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Mar 1, 2013 - 11:13 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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I'm sure I'm not the only one who plays certain songs, cues or scores when they travel near or far from home.
I'm not talking about your random everyday listening, but more specific music that you feel is needed to accentuate where you are.
Case in point, this week, I've been to Berlin for 4 days.
It's a nice enough city, not very pretty, but full of interesting places to visit (The Brandenberg Gate, the Wall - what's left of it - Checkpoint Charlie, Unter Den Linden). The music I played on my mp3 player (when I wasn't with my other half) was Night Crossing and Boys From Brazil by Jerry Goldsmith. Those scores felt right as I walked around the city, their connections to my surroundings having a lot to do with it. It made everything seem that little bit cooler than it already was.
On previous trips, I've had John Williams' Towering Inferno Main Title in my head during a helicopter trip over New York and I've played Horner's Titanic and Mancina's Speed 2 on the many cruises I've been on.
I also remember playing Where The River Runs Black (Horner) on a river trip in South America.
So, what particular cue or CD have you played that felt relevant to your surroundings and made things funner!? 
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When i was younger i was a advid bike rider and i, traveling through the country often would put on the music that would fit the setting, From SHAFT THEME- WATTS to THE BIG COUNTRY, IDAHO to THE FOX- GREENWICH VILLAGE- TO KING OF KINGS- ST PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL ETC ETC
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Try playing DANCES WITH WOLVES or THE BIG COUNTRY while driving through Yellowstone National Park.
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Usually take a selection of favorites, as opposed to new ones.
When I went to Egypt in 2008, I brought a lot of ancient-themed scores. It was amazing to be driving in a bus along the Nile, where life as observed doesn't look much different from what it was then, and to be listening to THE EGYPTIAN. Kinda corny, but works for me.
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Mar 14, 2013 - 8:30 PM
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Timmer
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It's become almost cliche, but I cannot drive around here in Arizona (when traveling out of the metro Phoenix area) without listening to Morricone, Moross, Bernstein and Goldsmith Western scores....and other assorted Westerns.
When traveling in the Pacific Northwest, I found John Scotts' THE NORTH STAR very appropos.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY , HAWAII and BORA BORA were the musical companions on my trip to Hawaii.
And of course, a trip to Rome was accompanied by Miklos Rozsa, Rota and Rustichelli.
Sometimes other folks do appropriate score music for you. When in Paris, I was surprised (and thrilled ) to hear The Paris Waltz from IS PARIS BURNING? playing over the PA system on the Bateaux Mouche tour we took on the Seine...they used it during a moment of no running commetary as we apporached the Eiffel Tower. Pretty cool.
Ray, with no soundtracks to accompany me on a particular journey it still sticks in my head as a golden moment when driving towards the Grand Canyon and hearing on a local radio station the theme to The Big Country, at that moment it didn't get better than that. 
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