Survival song favorites

Posted by: benjammin

Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 02:42 PM

Mine is Midnight Rider by Allman Bros.
Posted by: wildman800

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 02:44 PM

"Carry on my Wayward Son" by Kansas
Posted by: Stu

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 03:33 PM

Ghost Riders in the Sky.
Posted by: Susan

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 04:50 PM

"I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay"?

sue
Posted by: comms

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 05:13 PM

"He's got HI hopes" (the rubber tree plant song)

What can I say...I'm optimistic
Posted by: unimogbert

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 05:23 PM

Bad Moon Rising by CCR.
Posted by: Henry_Porter

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 06:06 PM

Hmm...maybe "Tie Me At The Crossroads" by Bruce Cockburn (for a bit of wry yet upbeat take on the temporality of my life) or "Pressing On" by Bob Dylan (for encouragement when swimming against the tide).
Posted by: BillLiptak

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 07:31 PM

Die with your boots on by Iron Maiden
\,,/. >.< .\,,/ UP THE IRONS

-Bill Liptak
Posted by: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 07:47 PM


Careful with that Axe Eugene

Posted by: nursemike

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 08:46 PM

We Will All Go Together When We Go
Posted by: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 10:04 PM


Protect and Survive

Jethro Tull Instrumental Version - Protect and Survive

Posted by: Colourful

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 10:23 PM

''I will survive'' by Gloria Gainor might give the wrong message.
Posted by: ironraven

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 10:58 PM

Tie between "Highwayman" by the Highwaymen, and "Karma Slave" by Splashdown.
Posted by: OldBaldGuy

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/11/08 11:47 PM

I wasn't gonna get involved in this (and I am starting to worry about Ben), but what the heck:

On The Road Again, Willy Nelson
Posted by: Eric

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 01:13 AM

Hmm, way too many good possibilities.

How about:
- Get over it, Eagles
- Last Mango in Paris, Jimmy Buffet

DW suggests
- Tubthumping (I get knocked down), Chumbawamba
- Bang on the Drum, Todd Rungren

- Eric
Posted by: sodak

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 01:18 AM

Life's Railway to Heaven, sung acapella by the Oak Ridge Boys.
Posted by: Chris Kavanaugh

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 01:35 AM

There's a Light--- Rocky Horror Picture Show
Posted by: Blast

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 01:43 AM

+10 to "There' a light".

-Blast
Posted by: kd7fqd

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 04:17 AM

I'll 11th The Light (can I do that?)
Sue, I'm A Lumberjack and I'm OK
DD says "This is The Song That Never Ends"
Riders On The Storm


Mike
Posted by: LumpyJaw

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 09:54 AM

Slow Ride by Foghat.
Posted by: Themalemutekid

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/12/08 01:53 PM

Elton John - I'm Still Standin'
Posted by: jshannon

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/13/08 01:56 AM

Bocephus, A Country Boy Can Survive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg

I'd probably rather hear a song that pumped me up if I was in a bad situation. In that case it would be some hard rock music ; ).
Posted by: SwampDonkey

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/13/08 02:51 AM

My pick is,

LONG WALK HOME by "Survivorman" Les Stroud and the Northern Pikes!

I saw Les proform this tune live a couple of months ago and I thought it was great, so now I listen to the CD in my work truck.

You can check out the 6 song CD for free here http://lesstroudandthepikes.com/ , I am listening to it online right now.

(Also listen to the tune "Nice Tattoo", it's hot).

Mike
Posted by: MoBOB

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/13/08 02:12 PM

How about "My bologna has a first name it's ...."

It is food related and you need for survival.
Posted by: NeighborBill

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/13/08 10:28 PM

"Stand And Deliver" Adam and the Ants.

I could come up with a few hundred more; however, my musical taste isn't.

+1 to Bocephus for a strictly survival oriented song--note to self, "trotline" does not equal "troutline" because you get a lot of catfish smile

For some reason, "I'm a Lumberjack" by Monty Python et al comes to mind.
Posted by: Loganenator

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/14/08 01:32 PM

Since Hank Williams Jr. has already been mentioned I'll have to be trite and say: Survivor - Destiny's Child

I like the song but the video is way to trashy to post here wink.

Posted by: Nicodemus

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/14/08 02:00 PM

"There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"

There's some survival food for you with some quick problem solving to boot.
Posted by: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/14/08 10:18 PM


The Proclaimers - I'm on my way

The Proclaimers - 500 miles

Madness - Night Boat to Cairo

Madness - Yesterdays Man

Posted by: Air_Pirate

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/17/08 09:29 PM

Girly - The Refreshments (look up the lyrics and you might agree)
Posted by: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/18/08 04:45 PM

Quote:
"Stand And Deliver" Adam and the Ants.

I could come up with a few hundred more; however, my musical taste isn't.


Or how about Hazel O'Conner - Eighth Day cool
Posted by: DesertFox

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/18/08 04:49 PM

Five feet High and Rising. Johnny Cash.
Posted by: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/18/08 05:25 PM



Capercaillie - Crooked Mountain

Capercaillie - Rob Roy Reels

Posted by: Frankie

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/18/08 07:32 PM

Yngwie Malmsteen - I am a Viking. It inspires me courage.
Posted by: Am_Fear_Liath_Mor

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/18/08 10:21 PM


Quote:
Yngwie Malmsteen - I am a Viking. It inspires me courage.


The Vikings still burn themselves a long boat every January in the Shetland Islands in Scotland. grin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AduFwJFn5Jg&feature=related

Posted by: dougwalkabout

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/18/08 11:03 PM

Well, I'm not clear whether the thread is about songs that you listen to (big yawn) or songs that you sing out loud when the crunch is on (now we're talking).

It may be impolitic in present company, but the song that has got me up many a steep, slippery hill with full pack (and other equivalent situations) is "Barrett's Privateers" by Stan Rogers.

Though sometimes, I have been known to simply utter "B@stards! B@stards! B@stards!" over and over, kind of like a mantra, to keep me the noradrenaline flowing and me moving forward.
Posted by: TS_Shawn

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/19/08 12:11 AM

Ever since Stephen King's "The Stand," Blue Oyster Cult's "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" conjures an ultimate survival scenario.

As to what I'd be inclined to sing in a survival situation (whether lost in the woods or as one of many in a disaster) I'm reminded of the evening of 9/11/01, as my city (DC) became unnaturally ghost town quiet because of deserted streets and the airports and trains being shut down. One song came to my mind that night, I grew up listening to my mother play it on the piano:

"The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

I was annoyed when the Congress assembled on the Capitol steps that evening to sing "God Bless America." Struck me at the time as a wimpy celebratory tune when the Civil War-era Battle Hymn was more apt. It was played at the 9/14/01 service at the National Cathedral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHVZK7nFYRQ&feature=related

Lyrics (they have varied) from Wikipedia:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.

(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.

Posted by: GoatRider

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/19/08 12:40 AM

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this one:


Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship. The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the Skipper brave and sure. Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour. A three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed. If not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Minnow would be lost. The Minnow would be lost. The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle,
with Gilligan, the Skipper too, the Millionaire
and his wife, the movie star, the Professor
and Mary Ann, here on Gilligan's Isle.


Posted by: benjammin

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/19/08 11:42 AM

Anyone remember the name of the song the brits sang in the Michael movie "Zulu" right before the last big charge? I can hear the song, but I can't remember all the words. That was a powerful strong survival diddy.
Posted by: benjammin

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/19/08 12:03 PM

Found it, twas the opener for the final battle of Rorke's Drift.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_of_Harlech

Facing their doom, they sure did sing it well enough to stiffen your backbone.
Posted by: benjammin

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/19/08 01:16 PM

Here's another cheery survival tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuKx7AgHLes

btw, happy Pirate's day.
Posted by: GoatRider

Re: Survival song favorites - 09/19/08 07:58 PM

Even more cheerful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU