Railroad buildin' music
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gementUsually I work to a pretty scattershot collection of music. I have a Leonard Cohen-centric collection of brooding songs that damp my anxiety but can lead to a dreamlike and unproductive calm. I have my SuperHappySuper mix, heavy on the technopop, which gives me a burst of energy but can spike anxiety.
I want something methodical, with just enough energy to hook me and drive me forward. Railroad buildin' music. Any suggestions?
Sideline: here's one of my slow playlists, Artists are Mortal, which I started out of thematic curiosity, but quite enjoy listening to. (I skip Boy and His Frog because I don't like crying at work.) http://www.songmeanings.net/mixtape/tape/2049/ "Famous creators have both public and private lives and deaths. When their fans try to describe or imagine the private reality, they build on the public myth. Here are eleven myths and memorials about the flesh and experience of fascinating people. "
I want something methodical, with just enough energy to hook me and drive me forward. Railroad buildin' music. Any suggestions?
Sideline: here's one of my slow playlists, Artists are Mortal, which I started out of thematic curiosity, but quite enjoy listening to. (I skip Boy and His Frog because I don't like crying at work.) http://www.songmeanings.net/mixtape/tape/2049/ "Famous creators have both public and private lives and deaths. When their fans try to describe or imagine the private reality, they build on the public myth. Here are eleven myths and memorials about the flesh and experience of fascinating people. "
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Date: 2011-02-07 06:49 pm (UTC)Don't look up "Mess" on YouTube. There's only one video (fan-made) and it's deserves massive trigger warnings.
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Date: 2011-02-07 06:58 pm (UTC)I know Big River and will think of the song you mean in a minute. I hear the rhythm in my head.
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Date: 2011-02-07 07:10 pm (UTC)Um.. It's not railroad building but it is working together to do the impossible, what do you think of Mary Ellen Carter?
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Date: 2011-02-07 08:22 pm (UTC)Have you any experience with the songs of wool waulking? (where waulking = pounding the snot out of woven fabric in order to full it) I don't have any examples, but loved the little bits I heard at a sheep festival a few years back, they have, in my mind, a similar intensity to the rail songs in that they're designed to help a group of people keep their energy up during rather laborious manual labor.
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