Post songs that make you want to hike

[MannDude]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_2CUj3y6Y
If you're unfamiliar with Blaze Foley, you should probably get familiar. Sooo good.

Lyrics
I'm going down to the greyhound station
Gonna get a ticket to ride
Gonna find that lady with 2 or 3 kids
And sit down by her side
And ride until the sun comes up and down around me about 2 or 3 times
smoking cigarettes in the last seat trying
to hide my sorrow from the people I meet
And get along with it all
Go down where people say ya'll
Sing a song with a friend
Change the shape that I'm in
And get back in the game
And start playing again

I'd like to stay but I might have to go to start over again
I might go back down to Texas I might go somewhere that I've never been
And get up in the morning and go out at night
And I won't have to go home
Get used to being alone
Change the words to this song
And start singing again

I'm tired of running round looking for answers to questions that I
already know
I could build me a castle of memories just to have somewhere to go
Count the days and the nights that it takes to get back in the saddle
again
Feed the pigeons some clay
Turn the night into day
Start talking again if I know what to say

I'm going down to the greyhound station
Gonna get a ticket to ride
Gonna find that lady with 2 or 3 kids
And sit down by her side
And Ride until the sun comes up and down around about 2 or 3 times
smoking cigarettes in the last seat
trying to hide my sorrow from the people I meet

And get along with it all
Go down where people say ya'll
Feed the pigeons some clay
Turn the night into day
Start talking again when I know what to say

[Odd Man Out]

Across the Great Divide, Nanci Griffith

I've been walkin' in my sleep. Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say. I just turned around and they've gone away

I've been siftin' through the layers of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know and it was one that happened so long ago

Chorus: It's gone away in yesterday. Now I find myself on the moutainside
Where the rivers change direction across the Great Divide

Now, I hear the owl a-callin'. Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied, but he's gone across the borderline Chorus

The finest hour that I have seen is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day. It's when the darkness rolls away Chorus Twice

[Blissful]

Main theme from Rudy (http://youtu.be/K1ZgbF9d2WM). I hope to use it at my REI talk when I show my photo essay.

[Sarcasm the elf]

I know it's kind of Cliche, but the entire score that Eddie Vedder wrote for Into the Wild always works for me. The Ipod Shuffle in my pack also has a lot of music by Ani Difranco and Iron and Wine and Rasputina.

The album Raindogs by Tom Waits often makes an appearance as well, though I have no rational way of explaining why it does.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzp5hdO4deQ&feature=results_video&playnext =1&list=PL93B87E51FBB25055

[Two Tents]

OK here you go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_2W6M7NNo&feature=watch_response

[Spokes]

1+ on Sarcasm the elf and Tom Waits.

"There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap baby, it's a deal............"

[Shiraz-mataz]

There's no song any better than James Taylor's "Gone to Carolina in my Mind"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gic6B-B6rpg

[birchy]

Styx.... Man in the wilderness

[Ender]

Never heard of Blaze Foley before, but now I want to learn more about him. Great song. And the Tom Waits song is great too, wonderfully weird.

This song always makes me think about hiking... ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfSKoocUfqw

[Pedaling Fool]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcvHjqh5EyY

[birchy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-S7H9bZo4&feature=player_detailpage

[russb]

Not a song, but a poem. I suppose one could put it to music. The Call of the Wild. By Robert Service

[4eyedbuzzard]

Truckin' got my chips cashed in...

​Y'all know the rest

[-SEEKER-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU&feature=related

[doritotex]

Ummm..."Take this Job and Shove It"..makes me want to call in sick and go hiking!!!

[Chaco Taco]

http://youtu.be/mNTz3oH-mqc

[CMags]

Del McCourey- Take me to the Mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPnMaNDAhQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZPnMaNDAhQ)

[Spokes]

Junior Brown "My Wife Thinks Your Dead"




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRMNeoaosQw

[sonic]

Ummm..."Take this Job and Shove It"..makes me want to call in sick and go hiking!!!
Oh, Oh, that's a good one.:banana

[tee]

I find it strange that this song compels me to hike, but "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y)
(Though my favorite version is by RealityChangers and his adorable daughter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64c5vT3NBw&feature=related)

[hikerboy57]

Truckin' got my chips cashed in...

​Y'all know the restthe europe72 version

[ChinMusic]

OMG, I was gonna post that one. Shocked someone beat me to it.


This song always makes me think about hiking... ;)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfSKoocUfqw

[virgil]

Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH0CnjXqCLE

[Glo-Worm]

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=QqImUdg1OEA&feature=related

[Plodderman]

Dave Matthews Band "Ants Marching"

[FootHills]

Call me the breeze....JJ Cale, Skynyrd...with some modifications to "Road" and "Carry me no load"...hehe

[FootHills]

Call me the breeze....JJ Cale, Skynyrd...with some modifications to "Road" and "Carry me no load"...hehe

Oh and maybe "change in the weather" also...but hey...it's the beat!...and the moving on parts!

[Buffalo Skipper]

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.

[Old graymare]

Sunshine on my shoulders...John Denver

[I'm gimpy]

Mountain man by Crash Kings. Does it everytime.

[max patch]

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.

[thepitts]

I find it strange that this song compels me to hike, but "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.


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.

[Grits]

Have you ever by Brandi Carlile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t49mvRXYjmg&feature=related :cool:

[rjhouser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlm4OIpx4s

[G.G.]

The Last Waltz.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6xm6tsg

[trailmix]

Joe purdy worn out shoes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_DAQm79eA

[Mr HaHa]

MC5 Ramblin' Rose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cg0qJ-ieRk

[hambone5126]

I find it strange that this song compels me to hike, but "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.



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.

[jbsbestfan]

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.

[Torch09]

I find it strange that this song compels me to hike, but "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjFaenf1T-Y)
(Though my favorite version is by RealityChangers and his adorable daughter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64c5vT3NBw&feature=related)

+1
Its got a good beat for hiking.

Right now I'm stuck on Mischief Brew.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbtPjLMZV08

[Ender]

OMG, I was gonna post that one. Shocked someone beat me to it.

:) Yeah, pretty much any song about crappy weather can remind me of the AT.



Still Alive, GLaDOS


Dude, awesome.

[Jim Adams]

just about anything from the Drop Kick Murphy's...I know, sounds weird but I listen to them while hiking...really picks my pace up...makes me want to hike when I hear them at work.

geek

[ljcsov]

I like Mischief Brew too! Great Philly band!!

I love Phish-Farmhouse. The song itself is great along with the whole album.

Anything by Neil Young is nice too, especially Heart of Gold.

Being a Jersey born boy, I also have a soft spot for anything by Billy Joel. I think everyone raised in the late 80s/early 90s grew up with Billy Joel in the NJ/Eastern PA/NY region. :)