Music selection help wanted

[y-guy]

Recently assigned by our program director to create a special ride with the theme being Show Tunes.
We have had theme rides all winter to rave reviews. Some of the other themes have been Oldies, Rock & Roll, Metal, Contemporary Christian, and Springsteen.
I am asking for suggestions for music pertaining to movies and shows. Would also like your interpretation of what movement would match a song that you might suggest.

Thank you for taking the time to read and possibly suggest. Your imput is greatly appreciated.

j.v.

[AC]

Show tunes? Broadway show tunes? You're not going to get very much here. You want people to spin to Fiddler on the Roof and Hello Dolly?

Movie soundtracks might be more workable.

[murphs]

I agree with AC... show tunes are going to be tough. But there's a ton of good movie music out there.

I've found some good songs on the Austin Powers soundtracks. Ditto for the Matrix soundtrack.

[Raptor]

Oh, I don't know. "What Have I Done?" from Les Miz would be okay as a sprinter. "Lovely Ladies" for ... the ladies. It's a climbing pace if you ask me. "Phantom of the Opera" (song) is reasonably paced. You could have the ladies stand/sprint when Christine is singing and switch to the guys when the Phantom is singing.

"Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain." Nice seated flat concept. And lots of cheesy songs from "Greece" and "Mama Mia." (Shudder.)

Tongue partially in cheek,
Lynn

[gonzosgirl01]

Sorry, but this sounds worse than the time a faithful rider talked me into doing a 50s ride.

Movie theme songs sounds so much better - AND there's a lot of good stuff to choose from right now.

Sure you wouldn't rethink such an idea?

--Mandi

[labo]

So one day I decided that a series of Rock Opera Spin Endurance rides would be a blast.... Tommy by the Who (gee I'm scared that I felt the need to qualify Tommy with the artist) went over OK...Superstar so-so and then came Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ....I WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sounded like a great idea at the time......but........................ :oops:

[AC]

If I was doing a ride at a senior home (and I mean over 75 yrs old), I think a Broadway show tune thing might be a nice pick-me-up from a day of Bingo and chess.

But c'mon....you want to put on the original cast album from Oklahoma and sit on that instructor bike and look out at the riders and see the contorted reactions on their faces? I'll pay you $100 to do it and not announce it ahead of time. It sounds like an episode of "Punked" on MTV.

"We just replaced some real Spinning CD with the "Best of Broadway" CD and let's watch and see what happens".

And to think, I made fun of people using Brittney Spears. Britney Spears sounds positively ecstatic compared to My Fair Lady.

[Rex]

Plenty of cool stuff...
First and foremost , BlueMan is a show... "off-broadway", but its a show... That's an easy one.
Already mentioned was the Who's Tommy... which was orginally a "rock opera" movie, but was done on Broadway in the 90's, so that works...

Some pretty cool "earthy" stuff in The Lion King, and of course for more rock you have JC Superstar, Rent is sort of Hip-Hoppy, and of course Phantom and Cats have some tunes that are so popular I'm sure there are plenty of techno remakes out there to grab...

I'm not really into the orchestral sound for spinning, but if you are, there is plenty of intensely motivating and rhythmic music in Sweeney Todd, Starlight Express, Jekyll and Hyde, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Chicago.... This list could get really long...

You could consider Opera... especially some of the 20th century Minimalist stuff (Philip Glass' Operas are the ones I'm aware of). No doubt there are techno mixes of most of the big opera tunes out there.

And then you can resort to the movie stuff to fill in a couple more typical sounding tunes.

[Raptor]

I actually used the Blue Danube Waltz in my last class. I think I did enough cueing (mountain bike climb with higher-cadence intervals) that people forgot they were actually riding to a friggin' waltz.

Sharing perhaps a little too much,
Lynn

[kdjmom]

Since Lynn broke the ice by sharing a little bit too much, as she put it, I will make the big confession--I taught a TWO HOUR broadway spin a couple years ago! This was for my 6am group, which has no one in it under the age of 40, and I did it because they requested it. This is a bunch of ageing boomers who love show tunes, hate techno and rap and heavy metal (though I play techno anyhow, because I do like to spin to it!). They like Dire Straits and Aerosmith, at least some of the "younger" ones do. All this to make the point that I was truly preaching to the choir with the music, they have since requested more of the same.

My dad has a ton of Broadway CDs, and there are lots of great compilation cds out there that have songs from every show. I used stuff from Lion King, Where's Charlie?, A Little Night Music, 1776, Cinderella, Mame, A Chorus Line, the aforementioned Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, Sweeny Todd, Threepenny Opera, Chicago, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on the Roof, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Hello Dolly, Annie Get Your Gun and numerous others. Sondheim has a lot of great, upbeat songs. They are all REALLY short, so you have to do one movement to about 5 songs. Seriously, they still talk about it.

WARNING: I did let everyone know about the class WELL in advance, so that there were no suprises. No one showed up if they hated show tunes. People emailed afterwards with more suggestions!

well, there you have it--true confessions of a 42-year old mother of 3 kids and two dogs, wife to one and long-distance charity cyclist who likes to cook, bake, and read voraciously--know thy audience and, once in a while anyhow, give them exactly what they want!

amy

[yguy]

Rex & KDJ thanks so much very helpful stuff.

Raptor get your tongue out of your cheek it does you no justice.

ac & murphs re read the originnal post, your movie tune suggestions would have been more than welcome. now you can kiss my a..!

maybe that what's fuels your negativism. it wasn't even good sarcasm.

jv

[CancunCarol]

Not a Broadway Show But a Show....Any "Cirque Du Soleil"
Music
I have done profiles to entire albums and People love it.

[AC]

Geez...That's not the show biz spirit....Remember, the sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow, there'll be sun. Just thinkin about tomorrow, clears away the sorrow and the bother, till there's none. When I'm stuck with a day that's gray and lonely. i just stick out my chin and grin and say, "The sun will come out tomorrow so you got to hang on till tomorrow, come what may".

[murphs]

Annie... Get my gun.

[R e x]

I'm not sure if that was really the same "y-guy" as the original post. If it is the same person... wow. That was really a strong reaction to what seemed like innocent, even friendly and helpful responses... If only Jan could react so strongly to Armstrong's attacks. Ahhhh. I can only dream.

I'm doing my darndest to NOT be judgemental of anyone at anytime on the forums from now on. It's too difficult to really read someone's true meaning, and you can easily mis-read some serious negativity if you are in the wrong frame of mind.

I think the anagramatic title of the website you're on should be a good reminder of how to behave...

[murphs]

ac & murphs re read the originnal post, your movie tune suggestions would have been more than welcome. now you can kiss my a..!

I can't speak for AC, but what I was saying was simply that, IMHO, show tunes are difficult to use in a spinning profile. I don't see any negativism or sarcasm in that. At least none was intended.

So try not to be so hostile dude. Peace, love and Bobby Sherman.

murphs

[AC]

Not necessary to talk for me. Catch all of my comments next Sunday on Inside the Actor's Studio with James Lipton on Bravo.

They are doing a special show on "Spinning and the Theatre" that will be aired after they interview Anthony Hopkins and Bernadette Peters. It is a brutal expose of some actors who ride with terrible form.

[zoepup]

Recently assigned by our program director to create a special ride with the theme being Show Tunes.
We have had theme rides all winter to rave reviews. Some of the other themes have been Oldies, Rock & Roll, Metal, Contemporary Christian, and Springsteen.
I am asking for suggestions for music pertaining to movies and shows. Would also like your interpretation of what movement would match a song that you might suggest.

Thank you for taking the time to read and possibly suggest. Your imput is greatly appreciated.

j.v.

I agree that show tunes may be tough. I have a ride that uses Chicago, Moulin Rouge, and Pirates of the Caribbean songs. It is an intense ride. One can debate the merits of Moulin Rouge as a show or movie and Pirates as a ride or movie. I think it went over well. I would be interested in seeing that Springsteen ride.

Thanks!
Z

[bopeep]

This is the kind of thread I always end up discovering new music from.... it's the best thing about the "long tail" and music.... before u had to read in a magazine or hunt around in a record store to find something cool -- which made the choices always subject to the "gatekeeping" of editors and music store buyers and etc... -- which would lead inevitably to mediocrity and the prevalence of "poser music" -- i.e. stuff that you want to like because you think it's cool, not because you really like it. Music journalism especially creates high-profiles for really lame stuff, because journalists are always looking behind their backs, trying to profile something that they think in 2 years people will think they were cool for liking "way back when".... I GREATLY prefer the democratic nature of threads like these, where people simply list their tastes and you can just look something up on itunes or youtube and check it out for yourself....
These days I'm really into techno and techno/rock and stuff like that -- try searching for these songs:

Thomas Falke "Revolution On The Dance Floor"
Groove Cutter "My Shooter"
Control One "Just A Little Bit"
Ian Carey "Redlight"
Kevin Weg "Dead Radio"

I don't usually go for techno but these are sort of like a wierd crossover between rock and techno/trance.

Most of them I got (LEGALLY) from this list on itunes -- http://electricnation2010.com/tracks


:) :D

[megale3]

I think that we discuss things at length to hit all aspects and to give everyone "choices" in their endeavors of IDC. When someone puts out a thread its there to be challenged, courted and demolished if community sees holes in it. Music is someone else's poetry and when we use it we are at the whim of the beholder and there are as many as 60 riders waiting to critique it if given the voice to do so. Music should not overpower you in this instance because you are asking people to work harder than if you where not in the room (coaching them) and they were there on their own with an ipod stuck in their personalized play list. If you think that you can make better music than someones taste and get them to like yours better you are exceptional and a snake charmer.
Meg

[abby_b_fit]

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---A