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Xavier
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I pretty much need music to do cardio exercise, and I'd imagine I'm not alone. It sets the pace and tone of my efforts, and helps the 30-40 minutes pass without me getting bored.

I'd imagine there are plenty of people here who have their own favorite cardio tunes, and I thought that we could have a thread where people share their favorites.

My workout starts off sort of slow, and builds up in speed from there. My first ten minutes are basically a warm-up, and my last ten I am pretty much sprinting. So I like to have a mix of medium-fast to very-fast songs.

I usually start with one warm-up song, and then if I feel ready I switch to some medium paced songs, or I pick another warm-up song. I'll usually finish my work-out with about three sprinting songs, to really push myself. These categories aren't strict by any means, I sometimes mix them all around.

Mine are mostly hard-rock songs, because that is what I know. I'd love to hear suggestions outside that genre though.

Warm-Up:
Mudvayne - World So Cold
Nine Inch Nails - Every Day Is Exactly The Same (and other slowish starting NIN songs)
Staind - For You (and other slowish starting Staind songs)
Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body

In Between Warm-Up and Sprinting:
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
The Who - Teenage Wasteland
Our Lady Piece - Starseed
Nine Inch Nails - Only (and several other relatively faster songs, like Terrible Lie, The Perfect Drug, etc.)
Filter/The Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
Rob Zombie - Dragula, Living Dead Girl, etc.

Sprinting:
Jimmy Eat World - The Sweetness
Punjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke (I think it is this one, I'll have to check my MP3 player)
Linkin Park - Faint
Mudvayne - Not Falling

The Punjabi MC song is just wonderful for getting you moving, and keeping you moving. It's a crazy rap song in what I would assume is Hindi. It has a traditional Indian tune, with a hip-hop beat, and some very fun and exciting vocals which I couldn't begin to understand. Its pretty much an ideal work-out song, because it really makes you want to move. Niki highly recommends this one as well.

I use Not Falling as my staple for getting me to push myself, especially when I am feeling like quitting. For me, it pretty much does the trick guaranteed. Last night there was five minutes left on my 35 minute work-out and I still had plenty of energy, so I turned the resistance on the machine up and just powered through those five minutes to this song. The only problem with playing it at the end is that it gets my pumped up, and I am tempted to keep going.

Okay guys, your turn! For my own interests, I've few very good sprinting songs, and tunes which make you push harder and go faster I am especially interested in.

[ July 26, 2006, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Xavier ]

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My current line-up is:

Foo Fighters: All My Life
Franz Ferdinand: This Fire
Guns & Roses: Mr. Brownstone
Aerosmith: Baby Please Don't Go
Fall Out Boy: Dance, Dance
My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult: After The Flesh
NIN: The Hand That Feeds
Pearl Jam: Lukin
Prodigy: Firestarter
Rolling Stones: Paint it Black
STP: Sex Type Thing
System of a Down: BYOB
System of a Down: Bounce
Prodigy: Firestarter

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Xavier
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Out of your list, I will probably try out Rolling Stones: Paint it Black at a minimum. [Smile]
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I'll have to wait until I get home to check my iPod, but I use a lot of bouncy 80's girl-pop, both for exercising and for things like mowing the lawn. (I use a reel mower, no motor, and treat it as exercise.)
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Sprinting:
Edvard Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King

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The Pixiest
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the Too Fat Polka
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Demonstrocity
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I listen to the same stuff for everything, all the time.

Prodigy - Breathe
Head Automatica - At the Speed of a Yellow Bullet (GREAT warm up song)
Head Automatica - Brooklyn is Burning
Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby
Head Automatica - Please Please Please
Head Automatica - Dance Party Plus
Head Automatica - I Shot William H. Macy
DCfC - What Sara Said
DCfC - Brothers on a Hotel Bed
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Any extended Happy Hardcore / DnB mix.
Placebo - Brick Shithouse
Placebo - Days Before You Came
Placebo - English Summer Rain
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
Arctic Monkeys - The View From the Afternoon
Cinematic Orchestra - Flite
Daft Punk - Superheroes
Daft Punk - High Life
Daft Punk - Human After All
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Daft Punk - Steam Machine
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened to My Rock'n'Roll
Radiohead - 2+2=5
Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up
The Notwist - One With the Freaks

Edited to specify head automatica songs, because not all of them are good work out songs.

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Lisa
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I'm Walking On Sunshine - Christina and the Waves
Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles

And Jean Michel Jarre's album Images.

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El JT de Spang
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Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Michael Jackson - Just Good Friends, Workin Day and Night
Earth, Wind, and Fire - September, Sing a Song

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MyrddinFyre
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Work out music, eh?

My favorite music to run to would be mostly the same category as my favorite music in general. Lesse, tops would be *goes down library in iTunes* everything by (since you really, really don't want me listing every single song) .... Apocalyptica, Dog Fashion Disco, Fantômas, KODA, Melt-Banana, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mr. Bungle, the pAper chAse, Rasputina, Skinny Puppy, System of a Down, Tub Ring, Yanni ('cept not the boring ballads), Amon Tobin, Massive Attack (only Mezzanine), Secret Chiefs 3, Missy Elliot, the Roots, Sepultura, Stone Sour, Rob Zombie, and Static X. Yeah, I listen to a lot of music.

Just be glad you didn't ask what we *worked* to.

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Demonstrocity
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quote:
Massive Attack (only Mezzanine)
That makes me so sad. Blue Lines is such a good album! So is 100th Window!
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MyrddinFyre
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Oh I LOVE all of Massive Attack. I was listing what I would *work out* to [Razz]
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Javert
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You're telling me no one else gets pumped up the "Eye of the Tiger"? [Wink]
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Ben
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Refused - Liberation Frequency is a song I used to listen to regularly when running, bikeriding, or freestyling.

That whole Refused album "The Shape of Punk to Come" is a great album to workout to in my opinion.

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I don't listen to music when i work out. But the Rocky music always gets me motivated to work out. That and early Offspring.
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Javert
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Thank you for the support Strider...and being in Philadelphia, I can run up the actual Rocky steps while listening.

I don't...but I could.

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MyrddinFyre
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quote:
You're telling me no one else gets pumped up the "Eye of the Tiger"? [Wink]
No. Apart from the first ten seconds.... no.
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quote:
Originally posted by The Pixiest:
the Too Fat Polka

That's a great song.

"She's-a too fat for me!"

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The Pixiest
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"But she's just right for me!"
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I usually pick my workout music by the album rather than the song, since I try to keep going as long as possible. I have a ton of great music for working out, but my all-time top favorite albums are as follows:

Prodigy: Fat of the Land (Songs for the Jilted Generation is very good too, but not to that transcendently brilliant level)

BT: Movement in Still Life and Emotional Technology. (All BT albums are great, but these two are the best for working out. The farthest I've ever run in an hour I did to Emotional Technology.)

Propellerheads: Decksanddrumsandrockandroll. (I really wish these guys had come out with more than one album. It's some of the best techno ever, and high energy from start to finish, without ever getting repetitive.)

Those are the best of the best for me. But you really can't go wrong with Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Orbital, Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, George Acosta, Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto, the Run Lola Run soundtrack, Gnarls Barkley, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rammstein or Metallica. All those are unconditionally guaranteed to get the heart rate up.

BTW, Daft Punk is good too, a song at a time. But my ears get numb if I try to listen to a whole album.

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Kasie H
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I'm with the 80s girl pop group.

Jesse's Girl - Rick Springfield is the song I always start with. That segues into Material Girl by Madonna, followed by some ABBA.

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quote:
Those are the best of the best for me. But you really can't go wrong with Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx, Orbital, Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, George Acosta, Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto, the Run Lola Run soundtrack, Gnarls Barkley, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rammstein or Metallica. All those are unconditionally guaranteed to get the heart rate up.
*seconds all that!* [Smile]
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Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton). Perfect for jogging, especially cross-country.
Well, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch 'em
down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

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Tante Shvester
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Sabre Dance for bicycle riding or plate spinning.
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[Laugh]
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[ROFL]
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Blackstar featuring Common: Respiration
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When I actually made myself work out I would listen to the Bach cello suites while on the elyptical. It went really nicely for me, but I am also a huge classical music dork.
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Well... this post will reveal the true depths of my dorkiness (is that even a word??? lol) but some of my work out songs on my MP3 player include:

Gonna Fly Now (Rocky theme song)--
Eye of the Tiger (Rocky 3 theme song)
Physical (yes I am serious)
Twist of Fate (Gotta love Oliva Newton John [Smile] )
The Middle (I try to time it for the MIDDLE of my run...lol)
Runaway
I Ran
Califonia Dreamin'
Spirit in the Sky
Dueling Banjos

These may seem dorky.. but just try and run to the Rocky theme song and not get pumped...lol

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quote:
Originally posted by Javert:
You're telling me no one else gets pumped up the "Eye of the Tiger"? [Wink]

Thank you. If no one had said it I would have had to find some way to smack you all upside the head! [Wink]
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Creed "My Sacrifice"
Dope "No Chance"
Limp Bizkit "My Way"
Drowning Pool "Bodies"
Blink 182 "The Rock Show"
Three Doors Down "Kryptonite"
Aerosmith "Dude Looks Like a Lady"
They Might Be Giants "Sensurround"
They Might Be Giants "Till My Head Falls Off"
Social Distortion "Ring of Fire"
Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride"
Mono Puff "Unsupervised"
Smashmouth "Holiday in my Head"

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I dont actually exercise formally very often, but I do fire dance, and I need music to inspire me when my arms feel like they are about to fall off.
Right now, my practice CD looks like this:
Heart - Barracuda and Magic Man
Bjork - Army of me
NIN - Closer
Marilyn Manson - Tainted Love and I Dont like the Drugs
John Lee Hooker - Big Legs, Tight Skirt
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Amr Diab - Leily Nahar
Voltaire - When You're Evil
Pirates R' Us - The Ballad Of Captain Crunch
Paula Cole - Feelin' Love and Carmen
Tori Amos - She's your Cocaine
Corvus Corax - Filli Neidhardi
The Crystal Method - Name of The Game
Tom Waits - Collisium (sp?)

Every single one of those songs is sexy as hell, and they all get your blood pumping and your hips swivelling. Which could be good. Or it could be bad.

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ElJay, I'd love to hear what your iPod says about the 80s girl pop...sounds like it's right up my alley. After listening to Jack Johnson while on the elliptical today I realized that his laid back tunes weren't helping me maximize my work-out.

Much of the music here I don't even recognize.

*I've become my mother [Cry]

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The song you listed by The Who is actually entitled "Baba O'Reilly."
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Again, I'll have to check when I get home, But right now I'm pushing OK GO. Quick, bouncy, and fun!
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A bunch from my workout playlist:

Alkaline Trio- Time to Waste
Celldweller- Shapeshifter
Rob Zombie- Reload, Dragula
Depeche Mode- John the Revelator
Puscifer- The Undertaker
DJ Z-Trip- About Face
Lacuna Coil- Our Truth
Linkin Park- Runaway, Kyur4 Th Ich
Fort Minor- There They Go, Remember The Name
Loreena McKennitt- Marco Polo

The Boondock Saints- Blood of Cuchulainn
Bi Rain- It's Raining
Miyavi- Fuminshou no Nemurihime

The last three are probably hard to find.

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