Cycling Music

[yetanothergreenworld]

Since winter is a time of nostalgia: what music most strongly evokes memories of the great races for you?

 

[The Hitch]

Since winter is a time of nostalgia: what music most strongly evokes memories of the great races for you?

This reminds me of the Vuelta : Preciados, Otra opportunidad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0MJsobhkw


Also it reminds me how in the Giro kronplatz tt they had a seperate 70's rock song go off on the speakers for every contender.

Loved it.

 

[jens_attacks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-y38WZAtgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW-wJ3fuVzs&feature=related

these 2 videos always gave me goose bumps.and they still do.just seven years and so much has changed.it remembers me what cycling used to beure art and rocket fuel.just beautiful.and the music of these two is just divine.

 

[The Hitch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-y38WZAtgc

You dont need to cover a video with music when its up Alpe d huez.

Alpe has a theme of its own.


The sound of the motorcycles beeping the crowds out of the way ALL the way up. Music to my ears anyway.

 

[jimbob_in_co]

it was music in a "Volvo" commercial, as...

... I was watching a Alps Stage of the TdF at the time, but this music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt-NvcuDVBc

(Clubbed to Death, by Rob D)

Was the perfect music soundtrack as the leaders hammered away relentlessly up the Col du Telegraphe and Col du Galibier.

It goes thru my head as I climb (at a much slower rate) the hills around my home.

 

[schweinika]

... I was watching a Alps Stage of the TdF at the time, but this music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt-NvcuDVBc

(Clubbed to Death, by Rob D)

Was the perfect music soundtrack as the leaders hammered away relentlessly up the Col du Telegraphe and Col du Galibier.

I goes thru my head as I climb (at a much slower rate) the hills around my home.

works for me too

 

[Christian]

I don't really associate cycling and music so much ... the only one that really comes to mind is France 2's theme song for the Tour de FranceMaïdi Roth - Pour la beauté du geste (the video is cr*p but I don't think there is an official clip)

 

[yetanothergreenworld]

A couple of years ago I started watching old European clips of the TDF on websites like Ina and Truveo, and I discovered that TDF coverage in Europe is always preceded by the Eurovision theme (a seventeenth-century Prelude by Charpentier). As an American, I had no previous associations with this piece, and so now for me it's become kind of an unofficial TDF theme. It gets me stirred up for the Tour, almost like the 20th Century Fox fanfare invariably whets your appetite for Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5LFB2p27S0

In a similarly anachronistic vein, I find that I really like the medieval and Renaissance music used in the film "Le Course en Tete."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmlM6nmA2E

(You have to wait until about 2:45.) Where so much cycling music is designed to evoke the speed of the sport, this piece really captures the slow, methodical wearing-down process of a long and hilly road stage.

 

[Christian]

TDF coverage in Europe is always preceded by the Eurovision theme

Not today and at least not in the last 10 years though. Now it's different in every country, I posted France's theme above

 

[zapata]

Kraftwerk, Tour de France:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLiai4gg_0Q&feature=related

 

[El Pistolero]

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

This song would go great with 2 cyclists battling it out in the mountains. Armstrong can play the role of the ***** in sheep's clothing.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3chFwY6dpVs

It's a Tom Waits song originally, but the minor changes in meaning in the translation only serve to make it more appropriate - one of the most heroic performances I can ever remember in the Tour, definitely in recent years.

 

[Skip Madness]

I don't really associate cycling and music so much ... the only one that really comes to mind is France 2's theme song for the Tour de FranceMaïdi Roth - Pour la beauté du geste (the video is cr*p but I don't think there is an official clip)

Superb choice.

This reminds me of the Vuelta : Preciados, Otra opportunidad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0MJsobhkw

Similarly, the theme from 2006 (En qué estrella estará) got inside my head - I especially associate it with Sierra de la Pandera for some reason. Likewise, the theme from 2008 (Pretendo hablarte) always puts me in mind of that Vuelta (the song starts properly at about 2:10).

Among the choices of many cycling music connoisseurs will always be the Channel 4 Tour de France theme music.

My personal favourite is the old Giro Donne theme music. Nothing quite like that to get me pumped up for some cycling.

 

[md2020]

The Kraftwerk is good but I'm nostalgic for the 80's Tour de France music from John Tesh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_N5sgl3fE

My musical tastes are pretty far from John Tesh but I owned that particular tape and as a junior in the 80's it's what I listened to while on the indoor trainer in the winter.

 

[Wiggins_fan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw1Eh3BH-To

 

[For The World]

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

It includes footage of the 7-Eleven team too. The music is quite long, but not without purpose. Quite good.

 

[simo1733]

Of course kraftwerk have to get a mention.Did you know that they did a gig at Manchester velodrome, with the British pursuit squad lapping the boards as they performed.
Transeurope express works very nicely.

 

[flicker]

warm up with robert fripp,public image limited, sex pistols, or their ilk the clash

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

For those of us in the UK without satelite TV, cycling has only one associated bit of music (excluding the B side of Queen's "Fat Boottomed Girls"): the classic variation on Frere Jacques played on what sounds like an electrified squeeze box that introduced our annual cycling fix... Nice shirts P&P

 

[El Imbatido]

Since we seem to heave a Vuelta theme going, the one song that got stuck in my head was the theme from th 2009 Vuelta from Zahara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBm-ZmVe_w&feature=related

This link shows the two commercials (long and short version) the tve used during the vuelta.

 

[Frosty]

Not sure i want to admit this but i always associate the song 'voyage voyage' by desireless with the TdF. Suppose its because it was released around the same time as i started becoming interested in the tour and it was the only French thing around - guess it was either that or the theme tune to 'Allo Allo....'
You dont get hair cuts like that nowadays!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PDmZnG8KsM

Its an obvious answer but the channel 4 theme music from the 80s/90s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxg017BAi4&feature=related

 

[Moondance]

I'm going to be pretentious and say the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. The musical development closely mirrors how a cycling season progresses. Beginning slowly with brief explosions of exuberance and passion. And the passage in the middle with parts of La Marseillaise representing the Tour e France.

Thematically it works too, with the French thinking they're unbeatble and will conquer everything, only to be completely owned and having to retreat in shame.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgunF7KbgmY&feature=related

 

[sublimit]

Of course kraftwerk have to get a mention.Did you know that they did a gig at Manchester velodrome, with the British pursuit squad lapping the boards as they performed.
Transeurope express works very nicely.

Yeah, I also remember a slightly dumb BBC reporter interviewing a Ralph Hutter style robot during the event -
Thick British reporter asking inane guestions and Hutter just coming out with weird responses. According to the blonde moron they were influenced by Gary Newman and Depeche mode.. haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Js-dxl1BKc

 

[Michielveedeebee]

a song for a mad solo breakaway against the peloton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnapx502uQ

and if not the whole song at least the solo starting at 5.00