Favorite Song - Just for fun...
ForeverSwim
Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaCharter Member
What's your favorite song which motivates you while swimming?
Also, which song have you had stuck in your head while swimming that you could not stop repeating in your head?
Favorite Song: 'Forever' - Dropkick Murphys
I could not get 'Church on Sunday' by Green Day out of my head during the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in 2010 - great song, and I enjoy normally, but it drove me nuts as I felt I sang it for 6-hours, ha!
Also, which song have you had stuck in your head while swimming that you could not stop repeating in your head?
Favorite Song: 'Forever' - Dropkick Murphys
I could not get 'Church on Sunday' by Green Day out of my head during the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in 2010 - great song, and I enjoy normally, but it drove me nuts as I felt I sang it for 6-hours, ha!
www.darren-miller.com
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.
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Comfortably Numb had a soothing effect on me last year during a panicky situation (the 1650 in the pool).
"I never met a shark I didn't like"
We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams
-LBJ
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” - Oscar Wilde
And more recently some One Direction songs. What can I say, I like my boy bands both young and old
But then there's my recurrent ear worm song of the moment that I can't shake off - tragically, the elephant marching song from the Jungle Book.
Corrs vs elephants.... "Oh we march from here to there, and it doesn't matter where..."
Here are the only lyrics from the song that I remember (and so hear on repeat):
Lord, I'm goin' uptown
to the Harlem River to drown
Dirty water gonna cover me over
and I'm not gonna make a sound
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6E_TNgCsY
http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Marathon+Swimmers+Forum+Play+List/98499329
Nanaimo Ocean Swim - http://www.viendurance.net/nanaimo-ocean-swim/
But if you need an earworm just for today, I'd gladly pass you "Sweet Caroline" (wa, wa, wa!) that's been in me since yesterday. I can't get it out!
Recently it's been Thunderstruck by ACDC.
USS 25K Nats
1995 Atlanta: "Keep the Faith" Bon Jovi
1996 Quad Cities, Iowa "Changes" Yes
1997 Indiatlantic, FL: "Big City Nights" Scorpions
2000 Daytona Beach: "Master of Puppets" Metallica
1999 Honolulu: "Orion" Metallica
2001 Clemson, SC: "Machinehead" Bush
2003 Clemson, SC: "For You" Stained
2005 Ft. Myers, FL: "Creeping Death" Metallica
Atlantic City
1995: banjo version of "Those Were the Days" playing in the Showboat casino elevator on my way to the start. Very annoying. I swam well, so I can't complain too much.
MIMS
1998: "Unchained" Van Halen
2004: "Suicide Solution" Ozzy Osbourne
Key West
1996: "We Were Freshmen" the Verve. Had a terrible swim. Song came into my head because of my tempo. Slow.
1997: "Santa Monica" Everclear
1998: "Piece of Your Action" Motley Crüe
1999: Carnival Cruise-line "If You Could See Me Now" jingle sung by Kathy Lee Gifford. Don't know how this one snuck into my head.
Tampa Bay
1999: "Pretty Fly For a White Guy" Offspring
2000: "She's Got Issues" Offspring
2001: "Sad But True" Metallica
2002: "Turbo Lover" Judas Priest
2001 English Channel
"Same Ole Situation" Motley Crüe (My video incorrectly says that it was "Kickstart My Heart".)
USMS 25K Nats
2008: "Into the Void" Black Sabbath
For the pool:
2008 USMS Nats 1500: "The Ripper" Judas Priest with Tim "Ripper" Owens singing. Not OW, but an important swim for me. I did a lifetime best at 38 of 16:32.72. My previous best was a 16:44 from 1986. The time was a World Record [previously held by Rowdy Gaines, and broken (crushed) in 2012 by Petar Stohchev.]
I lost count in a 100 last night...
Most useful for 1500 meter to 5K swims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2GDbEmjGE
Hey, 4-9 hours of the same tune over and over again gets burned in pretty easy.
While working up to a race I would routinely have a playlist or the swim. I could bore you with those if you'd like me to. Or, not!
Your Song - Elton John
@sharkbaitza
I always think of these three as one long song and the bass line and drum beat make it the perfect "This is the song that doesn't end" song in that it just keeps going long after you've finished wanting to hear it.
Now that I've heard it again ba buggada duggada, duggada guggada domp bomp, ba buggada duggada, duggada guggada domp bomp Ba womomp duomp ... I'll be playing all day long in my mind. So remember, to kick it o o ver no one can guide you armagideon time.