I haven’t posted my workout playlist in over a couple of months. Not much has changed as far as genres — rock, rap, and alternative — everything an angry 13-year old suburban kid has on his iPod.
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Here is my current iPod workout playlist:
1. 3 Doors Down – Train (3:10)
2. 3 Doors Down – These Days (3:39)
3. 30 Seconds To Mars – From Yesterday(4:08)
4. After Midnight Project – Take Me Home (3:42)
5. Apocalyptica – I Don’t Care (3:58)
6. Breaking Benjamin – I Will Not Bow (3:36)
7. Breaking Benjamin – Firefly (3:07)
8. Bullet For My Valentine – Tears Don’t Fall (5:48)
9. Chevelle – Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) (3:43)
10. Crossfader Chris – Cold (3:14)
11. Disturbed – Believe (4:27)
12. Disturbed – Just Stop (3:46)
13. Don Davis – Neodämmerung (5:59)
14. Fall Out Boy – Sugar Were Goin Down (3:49)
15. Flobots – Handlebars (3:26)
16. Godsmack – Re-Align (4:20)
17. Jay-Z – Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) (3:58)
18. Garth Brooks – Ain’t Going Down (4:32)
19. Jay-Z And Linkin Park – 99 Problems/One Step Closer (4:55)
20. Lady GaGa – Paparazzi (3:29)
21. Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American (3:03)
22. Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness (4:20)
23. Jimmy Eat World – The Authority Song (3:37)
24. Jon Bon Jovi – Blaze of Glory (5:35)
25. Kanye West – Stronger (5:14)
26. Korn – Falling Away from Me (4:31)
27. Limp Bizkit – Rollin’ (3:33)
28. Linkin Park – Runaway (3:03)
29. Linkin Park – Breaking The Habit (3:16)
30. Live – I Alone (1995) (3:51)
31. Metallica – St. Anger (7:21)
32. The Muse – Uprising (5:02)
33. My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade (5:11)
34. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991) (5:01)
35. Outkast – B.O.B. (5:04)
36. People In Planes – Last Man Standing (4:26)
37. Powerman 5000 – Bombshell (3:15)
38. Rage Against The Machine – Guerrilla Radio (3:26)
39. Red – Breathe Into Me (4:19)
40. Rocky – Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky) (2:48)
41. System Of A Down – Highway Song (3:13)
42. System of a Down – Aerials (6:11)
43. Tantric – Breakdown (3:10)
44. Three Days Grace – Break (3:13)
45. The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (3:51)
46. Kings of Leon – Be Somebody (3:49)
47. Cage The Elephant – Aint No Rest For The Wicked (2:55)
48. Nickelback – Leader Of Men (3:30)
49. Godsmack – Awake (5:04)
50. Lady GaGa – Paparazzi (3:29)
Music is the focus of my workouts. Some people watch television, chat with a workout buddy, etc., but I’m engulfed in my music. I turn my iPod’s volume to about 95% and let the fast, angry music fuel my workouts. I’m the sweet, funny guy when I get back home with my family. Not at the gym.
What’s on your workout playlist? What songs should I add?
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I’d say you should definitely add some White/Rob Zombie. There’s a lot of anger there to really pump you up.
Personally, I can’t listen to a static playlist when I workout; the music gets predictable and distracting. Instead, I listen to Pandora on my Droid. Just pick a genre or base band, and it streams a wide variety of songs along those lines. Best of all, it’s free!
White/Rob Zombie is such a good combination. I don’t mind static playlists, because they’re not really static to me. I can change them on a daily basis, I plug my iPod into the PC as soon as I get home from the gym every night.
Stayin’ Alive – BeeGees
World, Hold On – from “Noah’s Arc Jumping the Broom” movie sdtrk.
I’m not allowed to listen to the BeeGees.
My ears forbid it. :)
Same here (:
Not a big fan of the BeeGees, I’m more of a Breaking Benjamin, Madina Lake kind of girl (:
I like your list – I’ll have to check a few of those out. What song usually begins your workout and what ends it? Also, did you list Paparazzi twice on purpose?
Here’s one that I use constantly that I didn’t see on yours:
Kevin Rudolf – Let It Rock
http://video.universalrepublic.com/?plid=1481452858&v=1785334422&aid=0
I didn’t know she was listed twice, but that explains why I’m already sick of Paparazzi.
Let it Rock is a good song, thanks.
Bad Girlfriend- Theory of a Deadman
Sin with a Grin- Shinedown
One and Only- Timbaland and Fall Out Boy
Never heard of Timbaland, but I love Shinedown.
Sparkle – Phish (trust me on this one).
LOL….just listened to this, and I’m not getting the “THIS TUNE PUTS ME IN THE ZONE” vibe from it, but to each their own…
Can’t stand Phish. For real.
I love Phish and was surprised to hear it coming out of the spinning class at the gym I used to belong to (which has since closed).
Thanks! Been looking for a good workout playlist. This list should give me plenty of tracks I’ll enjoy.
What songs on the list are your favorites?
I was going to ask when you would post your playlist again…. quit reading my mind! We have a lot of the same songs on our playlists…. Linkin Park is one of my motivaters! I have a few Britney Spears songs, (yes I do, shoot me) they are fast but less pounding than the Linkin Park songs. Rhianna has some great upbeat music too.
I see some songs on your playlist that I want to check out, thanks. (a 46 year old mom LOL)
Linkin Park is a new classic. I love their music.
I don’t know how many Rhianna songs I’ll be listening to while I workout, but I don’t mind Britney Spears.
Megadeth – Reckoning Day
Slayer – Here Comes the Pain
Anthrax – Fueled
Andrew W.K. – Party Hard
Sum 41 – Over My Head
Always been a fan of the Rocky movie series compilation, if you can tolerate 80’s synth jams
Love it, Hearts on Fire is a great track from that series.
Bad Romance-Lady Gaga
Jesus Walks-Kanye West (Perfect beat for abs)
Def Leppard-Animal or Pour Some Sugar on Me (Just for fun)
Love your blog!!
Thanks, I love your comment! Kanye West, personal problems aside, can make some really powerful music.
Pour Some Sugar on Me is a classic, too.
Killer playlist! BOB is one of my clutch songs when I really just want to get off the treadmill.
I also really like “The Hand that Feeds” by Nine Inch Nails. I ran an entire 5K just listening to that song.
Bombs over Baghdad is an extremely fast song. Andre 3000 (or whatever you want to call him) is so talented.
Unfortunately though, I’m sad to report that I never really got into the NIN. It’s probably because of the lack of talent.
:)
I have been working out to Rise Against and The Bouncing Souls. I need to make a good workout playlist so I don’t get bored of one band but way too much of the music on my iPod is my normal winter slow music. It’s hard to work out to Death Cab for Cutie or Mates of State. +44 and The Riverboat Gamblers will be added to my workout play list too.
Yeah, I can’t listen to slow music. I wouldn’t be able to push myself in the gym listening to Death Cab for Cutie.
Could deal w/o the Garth Brooks, but otherwise I like that playlist.
Did you change the layout last night?
I love Garth Brooks. You need more culture, son. And yes, you might have seen a sneak preview of this design. You must have been up on 344 late!
scum of the earth – rob zombie
One of my fav :)
down with the sickness – disturbed
Such awesome songs, both of these Ashley.
Nothing from The Killers?? ‘All These Things That I Have Done’ always gets me pumped up. ‘Spaceman’ is also on my playlist.
Mr. Brightside is a favorite of mine. Never listened to Spaceman, though.
The cover of I Will Survive by Cake rocks my socks off.
Cake is good, but I’ve never listened to I Will Survive by them. I will definitely have to put that on “the” list.
Great topic!
Personally, I’ve gotta have Sublime in my workouts. I love Santeria. Gets me going. Also like April 29,1992, Wrong Way, What I Got, and more. Might be a little slow for you, but their songs take my mind off the silly notion that I can’t do one more pushup or go one more mile.
Also, I didn’t see any Red Hot Chili Peppers. That’s another great one for me.
Oh, and Abba, but I think that’s a girl thing. :)
Like Nine Inch Nails, I tried to like Sublime but I just couldn’t. I am not sure why, I just don’t like their tracks. Lyrics are fine, it’s just the tempo/beat or whatnot.
RHCP has some good workout songs, too. We can definitely agree with some Red Hot Chili Peppers.
And Abba — no idea.
I love that you have Powerman 5000 on your playlist – I didn’t think anyone not from Boston even knew who these guys were. Since I also have Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on my gym playlist, here’s some that I’m sure you’ll like:
Misfits – We are 138
Joy Division – Warsaw
The Ting Tings – Shut Up and Let Me Go
Bring Tha Noize – Public Enemy w/Anthrax
If you want to search out a couple of obscure bands, try “Sweatpants” by Rock City Crimewave or “Roll” by Cracktorch.
I’ve heard of Public Enemy, but none of the other artists that you listed on your playlist. I’ll be downloading them shortly!
Whitesnake – Here I go again. A good pump up song for me. I have a lot of the songs you have on my play list already. Good mix!
Thanks — I like to listen to new things!
Heart of a Champion – Nelly
I need to get my hands on an entire Nelly CD, I know there are a quite a few songs that I could download from him.
The faster the treadmill- i fight dragons.
overtime- akon & T-pain.
Paper Wings- Rise against.
Invincible-Adelita’s way.
The Dirt whispered-rise against.
Sooner or later-Breaking benjamin.
Sooner or Later is a wicked song. Come to think of it, pretty much every Breaking Bejamin song is fast and loud.
Fort Minor – Remember the name
Chorus goes: It’s 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated power of will, 5% pleasure, 50% pain and 100% reason to remember the name.
So true. Especially the pain part ;-)
I like some skindred they are ragga punk metal check them out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8IJnV4i5Vw
Two Tower – Clint Mansell
* Instrumental only, but I find it quite encouraging.
The End Has Come – Ben Moody
Click Click Boom – Saliva
Some ideas:
Kesha: Tick Tock
Elbow: Grounds For Divorce
Michael Jackson: Jam
Michael Jackson: Smooth Criminal
Prodigy–Breathe
Lady Gaga–Monster
Rob Zombie–Never Gonna Stop
Like your list!
Anything Black Eyed Peas is great for running- especially their new album! I also find that dance tracks, while annoying most of the time, are great for the consistent beat.
Proven by Hatebreed. It’s a good mix of angry and motivational.
Some Coheed and Cambria
Welcome Home
No World for Tomorrow
Ten Speed
Sometimes a good Madonna song helps get me going, especially “Give It 2 Me” or “Jump”
Good timing – here’s the list I’m loading into my iPod this week:
311 – All Mixed Up
311 – Beautiful Disaster
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
Alice in Chains – Check My Brain
Alice in Chains – Nutshell
Audioslave – Be Yourself
Audioslave – I am the Highway
Audioslave – Show me How to Live
Beck – E-Pro
Blacked Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
Buckcherry – Crazy Bitch
Buckcherry – Everything
Buckcherry – Lit Up
Buckcherry – Sorry
Daughtry – It’s Not Over
Daughtry – No Surprise
Eminem – Lose Yourself
Eminem – Till I Collapse
Fatboy Slim – Praise You
Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank
Foo Fighters – Learn to Fly
Foo Fighters -Times Like These
Fuel – Hemorrhage (In My Hands)
Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
Gnarls Barkley – Going On
Gnarls Barkley – Gone Daddy Gone/I Just Want To Make Love To You
Gnarls Barkley – Run
Green Day – American Idio
Green Day – Basket Case
Green Day – Welcom to Paradise
Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O Mine
Joe Satriana – Summer Song
Joe Satriani – Satch Boogie
Joe Satriani – Surfing with Alien
Killers – Somebody Told Me
Korn – Freak on a Leash
Led Zeppelin – Hey Hey What Can I Do
Led Zeppelin – Rock and Roll
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
Limp Bizkit – Break Stuff
Limp Bizkit – Rollin’
Linkin Park – New Divide
Linkin Park – What I’ve Done
Living Colour – Behind The Sun
Living Colour – Cult of Personality
Maroon 5 – Makes Me Wonder
Maroon 5 – This Love
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica – One
Metallica – The Day that Never Comes
Moby – Honey
Muse – Resistance
Muse – Starlight
Mutemath – Chaos
Mutemath – Typical
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole
Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me
Pink – So What
Pink – Sober
Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
Queens of the Stone Age – Go With The Flow
Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
R.E.M. – It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
R.E.M. – The One I Love
Rage Against the Machine – Bombtrack
Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name Of
Rage Against the Machine – Testify
Ray Lamontagne – Let it Be Me
Ray Lamontagne – You Are The Best Thing
Rev Theory – Hell Yeah
Rise Against – I Give It All
Seven Mary Three – Cumbersome
Seven Mary Three – Water’s Edge
Shinedown – Devour
Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
Social Distortion – Bad Luck
The Cult – Fire Woman
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
The Cult- Love Removal Machine
The Who – Baba O’Reilly
The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again
U2 – Magnificent
U2 – Mysterious Ways
U2 – Vertigo
Velvet Revolver – Fall to Pieces
Velvet Revolver – Slither
Uprising – Muse
Dragonforce – anything from their album “Ultra Beatdown” is a wonderful workout song.
I love this post. I’m always looking for new workout music. Thanks for the ideas. Here’s a few of my favorites…
It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
Blah Blah Blah – Ke$ha
If you like Reggeaton these are good Rompe – Daddy Yankee & The Anthem – Pitbull
Right Round – Flo Rida
Do you like the Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, or Hinder?
Rap is great for me. It takes knowing your artists and beats to find something that works with your tempo, but I personally love 50 cent. At least 75% of my workout is his music. “Go, go, 50 in the house!”
Anything from Prodigy is really excellent for getting your cardio up. Since others are suggesting, might I suggest Queen – We Will Rock You as a motivational song.
She wants to move – NERD ( pharrel)
I know you want me – Pitbull
Never Scared – Bonecrusher
Universal Mind Control – Common
Shots – LMFAO
I personally work out the best when I’m listening to rock/angry music.
“The Clincher” by Chevelle
“They’ll Never Get Me (Word with You)- Drop Dead, Gorgeous
WHAT!! no Black eyed peas?????!!!!!
Enigma is good too!
I’m with you. When I’m at the gym it’s mostly hard rock when I lift weights and pop / techno / rap when I do cardio.
Saliva – click click boom
buck cherry – crazy bitch
JT, TI, Jamie Foxx – winner (the bball commercial song)
sons of Sylvia – love left to lose
dirty money – hello good morning
mudvayne – scream with me
usher – OMG
Prayer of refugee.- Rise against.
The Crystal Method
Let it Roll by Divide the Day
I really think you should look up Legends and Never Take Us Alive by Madina Lake, and look up story of the year’s message to the world, cannonball, and stuff like that. And Hollywood Undead, and The Used, Eminem, and Hawthorne Heights. And lastly, Papa Roach.
Nickelback – Animals
how bad do you want it-tim mcgraw
Bon Jovi- It’s My Life
If you look up the remix version of any song you like, or look up dubstep music, those are all great to get you pumped up for a good workout.
Great suggestions!
I’ve been looking for some energizing songs like these to motivate me to get fit for summer. I found some really good workout playlists on Shape.com; my favorite is http://www.shape.com/fitness/workouts/playlists/pop_workout_mix. Hope this helps!
A motivating song for me (and one of my favs) is Immediate music by Electric Romeo.
Instrumental, but very upbeat song that should be on your list…
Hope you like it. Best regards.