Workout Hype

Eminem, the inspirational ones
Rocky Soundtracks
Wagner
Bon Jovi
AC/DC
some 80's songs.

 

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the cream of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger


I listen to heavy classical music, techno, strong rock, heavy rap, and guitar solos. In that order.

 

I can't take most rap during a workout. It tends to be too laidback, or racist, or narcissistic bling bilng crap. Eminem is pretty much the only one I can take, and then, only about 5 of his songs.

I can take Heavy Classical, Techno, Inspirational Music, Classic Rock

 

Fort Minor, Jurassic Five, Heiruspecs, and Styles of Beyond all have some good workout music. I don't care if it's laid back as long as I feel the energy. Which is why I like Classical and Techno. I'm liable not to even listen to the words anyway. I'm going to listen to the sounds and get the energy off the base, have the drum kicking my heart into high speed, that guitar shedding my blood. The piano ripping my thoughts apart. I find this is the best way to concentrate/think and work out at the same time.

 

Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
Jim Jamison - I'm Always here (Baywatch Theme)
Black Crowes - Go Faster
Van Halen - Jump


Anything upbeat and rockin' works for me

 

Zwara, Komit and Conquistador II by Juno Reactor.

I run to the beat of the music and the beats are coming fast. I like to play Komit as my finisher for my 10 mile runs. It contains a slow spacey twilight calm into a relentless violent tone, at this time I would be using up whatever gas I had left in a full sprint.

 

I have an entire play-list dedicated to working out.

This is a straight copy and paste, so it might be a bit messy. If you happen to recognise some of the more obscure band names here, do let me know.

Dreaming Siren 4:56 Cruciform Injection Aftermath
Step into the Light 4:58 Darren Hayes This Delicate Thing We've Made
Cry Little Sister 3:56 Gerard McMann Asleep
A Conversation With God 5:08 Darren Hayes This Delicate Thing We've Made
SHIT ON THE RADIO 3:44 Darren Hayes We Are Smug
Lightwave 4:31 Project Pitchfork Inferno
Die Stimme 4:23 Absurd Minds Damn The Lie
Soylent Green 7:15 :wumpscut:
Insomnia 3:26 The Cruxshadows Music From The Succubus Club
Embryonic Testaments 4:42 Cruciform Injection Biomechanical Disintegration
Waking the Monster 4:08 Darren Hayes This Delicate Thing We've Made
LOOK WHAT WE'VE STARTED 4:21 Darren Hayes We Are Smug
Goodnight Demonslayer 4:49 Voltaire Deady Sings
Ribbons 5:29 Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing
Lightwave 6:59 VNV Nation Matter + Form
Who Would Have Thought? 4:31 Darren Hayes This Delicate Thing We've Made
His Box 4:40 Dali's Car Life Less Lived
Jesus Antichristus 4:23 :wumpscut: Cannibal Anthem
Dead Enough for Life 5:05 Icon of Coil Machines Are Us
Chrome 4:41 VNV Nation Matter + Form
Go With the Flow 3:07 Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Via Negativa 6:00 The Kovenant S.E.T.I.
Sugarbomb 3:56 Cruciform Injection Aftermath
Android (Combichrist Mix) 4:18 Icon of Coil
Everlasting 5:22 Icon Of Coil
Supermassive Black Hole 3:29 Muse Black Holes And Revelations
Long Way South 2:51 JJ72 JJ72
Testament 6:15 VNV Nation Judgement
Knights Of Cydonia 6:06 Muse Black Holes And Revelations
Serpent Sky 3:18 JJ72 I To Sky
Ozar Midrashim 5:09 Kurt Harland (INSOC) Legacy of Kain- Soul Reaver
Professional Killer 4:34 KMFDM Hau ruck
Black Tides (Crashing Down Mix) 3:42 Cruciform Injection Aftermath
Scream 4:39 Michael Jackson HIStory
Christian Says 3:42 Tones On Tail Life Less Lived
Nemesis 4:31 VNV Nation Judgement

 

Honestly mostly 3rd eye blind and Hip Hop.

 

Fake Problems
Guns N' Roses
I Set My Friends On Fire
Billy Talent
Jamiroquai
LCD Soundsystem
Mando Diao
Mindless Self Indulgence
Puddle Of Mudd
Ramallah
Saliva
Scorpions
Thursday
Bloc Party

Most of that is metal and punk.

 

I definitely had to download a few tunes that are out of my element once I realized my usual music wasn't really getting me jazzed. These are a few that I've found that are pretttty high tempo/inspiring (right term?!) but I usually switch my playlist up every second week so I don't lose that desired effect.

Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Take Your Mama Out - Scissor Sisters
Piece of Me - Britney Spears
9-5 - Dolly Parton
Black Betty - !!!Spiderbait (This version specifically.)
Hit the Road Jack - Ray Charles
Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Bucky Done Gun - MIA
Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT
Anthem for the Year 2000 - Silverchair
the Rulers Back - Jay-Z

 

"Play that funky music - Wild Cherry"
Yeeaahhh, I don't get their accent. Whenever I hear the song I hear them as singing "Play that fucking music"

 

Weapon of Choice- Fatboy Slim
Clubbed to Death- Rob D
Highway to Hell- ACDC
A Little Less Conversation- (JXL Remix) Elvis Presley
Massive Attack- Angel
Bodin Movin'- (Fat Boy Slim Remix) Beastie Boys
Block Rockin Beats- Chemical Brothers
Killing in the name of- Rage against the machine
Pressure Man- The Feelers

 

I exercise with Dance Dance Revolution so my exercise kind of supplies its own sound track. Convenient, that.

 

I don't "work out" but I do ski. This is some stuff I like to listen to when I ski:

Perfume Tree - Flooded
Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh
Lycia - Wide Open Spaces
Seefeel - More Like Space
UNKLE - Eye for an Eye
Bowery Electric - Slow Thrills
Faithless - We Come 1
Hooverphonic - Out of Tune
James Hardway - See Through Me
Justice - Genesis
Leila - Mollie
Misstrip - A Ticket to Death

Too lazy to add links to the songs. All of it has a "cold" feel, as the best way I can describe it. Alot of dnb, dance, and or shoegaze ambient spacey stuff.

 

I don't listen to anything in particular; just basically anything that's really heavy and crushing (mostly various forms of death metal: old school, brutal, technical, death/doom, death/thrash), like....


Suffocation
Defeated Sanity
Putrevore
The Amenta
Ulcerate
Augury
In-Quest
Disincarnate
Decrepit Birth
Severe Torture
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Immolation
Abominable Putridity
Severed Savior
Dead Congregation
Devourment
Dismember
Criminal Element
Human Mincer
Funebrarum
Sympathy
Sentenced (only Shadows of the Past)
Insomnium
Detonation (Holland)
Hour of Penance
Novembers Doom
early Entombed
early Grave
early Carcass
Cannibal Corpse
Psycroptic
Pestilence
Swallow the Sun
Kronos (France)
Inveracity



and some other random stuff...

The Ocean
Meshuggah
Nevermore
Benea Reach
Coroner
The Esoteric
High on Fire
Gojira
Converge
Gaza
Coalesce
Botch
Ion Dissonance
Isis
Pig Destroyer/Rotten Sound/Terrorizer/Nasum/Napalm Death/other random grindcore bands



I doubt this list will be helpful to anyone, but I'm bored so...whatever.