Songs that get you pumped up
 

What's on your playlist while you're working out? I'm having trouble with creating a good playlist of my own - mostly due to the fact that I generally gravitate towards slower/calmer beats. But that doesn't work in the gym. What works for you?

Current songs that I have and work for me are (it's an odd mix, I admit):

Kaskade - Move for Me
The Smiths - This Charming Man
Lady Gaga - Just Dance
Matchbox 20 - I'll Believe You When

Not for working out, but here's my playlist for getting my blood pumping.

Amnesia - Chumbawamba
Bouncing Off The Walls - Sugarcult
Cannonball - The Breeders
Diamond Light Boogie - Cherry Poppin' Daddies
Don't Let's Start - They Might Be Giants
Fun Zone - Weird Al Yankovic
Here To Go (Go Mix Version) - Devo
Let It All Hang Out - The Nails
Rush - Big Audio Dynamite
Shithead - The Planet Smashers
Time To Start - Blue Man Group
A Walk - Bad Religion
What I Got (Reprise) - Sublime

I suspect that this is odder than yours, fellow Red.

I'll have to come back to this thread. But I can promise you the majority of my list will be songs by big haired metal bands of the 80's :o.

...Panama - Van Halen...Lick It Up - Kiss...Dr. Feelgood - Motley Crue, etc.

There is more I need to add to that list, but that was the song that started my half mile walk to class every morning for 2 years straight. I always feel like drinking, running, or fighting when I hear that song.

Pretty much anything upbeat by the Beatles.

When I'm going to the gym for an intense workout, I have a set of Front Line Assembly tracks I listen to. Tracks like this


(this picks up at about 1:45)

About half the tracks from NIN - The Downward Spiral

And this

I was one of about 300,000 there to watch these guys live

Any sort of groovy heavy metal gets me. Most recently, it's "Mother Puncher" by Mastodon.

If you want some heavy beats, I'm sure you'll dislike the vocals for most of them(but they will get you going strong and feeling the urge to break shit)
In Coalesce With Filth And Faith - Carnifex
A Vicious Reforming Of Features - After The Burial
Snuff 2/The Resurrection - Emmure

If you're into some good 80's rock, Bang Camaro (even though they aren't 80s I don't think) does a lot of good rock that isn't "Heavy screamin hollerin nonsense" as the first three are.
Hear are some more Rock songs
Eye Conqueror - Third Eye Blind
Valient Thorr has some good ones
You - Exies
Passive - A Perfect Circle
Wish - Alien Ant Farm
Heavy or Why Part 2 - Collective Soul
Bullets - Creed I don't care what everyone says, They still kick ass.
Godsmack pretty much all of their stuff
Hatebreed, Lamb Of God, Led Zeppelin, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax.

So many songs/bands, so much based on personal taste. There is a good variety in this list, You probably won't care for the first three, but definitely check Bang Camaro and the songs thereafter. Good luck on the list.

(this one took 2:45 off my best 5 miler last year, perfect tempo for running)