Favourite music to play on the boat -top 5

Another vote for the gentle slap of waves, a well set sail vibrating slightly, the splash of gannets feeding, or oystercatchers on the shoreline. Like Maurice Griffiths, I believe that the silence of a mud berth CANNOT be improved by man made noise. The glug of a good wine being poured is good tho' - as is a little quiet conversation.

If I am alone & feeling in need of company, I will see what's on radio 4. But I have managed to convince my grand kids now believe my radios don't receive music!

Bloody boats with loud music (ie audible) is another good reason for avoiding marinas too!
 
Mrs Sea Mist II said:
5. 5th Symphony The Pastoral - Beethoven
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[pedant/] The Pastoral was Beethovens 6th![/pedant]

Could not draw up a list, some tracks only seem right far a single moment. Thank god for mp3 players, the number of cd's I would need on board.

One I enjoy, I drew my ship across the harbour - Bellowhead. Great at spring fit out, esp. the lines 'I shall put my ship in order, I shall set her on the sea'

Stuart
 
status said:
[pedant/] The Pastoral was Beethovens 6th![/pedant]

Could not draw up a list, some tracks only seem right far a single moment. Thank god for mp3 players, the number of cd's I would need on board.

One I enjoy, I drew my ship across the harbour - Bellowhead. Great at spring fit out, esp. the lines 'I shall put my ship in order, I shall set her on the sea'

Stuart
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Yes of course you're right. It's the pastoral, the 6th that I like so much. It's surprised me how many men on here like to point out things. I wonder if you are all the same on the boat? Perhaps that's why SWMBO isn't that keen?
 
Searush said:
Another vote for the gentle slap of waves, a well set sail vibrating slightly, the splash of gannets feeding, or oystercatchers on the shoreline. Like Maurice Griffiths, I believe that the silence of a mud berth CANNOT be improved by man made noise. The glug of a good wine being poured is good tho' - as is a little quiet conversation.

If I am alone & feeling in need of company, I will see what's on radio 4. But I have managed to convince my grand kids now believe my radios don't receive music!

Bloody boats with loud music (ie audible) is another good reason for avoiding marinas too!
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Agree absolutely, but sometimes music is the icing on the cake for some sailing conditions. As a singlehander I love to cocoon myself below on a cold night with a few botttles of Adnams and some good music and build up a good fug!!.
 
Karouise said:
Listen to a lot of 80's music but have a very varied taste. With a steady beam wind and fair weather then I love to stick on Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus.

Now I have an i pod with 8 days worth of music on it I think I will just put it on shuffle and take what I get given.
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I have never listened to music while on the move and have no plans to do so, but it would be an interesting exercise to fill an i-pod with nautically inspired stuff. I've only a rather obvious list;
A Sea Symphony, Vaughan Williams
La Mer, Debussy
Over the sea to Skye
The Flying Dutchman, Wagner
Billy Budd, and I suppose Peter Grimes, Britten
Land of the mountain and the Flood,Hamish MacCunn, stretching the point but I rather like it
Sinfonia Antartica, VW again, not really sea, but it's got penguins.
Sea Pictures, Elgar
Sea Songs arr. Henry Wood
 
Karouise said:
Khachaturian: Adagio from Spartacus.
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Aha theme toon for 'the Onedin line' fine seafaring music.

My top five would be hard to pick like plenty of others it would depend on the conditions and mood, but five to not leave home without would be:
1. Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
2. Bohemian rhapsody - you all know who by
3. the green and red of Mayo - Saw Doctors
4. Whiter shade of pale - Procol harum
5. Riders on the storm - The Doors
 
Sail away - David Grey
Sailing - Rod stewart
Dignity - Decon Blue
I fought the Law (or topical version - the UKBA) - THe Clash
The Tide is high - Blonde
 
DogWatch said:
[snip]5. Massive Attack, Mezzanine [/snip]
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I guess you've heard their other stuff too? I'm a huge Massive Attack fan, but Mezzanine is my least favourite album.

mattw said:
[snip] 2. 'Sinking...' Alabama 3 [/snip]
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Alabama 3 are genius! I've not come across many people who know of them.


I don't really have a top five, as we normally chuck the iPod on shuffle, but these are two that we always play first:

Klaus Badelt - The Black Pearl (from the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack)
Enya - Orinoco Flow

The first is brilliant when sailing in company or 'racing' somebody/something, the second the ultimate beginning of voyage/out-of-sight-of-land tune.
 
Music of the spears - Ian Brown
A Weekend in the City - Bloc Party
Pablo Honey or the The Bends - Radiohead
The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Off to see Ian Brown on sunday night.
 
Mrs Sea Mist II said:
1. 5th piano concerto - Beethoven
2. 2nd piano concerto - Shostakovitch
3. Clarinet concerto - Mozart
4. Enigma variations - Elgar
5. 5th Symphony The Pastoral - Beethoven
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Were you trying to sneakily get a BOGOF with your fifth choice? Beethoven's fifth has the famous V sign as it first notes while the Pastoral is Beethoven's sixth, or was it merely a typo?
 
What does this say about me?

1, Abide with Me
2. Evening hymn
3 "For those in Peril"
4 Battle hymn of the Republic
5 All Early Elvis R and R.

Is this why I always seem to sail alone?
 
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