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So, I woke up in the morning, grabbed the MP3 player and went out to do some cache maintenance. I was walking up to one of my caches as "In A Big Country" by the 80's band Big Country came on my player...good music to cache by.

 

Made me think...what' YOUR favorite cache music? Do you have a caching theme song? Or, do you think a certain type of music is cache-friendly??

 

Is it country, is it rock, is it classical, is it hip-hop, punk, blues, celtic, or bluegrass??

 

I may have to go find some of your suggestions...

Thanks,

Skoogie

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A while ago in a similar thread I came up with a list of songs with geocachie sounding titles:

This Must Be The Place - Talking Heads

Signal In The Sky - The Apples in Stereo

Sattellite - The Replacements

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

Following - The Bangles

Sattelite of Love - Velvet Uderground

Go West - Liz Phair

Police and Theives - The Clash

Take a Walk - Spoon

The Climb - No Doubt

Exactly Were I'm At - Ween

Dead Leaves and The Dirty Ground - White Stripes

Somewhere - Husker Du

Many Roads - Clannad

The Adventure and the Resolution - Frank Black

Hiking Stick - Barbara Manning

The Boy With The Thorn In His Side - The Smiths

LOST - Iggy Pop

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

 

And for plundered caches:

Only the Stones Remain - The Soft Boys

Gone For Good - Morphine

 

And in honor of McToy's:

Trash - The New York Dolls

Total Trash - Sonic Youth

 

And there always:

Jeremy - Pearl Jam

 

I think I have every one of the above on CD or vinyl. As a far as actually geocaching and music, I generally don't equate the two, but while driving to the cache I could be listening to Celtic, classical, folk, punk, 80's new wave or current indie rock, though I tend to prefer a harder, raw sound in my music while driving. Stuff like the Ramones, Sleater Kinney, Sex Pistols, Husker Du, Pavement, Bikini Kill, early Offspring, Nirvana and Neutral Milk Hotel, or if I want something a bit more artsy, Radiohead, Morphine, Guided by Voices, Ween, Modest Mouse or Flaming Lips. Oh, and of course Johnny Cash!

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I tend to like the sounds of the outdoors better than music, but I played this song in camp at the Texas Challenge. Everyone agreed that it was a great geocaching song.

 

All My Life

 

by Foo Fighters

 

 

All my life I've been searching for something

 

something never comes never leads to nothing

 

nothing satisfies but I'm getting close

 

closer to the prize at the end of the rope

 

all night long I dream of the day

 

when it comes around and it's taken away

 

leaves me with the feeling that I feel the most

 

feel it come to life when I see your ghost

 

calm down don't you resist

 

you've such a delicate wrist

 

and if I give it a twist

 

something to hold when I lose my grip

 

will I find something in there

 

to give me just what I need

 

another reason to bleed

 

one by one hidden up my sleeve

 

 

 

Don't let it go to waste, I love it but I hate the taste

 

weight keep pinning me down

 

will I find a believer

 

another one who believes

 

another one to deceive

 

over and over down on my knees

 

if I get any closer

 

and if you open up wide

 

and if you let me inside

 

on and on I've got nothing to hide

 

then I'm done done on to the next one

 

done and I'm done and I'm on to the next

 

Sn <_<:huh: gans

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A while ago in a similar thread I came up with a list of songs with geocachie sounding titles:

 

Wow - Brian...you're CD/Vinyl collection looks like it may mirror part of mine pretty close...here's a few more "Caching" titles...from a quick scan at my files:

 

Look Sharp - Joe Jackson

A Token Of My Extreme - Frank Zappa (for Geocoins)

Adventurer - Lou Reed

Bad Luck - Social Distortion (for DNF's)

Beggining to See The Light - Velvet Underground

Buckets of Rain - Bob Dylan (for those soggy caches not very well maintained)

Can't Get There From Here - REM

Consolation Prizes - Iggy Pop (when you just missed the FTF)

Dark As A Dungeon - Johnny Cash (for night caches)

Dissapointed - Bob Mould (for DNF's)

Figure It Out - Johnny Society (for puzzle caches)

Get It While You Can - Janis Joplin

Gift - Sugar (easy caches)

Good Feeling - Violent Femmes

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The Seeker by The Who.

 

I've looked under chairs

I've looked under tables

I've tried to find the key

To fifty million fables

 

They call me The Seeker

I've been searching low and high

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

 

I asked Bobby Dylan

I asked The Beatles

I asked Timothy Leary

But he couldn't help me either

 

They call me The Seeker

I've been searching low and high

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

 

People tend to hate me

'Cause I never smile

As I ransack their homes

They want to shake my hand

 

Focusing on nowhere

Investigating miles

I'm a seeker

I'm a really desperate man

 

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

 

I learned how to raise my voice in anger

Yeah, but look at my face, ain't this a smile?

I'm happy when life's good

And when it's bad I cry

I've got values but I don't know how or why

 

I'm looking for me

You're looking for you

We're looking in at other

And we don't know what to do

 

They call me The Seeker

I've been searching low and high

I won't get to get what I'm after

Till the day I die

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You guys get to listen to good stuff!

 

I normally listen to the 12 yr old in the back seat... her complaints of the next level 3 hill climb.

 

But it does have a nice murmer as it is muffled through the duct tape.

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I only take Scouts. Most of them carry their own duct tape. 1075388097325_wink.gif

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I remember the original music thread had some great suggestions...

 

Stand - R.E. M.

 

'Stand in the place where you live, then look north..."

 

Another good one, albeit obscure...

 

"Left of Center" - Suzanne Vega and Joe Jackson

 

I've burned a GeoCaching CD with my collection, and I don't remember if it has anything else that hasn't already been mentioned.

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Full lyrics to "Stand". Michael Stype must be one of those celebrity cachers mentioned in another thread...

 

(chorus)

Stand in the place where you live

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't

Now stand in the place where you work

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't before

 

If you are confused, check with the sun

Carry a compass to help you along

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around, so

 

(repeat chorus)

 

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling

Listen to reason

Season is calling

 

(repeat chorus)

 

If wishes were trees, the trees would be falling

Listen to reason

Reason is calling

Your feet are going to be on the ground

Your head is there to move you around

 

So stand (stand)

Now face North

Think about direction

Wonder why you haven't

Now stand (stand)

Now face West

Think about the place where you live

Wonder why you haven't

 

(repeat chorus)

 

Stand in the place where you are (now face North)

Stand in the place where you are (now face West)

Your feet are going to be on the ground (stand in the place where you are)

Your head is there to move you around, so stand

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I don't have particular geocaching music, the CDs in the car keep changing whenever me or my wife decide to bring some home and replacing them with some other ones. I think right now there is a Best of -collection of Cream, and several Pantera albums (been listening them a a lot since the unfortunate shooting of Dimebag Darrell :rolleyes:).

 

Other often-listened-in-car -bands are e.g. Type O Negative, Rammstein, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Rage against the Machine, Down, System of a Down, Therion, Sepultura, Slayer, Ensiferum, Finntroll, Children of Bodom, Frank Black etc.

 

Sometimes I turn on the radio, and connect a certain song to the place/moment of listening to it. I was driving towards this cache when they played 'Beautiful' by Christina Aguilera. I didn't know that song until then, and found the artist only later (and now the song belongs to my 'guilty pleasures' series, I like it a lot :D), but now every time I hear it, I connect it to that certain moment when driving on that wintery road.

 

Ooo...almost forgot: We're been listening lately quite a lot to certain easy-listening parodies of popular pop/rock/etc songs, mostly by Richard Cheese & Lounge against the Machine, who we found from the soundtrack of the movie Dawn of the Dead. Keeps us laughing, at least for a while. :D

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The Seeker by The Who.

They even have a song called Cache Cache! rockdevil.gif

 

And one of my favorite Geocaching songs:

Ghost of the Navigator by Iron Maiden. devilfinger.gif

I have sailed to many lands, now I make my final journey

On the bow I stand, west is where I go

Through the night I plough, still my heart, calculate and pray

As the compass swings, my will is strong, I will not be led astray

Mysteries of time clouds that hide the sun

But I know, but I know, but I know

 

I see the ghosts of navigators but they are lost

As they sail into the sunset they’ll count the cost

As their skeletons accusing emerge from the sea

The sirens of the rocks, they beckon me

 

Take my heart and set it free, carried forward by the waves

Nowhere left to run, navigator’s son,

Chasing rainbows all my days

...

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REM's Stand is a pretty good geocaching song lyric-wise, but I think the Apples in Stereo's Signal in the Sky might be the best I've seen:

 

 

Would you like to play a game of hide and seek now?

If you have X-ray eyes please promise no to peek now

Well first we count to ten, and then we'll have some fun now

Or will you fly away before we count one now?

 

Signal in the sky - oh

That's when you know that you have to fly - oh

Signal in the sky - oooooohhhhhhh!!!!

 

Let's go! You know you got a lot do, ooh

Let's go! And everything depends on you, oooh

 

Hey girls, hey girls, come out and play now!

Or do you have to hurry off and save the day now?

Can't you come over, watch a movie with your friends now?

Or will you fly away before we see the end now?

 

Signal in the sky - oh

That's when you know that you have to fly - oh

Signal in the sky - oooooohhhhhhh!!!!

 

Let's go! You know you got a lot do, ooh

Let's go! And everything depends on you, oooh

 

Power Super Super Power

 

Signal in the sky - oh

That's when you know that you have to fly - oh

Signal in the sky - oooooohhhhhhh!!!!

 

Let's go! You know you got a lot do, ooh

Let's go! And everything depends on you, oooh

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I had thought of using an MP3 player once but quickly decided listening to the natural sounds was better. If not that, then a good conversation with whomever I hike with.

Generally, this is my opinion while actually on the trail. However, I gots to have tunes in the car.

Roger that -

 

JEEP music:

 

King Crimson

Mastica

Project Z

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I had thought of using an MP3 player once but quickly decided listening to the natural sounds was better. If not that, then a good conversation with whomever I hike with.

Generally, this is my opinion while actually on the trail. However, I gots to have tunes in the car.

Roger that -

 

JEEP music:

 

King Crimson

Mastica

Project Z

Nothing wrong with that. Gotta be able to rock with your favorite tunes while driving.

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The Sounds of Silence (literally)

and occassionally good conversation. :huh::huh:

Generally the same thing here , except when in the car traveling from point a to point b , then it generally depends on my mood and that can vary from anything from hard rock to country.

 

Sometimes however when seeking out a cache a song or two may roll round my brain. Such as this one :

 

On the first part of the journey I was looking at all the life

There were plants and birds and rocks and things

There was sand and hills and rings

The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz

And the sky with no clouds

The heat was hot and the ground was dry

But the air was full of sound

 

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name

It felt good to be out of the rain

In the desert you can remember your name

'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

 

After two days in the desert sun my skin began to turn red

After three days in the desert fun I was looking at a river bed

And the story it told of a river that flowed

Made me sad to think it was dead

 

Repeat chorus

 

After nine days I let the horse run free 'cause the desert had turned to sea

There were plants and birds and rocks and things

There was sand and hills and rings

The ocean is a desert with it's life underground

And a perfect disguise above

Under the cities lies a heart made of ground

But the humans will give no love

 

You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name

It felt good to be out of the rain

In the desert you can remember your name

'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

 

America : Horse With No Name

 

I hope you all catch the revelance of this song ! :huh::huh:

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I highly recommend these great songs. Give 'em a listen.

 

Jethro and Vash at the Fair

 

Journey of Solitude

 

Prayer

 

Bonds of Sea and Fire

 

Chu Chu's Flight

 

Metal Gear May Cry

 

A Storm in the Desert

 

Braving Tal Tal Heights

 

Pirates of Dragon Roost Isle

 

Fear Not

 

Shepherd Won't Alone

 

Ascention to Cosmo Canyon

 

I have chosen these songs not so much for their lyrics (considering none of them have lyrics), but for the music. These songs emit a sort of "epicness" befitting a cache hunt.

 

They're all remixed video game music from two of my favorite websites, Overclocked Remix and VGMix.

 

Oh, and don't worry about the legality of downloading any of these, they're all prefectly legal, they were made to be downloaded.

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