What do you listen to on your commute?

Lonestar · Post by **Lonestar** » 2006-09-05 05:33pm

Seeing as my previous "commute" were "walking across the base to the ship", I am no officially a commuter.

Early riser at 0415, drive to the Springfield Metro stop at 0500, listening to the local news station all the way. On the train I listen to assorted Podcasts.

On the way back, I listen to Gregorian Chant. My stop is the end of the line, so I tend to knock the fuck out with the chant goingon in the background. Driving home I listen to XM Station "Lucy".

What do you guys listen to on the commute?

(Move if wrong forum)

Post by **Dalton** » 2006-09-05 05:46pm

Normally I check 1010 WINS for the traffic, then switch to my CD player or iPod. Lately though I've been listening to "Real Money". I'm no good with stocks and the like, but I enjoy listening to Jim Cramer for some reason.

If I'm running late, I'll listen to Penn Jillette, who's on right after Cramer.

Post by **weemadando** » 2006-09-05 05:48pm

Well, I only have a 25 minute walk to work as my commute (and usually a bus home). I'm currently listening to the "Thud!" audiobook, but usually its a rotation of:

New Scientist Podcast
Hotspot (Gamespot Podcast)
alt.npr.press-start Podcast
Australian Gamer Podcast
Science at NASA Podcast
StarStuff Podcast
Ockham's Razor Podcast

and various other science/tech related Podcasts.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2006-09-05 07:13pm

I have a 10 minute drive to work at most, I just listen to my car's engine. When the weather's right like it is today I bike to work which takes about 15 minutes. Still no music though, getting run over by the car I didn't hear coming is not the way I want to die.

Back when I had a 1 hour public transit commute I listened to Howard Stern in the morning and one of my mix tapes on the way back. Tapes were mostly guitar rock, lots of Hendrix, GnR, Van Halen, and Satriani with some Santana and Metallica mixed in.

Jack Bauer · Post by **Jack Bauer** » 2006-09-05 09:07pm

NPR and my iPod.

Post by **Broomstick** » 2006-09-05 09:18pm

In the car, between home and train station: radio station, usually Indiana105, which is just about the ONLY station that gives NW Indiana news and weather instead of Chicago news and weather - Chicago is 40 miles away, I want to know what it's doing where I am actually driving. Also, I've been getting into country music lately.

On the train - my fellow commuters. I don't like to cut off my hearing in crowd situations, it doesn't feel safe.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2006-09-06 09:13am

Mostly Nile and Anaal Nathrakh mp3s. If there was ever anything to wake you up in the morning, it's that.

Lord Woodlouse · Post by **Lord Woodlouse** » 2006-09-06 11:54am

I very rarely commute anywhere, but if I do I'll listen to whatever I feel like on my iPod. Which includes:

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of the Dead (longest band name in history?) - World's Apart.
Air - Talkie Walkie
The Aquabats - Myths, Legends and Other Amazing Adventures, Vol 2
The Aquabats - The Fury of the Aquabats
The Aquabats - VS the Floating Eye of Death!
Barber - (includes Adagio with strings)
The Beatles - 1
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (and Fur Elise, which I just stuck in there)
Blondie - Greatest Hits
Blur - The Best of
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits
Brendan Benson - The Alternative to Love
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Brendan Benson - One Mississippi
The Clash - London Calling
Dvorak - Dvorak 8 and 9 "New World"
Elastica - The Menace
Elastica -Elastica
Electric Light Orchestra - All Over the World: The Very Best Of
Faith No More - This Is It: The Best of Faith No More
Mendelssohn - Fingal's Cave
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdindand
Frou Frou - Details
Gershwin (just a couple of various tunes)
The Hives - Veni, Vedi Vicious
Kaiser Chiefs - Employment
Kasabian - Kasabian
Kula Shaka - K
Kula Shaka - Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts
Led Zeppelin - Remasters (discs 1&2)
Madness - The Heavy Heavy Hits
Marc Bolan and T Rex - The Essential Collection
Marylin Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Marylin Manson - Holy Wood
Marylin Manson - Mechanical Animals
Medeski, Martin and Wood (various stuff)
Muse - Absolution
Muse - Hullabaloo
Muse - Origin of Symetry
Muse - Showbiz
Peter Gabriel - So
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Postal Service - Give Up
Queen - Greatest Hits
Queen's Of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
The Red Army Choir - Russian Favourites
Rachmaninov - The Best Of
Shakespeare's Sister - The Best Of
The Strokes - Is This It?
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Supergrass - In It For the Money
Suzane Vega - 99.9 F°
Tori Amos - Under the Pink (and some other stuff)
Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Violent Femmes - The Very Best Of (oooh, VERY best of!)
The White Stripes - De Stijl
The White Stripes - Elephant
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
The White Stripes - The White Stripes
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Yo-Yo Ma - Six Suites of Unaccompanied Cello
Zutons - Who Killed the Zutons

WHEW! Quite an eclectic mix, as you can see.

GrandMasterTerwynn · Post by **GrandMasterTerwynn** » 2006-09-06 12:03pm

NOAA weather radio. Or whatever CD still happens to be in the CD player after the weekend. I can't listen to local news/traffic stations for very long because while they might have traffic once every ten minutes . . . three minutes between those ten are occupied by commercials, and the rest filled by Drug-rush Limp-baugh wannabes, and the local music stations don't do traffic or weather nearly often enough for me to catch it.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-09-06 12:14pm

iPod. Posthumus, The Pipettes, The Magnetic Fields, ¡Forward Russia! and a Misc folder with anything from Klendathu Drop to a bit of Beatles.

Back when I carpooled, it was the morning news.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2006-09-08 03:29pm

Mostly Duke Special at the moment. If Duke Special can't put a spring in your step you're officially dead.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2006-09-08 03:31pm

I've been using the same Minidisc in my MD player for the last year. And I have no idea what's on it.Something forgettable, I guess. I just like the noise.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » 2006-09-08 06:15pm

The Bob and Tom show every morning on my way to work. It can be rather low brow, but damn can it be funny.

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2006-09-08 07:59pm

Oh god, I feel like an old man for saying this, but if I'm not listening to my mp3s, I usually listen to CBC radio (public radio), Information Morning (obviously in the morning on my way to work) and Main Street on my way home. It's only a 10 minute bus and a 15 minute walk, so not a long time to listen to anything long. (I can shave 10 minutes off the walk if I don't have to wait for the bus.)

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2006-09-08 10:31pm

NPR. Morning Edition on the way in, usually All Things Considered on the way back, though in grad school I'd have some days when I'd get to leave early enough to catch Day to Day or even the tail end of Radio Times, and on some days I wouldn't be on the road home until 9 or 10 PM. There were also days when I left so early they were still running BBC World Service.

When I had an office job, I'd listen to NPR all day, too, unless there was an early Phillies game in the afternoon. I've totally lost patience with commercial radio.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 2006-09-13 09:14pm

105.7 (krock kingston), cd of various mp3s or my ipod plugged into the cd deck.

musical tastes are described as eclectic, which means I listen to everything except shitty sounding rap (there's a few rap songs I like but not many).

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2006-09-13 11:55pm

Ever since I got an XM satellite radio last month, I've been mentally blessing the thing whenever I turn it on.
I work 2nd shift (and I'm off work until 11/01/06 because of my recent surgery), so I don't listen to the radio on the same schedule as most commuters do.
However, I've taken to listening to Al Franken if I'm up early enough to catch him on the air and listening to musical genres that aren't available locally on FM radio if I'm not up that early.

Right now I listen to the bluegrass, traditional country, blues, 'real jazz', or the 1940's stations when I want to listen to music.
The problem with the local commercial stations if that if you like something other than top 40 pop, modern 'country', classic rock, or rap/hip hop, you're shit out of luck.

Metatwaddle · Post by **Metatwaddle** » 2006-09-13 11:58pm

Lately I've just been listening to CDs during my half-hour commute. I suppose I could get an iTrip or whatever you call the things that let you play your iPod in the car, but right now I'm fine with what I have. Usually I play something that's pretty, relaxing and mellow, to offset the aggravation of morning traffic. It's currently Vienna Teng's newest album, Dreaming Through the Noise, which I don't think I'll ever tire of; but I've also got some excellent classical piano CDs that serve the same function.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2006-09-14 12:23am

My Supertrapps

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2006-09-14 12:40am

CDs. Most recently:

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness
The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Howlin' Wolf - Howlin' and Moanin' in the Moonlight
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (gets at least one listen a month, always)

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2006-09-14 12:48am

For a couple of years now I've had a 10-15 minute commute so I don't listen to the radio for long but I listen to KGO 810AM talk radio. Even if my commute were longer thats what I'd listen too.

Post by **Zaia** » 2006-09-14 11:00am

The radio. Nothing else in my car works.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2006-09-14 11:02am

NPR when I'm coming home, because Morning Edition is on. On the way, just whatever strikes my fancy, usually classical or jazz.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2006-09-14 02:11pm

Music must be listened to when driving somewhere. My mind goes insane if there isn't any.

I used to listen to WFNX, but they have a new tower, or something, and reception is shit unless I'm on a numbered road (it's rather weird)

Right now, it's a mix of WAAF, WBCN, and when I get sick of morning shows, my PDA... because my iPod is a piece of shit.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2006-09-14 02:16pm

Singular Quartet wrote:Music must be listened to when driving somewhere. My mind goes insane if there isn't any.

I used to listen to WFNX, but they have a new tower, or something, and reception is shit unless I'm on a numbered road (it's rather weird)

Right now, it's a mix of WAAF, WBCN, and when I get sick of morning shows, my PDA... because my iPod is a piece of shit.

What no Howie Carr.. or Weei??