Railfan Music Choices?

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Whose your favorite artist to jam to while out driving to your favorite Railfan locations? I'd have to say mine are Duran Duran, partly because of their song, "Rio." I loved that song when I was little because it reminded me of the Rio Grande ski train. They've influenced my music choices over the years, for sure. Nothing like the 80s!

Here's my band and I performing an original song we wrote this past summer of 2013:

[Y@]

Anything by Bullet For My Valentine is typically "road trip" music for me. The only song I can really associate specifically with trains is Sail by Awolnation. That is the anthem of the Bessemer.

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Anything by Bullet For My Valentine is typically "road trip" music for me. The only song I can really associate specifically with trains is Sail by Awolnation. That is the anthem of the Bessemer.

I like that song!

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Anyone here enjoy listening to weird, instrumental music like me while driving home, under the stars?

[Saturnalia]

I generally just listen to the scanner. I always have all AAR channels running, unless there is a lot of static on certain ones, then they get turned off.

[J T]

Whose your favorite artist to jam to while out driving to your favorite Railfan locations? I'd have to say mine are Duran Duran, partly because of their song, "Rio." I loved that song when I was little because it reminded me of the Rio Grande ski train. They've influenced my music choices over the years, for sure. Nothing like the 80s!

Good choice. One of my all time favorite songs, and a great bassline to boot by John Taylor.

I still have this import 12" single in near mint condition from when I purchased it brand new in 1982:





I usually listen to talk radio when in my car. I'm ADD, so I'm always changing the channels anyway.

[DT&I]

Hank Williams, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Avenged Sevenfold, the Offspring, etc..

[PAT.C]

KICK ASS SOUTHERN ROCK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7dp1HgZnw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPZxfS1jys

[JStryker722]

Johnny Cash!

[Racer]

I listen to too many genres of music to list. All of my "soundtracks" are according to the setting and mood of where I am located/ traveling to. It could be anything regarding to the city, farmlands, rain, snow, sunrise, night time, local, distant, leisure trip, pressuring chase after something rare/ special.

[tsinoms]

I am a Mau5 follower myself. Usually a deadmau5 song keeps me moving as I chase down chicago drive. Any electronica usually does the trick, yes even dubstep....

I also like rock, got that from my dad. Love Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

[J T]

I am a Mau5 follower myself. Usually a deadmau5 song keeps me moving as I chase down chicago drive.

I will never be able to look at that name and not think "dead-moww-5," especially since there was already a "Dead Mouse" artist back in the 90s.

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I am a Mau5 follower myself. Usually a deadmau5 song keeps me moving as I chase down chicago drive. Any electronica usually does the trick, yes even dubstep....

I also like rock, got that from my dad. Love Linkin Park and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

You need to check out Depeche Mode...

[GreatLakesRailfan]

Depends. If I'm on my own I just listen to the radio (usually BPM or Electric Area on the XM dial). If others are along for the ride, it's usually the "Boneyard" or hair band station on the XM dial- the stations with a heavy dose of Metallica. Notably, the weekend of the 765's Fort Wayne-Lafayette excursion this fall, we listened to the special Metallica channel on XM.

I used to listen to the FM radio bands, but then I bought the lifetime subscription to XM radio for my car.

[59caddy]

One of my favorite pieces of music is Ghost Train, by Eric Whitacre, which is a piece for high school or college-level concert band. It's not rock music, but it's about trains

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHSpWrYEhjI&feature=kp

The piece is a tribute to trains in history and the people who worked them. The story of this piece goes that the train comes to the station, there is a time of reflection as people reunite or disunite, and then train departs gracefully. Then, the 2nd part of the piece illustrates a train in the period between 1850 to 1870, when steam locomotives were most revolutionary in transportation.

[SD80MAC]

Start off with some Firehouse or Skid Row, then ease into some Van Halen, Boston or Aerosmith. Cap it off with some Chicago or Fleetwood Mac on the drive home.

[J T]

Start off with some Firehouse...

Awe, you're so romantic, Jon.

[SD80MAC]

Don't Treat Me Bad is the song I had in mind but I like their ballads too!

[Pie39]

R.E.M., Duran Duran(d), Smiths, anything on the first wave satellite radio station!

[J T]

R.E.M., Duran Duran(d), Smiths, anything on the first wave satellite radio station!

I just wish they wouldn't beat The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Joe Jackson and The Cars (which doesn't even belong on 1st Wave) into the ground. I used to not mind The Pretenders until I started listening to 1st Wave. Now I can't change the channel fast enough when one of their songs comes on.