Snowboarding music

L31mr0d

Didn't really know where to post this, but i'm guessing it has more to do with snowboarders than musicians so i'll post it here.

I'm looking for some recommendations on some good music to listen to while snowboarding to get the adrenalin going.

I'm pretty easy going on genres, as long as the beats good, not too repetitive and gets the blood pumping.

So what would the snowboarders and skiers here listen to while on the piste?

Static M.e.

I like Placebo, Rage against the Machine, Arcade Fire, Micheal Franti and then a mix of other random songs.

Anything really I suppose with a fast, aggressive beat to get me in the mood to launch myself off piste or to get some speed up down a red. I find when I listen to Jack Johnson or something mellow I tend to slow down a lot.. good at the end of the day when your legs have turned to jelly and your feeling the burn

L31mr0d

Good ol Jack Johnson is already on the list for the chillout mix at the end of the day, i've got some QOTSA, RATM, Guano Apes, Saliva, SOAD, Stone Sour, falloutboy and some others on the list at the moment.

Looking for some good heavy bass and beat music though, my music collection is mainly rock and metal, i'd like to get some decent dance music but I wouldn't even know where to start. Music like that leftfield song off the Guinness ad with the wave turning into horses.

ZorbaTehZ

I usually tend not to take my iPod out on the slopes just in case I get a bad fall, so instead I take my small 100 song thing. Usually what goes on it is the following (from memory, I'll add more as I think of them). I wasn't sure if you wanted artists or songs? Ill post the songs if you like.

Daiki Kaisho, Royksopp, Teddybears STHLM, Rammstein, RATM, The Prodigy, Audio Bullys, Jimmy Eat World, Kid Loco, Overseer, RodrigoYgabriella, Audioslave, 113, AIR, Basement Jaxx, Blink 182, Boston, CAKE, The Chemical Brothers, The Church, Daft Punk, Junkie XL

A few songs that you must include:
Junkie XL - Today
Junkie XL - Mushroom
Daiki Kaisho - What To Believe
Audio Bullys - We Dont Care
Royksopp - Eple

L31mr0d

Ok I went through my WHOLE music collection and the list of songs below where the only ones I deemed good enough. I've been testing out music when i'm at the gym and realised my adrenalin levels drop off fast if the music has some low tempo parts in the middle of the song. I need music that has a high tempo throughout.

Authority Zero - Revolution
fall out boy - thnks fr th mmrs
Yellowcard - Rough landing Holly
Fall Out Boy - Snitches,and Talkers Get Stitches and Walkers
Breaking benjamin - follow me
Burning Brides - Heart Full Of Black
Letter Kills - Don't Believe
linkin park - faint
POD - Boom
Paul Oakenfold - Ready Steady Go
QOTSA - No One Knows
QOTSA - Go With The Flow
Rob Zombie - Dragula (Si Non Oscillas, Noli Tintinnare Mix)
Rob Zombie - Feel So Numb
Stonesour - 30-30-150
David Guetta - Love Don't Let Me Go (Tocadisco Remix)
Inner city playboys - Jetsetter
Club - Deep Inside
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue

ZorbaTehZ, i'm going to look into those bands you recommended, could you list the individual songs though that are on your snowboard music list? It would help me out a lot as I won't have to listen right through every album to find the good songs.

If anyone else has some song recommendations, throw them at me, I want to get my Snowboard playlist up to at least 50 songs.

zam

Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, although really predictable, is BRILLIANT for off-piste!!!

Good times...

L31mr0d

keep em comin, i'll add teen spirit to the list.

I'm finding it really hard finding some good playlists on the net, I thought someone, on last.fm or even on amazon would of compiled at least one adrenaline or extreme sports playlist. All the ones i've found have rap songs on which I gave them a shot, but they are far from snowboarding music.

L31mr0d

hmm... I got some Junkie XL albums and the songs you mentioned "mushroom, today" would be more suited for my cooldown playlist at the end of the day.

Currently listening through the RATM albums, will post what songs I pick out once i'm finished. Would really appreciate some more recommendations though.

ZorbaTehZ

I actually found my original playlist from when I was snowboarding. These are the songs that I'm not embarrased to list (lol:D ) also including what you asked mate:

Audio Bullys - We Dont Care
Junkie XL - Mushrom (I can possibly see where you're coming from including this in your cool-down list)
Junkie XL - Today (However I cannot at all understand why you would include this is a cooldown list? It was such an adrenaline rush hearing this come on while snowboarding)
The Knife - Silent Shout
Daiki Kaisho - What to Believe
Rammstein - Bang Bang
Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt
The Prodigy - Voodoo People
The Prodigy - Minefields
The Prodigy - Firestarter
Yellowcard - (seeing as you listed it I will include what I have on my iPod)
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Yellowcard - Way Away
JEW - Work
JEW - (I cant remember the name of the other one - on my old iPod)
RATM - Wake Up
RATM - Snakecharmer
RATM - People Of The Sun
CAKE - Never There
The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats
The Church - Under The Millky Way
Daft Punk - Around The World

As far as I know that is correct. When ever I heard the Daiki Kaisho song or Junkie XL Today coming over a crest I actually pummeled the jumps most of the times, lal (how I almost hit a car)

My playlist is really alternative/electronica and wont appeal to everyone - however the songs that had an extreme effect on me when I heard them whilst boarding are:

(in order of effect)
Daiki Kaisho - What To Believe
Rammstein - Bang Bang
Junkie XL - Today
Junkie XL - Mushroom
Audio Bullys - We Don't Care

ZorbaTehZ

I've noticed that none of the Junkie XL songs are on last.fm which is very dissapointing also the Daiki Kaisho song is not either (his band is now called Dakota Star afaik). Check out What to Believe as the theme tune to this video though:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwRRL1VHRAI

L31mr0d

Ok added:

Prodigy: Voodoo People
Rammstein: Bang Bang
RATM: Know your enemy
RATM: Wake up
RATM: Guerrilla Radio
Underoath: Reinventing Your Exit
30 seconds to mars: Attack
Disturbed: Decadence
Bullet For My Valentine: Hand Of Blood
Greenday: Scattered
Guano Apes: Lords of the Boards
Incubus: A certain shade of green
Pitchshifter: Microwaved
Beastie Boys: Sabotage

... your list also reminded me about some game soundtracks i'd overlooked like NFS:Most Wanted and Flatout 2. I'm also going to dust off my old prodigy albums and finally rip them onto the computer

ZorbaTehZ

All this talk of boarding music is making me jealous.
Have fun mate.:)

Diemos

Anything by NoFX is awesome for hitting park. I've tried pretty much everything else on my player and I just love NoFX while boarding, the tune up ear pads for my helmet was my best purchase all season.





The Rammstein song you guys seem to be calling bang bang is (I'm guessing, seeing as there is no Rammstein song of that name) actually called Feuer Frei!

La La

Standard Films make beautiful snowboard porn - amazing boarders, terrain, editing - and soundtracks. check out the stuff from Whitebalance (2004) and Video Gangs (2004).

other than that it depends - for park i like drum n bass, preferably concord dawn. for backcountry and freeriding i love godspeed you! black emperor, sigur ros, and heaps of other stuff.

i cant snowboard WITHOUT my iPod anymore. the experience is so much better when listening to music.

- once of the nicest songs to drop in to is definitely Pinback's 'Penelope.'

ZorbaTehZ

Diemos wrote:

The Rammstein song you guys seem to be calling bang bang is (I'm guessing, seeing as there is no Rammstein song of that name) actually called Feuer Frei!

I always wondered why that was the only song on Mutter with an english name. . .lol.:)

L31mr0d

well one fractured thumb later and that was one excellent snowboarding holiday, not much backcountry riding though as it is pretty late in the season and apart from the groomed piste the rest was pretty much melted so no champagne powder this time but hey, slush has its good points also, alot better than ice.

Great thing about the playlist is that whenever I listen to one of the songs on it it reminds me of where I was and what I was doing on those days. Should of really rethought using ear buds though *DOH!* my goggles headband kept them pretty secure but dropping in and wiping out meant a good 2 or 3 minutes fiddling with my gloves and earphones getting them back in place. What does everyone else use to hold their earphones in?

Oh and in case your wondering, I fractured my thumb when I slipped on the tiles coming out of the sauna after a few beers, rofl

ZorbaTehZ

L31mr0d wrote:

. . .dropping in and wiping out meant a good 2 or 3 minutes fiddling with my gloves and earphones getting them back in place. What does everyone else use to hold their earphones in?

I have the same problem, compounded by the fact that I use an under helmet mask so it's even longer! I suppose you could use those earphones that wrap around the ear.

Diemos

This is my puppy, no messing with headphones, it's the sickest

http://www.backcountry.com/store/GIR0051/Giro-Bad-Lieutenant-Audio-Helmet.html

ZorbaTehZ

Diemos wrote:

This is my puppy, no messing with headphones, it's the sickest

http://www.backcountry.com/store/GIR0051/Giro-Bad-Lieutenant-Audio-Helmet.html

Gief tbh, that is sweet.

Pablo

Check out Lords of the Boards by Guano Apes.
it's the backing track to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsZzToHUmY

L31mr0d

Pablo wrote:

Check out Lords of the Boards by Guano Apes.
it's the backing track to this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmsZzToHUmY

I already have it in my playlist above. Its great for those straight runs down the groomed, non skier moguled piste where you can hunch down and pick up ridiculous speeds. I found it actually helped me to go faster if I imagined there was always someone right behind me getting ready to overtake.

thegloriousend

Try Simian Mobile Disco - I believe
- Hustler
- Magick
- It's the Beat
One Minute Silence - Fish out of water
M.I.A - Bucky Done Gone
Digitalism - Zdarlight Axwell remix

I've got loads more, see if you like any of that first though

Humblepie

Best ever snowboard tune - Thunderstruck - AC DC circa 1989.
Awesome.

mcgratheoin

Humblepie wrote: »

Best ever snowboard tune - Thunderstruck - AC DC circa 1989.
Awesome.

Nice to see some old school posts, try;
Guns'n'Roses - Welcome to the Jungle, You Could be Mine, Night Train
Aerosmith - Young Lust
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild - this is an essential for me to start the trip with - gives you a real Easy Rider vibe

Other good bands to pick some stuff from could be Faithless, Linkin Park, Metallica, Foo Fighters (Learn to Fly is very apt for hitting the snowparks), Motorhead.

edmund_f

discovered the Need for Speed and/or Burnout series soundtracks are excellent...

was making up play lists noted that on the Chemical Brothers album 'Push the Button' part of the track listing -

Hold tight (London)
The big jump
Left right
Close your eyes
Shake Break Bounce
Surface to air

ZorbaTehZ

thegloriousend wrote: »

Simian Mobile Disco - I believe

+1

epic tune.

Don1

I got myself a Quiksilver hat d'other day that tucks in over the ears. With the helmet straps on right the buds shouldn't fall out, right? Also would the ipod (HDD model, not flash) die in the cold?

Gonna start work on the playlist soon/now. Ideas so far!!! : -

AC/DC - Beating round the Bush, Let There be Rock, Whole Lotta Rosie
Audioslave - Cochise, Hypnotise, Man or Animal
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin Beats, Under The Influence, other stuff
Blink 182 - M+M's, Dammit, Man Overboard
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Dream Theatre - As I am, This Dying Soul, Endless Sacrifice
Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs
Foo Fighters - Low, Monkey Wrench, B side track of the This is a call single (the loud one!)
Groove Armada - Superstylin'
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (most of it), You Could Be Mine
Incubus - New Skin, Idiot Box, Favourite Things
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast, The Trooper, 2 minutes to Midnight, Holy Smoke, others....
Jimmy Eat World - Salt Sweat Sugar
Kerbdog - Kerbdog (all of it), Didn't Even, Severed
KoRn - Got The Life
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (some tracks, have to go through it still)
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff (good enough to start a riot, good enough for me!!)
Living End - 'Til the End, What's on Your Radio, Into The Red
Lunatic Calm - Leave you Far Behind
Marilyn Manson - Rock is Dead
Marty O'Donnell..... - Halo Theme song (it psyches me up, nerd I know)
Metallica - lots
Nickelback - Flat on the Floor
Orbital - Satan Spawn
Ozzy Osborne - Crazy Train
Pantera - all of it!
Presidents of the USA - Mach5
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies, Miss Lucifer
The Prodigy - Voodoo People, Full Throttle, No Good (start the dance), Smack my B*tch Up, Breathe, Serial Thrilla, Mind Fields, Narayam, Firestarter, Fuel my Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Regular John, How to Handle a Rope, Quick and to The Pointless, You think I Aint Worth a Dollar but I Fell Like a Millionaire, First it Giveth, A Song for the Dead, Go With the Flow, Medication, Everybody Knows That You're Insane
RATM - most of it
Ramstein – Feuer Frei, Zwitter, Adios
Soil - Scars and maybe one or two or Redefine
Rob Zombie - Dragula (Hot Rod Remix)
Sasha - Bellfunk, Xpander (edit) {for swoopy long bits )
Skunk Anansie - Selling Jesus Again, I Can Dream, It Takes Blood And Guts to be This Cool But I'm Still Just a Cliché, And Here I Stand (for the mental bit!!)
Slipknot - Sic, Eyeless, Surfacing, Spit It Out, Liberate
Smashing Pumpkins - I am One, Tristessa, Frail and Bedazzled, Pissant, Hello Kitty Kat, Quiet, Soma (love it even though half is quiet), Geek USA, Silverf*ck, Jellybelly, An Ode to No One, Bodies, Tales of a Scorched Earth, XYU, Doomsday Clock, 7 Shades of Black, Tarantula
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Pose, Face Pollution, Drawing Flies, Superunknown, Spoonman, Kickstand
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
Stone Sour - Get Inside
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi (the solo!!), Chinatown, Cold Sweat
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Running Down a Dream
Van Halen - Eruption, Hot For Teacher, Jump
Velvet Revolver - Suckertrain Blues, Set Me Free, Slither, Money (Pink Floyd cover) (maybe more)
Weezer - My Name is Jonas, Surf Wax America, Hash Pipe, We Are All on Drugs

Oops, got carried away and went through all the ipod! Still a stack of CDs to upload but this will do as a starter. I apologise if it is excessive, but I feel it is a fairly good stab at a boarding playlist covering a few tastes (mainly rock/metal I agree)

PS it looked all nice and properly indented in Word.

ZorbaTehZ

Nice selection... this thread needs a sticky!

L31mr0d

Don1 wrote: »

Also would the ipod (HDD model, not flash) die in the cold?

I wouldn't risk the iPod, the HDD version would be more likely to be affected by the cold.

I kept my mp3 in the inside pocket beside my chest so it was never cold. If you keep in on the inside the insulation and your body heat should be more than enough to keep it running.

Oh and nice list.

Don1

Just as well I just ordered a 4GB card for the phone! Should be able to squeeze enough songs on there!! Only problem is no gapless playback, although I would of had my ipod playlist on shuffle anyway............

RATM

Don1 wrote: »

I got myself a Quiksilver hat d'other day that tucks in over the ears. With the helmet straps on right the buds shouldn't fall out, right? Also would the ipod (HDD model, not flash) die in the cold?

Gonna start work on the playlist soon/now. Ideas so far!!! : -

AC/DC - Beating round the Bush, Let There be Rock, Whole Lotta Rosie
Audioslave - Cochise, Hypnotise, Man or Animal
Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin Beats, Under The Influence, other stuff
Blink 182 - M+M's, Dammit, Man Overboard
Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
Dream Theatre - As I am, This Dying Soul, Endless Sacrifice
Faith No More - From Out of Nowhere
Fall Out Boy - Thnks fr th Mmrs
Foo Fighters - Low, Monkey Wrench, B side track of the This is a call single (the loud one!)
Groove Armada - Superstylin'
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (most of it), You Could Be Mine
Incubus - New Skin, Idiot Box, Favourite Things
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast, The Trooper, 2 minutes to Midnight, Holy Smoke, others....
Jimmy Eat World - Salt Sweat Sugar
Kerbdog - Kerbdog (all of it), Didn't Even, Severed
KoRn - Got The Life
Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (some tracks, have to go through it still)
Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff (good enough to start a riot, good enough for me!!)
Living End - 'Til the End, What's on Your Radio, Into The Red
Lunatic Calm - Leave you Far Behind
Marilyn Manson - Rock is Dead
Marty O'Donnell..... - Halo Theme song (it psyches me up, nerd I know)
Metallica - lots
Nickelback - Flat on the Floor
Orbital - Satan Spawn
Ozzy Osborne - Crazy Train
Pantera - all of it!
Presidents of the USA - Mach5
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies, Miss Lucifer
The Prodigy - Voodoo People, Full Throttle, No Good (start the dance), Smack my B*tch Up, Breathe, Serial Thrilla, Mind Fields, Narayam, Firestarter, Fuel my Fire
Queens of the Stone Age - Regular John, How to Handle a Rope, Quick and to The Pointless, You think I Aint Worth a Dollar but I Fell Like a Millionaire, First it Giveth, A Song for the Dead, Go With the Flow, Medication, Everybody Knows That You're Insane
RATM - most of it
Ramstein – Feuer Frei, Zwitter, Adios
Soil - Scars and maybe one or two or Redefine
Rob Zombie - Dragula (Hot Rod Remix)
Sasha - Bellfunk, Xpander (edit) {for swoopy long bits )
Skunk Anansie - Selling Jesus Again, I Can Dream, It Takes Blood And Guts to be This Cool But I'm Still Just a Cliché, And Here I Stand (for the mental bit!!)
Slipknot - Sic, Eyeless, Surfacing, Spit It Out, Liberate
Smashing Pumpkins - I am One, Tristessa, Frail and Bedazzled, Pissant, Hello Kitty Kat, Quiet, Soma (love it even though half is quiet), Geek USA, Silverf*ck, Jellybelly, An Ode to No One, Bodies, Tales of a Scorched Earth, XYU, Doomsday Clock, 7 Shades of Black, Tarantula
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Pose, Face Pollution, Drawing Flies, Superunknown, Spoonman, Kickstand
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild
Stone Sour - Get Inside
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an Alibi (the solo!!), Chinatown, Cold Sweat
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Running Down a Dream
Van Halen - Eruption, Hot For Teacher, Jump
Velvet Revolver - Suckertrain Blues, Set Me Free, Slither, Money (Pink Floyd cover) (maybe more)
Weezer - My Name is Jonas, Surf Wax America, Hash Pipe, We Are All on Drugs

Oops, got carried away and went through all the ipod! Still a stack of CDs to upload but this will do as a starter. I apologise if it is excessive, but I feel it is a fairly good stab at a boarding playlist covering a few tastes (mainly rock/metal I agree)

PS it looked all nice and properly indented in Word.

Nice list:cool:

Have to say I love listening to 'Stockholm Syndrome' by Muse when going hard, pure bliss:pac: