Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0CnjXqCLE
virgil
Lots of music makes me want to take a hike or reminds me of a place I was hiking. In a very direct way and literal way I would say Fiona Apple captures the particular plodding pace of a long hike in Extraordinay Machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqImU...eature=related
Dave Matthews Band "Ants Marching"
Call me the breeze....JJ Cale, Skynyrd...with some modifications to "Road" and "Carry me no load"...hehe
I love the song by Toad the Wet Sprocket, "Walk on the Ocean." It makes me think of time spent hiking or sailing. I'd rather be in the outdoors that stuck at this desk.
Oh, +1 on Styx "Man in the Wilderness." Wasn't expecting that one. Guess I am not the only one here from that generation.
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Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Sunshine on my shoulders...John Denver
Mountain man by Crash Kings. Does it everytime.
You can't cheat the mountain pilgrim, the mountian's got its own ways.
-"BearClaw" Chris Lapp-
I have favorite songs and artists like everyone else, but to answer the OP's question NO song makes me want to go hike. I hike every day because I want to and because its good for me.
I have been listening to this almost every day so far, mainly because I am hiking "Home" to N.C.
Also:
Still Alive, GLaDOS
The Switch and the Spur, The Raconteurs*
Agent Tex, Jeff Williams
Young Men Dead, The Black Angels*
Boombox, The Lonely Island
Wanderin', The Belleville Outfit*
When the Creepers Creep In, The Village Green
Lone Wolf, Martin O'Donnell
Burn My Shadow, Unkle*
Send Me on My Way, Rusted Root*
Somebody Like You, The Belleville Outfit
Step Right Up, Tom Waits
Unknowable geometry, Jim Guthrie
Iron, Woodkid*
Dark Flute, Jim Guthrie*
Make Your Own Kind of Music, Cass Elliot
Space Olympics, The Lonely Island
Don't Take it for Granted, The Belleville Outfit
The Maelstrom, Jim Guthrie*
Flame, Sebadoh
These are just some selections from my current "Hiking Mix." I marked the ones that would make me want to hike when I'm lazying about.
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Have you ever by Brandi Carlile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t49mv...eature=related
The Last Waltz.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6xm6tsg
Joe purdy worn out shoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_DAQm79eA
MC5 Ramblin' Rose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cg0qJ-ieRk
that song has made its way onto one of my pandora stations and it makes me think of hiking.
of all the stupid songs out there, "all star" by smash mouth and "dune buggy" by presidents of the united states of america make me want to hike.
All star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E&ob=av2e
dune buggy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq5OyumR_1o
on a section hike with a few friends this winter we all started singing them while walking because they were the only song we could all remember the words to. now not a single backpacking trip goes by without me singing 'em atleast once.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
-Sir Edmund Hillary
John Denver's Rocky Mountain Suite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPExXraHgLQ
what an interesting topic, I enjoyed ready the responses, which are quite varied in style.
+1
Its got a good beat for hiking.
Right now I'm stuck on Mischief Brew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtPjLMZV08
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