Pre-golf music

[JimSomebody]

You're on your way the course. Is there any kind of music (or specific songs/artists) that you play to get fired up or calmed down or otherwise prepared to play?

Also, during the round, do you have music in your head, and does it help in any way?

[halk]

Here are mine I will turn up the volume a several notches for any of there songs.

Bob Seger, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Grateful Dead.

[stlcard_25]

I used to like to listen to "Eye of the Tiger" before I played...or the Rocky theme song. Now, basically I just like to listen to something enjoyable. Not too picky.

Also, during a round, I almost always have something in my head...I prefer it to be a slower song. Faster songs tend to mess with my tempo, strange as it sounds.

[JungleJ]

I usually grab a CD to play in the car on the way to the course. No specific favourites though - a few I can remember recently were The Replacements and Smashing Pumpkins (long drive that day), Damian Marley, Beastie Boys... anything that I think is going to make me up for it.

[LockStock666]

Originally Posted by JungleJ

I usually grab a CD to play in the car on the way to the course. No specific favourites though - a few I can remember recently were The Replacements and Smashing Pumpkins (long drive that day), Damian Marley, Beastie Boys... anything that I think is going to make me up for it.

Loving the Jamrock album - one of my most played CD's ever. Nirvana is always good if I'm in a guitar mood or Radiohead.

[Fourputt]

Originally Posted by JimSomebody

You're on your way the course. Is there any kind of music (or specific songs/artists) that you play to get fired up or calmed down or otherwise prepared to play?

Also, during the round, do you have music in your head, and does it help in any way?

Not really. I have a couple of CD's that are always in the changer in my car (Clay Kirkland - Blues and Beyond the Beyond Blues), and a Jimmy Buffet 2 CD set. But I could listen to almost anything from Black Sabbath to 40's swing on the way to the course, or nothing at all.

I can't understand how anyone could play decently when not concentrating on the golf. It's hard enough keep focused with just the normal distractions on the golf course... I don't need to add my own.

[C-Tech]

I usually don't do music in my vehicle....I listen to NPR most of the time. If I did put on music, it would probably be country, any country as long as its not too twangy. When traveling, I normally have a book on CD going, mysteries are my favorites.

[Diane]

Originally Posted by stlcard_25

I used to like to listen to "Eye of the Tiger" before I played...or the Rocky theme song.

What do you substitute for the steps of the Museum of Art?

[xnavyct]

Really don't have any dedicated 'pre golf' music I listen to on the way to the course...I do usually put the TV on the Golf Channel when I'm getting ready to leave the house, kinda to get me in the mindset....

[CristieKerr]

I'll listen to anything from The Beatles to The Beastie Boys to Snoop Dogg to Flight of the Conchords. And more often than not, what's in my head on the course isn't any one of those... lately it's been that Katy Perry song *shudder*. The only thing I make sure is that it's a CD, I want to hear music not the babble of talking on the radio.

[jshiver15]

I listen to 'The Format' for two reasons:

1) It puts me in a good mood.

2) Most of their songs have a nice steady beat that I keep in my head for tempo purposes.

[ringin]

On the way to play or if I'm practicing and have my ipod on, I like to listen to "chill" type music. Stuff like Moby & Massive Attack. It's just mellow electronica type music that I can have on and not pay much attention to, but it helps even me out. Try it out sometime...it's good stuff. Sirius 35 Chill.

[straightshooter]

Originally Posted by JimSomebody

Also, during the round, do you have music in your head, and does it help in any way?

I have been trying to shake off this really dumb song from a Dunkin' Donuts TV commercial for weeks now. And no, it isn't helping!

[J.D.]

Originally Posted by straightshooter

I have been trying to shake off this really dumb song from a Dunkin' Donuts TV commercial for weeks now. And no, it isn't helping!

Place a rubberband around your wrist. Everytime that song enters your mind, reach over, pull it up until the elasticity is strained and let go. You will begin to associate pain with that music and it will serve to erase that bad memory away.

WOrks like a charm

"Its a small world after all...

Dang!!! wheres that rubber band!

JD

[JPsuff]

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Nothing in particular.

Sometimes I'll flip through the radio and see what's playing, other times I'll listen to some talk radio (usually NPR, and other times I'll just leave the radio off. I always have some tune floating around my head, pretty much 24/7, so I'm never at a loss for something to hum to.

And yes, I occasionally get the dopey commercial jingle or maybe an old time TV theme song stuck in my head, but honestly, it's only in MY head and as long as I'm not singing it out loud, it really doesn't bother me (or anyone else).


-JP

[PA PLAYA]

Not really. For the past few months I've embraced the notion of carpooling with another member at my club who I play with. So we spend the 20 minutes going there just talking about the week we've had, and spend the 20 minutes coming back doing the traditional shoulda coulda woulda bit. LOL....

[C-Tech]

My wife bought me a stuffed animal as a joke that plays the "Manamana Song" from the Muppets when you squeeze its foot. She also downloaded it onto her phone as her ringtone for me. She had played the thing about 10 times one day before I left to play golf and it was in my head. Walking up to one of the tee boxes, I sang "manamana" and I swear my three buddies all went "dut du de du du" right on cue. It got to be a big joke among us.

[JPsuff]

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Actually, the "Manamana" song was around long before the muppets made it famous. I was used regularly on the Red Skelton Show, which was where I first heard it.


(Yes, I'm old enough to remember that)


-JP

[C-Tech]

Originally Posted by JPsuff

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Actually, the "Manamana" song was around long before the muppets made it famous. I was used regularly on the Red Skelton Show, which was where I first heard it.


(Yes, I'm old enough to remember that)


-JP

I never heard it on Red Skelton (that I remember). That's surprising too since I grew up in the same era.

[Bigvivec]

I have a usb plug in the face of my car stereo, therefore I have a huge library at my fingertips...no favorites, but whatever it is it must be loud...sort of my wake up call and the front drive guys at the club get a kick out of a little Van Halen, Coltrane, Buju Banton, Andrea Bocelli, Alice in Chains or Method Man turned up to "11" at 5:45 in the morning...

[CristieKerr]

Originally Posted by JPsuff

Actually, the "Manamana" song was around long before the muppets made it famous. I was used regularly on the Red Skelton Show, which was where I first heard it.

Ahhh, The Muppets. It was on that car commercial too a year or two back. Now it's stuck in my head, I'm not mad, I should thank you, it's and upgrade!