My "ATL Workout" playlist
On March 16, 2024, I made a Facebook posting concerning the workout playlist that I've been using for several years.
"This post came to mind while I was on a layover in Amsterdam working out in the hotel workout room. When I work out, I listen to a playlist I put together 3 years ago when I was going through 737 training in Atlanta. I share the titles in the playlist here just for gee-whiz and conversation.
Some of these are pretty obscure but made it to the list due to my discovering them on Darla Label samplers. (Darla samplers are worth an entire post.) I ripped them all from CD but I am surprised that the levels are not consistent across them all. I should do some kind of normalization so I don't have to touch the volume control. All of these should be findable on youtube."
Hurl - Four Feet to Infinity
The Bamboos - Hello Stranger
Tragically Hip - An Inch an Hour
The Doors - LA Woman
Nicholas Dagnall, Harry Valentine, Tiffany Page - Late Night Drive
Crispy Ambulance - Loupgarou
Pia Fraus - Love Sports
Yo La Tengo - Moby Octopad
The National - Murder Me Rachael
Shannon McNally - Now That I Know
Shearwater - Pushing the River
The Shins - The Rifle's Spiral
Wild Carnation - The Rising Tide
Sloan - Underwhelmed
California Oranges - Vanilla Blue
Stephen Stills (live) - Wooden Ships
Tøyen - 14 Pints
I made three additional comments:
"After the Delta-Northwest merger, there was a year or more where the airline purchased boarding music from a supplier who had music that sounded a lot like hits but was obscure and had cheaper licensing. I would hear stuff that would catch my ear and thanks to Soundhound and Shazam, I got some leads on music to track down. One little gem that should have been all over the airwaves and is 2:30 of tasty is "Late Night Drive" by Dagnall, Valentine, and Page.
"Some of them are fast paced and some of them slow down and let me catch my breath 🙂 ."
"I don't play a note of music. But if I was a High School Marching Band director and an arranger of music, I would take the Yo La Tengo song "Moby Octopad" and shorten it to a 3 minute song arranged for marching band. I would also make an ending that builds to a crisp "bop be dah" rather than a fade out."