Favourite music to play on the boat -top 5

More than 5, but divided into playlists (some more than 5)

Once I build a NEMA interface for my iPod (Position relative to start line, boat speed, true wind-angle, roll-angle & time to sunset) I'll be able to automate:

Pre-Start:
Sailing By- Perry Gamer
Shipping Forecast - Brian Perkins (Strange Coincidences in Speciality Tea Trading)
Radio 4 UK Theme
Soviet National Anthem - Red October soundtrack
Fantasia On British Sea Songs - Sir Henry Wood

Start:
The Old Superb - Newbolt
Ecstasy on Board - U96 (Techno version of Das Boot theme)

Downwind:
Weather With You - Crowded House
Build a Levee - Natalie Merchant
Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac
Summertime - Ella & Louis
Here Comes The Sun - Steve Harley
I Can See Clearly Now - Hothouse Flowers
Bird on a Wire - Leonard Cohen
Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore
Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Building The Barn - Maurice Jarre (Witness Soundtrack)
Si Tu Dois Partir - Fairport Convention

Upwind:
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Immigrant Song - Led Zep
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Keelhauled/Quest/Liviaton - Alestorm
Fireball - Deep Purple
Riders On The Storm - The Doors
Sex Machine - James Brown
Fiesta/South Australia - The Pogues
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
The Upside-Down Violin: Michael Nyman

Broaching:
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba

Beating:
One Way Or Another - Blonde

Reaching, but not reefing:
Livin; On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

Random (To appear in shuffles :-)
Theme from Hawaii 5-0
Mad Dogs And Englishmen - Noel Coward
I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing - Pet Shop Boys
Always Look On The Bright Side Of LIfe - Monty Python
Michael, Row The Boat Ashore - Lonnie Donegan

Folk:
Anything by AL Lloyd & Ewan McColl
Shoals Of Herring - Ewan McColl
Mary Stanford Of Rye - Meet On the Ledge
The Rolling Sea - Bagas Degal
The Mighty Atlantic - Runrig

Classical:
Anvil Chorus - Verdi
Sailor's Chorus - Wagner (Flying Dutchman)
O, Isis und Osiris - Mozart (Zauberflote)

When passing Victory in Pompey:
Pomp & Circumstance March #1 - Elgar

Anchor:
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere - Jimmy Buffett (& anything else)
Mist Covered Mountains - Mark Knopfler (Local Hero soundtrack)
Talk Show Host - Radiohead
Redemption Song - Bob Marley
Sampan - Al Stewart
Far Side Of The World - Jimmy Buffett
Dignity - Deacon Blue
Just As the Tide Was a-flowing - 10,000 maniacs

Mellow:
Birds and Ships - Natalie Merchant
The Ship Song - Nick Cave

Just before lights-out:
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
 
Mrs Sea Mist II said:
I got to know Carl Orff when my son was learning to play the violin. Great piece Carmina Burana and of course used to good effect in that advert! My son did ok with the violin, getting up to grade 7. He now plays piano, mandolin, bass guitar and sings as well. I'm proud of him. :cool:

Yes I agree five pieces of music is well short of how many you would want to pick, but it's a start and there's obviously not enough room for every choice. I'm finding this thread fascinating.
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Bass Guitarist - Shadows - taught my youngest son to play Guitar ... he's now playing with his band gigs round Portsmouth ....

Proud of him ? - you could say that !! The oldest is doing very well as well !
 
difficult this

Actually 1 is easy.
1. Where The Streets Have No Name, U2 The Joshua Tree.
Works best in a blow at full volume. You are thinking "what can I hear?
as the very muted keyboard slowly builds in volume. It seems to have the
mood of the swell of the sea, insistent, repeating, dangerous (perhaps I
am getting fanciful here!). Then the chiming rhythmic guitar starts to build
 
I always take my guitar onboard and play a selection.

To upset/amuse the gaffer I often strum& sing Fairport's 'Close to the Wind', Steeleye's 'Let her go down' or Neil Young's 'Like a Hurricane'! Not always gratefully received.

As for recorded music, the Eagles 'Desperado' always goes well, Swarbrick's first solo album, Allman Bros & Beach Boys when hot and sunny, Dr Hook's 'Freakin at the Freakers Ball' for a laugh and too many others to mention.

But nothing above decks after dark, but that's another thread.
 
For the 'purist' amoungst us.....

But I just love the sound of nature as I sail..., the wind, the waves and birds etc........anything else for me just TOTALY F**Ks it all up....so why bother to go sailing at all ?....just stick your head inside a loudspeaker for the weekend !...it's a lot cheaper and you won't even get wet!

If it's a bit rough then I want to know , and I want to feel connected, not cocooned in another place, AND it's so antisocial...sound carries a long way over open water, I don't want to listen to your crappy choice of music any more than you would listen to mine,..... 'Gardeners Question Time' for 1 hr at 500 watts per channel.. (+ Bass)..yher ...dig it bitch...shamoe....c'mon?....! nuf..said ..

If this then is the difference betwixt sailing folk and motorboaters, ( how polite am I?), then no further studies need ever take place...that is : Mobos are all noisy anti-social *******s and we ,..... wee.... sailing folk are gentle kindly peeple who tread the Earth gently and listen to Nature as we sail !

Discuss..............
 
Applescruffs said:
.....anything else for me just TOTALY F**Ks it all up....so why bother to go sailing at all ?....just stick your head inside a loudspeaker for the weekend !...it's a lot cheaper and you won't even get wet!
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Yeah, cos everyone on this thread just goes sailing to listen to music??

Applescruffs said:
If it's a bit rough then I want to know , and I want to feel connected, not cocooned in another place, AND it's so antisocial...sound carries a long way over open water, I don't want to listen to your crappy choice of music any more than you would listen to mine,..... 'Gardeners Question Time' for 1 hr at 500 watts per channel.. (+ Bass)..yher ...dig it bitch...shamoe....c'mon?....! nuf..said ..
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Maybe a bit of soothing music will calm you down a bit???? :rolleyes:

No one else in this thred ,who listens to music, felt the need to swear:p

We listen to music when we sail, but also in the evening with a bottle of wine after dinner with the oil lamp burning gently. It not, as you suggest, antisocial. There are people who play music too loud, just like there are people who will talk loudly in the cockpit until the early hours. We are considerate with our music....ever thought there are many of us, but you just don't hear us?:)

Or is it just easier to have a rant and tar us all with the same brush?
 
Mrs Sea Mist II said:
Mmmm I listen to a very wide range of music. The pieces mentioned are ones I especially like. They are popular, well loved pieces, but that's for a reason don't you think? I could also have chosen the Flute and Harp concerto by Mozart, for a change. I also love many of Beethoven's cello sonatas, I have the Jacqueline Du Pre recording. A well as these aforementioned composers I love Baroque, especially Bach, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Scarlatti. I also enjoy Sibelius, I like his fifth symphony and his violin concerto. My musical horizons are well expanded thanks. Music is an extremely personal thing don't you think?
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Ouch! That's your wrist well and truly slapped, John! :)
 
The majority of this thread dates from November 2009, with some later additions in early 2010, then it was suddenly revived yesterday.

I'm all for music on board, but then I'm there for months at a time. There are occasions when it's nice to listen to nature alone, but others when music is extremely pleasurable. Unless it's a flat calm and your audio system is remarkably powerful the risk of upsetting anyone else seems very small.
 
<f4: Radio 2 or 4. Good grief I must be getting old.
When the sun is shining and the spray sparkles: the sea makes her own music.
When the sky is steel grey: Jethro Tull's Heavy Horses etc
When conditions are interesting: Orff's Carmina Burana (esp. In Tab(v)erna)
When conditions are scary: Wagner/Rolling Stones (Why I don't know!)
 
vyv_cox said:
The majority of this thread dates from November 2009, with some later additions in early 2010, then it was suddenly revived yesterday.
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I think these threads should be read only after a few months and not regurgitated after a couple of years, almost always by newbies, searching the site, and not noticing the start dates of the original poster....
 
1. Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond (sssh - you know you like it)
2. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynard Skynard
3. Take me to the river - The Committments
4. She's out of my life - Michael Jackson (sing along during a night sail)
5. The Pretender - Jackson Browne
 
Suitably chastised sir!

Sorry guys I did get a bit out of my pram back there.......but the music I can't abide is the guy of the semi-planing motorboat pumping out like a 70's disco when I'm trying to relax and enjoy the sound of the water and wind....not just me ...is it??... Music apres sail all for it !! with a bottle of something red and fruity..the perfect way to chill watching the sun go down.
 
Applescruffs said:
Sorry guys I did get a bit out of my pram back there.......but the music I can't abide is the guy of the semi-planing motorboat pumping out like a 70's disco when I'm trying to relax and enjoy the sound of the water and wind....not just me ...is it??... Music apres sail all for it !! with a bottle of something red and fruity..the perfect way to chill watching the sun go down.
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I think any music pumping out so anyone on a different boat can hear it is wrong. Ok, not strictly true, if it's blowing a gale and we're beating to windward, I'll crank the stereo up, it's usually something jolly and any boat passing will then have that tune for all of 30 seconds if that :)

I also find music breaks the monotony of long periods of motoring.

Btw gardeners question time is more preferable to Elaine Paige on Radio 2, we often listen to GQT before Sounds of the 70s comes on :D
 
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