# What music makes you invincible? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 26, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635 "2003-08-26T00:22:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/1 "2003-08-26T00:22:19Z")
What music fills you with a spirit of invincibility, allowing you to face any terror with a rakish grin and unfazed bravado? Gates of Delirium - Yes Oh Fortuna - Carl Orff Toccata & Fugue - Bach Princes of the Universe - Queen ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/2 "2003-08-26T00:30:12Z")
_Children of the Sun_ - Billy Thorpe ---
**Author:** ![Psalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Psalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psalex)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/3 "2003-08-26T00:39:06Z")
“Hair of the Dog”- Nazareth ---
**Author:** ![Spooge\_Demon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Spooge\_Demon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooge_Demon)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/4 "2003-08-26T00:40:48Z")
tough question…I guess “thunderstruck” by AC/DC comes to mind…but that’s a first thought. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/5 "2003-08-26T00:49:43Z")
“You Got The Touch” and “Dare” from the soundtrack to _Transformers: The Motion Picture_. Ok. So I _am_ a nerd. Sue me. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/6 "2003-08-26T00:54:48Z")
A hearty second on **Bippy’s** “Princes of the Universe.” Also: Dropkick Murphys - “The Gauntlet” > [@](#): > > Do you think we’re gonna make it? > I don’t know unless we try > You could sit here scared to move > Or we could take them by surprise > It’s submission that they want > It’s surrender that they need > When we’re doing it their way their aims will be achieved Rush - “Mission” Sepultura - “Refuse/Resist” ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/7 "2003-08-26T01:05:54Z")
I can testify that Garbage - “Tempation Waits” does _not_ make your car invincible against fence posts. For some reason, Foo Fighter’s “Everlong” does it for me… ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/8 "2003-08-26T01:09:45Z")
“WAR MACHINE” - KISS ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/9 "2003-08-26T01:19:28Z")
Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who. It only works if it’s really, _really_ loud, though. Hell’s Bells, AC/DC. Freebird, Lynyrd Skynyrd Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/10 "2003-08-26T01:21:23Z")
Loreena McKennit’s MARRAKECH NIGHT MARKET and several Russian folk melodies (particularly Meadowlands and selections from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheharezade) work for me, and of course Oh Fortuna. I find it’s much easier, though, to wear earplugs and blast “Shake Your Bootie” as sung on The Brady Bunch Variety Hour at my enemies. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/11 "2003-08-26T01:27:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor \* > \*\*“You Got The Touch” and “Dare” from the soundtrack to _Transformers: The Motion Picture_. > > Ok. So I _am_ a nerd. Sue me. 😛 \*\* Ahhh… yes. Stan Bush’s contributions to the soundtrack. Still makes me want to yell out, “Hell yeah, Buddy!” when _The Touch_ plays just as Hot Rod changes into Rodimus Prime. Speaking of nerd: when I was in high school, I used those two songs to get the energy going when I was out running, practicing for soccer. Also, I used to pull up to people at the stop lights, roll down my window, and blast Lion’s version of the Transformer’s theme. (You know: the heavy beat for a few seconds before they scream, “TRANSFORMERS!”) 😃 Good God. I wonder how the hell I ever got married. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/12 "2003-08-26T01:30:04Z")
Rush - _Mission_, _Marathon_, and _Jacobs Ladder_ and more… I Love RUSH!! Iron Maiden - _The Trooper_ and _Losfer Words (Big Orra)_ Queen… I prefer _Gimme the Prize_ and _Hammer to Fall_ Nazareth - _Hair of the Dog_ amen, brother! Ted Nugent - _Stranglehold_ Molly Hatchett - _Flirtin’ with Disaster_ Accept - _Balls to the Wall_ AC-DC - _D.T._ Thin Lizzy - _Do Anything You Want To_ that’s a LOT of songs… I must feel invincible a LOT! and there are more… these just sprang to mind ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/13 "2003-08-26T02:00:41Z")
Add me to the geek list. “The Touch.” used to work for me too. My top three right now: “My Hero” by the foo fighters the two towers trailer music by Clint Mansell off of the Requiem For a Dream soundtrack “Lose Yourself” by Eminem. It’s cheesy, but it works. ---
**Author:** ![Psalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Psalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psalex)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/14 "2003-08-26T02:05:52Z")
verbenabeast quoted: > [@](#): > > Nazareth - Hair of the Dog amen, brother! Normally I wouldn’t press the issue, **verbenabeast** , but you should know I am a _sister_ , not a brother. (I would have let that one go, but verbenabeast knows someone who had a similar misconception floating around about his or her gender, and was very sympathetic to the sensitivity of the subject) Oh and another thing: Led Zeppelin “Immigrant Song” ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/15 "2003-08-26T02:40:10Z")
Electioneering by Radiohead. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this is the perfect rock song. I’m asking for a flaming, aren’t I? ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/16 "2003-08-26T02:40:58Z")
Peter Gabriel “Security” (which MUST be listened to from start to finish, LOUD!! and Any Ramones record (LOUD!!) unclviny ---
**Author:** ![B.Serum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/b.serum/32/14266_2.png) [@B.Serum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Serum)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/17 "2003-08-26T02:44:21Z")
Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down or Have You Ever Been Mellow? TURN IT UP!!! ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/18 "2003-08-26T02:48:36Z")
Iron Man by Black Sabbath does it to me… As does the craptacular techno song Sandstorm by Darude. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/19 "2003-08-26T02:52:59Z")
_Mea Culpa_, **Psalex**!! I was going for the whole _Testify!_ vibe, and did the same thing to you that I myself was crying about not a month ago… _Preach it_, Sistah! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Bee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Larry\_Bee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Bee)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/20 "2003-08-26T03:23:16Z")
Springsteen’s Born To Run [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635.md?page=2)