I just got this cool new mp3 player and I’m looking for suggestions for songs to download to it. I got it to listen to when I work out so maybe some high energy type of music. Any suggestions? What do all of you listen when you work out?
what else but the Rocky theme? (.swf)
I’m weird.
My “working out” generally consists of distance running (5-8mi), so I don’t go for short attention span pop-tunes. (Don’t like ‘em, anyway.) So…Miles Davis (obviously not Kind of Blue…Bitches Brew, Big Fun, ESP, that sort o’ thang), Charlie Parker, some Dave Brubeck, Lalo Schfirin (a particular favorite). If it’s cloudy or raining Enya seems appropriate (though I don’t listen to her much otherwise.) John Lee Hooker has gotten a few spins, and I’ve played Cream a few times as well, but usually it’s the list above. I can’t stand the electronica crap that passes for work-out music that most people like, and hip-hop has just never done anything for me.
Yeah, like I said…I’m weird.
Stranger
On the other hand, I like electronic crap when I run. Particularly Trance stuff - Dave Ralph, Sandra Collins, the Tranceport collections, that sort of thing. On a really good day, the music takes me out of my head. I’ll suddenly realize I’m flying along, faster than normal, and feel like I’m hardly working at all. Euphoria.
I’ve recently started running, and I wanted some music with a real driving beat to keep me going. I found some great stuff by Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy at iTunes (though you do have to convert them to mp3 format). My current playlist is:
Paris Texas (Blade Trinity soundtrack): Bombs Away (Danny Saber Remix)
Fatboy Slim:
10th & Crenshaw
Give the Po’ Man a Break
Jin Go Lo Ba
Wonderful Night
Rockefeller Skank
Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
The Prodigy:
Get Up Get Off
We Gonna Rock
What Evil Lurks
Smack My Bitch Up [I still have to burn this to a CD and rip it to get it out of the bizarre unfriendly Real format, which is the only place I could find it for download]
My favorite is Renegade Master - no matter how lazy and uninterested in exercising I feel, it always gets me revved up.
As you may have gathered, they do include strong language, but I don’t care as long as the music’s good.
pink
soundtrack for moulin rouge
disco music
(okay, so I’m lame)
Here’s my list: it’s a mix of up-tempo techno, rap, pop & rock
Take me Away-4 strings
Body Movin’-Beastie Boys (Fatboy Slim remix)
Busy Child-Crystal Method
Insane in the Brain-Cypress Hill
Growing on Me-The Darkness
Feel Good Inc-Gorillaz
Welcome to the Jungle-Guns & Roses
All Nite-Janet Jackson
U Can’t Touch This-MC Hammer (yeah, yeah, I know)
Beat It-Michael Jackson
Ruiner-NIN
Beware-Punjabi MC with Jay-Z
For Nancy-Pete Yorn
Spitfire-Prodigy
This Must be the Place-Talking Heads
Africa-Toto
Those last two are my cool-down songs
These are some great work-out albums that spring to mind. Sorry… I’m not so good with individual tracks. If you’re interested, www.allmusic.com will point you in the direction of each album’s better songs.
Wire: Pink Flag - Grinding guitar and steady beats
Kraftwerk: Computerwelt - Insanely predictable/minimalist. Just don’t hold me responsible if you actually turn into a robot.
Soft Cell: Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - More in the Tainted Love vein.
Guns ‘N’ Roses: Appetite For Destruction - Gives you tonnes of energy, if nothing else.
The Clash: The Clash - More classic punk.
Pepe Deluxe: Supersound - A lot of it sounds like it should be used in a porno. 'nuff said.
Ultravox: Vienna – More rocking than a lot of early 80s synthesiser stuff.
I have 1500 workout songs on my iPod Mini, but I’ve found some of my favorites to be Louis Prima, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Missy Eliot and Rage Against the Machine 
Any ska, particularly more punk-laced 3rd wave
Soundtracks to movies like Grosse Point Blank or the aforementioned Moulin Rouge
Ozomatli
Squirrel Nut Zippers
Manu Chao
Pogues or more recent groups that have a similar sound like Drop Kick Murphys
Artists I like for mellower or slower days include Butterfly Boucher and Wyclef Jean.
I have this one CD of ska artists from the area where I grew up in Northern CA and I end up not even noticing how much I’m sweating or how tired I am because the music keeps me going. It’s a Raj Records compilation (This is Raj and This is Ska).
Depends on what you mean by “workout”. If it’s cardio, anything that has a nice beat you can move to will do. If you mean weights, nothing beats heavy/death metal. Look up Sevendust, Iron Maiden, Godsmack, System of a Down, Cannibal Corpse, Hatebreed, and Disturbed. Especially Disturbed.
My favourite workout album is Sonic Jihad by Snake River Conspiracy. It’s loud, crude, raucous, angry and funny, and I can really work up a good sweat to it.
Yep, pretty much what he said.