Workout Music?

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[quote]texasguy1 wrote:
As i’ve posted before, I like 80’s music. The beat and tempo are as fast as any song today and you don’t get the “i’m a depressed loser with a guitar and lots of soundboards that make it seem like i can play” vibe.

Some of the lyrics are really pretty motivational too if you transpose them to lifting.

I like Beat It by Michael Jackson.

"You wanna be tough, better do what you can
So beat it, but you wanna be bad "

Beat what you might ask. The weights of course. Squeeze those last reps out!

"Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin’ how funky and strong is your fight "

"Don’t wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man
You wanna stay alive, better do what you can
So beat it, just beat it "

Jacko may be a freak in his personal life, he may not scream and yell behind a barrage of fuzzed out power chords and crappily played bass drums, but if that song isn’t Testosterone in nature, i don’t know what is.

Whip It Good by Devo is also pretty good.

Eye of the Tiger of course.

And many others.

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I don’t like to say it, but I agree with you about Beat It. I don’t know what the hell happened, but Mike used to be so damn cool.

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B2k

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[quote]malonetd wrote:
texasguy1 wrote:
As i’ve posted before, I like 80’s music. The beat and tempo are as fast as any song today and you don’t get the “i’m a depressed loser with a guitar and lots of soundboards that make it seem like i can play” vibe.

Some of the lyrics are really pretty motivational too if you transpose them to lifting.

I like Beat It by Michael Jackson.

"You wanna be tough, better do what you can
So beat it, but you wanna be bad "

Beat what you might ask. The weights of course. Squeeze those last reps out!

"Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it
No one wants to be defeated
Showin’ how funky and strong is your fight "

"Don’t wanna be a boy, you wanna be a man
You wanna stay alive, better do what you can
So beat it, just beat it "

Jacko may be a freak in his personal life, he may not scream and yell behind a barrage of fuzzed out power chords and crappily played bass drums, but if that song isn’t Testosterone in nature, i don’t know what is.

Whip It Good by Devo is also pretty good.

Eye of the Tiger of course.

And many others.

I don’t like to say it, but I agree with you about Beat It. I don’t know what the hell happened, but Mike used to be so damn cool.[/quote]

Songs are not really debatable. There is no reason to hate agreeing about a song. Either you like it or you don’t.

Lots of 80’s songs are really pretty motivational and virtually all of them have a good beat for pacing a work out, both cardio and weight training.

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[quote]texasguy1 wrote:
Songs are not really debatable. There is no reason to hate agreeing about a song. Either you like it or you don’t.
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I don’t hate agreeing with you. I hate that Michael went nuts.

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[quote]malonetd wrote:
texasguy1 wrote:
Songs are not really debatable. There is no reason to hate agreeing about a song. Either you like it or you don’t.

I don’t hate agreeing with you. I hate that Michael went nuts.[/quote]

Yes. It’s a shame. I guess that’s what growing up in cults will do to you though. (Jehovah’s Witness)

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Blitzkid - Love Like Blood
3 Inches of Blood - Revenge is a Vulture, Ride Darkhorse Ride

Transplants - Tall Cans in the Air
Saul Williams - Act III Scene II
Remembering Never - Big Jim’s Mistake
Snuff - Take Me Home(piss off)
Rise Against - Give it All
Himsa - When Midnight Breaks
Primer 55 - Stain, Hate
KMFDM- Drug Against War
All that Remains - every damn one is good
Verdi - Requiem Mass Dies Irae

And my all time favorite song that gets me stoked…Corrosion of Conformity - Clean My Wounds.

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Heavy Weights or Interval training: Heavy / Death Metal
Endurance Cardio: J-pop

Don’t judge me

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[quote]wfifer wrote:
We’ve had a lot of these threads, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m the only person who doesn’t like to wear headphones while I lift. I find it disorienting. Besides, my gym usually plays classic rock when I’m there. [/quote]

I’ve never tried headphones or ear phones whilst lifting. I have never felt the urge. Unfortunately my gym plays Max-FM (it seems every gym in Australia has a contract with them) and I have to listen to a lot of shitty music. On the upside I get a great forehead workout from banging it against the wall so often.

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These are on my gym iPod all the time:
Oh, Sleeper
One King Down
Killswitch Engage
Unearth
August Burns Red
Hatebreed

And I’ll rotate in some of these every so often just to keep things fresh:
As I Lay Dying
Parkway Drive
Haste the Day
Gojira
Bad Brains
All That Remains
Cro-Mags
God Forbid
Seven Generations

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I have just under 500 songs on my iPod, so I usually change out my workout playlist every few weeks… Currently it’s:

Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Crazy Bitch - Buckcherry (one of my fav’s)
Overcome - Creed
Just Stop - Disturbed (fav)
Inside the Fire - Disturbed
Whiskey Hangover - Godsmack
Loaded & Alone - Hinder
New Divide - Linkin Park
One - Metallica (classic!)
Forget to Remember - Mudvayne
Burn it to the Ground - Nickelback
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Come Out and Play - The Offspring
Control - Puddle of Mudd
So Far Away - Staind
Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots
Fire it Up - Thousand Foot Krutch
More Human Than Human - White Zombie

That’s my current list… It’s about time to swap it out though, so next week it’ll be something else…

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Five Finger Death Punch-The Bleeding (f’n amazing) Never Enough
Refused-New Noise
Eminem/D12-Fight Music, Go to Sleep, Run Rabbit Run
Sevendust-Enemy
Attack Attack!-Bro, Ashley’s Here, Stickly Stickly
Alexisonfire-Accidents
Nelly-Heart of a Champion
Jadakiss-Pain and Torture(epic)
Soulfly/Slipknot- Jump Da f*** up
tech n9ne-Midwest Choppers 2
Rise Against
Underoath
These are just a few on my workout track.

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Throw this mix in your ipod and push weight.

Crash - Cavo
Hearts Burst Into Fire - Bullet For My Valentine
Bulletproof - Evans Blue
Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds To Mars
King Of All Excuses - Staind
Seasons - The Veer Union
Odd One - Sick Puppies
Hero - Skillet
octoThe Weakness - October Nites
All I Want - Staind
Echo - Trapt
Let Go - Red
Forever In your hands - All That Remains
The Nighttime Is Our Time - Before Their Eyes
Apologize - Silverstein
Judith - A Perfect Circle
I Will Not Bow - Breaking Benjamin
Buried Myself Alive - The Used
driven - Sevendust
Fire It Up - Thousand Foot Krutch

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I agree with whoever said symphony X!

also hatebreed, the warriors, bleeding through, and some dillinger escape plan from time to time.

and my newest addition is Nylithia. totally badass (google them, you will not be let down)

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[quote]wfifer wrote:
We’ve had a lot of these threads, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m the only person who doesn’t like to wear headphones while I lift. I find it disorienting. Besides, my gym usually plays classic rock when I’m there. [/quote]

I try to psych myself up before going to the gym and listen to Metallica or some fast pace trance. I cant afford an Ipod now but I desperately want one. The guy that runs the gym in the morning plays old R&B music and Jazz and…That shit SUCKS.

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Bump

I usually listen to some sort of heavy metal (ABACABB, Acacia Strain, August Burns Red, The Devil Wears Prada, etc.) but my brother just played this song and it got me pretty pumped to squat

Can anyone point me out to other rap songs similar that gets you in the zone?

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Korpiklaani
Finntroll
Slayer
Motorhead
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
Madball
Agnostic Front
Death
Napalm Death
Steeldrivers (bluegrass)
AC/DC
…

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[quote]ReignIB wrote:
Korpiklaani
Finntroll
Slayer
Motorhead
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
Madball
Agnostic Front
Death
Napalm Death
Steeldrivers (bluegrass)
AC/DC
…

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Wow
who are you?
busting out with the viking metal…
fascinating

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[quote]Hallowed wrote:

[quote]ReignIB wrote:
Korpiklaani
Finntroll
Slayer
Motorhead
King Diamond/Mercyful Fate
Madball
Agnostic Front
Death
Napalm Death
Steeldrivers (bluegrass)
AC/DC
…

[/quote]

Wow
who are you?
busting out with the viking metal…
fascinating[/quote]

I like the Slayer reference in his name too.

My iPod is full, and I generally just put it on shuffle and go. Really sucks when Barry Manilow starts singing about his dog in the middle of a set of deadlifts.

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This song is amazing for PR’s!