Comments on: My iPod is in Need of Your Help

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:47:11 +0000

Check out “Apertura” from the Motorcycle Diaries soundtrack. If you watch the first 5 minutes of the movie, that will get you going. Has a very adventurous sound to it. Chau

By: Ruth

Ruth — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:35:39 +0000

Paul Simon, “Graceland”, the entire album. I have it on every road trip, there is a song to match nearly every mood. Indigo Girls, “1200 Curfews”. It’s an old one but a nice variety of some great tunes.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:01:52 +0000

Joni Mitchell’s Hejira is the ultimate travel album - aside from being probably her finest album (such a songwriter, such a voice) - but the whole album is all about travel. She wrote it while on a long journey, and ideas of travel and escape run through all of the songs. Such beautiful music, and works great on long journeys.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:31:29 +0000

I could use a clone of myself too these days. Hasn’t somebody figured out how to do that yet?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:12:05 +0000

Felipe,

Your post reminds me of the ipod v no-pod debate among cyclists. Those who see riding as training seem to like riding with an ipod. Those who see riding as a visual/hearing/sensory experience tend to leave the ipod at home. I’d never ride with an ipod, for if I wanted music I’d just sit at my computer and have it right in front of me. I could see where an Ipod could be useful in traveling both to pass the time (everything can’t be exciting) and as a reminder of home.

Theresa,

I had not heard your Coldplay rant. I just really don’t enjoy Coldplay. I don’t think they are bad or anything, just not my taste.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:34:59 +0000

Well, if that’s the case, Felipe I might as well leave mine at home, because I maybe listen to it 1 hour per month as it is! I’m the one person on the Metro every day without earphones in I think. And when I’m listening to my iPod, I’m probably listening to podcasts—This American Life from NPR (we’re on the same page Julie and Laura!) or short stories from the New Yorker—and not music.

Sarah—You wouldn’t have found out much about me from looking at my CD collection. I’m pretty sure I’ve owned less than 10 CDs total in my life. I’m not sure what happened to me; my dad and brothers are all big into music, but I’m pretty much eh. I’m not only okay with silence…I kind of like it.

Matthew—Our tastes must not have diverged as much as you might think. I could go for much of what’s on your list. Is the Coldplay comment because you heard me rant about how I was going to go insane if I heard their new CD on repeat one more time? I’ve never actually listened closely to it, but I think I might just know all the lyrics from Jeff playing it over and over while we packed until I yelled at him and made him turn on something else for the love of God.

As for my taste in music, um I listen to country probably more often than anything else, though I am not a fan of all the pop-country crossover stuff. I like the classics or at least stuff that sounds that way. Classic rock would be my close second. I have been to very few concerts in my life: Tom Petty, Paul Simon, George Strait, Tim McGraw. That might be it. Oh also Reba and Alan Jackson, as part of the Houston Rodeo. I love REM. DMB and I aren’t friends. And that about sums up the whole Theresa music experience.

Kate–I might follow up on the book thing in a post. You know I can’t live without them!

By: Chris G

Chris G — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:58:55 +0000

Felipe: Beautifully put. 100% agreed.

By: Felipe

Felipe — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:02:46 +0000

Hi Theresa,
I think you don’t have to worry much about the music on your ipod. Going to a different place is a 5 sense experience, listen the wind, people talking, the silence, local radios. Everytime you put the headphones on you’re losing the opportunity to know some one different or experience the sound of the place. Don’t get me wrong I like music and I use my ipod while traveling but not as much as I use normally.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:02:33 +0000

and no Coldplay.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:02:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure we diverged in musical tastes somewhere around the age of 16. We share the Indigo Girls and the like, but I’d load my ipod up with Americana and anything you could describe with the word “whiskey.”

So Lucinda Williams, Whiskeytown, EmmyLou Harris, The Avett Brothers, Jayhawks, Dylan, Old 97’s, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Kim Richey’s Chinese Boxes album, Allison Krauss, Tift Merritt, The Thorns, ….

then throw in some old stand-bys that pass the time well: Counting Crows, Ben Lee, Ben Folds, REM, Aimee Mann, Wilco (Summerteeth), Pete Yorn (Music for the Morning After), Ray Lamontagne, Stars, Weezer (lots of the weez)….

then throw in some local stuff (Muckrakers, Brigid Kaelin, Ladybirds)

then some classic stuff (CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, Stones)

then some must haves: Michael Jackson, OCMS’s “Wagon Wheel,” Theme Song to MASH, a little Queen, some Lionel Richie (”Hello”), “Walk on the Wild Side”, “Star Man” by David Bowie, Roger Miller’s “King of the Road,” a little Prince (”Seven”), “Rio” and “Hungry like the Wolf” by Duran Duran,

some John Denver, the traditional playing of Rocky Top, a MP3 of the Louisville Band playing “My Old Kentucky Home,”

and a bunch of country, just because that’s my roots and country is what I listen to when I can’t find another mood.

that’s all.