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post #1 of 8
12/3/07 at 7:26pm
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Periodically there have been threads about ski music on this forum. I, like many others, grew up listening to Bob Gibson (or the Chad Mitchell Trio) singing Super Skier and other songs and I recent bought his SKI SONGS album on eBay. While I was there I looked for other albums about skiing. I now have a small collection of albums, CDs, and digital downloads.

You can see my list at:
http://home.comcast.net/~mhealy16/sk.../skialbums.htm

I would appreciate knowing about others. There must be more.
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post #2 of 8
12/6/07 at 6:39am
I like your list buddy.
I used to always imagine skiing to Christopher Cross's "It's Alright Think We're Gonna Make It."
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post #3 of 8
12/6/07 at 3:25pm
MWSkier, that is a collection of some awesome-looking stuff. Never heard of any of it, but I'll check it out.

Ski music for me is always broken down by type of skiing:

1) BC/AT: almost always some old Dead show (you can tell who my BC pards are) or Dylan or Guy Clark or Johnny Cash

2) XC: this will seem weird, but any kind of Euro-electronica trance/goa mix. It's because I do a lot of driving for junior racers who associate XC skiing with partying in Europe...(hmmm....what are they doing when we send 'em to train on the Dachstein...) Lately, it's been Paul Van Dyk, Tiesto, Judge Jules, etc.

3) alpine: if it's morning freshies, then some old Peter Tosh; if it's just cruisin', then anything from Soundgarden (or anything from college) to Franz Ferdinand to The Prototypes to British Sea Power to....whatever; but if it's poachin' then Rollins Band, Bad Religion, Buzzcocks, etc., although I should probably start rockin' the Tony Bennet or Perry Como when we...emm...venture south of Big Sky
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post #4 of 8
12/6/07 at 6:10pm

Close, but no cigar...

...here's what's going to be featured in my novel about what it was like to really ski in Colorado back in the 70s:

- Ski Trails, Jo Stafford

- Mr. Magic, Grover Washington

- Bare Trees, Fleetwood Mac

- Mars Hotel (name of the house we lived in in Breckenridge, Grateful Dead

- The Cars, The Cars

There's more, but I can't remember it all right now...
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post #5 of 8
12/7/07 at 8:16pm
Ski bum music in JH. One album is called "gotta take some turns". Chanman plays the tram jam at JH and has a few skiing songs. Skibum music is his label.
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post #6 of 8
7/8/10 at 11:40am
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I doubt if many are interested, but I have added to my collection of Ski Albums and songs about skiing.  For my updated list see:

 

http://home.comcast.net/~mhealy16/ski/music/skialbums.htm

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post #7 of 8
7/8/10 at 11:54am

Sweet!

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post #8 of 8
7/8/10 at 2:28pm



 

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Originally Posted by MWskier View Post

I doubt if many are interested, but I have added to my collection of Ski Albums and songs about skiing.  For my updated list see:

 

http://home.comcast.net/~mhealy16/ski/music/skialbums.htm


MWSkier,

 

Thanks for the link! 

 

Here is my list:

 

Perfect song when staring at the mountains when no one else is around: The Marriage of Figaro Duettino - Sull' Aria by Mozart, recently made famous by Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption: http://www.last.fm/music/Wolfgang+Amadeus+Mozart/_/The+Marriage+of+Figaro+%252F+%2522Duettino%2522+Sull+%2527Aria

 

Perfect powder day song, for the frontside or BC:  Jeff Beck's Goin Down.  See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUHy_TfkN38  .

 

A good BC song: Cage the Elephant's Ain't no rest for the wicked. See:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t99bpilCKw    .

 

The usual mogul song:  Gene Chandler's Duke of Earl

 

Crowded frontside song:  Jimi Hendrix's Crosstown Traffic

 

Great carving song: Stevie Ray Vaughn's Crossfire

 

Blizzard song:  White Room by Cream

 

 

 

 

 


 


Edited by quant2325 - 7/8/10 at 3:06pm
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