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The Vintage 2010 Soundtrack: What are you listening to?

Mitchell Harris Wines
February 9, 2010 12:03:17 PM EST

Ah vintage... those heady few weeks present many opportunities to unleash the inner DJ, with some hard core down and dirty tunes to get you through a long night of well.. hard core down and dirty vintage work.

Your particular brand of aural stimulation may of course depend on your job in the vintage team, and the time of day.

I like to ease my way into the day (usually starting at about 4 am) with some mellow tunes.

When the fruit comes rolling in and the jobs start piling up we can then crank it up a notch with some good rocking tracks.

Don't forget those out in the vineyard in a tractor, or whizzing the forklift round the winery ... they need a good selection of driving tunes to keep the revs up.

After refueling at lunch, it’s time for a sing along tune to keep the spirits up. Some classic old school rock, think Stones or The Who, or some kicking Oz rock a-la You Am I to rock away the afternoon.

By the late afternoon as you are clocking up 12 hours and the feet are heavy and the mind is losing focus... it’s time to start thinking about beer o’clock. Mix it up for the cocktail hour with some latin beats?

For those on the night shift you need to keep the spirits up all night long. You need to warm up with some easy modern rock with a little twang such as Wilco, Weezer, or some old school Weddings.

Then as the darkness sets in and the evening’s presses are emptied its time to rock it out until ‘dinner’ some time around midnight – 2am.

After dinner its time for your power tunes and sing along tracks, to get you thru the wee hours before fading into some smooth grooves or even some classical gas as the sun rises to welcome in another day of grapes, ferments, near misses and the birth of potential wine greatness.

Coopers pale ale for brekkie anyone?

Johnno's Job-Specific Top 5 (albums and tracks.)

Lab work : Needs some laid back alt-country...Wilco - Hotel Yankee Foxtrot
Marc Shovelling and Red Ferment punch downs : Wicked thumping beats...The Prodigy - Firestarter
Press Driving : Keeping the mood up for the team...Eels - Mr E’s Beautiful Blues
Hose Dragging : Needs some good beats: Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Blending : Needs some vintage wine rock ... Blur – Charmless Man - ‘…he knows his claret from his Beaujolais’

And Mitch's Top 5 picks for some new beats for the 2010 Vintage:

Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
Eels - Gone Man
Gin Club - Rain
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros - Home
Ball Park Music -Sea Strangers (I Don't Really Know You)

What's your Top 5 for Vintage 2010?

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Karina
February 20, 2010 12:25:43 PM EST

Only 5? That isn't even going to last one press load, but here we go...

1. Foux da fa fa - Flight of the Concords. Not only will you be able to describe your Chardonnay juice (Pamplemousse! Ananas!) but you'll be able to answer all your vintage French guy's important questions about dancing & reading.

2. Dance Anthem of the 80s - Regina Spektor. Some good girly, piano based pop to keep you bopping along while dragging hoses, plus it metions the word sleep a lot which is the closest you're going to get in vintage.

3. Handsome Devil - The Smiths. Well, I'm wearing fluro orange, may as well have some 80s music to go with it. I would really like to know if "let me get my hands on your mammary glands" is a pick up line that has worked for anyone???

4. Leaning on Love - The Tea Party. In that really low point of night shift (where you can see the sunrise is starting and there's fruit everywhere on the pad) you need something mellow but uplifting - the Tea Party always works for me.

5. Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Nick Cave is a must on my vintage list, besides, what better song for wearing your caustic gloves ?
Phil Rogers
February 23, 2010 2:26:02 PM EST

Hey guys great comp-Could not post it on your blogspot-so..............................

Hmm, a very serious and testy business -the old vintage tunes.
You can't please all of the people all of the time..............so then please yourself!!

1) Dayshift- 6am start- Watching the Detectives- Elvis Costello and the Attractions

2) Plunging and pump over work- something Techno based- See you baby- Shaking that ass -Basement Jaxx

3) 6pm wind-down -Beer O'clock beckons-
Classic Rock - Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen and the E-street band

4) 10pm night shift blues- Couldn't stand the Weather- Stevie Ray Vaughan

5) 4am night shift fatigue- Something reflective -Into my Arms- Nicholas Cave and the Bad Seeds

Have a great Vintage all you booze hounds, cellar rats and barrel monkeys!
Phil- Caught REDHANDED Wines
Karina
February 23, 2010 10:01:04 PM EST

Nice to see Nick Cave on the list.
I almost went for Bentley Rhythm Ace's "Theme From Gutbuster" for pump-overs but the embarrassing butt-shaking involved means I reserve that one for Sundays - on my own.
Good luck for vintage, Phil.
Karina
March 5, 2010 2:27:19 AM EST

What I am actually listening too for the first day of picking at Clover: the only 5 CDs I left in the winery last vintage, being:

Regurgitator, Unit
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazuras Dig!!!
Lily Allen
The 2 CDs of the 2006 Hottest 100

Saving the Nick Cave for the last press load, about 4:30 am.
Lar
March 5, 2010 11:40:35 PM EST

Well it depends on who gets to work first, wine maker's choice opera enough to put us back to sleep and very hard to get in the mood, Lab rat modern head banging stuff that is ok to keep you moving later in the day, although it's been ACDC lately (reckon he went to the concert) me I'm happy to have the old 60's 70's 80's stuff I know most the words singing helps get the work done, thats my excuse anyway.
VINx2 Winery Software
April 23, 2010 2:53:10 PM EST

On our turntable:

Eddie Current Supression Ring
Local Natives
Love Connection
Kasabian
BRMC
Avett Brothers
Galafrey Wines
May 10, 2010 1:05:43 AM EST

Triple J all the way, baby!