Hyper Gym Workout Tunes
 

Anyone have suggestions for music I can download to my iPod while I workout?

I'm looking for fun energetic music.

I need to add new stuff to the mix. My Gym Playlist is getting old.

:)

Just about anything off the Cherry Poppin' Daddies "Zoot Suit Riot" disk should do the trick. Always makes me go faster on the treadmill than I thought I could.

Ooh, Chemical Brothers! That stuff really gets me going. "Dig your own hole" and "Push the button" are both great albums. Way back when I used to work out to music I put on "Dig" all the time.

Oh huzzah for this thread. I need major musical motivation for my work out, which always tends to drop dead in its tracks between October and January. I need all the inspiration I can get during the treacherous holiday season of "oh, I'm too busy for that."

My workout playlist is about to be re-done to be longer but this is what it currently is:

Personal Jesus ~ Marilyn Manson
mOBSCENE ~ Marylin Manson
Save a horse Ride a Cowboy ~ Big & Rich
Livin on a Prayer ~ Bon Jovi
1985 ~ Bowling for Soup
City of Angles ~ The Distillers
Drunken Lullabies ~ Flogging Molly
Feel Good Inc ~ Gorillaz
American Idiot ~ Green Day
Back When ~ Tim McGraw
My Next Thirty Years ~ Tim McGraw

I just want to know what a hyper gym is.

For some reason these songs I find to be fun and always seem to energize me - they are all on my current work out CD (not in the Ipod age yet) which I haven't changed in a long time -

I like starting out with "where the streets have no name" (U2) to warm up - starts nice and slow, picks up nicely. Don't know if it's "fun", but it works for me.
Not a hip-hop fan, per se, but I love "Hey Ya" by Outkast.
"Roxanne" - Police
"Drive" - Bobby McFerrin (live version from appearance on SNL)
"Straight to my Heart" - Sting
"Make me Smile" - Chicago
"American Child" - Phil Vassar
"Take me to your leader" - Newsboys
"Frank" - The W's

Gotta have fun tunes to work out to.

Thank you for the ideas so far.

I have 'Zoot Suit Riot' and the two CB songs CP mentioned and am adding them to the list. I'm looking into BTD'd list.

Here's some of my list so far. Now, it's more about the pace of the song than the artist, content etc.

Feel Good Inc. ~ Gorillaz
Mon Truc En Plumes (Remix) ~ Zizi Jeanmaire
Lose Control (Explicit Version) ~ Missy Elliott
Pon De Replay ~ Rihanna
Speed Racer (12" Version) ~ Alpha
Hindi Sad Diamonds ~ Moulin Rouge
Meet Me In The Red Room ~ Moulin Rouge
All Nite (Don't Stop) ~ Janet Jackson
Born Slippy (Nuxx) ~ Underworld <---- Someone in this song calls out the name 'InnerSpace Boy'... I think that's funny. :D
Jaan Pehechaan Ho ~ Mohammed Rafi <----From "Ghost World'. :)
Simple And Clean (Short Edit) ~ Utada Hikaru <--- From Kingdom Hearts. I'm a nerd. :D
Don't Call Me Baby (Original Mix 7") ~ Madison Avenue
House of Jupiter (Extended Vocal Mix) ~ Casey Stratton
Cha Cha Heels (Rosabel Big Room Vox) ~ Rosabel & Jeanie Tracy
Slow (Chemical Brothers Mix) ~ Kylie Minogue
Sunchyme (Club 69 Tribal Chant Mix) ~ Dario G
Milkshake (X-Press 2 Triple Thick Vocal Mix) ~ Kelis
Brimful Of Asha ~ Fatboy Slim
Music (Daft Punk Remix) ~ Madonna
Hey Ladies (Remix) ~ The Beastie Boys
Take Me Home ~ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Don't Tell Me (Timo Maas Mix) ~ Madonna
Renegade Master ~ Fatboy Slim
F**k the Pain Away ~ Peaches
Boom Intro/Pass That Dutch ~ Missy Elliott
Rock Your Body ~ Justin Timberlake feat. Pharrell Williams
Shake Your Rump ~ The Beastie Boys
I've Got a Life ~ Eurythmics
The Other Side Of The Moon (Ursula 1000 Mix) ~ Don Tiki
Gold Digger ~ Kanye West Feat. Jamie Foxx
Rich Girl (Radio Edit) ~ Gwen Stefani & Eve
Move Your Feet (Radio Edit) ~ Junior Senior
Lose My Breath ~ Destiny's Child
Hey Ya! ~ Outkast
I Turn To You ~ Melanie C
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) 12" version ~ Dead or Alive
Young Hearts Run Free ~ Kym Mazelle
Everytime We Touch (Radio Mix) ~ Cascada

Four Rooms Soundtrack - Vertigogo
Four Rooms Soundtrack - Sentimental Journey
Pink Martini - Dansez Vous
Pink Martini - Anna (El Negro Zumbon)
Brasillian Girls - Corner Store
Anything by Madness or the Specials
Basement Jaxx - SuperSonic
Basement Jaxx - Lucky Star
Basement Jazz - Kish Kash (with Siouxsie Sioux)
Scissor Sisters - Well, how could I choose just one? Take your Mama, Filthy Gorgeous, Laura etc.
Belle & Sebastian - Step into my Office (the entire Dear Catastrophe Waitress is fun pop)

You know how hard it is to choose songs when a)I don't have an ipod and I usually don't formally exercise.

Nth Degree - Morningwood
Blue Orchid - The White Stripes
Intergalactic - Beastie Boys
Squeeze Me Macaroni - Mr. Bungle
Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
Send Me Your Money - Suicidal Tendencies
Twisted Transistor - Korn
Hella Good - No Doubt
Babylon - Faster Pussycat

Hell, if you're going there, go for the New York Dolls original version.

Or, even better, Puss 'n Boots.

Oh, sorry if I wasn't clear - I meant the ALBUMS, not just the individual songs.

Hehehehehehee... Not as nerdy as listening to the Katamari Damacy album sometimes and attempting to sing in Japanese...... And who DOESN'T love Kingdom Hearts???

Right-o, I'd have to say my music taste runs to McDonalds while most of you go for Napa Rose..... but here is my "high energy" list. In no real order...

Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
Don't bring me down - elo
Little duce coupe - Beach Boys
Help - Beatles
Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seager
Your just what I need - some soundtrack
Looking out my back door - CCR
Proud Mary - CCR
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
Chase - Gorgio Mordor
Crush - Jennifer Page
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Family Affair - Mary J Blige
Trouble - Pink
Shock Treament - Shock Treatment
Little Black Dress - Shock Treatment
Play my game - Donnas
You've got a crush on me - Donnas
Up - Shania
I wanna be bad - Willa ford

And if you want an album, hands down it's gotta be: "Bat out of Hell" by Meatloaf.

ooooh. cliffs of dover. I like that one a lot

Some songs that are about to be added:

Closer ~ NIN
Hand that Feeds ~ NIN
Blue Monday ~ Orgy
Jesus of Surburbia ~ Green Day

Hearing Trent say "I want to fu<k you like an animal" does not make me run faster - unless he happens to be waiting at home for me. :evil:

I've got a couple iMixes that I choose between, but they have overlap.

My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg) - The Ramones
Out of Control (Live at Paradise Theatre, Boston, March 6, 1981) - U2
The Seven Deadly Sins - Flogging Molly
Devil's Dance Floor - Flogging Molly
Dancing With Myself - The Donnas
Selfish Man - Flogging Molly
Play My Game - The Donnas
Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
One Girl Revolution - Superchick
Fall Behind Me - The Donnas
Pressure Point - The Zutons
Take It Off - The Donnas
Mofo (Live from Mexico City) - U2
I Will Follow (Live from Mexico City) - U2
Even Better Than the Real Thing (The Perfecto Mix) - U2
Bom Bom Bom - Living Things
Galang - M.I.A.

For cool down/stretching:
Everything - Alanis Morrisette
Breathe (2 AM) - Anna Nalick
Water is Wide - Indigo Girls/Jewel/Sarah McLachlan (Lilith Fair Album)

I have to agree with those on here who say they need music to get going. Boring without it. I use DVD's when I do the treadmill to have something to look at.


Ooo, Lisa....I like your point of view on Trent...;)

I have quite a few compilations of songs to work out to. Here is a small number:

Black Eyed Peas: Hey Mama, Shut Up

The Cure:Why Can't I Be You?, Just Like Heaven, Friday I'm In Love

Incubus: Megalomaniac

Jet: 'Last Chance', 'Are You Gonna Be My Girl', 'Roll Over D.J.', 'Get What You Need', 'Get Me Outta Here', 'Cold Hard B****', 'Take It Or Leave It'

The Soundgarden song 'Rusty Cage', the way it starts off will get you off of your, um, behind, and get you going every time.

I could go on and on but DEVO is great, System of a Down, Thornley, Velvet Revolver, Green Day {kick a** BarTopDancer, I totally agree}.

Ooo, I think I will mix up my workout selections now. Thanks for the idea. :snap:

GC, many an a$$ moves with Missy Elliot.
My favorites:
Gossip Folks
Hot
Work It
Get UR Freak On

She's one sassy mamma-jamma! ;)

Interesting. I don't usually pick individual songs for such stuff. My brain still swivels around albums, even though I have an iPod. I haven't made a single playlist yet.

I like to set my player of choice on shuffle. Therefore, each song has to stand on its own. I can't have a surprise shuffle bringing down the pace.