Songs that get your blood pumping

[Jennasis]

I was driving home from lunch with DH and a string of good "butt-kicking" songs came on that I want to add to my ipod. You know...those songs that get you moving and pumped for working out, or vacuuming the house, or just for empowering you. Even if the lyrics make no sense and are actually counter to "feel-good" music, just the tempo alone is enough to make you cut loose...footloose ...sorry, couldn't help myself.

So what songs do you put on to kick butt and take names?

I've found stuff by the Back Eyed Peas, Linkin Park and Nickelback to be particularly good at that. I have a few guilty pleasures like Brittney Spears lurking in my ipod's butt-kicking file too.

 

[glitterkittyy]

I was driving home from lunch with DH and a string of good "butt-kicking" songs came on that I want to add to my ipod. You know...those songs that get you moving and pumped for working out, or vacuuming the house, or just for empowering you. Even if the lyrics make no sense and are actually counter to "feel-good" music, just the tempo alone is enough to make you cut loose...footloose ...sorry, couldn't help myself.

So what songs do you put on to kick butt and take names?

I've found stuff by the Back Eyed Peas, Linkin Park and Nickelback to be particularly good at that. I have a few guilty pleasures like Brittney Spears lurking in my ipod's butt-kicking file too.

Most recently had this happen with "See you in Hell" by Aiden and "The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson. I'm usually playing my ipod in my car, though, so these types of songs just make me drive faster. lol

ETA: Ohhh forgot another one I was jamming out to this a.m. "Idioteque" by Radio Head. AWESOME!

 

[OK!]

My list includes a ton of Foo Fighters, Them Crooked Vultures, The Prodigy, and Queens of the Stone Age. It certainly gets the job done.

 

[Piglet843]

Eye Of The Tiger

 

[legalsea]

"Daddy Don't You Walk so Fast" by Wayne Newton.

Actually, I just wanted to drive the good music out of your head for a moment!

 

[Pakey]

I like listening to Five Finger Death Punch while on the treadmill.

However, my favorite "get moving" song is The Time Warp from the Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I was driving home from lunch with DH and a string of good "butt-kicking" songs came on that I want to add to my ipod. You know...those songs that get you moving and pumped for working out, or vacuuming the house, or just for empowering you. Even if the lyrics make no sense and are actually counter to "feel-good" music, just the tempo alone is enough to make you cut loose...footloose ...sorry, couldn't help myself.

So what songs do you put on to kick butt and take names?

I've found stuff by the Back Eyed Peas, Linkin Park and Nickelback to be particularly good at that. I have a few guilty pleasures like Brittney Spears lurking in my ipod's butt-kicking file too.

I have an iPod playlist that gets me through the early morning hours when we're driving to WDW.

Some of the songs include:

--Love In An Elevator, The Other Side and Train Kept A Rollin--Aerosmith
--Back in Black--AC/DC
--Enter Sandman--Metallica
--Ramblin' Man--Allman Brothers
--Cochise--Audioslave
--Sabotage--Beastie Boys
--A Hard Day's Night--Beatles
--Born to Run--Springsteen
--Surrender--Cheap Trick
--Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode--Chuck Berry
--Train in Vain, Rock the Casbah, Police On My Back and Should I Stay Or Should I Go--The Clash
--Ah! Leah! Donnie Iris
--China Grove--Doobie Brothers

etc., etc., etc.

 

[Jennasis]

When I want to "get 'er done", I put on my White Zombie "More Human Than Human" and maybe even a wee bit of Disturbed "Invincible" or "Down With The Sickness". The song on the radio that got me thinking was "Shut Up and Drive". That song just begs for me to do bad things to the speed limit.

 

[Jennasis]

I have an iPod playlist that gets me through the early morning hours when we're driving to WDW.

Some of the songs include:

--Love In An Elevator, The Other Side and Train Kept A Rollin--Aerosmith
--Back in Black--AC/DC
--Enter Sandman--Metallica
--Ramblin' Man--Allman Brothers
--Cochise--Audioslave
--Sabotage--Beastie Boys
--A Hard Day's Night--Beatles
--Born to Run--Springsteen
--Surrender--Cheap Trick
--Roll Over Beethoven and Johnny B. Goode--Chuck Berry
--Train in Vain, Rock the Casbah, Police On My Back and Should I Stay Or Should I Go--The Clash
--Ah! Leah! Donnie Iris
--China Grove--Doobie Brothers

etc., etc., etc.

Now THAT is a list!

 

[glitterkittyy]

When I want to "get 'er done", I put on my White Zombie "More Human Than Human" and maybe even a wee bit of Disturbed "Invincible" or "Down With The Sickness". The song on the radio that got me thinking was "Shut Up and Drive". That song just begs for me to do bad things to the speed limit.

Anything from Astro Creep 2000 will do!!

 

[krcit]

The song that always gets me to stay on the eliptical a little longer is Sexy Back by Justin Timberlake

 

[Thumper_Man]

. I had to break out the iPod to see. For me, when I'm working out; Metallica, Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC, etc. usually get me going.

Few examples:
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Seek & Destroy - Metallica
The Art of Shredding - Pantera
Wasted Years - Iron Maiden
Wild Side - Motley Crue
Best I Can - Queensryche
Back In Black - AC/DC
Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Just to name a few. I think you get the picture.

 

[nutterbutter2010]

Fire Starter by Prodigy. I always loved that song when it first came out.

Lots of stuff by Pearl Jam and The Who.

 

[Christine]

Well, I have songs I like to hear while driving and then I have exercise songs.

Today while driving to work, they played "No More, No More" by Aerosmith (from the Toys In the Attic album). It made me think to what a GREAT album Toys in the Attic is. Just every song rocks and gets me going. Right after that was "Runnin' With The Devil" by Van Halen. That one was good too!

Now, I don't listen to that while I exercise. I mainly like stuff that's more pop.

 

[MerMom60_94]

When I run I like to listen to Linken Park, Paramore, and my sprint song is Before I forget by Slipknot. I have to say, though, I really need to add in some new songs. A lot of what I have is getting old so I will be watching this thread for some new ideas.

 

[Darsa]

The ones I listen to during the hardest part of my workout include: "Starstrukk" by 3OH!3 & Katy Perry, "I Know You Want Me" by Pitbull, and "Feedback" by Janet Jackson. I can't remember the others off the top of my head because my iPod is COMPLETELY dead... I have some my Lady Gaga that are good too.

 

[Piglet843]

Cindi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
Go Go's - We Got the Beat
Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Madonna - Get into the Groove, Like a Virgin,

 

[nutterbutter2010]

Cindi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
Go Go's - We Got the Beat
Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Madonna - Get into the Groove, Like a Virgin,

I forgot that one!!! In college, I was on the tennis team, and durring warm ups we would BLAST that song over and over again!! LOL I think the teams coming to play us thought we were

 

[Imzadi]

These are part of my feel good/cardio playlist:

Simply The Best - Tina Turner
Life (will never be the same) - Haddaway
Fame - Fame soundtrack (the Original)
I Sing The Body Electric - Fame soundtrack (the Original)
Holiday - Madonna
Born To Be Wild
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight runners
Believe - Cher
Last Dance - Donna Summer
Turn The Beat Around - Gloria Estefan
Dancing Queen - Abba
Mamma Mia - Abba
Shadows Of The Night - Pat Benatar
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
Rocky (Gonna Fly Now) theme song
Burning Love - Elvis
Saturday Night Fever soundtrack

Plus, almost anything Disco. That genre has a strong, fast beat.


These are more inspirational than with a fast beat: (But you will need warm up/cool down songs too, if working out. )
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now - Jefferson Starship
A New Day Has Come - Celine Dion
One Moment In Time - Whitney Houston
The Best Of Times - Styx
We Are The Champions - Queen
Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
(I am) Beautiful - Christina Agulliera
(I've Had) The Time Of My Life - Dirty Dancing

 

[kathymc]

I'm old school and dont have an ipod but the cds that I have the best luck working out with are

Van Halen Greatest Hits
Motley Crew Gratest Hits
and
the Soundtrack to Mama Mia! seriously!