up! And no music at all.

igoeja · Post by **igoeja** » September 27th, 2006, 10:46 pm

I usuallly like a very heavy "grind", typical of Stone Temple Pilots and Soundgarden, although my private, at home, taste runs toward classical and piano jazz. Also, the older British stuff makes rowing refererences, and I often wonder if they are deliberate. Anyway, my list, which in various forms has served me well for 5 to 10 years:

Come Together, The Beatles
Back In The U.S.S.R., The Beatles
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey, The Beatles
Pure Love, Crystal Waters
Love Removal Machine, The Cult
Wild Flower, The Cult
Dirty White Boy, Foreigner
I'll Get Even With You, Foreigner
Rev On The Red Line, Foreigner
Party Train, The Gap Band
Birth, School, Work, Death, The Godfathers
Thirty Days In The Hole, Humble Pie
Skating Away (On The Thin Ice Of The New Day), Jethro Tull
Crosstown Traffic, Jimi Hendrix
Dolly Dagger, Jimi Hendrix
Ezy Ryder, Jimi Hendrix
Words, Missing Persons
Mental Hopscotch, Missing Persons
Walking In L.A., Missing Persons
Ten Seconds to Love, Mˆtley Cr¸e
Girls, Girls, Girls, Mˆtley Cr¸e
Wild Side, Mˆtley Cr¸e
Kickstart My Heart, Mˆtley Cr¸e
Same Ol' Situation (S.O.S.), Mˆtley Cr¸e
Dr Feelgood, Mˆtley Cr¸e
Hell On High Heels, Mˆtley Cr¸e
Head Like a Hole, Nine Inch Nails
Brain Of J., Pearl Jam
Do The Evolution, Pearl Jam
Push Me, Pull Me, Pearl Jam
C'mon N Ride It (The Train) Lyrics, Quad City DJ's
Sweet Lady, Queen
Sheer Heart Attack, Queen
Headlong, Queen
Hammer to Fall (Single Version), Queen
Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Hand of Fate, The Rolling Stones
Street Fighting Man, The Rolling Stones
If You Can't Rock Me, The Rolling Stones
Rusty Cage, Soundgarden
Outshined, Soundgarden
Face Pollution, Soundgarden
Room A Thousand Years Wide, Soundgarden
Rhinosaur, Soundgarden
Spoonman, Soundgarden
Kickstand, Soundgarden
Fresh Tendrils, Soundgarden
Meatplow, Stone Temple Pilots
Silvergun Superman, Stone Temple Pilots
20th Century Boy, T. Rex
Discotheque, U2
Unchained, Van Halen
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love, Van Halen
Everybody Wants Some!!, Van Halen

Byron Drachman · Post by **Byron Drachman** » September 30th, 2006, 12:00 pm

Check this out. Don't turn it off too quickly. Listen to the whole thing:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KkqDEh-fXVI

Byron

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