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Hey guys, lets share playlist.

What are your favorite songs that make you give your best performance?

Here's mine:

Trance songs of ATB
- Mysterious Skies
- Intencity
- You're Not Alone

Sean Paul
- Cry Baby Cry
- Give It Up To Me
- Temperature

Snap Ya Fingers - Lil John
Nickelback - Never Again
Ridin Dirty - Chamillionaire
Chris Daughtry - Its Not Over
Evanescence - Goin Under and Bring Me To Life
The Baywatch Theme - I'm Always Here

wow, pretty common. try something eclectic

what i love to workout to is:

enigma, a posteriori is a great album.

dresden dolls

travis, the boy who is a great album

marilyn manson, mechanical animals, very melodic.

the wallflowers, red letter days, mostly

Yes! Awesome sauce! Dresden Dolls are great for cardio. They help me pass the time away.

Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" album is something I listen to pretty often when doing cardio. It's high enough energy for most of the album to keep you going.

The Donnas are good energy to do cardio; the albums are usually about 40-50 minutes in length, so...

If you’re a fan of 80’s music, there are a lot of good dance/trance/techno versions that have revived the old songs and hit the market over the last couple of years…

They’re kind of hard to find unless you know what to look for… Some of these I’ve bought in stores and some I have found online. Some are true to the original and some have taken a chorus line, a beat or a style from the original 80’s song.

Out of Touch (Extended Mix) – Uniting Nations
Ride Like the Wind (54 Remix Edit) – Fab
Shattered Dreams (Original Radio Edit) – Jaybee featuring Morris
Owner of a Lonely Heart – Max Graham
Star to Fall (Club Mix) – Cabin Crew
Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U) – Hi Tack
Call on Me – Vic Latino
Dreams (featuring stevie nicks) – Deep Dish
Everywhere – Moustache Club
Here comes the rain again (radio edit) – NRC
Listen to your heart (furious f. EZ Mix) – DHT
Livin’ on a prayer – Jordan james
Somebody’s Watching Me – Foundation
We Belong (radio edit) - Candice

Some Non-80’s Hits that have a good beat:

Waiting (Josh harris remix) – Taxi Doll
Satellites (US mix) – September
Faraway (Valentin Radio Edit) – Debbie Loeb
The One That Got Away (Wamdue Pop Rocks Mix) – Natasha Bedingfield – This one has a slow start but a great beat.
Is it Love (Radio Edit) – iiO
Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Radio Mix) – Andain
Fly Again (Scumfrog Club Edit Mix) – Kristine W
Poison – Groove Coverage
Blinded – Hannah
Come (Into my dream) - Foggy
As the Rush Comes – Motorcycle
Love Again – Cascada
And She Said – Lucas Prata

When I’m in the gym I like to listen to techno music, but I typically prefer the shorter radio edits to the longer versions, with some exceptions. I also have some good Top 40 songs, but this is enough for one post… haha

Oh, blondambition, you're so on my musical wavelength.

Mine too!

I usually listen to any music over 120 BPM while doing cardio. Latest listenings:

Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music [Jody den Broeder Radio Edit]
Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It
Beyonce - Green Light [Freemasons Radio Edit]
Star Alliance featuring Sheila Ferguson - He's A Runner (perfect for the treadmill! haha)
Corenell vs. The Lisa Marie Experience - Keep On Jumpin'

I'll add to blondambitions's list with some good 90's songs that have been re-made by recent dance music artists. I LOVE these:

Alex Gaudino & Jerma presents Lil' Love - Waiting For Tonight
LMC - You Get What You Give
Cascada - Truly Madly Deeply [radio edit]
Sunblock - Baby Baby
DJ Sammy - Why
Eddie Thoneick - Deeper Love [Big Room Radio Edit]
Holly James - Touch It
Dancing DJs vs. Roxette - Fading Like A Flower

I don't do much cardio, but I do love listening to trance at the gym.

If you like ATB, check out the Ronski Speed remix of their song "Renegade" (feat. Heather Nova).

Here are a few other bits from my current playlist:

* Marc Marberg with Kyau & Albert - Megashira
* Evbointh - One Wish
(two frigging INCREDIBLY happy songs)

* DT8 Project - Narama feat. Mory Kante (Dale Corderoy Remix)
* Nitrous Oxide - Orient Express

And if you need to shift your mood more toward the serious or even epic:

* Above & Beyond - Home (Above & Beyond Club Mix)
* Super & Tab - Suru

Tidbit - "Home" was inspired by the death of the vocalist's boyfriend. If you like emotional trance, this one might raise the hair on the back of your neck:


Here I come to find myself
Catch the tide
Looking for a peace at the end of the line.
Sometimes I can't help myself
Fever's high
I'm all at sea and so unwise...

Jay-Z and Linkin Park: Collision Course Album.

Lots of great songs that'll surely get you energized. My fav: jigga what/faint.

Whatever the gym's pumping out over the PA, I sweat too much to wear headphones. Have to mop up after:-)

italmusclebtm: ATB is great. Do you know Juno Reactor? Paul Van Dyk?

None. I love running. And I usually run on trails, through forests, with views. Who needs to be distracted or motivated doing that. (It's also dangerous to wear headphones...or iPod cranked up too much...it destroys your situational awareness).

I agree...if you are running on a treadmill (I can't imagine how boring that would be), you'd need something to distract you.

I pretty much abhor all the music they play at Golds Gym in Oakland. It's all hip-hop, or mindless rap. I just mentally tune it out.

If you like trance type music and have an ipod, you can download a fitpod podcast for free on itunes. The description usually tells the bpm so you know what tempo you're getting ahead of time. Most of the mixes are great though I have had a couple duds. Fastprof I used to work for a Gold's Gym in Omaha and I can relate to the "Gold's Gym Broadcasting Network." Imagine listening to it for 10 hours in a row...I always tuned it out.

I'm with fastprof - it's too dangerous to have earbuds in on the road. But if I did... well I wouldn't share iPods with most of you guys, lol. But I usually keep a tune going in my head... that way when the pace lags, I can ramp it back up, as needed.

Yesterday, it was some Joe Satriani tracks. I wonder what Levi Leipheimer was listening to during that TT warmup last month?

BTW: I've known distance-guys who ran treadmills or rollers for hours, in their basement, in the dark with earplugs in. No external stimuli. Just concentrating on their kinesthetics. Too weird.

Marilyn Manson
Wolfmother
Green Day
Benny Benassi
Daft Punk
Danny Tengalia
Jamiroquai
Korn
Prodigy
Queen

just to name a few that get me through cardio...

Also, just a side note, I'm not TOO fond of the many "albums", if you will, Nike's put out on Itunes pushing the idea that each is designed for different exercise routines; however, one I've found, that I've enjoyed, is Nike's Master the Treadmill with OkGo which essentially is OkGo's entire album smashed into thirty minutes for a cardio workout.

Just a personal opinion. Not many people would jam to that. But it has good intervals.

When I try to do anything while using a cardio machine, I end up going slower, probably because I'm less focused. So I don't do anything but cardio when I do cardio, to get the best of my work out.

Blondambition - fan of 80's music here...

More 80's from my playlist in my IPod

Bananarama - Love In The First Degree
Robin Gibb - Boys Do Fall In Love
Fine young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Alphaville - Forever young (Extended Mix)

Zeppelin box set

Another great add onto my playlist:

Madonna - Cherish

A very feel good music. Good for warming up and even cooling down.

Rare Earth "I Just Want to Celebrate"
Temptations "Ball of Confusion"

Two of the greatest energetic grooves ever written.

As so much, but a few recent things:
"Show Me What You Got" by Jay Z
"Upgrade U" by Beyonce
"Blow (remix)" by Aaron Lacrate
"Get It Shawty" by DJ Nasty
"Get Up/That's Right" by Ciara feat. Chamomille
"Can't Stop" by Missy Eliot
"Fergalicious" by Fergie
"Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson
"Get Up to Get Off" by Prodigy
"Jiggle It" by DJ Leeks
"Fuck Me on the Dancefloor" by Disco D
"Green Light (remix)" by B feat. Young Buck
"Give it to Me" by Timbaland feat. N. Furtado
"Tamborine" by Eve
"Touch It" by Busta Rhymes w/ Missy, Mary, and Rah digga

Try any of those out...you'll be hotter than the month of August in the midwest!

The whole cd of M.I.A. - Kala (very underground electro urban) who doesnt love a shrilanka political rapper set to electro.

Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch radio @ first listen it seems to be way to much going on.. But after a few listens you will realize How brillent this Album is......pure Electro Brillence!

Anything From Daft Punk. Homework or discovery.
Homework - Classic French House So good it hurts!
Discovery- This will go down in history as the Classic of House music. This is sooo amazing you will never get tired of it. I recently rediscovered Discovery and its my workout saviour.

TTYL

new song by Heidi Montag, "Body Language"

never heard of her before, but the song is on an audio link of a station here in PHX:

http://1047kissfm.com/cc-common/mfeatures/

"Club Foot" by Kasbian
"Muzik" by Knock-Turn'Al (idiot name)

are what i tend to look forward to listening to lately.

good rock music like green days holiday,AFI midd murder,marilyn manson the beautiful people..........pump the tunes! rarrrrrrrrrrr!

Id have to say anything mixed by markcus mcbride and DJ Mark D. of houston are the best for me. I love BMP on XM Radio. =D I just love Air 81 on Friday nights! If you have XM check it out. tottally great stuff to work out to. And for most of the DJs you can download their mixes off their sites.

My workplace has a health website program which rewards you for participation. I earned an xm helix. wootwoot! Been wanting one, but couldnt' justify buying one after buying an ipod.

None. Since I run outside, and would never run on a treadmill, I like to stay "situationally aware" of my environment. There's enough to look at without the distraction of music.

Some very cool House Club mixes....

Love Come Down - Sunset Daze
Selfish (Extended Mix) - Sunset Daze
Pink Life - Gyskard
It's You It's Me - Kaskade
Dreams - Deep Dish feat. Stevie Nicks
Shining STar - Pate # 1
Your Loving Arms - Karen Overton
The Con - Filur
Morenito - Stephanie Pompougnac feat. Clementine
Rosanova - Hanna Hais
Sweetest Taboo - Stephanie B
Reaction - Rocco nocera
UR (Junkie XL Guitar Mix Edit) - DJ Tiesto
So Much Love To Give - Freeloaders feat. The Real Thing
You Get What You Give - LMC feat. Rachel MacFarlane
Dont Stop Movin - Velvet
I Love The Way - Bananarama
Everybody Cries - Liberty X

Olivia Newton John!

"let's get physical, physical. I wanna get physical. Let's get into physical. Let me hear your body talk, your body talk"

Oooh... Très sexy, à la 1982, non?

Aero,

Please take no offense, but, really?

This may reveal just HOW MUCH of a geek I am, but I have several different playlists on my iPod that I use at the gym for my cardio. And for each machine (various ellipticals, treadmill, abench) I have an uptempo and regular version.

I picked songs that were representative of optimal paces, then used a piece of software that analyzes mp3's for their BPM. For the representative songs, I used iTunes to gather songs with similar BPM's. The playlists weren't perfect... but after experimentation I have come up with playlists for any machine or activity I might ever do, and for every mood as well.

Like I said, this definitely busts me for being a geek! :)

I used to listen to music while running outside, but the other day I 'experimented' to go without. It felt so good!!
To be able to hear everything what's goingon around me, made me feel a bit safer, but more importantly, I felt less distracted form the music, and I could concentrate better on the running.

Try it! :)

Here are some of my faves when running with music:

Depeche Mode - A pain that I'm used to; Thin white duke remix
Björk - Hunter; Skothus mix
DJ Shadow - You can't go home again
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
Muse - Map of the Problematique
Squarepusher - Tundra
The Killers - Mr Brightside

The Hives albums: high energy punk gets me in the mood to run, or some other sort of punk or dance/punk

That being said, recently I've been listening to some Björk and Rilo Kiley.

i listen to the pulp fiction soundtrack and similar music because its sexy, and I listen to rock n roll..

Brave- Jennifer Lopez
Dignity- Hilary Duff
B'Day- Beyonce
GoodTimeNation-Gavin Creel
Introducing Joss Stone-Joss Stone

That's pretty much what I'm listening too now, it changes based on my mood though. I also have a lovely 80's play list for when I feel like going at an incline.

When I am on the treadmill I like peppy music like "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves, "Crash" by The Primitives, disco, ABBA. "Wake Up Call" by Maroon 5 is my current favorite among top40 music.

Usually I for my workout I will listen to crunk, rap or house music.

The mash up of "Gimme More" and
"Do It Well" By Brit and JLo (located in the music section of my profile)

"Die Another Day" Dirty Vegas Remix

I also have 3 "Confessions on a Dance Floor" Megamixes that are a little ofer 12min a piece that i listen to as well.

And the silly piano in the corner, and whatever the accompanist is playing... ballet=SERIOUS cardio.

I use a nano on random loaded up with songs. I've got a lot of Kylie, some Dannii Minogue and mix of upbeat rock and pop from the 80's on up.

Usually one of the two following playlists... the first of which is the one I listen to the most:

"Blister In The Sun" - Violent Femmes
"Tequila Sundae" - Urge Overkill
"Drive you Mild" - The Verve Pipe
"Crank" - Catherine Wheel
"Skull" - Drop Nineteens
Magnetic North Pole" - Cold Water Flat
"Not You Again" - Dinosaur Jr
"Star" - Belly
"Happy Birthday" - Concrete Blonde
"Angry Inch" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
"Freaks" - Boys Against Girls
"Psychofudge" - Fluffy
"Easy" - PJ Harvey
"San Diego" - Sister Double Happiness
"Wheat Penny" - Tackle Box
"Teanage Head" - The 5-6-7-8's
"I Was Wrong" - Social Distortion
"Circus Envy" - REM
"Been Caught Stealin'" - Jane's Addiction
"Hot Wire My Heart" - Sonic Youth
"Seether" - Veruca Salt
"Star" - The Cult
"Gloria" - Patti Smith


And if it promises to be a really intense day at the gym or I just need some catharsis, it's this one:

"Pinion/Wish" - Nine Inch Nails
"Real Solution #9" - White Zombie
"Bulls On Parade" - Rage Against the Machine
"El Cu Cuy" - Coal Chamber
"T.R.I.C." - Otep
"Dead Cell" - Papa Roach
"Can't Believe" - Staind
"American Psycho" - My Ruin
"Solitaire Unraveling" - Mushroomhead
"Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - Skinlab
"Clever Sleazoid" - Dir-en-grey
"Clown" - Korn
"Spit" - Kittie
"My Own Summer (Shove It)" - Deftones
"The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson
"Disgustipated" - Tool

Howzat?

I cant get off the treadmill some days with this stuff playing. Hope someone else loves these tracks as much as I do. ;-) Cheers and happy sweating!

Song-Artist/Album

Youthful-Junkie XL/Today

The Best Revenge (Tocadisco's Macaco Gordo Mix)-

Fischerspooner/Danse en France - EP

I Want Nothing-The Black Ghosts/Any Way You Choose to Give It - EP

Anything New-Digitalism/Idealism

Not Enough (feat. Willoughby & Nicole Morier)-Junkie XL/Booming Back At You

Bells-Vitalic featuring Linda Lamb/Bells - EP

Ghetto Ways (Baron Von Luxxury's Super Thanks for Asking Remix)-Scissors for Lefty/Underhanded Romance

Everyday Is Halloween (Josh Harris Club Mix)-Dangerous Muse/Everyday Is Halloween / Give Me Danger - EP

Alice (General Midi Remix)-Moby/Alice - EP

Machine! (James Curd House Mix)-Greens Keepers/Money vs. Machine!

1967 Poem-Junkie XL/Booming Back At You

I Want I Want-Digitalism/Idealism

Ghosts (Toxic Avenger Mix)-Ladytron/Ghosts - EP

Someone Like You (Remix B. Benassi)-Etienne de Crécy featuring Camille/Fast Track (Featuring Camille) [Fast Track Vocal Mix] - EP

B Like Me (Featuring Alex Peace) [Club Mix]-Smooth & J & Alex Peace/B Like Me - EP

Any Way You Choose to Give It-The Black Ghosts/Any Way You Choose to Give It - EP

Princess (Morgan Z Remix)-Datarock/Princess - EP

Cities In Dust (feat. Lauren Rocket) [Moonbootica Remix]-Junkie XL/Cities In Dust - Single

My People-The Presets/My People - EP

No Way (feat. Lauren Rocket)-Junkie XL/Booming Back At You

Escape (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)-The Toxic Avenger/Superheroes - EP

Echoes-Digitalism/Idealism

Feel Good (TV=OFF)-Boys Noize/Feel Good (TV=OFF) - EP

Dolami-Sebastian/Smoking Kills - EP

Black Cat-Ladytron/Velocifero

Fast Track (With Alex Gopher & Julien Delfaud)-Etienne de Crécy/Superdiscount 2

Bring It On (Acid Jacks Remix)-Goose/Bring It On - EP

Hustler (Armand Van Helden Remix)-Simian Mobile Disco/Hustler - EP

Out There On the Ice-Cut Copy/In Ghost Colours

My playlist is mostly non of minimal vocal progressive trance, drum n bass & sparingly electro house & down tempo. Feel free to search for these on iTunes (or Beatport if iTunes doesn't have it) if you like these styles:

Current list:


Progressive Trance:

Above & Beyond - Home
Above & Beyond - World on Fire (Maor Levi Remix)
Oceanlab - Beautiful Together
Hiroyuki Oda - Cataract
Hiroyuka Oda - Rise
Hybrid - Finished Symphony (Deadmau5 remix)
Kirsty Hawkshaw - Invisible
Solarstone & JES - Liek a Waterfall
Daniel Kandi - Make Me Believe
Kaskade - One Heart
Anjuna beats presents Nitrous Oxide - Orient Express
Interstate - Remember Me (Terry Bones Remix)


Drum n Bass:

Sonic - Electrosound
Danny Byrd - Shock Out
Danny Byrd - Gold Rush
Blue Mar Ten - Starting Over
London Electricity - The Grerat Drum n Bass Swindle
L.A.O.S - Panda Style
Bachelor of Science - Strings Track


Down Tempo
Zero 7 - Home
Under - Under (Morgan Page Remix)


Electro House
Slyde - Kiss, kiss, bang, bang (Twocker Mix / Beatvandals Re-edit)

My ears cannot with stand the garbage of that rap and hip hop bull. So im all electro and trance.
So far im Loving some

Jeffree Star- Heart Surgery

Freemasons - Anything they have ever made their true blessings

Kyle Minogue - In your eyes

Simon Disco - Anything they make

Thunderheist - Jerk It

And A TON more.

Malibu saidSo im all electro and trance.

Hey Malibu, iTunes the trance tracks i have listed above ur post.

Well my IPod playlist goes from "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado & His Orchestra to "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay.

I must admit I need a lot of variety when it comes to music otherwise I get bored. I won't listen to my classical music playlist when I work out, that is for more reflective times.

Just updated my iPod shuffle for when I do cardio. These are a few of my favorite songs right now:

Lady GaGa featuring Colby O'Donis - Just Dance
Madonna - 4 Minutes [Junkie XL Mixes]
Madonna - Give It 2 Me [Paul Oakenfold Remix]
PhonJaxx & Cosi Costi - Sensual
Donna Summer - Stamp Your Feet [Jason Nevins Edit]

Ida Corr vs. Fedde Le Grand - Let Me Think About It
Alex Gaudino - Watch Out
September - Cry For You [UK Radio Edit]
Eric Prydz - Pjanoo
Ivory - Ghostbusters [Steve N King Mix]

recently, it has been madonna hard candy album. especially shes not me! over and over again.

This change pretty frequently, and this list is in need of an update... but here it is.

Song - Artist/Group

All that She Wants - Ace of Base
Man in the Box - Alice in Chains
Rehab - Amy Winehouse
Pay to Cum - Bad Brains
Nervous Breakdown - Black Flag
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
The X - Blood on the Wall
Lime House - The Breeders
All Over Your Face - Cazwell
100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters

The entire, The beyonce experience concert, on repeat!

Makes an hour at the gym feel like 25 mins for me!

Whoop whoop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's a shame I cant sing or dance while im working out! Luck for the other members though! lol

Malibu said

Freemasons - Anything they have ever made their true blessings

I was combing this thread for someone to mention Freemasons. I discovered them last year and LOVE almost everything they touch or make. Great music, although a little slow BPM on a few songs, but definitely great work out music.

Their remake of Alanis' "Uninvited" is awesome! I agree, Freemasons are incredible.

GobB saidrecently, it has been madonna hard candy album. especially shes not me! over and over again.

I fell in love with Madonna's latest. I specially love "spanish lesson" but "she's not me" is awesome too.

I assume you guys are referring to the music you play on your iPod or similar music playing device.

Keep in mind that the next medical problem for our generation that you'll see as we all get older will be acute hearing loss. This will be caused from the excessive use of earphones to listen to music so loud that I can hear what's playing for the other person 6ft away from them.

So, be careful.

Gotta be dance music for me...favorites right now are Ultra Nate´s "Give It All You Got", Madonna's "Give It To Me" & "She's Not Me", and (don't laugh) Kelly Osbourne's "One World"

Maybe it's just me but I can't have these iPods on my body while I'm doing certain lifts like squats or power deadlifts. I can see using an iPod for doing cardio but when I lift weights I have to concentrate. Yes, there is music playing in the background in the gym itself but when I have a device over my ears playing music I really love I will get into the music and not focus on what I'm doing. This would surely cause injury on my part.

I use this one if I can't take the dogs with me.
Electronic shifting to more progressive then alternative then chillout phase I find it quite apt for my cardio since have to overcame half a mile in level difference running up a pretty steep hill, the steeper and longer the more the music progresses.

Artist- Track name - Album
-------------------------------------
Kosheen - Overkill- Damage
Crystal Method - Roadhouse blues(remix)-Nike-Run
Kava Kava - Funked up and freaked out - Maui
The Prodigy - Breathe - The fat of the land
The Prodigy - Poison - Music for the jilted generation
P.O.D vs Crystal Method - Boom - Community service
L.C.D Soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing at my house - LCD S
Coldplay - Square one - X & Y
The white stripes - Seven nation army - Elefant
Foo Fighters - The pretender - Echoes, silence and patience
Here to stay - Korn - Greatest Hits 1
Asian Dub Foundation - La Haine - Enemy of the enemy
M.I.A - Boyz - Kala
Yeah yeah yeahs - Down boy - Is Is
L.C.D Soundsystems - North american scum - Sound of Silver
Die fantastischen 4 - Ichisichisich - Fornika
Dormeister vs MDLA - Boogie no more (reverse) - Hed Kandi Lounge
Thievery cooperation - Strange days - Versions
Stigmato Inc. - Reality check - Irma Chillout cafe 7

Here's a few good ones....

-Nicole Scherzinger: Whatever you like
-Neyo: Closer
-Fall Out Boy: Thanks for the Memories
-Kat Deluna:Run the Show/ In the End
-Pussycat Dolls:When I grow Up
-M. Pokora: Dangerous
-Rihanna: Disturbia
-Shikara-Hips Don't Lie
-Danity Kane: Damaged/Pretty Boy
-Little Mama: Shorty Get Loose
-Kayne West: Stronger
-Estella: American Boy
-Britney Spears: Get Back