Running Playlist Ideas Needed!

hannamarie88
hannamarie88 Posts: 231 Member
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I grow tired of my two playlists I've created and am training for a half marathon, so I need some new stuff to get me pumped! What's on your running/work out playlist?

I'm sure there are many of these topics, but I wanted some fresh ideas. :smile:

Thanks, all!
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  • jess_erin
    jess_erin Posts: 69 Member
    What genres do you like?
  • TheGymGypsy
    TheGymGypsy Posts: 1,023 Member
    My 2 favorite bands on my running playlist are Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless. Look em up!
  • hannamarie88
    hannamarie88 Posts: 231 Member
    I'm open to most genres as long as it has a good beat that keeps me going. Currently I have a 90 minute mix of various Britney Spears songs (they are getting old), but also a mix made up of indie, rock, pop, rap. I like variety.
  • _Calypso_
    _Calypso_ Posts: 1,074 Member
    Eminem - Til I collapse
    Krewella - Feel Me
    Clinton Sparks - Gold Rush
    Casley & Lil Jon - Sweat
  • hannamarie88
    hannamarie88 Posts: 231 Member
    Those are great songs! Thank you :)
  • Texusmc
    Texusmc Posts: 129 Member
    When the Levee Breaks - Led Zepplin
    O Baterista- Rush
    La Villa Strangiato - Rush
    Spirit of Radio - Rush
    Where's My Thing - Rush
    Leave That Thing Alone - Rush
    Main Monkey Business- Rush
    Malignant Narcissism- Rush
    King Bee - Kenny Wayne Shepard

    (ok a Rush fan but they make some great music)
  • The_1_Who_Knocks
    The_1_Who_Knocks Posts: 343 Member
    Hole - Gutless
    Hole - Plump

    Or just the entire Live Through This album. Keeps me pumped up in a very angry kind of way.
  • The_1_Who_Knocks
    The_1_Who_Knocks Posts: 343 Member
    Or if you want a happier song, Dreaming by Blondie, has a smoking drum line that will keep your feet moving.
  • yellerica83
    yellerica83 Posts: 54
    Redfoo - Let's Get Ridiculous

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w9DiGlZksU&feature=kp
  • yellerica83
    yellerica83 Posts: 54
    The guy from LMFAO
  • scottyg70
    scottyg70 Posts: 388 Member
    Three words: Iron effing Maiden!!

    Seriously, I don't listen to music when I run outside but I have to when I'm forced on the treadmill. I usually go for the "longer" songs as I really get lost in them. Examples:

    Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
    Wasted Years - Iron Maiden (live version is the best)
    Free Bird (Live) - Lynrd Skynrd.

    I love Free Bird because the tempo changes and the guitar solos in the last half of the song really get me pumped.
  • aliencheesecake
    aliencheesecake Posts: 569 Member
    My 2 favorite bands on my running playlist are Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless. Look em up!

    Hahah. I was just gonna suggest Nightmare, by Halestorm....

    Also, Seizure of Power (Resident Evil) by Marilyn Manson gets me pumped.
  • TxHamJello
    TxHamJello Posts: 31
    Check out jog.fm, you can plug in the pace you run and it will give a number of songs that have a beat to match the pace.
  • The_1_Who_Knocks
    The_1_Who_Knocks Posts: 343 Member
    Three words: Iron effing Maiden!!

    Seriously, I don't listen to music when I run outside but I have to when I'm forced on the treadmill. I usually go for the "longer" songs as I really get lost in them. Examples:

    Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
    Wasted Years - Iron Maiden (live version is the best)
    Free Bird (Live) - Lynrd Skynrd.

    I love Free Bird because the tempo changes and the guitar solos in the last half of the song really get me pumped.

    Sure, but what is the runner supposed to do for the for the first 5 minutes of the song (Free Bird), when the song is proceeding at like 40 beats per minute lol...
  • Spartan_1_1_7
    Spartan_1_1_7 Posts: 132 Member
    bump!!
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Some of my current faves are:

    Everybody Talks - Neon Trees
    This is Gonna Hurt - Sixx A.M.
    Enemies - Shinedown
    Let me Hear You Scream - Ozzie
  • j_bark
    j_bark Posts: 1,274 Member
    Mumford & Sons...do it up
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 Member
    Pharrell Williams -- Happy (the beat is a good pace and it's a very peppy song)

    I'm drawing a complete mental blank on anything else, but that's my newest addition.
  • climbing_trees
    climbing_trees Posts: 726 Member
    Anything Dada Life! Super high energy electro house :)
    They release a new hour long mix every month or so, perfect length for a workout.

    Makes you wanna STOMP STOMP STOMP
  • KinoM
    KinoM Posts: 359 Member
    Check out jog.fm, you can plug in the pace you run and it will give a number of songs that have a beat to match the pace.

    Freakin awesome site, thank you!
  • _db_
    _db_ Posts: 179 Member
    Lately, it's been a 175 bpm metronome. I'm trying to learn to run at a higher cadence.

    My favorite is theclassicalstation.org. I'm fortunate that my phone (Moto G) has an FM receiver and I live close enough to the radio station so I don't need to stream, because I run in places where my mobile coverage is spotty. It's never anything I love, but, more importantly, it's never anything ****ty enough that I want to stop and kill the song.
  • HealthyFocused715
    HealthyFocused715 Posts: 340 Member
    Check out jog.fm, you can plug in the pace you run and it will give a number of songs that have a beat to match the pace.

    ^^^This! You can also type in a band you like and it will tell what the pace of the songs are...10 min miles, 9 min miles, etc!
  • The_1_Who_Knocks
    The_1_Who_Knocks Posts: 343 Member
    The Cure - Just Like Heaven

    Lit - My Own Worst Enemy

    Sponge - Plowed

    The Clash - Train in Vain

    The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
  • mrslcoop
    mrslcoop Posts: 317 Member
    Mumford & Sons...do it up

    Yes. Something about that banjo really keeps me going.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    In no particular order:

    Slayer - Eyes of the Insane, Raining Blood
    Atreyu - Ex's and Oh's, Doomsday, Honor
    Hatebreed - To the Threshold, Set it Off (cover)
    Earth Crisis - The Order, Wrath of Sanity, All out war
    Living Color - Cult of Personality
    Lady Gaga - Electric Chapel, Judas, Do what you want
    MIA - Paper Planes
    In Flames - Reroute to Remain
    Kanye West - Stronger
    Killswitch Engage - This Fire, Eye of the Storm, Rose of Sharyn
    Katy Perry - Firework, Roar
    Metallica - Enter the Sandman
    Weezer - If you're Wondering if I want you to (I want you to)
    Bjork - Bachelorette
    Huey Lewis and the News - (gosh, anything by them!)
    Eazy-E - Switchez
    Alice in Chains - Sunshine, We die young
    Pearl Jam - Rearview Mirror
    Throwdown - Raise your Fist
    Xzibit - Get your walk on
    Martyr AD - SeventyFive TwentyFive
    Deftones - 7 Words
    Europe - Final Countdown
    Lots of crap from various Final Fantasy soundtracks. Good ambient music of varying intensities.

    If none of that gets your blood going...
  • The_1_Who_Knocks
    The_1_Who_Knocks Posts: 343 Member
    Mumford & Sons...do it up

    Yes. Something about that banjo really keeps me going.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhnAZFR1po
  • ElizabethIrish
    ElizabethIrish Posts: 32 Member
    Go onto itunes or amazon and search "running music" there is an entire genre of instrumentals. I like these because they are harder to get sick of (for me) I also like Bangra dance and belly dancing music - fast paced of course. While I'm running I imagine I'm running on the beaches of some tropical island or through an exotic market place or city---just what works for me!
  • The_1_Who_Knocks
    The_1_Who_Knocks Posts: 343 Member
    Huey Lewis and the News - (gosh, anything by them!)

    I was looking at the rest of the list and just thinking that this was a bit of a joke you had put in there. Not sure if serious.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Huey Lewis and the News - (gosh, anything by them!)

    I was looking at the rest of the list and just thinking that this was a bit of a joke you had put in there. Not sure if serious.

    Heck no. I love Huey Lewis!
  • sarah5893
    sarah5893 Posts: 106 Member
    Awolnation! Half of their album is perfect for running

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