<p>Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
Smithereens - Blood and Roses
Del Fuegos - Don’t Run Wild
Patti Smith - When Doves Cry (Price cover) or Gloria
Rolling Stones - Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ or Hearbreaker or Miss You
Breeders - Cannon Ball
Propellerheads - Spybreak
Moby - Extreme Ways
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out</p>
<p>Also Verve and Motown remixed CDs</p>
<p>I think the live version of Sweet Jane–from Rock n Roll Animal–would be better for working out. With intro, it stretches to 8 minutes, and really rocks.
I’m enjoying the workout song esoterica, so here are a few more in that vein:
The Iguanas - Oye Isabel
World Party - Way Down Now
Indigenous - Things We Do
The Reivers - Breathin’ Easy</p>
<p>The Smithereens are a great workout choice! Pat was a friend of mine many years ago, and I remember him playing “Blood and Roses” on an acoustic guitar in my living room while he was working on it. One Friday night a year or so later, I was watching Miami Vice, and that song was the interlude piece. Talk about a jaw-dropping experience.</p>
<p>I pretty much listen to Pearl jam on my pod-for the bike and weight machines and older Motown for after stretching
Animal
Blood
Do the Evolution
Given to Fly
Go
Hail Hail
Lukin
Porch
rearview mirror
Save You
State of love and trust
Tremor Christ
Throw your arms around me
also some Little Wing ( Hendrix)
Marvin Gaye
Lets get it on
Whats going on
Inner city blues
and sometimes Neil Young or Bonnie Raitt depending on my mood-
Depending on what the gym is playing I may just listen to that
but they often play bad 80s music</p>
<p>Love the Smithereens BTW</p>
<p>Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top</p>
<p>Urgent - Foreigner</p>
<p>Hungry Like the Wolves - Duran Duran</p>
<p>Whip It - Devoe</p>
<p>workout to Talking Heads ‘Stop Making Sense’ Album with cool down to Marvin Gaye’s ‘Got To Give It Up’</p>
<p>What kind of music is a Talking Head?</p>
<p>classic
love Talking Heads
I suggested to my daughter that they do “the road to nowhere” as part of their high school graduation ceremony
they did- and segued it into EW & F “Shining Star”
if you don’t know the Talking Heads I suggest seeing “Stop Making Sense”
really a great concert film</p>
<p>emeraldkity,</p>
<p>They finally released “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads” on CD! Highly recommended.</p>
<p>Still have “The Name of the Band is the Talking Heads” on cassette, and it still gets some play in the car. </p>
<p>Saw the Stop Making Sense Tour at the US Open Tennis HQ in Forest Hills. 20th row. 3 hours. Easily the best show I have ever seen.</p>
<p>Other Heads related choices include Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love or Wordy Rappinghood and David Byrne’s “Rei Momo” cd, which features South American musical styles. Also if you can find “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” by Byrne and Eno. </p>
<p>I prefer shorter songs with more funky/rhythmic styles than hard rock when I work out. I have a 20GB I pod but prefer the shuffle set on random for variety.</p>
<p>How about:
Elastica - Connection
Joy Division - Love Will Tear us Apart
C&C Music Factory
Rusted Root
and Trainspotting, Gross Pointe Blank and Best of Britpop soundtracks.</p>
<p>Well, you’ve all been generous and although I haven’t listened to all of the suggestions yet, I have adopted a couple. Here is my current list fwiw…starts with wakeup/warmup, goes to warmup run, to real run, to weights or slowdown/cooldown…rarely get to the end. I will be adding some of yours as I get a chance to listen to them. Thank you thank you, and hope others got some new songs too!!</p>
<p>Clarity John Mayer
Chelsea Morning Joni Mitchell
Seasons of Love Rent<br>
Afternoon Delight Starland Vocal Band
Dancing In The Moonlight King Harvest<br>
Lady Marmalade Patti LaBelle<br>
Unwritten Natasha Benenfield (sp?)
Die Another Day Madonna<br>
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg The Temptations
Away with the summer days Youngstown
I’m Feeling You Santana
Hey Ya! Outkast<br>
Do Ya Electric Light Orchestra
Respect Aretha Franklin
While You See a Chance Steve Winwood<br>
Hoy Es Adios Santana
Let the River Run Carly Simon
Forever And For Always Shania Twain<br>
Never Let You Go Jakaranda<br>
Babylon David Gray<br>
You Are My Kind Santana Feat.
Building The Barn Witness Soundtrack<br>
The Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe Nick Ingham & Prague Philharmonia<br>
Maria Ellis & Branford Marsalis
Only Heart John Mayer Heavier Things<br>
Why Georgia John Mayer Room for Squares<br>
5 Corners The Doobie Brothers</p>
<p>at Amazon - great cd’s for running if you really want to get pumped up:</p>
<p>“Run to Cadence with the U.S. Marines”</p>
<p>Others include the Army Rangers, et. al.</p>
<p>I love it!</p>
<p>Once in a Lifetime</p>
<p>And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
wife
And you may ask yourself-Well…How did I get here?</p>
<p>tsdad…is that a philosophical question for all of us:)?</p>
<p>My workout was much more fun this morning, thank you! Have also added Roll to me and What I like about you to the list since yesterday. Am slowly making my way through everyone’s songlists. I think this will keep me unbored at the gym for the entire next year! Hope others found some good additions too.</p>
<p>How about… </p>
<p>WHAM! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go </p>
<p>Blast from the 80s, no? :o</p>
<p>My workout playlist right now is:
Somebody Told Me by The Killers
Why? by Bronski Beat
PDA by Interpol
Why Do You Love Me? by Garbage
Talk Talk by (duh) Talk Talk
No Brakes by The Bravery
One Thing Leads to Another by The Fixx
Stab My Back by All-American Rejects
Honest Mistake by The Bravery
Devil’s Haricut by Beck
Orange Crush by REM
Learn To Fly by Foo Fighters
Bandages by Hot Hot Heat
Don’t Leave Me This Way by the Communards
Vertigo by U2
Hand that Feeds by Nine Inch Nails
Just a Touch by REM
Everything Zen by Bush
Machinehead by Bush
Talk to Me, Dance with Me by Hot Hot Heat
Dirty Little Secret by All-American Rejects
There’s More to Love Than Boy Meets Girl by the Communards
Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) by The Offspring
Talk by Coldplay
Can’t Get My Head Around You by The Offspring
Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat
Sleep Now in the Fire by Rage Against the Machine
Night Drive by All-American Rejects
What’s My Age Again by Blink 182
Banquet by Bloc Party
I want to add the new Madonna song, it has the perfect beat for my treadmill setting!</p>
<p>m&sdad,
love some of your choices – Violent Femmes, Echo, B-52s, Gorillaz and Smithereens. Nice. Unfortunately, the beats are not quite right for my settings.</p>
<p>the entire Who’s Next album by the Who</p>
<p>LFWBdad–yes and I’ve been trying to find a download for We’re not going to take it from Woodstock, and can’t find it anywhere, so far.</p>
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<p>Now you’re talkin’</p>