# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/21 "2003-08-26T03:33:50Z")
One more Transformers geek here! Nothing like Stan Bush’s “Dare” and “You Got The Touch” and Vince DiCola’s synthesizer-driven score from the TF: The Movie Soundtrack to get me going. Other stuff: Any fast songs from the Brian Setzer Orchestra, Royal Crown Revue, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, and/or Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Mike Ness’ entire album “Cheating At Solitaire,” especially “The Devil In Miss Jones.” “Baba O’Riley” by The Who (known as the “Teenage Wasteland” song). “Secret Agent Man” by Johnny Rivers, or preferably punk or ska-type covers of it (like the Spanish language “Hombre Secreto” by the Plugz). Ennio Morricone’s score from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and similar music in the “spaghetti Western” vein. Any surf music, especially “Love Pipe” by the Red Elvises (played during the beginning of Six String Samurai), and “Miserlou” by Dick Dale (played during the beginning of Pulp Fiction). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/22 "2003-08-26T05:17:40Z")
A few years ago, the Reverend Horton Heat did a rockabilly/surf cover of the _Jonny Quest_ Theme, (on a great CD, all covers of old cartoon themes) and it’s one-minute-and-forty-one seconds of scorched-earth guitar perfection. I listen to it sometimes when I’m on the exercise bike. If that song was three weeks long, I could win the Tour de France. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/23 "2003-08-26T05:32:40Z")
_ **Entry Of The Gladiators** _ Doot doot dootle-ootle doot doot doo-doo… ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/24 "2003-08-26T05:39:04Z")
My senior year of college, I woke up every day in a “Christ, not all this again” kind of depression. I would put “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and John Mellencamp’s “Jack and Diane” on a loop on my MP3 player, and that would get me through the day. Which is weird, because I like those songs, but they’re not my favorites. But I guess they made me invincible, because I graduated and I’m here today. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/25 "2003-08-26T05:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Ennio Morricone’s score from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, and similar music in the “spaghetti Western” vein. I was listening to that on head phones once when I stepped up to a crowded public urinal. Very oddly appropriate music for the situation. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/26 "2003-08-26T05:44:00Z")
The **Buffy the Vampire Slayer** theme song. Offspring, Kick Him When He’s Down. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/27 "2003-08-26T06:55:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Lou \* > One more Transformers geek here! Nothing like Stan Bush’s “Dare” and “You Got The Touch” and Vince DiCola’s synthesizer-driven score from the TF: The Movie Soundtrack to get me going. Hey, I’m such a big Transformers geek that I got front-row seats when Stan Bush and Vince DiCola were performing LIVE! at BotCon '97. Top _that,_ Decepti-creeps! 😃 Oh, yeah, “Dare” kicks much ass. 80’s music gets a lot of knocks, but there were some good songs from the decade as well. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/28 "2003-08-26T07:14:50Z")
_Arrested for Driving While Blind_ by ZZ Top always made us feel invincible… ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/29 "2003-08-26T10:18:37Z")
_Guilty_ by **GravitY Kills** _Revolution Man_ by **Union Underground** _Wait and Bleed_ by **Slipknot** _In the Hall of the Mountain King_ by that guy who wrote it. _The Imperial March_ by **Darth Vader** ---
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/30 "2003-08-26T10:28:43Z")
‘_Kung Fu_’ by **Ash** ---
**Author:** ![Trjckster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Trjckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trjckster)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/31 "2003-08-26T10:29:12Z")
_Power Struggle_ by **Sunna** _Find Comfort in Yourself_ by **Midtown** I’ll second _My Hero_. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/32 "2003-08-26T10:33:27Z")
I have two that work well. _Stormy Monday_ from the Allman Brothers Band Live At Fillmore East. _No More Blues (Chega de Saudade)_ from Dizzy Gillespie On The French Riviera. Both of these recordings work to build my spirit. One starts slow and funky and works through some amazingly emotional solos to a orgiastic finish. The other begins fast, gets faster, build and builds until it nearly explodes. No bad mood or period of depression has survived these tunes. If things are really getting me despondent, I will play one or both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/33 "2003-08-26T11:02:46Z")
The Mighty Mouse song. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/34 "2003-08-26T11:38:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hüsker Düde \* > \*\*The Mighty Mouse song. \*\* As performed by Andy Kaufman ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/35 "2003-08-26T11:59:09Z")
Theme to Indiana Jones ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/36 "2003-08-26T12:47:42Z")
_Supersonic Generation_ by Tomoyasu Hotei _Reach Out_ by Cheap Trick ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/37 "2003-08-26T12:54:32Z")
Blue Oyster Cult’s **Black Blade** Molly Hatchet’s **Flirtin’ With Disaster** A Perfect Circle’s **Thinking of You** and from **Phish** , I feel like I can do anything when I hear “Your hands and feet are mangoes. You’re going to be a genius anyway.” ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/38 "2003-08-26T13:55:52Z")
Bizet’s Les Toreadors and Allegro giocoso from Carmen. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking ---
**Author:** ![Sikander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Sikander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sikander)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/39 "2003-08-26T13:59:47Z")
**The Maelstrom Mephisto** by Dimmu Borgir ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635/40 "2003-08-26T14:04:05Z")
_46 & 2_ **Tool** I nearly break something everytime I hear the end of that song [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-makes-you-invincible/197635.md?page=3)