Gardening music

Hi geraniumd. that is an eclectic mix, but I expect you would think that about mine too, On my i.POD I have George Michael,John Rutter, Most Requiems, I love choral music, Andrea Bocelli I love opera, Film themes ... Dances with wolves, Gladiator,Romeo & Juliet, Katherine Jenkins,Muse, Beatles, Better stop there my list is enourmous! Nice blog.

That is a very varied mix! I love opera but only when I am reading.

I quite like your choice of music GD but I dont listen to music in the garden as I like to here the birds and I love the piece and quiet to.

I love listening to my music in the garden too Geraniumdad, Coldplay, Stereophonics, Oasis,The Killers, REM, Amy Macdonald, but favourite at the moment is Brandon Flowers from The Killers who we went to see in Leeds last week, brilliant, I like to sing away to myself too, luckily the neighbours are far enough away not to be deafened,lol.

depends what the neighbour's adolescent is 'listening' too :o(

Personally the birds, cows,squirrels and when they were little the squeals of laughter from my girls :o)

We occasional get rap from two doors up and when it gets a bit much, we put Adiemus, Karl Jenkins on TV player open the french doors and blast! Usually does the trick, they turn it down. However, if ever I get the knack of downloading on to my MP3 which is one year old, I want Adiemus, Barbers Adagio for Strings, Borodin String Quartet, Steppes of Asia,Polovtsian Dances, Dances with Wolves, Lennon's Imagine, Here, There Everywhere and Oh! What a beautiful morning! The birds stay quite happily feeding while I sing..not sure about the neighbours!! Great blog..we learn a little more about each other!

I like your mix of music. Very interesting. I don't listen to music in the garden. I enjoy the peace and quiet or the sound of the birds and wildlife.

Yes, I'm with you, Gilli. I keep my ears open for the sound of Short-toed or Booted Eagles. We've had many a visitor in fits of laughter when we suddenly rush into the garden from wherever we've been, both gazing upwards with the same expectant expression. :o)

We tend to listen to radio 4. However, when alone I like to play Sigur Ros, especially the "untitled" album (track 8 gets blasted out for the neighbours, all 11 minutes of it). Radiohead is another favourite, Ryan (not Bryan) Adams, the punk poet John Cooper Clarke), Carl Orffs O fortuna, Joy Division, Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah too name a few.

just the birds! ~ although I'm not so keen on the jay that keeps screaming at the moment
im not so good with the ipod, i can never remember how to download stuff and i dont like the ear plugs
if i could have music playing in the garden it might be vaughan williams folk tunes, anything by enya, or some pan pipes ~ i like some of those things they sell in garden centres with music and wave sounds.

If I`m working around the garden I don`t really bother with music , if I`m working near the patio then it depends on my mood and whether the neighbours are at home as I do like to hear my choice, I can flit from The Three Tenors to The Backstreet Boys, I like most kinds of music, favourite all time artiste is Neil Diamond, Manuel of the Mountains is a favourite in the greenhouse when pricking out my seedlings, Barbra Streisand,Take That, Beegees, Phantom of the Opera ( has to be loud,lol..).
On a summers day when I`m on my own I like to relax with War of the Worlds..I like to listen to Richard Burton telling me a story and as my fav all time group is the Moody Blues I get to listen to both .....

Very interesting to see what you all listen to, and I like most of your choices too. Simbad, Brandon Flowers:-) yes please. love crossfire, love opera, love classical, some pop, some folk and western in fact anything but modern jazz. When I'm gardening though it's radio 4. Can't miss anything on it, must have radio in all rooms lol:-)

I don't even have an Ipod, I'm afraid - I never listen to anything but nature and the song of my own thoughts when gardening - I'm a bit of a control freak, and like to be fully aware of my surroundings at all times, lol!

No music for me either, especially when gardening, thats what its all about when your in the garden, being amongst nature and getting lost in your own thoughts.. lovely!

I like listening to the birds, the coal train hooting as it goes through the village, the chickens down the road, the neighbours dogs barking, my cat miawing at me for food, and the peace and quiet :o))
It's nice to be without radios etc sometimes.

I'm with you then, Hywel, just the birdsong for me ! I do have music on GoY sometimes though, especially like tonight when OH is watching live footie on TV ! : o ))

I do agree, dont listen to much when gardening, but even if I do I can still tell which birds are in the garden. Listen with one ear!

I've usually got music in the house - cd's - my own choice, not some DJ's choice lol
And when I'm making pottery things in my shed - I have music then aswell. But never in the garden.

I suppose it depends on the location of your garden. Surrounded by birds and trees and lovely things, communing with nature...aaah. Unfortunately we don't all have these background noises in our small enclosed gardens, but sometimes, even I go out there unaccompanied by my radio and get lost in the task. Unfortunately, since having the makeover, I seem to have lost my blackbirds and robins who used to serenade me. I hope they'll forgive me one day:-) Wood pigeons have not yet forsaken me lol:-(

I think music always depends on our mood, don't you think? Sometimes I dont listen to music for weeks on end then suddenly for some strange reason I will put on a certain CD. Music really moves me so when that mood takes you you have to do it!! ;0)

Isnt there or wasnt there a group called 'the birds' and there were the 'ladybirds' and of course the 'beatles/beetles' there is Beethoven's pastoral ~ im sure there's lots more

Saints-Saens' Carnival of the animals? erm Woody Woodpecker song...a ha... Love Is Like A Butterfly, Autumn Leaves...someone elses turn now. Better not let Floribunda see this or she'll put us all to shame:-) Just thought The Frog Chorus:-)

Peter & the Wolf
House of the rising sun, by the Animals !
Rudolph the red nose reindeer !!
Puff the magic dragon
Hound dog.

Every body hates me nobody likes me just 'cos I eat worms:-)

Ugly Bug Ball!!! racked the old brains for that one lol

Well, in the garden, or any quiet pursuits, I'm afraid it has to be anything by Sigur Ros...

I am a mole and I live in a hole ! Lol

I just like to listen to the bird's in the garden, but I like to listen to the radio in the house.

Sigor Ros Bamboo, thanks for the introduction, just watched on You Tube, see what you mean very uplifting:-) Grandmage, I thought you were scraping the bottom of the barrel with Puff and Rudolph...but the mole song is pure genius:-)

B.a, Well Rudolph is seasonal!! not sure about Puff ? and Think 'mole' shows our age !!! Lol

how about blowing in the wind? or raindrops keep falling on my head?

Or, Sticky, it might as well rain until September !!

Glad you liked 'em, Bornagain - amazing stuff, must be all those stark icy landscapes in their homeland - majestic, moving music

very good grandmage - true too!