best song i listened to while skiing the yesterday

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while skiing, i keep one headphone in and listen to a playlist of 500-odd favorites and oddities of all genres. it's fun to keep a running soundtrack of my day-i can sync up these songs to moments or runs or lift rides. at the end of each day, i check my last.fm and add each of the songs i heard that day to a playlist. i remove those songs from the total playlist and repeat the process the following day.

yesterday's playlist happened to be 50 songs long, so i knew exactly what to do. which of these is best?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Stereolab - French Disko 9
Link Wray - Fire and Brimstone 4
ABC - Be Near Me 2
The Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice 2
Joy Division - Transmission 2
Outkast - Gasoline Dreams 2
The Waterboys - Church Not Made With Hands 1
Buju Banton - Hills and Valleys 1
Def Leppard - Stagefright 1
Gong - A Sprinkling of Clouds 1
Prefab Sprout - Appetite 1
Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (Live At The Fillmore East, 1971) 1
INXS - Don't Change 1
The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia (Live at Tivoli Concert Hall, Copenhagen, DK 4/17/72) 1
The Grateful Dead - Sugaree (Live At Pembroke Pines, FL 5/22/77) 1
The Pop Group - She Is Beyond Good & Evil 1
The Wolfhounds - Anti Midas Touch 1
Rio Da Yung OG & Nuez - Whatcha Need 0
Red Aunts - Going Downtown 0
Young Scooter - Cook Up ft. Young Thug 0
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight 0
Rico Ace & EsDeeKid - Bally 0
Orchestra Luna - Heart 0
Isaiah Rashad - Score ft. SZA & 6LACK 0
The New Eves - Rivers Run Red 0
Burna Boy - Ye 0
The Damned - Smash It Up Pts. 1 & 2 0
Durand Jones & The Indications - Witchooo 0
Leon Russell - Stranger In A Strange Land 0
Gene - We Could Be Kings 0
G Herbo - Went Legit 0
China Crisis - Back Home 0
Joe Ely - Fingernails 0
My Morning Jacket - Dancefloors (Live) 0
Rebbie Jackson - Centipede 0
Edwin Starr - War 0
Iron Maiden - Aces High 0
Nourished By Time - Max Potential 0
Meat Puppets - Lost 0
A$AP Rocky - Stop Snitching ft. Sauce Walka 0
Ten Years Later - I'd Love To Change The World 0
Wilco - Hotel Arizona 0
The Jim Carroll Band - It's Too Late 0
The Buggles - Clean, Clean 0
Rory Gallagher - Crest of a Wave 0
Tems - Big Daddy 0
The Pointer Sisters - Going Down Slowly 0
Pulp - Spike Island 0
Max B - Where Do I Go (Bbq Music) 0
TOPS - Your Ride 0


harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 January 2026 00:42 (two weeks ago)

lol at the typo in the thread title. "while skiing yesterday." "skiing the yesterday" sounds pretty cool though, like a lost 70s prog jam (that i would probably enjoy listening to while skiing)

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 January 2026 00:43 (two weeks ago)

I'd probably injure myself if "Aces High" came on while skiing.

jmm, Saturday, 31 January 2026 00:49 (two weeks ago)

How were the conditions? The conditions will change my vote

ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 31 January 2026 01:18 (two weeks ago)

packed powder

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 January 2026 01:21 (two weeks ago)

coverage wasn’t great but it was good snow

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 January 2026 01:22 (two weeks ago)

'Appetite' but 'Centipede' is a strong outside contender

X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 31 January 2026 01:24 (two weeks ago)

‘Don’t change’ for good packed snow for sure.

BlackIronPrison, Saturday, 31 January 2026 01:34 (two weeks ago)

"be near me" <3

dyl, Saturday, 31 January 2026 04:01 (two weeks ago)

“Church Not Made with Hands” going full-throttle down that slope.

Come On, (Eazy), Saturday, 31 January 2026 04:22 (two weeks ago)

Voted Stereolab because of stereotypes and I’ll be listening to the same when I ski on Monday

ron zertnert (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 31 January 2026 04:23 (two weeks ago)

"Rivers Run Red" is the best description of my skiing ability.

jmm, Saturday, 31 January 2026 04:30 (two weeks ago)

Call me old fashioned but I would love hearing Link Wray singing about fire and brimstone while hitting the slopes. Great list and poll.

mom, Saturday, 31 January 2026 04:33 (two weeks ago)

thank u mom

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 January 2026 20:38 (two weeks ago)

i have found that the best skiing songs are epic jams that will follow you up the chair and through the run. do i normally have time to listen to 15 minutes of“sugaree”? not really, but it works very well here.

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 January 2026 20:40 (two weeks ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 2 February 2026 00:01 (two weeks ago)

Voted for Sugar Magnolia, but intended it for Sugaree. Sugar Magnolia is much more of a spring/summer song for me.

I've never been skiing or snowboarding, but for the past few weeks I've had Christine Lavin's Nobody's Fat In Aspen stuck in my head intermittently.

peace, man, Monday, 2 February 2026 02:15 (two weeks ago)

at first i was lol'ing at the idea of a band named "Ten Years Later," but then i realized it was just a typo :D

budo jeru, Monday, 2 February 2026 02:41 (two weeks ago)

some great tunes here but had to go with Link

budo jeru, Monday, 2 February 2026 02:41 (two weeks ago)

ha yes, i am gonna start a hybrid zeppelin/ten years after band called ten years gone

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Monday, 2 February 2026 02:47 (two weeks ago)

Hearing "Transmission" going down the slopes must have been next level.

Bee OK, Monday, 2 February 2026 02:54 (two weeks ago)

Glaring omission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAjDSIfEJYY

Home Alone Again Or (Deflatormouse), Monday, 2 February 2026 17:49 (two weeks ago)

Call me old fashioned but I would love hearing Link Wray singing about fire and brimstone while hitting the slopes. Great list and poll.

― mom, Friday, January 30, 2026 11:33 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

this was my exact thought

My homies buttthole surfers' record sounds like a f (Western® with Bacon Flavor), Monday, 2 February 2026 18:03 (two weeks ago)

fun list! I've never skied but aiui you can't ski without Hills and Valleys

obvious old hat (rob), Monday, 2 February 2026 18:06 (two weeks ago)

Voted Gong for maximum psychedelic ski trip, but love you forever for listening to Orchestra Luna on the slopes.

cinematic hobo hip-hop rock ‘n’ roll blues-jazz soul-review (Dan Peterson), Monday, 2 February 2026 18:09 (two weeks ago)

<3

it was a surprisingly good fit for the steeps

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Monday, 2 February 2026 18:26 (two weeks ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 3 February 2026 00:01 (two weeks ago)

good spread of votes

harper valley paul thomas anderson (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 February 2026 19:10 (two weeks ago)


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