Highly recommend anything from Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven. 5 Minutes Alone is responsible in some way for every deadlift rep I’ve done over 500 pounds.
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Am I the only person who doesn’t like hype up tracks for big lifts?
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I have a long running tradition of listening to NiN’s “The Downward Spiral” in full whenever I start a new program.
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I’m all over the place. Sometimes I need something calm, sometimes happy, and because I’m completely fucked up I’ve done more than a few sets with tears in my eyes thanks to certain songs. Generally deadlift and press tend more toward anger and squat/bench need something more grounded and steady.
I usually train with podcasts on, but I’ve set plenty of PRs with something needlessly happy and upbeat going on. Beautiful South is a personal favourite for these, although a little bit of REM does the trick too.
I make new playlists all the time. For lifting, I more or less listen to the same stuff regardless of the program, but this one warrants a few songs of its own it seems 
I am not a metalhead, but I’ll give them a go lol
I think what one might consider a “hype up track” might not be the same for another. But I find that the intensity of the songs I choose decreases as the number of reps do, even if it’s a higher intensity lift. Like a heavy squat triple, where my song choice helps me focus. But a higher rep PR set on deadlifts, for example, is a totally different story.
I only do this on a deload or while running.
What’s your music of choice?
Maybe if you stopped listening to Ed Sheeran all the time you’d be squatting double your BW by now.
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I listened to Julien Baker and explosions in the sky a bit in my first run of deepwater. Something that made it seem like lifting wasn’t the worst thing in the world.
Yep, I think it was @heretolog and @tinkertailortanker that said something about me lifting to Ella Mai. I love Ella Mai and her songs pump me up… Same goes for Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Luther vandross… But when shit absolutely must get done, fifth harmony’s “work from home”. That song makes me wild.
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Are you still mad you can’t get Ed Sheeran on your gramophone?
You joke, but try doing pullups with that shit strapped to your hip.
Which hip? Your good hip or your bad hip?
Mate, they are both just grinding glass all day long.
I think I was a Julien Baker reference!
I listen to the same shit I always do when lifting except when I’m trying to squat heavy or PR then I listen to Thursday, which is normally way outside of my regular rotation.
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Ah yes that’s right!
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Good timing!
Funny because I’m on a Julien Baker kick right now! It’s hard for me to imagine listening to her music while lifting though, haha. In general I don’t listen to many female vocalists.
Explosions In The Sky are incredible.
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For example, I had this song on repeat while squatting last weekend. I adored it before, but the lyrics fit DW almost too well
Because nobody asked!
My 2 and 5 are almost exclusively because of 1 artist each, I definitely get stuck on albums.
I’ve been listening to maybe too much Julian Baker, had to rotate her out of one of my recent leg sessions. What are some good Russian Indie songs/bands?
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Ha, now I have to look up what bubblegrunge and stomp and holler are.
I don’t listen to Russian indie all that much – the top four genres dominate my listening habits. But I can recommend Peremotka, Human Tetris, Sirotkin, and OZORA. Molchat Doma are so popular now that I don’t know if they’re really “indie” anymore. Then again “indie” is almost a meaningless term nowadays. I could easily go on so many music tangents, haha
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I loosely follow r/indieheads and the number of conversations that are effectively gatekeeping “indie” is pretty hilarious. Agreed though, pretty meaningless as a term when Lorde and T. Swift are regular features.
I think bubblegrunge is largely because of Claud, the first person Phoebe Bridgers signed to her label, I listen to nothing else like them but I enjoy their music.
Stomp and Holler is because of Idles which is a British punk band (I think, no idea how to classify punk, I don’t listen to it, normally) who are playing a festival in Berlin that I’m kind of sort of considering going to next summer. Friend recommended them after seeing the lineup, been pretty into their sound and lyrics, they just released a new album I haven’t listened to a ton yet, though. Line-Up // Tempelhof Sounds Festival - Tempelhof Sounds
Edit: I’ll give a few of those band a listen, thanks for the recs