Re: whats in your headphones?
Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:33 pm
Like many others, I don't listen to tunes while hiking (like to imagine them in my head while hiking instead), but I enjoy music at all other times, and my tastes span a rather broad range with different tunes for different purposes.
When I work, I prefer classical music, especially Romantic era composers (esp Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, etc.). If my work doesn't involve serious writing (suppose I'm grading assignments or something) I like listening to jazz spanning a large range from traditional to more electronic jazz-rock/jazz-funk stuff. My native party mode is old-school soul and funk: Earth, Wind & Fire, P-Funk (and derivatives), Cameo, Confunkshun, Barkays, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, etc. My preferred workout music is hip hop or old school soul and funk. That works for driving music, too, but I actually like listening to jazz and classics while driving, too. What was playing this afternoon on my large living room stereo this weekend was a good example: yesterday I recall playing Mahler's 2nd symphony and Schubert's 5th and 9th, then I played some Jack DeJohnette (1st Sorcery album), Joshua Redman (one of his early albums), then the last scene (immolation scene) of Wagner's Götterdämmerung to honor the Stone's 17th Anniverary IPA of the same name (which I was drinking), and Miles Davis' Someday My Prince Will Come. Today it was two different Stanley Jordan albums, then John Coltrane's My Favorite Things, and Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior.
In the way long ago days (60's and 70's mainly but tradition going into the 90's) my dad and I would record these cassette tapes of our favorite classical performances and we'd play them on whatever limited system my dad had jury rigged in our 1966 Suburban. One tape was particularly treasured, and we usually timed it entry into the tape deck so that one particular selection on it came just as we reached the first view of the High Sierra along Hwy 120 as we drove up from the Bay Area (although this was commonly in the dark--the view south of the Clark Range). It was usually timed so that Wagner's Tannhäuser overture kicked on at about that point. This meant that the opening selection (recall it was Franck's violin sonata) kicked off around Groveland. When my dad passed away it made me too teary eyed to play our go-to tape driving to the mountains, so I made a different go-to classical tape and the "enter the high country" selection on that one is Dvorak's Op. 65 piano trio.
When I work, I prefer classical music, especially Romantic era composers (esp Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, etc.). If my work doesn't involve serious writing (suppose I'm grading assignments or something) I like listening to jazz spanning a large range from traditional to more electronic jazz-rock/jazz-funk stuff. My native party mode is old-school soul and funk: Earth, Wind & Fire, P-Funk (and derivatives), Cameo, Confunkshun, Barkays, Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder, etc. My preferred workout music is hip hop or old school soul and funk. That works for driving music, too, but I actually like listening to jazz and classics while driving, too. What was playing this afternoon on my large living room stereo this weekend was a good example: yesterday I recall playing Mahler's 2nd symphony and Schubert's 5th and 9th, then I played some Jack DeJohnette (1st Sorcery album), Joshua Redman (one of his early albums), then the last scene (immolation scene) of Wagner's Götterdämmerung to honor the Stone's 17th Anniverary IPA of the same name (which I was drinking), and Miles Davis' Someday My Prince Will Come. Today it was two different Stanley Jordan albums, then John Coltrane's My Favorite Things, and Return to Forever's Romantic Warrior.
In the way long ago days (60's and 70's mainly but tradition going into the 90's) my dad and I would record these cassette tapes of our favorite classical performances and we'd play them on whatever limited system my dad had jury rigged in our 1966 Suburban. One tape was particularly treasured, and we usually timed it entry into the tape deck so that one particular selection on it came just as we reached the first view of the High Sierra along Hwy 120 as we drove up from the Bay Area (although this was commonly in the dark--the view south of the Clark Range). It was usually timed so that Wagner's Tannhäuser overture kicked on at about that point. This meant that the opening selection (recall it was Franck's violin sonata) kicked off around Groveland. When my dad passed away it made me too teary eyed to play our go-to tape driving to the mountains, so I made a different go-to classical tape and the "enter the high country" selection on that one is Dvorak's Op. 65 piano trio.