He’s great at story telling in his raps.
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I actually don’t feel the need to listen to a certain genre to get me in the lifting mindset.
So I listen to some of my favorites depending on my mood:
90’s /00’s stuff:
Pavement
Hold Steady
Silver Jews
Dinosaur Jr
Nirvana
Built to Spill
My Morning Jacket
The Mountain Goats
Americana stuff:
Jason Isbell
Craig Finn
Felice Brothers
Drive by Truckers
J Mascis
Mother Hips
Sturgill Simpson
Wilco
The Classics:
Bob Dylan
Neil Young
The Band
Wilco
U2
Allman Brothers
Grateful Dead
Led Zeppelin
Gov’t Mule
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More often these days I’ve been listening to Robin Trower, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Traffic, Pink Floyd, Carlos Santana and Rush.
I really like the “full album” or “full concert” feature on youtube for doing a nice airdyne ride.
I cant imagine lifting to the mountain goats, other than maybe This Year, and Up The Wolves, but I just came to say I fucking love them, and I’m glad someone else has the pleasure of listening to them.
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I think it all just stems from what people associate the music with.
Personally, I really enjoy classic rock/80’s metal, but I associate it with dicking around. I always listened to it helping my dad with things, and it’s more laid back to me
Alternative I associate with getting into trouble as a kid, and a bit of an adrenaline rush because of it. So this works for lifting.
I started to get into heavier stuff around the same time I started lifting, so itll always be associated. Also will always tend to be my first recommendation on lists like these.
For me, I only really hear the first couple of songs anyways, after that it’s just background noise, so the first couple of song really set the pace for me.
Dude, yes
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Well sure, Yes too.
That’s some ganky bass!
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Inspired by your response, I just finished squat day listening to a The Mountain Goats playlist. Honestly for me, I just don’t use the music to pump me up and would rather lift to Miles Davis than Metallica (just because I like Miles more).
That said, I can totally see how someone walking into my garage with “Going to Georgia” playing (a lo-fi Mountain Goats tune) while I was squatting would think I was a bit weird.
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Honestly I respect it more than think its wierd lol. I guess for me it comes down to lifting with a group vs myself. If I’m lifting with others (as I am currently) I’m more inclined to something fast paced/heavy. It just fits the more hype/competitive dynamic that comes naturally with lifting with others imo.
If I’m by myself though, I’m all over the damn place music wise. I can go from dying fetus, to the mountain goats, to deadmaus, to Local H. So I get the differing taste when it comes to that
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Really depends on what i feel like. Coukd be Rick Ross, could be black dahlia murder, cattle decapitation, and amon amarth, could be a joe rogan podcast if i’m not feeling like music that day.
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My gym playlist is 90% hip hop but the other 10% has rap / grime / house/ drum and bass/ garage / indie/ metal / rock.
My PR playlist is pure horrid death metal - but it only gets played 4/5 times a year for pure 1RM Squat or Deadlift PR’s
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Very nice.
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Mostly NiN and some nu metal
NIN is good… Wish, March of the pigs, etc…
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These guys have been a nice quarantine discovery. It isn’t often when an album sounds exactly like you’d expect based on the cover artwork, but this one does.
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Oh, that’s good. I’m going to have to give that a listen through the real speakers.
I’ve been re-listening to this stuff lately.
It just has some particular kind of heavyness/drive to it that appeals to me when I’m riding my bike & stuff now, which is the same as when I started riding a mtn.bike like umpteen years ago.
Kinda weird how I’ve gone back to that.
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man I haven’t heard Name of the Game in a hot minute
Bro, I have Crystal Method’s album with Name of the Game on my phone, haha. Haven’t listened to it in forever, but man, is it a supajam or what?
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I tried giving up death metal but I realized I just can’t. I recently picked up Malevolent Creation’s album from 2019, The Thirteenth Beast, and I think it’s excellent despite mixed reviews.
Top of the playlist:
Malevolent Creation
Death
Morbid Angel
Suffocation
Bolt Thrower
Entombed
Vader
I’ve recently gotten into the newer band Blood Incantation.
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My recent deadlift PR was sponsored heavily by Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven. Something about heavy groove metal that just gets the mood right. Amps you up enough without sending you into an anxiety attack. Crowbar, Down, Corrosion of Conformity, BLS, Black Sabbath, all those guys. Sometimes Trivium and Killswitch work well, too.
Assistance work is usually more fun music - AC/DC, Skynyrd, those kinds of bands work better to help come down from the amped feeling of a PR set.