Ok. I work out a lot and am nearly dry on good solid beat music.
I have a high standard of what I am looking for. I don’t need lyrics, no rap, no candy glossed techno (heavy synthesizers). I need fast beats, or solid backbeat like FC Kahuna uses (you probably heard them in the Hummer Commercial “City”).
I like good remixes of old songs if they are done really well like Fatboy did with Magic Carpet Ride and the James Brown remix (dunno if he did that one or Moby did).
Anyone got any suggestions, individual songs or whole libraries by one mixer would be appreciated.
I don’t know how you feel about them, but just about any AC/DC album works for me. 95% of their songs have the exact same 4/4 tempo.
How about surf instrumentals? Most of them have a pretty fast beat … do a search for The Ventures or Dick Dale.
I like to work out to metal. Corrosion of Conformity works well, as do many others.
“Bandages” Hot Hot Heat
“Times Like These” Foo Fighters
“Striptease” Hawksley Workman
“Rock Machine” Copyright
“Chop Suey!” System of a Down
“Stupify” Disturbed
“Hold me, Thrill me…” U2
“Save Me” Tea Party
“Paint It Black” Gob
If those don’t get you’re heart pumping, I can’t help you.
Find some fast ska. I have a tape that I listen to when I run sometimes that is fast ska, and it always gets me going.
Well, I’d recommend a couple DDR soundtracks, but those are mostly techno. How about some Afro-Celt Sound System?
O.K. I lied. I can help you…even more.
Try these if the above do not work:
“Mirror in the Bathroom” English Beat
“Jungle Love” Morris Day (It made me shake my ass back in jr. high)
“For the singer of REM” Firehose
“Wild Dub” Generation X
“Change” Deftones
“Little Lighthouse” Dukes of Stratosphear
“Johnny Q” Crazy 8’s
“Stay Together for the Kids” Blink 182
“Amphetamine” Everclear
All of the above and more have been on my MP3 player while I’ve been sweating away on the treadmill. I’ve got more; let me know when you need them.
Why not pick up a Fatboy CD?
Go 80’s.
*Hungry Like The Wolf
Video Killed The Radio Star
Beat It.*
Also, see here–
http://www.suburbanjungle.com/d/19990801.html
I don’t know if the beat is fast enough, but the Yazoo cd “Upstairs at Eric’s” has a lot of great beats. It’s so totally not my kinda music, but for working out I like it.
There’s a lot of great rock that works too - there’s a band called Gotthard that has a cd called “G” that’s a great workout cd.
I agree with Bosda, go with some good 1980s songs…
Lie To You - Eurythmics
Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
What I Like About You - Romantics
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Wave
Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
Missionary Man - Eurythmics
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash
We Got The Beat - Go Go’s
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
I’m So Excited - Pointer Sisters
Also good, but a little slower tempo (after all the above you’ll be exhausted anyway)…
Puttin On The Ritz - Taco
Just A Gigalo - David Lee Roth
For wieght lifting, I always liked Van Halen’s Sunday Afternoon In The Park and the Scorpians Animal Magnetism.
Aerobic stuff?
Return To The Planet Of Bass by the Maggotrons or I Got The Power by Snap.
I mixed my own tapes years ago and still love to use them.
I’ve enjoyed the Rolling Stones Hot Rocks album in the past, good rockin’ beats throughout.
My tastes have changed over time, though, and now i can’t recommend anything more highly than Giles Peterson and Norman Jay Desert Island Mix, Giles is funk, hip-hop, ninja-tune, jazzy, mixed together, and Norman is mostly funky. There’s a song halfway through the Giles side (“Can you dance to my beat?”) that never fails to make anyone who hears it bob their head and tap their feet …
The song “Strangelove Addiction” by Supreme Beings of Leisure sounds about like what you’re looking for, though it does have lyrics. Also, there’s kind of a slow string-plucky intro before the beat kicks in, but maybe you can edit that out, if’n you’re making an mp3 or a mix tape out of it.
Also with lyrics, but also with a getcha-moving kind of beat (same beat as the Humpty Dance, actually, but with bouncier music over it) is the Soulchild Remix of “19-2000” by Gorillaz. That song can be found on the G-Sides compilation, but the rest of the album is just so-so, in my opinion. I will pointedly not advise you to just steal the mp3 off a P2P network if you have the means.
You could try some of the new breakbeat stuff That’s blowing up at the moment. Y3K mixed – I think – by Bedrock is excellent. Soul Trader by Ils is the best breakbeat album I’ve heard, Night Moves by Layo and Bushwacka! is very good too.
Basically its funky stuff with fairly intricate rhythms and moves at about 130 bpm. Bit like drum ‘n’ bass, without the oceans of bass and menace.
Assorted tracks it is not possible to sit still through – and thus which would make excellent workout music:
B Line Fi Blow – Smith and Mighty (off the Life Is album)
The Motorbike Track – mu-ziq - usually spelt with a greek letter “mu”
Got Myself a Good Man – Pucho and the Latin Soul Brothers
Dr. Who theme – Orbital
Chemical Beats – Chemical Brothers
Voodoo People – Prodigy
Da Funk – Daft Punk
I used to run to two in particular:
White Zombie “More Human Than Human”
Van Hagar “Source of Infection”
Train with Rocky!
*Eye Of The Tiger
Hearts On Fire
In The Burning Heart
The Rocky Trainingf Montage*