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There's a girl in the car in the parking lot, she says, "Man you should try and take a shot, can't you see my walls are crumbling down" She looks up at the building and says "Hey, I'm thinking of Jumping, I'm sick and tired of life" well everybody's tired or something, 'round here.. -Counting Crows. Thats the song that goes through my head whenever I get on airy leads. Course, I try to sketch my belay and say "I'mmm think of jumping!!" Oh the looks I get from ppl who haven't belayed me before. Another one is when I'm Onsighting. I climb up and clip the first bolt and religiously say "I hope that was the crux ;)"
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I find that "Climbing Up the Walls" by Radiohead gets my mind pretty focused. It's kind of a scary song, so to speak.
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Pretty much whatever song was on the radio when we parked the car. Or, if someone says a word and it reminds me of a song, or if I hear just about anything that reminds me of a song. There's always some sort of music running through my head.
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texasclimbers
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Eye of the Tiger! :D
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Usually Master of Puppets or Unforgiven II. Hey what can I say. I like Metallica :D
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"Here comes reality. Oops there goes gravity!" - "Lose Yourself" by Eminem. And after a body slam lead fall I return to the car, turn on the radio and hear Johnny Cash do a cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails. How appropriate.
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climbergirl15
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It ususally the last song I hear when I get out of the car. For some reason however I can never remember the whole song no matter what it is. So I always get one part stuck in my head.
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clymber
Mar 5, 2003, 3:02 PM
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I seem to climb the hardest routes while singing Freefalling by Tom Petty
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esskay33
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"My name is tree top, and I'm higher than you'll ever be" Wide spread Panic
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josephine
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No song in my head when i climb i just let my mind think[yeah,sometimes i do that :mrgreen: ] about my next moves...I have nothing else in my mind,that moment i forget everything!
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mackavus
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"Hang on to this" by Days of the New... I hear this Im my head everytime I am on something hard... Later on! Chris
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Always something different. On my most recent epic (obviously I did survive) it was: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/clipserve/B000002LPP001003/0/002-0588271-7479234 [edit - clicking onto this link doesn't seem to work, so you have to copy and paste the URL into a new window to listen to the song] While you listen, imagine the sun has just set, the rain clouds are moving in, the protection is all lousy, you're still a full pitch from the topout, and the wind is whipping through your measly unprepared clothes. Isn't climbing fun! GO
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Mar 5, 2003, 4:43 PM
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The "MACARENA".... 8)
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"...I'm free to do whatever, whatever i choose and i'll sing the blues if i want to..." whatever, Oasis. and usually i whistle the strings of the song. 8)
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I USUALLY don't have music in my head when I climb, although, lately the song "I'm bouncin' off the walls again" by SugarCult seems to pop in there every now and then. What I USUALLY have in my head when I'm trying to block out everything else and get motivated (especially on the Crux moves).....the entire first half of "Full Metal Jacket". Everything that Gunnery Sergeant Hartman says. I have it memorized and it keeps me motivated and focused. I have a mix song, it's Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" mixed with Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Private Pyle that fills in for music. Hoorah! Semper Fi "God has a hard-on for Marines.....because we KILL.....everything we see. He plays His games, we play ours. To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps!" Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
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There's that really annoying commericial for a drug to aid in Overactive Bladder...it has a jingle "Gotta Go Gotta Go Gotta Go Gotta Go Gotta Go Gotta Go" It just keeps going over and over in my head. Then I think about what it's advertising and find that I have to go to the bathroom :shock: ...it's all about the madness in my head. :lol:
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cracklover
Mar 5, 2003, 5:30 PM
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Gretchino - that's funny! GO
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When I am on a good hand crack "Jamming" by Bob Marley usually pops into my head.
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Mine is self-torture. Often, it is G-N-R. Sometimes Barry Manilow. Othertimes, it's Tool. I hate Barry Manilow....
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'i think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so'
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jumaringjeff - You do know what that song is about don't you? Anyhow, it is normally the song I last heard in the car as I step out or when some evil person comes along and says I just cannot get this tune out of my head and starts to sing annoying commerical or jingle or song and then you cannot get it out of your head... DAMN THESE PEOPLE... eg, I had the theme music for circus going around my head for a whole day of climbing... Oh well.... nevermind.....
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Mar 6, 2003, 12:48 AM
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I'm a wimpy weak climbing newbie. I'm to busy holding on to listen to music!
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"Where is my mind?" - Pixies!!!!!! No, really... no music in my head... just the next move.
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Coldplay...was in my car's cd player and in my head while climbing JT all weekend. Rush of blood to the head.
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salathiel
Mar 6, 2003, 4:06 AM
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Almost the entire Ill Communication album by the Beasties Boys "Because you can't you won't and you don't stop." Blur
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Mar 6, 2003, 4:51 AM
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"Jah Jah City" by Capleton (it's on the Dosage video, during the Unfinished Business segment) pops into my head now and then.. marley too i'd say.
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ike i was just thinking the exact same thing, even before i saw your post. i actually watched dosage before i climbed today and was singing it all day just thinking about how much harder i could be climbing. that song is amazing.
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any thing by the Union Underground or Soilwork. once i had a song bu Weird Al in my head and started singing out loud it freaked the belayer out :lol:
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I got this one from my belayer last week...after clipping the first bolt..."cait's not going to hit the deck, hoorah, hoorah..." :lol:
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Mar 6, 2003, 5:24 AM
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i don't listen to music cause i am deaf. however, i have been taught of this one song. called faith, sang by this guy named michale something. it's the word faith faith faith that kind of helps me on the hardest part of the climbs. climb on
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Mar 6, 2003, 5:29 AM
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'Hang on to this' by Days of the New is one song I that I think of, another major one is 'Bullets' by Creed, aswell as Godsmack, 'Sick of Life.'
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"RUN LIKE AND ANTELOPE, out of control give yourself a high gear shift for your soul." I pulled my first really hard trad climb humming this song now its a habit :roll:
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Mar 6, 2003, 1:58 PM
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Normally no songs until a particular member of my climbing group's phone rings, and then "It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights. It's time to meet the muppets on the muppet show tonight." AND IT DRIVES ME ****ING NUTS! :evil: AND I CAN'T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD........... oh now it's in my head again :(
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Steve Kimock band all the way! As most of their songs that i've heard are 20 minute jams, its not hard to get the main theme of the song stuck in your head, but if it is, you wont be complaining. Look them up: http://www.kimock.com/ Also phish seems to get stuck in my head a lot.
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definetly Ice Ice Baby but seriously though, probably something by Coldplay
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"I....I feel so alive...for the very first time...." - POD I have that song going through my mind alot when I'm climbing. There are occassionally others but that one really seems to stick with me.
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"I'm gonna be ion like a lion in zion"~Bob Marley goes through my head alot of the time. If not that, sometimes it is "Betterman" by Pearl Jam.
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I hear whatever was the last few songs on the radio. EXCEPT, you kow that part in the climb when you are totally exhausted, your muscles are shaking and the next move is the "monkey" power move? The kind where, if you listen to the muscles in your arms they are saying, yeah freakin right am I going to pull this! I force myself to start singing BLACK SABATH songs right then--> a lilttle Iron Man!. They tend to get my adrenalin going enough to get me through that move K
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anything! TOOL, NIN, Rusted Root, Zeppelin, Massive Attack, Relient K...even improv techno beats :P
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I always had "Monkey Man" by the Stones going thru my head while cragging! "I'm a Monkey, Yeah!" or "I am just a Monkey Man and I hope you are a Monkey Woman too!" :D
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Barefoot Nellie - My dad used to sing it to me when I was little; Its bluegrass, and I always think of it for some reason. -R. 8) "Nellie put on her Sundy dress, Hopin' she would look her best. Made out of an old feed sack, Hog Feet wrote right on the back. Hey barefoot nellie, ho barefoot nellie, Hey barefoot nellie, you're the one for me.
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Elvis sometimes. When I get the Elvis shake. And then I have to muckle up and count to myself.... It's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, Now GO CAT GO!
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Zepplin goes with climbing like Beer goes with pizza (yeah, I'm no sophisticate). I always seem to think of "Black Dog". Or possibly Nirvana's "All Apologies"
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There's one that always pops in when I'm scared on a FA, hanging from a hook at Owens or drilling a 1/4" from stance - Weird Al's "Dare to be Stupid" - especially one little part - ... Bite off more than you can chew, What can you do? Dare to be stupid! Another part is perfect to help answer the ever-present question "What the f___ am I doing on this climb?": Settle down raise a family join the PTA Buy some sensible shoes and a Chevrolet Then party 'til you're broke and they drive you away It's OK, you can dare to be stupid!
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I would stand in line for this It's always good in life for this "Extreme Ways" by Moby
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"The kids aren't allright" The Offspring :twisted:
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id say about 70% i beat box as i climb it keeps me calm and focused but my belayer hates it (this is all indoor still) im soooooo ready to try some good real stuff to see how i do. any way i like beatboxing or i have afternoons and coffeespoons by crash test dummies goin in my head
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it's a small world after all... eee, that would really suck. oh crap, i shouldn't have said that. now i'm gonna think of that next time i climb. shoot...that's really gonna mess me up. :x i think ratm is good to get you psyched.
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I had Green Day's "Stuart and the Avenue" in my head all day Sunday climbing at NJC. Destiny is dead In the hands of back luck Before it might have made some sense But now it's all f*'ed up.
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Rock Lobster (while climbing in Indian Creek)
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I've had that 50 cent song stuck in my head all week, climbing or not. 8)
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Many people get annoyed with me 'cause I always seem to get the most annoying or stupid songs in my head. And of course I have to share my misery!!!! :roll:
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Spiderman, Spiderman does whatever a spider can. I sing Spiderman theme song. Sorry, but it's true.
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I didn't realize this was such a widespread thing. Happens to me too! Mostly when I get nervous. But then all the songs that come to mind are french, so I'll spare you the details!
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This is an easy one, Anyone remember the Jerry Sienfield comedy Cd, "I'm telling you for the last time?" Here's the song: "don't die don't die don't die don't die, there's a rock there's a fish who cares don't die. I don't wanna die, just let me breathe and live, cause living is good and dying, not as good" Listen to cd, it's hilarious, the song will stick in your head forever, and it's such a funny song to sing while your hanging by an 11mm thread over jagged rock. :lol:
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Id prob. go with Crazy Game Of Poker/revolution by OAR...when not that, then prob the Casualties or some hardcore punk song that has no audible lyrics
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I would like to think that the song that opens the movie "The goonies"...by cyndi lauper comes to.... however..... remembering a song that i know and feel would defeat my purpose in climbing. instead i try to make my own song, everytime a new beat ... rhythm.....melody
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"boom! here comes the boom! ready or not, here come the boys from the south..." -pod, or "i wanna find my baby, whoo, before that sun goes down..."- moby or "hangin by a moment here with you..."-lifehouse
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excuse the spelling i like this one................ and you open the door and you step inside were, inside our hearts now imagine your pain is a white ball of healling light thats right your pain, the pain itself, is a white ball of healling light i dont think so this is your life good to the last drop, it doesnt get any better than this this is your life, and its ending one minute at a time this isnt a seminar this isnt a weekend retreat were you are now you cant imagine what the bottom will be like only after disaster can we be resurected its only after youve lost everything that your free to do anything nuthing is static everything is apauling, everything is falling apart this is your life this is your life this is your life this is your life it doesent get any better than this this is your life this is your life this is your life this is your life and it and its ending one minute at a time you are not a beutiful and uniq snowflake you are the same decaying organic matter as everything else we are all a part of the same compost heap we are the all singing all dancing crap of the world you are not your bank account you are not the clothes you wear you are not the contents of your wallet you are not your bowal cancer you are not your grande latea you are not the car you drive you are not your fucking kakis you have to give up you have to give up you have to realize that someday you will die until you know that you are useless I say let me never be complete I say may i never be content I say deliver me from sweadish furniture I say deliver me from clever art I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teath I say you have to give up I say evolve and let the chips fall were they may this is your life this is your life this is your life this is your life it doesent get any better than this this is your life this is your life this is your life this is your life and it and its ending one minute at a time you have to give up you have to give up I want you to hit me as hard as you can I want you to hit me as hard as you can welcome to fight club if this is your first night you have to fight
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The Eagles, and that was a crazy game of poker
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Fogma, Grove Armada. I can't get that song out of my head! Ertenally Hard by Bitch and Animal is another one that sticks.
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Usually whatever was playing last in the car. But at the gym, they play a mix of pop/rock CDs so I'll just sing along to them, if I even hear them. 8)
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When i'm bouldering--'Just One Fix' -ministry Often i hear jazz lines when i'm leading, or the wind, scrape and twang, then the Blues :wink: -p
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like many, usually the last song I hear before I get out of the car. Last week one of my climbing partners got stuck with "She F***ing Hates Me" and was singing it all the way up each wall. Made for an amusing day.
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