…OOhhhh, the pain…the pain…!!! Will someone PLEASE relieve the suffering of The Lion? He is stuck in “twenty-somethin’ white guy heaven”…that wondrous Utopia of Eternal Beer, funny lookin’ flowered shorts with baseball caps, Spring Break, “Maxim” Babes and Heavy Metal…Is there no justice? Is there no relief to The Lion’s Pain? Is there even anybody who can DANCE???
Phatt makes a really good point. Music isn’t all about the technique, but you’ll always find people bitching about “so-and-so sucks because they only plays power chords.” To me, it’s more about the sound. Yeah, I’m a guitar player too, and I recognize good technique in music, but the music I like is the music that gets me fired up from the sound of it, and it doesn’t matter if they’re doing two-handed tapping or playing some elaborate chord that’s hard to reach. If you want technique, listen to Vai or Satriani or Malmsteen. Heavy metal does the job for me, but to each his own. I’m not going to slam anyone for liking a certain band or type of music. Whatever floats your boat.
Erik: Don’t forget about Paul Gilbert. When it comes to technique gilbert is schweeeet!
Phatt: You’re right about simplicity. I was a HUGE Nirvana fan, and their songs were the first songs I learned how to play. The difference between RATM and Nirvana, in my mind, is how that simplicity is put to use. The majority of Nirvana songs, no matter how washed in distortion, are catchy tunes. Rage on the other hand, seems to be using their music as a background to their ploitical stance. Unfortunately, simplicity in their style becomes repetitive, so now matter what song/album I listen to, it all sounds the same. Compare riffs from “Bombtrack” to “Bulls on Parade”, and I’m sure there are more, that have similar rhythm patterns and note arrangement. But I must maintain my original point: Rage really annoy me and I don’t like them.
Hehe it’s great that you guys haven’t discovered any underground music. Actually most of the stuff listed is Trendy, mainstream music. Hell whatever floats your boat, but you gotta understand there’s a whole other world out there.
Never Again - Accolades of Compassion
I played this song for my friend JIM and he started doing pushups that’s how pumped he was hehe.
Whats up with all this “kill your mother music”? Snoop d-o double g baby!
CALVIN!!! “Gin and Juice” while pumpin’ out the squats, baby…!!!
…Bow-WOW-WOW…Yippie 'Yo, Yippie 'Yeehhh!!!
Mufasa, we stay on point like stacy adams. Keep it crackin like pistachios!
HAIR OF THE DOG by NAZARETH
THUNDERSTRUCK by AC/DC
TUSH by ZZ TOP
Just worked out where I know that name from calvin - you definietely in the mf hizouse. Mufasa - best t LYRICS must by xzibit 1. What you see is what you get - “uplift bench press arm curl keep the structure of the temple” 2. On Chocolate Starfish with Fred Durst - “got homies that can lay down and lift eight plates so quit tryin to invade my space before I call for a face to face and gotta rest my case”.
Mary Poppins soundtrack always gets me lifting big…
Just read evolutionary’s post in another thread. I downloaded Evolution’s song Survival from Napster. Don’t know if can beat some of my favorite Pantera or Maiden traccks, but it’s pretty sweet.
Try 40 Below Summer and pull some songs off Napster like Endorphines. Good heavy stuff. Also, try Kilgore, Sevendust and the Deftones (older stuff is better). Vintage rock and metal is great but the new metal gets me fired up for a workout.
Pennywise - Fight 'Til You Die. The name says it all…
If I truly wanna lift like an animal, I’ll just drop my signed, Limited Edition Sesame Street theme song CD in, and LOOK OUT!!!
My best pre-training songs (currently):
DANZIG - It’s Coming Down, 7th House, Long Way back from Hell, Satan’s Child, Five Finger Crawl, Brand New God, Little Whip, Possession, Cult Without a Name, Unspeakable, Am I Demon
MISFITS - anything from Earth A.D./Wolfsblood
SAMHAIN - Halloween II, In My Grip, Descent
FAITH NO MORE - Cuckoo for Caca, Another Body Murdered (from “Judgement Night” soundtrack), Midlife Crisis, Jizzlobber
MR. BUNGLE - The Girls of Porn
KMFDM - A Drug Against War, Mortal Kombat(video game theme), Megalomaniac
PANTERA - A New Level, Walk, Fucking Hostile, This Love
ALICE IN CHAINS - We Die Young, It Ain’t Like That
SLAYER - Angel of Death, War Ensemble, Seasons in the Abyss, Raining Blood
WHITE ZOMBIE - Supercharger Heaven
MARILYN MANSON - Lunchbox
KORN - A.D.I.D.A.S.
MetallicA…enough said
The radio station that plays at the gym I work out has this wierd obsession with KC and JoJo. They always play that crap whenever I work out. It’s so damn hard to get a good pump going when all I hear is “I’m goin’ crazy crazy crazy crazy thinkin’ about you baby.” Definately not productive during leg day. In fact, it can be dangerous. One time, I was doing a personal best at the squat rack, and my knees and hips felt like they locked when I was in the bottom position. I couldn’t manage to push myself up because that song filled my blood with estrogen faster than drinking a soy protein drink. Anyway, I found out the best way to combat this is to listen to Rammstein’s first CD on my discman. I see it as taking a mild dose of Arimidex to combat the estrogen that was created from being exposed to “wuss music.” Thought I’d share you my 2 cents.
motley fucking crue rules. “kickstart my heart”, “primal scream” are a couple of my personal faves. and i cannot complete a workout without having “hooligan’s holiday” cranked up (sometimes more than one time per workout). say what you want about glam rock, but the crue rules.