80's Motivational Song Playlist

Fleetwood Mac isn't really 80's but it dawned on me during a run that most of their songs have the perfect rhythm to match my run.

Also when I first started running, I had this hilly 3 mile loop. I made it a goal to run the whole thing by Mother's Day starting in March. If I went one direction, I ended on a flat. If I went the other way, I ended with a big hill. The Saturday before Mother's Day, I went the big hill way and was actually running the whole thing. I came to the hill and told myself, don't let it stop you. I swear to God I had the "Eye of the Tiger" song in my head the whole way up that hill and I totally did the Rocky arms up, jumping around when I reached the top. I know these are two different movies...but Eye of the Tiger is way more motivating than "Gonna Fly Now"--or whatever that song is.

Sister Christian

About to go for a long run and just downloaded a bunch of these songs! Thanks!

Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
Men At Work – Down Under
Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran
I Want a New Drug - H. Lewis
Silent Running - Mike and the Mechanics
Thin Red Line - Glass Tiger
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Come Dancing - Kinks
Invincible - Pat Benatar
No Easy Way Out - Robert Tepper You have Rocky on your post one best rocky songs!
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
All The Right Moves - Jennifer warnes Chris thompson
The Runner - Manferd Mann
It's a dead mans Party - Oingo Boingo
One Night In bangkok - Murry Head
Black Cars - Gino Vanelli
A Veiw To a Kill - Duran Duran!
All you Zombies - The Hooters
Saved By Zero - The Fixx
In a big country - Big Country
Obsession - Animotion
Always On My Mind - Shop Boys
Nothing's gonna stop me now - Samantha Fox
Shake Your Love - Debbie Gibson
Taking My Chances - The Outfield
That Was Yesterday - Foreigner
The Kid Is hot Tonight - Loverboy
Mr Roboto - Styx
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Puttin On the Ritz - Taco
Manic Monday - The Bangles
We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's
Don't Pay The Ferryman - Chris de Burgh This song really still one of my best from 80s

I could go on and on loved the 80s Skinny Tie Music everything was just about crazy hair and being a Teen the clothes and everything about the music. What it would have been like had Yoga pants been the fad back then i would have never learned a thing in school

Technically released in 1978 according to the Google machine; one of my favorite songs to run to is Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen.

Journey- separate ways

Mishy wrote: »

Technically released in 1978 according to the Google machine; one of my favorite songs to run to is Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen.

I just (this very minute) heard this song on Pandora. Great song to work out to!! I had forgotten all about this one.

Since most of the 80s montage music has been mentioned, I'll just toss out some 80s stuff that would work for running no one has mentioned (that I've seen). Some of them have the added bonus that they kinda lyrically can apply to running (I feel the earth move under my feet...won't give up until I'm satisfied...etc). Many of them are kind of obscure. There's a lot that I use while running because it "works" that I wouldn't necessarily listen to at other times:

Vital Signs "The Boys and Girls are Doing it" (From soundtrack to BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE)
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers "Swing the Mood"
Love and Rockets "So Alive"
Martika "I Feel the Earth Move" (Carole King cover)
Richard Marx "Satisfied"
Motley Crue "Kickstart My Heart"
Tom Petty "Runnin' Down a Dream"
Todd Rundgren "Bang the Drum All Day"
Rush "Superconductor"
Stray Cats "Blast Off"
The Violet Burning "If You Let Me"
Rob Base and DJ EZ-Rock "It Takes Two"
Camper Van Beethoven "Borderline"

Additional lesser known 80s tunes for running:
Phil Keaggy "I'm Gonna Get You Now"
Public Enemy and Anthrax "Bring the Noise"

My playlist is full of 80's hits. You can't go wrong with AC/DC, Quiet Riot, Asia, The Police, Def Leopard, Whitesnake and yes I'll admit it I even have Cindy Lauper on my rotation.

Have to admit when Girls just wanna have fun comes on it makes me want to just move

cdellis1978 wrote: »

My playlist is full of 80's hits. You can't go wrong with AC/DC, Quiet Riot, Asia, The Police, Def Leopard, Whitesnake and yes I'll admit it I even have Cindy Lauper on my rotation.

Absolutely...


Some additional songs I find great for 'accompanying movement' --

Michael McDonald - No Lookin' Back (I also love listening to this song while driving on a highway, on a summer evening, as the sun is sinking into the sky), Ain't No Mountain High Enough

Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody

The Jacksons - Torture

Earth Wind & Fire - September, Boogie Wonderland

Kool & The Gang - Celebration, Misled

Commodores - Lady (You Bring Me Up)

Pointer Sisters - Jump (a song that adds some additional fun to a cardio burst of jumping rope )



And fwiw, some songs I tend to prefer more for time on the bike, or when walking or running, and as a kind of 'background soundtrack' to letting my thoughts wander, and fostering an almost meditative quality to the experience --

Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer

Journey - Only The Young, The Party's Over (Hopelessly In Love), If He Should Break Your Heart (90's)

Pointer Sisters - Dare Me

Kool & The Gang - Fresh, Cherish

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)

Modern English - I Melt With You

Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years

Christopher Cross - Ride Like The Wind

Little River Band - The Night Owl

Brenda Fassi - Vulindlela (90's / South African)

Dude don't forget Billy Idol.

White Wedding
Dancing with myself.

As for punk....who sings "I wanna be sedated"??

Don't forget the Sex Pistols!

There's so many! 80's is my favorite play list for running. Madonna to Prince to any and all butt rock/hair rock haha love it! But, what pumps me up?
The Final Countdown - Europe.

And I feel just like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xMRA0r92iac