ride your bike and listen to... vol. I

riding your bike is always better with listening to good music and in case of doing a long tour on a fixed-gear it can help pushing you over your limits when your legs run tired. we want to start a new series of posts related to music we are listening to when we are on our bikes. every week a new album - at least thats the plan. in the majority of cases i´m listening to several albums successively when i´m out riding cause most of them are´nt that long:)

so today i want to recommend these two albums:

Verse - Aggression


verse was a hardcore from providence in the usa that existed til 2009. they released three full-length albums and were one of the pioneers of modern oldschool hardcore beside bands like bane and later have heart. for me they are simply one of the greatest hc bands of the last decade. the texts of their songs are mainly related to political issues, especially on their last album "aggression" which i want to recommend. many political positions of them might be controversial and i want to point out that i´m not a big fan of their attitude in the middle east conflict but musically this is what hc should sound like and be about. hardcore may not be the most reasonable kind of music when you are out in traffic on a fixed-gear (as i am always riding more aggressively listening to it which we all know can be risky) but i heard that album a dozen times on my bike and love riding to it.

length: 00:28
listen especially to: story of a free man chapter I, II and III

and:

From Monument To Masses - The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps



FMTM was a post-rock band from san francisco usa. they only just splitted up in april 2010. they are also politically-charged like verse but the music is completely different, as it´s a instrumental post-rock without a singer, they only use samples of political speeches. most of the songs exceed the length of five minutes. my favourite album is "the impossible leap in one hundred simple steps" on a sunny day on a bike it´s great to listen to.

length: 00:47
listen especially to: the quiet before, comrades and friends