The Drive: Historically Most Listened to First Album

[riverc0il]

Unless you are driving within an hour, chances are that music or radio is part of your morning when heading to a ski area, especially for longer drives over an hour. What is historically the most listened to album you regularly crank up when you first leave and head to the mountains?

I got to thinking about this question this morning. As I pulled out of my drive way, I heard the first few notes in my head to one of my favorite ski commute albums... Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains. That opening guitar lick of Rotten Apple is solidified in my brain as something I like to hear when pulling out of my drive way at 6am en route to go skiing. It isn't something I listen to all the time or even the majority of time. But it consistently one of the albums I want to listen to first in the morning before the sun is up. Really puts me in the mood both for the drive and the coming excitement of skiing. Pretty ironic for such a brooding album :lol:

If I am not in the mood for music, I download NPR Podcasts. For Saturday driving, usually Its Only a Game, On the Media, and Marketplace Money. Sunday I go for Car Talk and Weekend America. Sometimes I like hearing words first thing instead of music.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I've been listening to alot of Snoop Doggs The Big Squeeze..song #2..Hat to the Bacc..is a great hype song...it's just like hell yeah..I'm going skiing..

In the past I listened to Crunk Hits alot on the way to the hill..good music to get you hyped for a mad steezy ski session is awesome.

 

[awf170]

As much as I love Jar of Flies, it isn't really something I want to listen when I need to stay awake first thing in the morning.

For me it probably "Colors" by Between the Buried and Me since it always keeps me awake.


How could it not?

 

[awf170]

DADA .. Radiohead .. Coldplay ..

Not knowing what DADA was I decided to give it a try on youtube. I demand those 2 minutes of my life back.

 

[awf170]

Would you like that time plus interest too?
http://www.dadatheband.com
I didn't see anything on youtube right off either ...

^^^That I don't have a problem with.

This is what I got when I youtubed it.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

^^^That I don't have a problem with.

This is what I got when I youtubed it.

nice..and your Avatar dances along to it,.lol:beer:

 

[millerm277]

Whatever's playing on WSOU when in range and it's not playing polka or something terrible. If not, probably either Metallica-Kill Em All, Rage Against the Machine, or GNR-Appetite for Destruction.

Rammstein and Slayer are also in the car for the days when I'm really tired.

Once the hot beverage has kicked in/the sun has come up and I've woken up more, then it's time for Alice In Chains, Seether, AC/DC, Springsteen, etc...

 

[deadheadskier]

This winter it will most likely be various live stuff and the studio album Unbound by the Nate Wilson Group. Adam Terrell's face melting guitar work gets me going like nothing else these days.

 

[PA Ridge Racer]

DADA .. Radiohead .. Coldplay ..

I definitely get a ski vibe when listening to DADA. "Mary Sunshine Rain" is on my ski mix.

 

[Schneehund]

Mostly I'm lucky enough that most places are within an hour or so but regardless, I like to start my trips with some good psychobilly like the Nekromantix and the Horrorpops and then move into something heavier like Disturbed. I'm more relaxed on the way home - got my ski zen going on - so it's generally a little softer on the way back. Tori Amos is a good choice for that.

 

[mondeo]

I start my trips with radio until I get about halfway through Mass, where I lose reception. Then it's whatever's in the CD player. My other radio presets are VT stations, though radio reception sorta sucks on I-91.

 

[frozencorn]

DADA, that's a blast from the past. Underrated.

Usually a live Phish or Moe CD for long trips. Or tune into the GD channel on Sirius.

Yesterday for the quick commute to Wachusett, it was the Achtung Baby CD I found in the car and haven't heard in a few years start to finish. Still a masterpiece.

 

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

ramones,DK,beastieboys,blackflag,bobmarley,SRV,elvis,FUCKBONJOVI IAINTGAY.bongwater,kennywayneshepard,rushlimbaugh

 

[Starter Jackets Rule!]

Mostly I'm lucky enough that most places are within an hour or so but regardless, I like to start my trips with some good psychobilly like the Nekromantix and the Horrorpops and then move into something heavier like Disturbed. I'm more relaxed on the way home - got my ski zen going on - so it's generally a little softer on the way back. Tori Amos is a good choice for that.

pulling into the parking lot at Okemo while doing 40mph with a few dirt burnouts thrown in before narrowly missing the parking jerks,all the windows rolled down with "Down With the Sickness" BLASTING is a Must Do for every real skier!
The kids Love it .
Yeah A must do thing.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

No one fave. Last 2 trips up to Blue were Wolfmother, Hot Tuna, Front 242 and some Al Wilson.

 

[Schneehund]

ramones,DK,beastieboys,blackflag,bobmarley,SRV,elvis,FUCKBONJOVI IAINTGAY.bongwater,kennywayneshepard,rushlimbaugh

Nice... hard to go wrong with the punk bands (and Elvis but I'll reserve comment on the rest - Hey, different strokes, right?)

And, if I might suggest, Blasting "Down With the Sickness" with all of the windows rolled down is just good form any time of year

 

[Zand]

Unlike most of you who blast something hard right out of the driveway, I prefer something chill right off the bat and all the way up to within 30 mins of my destination. Usually I start off with Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd, David Gilmour's solo slbum, maybe some other Floyd as time always flies when I listen to them. When I get close, I play a mix CD which has Welcome to the Jungle, Thunderstruck, Pour some Sugar on Me, Man in the Box, etc.

 

[4aprice]

Unlike most of you who blast something hard right out of the driveway, I prefer something chill right off the bat and all the way up to within 30 mins of my destination. Usually I start off with Obscured by Clouds by Pink Floyd, David Gilmour's solo slbum, maybe some other Floyd as time always flies when I listen to them. When I get close, I play a mix CD which has Welcome to the Jungle, Thunderstruck, Pour some Sugar on Me, Man in the Box, etc.

I'm with you, as a matter of fact I listened to David Gilmour on the way to the mountain this morning. Many times I listen to Dan Fogelberg's Album "Home Free" for the song To the Morning, first thing in the morning. The drive home I'm more likely to play something a little more lively. More recently I've been likely to put the Ipod on Shuffle Songs and let what ever plays, play.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[shwilly]

BBC news, Weekend Edition
psytrance: Bonky or Raja Ram's Stash Bag
Grateful Dead, 5/8/77

 

[PA Ridge Racer]

DADA,....Underrated.

Yesterday for the quick commute to Wachusett, it was the Achtung Baby CD I found in the car and haven't heard in a few years start to finish. Still a masterpiece.

Agreed on both counts and hopefully you listened to tracks 1 and 7 really really loud for raising your ski stoke levels