Geocaching playlists

[+MacAlyster]

Alright all my friendly geocaching fellows, my family is trying to make the ULTIMATE GEOCACHING MUSIC PLAYLIST (like the capitals for major echo effect?)

 

What music do you hunt caches to?

 

So far on the list:

 

Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf

Phineas and Ferb - Not Knowing Where you're going

U2 - Still Haven't found What I'm looking for

REM - Stand

Blondie - One Way or Another

 

So what should we add? (Originally posted in off-topic, but was suggested that I post here.)

[+Ethankwolfe]

Generally anything from Bruce Springsteen, but sometimes I get a real need for 80's metal when I'm out caching.

[+Pork King]

Alright all my friendly geocaching fellows, my family is trying to make the ULTIMATE GEOCACHING MUSIC PLAYLIST

 

 

Are you looking for music to hike to or music to drive from cache to cache to?

 

Also, are you specifically looking for A. songs whose message or title allude to treasure hunting or searching, or B. just all around good music? Because B. can be quite subjective.

Edited June 5, 2014 by Pork King

[+Pork King]

If it's (A)...

 

Traffic - Hidden Treasure

A-Ha - Hunting High and Low

The Who - The Seeker

[+Ethankwolfe]

The Who - The Seeker

 

Wish I'd thought of that first.

[+The_Incredibles_]

We had an event recently to celebrate a local cacher's 50,000th find.

 

I made a slideshow of photos and music.

 

After Googling 'traveling songs' and consulting someone who knows him well, some of the songs I included:

 

The Who - The Seeker

King of the Road

500 miles

I get around

Take me home, country roads

Route 66

When I'm gone

Homeward Bound

 

After doing this little project, I started putting tunes on my phone for when I go geocaching. I did a nice hike the other week and enjoyed the music so much I have added a whole bunch more for next time. I like upbeat music, mostly the latest hits.

[+T.D.M.22]

A song called No Roads Here, by Corb Lund. It just fits when looking for certain caches in the prairie.

Then there's Anotherone Bites the Dust by Queen. Great for power trails.

 

Just hope The Truck Got Stuck, by the Corb again, is never song that reminds me of caching.

[+MacAlyster]

Mostly my family wanted a playlist of music on the subject of hunting and finding/not finding, so A. The other fun, in also introducing myself to other music types. Thanks for the replies, keep them coming. I'm hoping I can make a spotify channel that everyone can listen to sometime this summer.

 

-MacAlyster

[+Traditional Bill]

I believe that everyone's geocaching play list will be quite different given the diversity of cachers. I myself would load my geocaching play list with bands like Streetlight Manifesto, The Bouncing Souls, Danzig and a whole score of other bands most people care not to listen to, LOL.

[+Ethankwolfe]

I believe that everyone's geocaching play list will be quite different given the diversity of cachers. I myself would load my geocaching play list with bands like Streetlight Manifesto, The Bouncing Souls, Danzig and a whole score of other bands most people care not to listen to, LOL.

 

I'm going to need to put my Streetlight Manifesto on my phone. Caching to "Would You Be Impressed?" is just too tempting.

[+DadOf6Furrballs]

Honestly, I/we don't listen to music while I'm/we're caching, except when I'm/we're driving to a cache in one of our vehicles. Then it's just on whatever Satellite radio channel it happens to be on at the moment. But once I/we leave that vehicle and hiking to a cache, I/we much prefer the quiet sound of nature around us.

[Moun10Bike]

"Roam" by the B-52's

[+Roman!]

I can't drive 55

[+Ambrosia]

I don't listen to music while I'm caching, or anytime I'm out of doors - I like to listen to nature.

 

I quite often have songs pop into my head whenever people say things that make me think of songs. Then I'm singing them for a while. I have this problem while caching, if a cache title makes me think of a song.

 

I just placed two caches, and unfortunately, I named them after song titles. One is, "Down By the Bay", and the other one is, "Letters From the Sky". Do you know how annoying it is to get found it logs for "Down By the Bay" and then have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day? I asked for it.

[+Pork King]

... Do you know how annoying it is to get found it logs for "Down By the Bay" and then have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day? I asked for it.

 

Dadgum you. Now I'm singing it.

[+popokiiti]

Where I would love to go caching if I won the lottery....."All Over The World" by Electric Light Orchestra.

[4wheelin_fool]

"Die Hard the Hunter" by Def Leppard, "Wherever I May Roam" by Metallica, and "Can't Smile Without You" by Barry Manilow

[+kunarion]

So who will be FTF?

 

Edited June 6, 2014 by kunarion

[+kunarion]

Everyone found this "easy" cache but me? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-61Vg2lkA

Edited June 6, 2014 by kunarion

[+kunarion]

Just remember the DEET.

 

Edited June 6, 2014 by kunarion

[+kunarion]

Pretty heavy, considering all I'm hunting is one of those little ziplocks wrapped in duct tape, hidden in a guard rail. Edited June 6, 2014 by kunarion

[+kunarion]

Anyway, maybe I should explain why I have so much trouble at "stealth required" caches.

 

Edited June 6, 2014 by kunarion

[+kunarion]

So you found my cache and you didn't trade up or even. This is all I have to say about that.

 

Edited June 6, 2014 by kunarion

[+Ambrosia]

... Do you know how annoying it is to get found it logs for "Down By the Bay" and then have that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day? I asked for it.

 

Dadgum you. Now I'm singing it.

Share the joy.

[+kunarion]

OK, GPS, time to work your magic.

 

[+kunarion]

Yes! I'm getting closer. I hope.

 

[+kunarion]

And that's what we call a "PAF".

 

[+hukilaulau]

Alright all my friendly geocaching fellows, my family is trying to make the ULTIMATE GEOCACHING MUSIC PLAYLIST (like the capitals for major echo effect?)

 

What music do you hunt caches to?

 

So far on the list:

 

Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf

Phineas and Ferb - Not Knowing Where you're going

U2 - Still Haven't found What I'm looking for

REM - Stand

Blondie - One Way or Another

 

So what should we add? (Originally posted in off-topic, but was suggested that I post here.)

[+geodarts]

Music while caching is not my style. If I am hiking, biking, or kayaking then the last thing I want is for someone to start blaring sounds of any sort. But if there is going to be a little driving, then I have been known to put on Roadrunner (either the Modern Lovers or Joan Jett, better yet . . . both!). It will get me a little further down the road as does anything by Richard Thompson - who doesn't cache to his version of Oops I Did It Again? My old caching handle was based on a line from Cooksferry Queen,

 

But I recently did some caches on Lake Clementine. By the time you hit the third themed cache, it is easy to start paddling to the cadence of Oh My Darling. I looked for a killer version of that tune, perhaps a cover by Springsteen or Cohen, but there was nothing to do other than hope that the next cache had a different theme.

Edited June 8, 2014 by geodarts

[+Harry Dolphin]

Still have to go with (despite the archived OT forum thread): Brain Damage

[+briansnat]

Here is a copy of something I posted in a similar thread a few years ago. I got these all off my iPod so there is a chance I may actually be listening to one of them while caching.

 

This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

Signal In The Sky - The Apples in Stereo

Satellite - The Replacements

Map Ref. 41N 93W - Wire

Dig Me Out - Sleater Kinny

The Closer You Are - Guided By Voices

The Walk - The Cure

All We Ever Look For - Kate Bush

Roam - B52's

Go For It - Stiff Little Fingers

How Far - Beth Orton

Nowhere Near - Yo La Tengo

Grab It - Dinosaur Jr.

Letterbox - They Might Be Giants

Walk On By - Cake / The Stranglers / Dionne Warwick

Searchin' - The Coasters

Obsessed - 999

I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For - U2

The Thrill of It All - Roxy Music

Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Go West - Liz Phair

Police and Theives - The Clash

Take a Walk - Spoon

The Climb - No Doubt

Exactly Were I'm At - Ween

The Ledge - The Replacements

Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground - White Stripes

Somewhere - Husker Du

Many Roads - Clannad

This One's Gonna Bruise - Beth Orton

Hiking Stick - Barbara Manning

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths

LOST - Iggy Pop

In the City - The Jam

In the Dark - Romeo Void

In the Cold Cold Night - White Stripes

Searchin n Hidin - Paul Westberg

Its So Obvious - Wire

Side of the Road - Lucinda Williams

Using Our Feet - Badly Drawn Boy

We're Here - The Meat Puppets

Across the Fields - 10,000 Maniacs

Fair Exchange - Be Bop Deluxe

 

And for stolen caches:

Only the Stones Remain - The Soft Boys

Gone For Good - Morphine

Gone Daddy Gone - The Violent Femmes

 

And in honor of lousy caches:

Trash - The New York Dolls

Total Trash - Sonic Youth

Edited June 9, 2014 by briansnat

[+hukilaulau]

What I meant to say was: "Telstar" by the Tornados. Inspired by the first communications satellite.

[+JJG10101]

Two more entries for the list:

 

Diana Krall: "East of the Sun, West of the Moon"

Sade: "Keep Looking"

 

The Sade tune, in particular, seems appropriate. Fun thread.

Edited June 11, 2014 by JJG10101