Does anyone else ever mentally hum a tune during swim practices and/or races? My personal favorite, when I am trying to summon energy from my exhausted body, is the 1812 Overture--I try to time it so the cannons start firing towards the latter part of the race.
I'd be interested to hear what goes through other peoples' minds as they swim, musical or otherwise.
The other day I was reading Dan Frost's interesting post The Losers. Then on the radio I heard Tom Petty song "Even the Losers" on the way to practice and that song just kept replaying in my head. I was thinking of all the people from Oregon and Virginia that had there times not count for the recently published 2001 SCM Top Ten for some sort of reason. I remember when that song came out from the album "Dam the Torpedoes" which broke Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers nationally. It had other good songs on there as well like Refugee, Here Comes My Girl, and Don't Do Me Like That.
Also about a month ago I was doing a workout at the pool and the music that was playing out on to the pool deck was the reissue from Rhino Records of Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" CD reissue that came out in 1995. I remember when this came out as a record in 1968 and it was one of the most popular albums off all time. That CD is 58:08 long so when I started I used the first 21 minutes to do a pre-set and then followed with a main set of 28 X 100 on the 1:20. The first part of that CD has all the other songs like Most Anything that You Want Girl, Flowers and Beads, My Mirage, Termination, and Are You Happy. When those songs were done is when I finished the pre-set and started the main set.
The next 3 songs on the CD are In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, the original uncut album version with drum solo at 17:10, then the live version from a concert at 18:51, then the single AM radio version without solos at 2:59 totalling 37 minutes. That song is all I heard during those 28 100's which took 37:20 to do. Sounds boring, maybe, but that song can get you thru stuff like that. Young people that weren't around can't believe that original 1968 release was Atlantic Records biggest selling record of all time up until that time (1968-1969).
The other day I was reading Dan Frost's interesting post The Losers. Then on the radio I heard Tom Petty song "Even the Losers" on the way to practice and that song just kept replaying in my head. I was thinking of all the people from Oregon and Virginia that had there times not count for the recently published 2001 SCM Top Ten for some sort of reason. I remember when that song came out from the album "Dam the Torpedoes" which broke Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers nationally. It had other good songs on there as well like Refugee, Here Comes My Girl, and Don't Do Me Like That.
Also about a month ago I was doing a workout at the pool and the music that was playing out on to the pool deck was the reissue from Rhino Records of Iron Butterfly "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" CD reissue that came out in 1995. I remember when this came out as a record in 1968 and it was one of the most popular albums off all time. That CD is 58:08 long so when I started I used the first 21 minutes to do a pre-set and then followed with a main set of 28 X 100 on the 1:20. The first part of that CD has all the other songs like Most Anything that You Want Girl, Flowers and Beads, My Mirage, Termination, and Are You Happy. When those songs were done is when I finished the pre-set and started the main set.
The next 3 songs on the CD are In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, the original uncut album version with drum solo at 17:10, then the live version from a concert at 18:51, then the single AM radio version without solos at 2:59 totalling 37 minutes. That song is all I heard during those 28 100's which took 37:20 to do. Sounds boring, maybe, but that song can get you thru stuff like that. Young people that weren't around can't believe that original 1968 release was Atlantic Records biggest selling record of all time up until that time (1968-1969).
