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  • Here's my playlist on my MP3 player for my workouts.

    1.) Pump it up (remix)
    2.) Eye of the Tiger, by Survivor
    3.) Push It, by Rick Ross
    4.) Heart of a Champion, by Nelly (One of my ALL TIME favorite workout songs. Really gets you pumped and motivated)

    5.) Rollin, by Limp Bizkit
    6.) Everybody's Screaming, by Lost Prophets
    7.) Spirit Never Dies, by Masterplan
    8.) X Gon Give it to Ya, by DMX (Extremely explicit content in this song though. Huge F bomb, lol)
    9.) Party Up, by DMX
    10.) Collide, by Skillet
    11.) The Final Countdown, by Europe.

    Hope you like the songs, and have fun!
  • I think I've added atleast 50 new songs to my iPod! Thanks guys, can't wait to try them out tomorrow!
  • Other good ones "We Will Rock You" by Queen, "American Idiot" by Green Day and "I Wanna be Sedated" by The Ramones.
  • I'll try and list some great songs that are fairly fast-paced, I only listen to satellite radio so I have no idea if they're mainstream or unheard of on regular radio...they're all pretty good, at least I think. Mostly alt-rock/pop type music, you can probably listen to a preview on amazon of most of these songs before you download.

    We are scientists "Nobody move, nobody get hurt"
    Nine Black Alps "Cosmopolitan" (lyrics can be ignored, as they go something like 'you're not pretty enough, you're not skinny enough', unless that actually motivates you and not demoralizes you)
    Arctic Monkeys "I bet you look good on the dancefloor"
    Blur "Boys and Girls"
    Hot Hot Heat "Bandages"
    Gogol Bordello "Not a Crime" (this is insanely upbeat gypsy punk)
    Kaiser Chiefs "I Predict a Riot"

    some older stuff I can think of offhand that still rocks:

    Tracy Bonham "Mother Mother"
    Veruca Salt "Volcano Girls"
    Marvelous 3 "Freak of the Week"
  • I have nearly 80 songs on my 'Run' playlist. Love threads like this 'cause I'm always looking for more.

    Running Out of Days 3 Doors Down
    The Art of Losing American Hi-Fi Freaky Friday Soundtrack
    Girlfriend Avril Lavigne
    Hazy Shade of Winter The Bangles
    Shining Like The Son Bob Rice
    Baby One More Time Britney Spears
    Round N' Round Chris Isaak
    Take Me Away Christina Vidal Freaky Friday Soundtrack
    Wasting Time Collective Soul
    The Bug Dire Straits
    I Found A Way Drake Bell Yes, Drake and Josh on Nikelodeon
    Shining Star Earth, Wind & Fire
    Don't Bring Me Down Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
    Poker Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
    Pump It Up Elvis Costello
    The Sheriff Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP)
    Trilogy Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP)
    Gasoline Enter The Haggis
    One Last Drink Enter The Haggis
    No More Stones Enter The Haggis
    Marti's Last Stand Enter The Haggis
    Take a Picture Filter
    Paralyzer Finger Eleven
    Talking to the Walls Finger Eleven
    Times Like These Foo Fighters
    Long Way Down Goo Goo Dolls
    Slide The Goo Goo Dolls
    Hella Good Gwen Steffani
    A Minute Without You Hanson Yes, Hanson
    I Want a New Drug Huey Lewis & The News
    Need You Tonight INXS
    A Dios le Pido Juanes
    Footloose Kenny Loggins
    Where Are We Runnin'? Lenny Kravitz
    What I Like About You Lillix Freaky Friday ST
    Ultimate Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday ST
    Little of Your Time Maroon 5
    Wake Up Call Maroon 5
    Figure It Out Maroon 5
    Harder to Breathe Maroon 5 Songs
    3 Am Matchbox Twenty
    The Story in Your Eyes The Moody Blues
    After You Came The Moody Blues
    Ride My See-Saw The Moody Blues
    The Flyer Nanci Griffith
    Cherry, Cherry Neil Diamond
    He Reigns Newsboy This is a GREAT Christian Song
    Here It Goes Again Ok Go
    Pop Song 89 R.E.M.
    All for You Sister Hazel
    Miss This Soul Asylum
    The Red Summer Sun Third Eye Blind
    Blinded Third Eye Blind
    Free Train
    (Oh) Pretty Woman Van Halen
    Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison
    Ride With Me The Vines
    Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
    I've Seen All Good People Yes
    Roundabout Yes
  • Forgot one! (Many, actually, which were picked up by others. Love Maroon Five's Wake-Up Call!)

    I Will Survive - by Gloria Gaynor - for those times when I'm not sure I will!
  • I've been working on building up my exercise/upbeat music (I use it to dance around my apartment). Here's a sample of my list so far.
    Teenagers - My Chemical Romance
    Facedown - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
    Paralyzer - Finger Eleven
    Dance, Dance - Fall Out Boy
    Holiday - Green Day
    The Pros and Cons of Breathing - Fall Out Boy
    You and Your Hand - Pink
    Wake Up Call - Maroon 5
    I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco
    Have a Nice Day - Bon Jovi
    This Ain't a Scene it's an Arms Race - Fall Out Boy
    Sugar, We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy
    Beverly Hills - Weezer
    Black Horse and the Cherry Tree - KT Tunstall
    Cotton Eye Joe - Jock Jams
    Dark Lady - Cher
    Do Ya - ELO
    Fighter - Christina Aguilera
    A Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon and Garfunkel
    Here I Go Again On My Own - White Snake
    Hips Don't Lie - Shakira
    It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls (one of my favorite)
    Jungle Love - Steve Miller Band
    Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith
    Motownphilly - Boyz 2 Men
    My Prerogative - Britney Spears (please, no judgements )
    Once Bitten Twice Shy - White Snake
    Paradise City - Guns N'Roses
    Right Now - Van Halen
    St. Elmos Fire - John Parr
    Trouble - Pink
    We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
    You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
    You Shook Me All Night Long - ACDC

    There is really no rhyme or reason to my list, but it keeps me entertained and I rarely get bored with it. I have many other to add to it, but I don't buy music very often.
  • Just added these last night from itunes. Hey, when you purchase from itunes they set up a 'Just For You' section at the bottom of the itunes music store page. They look at what you've purchased in the past and suggest music they think you might like based on that. I've gotten some good tunes that way. Some I didn't know; others I'd forgotten about. Also, they have a free 'Single of the Week'.

    Hey WildThings, don't fret the Britney song. I have her 'Baby One More Time', plus a Hanson song and the theme to Drake and Josh. I just like the songs, what can I say??

    Get On Out Soul Asylum
    And She Was Talking Heads
    Burning Down the House Talking Heads
    Fly From the Inside Shinedown
    Life Is a Highway Rascal Flatts --- GREAT SONG!
    Inside Out Eve 6
    The Middle Jimmy Eat World
  • If you go onto Itunes and look up free downloads they sometimes have workout routines with music in the fitness section. My personal favs are techno because the beat is supposed to mimick a heartbeat moving faster and slower and my body just seems to meld to the beat, techno is good for long runs or endurance training because it keeps you on target. For Techno try Benni Benassi. But i also like to listen to Cascada, "cant stop the rain" because her music is fast paced and I second the pink music as well.

    Oh and if you have a thing for 80's music
    the police are pretty good for working out to along with anything from Footloose or Flash Dance
  • I heard Jack's Mannequin "Dark Blue" the other day, it was a song that I used to listen to a lot and LOVE, now it's on my iPod.
  • Wow, I love how this thread is growing - great suggestions all!

    This might be old news for some of you, but couple of days ago I found this site: JogtunesIndie. They have free 30 min. podcasts with running music - they even give the bpm for each song. So far I've listened to two of them and liked them a lot - both for running and for discovering new bands. At times it's a little chatty (mostly for the first couple of minutes) but the songs are great if you like indie music.
  • Soundtrack for "The Full Monty" is one of my favorites.
  • These are older songs but they are always on my workout play list becayse they get me so pumped.

    Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
    Kelly Clarkson - Since You Been Gone
    Pussycat Dolls - Buttons
    Maroon 5 - This Love
  • We recently did a routine in my Step class to "We're not gonna take it" by the Twisted Sisters and it went down a treat! Everyone singing along and it really revved everyone up.
  • There's a rap song called We Ready by Archie that I really like. My brother used to wrestle and would listen to that song before every match. Works for both of us!