What music makes you invincible?

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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).

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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.

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Entry Of The Gladiators

Doot doot dootle-ootle doot doot doo-doo…

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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.

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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.

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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer theme song.

Offspring, Kick Him When He’s Down.

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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! :smiley:

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.

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Arrested for Driving While Blind by ZZ Top always made us feel invincible…

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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

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‘Kung Fu’ by Ash

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Power Struggle by Sunna
Find Comfort in Yourself by Midtown

I’ll second My Hero.

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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.

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The Mighty Mouse song.

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As performed by Andy Kaufman

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Theme to Indiana Jones

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Supersonic Generation by Tomoyasu Hotei
Reach Out by Cheap Trick

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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.”

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Bizet’s Les Toreadors and Allegro giocoso from Carmen.
Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking

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The Maelstrom Mephisto by Dimmu Borgir

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46 & 2 Tool

I nearly break something everytime I hear the end of that song