Running Playlist

Faith No More

I don't listen to Top 40 music often, but my work-outs consist of:

"Me First & the Gimme Gimmies" They play cover songs, like "Over the Rainbow", "Rocketman", and "Desperado" But in faster Punk Rock Versions", I find myself singing along in my head alot! LOL

Also, "The Hives"and "White Stripes"

If I'm in the mood for Rap/Pop Music I listen too "Chali 2na" and "Missy Elliot"..

If I'm in a Heavy Metal, want get aggressive, workout mood, I listen too "-(16)- 'Bridges to Burn' CD" , "Everytime I Die", and "Marilyn Manson"

Cool down Music I listen to "Frank Sinatra", "Jason Mraz", "Kansas", the "The Black Crows"

if you have an ipod, there are some great upbeat podcasts you can subscribe to.

Eminem -- Lose Yourself
Megadeth -- Crush Em
Kanye -- Run this Town

Crystleen, thanks for mentioning Me First and The Gimme gimmes! I am a cover hound and have never heard of them!

Sweettart, You might like some of the songs on this other music thread :

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/115315-post-your-playlist

Here is what I posted over there:

I recently made a Very Silly Playlist. Don't know why, but something about old school guilty pleasure songs make running a pleasure! Not that these are *all* tongue in cheek, but about half are!


Oh L'amour - Erasure (this song just makes me all happy inside. I love starting the run with it)

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey (yes, old school, not Glee. i do love Glee, though)

Things We Do For Love - TenCC cover by Lazlo Bane ( I need to do a whole playlist of covers, I love them so much)

Melt With You - Modern English

West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

Brass In Pocket - The Pretenders ( "Gonna use my arms, gonna use my legs, gonna use my sidestep")

Somebody to Love - Queen (so many songs by Queen would be great to run to)

It's The End of The World As We Know It - REM

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart

I want Your Hands On Me - Sinead O'Connor

Take A Chance On Me - Abba

Rapper's Delight - Sugarhill Gang (surprisingly awesome for running!)

Take The Long Way Home - Supertramp

Avalon - Roxy Music (nice for cooldown)

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley (also nice for cooldown)


(and this is another playlist:)

Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas (I'm such a geek, I love to have a song that starts it off right)

Mercy - Duffy (makes me want to dance and wear fifties-style makeup)

Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper ( what can I say? I'm an eighties lover)

Fergalicious - Fergie ( "I be up in the gym just workin on my fitness")

intuition - jewel ( a very non-jewel-like song, dancy and great for running "follow your heart, your intuition, it will lead you in the right direction")

Beautiful Day - U2 (this song just makes me happy to be alive and healthy and have legs to run with)

Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes

Music - Madonna

The Tide Is High - Blondie (one of my favorite songs, ever. just puts a smile on my face)

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend (Love this band. Plus I live on Cape Cod)

Movin' Right Along - Kermit The Frog & Fozzie Bear (so awesome during the last mile! "opportunity knocks once so reach out and grab it, yeah!")

Working My Way Back To You - The Spinners ( don't really know why, I have just always loved this song. on the playlist, i like to think of it as workin my way back to myself: "workin my way back to you, babe, with a burnin love inside")

I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys (from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. Makes me think of George Clooney and how can that not put a spring in my step?)

Girlfriend In A Coma - The Smiths

I Was Made For You - She & Him ( All of She and Him Volume 1 is awesome for a power walk)

Walk This Way - RUN-D.M.C. Featuring Aerosmith

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen (I used to say "there is nothing worse than bruce springsteen" and then I fell in love with my honey and the Boss is his fave. I kept an open mind and now I love Bruce! Amazing in concert. "tramps like us, baby we born to ruuuuun")

All That Jazz - Catherine Zeta-Jones and Cast (From the movie version of Chicago, which I love)

A Little Respect - Erasure (you can't go wrong with Erasure or Pet Shop Boys, in my opinion)

You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall & Oates (I like to imagine I am bursting out with this singing and dancing like the scene in 500 Days of Summer)

Be OK - Ingrid Michaelson ("I just wanna be ok, be ok, be ok. I just wanna be ok today" and that is why I work out!)



Sorry that was so long!
melissa

Hip Hop is Dead - Nas
Time is Running Out - Muse
I'm Not Okay - My Chemical Romance
According to You -Orianthi
Armada Latina - Cypress Hill
Black Cat - Janet Jackson
Anything by Jay Z, Ludacris, and Linkin Park.
GONNA FLY NOW
KEEPS GETTIN' BETTER
TIK TOK
MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU

From some suggestions on mfp I added a few songs to my jogging playlist:
Beat It by Fall Out Boy
How far We've Come by Matchbox Twenty
Alive by POD
'Cuz I Can by Pink
I Need to Know by Marc Anthony
Lose My Breath by Destiny's Child

BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY (WORKOUT REMIX)
BE GOOD TO ME
BOOM BOOM POW

all my stuff is the old 80's hair bands, ie: poison, quiet riot, def leppard, motley crue, cinderella. I love it!!

Hip Hop is Dead - Nas

me too! Good choice in music

This is my "Girl Power" running list:

I Want To Come Over - Melissa Etheridge
Fifteen Pounds (Away From Your Love) - Stephanie J. Block
Message To Myself - Melissa Etheridge
Born To Fly - Sara Evans
Come To My Window - Melissa Etheridge
Dive In - Jennifer Knapp
If I Wanted To - Melissa Etheridge
Notes To The Coroner - Chely Wright
I Run For Life - Melissa Etheridge
Learning To Live - Beth Hart

I need to start putting it on shuffle though because in just a couple of weeks I've learned the order and I know it's mental, but I get tired at about the end of "Come To My Window". I say I know it's mental because yesterday I left my iPod on my "faves" list which is largely showtunes and I didn't really get tired at all. And that's from Saturday to Monday. I highly that a day of mostly rest on Sunday did THAT much that I'd make it over 25 minutes before needing to slow to a fast walk Monday as opposed to about 10 minutes in on Saturday.

oh bumpity bump! I'm always looking for new stuff, because when I have a new playlist I am so excited to get going....thanks everybody, I'll be on limewire for awhile :laugh:


A song that always gets me revved up is "Let Me Think About It" by Ida Corr. Great beat!

Gaga is great too!

A song that puts me in a trance and I can run forever: Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk. I love these crazy Germans, and their music is my favorite thing to listen to....they are the fathers of electronic music and you catch samples of their music everywhere!