Fav songs 4 cardio [Archive]

Evermont

02-28-2008, 07:28 AM

In this thread we share the songs that keep your heart pumping through a long workout. Songs that are good for warm-up or cool down too.

I'll start...

Blackfoot - Highway Song: This is a great old rock classic from 1979. It starts out kinda mellow and builds to a driving southern rock beat. The lyrics are evocative of a tough slog down a very long road that goes "on and on" (like a good workout should). This is one of those tunes that you end up picking up the pace on without noticing, but even if you do notice, you can't help it. The song itself goes on and on, for 7.5 minutes!

R2112

02-28-2008, 10:22 AM

Lately while on the treadmill I've been listening to Angels & Airwaves, I-Empire on my iPod. The whole CD is pretty good and matches the speed intensity pretty good. It's also a good CD to forget what you're doing and the work out goes quickly.

Cool down Def Leppard's Animal matches the 4.0 speed perfectly.

Cheap Trick's Greatest Hits isn't to bad either.

princesslinda

02-28-2008, 10:25 AM

For my treadmill "listening pleasure" I have an Aerosmith greatest hits and a couple of Bob Seger CDs that work very well....and I like the Rascal Flatts version of "Life is a Highway."...anything that will mask all my "cursing and heavy breathing.";) :T

xMenace

02-28-2008, 11:45 AM

The Who
Baba O'reilly none better

YouTube - Baba O'Riley (http://youtube.com/watch?v=hKUBTX9kKEo)
YouTube - Blue Man Group - "Baba O'Riley" (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ldxg87pDlI8&feature=related) <--WATCH THIS!

Mason Proffit
Two Hangmen

You likely don't know this one. It's a protest rock anthem from the late sixties. It starts out slow and melodic, but it ends in a fine wall of sound. The lyrics are a bit quirky. You'll find yourself singing to the chorus.

Website (http://masonproffit.com/)
MP3 (http://masonproffit.com/twohangmen.mp3)

The Rezillos
(My Baby Does) Good Sculptures
Flying Saucer Attack
Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight

YouTube - Rezillos - i love my baby cos she does good sculptures (http://youtube.com/watch?v=QBGSLWKDMzM&feature=related)
YouTube - the rezillos - flying saucer attack (http://youtube.com/watch?v=wPhaUhVaAdc)
YouTube - The Rezillos - (http://youtube.com/watch?v=8VhsaVPim9k&feature=related)

Their whole CD Can't Stand The Rezillos is great for cardio.
Amazon.co.uk: Can't Stand the Rezillos: Rezillos: Music (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A0GPFE/qid=1120042457/sr=8-3/ref/026-0794423-0850862)

The Ramones
Spiderman
Rockaway Beach
*any other tune*

Possibly the ultimate workout band.

YouTube - Ramones - Spider-Man (http://youtube.com/watch?v=i5P8lrgBtcU)

The Clash
Tommy Gun

You can't go wrong with any of their songs, but this one moves and will move you.
YouTube - The Clash - Tommy Gun (http://youtube.com/watch?v=rlGHBfueOdc)

Mich

02-28-2008, 02:23 PM

Many, but two of my favorites are:
Fast walking: Jackson Browne Running on Empty & others
Slow walking: Eagles; Hotel California & others

Lots of Elton John, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia (a diabetic!)also the Grateful Dead.
Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt & the Beatles are great walking music!

Natalie McMaster's fiddle music is good too. She's from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

Well, you asked :)

Mich

Huckleberry

02-28-2008, 05:38 PM

It's good to mix up the pace a little:

Allman Brothers - Jessica
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Blackfoot
CCR
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
ZZ Top
Stevie Ray Vaughn

Makes me want to go work out again:thrasher:

xMenace

02-28-2008, 05:56 PM

It's good to mix up the pace a little:

Allman Brothers - Jessica
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Blackfoot
CCR
Aerosmith
Led Zeppelin
ZZ Top
Stevie Ray Vaughn

Makes me want to go work out again:thrasher:

Eggsolent! :egg:

My son has discovered Jessica on Guitar Hero.

morrisma

02-28-2008, 06:30 PM

The music's great but I watch reruns of CSI & try to time the workout to start & end on the hour. Weird but works for me.
Mike

BriOnH

02-29-2008, 11:50 PM

Lets get physical by Olivia Newton John

haha okok

For me I like to listen to blink 182, Springstien, Zeppelin anything with a fast tempo and hard guitar and base do the job for me. I am a mathaholic so I always count my pace to the temp of the song so when Angel from Montgomery hits the playlist in my accidental placement of it into the running section of my iPhone my pace and the usual common time of 1,2,3,4 2,2,3,4 goes my mental metronome hits I am sure to slow down.

mg_2204

03-01-2008, 06:00 AM

Always a challenge to set the RIGHT songs when you hit that point when you're tired and out of puff... (but not impossible!) ...

Dirty - Rocketface (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJVEQ0PVCw) is one of them.

:)

puri6798

03-01-2008, 07:09 AM

if a person has problems with there feet and wants to exercises what type of exercises could they do?

R2112

03-01-2008, 08:47 AM

if a person has problems with there feet and wants to exercises what type of exercises could they do?

I read for diabetics with reduced sensation try swimming, bicycling, rowing, chair and arm exercises and other non-weight activities.

xMenace

03-01-2008, 09:29 AM

Add some Bob Seger - Katmandu and Get out of Denver ('cause you look just like a commie and you might just be a member baby!)

YouTube - Bob Seger- Katmandu Live (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvbqGubZmgo)

YouTube - Brothers Inc - Get Out Of Denver - Rochester Elks - 9/22/07 (http://youtube.com/watch?v=IPEpg_-k2T4)

R2112

03-01-2008, 09:35 AM

issysmommy

03-01-2008, 06:57 PM

Tons of stuff by Led Zepellin, Gwen Stefani, Pearl Jam, Dave Mathews, AC/DC.

Songs: In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins, Rehab by Amy Whinehouse, Gold Digger, and for cool down, anything by Peter Gabriel.

Kim_in_TN

03-01-2008, 06:58 PM

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

03-10-2008, 04:25 AM

The best song to motivate me is:

Eye of the tiger - Survivor (Rocky OST)

It makes me go out and run...

ant hill

03-10-2008, 05:15 AM

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. :T

http://www.newridersofthepurplesage.com/posters/poster1.jpg

Evermont

03-10-2008, 06:58 AM

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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JW-TJ0S8bs) - 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

03-10-2008, 08:45 AM

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

03-10-2008, 05:56 PM

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:top:

Evermont

03-11-2008, 05:15 AM

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

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

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 [URL="http://www.diabetesforums.com/forum/chit-chat/26608-organizing-music-collections.html"]this thread about organizing music collections (http://Ozzy) 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

03-11-2008, 05:13 PM

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

03-11-2008, 08:05 PM

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

03-21-2008, 11:27 PM

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. :cool:

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

Ronin

03-22-2008, 03:37 AM

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

04-09-2008, 03:32 AM

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 (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearchResults?albumTerm=Euro+Club+Hits+Vol +)

:) :)

Lulika

04-09-2008, 04:33 AM

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 :D

matingara

04-09-2008, 05:12 AM

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!

:D

-- Joel

lisa821

04-09-2008, 07:42 AM

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

davef

04-09-2008, 08:25 AM

My "work out" is walking, so not sure I qualify for inclusion in this thread, but that won't stop me ;)

I'm not a big fan of walking, so have to have my iPod with me, I am a big music fan, the problem is deciding what to listen to as I have about 4000 songs on the iPod at this stage. Some firm favourites would include:

Dire Straits - Pretty much any of them, but Walk of Life, Telegraph Road,

Christy Moore - Bright Blue Rose
Christy Moore - Ordinary Man YouTube - Ordinary man - Christy Moore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsmAMKUIXbE)
Christy Moore - Viva La Quinte Brigada YouTube - 17. Viva La Quinte Brigada Christy Moore Live at The Point 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW1MUpZT4ug)
Billy Joel - Allentown
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Crowded House - Always bring the Weather with you
Crowded House - 4 seasons in one day
Don Henley - Boys of summer
Elvis - Suspicious Minds
Elvis - American Trilogy
Elvis - You're the devil in disguise
Eurythmics - Love is a stranger
Fine Young Cannibals - You drive me crazy
The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
Warren Zevon - Excitable boy
Warren Zevon - Tenderness on the block
Thin Lizzy - The Boys are back in Town
Van Morrisson - Dweller on the threshold
The Waterboys - Whole of the moon
The Waterboys - Stolen Child
Van Morrisson - Bright side of the road
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
U2 - Sweetest Thing
U2 - Still haven't found what I'm looking for
Tom Cochrane - Life is a highway
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow / It's a wonderful world

MarcS

04-09-2008, 10:01 AM

Lets see where to start....Ok I like a mix stuff....

Elvis Presley .................... Little Less Conversation
Brian Setzer Orchestra ...... Jump Jive & Wail
Rammstein ...................... Mein Teil
Insane Clown Posse .......... Lets Go All the Way
Red Hot Chilipeppers ......... Love Rollercoaster

Anything by the Ramones.

Tashia

04-09-2008, 11:51 AM

This thread is making me want to go for a nice long walk with my Ipod. :D

Some of the songs I must have on my workout playlist are:

Matter of Time by Hellyeah

The Way of The Fist by Five Finger Death Punch

Pushing Through by Mudvayne

Hold On by Korn

Not Falling by Mudvayne

jerryn

04-09-2008, 12:05 PM

The Ramones - I Want to be Sedated

matingara

04-09-2008, 09:30 PM

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

have you heard his iTunes podcasts with Karl Pilkington and Steve Merchant? if not they are worth downloading!

i am glad i am not alone in finding this stuff really funny!

-- Joel.

Funnygrl

04-09-2008, 10:50 PM

Sweetest Girl - Wyclef Jean
Take You There- Sean Kingston?
Bon Jovi
Kanye West

jacobsam622

04-17-2008, 08:25 PM