Give Me Music to Run To!
November 13th, 2008 by Evil BeetSo, my pal Lacy Kemp over at the RealNetworks blog called together her legions of loyal Twitter followers to do what she called a “Social Music Experiment.” She asked people all over the world to send her their favorite song, and she compiled a bunch of them into a single Rhapsody playlist. You can check it out here. It’s certainly one way to be exposed to a wide variety of new artists, although poor Lacy promised to listen to every song that was submitted, so she was stuck in her office for days alternating between Christmas tunes and GWAR.
It gave me an idea. I’m always looking for new songs to run to and/or work out to. Especially now that I’m training for a half-marathon, I’m spending a lot of time running and for some reason it’s always hard to come up with good tracks for my jogs. And I have a new Rhapsody mp3 player, so I have to load a bunch of new music on it anyway. Sooooo …
I was hoping you guys could help me come up with a new playlist. An Evil Beet Work Out playlist. It would be awesome if you could leave in the comments some of your favorite songs to work out to. I’ll put them all on a single Rhapsody playlist so you guys can check it out, too.
Thanks!!!
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Here are a few from my workout mix:
Closer to Fine – Indigo girls
Lets Do it Again – Josh Dion Band
Baby Come on – + 44
Next to you – Buckcherry
Taste of Ink – The Used
World Hold On – Bob Sinclar
The Adventure FInal – ANgels and AIrwaves
Kiss Me Deadly – Lita Ford
Last Train Home – Lostprophets
I RUn for Life – Melissa Ethridge
Love Today – Mika
75 & SUnny – Ryan Montblaue Band
CSS – Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Tegan And Sara – The Con
Tegan And Sara – Speak Slow
The Ting Tings – Great DJ
The Klaxons – Golden Skans
Arctic Monkeys – Fake Tales Of San Fancisco
stop shamelessly promoting rhapsody!
however i like the idea of the workout playlist, i am always struggling for new workout songs.
Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
Scissor Sisters – Comfortable Numb
Neighborhood #3 by The Arcade Fire! I used to listen to this while I was working out and it helps you keep the beat.
ANYTHING black eyed peas if you like strong beats and catchy tunes
Akon Ft. Lil Wayne-Im So Paid —-its my fave at the moment lol
&
Gabriella Cilmi-Sweet About Me
when i run i like to listen to techno it just motivates me and it keeps me going i loveeeee the song
Captain Hollywood Project-More and More
anything by rise against is great to work out to especially songs from revolutions per minute
Artist:
Deadmau5 (yes the 5 is intentional)
Song:
I Remember
Who Da Funk Feat. Jessica Eve – Shiny Disco Balls
Simian Mobile Disco- It’s the beat
– Hot Dog
Chromeo- 2 step
– Needy girl
Brazilian girls- Don’t stop
Missy Elliot- This is for my people
Wham- I’m your man
Morcheeba-Women lose weight
Kelly Clarkson- Since u been gone(remix)
Brit Spears- Gimmie More
Pump it up- Danzel
I’ll stop now before I really get into it.
Hands down:
Boycot Set by the Clumsy Lovers (based in Vancouver!)
You Can’t Stop the Beat from the Hairspray soundtrack.
Please don’t listen to The Eye Of The Tiger.
It’s good every once in a while but seriously.
Hysteria by Muse
or
Supermassive Black Hole by Muse
New Workout Plan – Kenye West. Pumps me up everytime.
Linkin Park has some good beats too.
Devil Inside – INXS
“Go Go Gadget Gospel” by Gnarls Barkley
“Transformer” by Gnarls Barkley
“Electric Feel” MGMT
“Shut Up and Let Me Go” The Ting Tings
“American Boy” by Estelle featuring Kanye West
“Stone Cold Crazy” Queen
“Dirt Off Your Shoulder” Jay-Z
“Hot Thing” Talib Kweli
“Immigrant Song” Led Zeppelin
“Lap Dance” and “Truth or Dare” by NERD
“Trick Me” by Kelis
“Say Hey (I Love You” by Michael Franti & Spearhead
“Diesel Power” by Prodigy
1. Meshuggah-Destroy Erase Improve
2. CKY- Escape from Hellview
3. NILE- Papyrus containing the spell to preserve it’s possessor
against attacks from he who is in the water
4. NILE- Cast down the Heretic
5. Hate Eternal- I, Monarch
6. Morbid Angel-Rapture
7. Meshuggah-Bleed
8. Slipknot-All hope is gone
9. Type O Negative-I know your fucking someone else
10. Rage- Renegades of Funk
11. Type O Negative- Everything Dies
12. Napalm Death- You Suffer
13. Dimmu Borgir- In Sorti Diablo
14. Alice in Chains- What the hell have I?
15. Tool- Lateralus
16. Between the Buried and Me- More of myself to kill
17. Boston- More than a feeling
18. The Smiths- How soon as now?
19. Depeche Mode- Enjoy the Silence
20. OutKast- Throw your Hands in tha Air
21. George Clinton- Atomic Dog
22. Goodie Mob- Black Ice
23. Ceelo- I’ma Freak (closet freak)
22. Pantera- Becoming
23. The Ramones- Judy is a punk rocker
24. The Clash- London Calling
25. The entire Smashing pumpkins album-Melancholy and the infinite
sadness
I have a really long workout list that I run to all the time! Beet email me if you want it, and I promise I won’t spam you. Some samples:
Abba
Beastie Boys
Santogold
Queen
White Stripes
Sir Mix-a-lot
Sly and the Family Stone
Grace Jones
but the all time best running song “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor
The Faint – I disappear
The Presets – Kicking and Screaming
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Let’s Make out
Ratatat – Seventeen Years
Alright, here are some eclectic selections/recommendations. Enjoy!
My People – Presets
Such Great Heights – Postal Service
Shadow of the Day – Linkin Park
New Slang – The Shins (warm up of warm down)
A Fifth of Beethoven -Walter Murphy (yeah, random)
Hero – Foo Fighters
Nearly Lost You – Screaming Trees
Better Then – John Butler Trio
Neopolitan Dreams – Lisa Mitchell (warm down)
Steal My Sunshine – LEN
Mutt – Blink 182
Kung Fu – Ash
ANYTHING BY LADY GAGA, i esp like just dance.
shut up-black eye peas
Don’t forget classical music! Carl Orff- Carmina Burana
“17 years” by RATATAT
anything by them, really, but that song in particular will just blow your mind.
Funny – I just made my work out mix earlier today
AC/DC “Back in Black”
The Jay Z remix of Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab”
Bad Manners “You Fat Bastard”
The Clash “Train in Vain” and “Rudie Can’t Fail”
The Dammed “Jet Boy Jet Girl”
Dropkick Murphys “Four Dead Cheerleaders”
Green Day “American Idiot”
Ice Cube “you Can Do It” and “eye of the Tiger” (remix w/ DMX)
Rob Base & DJ Easy Rock – “It Takes Two’
Runaways “Cherry Bomb”
Busta Rhyme’s version of Womanizer
So many more ….
Shameless – Ani Difranco
Girl all the Bad Guys Want – Bowling for Soup
Santeria – Sublime
Dreams – The Cranberries
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
S.O.S. – Rhianna
Shooting Star – Adrianne (Gonzalez)
I’m gone, i’m going by lesley roy
4ever by the veronicas
check yes juliet by we the kings
pressure by paramore
here it goes again by ok go
supermassive black hole by muse
and for your cool down, try live your life, or a MIKA song
have fun training!!!!!!!!!!!!
i ran my first half marathon when i was 14. i had so much fun.now i run all the time.
enjoy,
lillie
muse is great for mid playlist when you are trying to get that second wind – our time is running out, bliss, and stockholm syndrome are a few of my favorites. arcade fire – rebellion. to expand upon the previous post… really anything ratatat- wildcat, seventeen years. the pixies – debaser. sigur ros – hippopola is a great first song. the magic numbers – take a chance. the white stripes – blue orchid (never gets old). spoon – the underdog. or if you don’t feel like listening to more than 20 seconds of a song i recommend the whole night ripper album by girl talk. even though it’s definitely more of a party album.
This playlist works for me:
Beast – “Mr. Hurricane”
Dropkick Murphys – “I’m Shipping Up To Boston”
Salt N Pepa – “Push It”
Sam Sparro – “Black & Gold”
Snoop Dogg – “My Medicine”
Hercules and Love Affair – “Blind”
Kate Nash – “Foundations” & “Merry Happy”
Cut Copy – “Lights and Music”
M.I.A. – “Boyz”
Popchor Berlin – “4 My People”
Peter Bjorn and John – “Young Folks”
Plastic Bertrand – “Ça Plane Pour Moi”
House of Pain – “Jump Around”
Electric Six – “Gay Bar” & “Danger High Voltage”
MARRS or Colourbox – “Pump Up The Volume”
Mark Ronson – “God Put A Smile On Your Face”
Juliet – “Avalon”
Mirwais – “Disco Science” (!)
Alien Ant Farm – “Smooth Criminal”
Almost anything by Crystal Castles
Most things by Prodigy
Many things by Chromeo
Prodigy- Smack my bitch up, Firestarter, and Breathe
I listen to these the last 15 min of my cardio. No matter how tired I am, these songs always make me last though the full workout.
sooo…
1) this could be anywhere in the world (Alexisonfire)
2) good old fashioned lover boy (Queen)
3) infa-red (Placebo)
4) walking with a ghost (The White Stripes)
Yeah, these are all pretty random, but they are all on my workout playlist and I love them. Maybe you will to!
I am X-ray – Pretty Rave Girl
Mika – Big Girls ( I find the lyrics more inspiring than the beat…)
Enur Ft. Natasha – Calabria
Black Eyed Peas – Let’s Get it Started
and anything by Rihanna
Bebot – Black Eyed Peas
Hot as Ice – Britney Spears
Fighter – Christina Aguilera
Space Jam Theme Song
Shut Up and Drive – Rihanna
Radio Song – Superbus
Friday – Daniel Bedingfield
Again, Again, and Again – Blaqk Audio
We Be Burnin’ – Sean Paul
Control – Metro Station
Pink – U + Ur Hand
Pink – Get The Party Started
Apocalyptica – I Don’t Care
Godsmack – Whatever
Lisa Marie Presley – S.O.B.
Jet – Cold Hard Bitch
kelsey – metro station
“XR2″ – M.I.A.
“The Adventure” – Angels & Airwaves
“Gasolina” – Bonde do Role
“The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth” – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
“Sea Lion Woman” – Feist
“Man Ray” – The Futureheads
“Television Television” – Ok Go
Straight from the Workout Playlist
Dramarama – Anything Anything
CSS – Music is my Hot, Hot Sex
Vengaboys – Boom Boom Boom
Johnny Cash – Rusty Cage
J Geils Band – Angel is a Centerfold
Roxette – Joyride
Enur – Calabria 2007
Candy Station – Young Hearts Run Free
Global Deejays – I Get Around
Chemical Brothers – Galvanize
Prodigy – Firestarter
Cameo – Word Up
Deep Dish – Dreams
Marky Mark – Good Vibrations
Bob Sinclair – World Hold On, Love Generation
Hot Hot Heat – This Town
The New Pornographers – The Fake Headlines
Mark Morrison – Return of the Mack
I also think that Usher – Yeah is the ultimate situp song
Beet,
My friend Lindsey has a music blog. I find all my new tracks there. It is called Music Ramen and is very awesome. She even has the MP3s for most of the stuff she recommends.
http://www.musicramen.com
advice from a cross country runner:
harder, better, faster, stonger- daft punk
the ballroom blitz- sweet
renegades of funk- rage against the machine
seventeen years- ratatat
owner of a lonely heart- yes
blood, sugar, sex, magik- red hot chili peppers
song w/ a misson- the sounds
electioneering- radiohead
glass- incubus
take me out- franz ferdinand… etc.
N.E.R.D’s new song is my current favourite. All the girls standing in the line for the bathroom? I think that’s the title. It gives me a great run.
“Helium” Bass Kleph & Anthony Paul
Pink – U and ur hand
Pink – So what
50 Cent – Disco inferno
Kanye West – Stronger
D12 – My band
Eminem – I’m having a relapse
Eminem – Welcome to detroit
T.I. – Whatever you like
Ciara feat. T-Pain – Go girl (If you watch the video it will want you keep working out, believe me.. lol..)
112 – I ain’t scared
Jagged edge – Locked down (you might wanna listen to this one when you’re almost done lol..)
Usher – Love in this club
Usher – What’s a man to do
Frankie J feat. R.Kelly – Dancing
Mario brown – Slow
Ludacris feat. T-Pain – One more drink
Ludacris feat. T-Pain – Chopped n’ skrewed
R.Kelly – Skin
And that’s some of my fav. songs at the moment.. LOL.. Hope you like ‘em Beet!!
Prati mi sms – Bobi Andonov (get from youtube)
In love – the beautiful girls
adem in, adem out – lisa, amy & shelley
mazi me sena – chloe boleti
Tarantula-Pendulum
Slam-Pendulum
Fasten your seatbelt-Pendulum… OK generally anything by Pendulum, you have to wait for some of the songs to get going though but its awesome to work out to.
Firestarter- Prodigy
The Ting Tings – Great DJ (although it’s already been mentioned, it’s too good not to mention it again)
Klaxons – Golden Skans
Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me
Calvin Harris – The Girls
MGMT – Kids
I hope you choose at least one of those – and that you like it!!
Move Your Feet- Junior Senior
Back in your head- Tegan and Sara.
My workout stuff is more:
Foo Fighters
Nine Inch Nails
Garbage
Trying to work out the anger baby….
Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant
Don’t Stop me now – Queen
Gimme some lovin – Spencer Davis Group
I Feel for You – Chaka Khan
The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson
Tainted Love – Soft Cell ?
Modern Love – David Bowie
White Wedding and Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
Gotta have whitney!
It’s not right but it’s OK remix – w. Houston
Close To Me – The Cure
Seven Nation Army – White Stripes
Root Down – Beastie Boys
Ludo – Go Getter Greg
Treaty Of Paris – Hello Nurse
Treaty Of Paris – Rollerskates
The Rocket Summer – High Life Scenery
Motion City Soundtrack – This Is For Real
Motion City Soundtrack – My Favorite Accident
Every Avenue – Where Were You
pretty much anything by MC Lars