Camping music

I love music and couldnt imagine a world without it quite frankly. Anywho i always bring my ipod with me be it car camping, backpacking, anything my pod is guranteed to be there with me. This past year i have been practicing guitar so this summer i might just take it with me camping. Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse, is my main influence for practicing guitar amazing artist amazing band. I usually listen to Modest Mouse, Blue Sky Black Death, Emancipator, The Antlers, some of Grizzly Bear, Pinback etc a little sum up , and almost forgot Explosions In The Sky
 
abstractreality said:
Modest mouse isaac is my main influence for practicing guitar amazing artist amazing band.
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Agreed 100%. I don't know why more outdoorsy people don't like them. They're very diverse in their approach to music with some songs that are really fast and rocking and some that are very slow and chill. Any band that can add a little banjo to their music is campy in my opinion.
 
Tyler said:
Agreed 100%. I don't know why more outdoorsy people don't like them. They're very diverse in their approach to music with some songs that are really fast and rocking and some that are very slow and chill. Any band that can add a little banjo to their music is campy in my opinion.
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Haha for sure, there very underrated, he writes some really heartfelt and emotionally poetics ever written to tape.
 
Hey I like me some Modest Mouse! Not as much of it as a true fun but still! abstractreality, props on doing the guitar thing. I went camping with wanderinfinn and his brother, Thor, last fall and his bro could play guitar and sing for us for hours around the fire. It was seriously awesome!
 
ibenick said:
Hey I like me some Modest Mouse! Not as much of it as a true fun but still! abstractreality, props on doing the guitar thing. I went camping with wanderinfinn and his brother, Thor, last fall and his bro could play guitar and sing for us for hours around the fire. It was seriously awesome!
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That was a good time! I'll have to bring him on more trips this year.
 
My camping playlist is mostly

Govt Mule
Widespread
Uncle Tupelo
Son Volt
Allman Bros.
Drive By Truckers
Lucero
Yonder Mountain String Band
 
i haven't used my ipod outside of my car since i left chicago in 2007.
there, i'd religiously be wearing headphones on my long walk home from work.
out here in the desert, i prefer to listen to the land & life around me.
 
Last time I went camping, I fell in love with Humbug Mountain Song by the Fruit Bats. Look it up...cheesy video, great camping song.
 
While actually on the trail, I would never really consider headphones or a speaker or even listening to something other than nature. With my luck, I would miss the sounds of whatever I should be avoiding or being careful around. If I am on a tough trail or one that I need to focus on I just think the music would also distract me. I can say though once I have made camp, I do occasionally like to listen to some chill music for a short while to relax, but it is not very often.
 
I don't listen to anything except crickets and the occasional banjo music when I'm camped in the swamps...:help:
 
I do not listen to music on trail or during the day. I too prefer the natural silence that we all seek out there. By the fire at night, or in the tent during a rain storm does not bother me. It really is a great thing to have at night when solo. Worried about bears? Just upload some Slayer to your device. :D

Here is what is on my play list for backpacking:

Pink Floyd- (1967-2014)
Bob Marley
Iron & Wine
The Devil Makes Three
Thievery Corporation
Hillstomp
Zeppelin
The Doors
Brown Bird
Massive Attack
Soundgarden
Green River
Alice In Chains
Bod Dylan- Desire
Grateful Dead
Ben Harper
Dj Shadow
Temple Of The Dog
Poor Mans Poison
Slightly Stoopid
John Browns Body
Hendrix

Happy Camping!
 
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I used to never listen to music on the trail and used to scoff at the idea. Then I tried it a few years ago, listened to some trampled by turtles while doing a day hike and I fell in love with the experience. Depending on the music it can really elevate the experience in my mind. That said I don't do it all the time, maybe about 25% of my time hiking I have music going. I think it depends on the music, your mood at the time, and the particular hike. I will also put on some music when the hiking turns into a death march, this usually happen on long hike out of the mountains when you are just ready to get back to the car and the fun is over.

As far as what kind of music, I prefer bluegrass, folk, and classical while I am in the outdoors.
 
I don't listen to music either when on the trail. I do sing a lot in my head, especially on the long slogs. I usually end up trying to remember words of the song and spend inordinate amounts of time doing that. I have camped with folks who bring music and the right music at the right (lack of) volume is relaxing indeed.
 
Only on rare occasions so I listen to music while hiking.

Considering myself a child of the 80's that's what I listen to.

I will NOT continue to listen to music while hiking based on
my last experience with it.

So I've been hiking in the foothills above Pleasant Grove & Lindon
with a full pack to get ready for a big trip this summer.

I was at the top of Dry Canyon about to take the fork back to
Battlecreek Canyon when I had a little run-in with a guy on a bike.

Apparently, he'd been yelling at me but I couldn't hear him because of

It went something like this

I've learned my lesson.
 
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Sometime I do listen to music when I am hiking on local trails for training/to try and stay in shape. This is what my playlist looks like right now and I'm sure these are all of your favorite bands ;)

Bring Me The Horizon
The Amity Affliction
Rise Against
Dangerkids
I Prevail
Fire From The Gods
Buried In Verona
In Hearts Wake
While She Sleeps
DED
From Ashes To New
Motionless In White
The Family Ruin
We Came As Romans
Thousand Below
Beartooth
DIVISIONS
Of Mice & Men
Sylar
Parkway Drive
For The Fallen Dreams
 
Add me to the no music/enjoy sounds of nature column for all outdoor activities (hiking, camping, backpacking, cycling etc.).

Also add me to the audio book while driving to the TH column.
 
I had one of the original Walkmans, the one that sounded like an expensive stereo when firing up with that poof sound. Before that we had transistor radios. Now it’s an iPhone and Bluetooth headset or speakers with downloaded music from Music Unlimited.Modest Mouse is streaming right now as I dictate this, trying it from all the recommendations in this thread. LOL

Being a literature junkie mostly a wide variety of classical is my music of choice but some pounding Doors rhythms might happen off trail hiking, mostly some soft, beautiful adagios in camp. Been doing that for decades, sometimes but not all the time.
 
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