What's your motivational song? (Page 2)

Like, Whizzer, I'm a fan of angry young white man music in general. The favorite motivation song, though, is "Far Behind" by Candlebox.

Kelly

Being as how I saw ZZ Top last week. I can't get their tunes out of my head.
Not that that is ever a bad thing...

Ian

Casting Crown's "Who Am I?" really motivates me when I'm running and of course Elton John's Greatest Hits cd tops all!

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Because it was the first rock album I ever owned...anything off Iron Maiden's Powerslave.

Especially "Aces High"!

I tend to get whatever song I was last listening to on repeat during the run...

..except for the (thankfully) rare occasion when the Brady Bunch theme starts playing.

So whats the WORST song that you've gotten stuck in your head while working out?

Worst song? That's easy!

A few years ago, as I was driving to an MTB race, a car stopped next to me at a red light and was blasting a merengue hip-hop kind of song that said: muuuu la vaca mmmuuuu la vaca (translation: the cow). I could not get it out of my head throughout the race, especially on the climbs. Not encouraging at all!

Doh!!! That just made the 6-Flags song, with that stupid old man dancing, get stuck

Motivation? Meatloaf's "everything louder than everything else" (or any other upbeat J. Steinman composition.) I'm also kinda partial to "Rods and Cones" by Blue Man Group.

The worst song? I did a race with Tiffany's "I think we're alone now" stuck in my head.

Looks like I'm the only banjo and fiddle freak. Oh well.

Here's to Roy Clark, Alison Krauss, Buck Trent and Steve Martin! Keep the rolls rolling and my feet shuffling!

Allison Krauss is awesome!! I would say my favorite was her 1st (i think it was her 1st) album "Now That I've Found You" and Steve Martin totally rocks on the banjo! The man's fingers fricken fly!

Joss Stone, Tom Petty

Actually no FatMan...I played bluegrass banjo for 10 years.  Here's some great bluegrass tunes to train with:

1.  "Jake Breaks"  by Karl Shifflet

2.  "Snakes Alive" by Bela Fleck and the Dreadful Snakes

3.  "Down In The Swamp" by Bela Fleck

4.  "Grey Eagle" by Dan Crary

5.  "I Know You Rider" by The Seldom Scene

That new Ashlee Simpson song was lodged in my head throughout 95% of my last race... "Pieces of me...." Ugh... Couldn't shake it!

No songs, just classical pieces that play inside my head to sort of compliment the surroundings:

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"
Handel's "Royal Fireworks"
and various pieces by Mozart, Beethowen, and Bach

Definetly FOO FIGHTERS, "Times Like These"

several, but first i have to share my husband's favorite for biking - they might be giants 'now you are old, and now you're even older, and now you're even older, and now you're older still'

top song as of late: ain't got time to play - guru
army of me - bjørk
just a girl - no doubt
ballroom blitz - (can't remember)
that pink song (better get the party started)
almost anything by karsh kale or mark farina

recently i tapped into more of the music from my college days, so its been lots of deee-lite and a tribe called quest (am i dating myself here?). i've had some pretty weird tribe lyrics stuck in my head lately, so no doubt those will be going through my head tomorrow ('don't tell me i can't tear it up. go get some toilet paper, 'cause your lyrics is butt' - lovely, no?)

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A couple from Bloodhound Gang come to mind.

A Lap Dance is so Much Better When the Stripper is Crying

and of course

I Wish I Was Queer So I Could Get Chicks

j/k

The original Ballroom Blitz was done by Sweet, 1975

that would be the one! thank, max. i had heard it years ago, but became reacquainted watching 'daddy day care'. thought it would be a great running song, so i downloaded it off the itunes store. love that song.

Weird things come to my mind.

"My New Bicycle" by The Roches from their children's album when I'm riding my bike. Sometimes I start singing it out loud even.

When I'm running, more recently I've been thinking, "Corny as Kansas" from South Pacific because I have to perform it soon. It's the perfect rythym for running and landing evenly on both feet every three beats because it's in 3/4 time. During a really long run that starts to get old and my mind will wander, but then if I get worried about my pace, I just start it up again. I don't have an MP3 player. I used to think I'd love to run with one, but now I'm not so sure. I love the way my mind just goes into some kind of bliss and I think external music might detract from that.

i have a few...

bjork- hyperballad and it's oh so quiet
limp bizkit- break stuff (my toughen-up-buttercup song)
madonna- what it feels like for a girl and don't tell me to stop
anything by moby, especially 18
anything by phish

Ultimate Megalist. Great Job Everyone.

I just had to summarize so that I can hit the stores myself and burn some mega compilation. Nice list, Huge Variety!

Megalist (some humorous):
Lunatic Fringe
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Roy Clark
Heaven - Live
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
Where the River Flows - Collective Soul
Say It Ain't So - Weezer
Animal - NIN
46&2 - Tool
Talk Show Host - Radiohead
Jessica - Allman Bros
Solsberry Hill - Peter Gabriel
Powertrip - Monster Magnet
Space Lord - Monster Magnet
Fuel and Fire - Metallica
Welcome to the Jungle - GnR
Name of the Game - Crystal Method
Lose Yourself - Eminem
Faint - Linkin Park
Boom!Boom!Boom! - Pod
Dem Bones - Alice in Chains
Cheeseburger in Paradise - Buffet
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Speed Racer Theme Song
Wheels on the Bus Song
Good Vibrations - Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch
Tulane - Chris Smither - Another Way to Find You Album
Take Your Mama - Scissors Sisters
Keep Yourself Alive - Queen
Headlong - Queen
Done - Deep Blue Something
Far Behind - Candlebox
Who Am I - Casting Crowns
Aces High - Iron Maiden
Everything Louder Than Everything Else - Meatloaf
Rods and Cones - Blue Man Group
Jake Breaks - Karl Shifflet
Snakes Alive - Bela Fleck and the Dreadful Snakes
Down In The Swamp - Bela Fleck
Grey Eagle - Dan Crary
I Know You Rider - The Seldom Scene
Four Seasons - Vivaldi
Royal Fireworks - Handel
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Older - They Might Be Giants
Ain't Got Time to Play - Guru
Army of Me - bjørk
Just a Girl - No Doubt
ballroom blitz - Sweet
Get the Party Started - Pink
My New Bicycle - The Roches

General Mention (Groups/Specific Albums)
Throwing Copper Album - Live
Linkin Park
Dave Mathews
Black Album - Metallica
Disturbed
GodSmack
Trapt
ZZ Top
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
J. Steinman Compositions
Roy Clark
Alison Krauss
Buck Trent
Steve Martin
Joss Stone
Tom Petty
Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Karsh Kale
Mark Farina
Deee-lite
Tribe Called Quest