What tunes for hillwalking?

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25/08/2004 at 14:45
Now we can get a rucksac with speakers attached to the straps, what tunes should we be playing for the enjoyment of our companions in the outdoors?

My personal choices: thrash metal, Vaughan Williams, Rolf Harris and Barry White.
25/08/2004 at 16:36
I always sing "The Bear went over the mountain" Strange looks on Tryfan
25/08/2004 at 16:39
I tempted to make comments about the model in the picture - but then she looks like my gf anyway.

I'd be really interested in how they waterproof the speakers.
25/08/2004 at 17:41
Forget the tunes, the model in the pictures has just become Ms Right Now!!!


<I hope Kate never ever ever reads this, else I'm dead>
25/08/2004 at 18:35
Oh for Gauds sake, to get away from this nonsense is why some of us go into the hills in the first place!!


(The music that is!!)

:-((
25/08/2004 at 18:57
Is that why I got the funny looks
25/08/2004 at 19:15
It looks like she's got the speakers stuffed up her shirt...

...the wrong way around.
25/08/2004 at 19:43
How about "Ramblin' Man" by Lemonjelly?

Good song that one.
25/08/2004 at 20:39
Fal der reee
Fal der rahhhh
Fal der reee
Falder rah ah ah ah ah ah ah ahhhhhhh
25/08/2004 at 20:54
Stairway to Heaven on Tryfan
Many Rivers To Cross in Nepal
Red Red Wine in Wasdale (In memory of OM meet)
anything except Brown Girl In the Ring in the Andes
I'm on Fire on Etna
Here comes the rain again in Wales
Climbing the wall on Pavey Ark
25/08/2004 at 21:17
Please nobody say run to the hills
25/08/2004 at 21:56
And PLEASE - not Climb every mountain!!!!!
25/08/2004 at 22:04
Monty Pythons

Im a lumberjack-guaranteed funny stares

or

Sit on my face and tell me that you love me-also by the Pythons-more funny stares

(dont sing em really)

but cant get Kenya out of my head after visiting www.weebls.com
25/08/2004 at 22:06
I don't think the speakers are big enough, but my personal choices would be the World Party version of Ship of Fools played loudly and repeatedly and Jehovakill by Julian Cope plus the Teardrop Expplodes, Strange House In The Snow for sheer discordant tunelessness. Finish off with a jolly sing song round the camp fire to Pornography by The Cure.

I liked the idea of the soundtrack from the sound of music. If you're walking with Joe Simpson then Brown Girl In The Ring is probably one to avoid.

OutdoorsMagic Editor | jon@outdoorsmagic.com 

25/08/2004 at 22:07
No body gonna breaka my stride, no body gonna slow me down, oh no Ive got to keep on mooving.
25/08/2004 at 22:10
How about Walking on the Moon by the Police for Kinder and or Bleaklow?
26/08/2004 at 09:08
A traditional lament of the Lyke Wake Walker( to the tune of -When this bl**dy war is over)

When this bl**dy walk is over,
Oh how happy I will be.
No more endless miles of heather,
No more trudging to the sea.
No more rising in the morning,
When the world is still asleep.
To the calling of the curlew,
And the bleating of the sheep.

Let me linger in the Lion,
That's the only place for me.
Let me drink away my sorrows.
Not quite half way to the sea.
26/08/2004 at 09:30
How about Peny(fan) Lane
26/08/2004 at 10:27
Running up that Hill- Kate Bush, the anthem for the Bob Graham
26/08/2004 at 10:36
These boots are made for walking - Nancy Sinatra
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