[Kim_in_TN]

This is a great thread! Music just brings me to life and I can't hear a good song and sit still at the same time ... IMPOSSIBLE! I was at my very thinnest when I was obsessed with radio music. I did aerobics and danced constantly all day long. I somehow deprive myself of music these past few years, I don't know why. I love music so much and used to sing frequently too. I need to really make me some great "workout" CDs to get me moving again!

[Sweet Lou]

The best song to motivate me is:

Eye of the tiger - Survivor (Rocky OST)

It makes me go out and run...

[ant hill]

Inspirational music whare the lyric is important and Progressive Music is my kick like a steam train laboring and absolute pressure of the steam just itching to come out of it confides.
Supertramp, Led Zepplin, Satus Quo, Allman Brothers Band, And that's all I can just think of now. There is another band and I find them funny in their lyrics and that's New Riders of the Purple Sage as it's like the old American wild west.

[Evermont]

Some great responses so far folks, keep 'em coming! Remember, we're looking for specific songs here not just a list of favorite bands. I have a lot of suggestions myself but I'm trying to do more listening than talking here so I'll just offer one up now and then.

R2112 - You totally stole my thunder with Green Grass and High Tides, I was saving that one! Good call.

Huckleberry - We have almost the same taste in music across the board. I get you! Seems like xMenace is right there with us too.

Sweet Lou - well hey, that song worked for Rocky so 'nuff said!

For any of you who named bands please consider coming back to suggest specific tunes 'cause I want to check 'em out and maybe add some to my playlist - so much cardio, so few cardio tunes...

Here's one more that will burn up your recumbent bike:

Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Wanna Stop - This one is great for when you're about to "hit the wall", I just blast right through it. Jack Wilde is great on guitar and is just an inspiration, he turns 60 years old this year! I hope he never stops.

[dodo]

I like to run so I listen to:
Madonna- Confession on a Dance Floor
Jamiroquai- Travelling Without Moving

and as for songs:
Culture Beat- Mr. Vain
Eiffel 65-Blue
Technotronic- Pump up the Jam
B-52's- Love Schack

and some others 90's dance songs!

[Huckleberry]

Keith,

Great thread. After reading some of the posts I downloaded "Highway Song" and "Green Grass and High Tides". They'll get you going.

A few more of my favorites:

The Allman Brothers - "One Way Out"
Bob Seger - "Night Moves"
Canned Heat - "On The Road Again"
Foghat - "Slow Ride"
Golden Earring - "Radar Love"
The Guess Who - "American Woman"
Janis Joplin - "Piece of My Heart"
"Me and Bobby McGee"
Led Zeppelin - "Over the Hills and Far Away"
Little Richard - "Lucille" (showing my age )
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
Rolling Stones - "Sympathy For the Devil"
"Shattered"
Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Pride and Joy"
Van Morrison - "Brown Eyed Girl"
ZZ Top - "La Grange"
"Tush"

Well, enough, I guess.

Thanks for all of the tips

[Evermont]

My previous post dropped a link. It should have read:

Jack Wilde is great on guitar and is just an inspiration, he turns 60 years old this year! I hope he never stops.

Originally Posted by Kim_in_TN

This is a great thread! Music just brings me to life and I can't hear a good song and sit still at the same time ... IMPOSSIBLE! I was at my very thinnest when I was obsessed with radio music. I did aerobics and danced constantly all day long. I somehow deprive myself of music these past few years, I don't know why. I love music so much and used to sing frequently too. I need to really make me some great "workout" CDs to get me moving again!

I too had fallen out of connection with all the music that I like so much. Things kinda came together when I organized my collection and my music players. I started this thread about organizing music collections to dip into that topic. I noticed in your profile that you like classical, I have some Mozart on my MP3 player too. Just strings though.

[ant hill]

Originally Posted by Evermont

I noticed in your profile that you like classical, I have some Mozart on my MP3 player too. Just strings though.

In the last few years I have discovered classical music but then I have also liked ballet so Tchaikovsky spring to my mind.
So I have had a rather broad taste in music.

[lisa821]

Oh, me!

The Clash: Tommy Gun (in total agreement with XMenace)
or absolutely anything by Joe Strummer (because he was a Punk Rock Warlord <grin>)

The Replacements: Alex Chilton

The Hives: Tick Tick Boom

Queens of the Stone Age: 3's and 7's

Anything that has Dave Grohl thrashing on the drums.

to cool down: something off of the Beatles White Album. (I'm So Tired is fitting...)

~Lisa

[jacobsam622]

I don't listen to music while I work out I listen to rock while driving from Langhorne Pa to Wilmington DE every day. When I workout I watch football during the season. I have most of my favorite TV shows on DVD which I watch when I am not watching my Beloved Cowboys play. If I listen to music Its going to be groups like Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful dead, Quicksilver messenger service, CSN, CSNY CN, Steven Stills, Niel Young, David Crosby with the birds, Stills and young with Buffalo Springfield.


PS the twins say Go Cowboys every night before they go to bed

[Ronin]

Everyone:

Bicyclists have their own versions of a treadmill -- trainers and rollers (I'm a roller fan because it make me maintain smooth pedal strokes as well as balance). Recently I put a cheap DVD/CD player and a small amp with speakers in the garage where, on miserable weather days, I ride rollers or we ride our first tandem in the magnetic resistance trainer.

Our favorite CD's include: Sing, Sing, Sing by New York Voices when we want a lot of sprinting, and Party Girl by Mary Chapin Carptenter when we want a steady beat across all the songs (although Down at the Twist and Shout does kick up the pace). We also like classical orchestral pieces (Rossini Overtures) as well. Ah, nothing like a good sprint to the famous section of the William Tell Overture!

Of course it is spring and the road beckons -- perhaps today now that the weather has cleared and the winds died down we'll get out-and-about and "Play in Traffic."

[jenzwhiz]

for gym music and workout music, I recommend european dance music.......

it's ALWAYS the best motivational tool for me...

.....and you don't have to tell anyone at the office if u just listen to it on the mp3 player at the gym ....

.... here's a compilation series on itunes that I recommend:

European Dance Music

[Lulika]

I love to do cardio to;

Christina Aguilera...Candyman
Christina Aguilera...Carwash
Adam and the Ants...Ant Music
Jimmy Somerville...You make me feel
Gypsy Kings...Bamboleo
Billy Joel...Uptown Girl
Bozz Scaggs...Lido Shuffle
Bruce Springsteen...Born in the USA
Culture Club...Karma Cameleon
David Bowie...Lets Dance
Emerson Lake and Palmer...Fanfare for the Common Man
Wham...Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Gypsy Kings...Lambada
Gwen Stefani...Hollaback Girl
Gwen Stefani....Wind it Up
Bow Wow Wow...I want Candy
Jive Bunny and the Master Mixers....all of them!
The Knack....My Sharona
Nolan Sisters...I'm in the Mood for Dancing
S Club 7....Reach for the Stars
REM...Shiny Happy People
Savage Garden...I believe
Earth, WInd and Fire...September
The Ketchup Song
Thin Lizzy....Whiskey in the Jar
Shaggy...Mr Bombastic
Laura Branigan...Flashdance
Billy Idol...You Spin me right round
Falco...One Night in Bangkok
The Proclaimers.....500 Miles
Kenny Logins...Footloose


Thats all I can think of for now

[matingara]

cool thread. i miss all the good ones. i take my il white ipod on all my long brisk walks.

i often listen to podcasts such as:

TWIT - with Leo Laporte
Cranky Geeks - with John C. Dvorak
Star Stuff - ABC Radio

But for music my fave exercise trax are many. Such as:

"I Will Never Let You Go" - Jackie Green (probably my fave of the last 3 years - i play it over and over)
"Honest Skrew" - Patrick Park (and every track on the "Loneliness Knows My Name Album"
Archangelo Corelli - lots of his Sonatas
"Exultate Jubilate" - Mozart sung by Emma Kirkby

i also listen to Ricky Gervais podcasts. i have heard each one several times. even so, i have to stop exercising because i am doubled over in laughter. such sweet agony. (available via iTunes store).

that's my initial list!



-- Joel

[lisa821]

Originally Posted by matingara

i also listen to Ricky Gervais podcasts. i have heard each one several times. even so, i have to stop exercising because i am doubled over in laughter. such sweet agony. (available via iTunes store).

Wow, Joel, I don't think I could get through a workout listening to Ricky Gervais. Maybe it would be a good replacement for stomach crunches--work those abs!

~Lisa