Cave diving music

[MORGAN]

Some years ago, while decompressing in a neighborhood watering hole after a tough shift, a group of our ER staff came up with a list of "ER music" - pieces that had some particular relevance to the ER.

Tracy & I were thinking of cave diving music - music that made us think of cave diving, music that plays in our heads during dives, or music whose title, lyrics, or history made some connection (however tenuous) with cave diving.

Our list so far: (in no particular order)

- Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper

- Devo - Whip It

- Enya - A Day Without Rain (the whole album)

- Beethoven - Ninth Symphony

- Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla (especially on the way to Madison)

- Pachelbel - Canon in D (in specific the Philharmonia Virtuosi of
New York "Greatest Hits of 1720" version)

- Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line



I'd be interested to see what anybody else thinks should be on the "Cave Diving Greatest Hits" playlist...


Mike

- Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper

That's all right, but it needs more cowbell.

[cavediver256]

Metallica - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Accept - "Balls to the Wall"
Joe Satriani - Any of his songs will do

Just a few that come to mind and they are loaded into the Iriver MP3 :-D

[JE]

S.O.S.....Rihanna
London-London........Fergie
Fergalicious.........Fergie
'The Wall'.........Pink Flloyd
Turn it up.......Paris Hilton
All of Sade's hits-!
All of the 'Mac' tribe

& more-!

[akcaver]

I have Dio- "Holy Diver" and "Under the sea" from the littler mermaid on my playlist...

[aquanut...]

Ted Nugent-Strangle hold

[jmaddox]

The Hollies - Air That I Breathe

um...
David Bowie -under pressure - I mean come on....

cant forget Ice Cube - White Cave B!%#*

Seriously though. This is something that I think about quite abit. I have a friend of mine thats a pro musician and a diver. we have been kicking around some ideas about what makes a good cave diving score. so many times you see great footage with really crappy music behind it. totally kills it for me. we are planning on doing a score sometime, but we need some footage to go with it. :D sorry to hijack

some of my old college dry caving on acid favorites are Ozric tentacles, hawk wind, funk a dellic, anything w/ bucket head, praxis and the list goes on...

needless to say ive calmed down a bit since and so has my taste in tunes. some of the Gorillas stuff is pretty good as is the new Robert Randolph, Thievery Corporation, Bonobo, Buena Vista Social Club, maybe some good reggae like Burning Spear, Isrial Vibration, Alpha Blondie

check it out.

--jm

[Wizard]

Any Pink Floyd, Metallica-Enter Sandman, some Nirvana, and of course Wagner. (As seen on TV in Apocalypse Now!) :-D

[kuster500]

I'd say pretty much whatever Jean is singing

[MORGAN]

I'd say pretty much whatever Jean is singing

Agreed! She sang us in and out of Madison and Manatee last month.
Too bad she doesn't have an album out yet. :D

Mike

[Kelly Jessop]

"Love is like Oxygen" by Sweet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP7TAEGkI0E

[aainslie]

A friend of mine put this video together - I've always thought the music was just perfect.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5853156708234966096

"In over my head" by the Frays

[rlc5925]

Slüdge
You got it It all needs more cow bell

[FW]

"Aqualung" - Jethro Tull :-)

The NSS ("dry" section) has a Cave Ballad contest every year. Maybe we need to do the same thing for cave diving.

Squirrel Girl? :twisted:

[Squirrel Girl]

"Aqualung" :-)

The NSS ("dry" section) has a Cave Ballad contest every year. Maybe we need to do the same thing for cave diving.

Squirrel Girl? :twisted:
Hey Forrest (and everyone). I haven't visited CDF lately, so I'm chiming in late here.

The only dedicated cave diving music I'm aware of is:
More people have been to the moon (http://www.musicave.co.uk/)

but it's from the UK, and not so easy to acquire over here. Speleobooks sometimes carries the CD. I haven't listened to it lately, but I think it doesn't have words.

And YES, there's the NSS Cave Ballads Salon (http://www.caves.org/committee/salons/ballads/Cave%20Ballad.shtml). I've been trying to get cave divers to submit their entries, but no luck yet. I met a new cave diver a month or two ago, who is a semi-professional musician and I was trying to get him to come up with an entry. Thanks for giving me a place to plead for people to submit their compositions!

[ajimmythekid]

Van Halen "Right Now"

[mfascuba]

Tool, "Sober"....

Really, it depends on the mood at the time.

[jmaddox]

very nice Kelly. Hell yeah!

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the 70s rock band with the best name in history - at least to cave divers. Hint: think WAY south of us.

On another note, several years ago my dive buddy had a DVD of some reef project somewhere near Fiji. There was a section near an island where there was something like an eight-knot current. It showed them FLYING over the reef, and the background music was CSN's "Marrakesh Express." At that time Jackson Blue's flow was killer. Whenever we were drifting out (this was before we had scooters), whenever we got to the p900' section, before the second breakdown, we would zoom through that flat section, and "Marrakesh Express" would be going through both of our minds.

Somebody, tell me what band I was referring to in the first paragraph.

[Bill Rotella]

The Eternal Student is my Choice..............................sigh.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

[Mike Edmonston]

Anything from Transiberean Orchestra, and I'm psyched to go caving...

[Kelly Jessop]

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the 70s rock band with the best name in history - at least to cave divers. Hint: think WAY south of us.

.

Wet Willy????

[phreaticus]

Talking Heads...."Life During War Time"...."Heard of a van, loaded with weapons, packed up and ready to go.....this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around".....

AND, the ultimate cave diving music..."Once in a Lifetime"...

"Letting the days go by, water flowing underground....under the rocks and stones....same as it ever was....water dissolving, and water removing".....I think David Byrne was channeling underwater speleology when he wrote that one...lol!

Wet Willy????

Several thousand miles farther south than that.

[skip]

The best cave diving music is none at all. Recorded music is the worst thing that civilized man ever invented. It blares at us all day from everywhere in a constant harrassment. I don't own music or music-making machinery and never will. I once dove with a guy with a new u/w mp3 player and was blasted with his version of "good music" the whole dive. the worst dive ever and needless to say, never been diving with him again.

I can see the day when the caves will be full of the cacophony of mismatched mp3's and those of us looking for escape from the trials of the day, the peace of the cave, the surrendering to calm clear water, will be blasted back to office cubicles, elevator music, and teen son's and daughter's screeches and booms. Is nowhere sacred anymore?

They can ban scooters, can they ban mp3's?

-skip

[MORGAN]

The best cave diving music is none at all. Recorded music is the worst thing that civilized man ever invented.

I quite agree with you about music while diving. I very much enjoy music, but not as background noise. When I listen to music, I listen to music. I don't accompany all of my other activities with it. When I am diving, (or skiing, or hunting, or canoeing, or reading, or whatever) I enjoy the quiet. I find the current "music everywhere all the time" thing very annoying. I can't imagine diving with an MP3. I do sometimes find music playing in my head during dives, but it doesn't involve wearing a machine of any kind. It's more like an auditory hallucination! :D

I do like recorded music when I'm in the mood to listen, but my most-used musical device is my fiddle. My 89 year old fiddle teacher says, "Live music is the only real music. There's something about recording music that kind of strains some of the goodness out of it. Recorded music isn't the real music just like a picture of a person isn't the real person."

Mike

[FW]

his version of "good music"
That is the biggest problem, very few people can agree on what is "good music". What is "good" to one person may just be raucous noise to another.

I hate to hear music coming from someone else's car, much less an UW MP3 player, especially at a dive site :cry:

[MORGAN]

very few people can agree on what is "good music".

Very true...however, most people who have heard my fiddle playing can agree...that it ain't too good! :D

Hence I try not to inflict it on others uninvited, unlike the people who drive around with their windows down and stereo cranked so loud that small animals are dropping dead in a 50 foot radius from the car.

Mike

[WEPIV]

Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and don't forget about some classic jazz music...

[skip]

I think I've watched too many cave diving videos....I can't go into the eye or ear without hearing this strange new age soft rock techno pop music and haunting soprano voice singing words I can't understand.....

-skip

[MORGAN]

Yeah - I've got some of those same videos. The mute button gets rid of the music soundtrack, but also the sounds of bubbles, etc. that I like. Maybe I need to record Jean singing through her reg and dub it onto all my diving videos! :-D

Mike

[JE]

'Bad-Bad Girls'........Donna Summers
'Rising Sun'.........Emerson-Lake & Palmer
Any & all of Olivia Newton Jon

& 'The Beat goes on'-!

[Wizard]

Speaking of ELP, Peter Gunn off the Live album is great scooter music.

And some Frampton Comes Alive would work as well.

Never saw any cave videos with Toby or Reba, thank goodness. :-D

[rainbowbrite0884]

Wet Willy????

Several thousand miles farther south than that.

is it Air Supply?

they were from Australia that is way south

is it Air Supply?

That's not the one I had in mind, but I like your thinking.

You have the right country. Now think about Branford, Fla.

[cavediver256]

is it Air Supply?

That's not the one I had in mind, but I like your thinking.

You have the right country. Now think about Branford, Fla.

Men at Work????

Men at work? In Branford? :twisted:

[MK7]

The Little River Band. :D

[amphipod06]

Bent, Matchbox 20
Rockaria, ELO
second David Bowie's Under Pressure

And a whole bunch more....

Dive safe,

Celia

[stairman]

Incubus[wish you were here/hoobastank[crawling in the dark/Tool[parabola]Van Halan[diver down]Frank Zappa[baby snakes]Hey Kelly I always thought [oxygen]was by ELO,Maybe thats why its not on the greatest hits album.Dahhhhh..

[sskasser]

Marc Broussard - Home
Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the Day
Sinatra
NIN
Buck Cherry
Van Halen - Running with the Devil
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio

[Al]

Pink Floyd

Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground

[Daedalus]

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w)

[tomhauburn]

Magic Carpet Ride

For a scooter ride or video of a ride if you like music!

[turtle]

I enjoy Depeche Mode-Personal Jesus.
I used it on one of my videos.

As for the MP3 I can take it or leave it. But sometimes during Deco you need a little bit more entertainment than the sound of breathing and playing Rock Paper Scissors.

[wingman]

And some of my favorites, anything by the

Sierra, Tango, Romeo, Oscar, Kilo, Echo, Sierras

http://www.thestrokes.com/

and Pink Floyd, epecially Wish You Were Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXCHa9BYfE

and Comfortably Numb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY&feature=related

Just about anything by Coldplay, some Moby, and the Hives works as well.

I also like just about anything by Neil Young (for sure Southern Man and Hey Hey My My, Out of the Blue and into the Black).

also I now only use my uw mp3 when solo....

[OFG-1]

I tend to think of Gilbert and Sullivan:


"I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse"

I tend to think of Gilbert and Sullivan:

You DB, that song is going to be stuck in my mind all weekend. :evil:

[OFG-1]

I tend to think of Gilbert and Sullivan:

You DB, that song is going to be stuck in my mind all weekend. :evil:

Well, at least I didn't go straight for Mikado


"Three little maids from school are we
Pert as a school-girl well can be
Filled to the brim with girlish glee
Three little maids from school

Everything is a source of fun
Nobody's safe, for we care for none
Life is a joke that's just begun
Three little maids from school "

[grim reefer]

My MP3 is loaded up with Slightly Stoopid.

[MORGAN]

I tend to think of Gilbert and Sullivan.

OFG-1 - Sludge beat me to it - I was just about to remonstrate with you for putting that song in my head! G&S has a way of getting stuck and going around and around and around.....

So here's one for you:

"How beautifully blue the sky
The glass is rising very high
Continue fine I hope it may
And yet it rained but yesterday"

Mike

PS - for those unacquainted with "The Pirates Of Penzance" - imagine a gaggle of silly girls singing this repeatedly in a shrill and manic soprano :twisted:

[jeandiver]

I'd say pretty much whatever Jean is singing

Agreed! She sang us in and out of Madison and Manatee last month.
Too bad she doesn't have an album out yet. :D

Mike
Hmmm....
Maybe Scott can help me record one :-D
One reason why I keep on singing now is so my buddie(s) know where I am without searching for my light. If I am singing , no worries. :D
However , my tune selection is NO WHERE NEAR the above music everyone has mentioned.

Jeano Beano

[MORGAN]

I can't believe that nobody has mentioned the 70s rock band with the best name in history - at least to cave divers. Hint: think WAY south of us.

Somebody, tell me what band I was referring to in the first paragraph.

OK, Sludge, I give up. Tell us!

Mike

MK7 already named them. The Little River Band.