Ski areas with your favorite music or worst music in your opinion

ciscokid

Don’t remember seeing a thread on this, may be wrong.

With all the rappy crappy jung coming over the speakers I remember a nice classic rock when arriving at Black NH on satellite radio

I will forever remember Carly Simons “your so vain” on the speakers at SNOW BOWL NJ in ‘73.

Cannonball

ciscokid;d-2962 wroteDon’t remember seeing a thread on this, may be wrong.

With all the rappy crappy jung coming over the speakers I remember a nice classic rock when arriving at Black NH on satellite radio

I will forever remember Carly Simons “your so vain” on the speakers at SNOW BOWL NJ in ‘73.

Being 50 years old, I've spent ~50 years listening to classic rock and therefore want to hang myself when I hear it. I don't know what "rappy crappy jung" is (??), but it sounds like it would be at least something new and potentially interesting.

I don't hear tons of music at lifts these days. Cannon's Cannonball lift usually has either techno, punk, or metal... and occasionally opera! All are pretty fun for the 2 min I'm there.

NewEnglandSkier13

Black Mountain, NH and Magic stand out to me. Both with classic rock in the base areas. However it's been a few years since I've been to Magic.

Chuckstah

The mid station at Mad River is clearly the best. A mix of everything. Has it's own Facebook page, and playlists posted online. It's not even close anywhere else, IMO, of course. 😀

lotsoskiing

Chuckstah;c-44218 wroteThe mid station at Mad River is clearly the best. A mix of everything. Has it's own Facebook page, and playlists posted online. It's not even close anywhere else, IMO, of course. 😀

+1 and the base of the Single as well. Quality tunes.

Believe it or not the base of one of the six-packs at Stratton a couple of years ago was on fire...every lap a great tune. Whatever one is on the main face to the summit.

JimK

Heard some really memorable Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson one day about six years ago while loading the single chair at MRG. Can't remember if it was from a liftee's boombox, or coming over a PA system?
Sometimes they will play some good, loud music in the Snowbird Tram, other times it's quiet. It depends on the operator.

Chuckstah

Here's a Powder mag article about the midstation music.

https://www.powder.com/stories/mad-rivers-rhythm-man/

rickbolger

Belleayre Tomahawk mid station one of the lifties a few years back played swing, big band, crooners, etc. that was awesome.

One time at the base of A-Basin they were playing Tom T Hall, I thought it was fantastic, delayed my return to the slopes and ordered a beer.

ceo

Base of the Cannonball Quad at Cannon usually has some nice tunes cranking: a lot of classic rock, Grateful Dead live shows, other stuff, depending who's loading the butts that day.

IBRAKEFORTBARS

NewEnglandSkier13;c-44217 wroteBlack Mountain, NH and Magic stand out to me. Both with classic rock in the base areas. However it's been a few years since I've been to Magic.

Yep! That’s BM of NH! It’s not the same without the lifties cranking out classic rock at the base terminals.

I here there’s a liftie working the midstation on MRG single that jams classic tunes on his electric guitar.

IBRAKE

ski_it

IDK if it is my favorite or worse but Mt Snow plays music on Beartrap. There's even a musical notation on the trail map. Not sure who picks the music but I don't think it is the base terminal lifties. Sound like Sirius XM, musical podcasts or perhaps some Vermont FM. I recall hearing the Dead, Fish, interviews & music of Tom Petty, the Yardbirds, etc...

Brklynskier

rickbolger;c-44233 wroteBelleayre Tomahawk mid station one of the lifties a few years back played swing, big band, crooners, etc. that was awesome.

On the Tomahawk Lift, That liftie was of a certain age, and if you looked into the booth, he was conducting to the music.

Spruce

Magic Red Chair.

conrad

ciscokid;d-2962 wroteI will forever remember Carly Simons “your so vain” on the speakers at SNOW BOWL NJ in ‘73.

I had another one of these moments maybe 10 years ago. Got on Barker at Sunday River and the Gould Academy race course was blasting Burning Down the House by Talking Heads. I'm not sure I had ever heard that song before, or at least not very often. It was loud enough to hear it from the bottom to half way up the mountain. No one was even racing and the Barker chair is not fast, but not slow either, so something was just right about that. Just us up in the air listening to the tune. It was catchy right off the bat--a really random but good song--and just one of those memorable moments that stuck with me.

I forgot the name until this afternoon when I heard it on the radio!

Chuckstah

The summit triple at Pat's Peak had a great playlist last weekend, but I'm not there enough to know if it's a regular thing? So glad I have the Indy pass to support the smaller gems.

JimK

Like Cisco's You're So Vain and Conrad's Burning Down the House, I have life long memories, skiing or otherwise, that are tied to specific songs. Possibly hundreds of them if I start reminiscing with my wife. I remember titles/artists/dates, she remembers obscure lyrics! It's incredible how the memories are triggered every time I hear the song again.

More ski-related song/memories:

Snowshoe, WV 1983. Wife and I danced in a club there one night on a ski trip. My favorite song that night was Rock the Casbah by The Clash.

Around same time, early 1980s, my parents owned a vacation home near Blue Knob, PA. They kept their 1950s Grundig HiFi system and old records in that house. It was a thing of beauty and looked very much like this (my brother still has it):

One night my wife and I and another couple danced to a 1957 album in that house by Lester Lanin and his big band, favorite song was Night and Day, a Cole Porter composition.

I've taken many long ski roadtrips over the years, music gets played on the long drives. On the way from VA to Aspen in 1992 with a couple buddies we listened to a tape player one of them had and favorite song repeated on tape was The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby and The Range.

In 2000 I drove with a friend from VA to VT and NY to ski for a week. One day while driving access road to Whiteface the song I Believe by Cher came on the radio. I can never forget the view of that mtn coming into sight while listening to that song.

January 2007, Bryce Resort, VA: at noon I found myself alone on a chair as the bells from the slopeside Our Lady of the Shenandoah church chimed a nice rendition of the 19th century folk song Shenandoah. My late Mom loved that kind of music and took me skiing several times at Bryce when I was a boy. That ski day in 2007 happened to be her first birthday since she had died the year before. It wasn’t the heavily falling snow that gave me chills and watered my eyes on that chairlift ride.
Our Lady of the Shenandoah Catholic Church is in the background of this photo:

In April 2009 I took a roadtrip with my son from VA to CO for a week of powder skiing in 3 feet new snow. We survived it with a 1997 Nissan Maxima with regular tires:-(
We played a DVD with Tom Petty's greatest hits a lot on that drive. Favorite song was Running Down a Dream. Good road song!

newpylong

conrad;c-46638 wrote
ciscokid;d-2962 wroteI will forever remember Carly Simons “your so vain” on the speakers at SNOW BOWL NJ in ‘73.
I had another one of these moments maybe 10 years ago. Got on Barker at Sunday River and the Gould Academy race course was blasting Burning Down the House by Talking Heads. I'm not sure I had ever heard that song before, or at least not very often. It was loud enough to hear it from the bottom to half way up the mountain. No one was even racing and the Barker chair is not fast, but not slow either, so something was just right about that. Just us up in the air listening to the tune. It was catchy right off the bat--a really random but good song--and just one of those memorable moments that stuck with me.

I forgot the name until this afternoon when I heard it on the radio!

If someone was blasting Talking Heads on the hill I would stop and shake their hand. That is awesome.

joshua_segal

I believe that in a world of devices where one can choose whatever music s/he likes, I think the best music that a ski area can provide is "The Sounds of Silence". So those who want music can have it and those who prefer the whistle of the wind, the crunch of the snow, the hum of the sheaves, etc. can enjoy that.

JimK

joshua_segal;c-46648 wroteI believe that in a world of devices where one can choose whatever music s/he likes, I think the best music that a ski area can provide is "The Sounds of Silence". So those who want music can have it and those who prefer the whistle of the wind, the crunch of the snow, the hum of the sheaves, etc. can enjoy that.

As much as I like music, I have never put on ear buds while skiing or cycling. I feel it's safer and like you I enjoy the sounds of nature for those activities...except maybe if there's a nice party going on when I ski into the base area :) then I can enjoy it.

Once in a while I have cross tracks with someone who is broadcasting loud music from some sort of portable sound system/boombox while skiing. It's so rare that I get a kick out of it, but if it became common I would have a problem with it.

Quietman

When I worked at the west lift at the crotch, I had different mixes for different crowds. Sat and Sun during the morning and mid day I had 70-80's rock, with a few Disney songs tossed in, afternoons after 4 started adding in a little harder, some newer wave. Had a special mix for the 9PM-3AM crowd, never played rap but would have 20 people belting out Bohemian Rhapsody, Roxanne, Comfortably numb, etc. Also had select newer symphonic goth stuff. The tunes were just as much for me to keep me going past midnight(3am in those days). 160W was as loud as I would go. Acceptance by management would vary from year to year but generally got my way when they saw that the skiers really really enjoyed it. Last year was the last for me working, haven't heard anyone else take it up.