Best music for a stormy night passage.

[TQA]

The Christmas winds were blowing and I had said to my bright shining one, who was flying in from Germany, that I would be there to pick her up, so I was making a night passage with 30 knots just aft of the beam.

It was a bright night, and we were roaring along but I was going nuts.

It was my own fault, I had left some chillout flute music on the music machine when what I wanted was some headbanging, footstomping, fistpumping singalong at the top of your voice stuff.

So on the work list for this summers quiet days in Grenada includes setting up a playlist for a wild ride.

I guess I would have the following for sure but need some help.

Burning Down The House Talking Heads
Bat out of Hell Meatloaf
Greetings from the fire Billy Joel [with the french toast video playing in my mind]
Don't fear the reaper Blue Oyster Cult
Thunder road The Boss


You get the idea MORE PLEASE !

 

[Poignard]

How about some Wagner?

Ride of the Valkyries?

Or, if things get really bad, Götterdämmerung?

 

[snooks]

Too many songs to name, but here are a handful

Jimmy Hendrix - Voodoo chile
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
Florence and the machine - Dog Days or The Drumming Song
A night on the bare mountain

If it's really rough, wet and horrible, I break out "Always look on the bright side of life"

 

[oldvarnish]

'Nearer My God to Thee' as played when the Titanic slid beneath the waves (I think)?

 

[emsworthy]

Boston - "More Than a Feeling"
Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Bon Jovi - "Keep the Faith"
Guns N Roses - "Sweet Child O' Mine"
Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
HardFi - "Living For The Weekend"

 

[laika]

Depends on wind and sea state. Broad reaching with a big but regular following sea go with progressive or hard house. Or possibly the beach boys. Beam reaching you're probably looking at AC/DC (note that this should never be used on land). Beating into anything over 35kts or where the seas are particularly confused you're into Ramones territory.

The Orb's "Little Fluffy Clouds" may in many circumstances be used ironically.

Never be tempted by "Riders on the Storm". It sounds like it should work but it doesn't. Snook's suggestion of "Gimme Shelter" is a viable alternative.

 

[Victoria Sponge]

Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild

Argent - Hold your Head up

Free - All Right Now

Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

Hawkwind - Silver Machine

The Doors - LA Woman

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

 

[Elemental]

Oh yes - Dark night, boat flying, 30kt+ ....

Van Halen - Jump
Cheap Trick - Mighty Wings
(other Top Gun featured tracks too - Top Gun Anthem - Danger Zone)
Queen - Don't stop me know
Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep Mountain High
Pendulum - Watercolour
U2 - Where the streets have no name
Simple Minds - Alive and kicking

If you want something a bit more chilled / dance what about

Oceanlab - Sky Falls Down - Armin van Burren Remix
Any of the Above & Beyond Anjunabeats collections
Abba - Dancing Queen

I feel a spotify playlist coming on ....

 

[aslabend]

One Likes it loud!

For rough nights it has to be hard and fast on my trusty Sony Walkman NW-HD5 so it was always punk, thrash or grunge for me.

"Sex Pistols - Never Mind The *******s".... possibly the first thrash album 20 years before thrash had a name - brilliant stuff!
"Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward"...... an album that assaults you with sheer energy. Jemina Pearl is outstanding, what a great punk voice.
"Anthrax - Among the Living".... another high octane blast but this time from the masters of thrash metal. Takes me back to seeing them at the Oxford Appollo and being in my first mosh pit - heady stuff.
"Metallica - Master of Puppets" ...... more loud with a capital L and plenty of energy.
For the grunge I have to go back to the Pixies ("Trompe Le Monde" is good but "Wave of Mutilation - The Best Of" is a better mix) or of course there's always Nirvana ("Breed" played on MAX volume... what a great noise!).

On Nice sunny days one likes a bit of Burt Bacharach or Abba (no, really...... I do) or some nice electro folk, Steeleye Span or Prelude, just to ruin any shred of street cred that might be remaining.

 

[aslabend]

"Sex Pistols - Never Mind The *******s".... possibly the first thrash album 20 years before thrash had a name - brilliant stuff!

Christ! You can't even say *******s without it being censored"
It's "Never Mind The B0110cks". Is anyone really offended?

 

[Fantasie 19]

I can only say that I'd go sailing with any and all of you with a music choice like that!

 

[G12]

Metallica - Enter Sandman

I do love to have the stereo banging out at sea. Got a boll0cking once from the skipper of a 90 footer I was helping deliver. He didn't like iPods being used whilst on watch....

 

[no28]

Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild

Argent - Hold your Head up

Free - All Right Now

Rolling Stones - Paint it Black

Hawkwind - Silver Machine

The Doors - LA Woman

Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love

Yes to all of them

 

[Seajet]

It's refreshing to see musical taste is not dead !

I agree completely with the suggestions of Led Zep, Meatloaf, Hawkwind, The Stones etc and I also play these;

‘Enterprise clearing moorings’

& ‘Battle in the Mutara Nebula’; after all Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, commented Captain Kirk is based on Hornblower, in one scene when surveying the Starship Enterprise he comments “ All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by ”

Also ‘O Fortuna’ by Carl Orff, familiar to me as the battle theme from ‘Excalibur’.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeS0Eo8fAnw&playnext=1&list=PL8F5DCCEB340A325F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KilBvojsMdw


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1MuvvS_xSw

 

[emsworthy]

Also ‘O Fortuna’ by Carl Orff, familiar to me as the battle theme from ‘Excalibur’.

And the Old Spice ads!

 

[jimi]

Blowin' Free .... Wishbone Ash
A Million Miles Away .. Rory Gallagher
Broken Down Angel .. Nazareth
Freebird .. Lynnyrd Skynnyrd

 

[Ariadne]

On page two and nobodys mentioned anything by Pink Floyd!!!!!

For shame on you.


Anyway I'd start with the whole of Dark Side of the Moon.

 

[Seajet]

Blowin' Free .... Wishbone Ash
A Million Miles Away .. Rory Gallagher
Broken Down Angel .. Nazareth
Freebird .. Lynnyrd Skynnyrd

Well here's a boat I used to have...( still having trouble with Photobucket, anyway 'FreeBird' was Scorpion 921).

 

[Racecruiser]

Blimey there are some headbangers here but I've no complaints about any so far - having seen ACDC with the late and marvelous Bon Scott in the Bondi Lifesaver club (with Angus on the bar top belting out power chords) on my gap yah when they were just getting going I'd have to have something from their early days. Complete with Scottish pipes here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0I9WKWp44

Rough or calm there is something about Sailing By by the beautifully named Ronald Binge - they will be street demos if they ever take that off the 00:48 shipping forecast!

 

[Seajet]

Blimey there are some headbangers here but I've no complaints about any so far - having seen ACDC with the late and marvelous Bon Scott in the Bondi Lifesaver club (with Angus on the bar top belting out power chords) on my gap yah when they were just getting going I'd have to have something from their early days. Complete with Scottish pipes here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy0I9WKWp44

Rough or calm there is something about Sailing By by the beautifully named Ronald Binge - they will be street demos if they ever take that off the 00:48 shipping forecast!

Try this then...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWl0QD9W-Oc