Just for Fun - Surprisingly Good Workout Songs! (Page 3)

One Night In Bangkok always makes me smile and Footloose - add a little Motley Crue and Huey Lewis and maybe a shot of Joy and Pain and I'm happy!

Ohhhh, Footloose! That would be a great little surprise on a tough bike/run!

I'm downloading it tonight!

Anything by Eminem and Limp Biskit get the heart racing but sometimes I need to smile and relax.  That's when I find the old country classic "CONVOY!!!" 

Yeah we got a great big convoy rockin through the night!!!!

I really like to have silly songs on my list.  Anything that will make me laugh and remind me that all of this workout nonsense is for fun.

So I'll have a good bit of Tenacious D, the Theme from the Muppet Show, and even Ernie (from Sesame Street) singing Rubber Ducky.

Resurrecting a good thread, I downloaded the three songs above yesterday, and ran with them.  Nice ones I would have never picked myself!

My contribution of unlikely songs comes from a run last weekend when I borrowed my wife's ipod.  Not much of a country guy, but I really liked...

Country Roads by John Denver,  and Suspicious Minds by Waylon Jennings and Jessie Colter.  Both songs just sort of had me floating and smiling for a while.  I've now got them on my playlist too.

Toccata and Fugue in D minor. My "go-to" music for running intervals

Thé à la menthe from Ocean's Twelve
Hafanana  by Afric Simone - this is a long-time favorite. Since I was five )

ABBA - Anything

Willie Nelson - On the road again.

Kylie minogue - Can't get you out of my head & Spinning around

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I bought a Need to Breathe cd so I could add "Like we Were Children" to the ipod for an up tempo run song.

I realize this is all very subjective, but for a punk/ska flavor, I like Rancid to run to.  I have "Out Come the Wolves", "Indestructible", and "Let the Dominoes Fall" albums all on the ipod.

Specific songs:

Rancid: Let the Dominoes Fall
Rancid: Avenues and Alleyways
Rancid: Roots Radicals

Green Day is also an option.  But I've really gotten into Rancid since the summer.

Roadkill by the Dickies, anything by Be Your Own Pet, Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me by the Pipettes, ABC by the Pipettes. Just thinking about those songs makes me want to go workout.....if it weren't 12:30am!

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i will admit to a little chumbawamba "tubthumping" as well as some Xtina's "Fighter" now and again.  

By the decade...   HelterSkelter (Beatles), Once in a Life Time (Talking Heads), Mexican Radio (Wall of VooDoo), Superman  (Our Lady Peace), Clocks (Coldplay)...

Huge RUSH fan myself...how can you not put "Marathon" on that list.  Great song, appropriate lyrics, good tempo.

Singing in the rain/umbrella by the Glee club.  Yes, I'm actually quite serious and plum red at this very moment.

Bad to the bone: Artist need not be named

Last Resort by Papa Roach

Jam On It by Newcleus (laughing in my head as I'm typing this one).

Rebirth: by Bone Thugs and Harmony

Home Sweet Home by Motley Crue

Knocking on Heaven's door: Guns N Roses

Providing links for the next few as I have a funny feeling.....

Right down the line by Gerry Rafferty.  A great oldie but goody with a good feel beat and lyrics to it.  Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sedPivIxfM

Into the Ocean (calling you) by: Evermore  A video for all of those who love the water and sky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fpUOq1Bcg0&playnext=1&list=PL11468E259F66BE6A&index=5

A song for the soul:  Beautiful Beautiful by Francesca Battistelli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbCfyZHSQbE


I'm all over the map with my songs and love them all, but really anything from the 80's will do it for me..........Michael Jackson included <---------Did I just really say that!!  Guess so.

Scorpions--"The Zoo" for a hard climb on the bike
Mercy Me--"I can" for the last 5 mins of a brutal ride
Thievery Corp -- Indra for warmup on either!!!!

Miley Cyrus's "Party in the USA" got me through mile 10 of my HM. I'm also very embarassed about that.

Thank you. I forgot about this song!

Great Question! My musical choices tend to come and go, I can only listen to half a dozen songs or so for a week or two of workouts (on the spin or ellip), before I trade 'em in for something new. Right now, my heaviest played songs are:

1. "Cold Sweat" - Thin Lizzy
2. "Combination" - Aerosmith
3. "Runaway" - Bon Jovi
4. "Get The Lead Out" - Aerosmith
5. "Rock n Roll Soldier" - Black Sabbath
6. "Open Up Your Eyes" - Tonic

It never ceases to amaze me how much harder I can go with the MP3 in the ears. It makes an average workout, fairly intense. There is nothing like it.

"Keep on Running" by Y&T. 

Imperial March ( Darth Vader's Theme Music)

New World Symphony  ( Dvorak)

 

Don't harass me to badly for this but...

Aqua - Tarzan or Barbie (either works - they date back to High school and strange memories that make me smile)

Blue Man Group - Blue (or whatever that song is called, just fun to listen too)

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody, we are the champions

REM - almost anything of theirs, even the slower stuff.

Lots of older ones (Rocky theme, ACDC Thunderstruck & TNT, etc.)

Best new song: The Catalyst, Linkin Park

All of the lights-kanye
Set it off-clipse/cardinal offishal
Sunny hours-long beach dub all stars
Stereo-all time low
Beautiful-Damian marley
All bob marly
All dialated peoples
You give love a bad name-Bon jovi
Lean back-fat Joe
Welcome to the world-Kevin rudolf
Smash lies-mat is yahu
My kinda party-Jason aldean

These are just some of the favs. Got about 15 different playlists

Mc Hammer's Too Legit to Quit appeared on my iPod this morning while I was on the treadmill, and it was good.  Then Jack Johnson tried telling me to slow down that I was going to fast, he got skipped.