Your Exercise Playlists

I don't know how many people here exercise regularly (aerobics, weights, etc.), but I'm curious to see what songs/artists get people "pumped", or generally fit well with your mindset when exercising.

Here's what I listened to today:

• Metallica - (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth
• Metallica - Whiplash
• Megadeth - Take No Prisoners
• Alter Bridge - Farther Than the Sun
• Megadeth - Poison Was The Cure
• Metallica - 2 X 4
• Megadeth - Skin O' My Teeth
• Megadeth - Architecture Of Aggression
• Megadeth - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due
• Judas Priest - All Guns Blazing
• Judas Priest - Eat Me Alive
• Dark Angel - The Burning of Sodom
• Dark Angel - Perish in Flames

Part of the reason I'm curious about this is that my music preferences are pretty different when I'm exercising, where almost all of what I listen to is metal. Normally metal is in the minority of what I listen to, and the metal that I do listen to "normally" is typically less aggressive and more varied in tone.

edited 15th Jan '15 8:05:42 PM by djbj

For anaerobic exercise, I'll listen to anything.

For jogging, I have to listen to fast music. Generally techno or house or some other dance music, though occasionally I'll do some surf rock or fast metal.

While I don't do exercise, I would listen to:

Manuel Göttsching - pretty much anything from him (particularly E2-E4 and "Echo Waves")

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33

Orbital - "Halcyon"

New Order - the danceable tracks, particularly from Technique

A mostly classic-rock oriented playlist for cardio. I can't really pay enough attention when I do weights to make it worthwhile.

• Living Colour - Funny Vibe (Funky Vibe remix)
• Cee Lo Green - Bright Lights, Bigger City
• Faces - You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)
• The Who - Odorono
• Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)?
• Fastbacks - In The Summer
• Foo Fighters - Bridge Burning
• George Harrison - Art Of Dying
• Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
• Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
• The Bar-Kays - Son Of Shaft
• Mahavishnu Orchestra - One Word
• Metallica - Battery
• Alice in Chains - What The Hell Have I
• U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
• Urge Overkill - Sister Havana
• TechN9ne - Strange 2013
• Sweet Apple - Another Desert Skyline
• Vampire Weekend - Hudson
• Utopia - Hiroshima
• U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Rattle & Hum version)
• Florence + the Machine - Try A Little Tenderness
• Sturgill Simpson - The Promise
• Lake Street Dive - What About Me?
• John Hiatt - Alone In The Dark
• Liv Warfield - Why Do You Lie?
• Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - Well, Well
• Jamie N Commons - Rumble And Sway
• Adele - That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On

edited 31st Jan '15 7:47:54 PM by MrMatt

Usually Industrial, Heavy Metal, Punk Rock / Hardcore Punk, more upbeat New Wave Music and the aggressive end of Post-Punk / Goth Rock stuff for me. Though faster Electronic Music of various kinds works very well, too. I'm pretty open-minded.

edited 2nd Feb '15 12:57:58 AM by sharkcrap11

My fav workout playlist is this one:

The Chasm-From The Curse A Scourge

Sacrifice-Reanimation

Dark Angel-Merciless Death

Overkill-Elimination

Metallica-Whiplash (Binge and Purge version)

Vader-Litany

Mekong Delta-Night on a Bare Mountain

In Flames-Stand Ablaze

Morbid Angel-Immortal Rites

Coroner-Intro/Nosferatu

Atheist-And the Psychic Saw

Cynic-How Could I

Megadeth-Tornado of Souls

Nocturnus-Outland

edited 4th Feb '15 3:52:04 AM by Wabbawabbajack

Sounds like a pretty damn intense workout, dude. Seriously though, I can't fault that list at all.

Mine's mostly 80s EBM stuff right now- Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Mid-period Cabaret Voltaire, DAF, Bi God 20, Armageddon Dildos, A Split Second, early And One, Schnitt Acht and Vomito Negro are all on mp3 player at this moment.

A while back I also re-listened to all of KillingJoke's albums and learned that they make great workout music...

Fast jazz fusion usually does it for me: Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, that kind of stuff.

Interesting choice. Jazz-Funk works pretty well, too...

Miles' "Zimbabwe" seems like the thing for that list. It's looooooooooong but if you wanted fast...

edited 5th Feb '15 6:33:15 PM by MrMatt

So, after getting a bunch of new music here's what I listened to today while running:

• Blind Guardian - "A Voice in the Dark"
• Helloween - "We Damn the Night"
• Iced Earth - "Disciples of the Lie"
• Sabaton - "Screaming Eagles"
• Manowar - "Black Wind, Fire and Steel"
• Anthrax - "Fight 'em Til You Can't"

Power Metal is up there with Hard Trance and EBM as one of the best genres for this sorta thing. I also highly recommend Thrash Metal, Ska Punk and Hardcore Punk for this purpose...