Let's Make the Greatest Workout Mixtape EVER

I already have some great songs on my MP3 player:

The Touch - Stan Bush

Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)

Eye of the Tiger

Montage (from Team America: World Police)

Final Countdown

Winner Takes It All - Sammy Hagar (from Over The Top)

What A Feeling

I Need A Hero

You're The Best (from The Karate Kid)

(that's all I can remember off the top of my head)

My Friend John by the Fratellis [youtube.com]. The first 30 seconds at least are awesome.

"Girls With Guns" by Tommy Shaw.

Girls With Guns by Tommy Shaw.

Funkytown by Lipps Inc
Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy
You're gonna go far kid by The Offspring
Back in Black by AC/DC

Van Halen: Jump Freestylers: Push Up

The Brazilian by Genesis

it builds up and builds up and when you push through that wall it rewards you with some epic 80s synth.

And if it's good enough for Magnum P.I. ...

Search on youtube and you can give it a listen.

Let's try that again with carriage returns.

Van Halen: Jump

Freestylers: Push Up

MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAT! (you know, for a VG related techno fix)

Spiderbait - Black Betty

Propellerheads - Spybreak!

JET - Are You Gonna Be My Girl

A few of my workout favorites:

Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Spybreak! - Propellerheads
In Da Club - 50 Cent
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Body Movin' (Fatboy Slim Remix) - Beastie Boys
The Planet Plan - United Future Organization
It Takes Two - Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock
It's Tricky - Run DMC
Runnin' Down a Dream - Tom Petty

okay, hear me out. this may get me called a nerd, but

the soundtrack that goes with EVERYTHING?

The Lord of the Rings.

Boom.

I just changed your life.

"Theoden Rides Forth" makes everything epic.

Indestructible - Disturbed

Rods and Cones - Blue Man Group

Feel Good INC - Gorillaz

Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

The Distance - Cake

Hey You - The Exies

Heart Full of Black - Burning Brides

One Step Closer - Linkin Park

Points of Authority - Linkin Park

Inside the Fire - Disturbed

Don't Stay - Linkin Park

Nine Thou (Superstars Mix) - Styles of Beyond

Airbase - Amanamaguchi

Don't Hold Back - The Sleeping

Devour - Shinedown

Heroes - Shinedown

Yer Majesty - Shinedown

Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed

Land of Confusion - Disturbed

It's My Turn to Fly - The Urge

Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy

Nobody's Listening - Linkin Park

Welcome Home - Coheed & Cambria

Welcome to the Masquerade - Thousand Foot Krutch

Scream - Thousand Foot Krutch

Hope some of those help you out.

For strength training:
OK Go - Invincible
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
The Cranberries - Zombie
Dandy Warhols - Boys Better
The Kinks - Bernadette
The Lemonheads - Mrs. Robinson
Nine Inch Nails - Deep Peter Gabriel - The Building That Ate People

Cardio:
Ooh - Scissor Sisters
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
Kirsty MacColl - Us Amazonians
Amy Winehouse - Rehab
Basement Jaxx - Do Your Thing
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Buster Poindexter - Hot, Hot, Hot
Teddybears - Cobrastyle
Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You
David Byrne - Glass, Concrete and Stone
Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll Part 2

Cliff's handy, dandy suggestions:

Back In Black - AC/DC
Party Hard - Andrew WK (any Andrew WK, really)
Go - Andrew Hunter
Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
That Golden Rule - Biffy Clyro
Never Gonna Come Back Down - BT (W/Mike Doughty)
Get Your Snack On - Amon Tobin
Dive For You - Boom Boom Satellites
Setting Sun - The Chemical Brothers
Weapons Of Mass Destruction - The Crystal Method
They Live! (DJ Version) - Evil Nine
Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim
Silver Screen Shower Scene - Felix Da Housecat
Emerge - Fischerspooner
Atom Bomb - Fluke (highly recommended)
Mind Killer - Adam Freeland
Escape Artists Never Die - Funeral For A Friend
Are You Real - Fury In The Slaughterhouse
We Have Explosive - Future Sound of London
I Wish - Infected Mushroom
Today - Junkie XL (almost any Junkie XL, really)
Conga Fury - Juno Reactor
'88 Aka Come Down On Me - Lemon Jelly
From Rusholme With Love - Mint Royale
Getaway - The Music
The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
Ready, Steady, Go - Oakenfold
Take California - Propellerheads
Invaders Must Die! - The Prodigy
Guerrilla Radio - Rage Against The Machine
Seventeen Years - Ratatat
Fight! Smash! Win! - Street Sweeper Social Club
Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) - Taking Back Sunday
Breakdown - Tantric
Break It Down Again - Tears For Fears
Donna Everywhere - Too Much Joy
Teenage Wristband - The Twilight Singers
I Will Follow - U2
Don't Let Go - Weezer
CNR - Weird Al (trust me on this)
Baba O'Reilly - The Who
Treat Me Mean, I Need The Reputation - Xploding Plastix

This is a good sampling from my rather massive workout playlist on my iPod. Needless to say, I aim high.

~c.

Cliff "Devinoch" Hicks

Wow, a bunch of my songs have already been listed, but here are some more good ones:

Peak Hour (From Days of Future Passed) - The Moody Blues
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC
Jump (For My Love) - The Pointer Sisters
Here It Goes - Ok Go
One Angry Dwarf (And 200 Solemn Faces) - Ben Folds Five
Go - The Apples in Stereo
The Boys of Summer - The Ataris (cover) Love Shack - The B-52s
Catch A Wave - The Beach Boys
Helter Skelter, Help, or Can't Buy Me Love - The Beatles
I've Just Seen a Face - perf. by Jim Sturgess on the Across the Universe soundtrack

Also, if you want to add amusing yourself to your workout:

The Rye or the Kaiser
Albuquerque
Smells Like Nirvana
Your Horoscope for Today
Grapefruit Diet
Canadian Idiot
or any Polka by Weird Al Yankovic

Okay, I could probably go on forever, so I'll stop now.

"25 Miles" [youtube.com] by the late, great Edwin "War" Starr -- it's especially good for the treadmill/running/hiking. It's hard not to get moving listening to it.

"War" would be pretty good too, but the subject matter is a downer.

Galvanize by Chemical Brothers

You've got to include some Ugress, to add that... "je ne sais quoi" of geeky awesome beats.

Some candidates:

Manhattan Sapphire
Makina Fifth
Monochromatic World
Battle 22
Cthulu's Night Out
Sordid Pulse
E-Pipe
Spiderman Theme
Evil Jeans

Also, the entire Descent 2 soundtrack is totally kick ass. ;)

Bad Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce

Butterflies and Hurricanes by Muse

The words make me feel like I'm fighting an army of epic robots . . . which is what I'm training for on the exer-cycle anyway.

Chop Suey - System Of A Down

I would post a few ghetto songs w/ bass, but not everybody likes them!

Anyway, enjoy the song & keep doing an awesome job on exercising!

Physical - Olivia Newton-John

AN ESSENTIAL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWz9VN40nCA

Actually for a workout, all you gotta do is reenact that music video.

My vote is for the Heartless Bastards, a Cincinnati-based band, now on tour across the country. They've got some really hard-driving rhythms and a singer who is always giving it her all. Most of the stronger tunes really keep me going in my workouts.

Check out their website. [theheartlessbastards.com]

Their first album, Stairs & Elevators [amazon.com], is the great for workouts. Check out the songs Gray, New Resolution, and Done Got Old for starters.

If you're looking for something a little more upbeat, but that keeps you moving, try the Seedy Seeds [theseedyseeds.com] (another Cincy band). Really wild stuff, but the rhythms are great to keep you jammin' on the treadmill, etc. Check out their first album, Change States [amiestreet.com], specifically songs like
Earned Average Dance America, The Little Patton, and Alberta.

Keep on shakin' your money-maker!

- James