30-Somethings - Motivational Music

One of the most motivational things for me to get moving is music. Music really gets me moving and makes me extremely happy. My tastes are very diverse and I am open to most genres. I am looking for new music to add to the ipod to really get me motivated to exercise so tell me what your most motivational song is when you exercise. What really gets you going and pushes you to do more?

black eyed peas -tonight's gonna be a good night
eminem- lose yourself
pat benetar-all fired up
tom petty- american girl
pink- so what
brittany spears-toxic
hey mickey
outkast-hey ya
salt n peppa - shoop
brittany spears-womanizer
cindi lauper-she bop
beastie boys-intergalctic
christina aguilera-fighter
joan jett-do you wanna touch this

A few of the songs on my MP3...

I Turn To You (DJ Gollum Remix) - Empyre One
Invincible - Pat Benatar
It's On - Superchick
Bad Romance (DJ Dan Remix) - Lady Gaga
Any Way You Want It/Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’ - Glee Cast
Strong Enough - Cher
Fighter - Christina Aguilera
Caramelldancen - Caramell
Piece of My Heart - Melissa Etheridge
Giant - Melissa Etheridge
Bring Me Some Water - Melissa Etheridge
Stronger - Britney Spears
Wolfgang’s 5th Symphony - Wolfgang Gartner
I Surrender (Brooklyn Bounce Remix) - Discotronic

And two great songs for running...
I Run For Life - Melissa Etheridge
Reason To Believe - Dashboard Confessional

The most truly motivational ones I have are (some repeats!),

Fighter - Christina Aguilara
Lose Yourself - Eminem
Goin' the Distance - Rocky Soundtrack

This one might sound funny, but Now or Never off the High School Musical 3 soundtrack -- that one gets me going like crazy! hahaha Yes, I have a tween daughter :p

These are great - some duplicate my ipod but I have a lot of new ones to download. If it weren't raining I would be out there now...thank you!

My favorite running playlist:

American Boy by Estelle feat. Kanye West
Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot
Bad Romance by Lady GaGa
Blah Blah Blah by Ke$ha
Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas
Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg
If U Seek Amy by Britney Spears
Toxic by Britney Spears
Imma Be by Black Eyed Peas
The One by Mary J. Blige
Work It by Missy Elliot (or anything by Missy Elliot!)
Yeah! by Usher
OMG by Usher feat. Will.I.Am
You're a Jerk by New Boyz
This is Why I'm Hot by Mims
Show Stopper by Danity Kane
Should've Said No by Taylor Swift
Like a Boy by Ciara
It's Like That by Mariah Carey
Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang
It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock

I realize my taste in music makes a lot of 30-something year olds cringe. :dizzy:

Actually, 1bighog, most of our music overlaps - we have a lot of the same choices. Love it! :)

You motivated me to look for some new tunes. :D These are the latest adds to my MP3:

Big Girl (You Are Beautiful) - Mika
Airplanes - B.o.B.
Don’t Upset The Rhythm/Go Baby Go (Dave Audé Remix) - Noisettes
Shark in the Water - VV Brown
Earthquake - Little Boots
Don’t Stop Me Now - Queen
Love Game (Chew Fu Ghettohouse Fix) - Lada Gaga

I'm going to make up a playlist on my phone - will post back once I've done it!!

:carrot:

My favorite running playlist:

American Boy by Estelle feat. Kanye West
Baby Got Back by Sir Mix A Lot
Bad Romance by Lady GaGa
Blah Blah Blah by Ke$ha
Boom Boom Pow by Black Eyed Peas
Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg
If U Seek Amy by Britney Spears
Toxic by Britney Spears
Imma Be by Black Eyed Peas
The One by Mary J. Blige
Work It by Missy Elliot (or anything by Missy Elliot!)
Yeah! by Usher
OMG by Usher feat. Will.I.Am
You're a Jerk by New Boyz
This is Why I'm Hot by Mims
Show Stopper by Danity Kane
Should've Said No by Taylor Swift
Like a Boy by Ciara
It's Like That by Mariah Carey
Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang
It Takes Two by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock

I realize my taste in music makes a lot of 30-something year olds cringe. :dizzy:

These are great actually! I'm not a huge music fan, but I might download a bunch of these! Thanks

Break Your Heart by Taio Cruz
I Like It - Enrique Iglesias
Shadows - Red
Invincible - Adelitas Way
Now I'm That B!tch - Livvi Franc
Alejandro - Lady Gaga
Undisclosed Desires - Muse
You're Going Down - Sick Puppies
SheWolf - Shakira
Shake My - Three 6 Mafia
Becoming the Bull - Atreyu
Disturbia - Rihanna

And there is a lot of Fall Out Boy, Barenaked Ladies, Maroon 5, Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace that I listen to! With a little Shania Twain and UB40 thrown in for good measure...

Hey, whatch it with the 30 year old remarks. This 33 year old loves those selections!

Finally, women my age who don't think I'm trying to act like a teenager with my taste in music! :carrot:

You think YOUR taste in music is weird!?

All I listen to is 70s and 80s country and 80s heavy metal!!!

Willie Nelson
Kenny Rogers
Garth Brooks
Waylon Jennings
Johnny Cash (you GOTTA have the Man in Black!!!)
Conway Twitty
Keith Whitley
Shania Twain
Terri Clark
Alan Jackson
Toby Keith
Clint Black
George Strait

Queensryche
Megadeth
Poison
Def Leppard
Motley Crue
Skid Row (with Sebastian Bach, of course!)
Guns n Roses (old school GnR, with Slash and Duff McKagan)
Type O Negative (RIP Peter Steele)
The Bangkok Five (punk metal from Hollywood)
Green Day
The Cult
AC/DC
Slaughter

And every now and then there's a little Backstreet Boys or Salt n' Pepa... And if I'm REALLY feeling old school, it's Run DMC, Tone Loc and Young MC!

MisfitRycher, when I'm in the mood, I love me some 80s big hair rock! :D I don't know how well it would work for running though. Hrm... :chin:

My cooldown song after working out is "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus.

It is a great song to make me realize that what I just did was not the most fun or the easiest thing I have done, but it is gettimg me to what I want most right now and that is health, strong, thin...and one hot mama! :)

I also love to workout to 80's - Wham "Wake Me UP before you Go Go" and Aqua "Babie Girl" and my ultimate secret song ...Hannah Montana "Who Said" LOL but if you listen to it, it is quite inspriational!

A really good one is "Black Betty" Ram Jam - VERY upbeat and keeps your steps up and booty moving!

I have a lot of the same as many of you listed as well! A few of my other favorites:
Bigger Than My Body - John Mayer - for some reason this song pushes me through when i hit a wall.
Call Me - Blondie
Crawling - Linken Park
Flashing lights - kanye west

A bit diverse in styles, but they work for me!

My current running list for my iPod

Rockstar (Nickelback)
Barbie Girl (Aqua)
Naughty Girls Need Love Too (Samantha Fox)
So What (Pink)
Bad Influence (Pink)
Best of Both Worlds (Miley Cyrus)
Party in the USA (Miley Cyrus)
See You Again (Miley Cyrus)
Self Esteem (Offspring)
Thnx Fr Th Mmrs (Fall Out Boy)
Girlfriend (Avril Lavigne)
Flood (Jars of Clay)
Everything About You (Santus Real)
Fight Song (Sanctus Real)
Never Again (Kelly Clarkston)

I've also been known to have a bunch of 80's stuff (to include Weird Al...hey, he went to my alma mater...gotta like him :)), Christian rock, southern rock (mostly Lynyrd Skynyrd), and current top 40...yes, I'm an eclectic mess...:)

I'm gonna have to be the weirdo here. I love Japanese Pop music. There is a show called Initial D about a bunch of illegal drift racers that has a TON of dance music to go with it (and in English!) The beat is just about perfect when I'm running 4-5 mph, my feet hit the track in time with it.

Lady Gaga remixes would be second on my list. I'm addicted to Poker Face and Bad Romance. ;)