{"id":144,"date":"2009-04-17T19:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appalachia.matthewmosher.us\/?p=144"},"modified":"2009-04-17T19:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T00:45:40","slug":"songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/thoughts\/songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs 399.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hard to be on the trail and not have a song going in your head.\u00a0 I think the natural rhythm of walking has a lot to do with it.\u00a0 The songs that loop in my head change from day to day, and even multiple times a day, but when I was starting out these ones would get stuck quite often:<\/p>\n

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  1. House of the Rising Sun – The Animals<\/li>\n
  2. Walk of Life – Dire Straits<\/li>\n
  3. Planet of New Orleans – Dire Straits<\/li>\n
  4. City of New Orleans – Arlo Guthrie<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You can see that leaving New Orleans probably had some sway over my audio selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    Other things I’ve noticed are that ZZ Top only works when you’re going down hill cause it’s so fast, where as things like Joanna Newsom and other folk songs work better going up hill cause they are too slow.\u00a0 I was listening to my iPod for the second time so far today and realized that Man-O-War makes excellent hiking songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    But a lot of the time you get songs that you don’t really like, or haven’t heard in years.\u00a0 For instance, yesterday was full of Hootie and the Blowfish…\u00a0 A few days ago it was Barbie Girl by Aqua…\u00a0 And when the sun broke after all that rain it was Pepper by the Butthole Surfers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    The trail also gives you a lot of time to think about the songs, and you start to realize things, like how aweful a song Whatever You Like by TI is for society,\u00a0and how positive\u00a0The Way I Are by Timberland is.<\/p>\n

    So yeah, music is great.\u00a0 It helps pass the time.\u00a0 I’ve even lost enough of my sanity to start singing these songs aloud as I’m hiking, which helps ward off bears, and other hikers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s hard to be on the trail and not have a song going in your head.\u00a0 I think the natural rhythm of walking has a lot to do with it.\u00a0 The songs that loop in my head change from day to day, and even multiple times a day, but when I was starting out these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.matthewmosher.com\/appalachia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}