Last week the Jan/Feb issue of Blue Skies Magazine came out. This is an event I look forward to each month as it helps me keep up on what’s going on around the skydiving community.
It’s thanks to Blue Skies that I found the Everglades Boogie in the first place – had it not been for their calendar we never would have had the fabulous experience in Florida a few weeks back.
Anyway, I’m getting away from my point here…
One of the columns I enjoy reading is Jump a Random Stranger which is always the back page of the magazine. They ask a number of fun questions to get you acquainted with the skydiver (or BASE jumper) of the month.
A question they always ask pertains to the jumpers’ favorite skydiving songs. This is something that’s close to my heart. When I started skydiving there were a few songs that I always listened to before jumping and as I’ve grown in the sport, I’ve added to this playlist. Yes, there is actually an iPod playlist called skydiving on my Nano.
So today I’m using Blue Skies Magazine as an inspiration to talk about my favorite skydiving songs. Below is my list, with explanations for the one’s that aren’t so obvious.
- Pocket Full of Sunshine; Natasha Bedingfield – This song was on my brother’s tandem video. This was before I started skydiving and every time I heard it my blood started pumping a little harder.
- Major Tom (Coming Home); Peter Schilling – The first song I heard after my tandem skydive in Miami. Sure, it’s about space travel, but the lyrics hit home and it stuck. Was always a song I listened to before AFF jumps.
- Jai Ho; A. R. Rahman – No good reason, it was just on my iPod playlist during AFF training.
- The Adventure; Angels & Airwaves
- Untouched; The Veronica’s – AFF #2, I found myself singing this on the plane ride to altitude. It calmed my nerves. Over time, it pumped me up. Been on the playlist ever since.
- Come Clarity; In Flames – this was one of the songs that came up on Danger’s playlist every weekend at Cleveland Parachute. Lots of memories in these lyrics.
- Welcome to the World; Kevin Rudolf – it just fits.
- Streetlight; Derby – I used this when editing a video and now I can’t listen to it without thinking of skydiving.
- What I’ve Done; Linkin Park – another one that Danger used when editing videos.
- Free Falling; Tom Petty – duh!
There are more, but so as to not lose your interest I’ll stick with a lit of 10. There’s a lot of hard rock that makes me think of skydiving, mainly from the music that was playing at the DZ when I was a student, but this is a good start.
Now it’s your turn – tell me, what are your favorite skydiving songs, and why?
Blue ones!
Ashley
I don’t own an mp3 player, so I don’t have a skydiving playlist. If I did, it would probably consist of:
Fort Minor – Remember the Name
Roy Jones Jr. – Can’t Be Touched
Three Days Grace – Animal I have become
Linkin Park – New Divide
Green Day – Holiday
Eminem – Lose Yourself
hmm, that’s all I can think of for now. There are probably more.
I’m always interested in others playlists and knowing what gets them amped. My AFF song was Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name. Not really jumping related at all. It really gets you pumped though.
Danger let me choose my own music for my first solo skydive video and I asked him to download Linkin Park’s ‘What I’ve Done’ and ‘Gravity’ by Our Lady Peace. Love those songs and the memories – thanks for including LP ; )
Godsmack- Awake. Great song!
Rev Theory- Hell Yeah. Download it NOW!!!
Smashing Pumpkins- Bullet With Butterfly Wings!
NadaSurf- Weightless
Guns N Roses- Welcome to the jungle
These are my top 5 right now for skydiving.
Don – I’m all about the Linkin Park stuff as well. Three Days Grace, nice addition!
SB – it’s not always about the lyrics, but if the song gets your blood pumping then it’s a good add to the list.
Christa – Nice! I remember seeing your solo video on Facebook and it reminded me of Parkman cuz Dan always had that on the rotation. So thank YOU for having him download it
Eric – Those are great. I’ll be adding some of those in the near future!
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