Music to Listen to While Exercising

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I have just started going to the gym, and most of my music is not really beat-oriented, or at least not very peppy/fast/upbeat. What do you guys listen to while you work out?

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, i'm sure there's a thread like this on ILM already, so feel free to link to that one and delete this.

my faves for working out so far are Kraftwerk albums and Richard Pinhas' "Chronolyse"

― killy (baby lenin pin), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Fluxpop

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

i used to run to "in on the kill taker"...good pacing...

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

i've jogged really well with Queen's "Jazz." Especially "Don't Stop Me Now." I'd play it over and over.

― youth problem, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:00 (twenty years ago)

the first franz ferdinand
all three hot snakes records
converge - petitioning the empty sky (first half)
the sword - (i'm still trying this one out)
pretty much everything by the fucking champs - it's all pretty up tempo and is great for air drumming and shredding
Bear Vs. Shark - Terrorhawk is totally off the hook
Boris - Pink - especially the last track...it's epic
Clikatat Ikatowi - Orchestrated and Conducted (turn off track 5, the slow jam)
Floor and Torche
Mastadon - Remission ---this one sometimes makes me exercise too hard.
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Loose Fur - Born Again...
Neurosis - anything after Pain of Mind
the VSS

----these are all great for bike riding - specifically stationary bike riding.

― bobby.lasers (bobby.lasers), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Gabba.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I probably said this on a previous similar thread, but I've found that my natural jogging speed correlates perfectly with the BPM of nearly every Tommy James & the Shondells song. "One, Two, Three and I Fell" and "It's Only Love" and "Mirage" make great exercise music.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Kraftwerk is good.
Basement Jaxx
Michael Mayer IMMER
Any good DJ mix, really.
Pretty much all the shit with beats ILM turns me on to.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

DAFT PUNK
EIFFEL 65
CYGNUS X

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

JEFF MILLS

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

Kreucht and Fleucht
Fabric 13
The entire New Order catalog on shuffle
and a big mix of girlie pop music (Kylie, Sophie, etc.) have all worked for me.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

Kylie's Fever! Everything is 125 bpm.

― Mr. Telephone Man, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Swan - "Stay Here" from Filth

"Walk on this line... look straight ahead... flex your muscles...
be hard... come back for more..."

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0602,sylvester,71589,15.html

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

My current gym playlist for the last week:

Never Felt Like This Before (Phones Volt Mix) - Shaznay Lewis
Deadly Sinners - 3 Inches of Blood
Black Sweat - Prince
Stay Fly - 3-6 Mafia
ICU - Goodie Mob
Flipside - Freeway with Peedi Crack
Billy Jack Bitch - Prince
Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy
Kryptonite - Big Boi and Purple Ribbon All-Stars
Temperature - Sean Paul
Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
Destroy the Orcs - 3 Inches of Blood
1 Thing - Amerie
Nu Tones - NOMO
Lyrical Gangbang - Dr Dre
Ghetto-Ology - Goodie Mob
Crying In Your Face - Aphex Twin
Bulgarian Chicks - Balkan Beat Box
Young Boy - Clipse
Senegal Fast Food - Amadou and Mariam
What Happened To That Boy - Baby
Piss On Your Grave - The Coup

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:10 (twenty years ago)

a friend of mine heard "beau mot plage" by isolee at my house once and was like "what is this??? i work out to it all the time!!"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

Strangely enough, that list feels very personal.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

I struggle with this one , particularly as I find the gym boring. But seeing as I like a drink and my food and sit at a fkn desk all day, I need to go.

I thought my ultimate gym mix would by my ultimate '80s US hardcore mix. It failed after a while
Sometimes, I feel that the likes of Converge, Cave In et al should spur me on. The trouble is, the anger and jarring nature of those songs make the whole turgid gym experience last longer with all their clever little parts.
I'm also a bit old and jaded for that stuff really so i give my coffee table electronica a go. This works better . The monotonous grooves grease the gym painlessly by but I reckon i'm really coasting with this shitt and I'd be better off layed at home watching TV.

Conclusion; play music you love. just stick to that. Vary it and sometimes have a break from the 'phones for a couple of minutes
and try and indulge in a touch of gym chat. If it's anything like my dulldom, you will have the 'phones back on in no time and not really care who you're listening to.

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

DJ Ayres & JD's Houston for Dummies is really run-able.

― Richj (Rich), Thursday, 16 March 2006 04:12 (twenty years ago)

metal

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 16 March 2006 04:50 (twenty years ago)

Hardcore. Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Husker Du.

― Mr. Silverback (Mr. Silverback), Thursday, 16 March 2006 06:08 (twenty years ago)

Clutch, Iron Maiden, pre-'88 Metallica, "Sabotage" by Black Sabbath, "Burn" by Deep Purple, early Megadeth.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

yeah, jeff mills is great exercise music! especially mix-up vol. 2, and especially part 2.

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 16 March 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Surprisingly, the last Tom Waits album works really well - 'Hoist that rag' and all that field song call and response stuff. Apart from that, and rather more obviously, Rammstein & Laibach are solid favorites.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

if your distance running, id recommend propulsive, trance inducing dance music along the lines of eulberg, holden, ada, stuff from kompakt or get physical. songs that last 5 to 10 minutes, or longer. ive personally found that radio length songs give you an adrenaline rush for the duration of the song, but the abrupt, frequent transition seems to fluxuate my adrenaline/heartbeat too much. it seems to ruin my stamina.

i love listening to grime(run the road comps, wiley, dizzee) for any other type of workout.

― cheshire, Friday, 17 March 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

If you are taking supplements and 'roids then you need death/speed metal.

If you are just drinking power shakes then Andrew WK.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:13 (twenty years ago)

hollertronix/baltimore club/dance music type stuff

― charlie bucket (charlie bucket), Friday, 17 March 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

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