Best tunes to pump you up for a race...

Anything by

TOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I find it more useful during those training days where I have a hard time even walking out the dam door! Besides, someone always steals my Sony at track meets!! Of all the music, for me--> Billy Idol turns a boring training run (either interval's or distance runs) into a race paced workout. ROCK-ON.

Almost any song from the movie rocky gets me going whether eye of the tiger or the training montege. The movie itself works pretty well

This board discriminates against good music. On the subject of discrimination, I believe I read a poll in Rolling Stone a while back listing the ten best guitar players of all time. Some of the obvious candidates were on the list - Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Santana, Eric Clapton, and some of my personal favourites - David Gilmour and Mark Knopfler. However, other than Eric Clapton, not a single Blues guitarist in the bunch. That's just downright ignorant and completely misses the finest guitarists both alive and dead. I smell a conspiracy. I think I'll post a couple thousand messages on a message board somewhere to get it out my system. (Maybe Jumers can help me with this)

I wish I had tunes to run with. I can't drive without them. I've been wishing for an MP3 player for eons. Maybe this Christmas... If I had a lightweight MP3 player, I'd load it up with some classic Blues. BB King, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, etc. Maybe throw in some Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler for variety. For the youngsters out there, an appeciation for the blues creeps up on you over time, like good scotch, fine wine, jazz, etc etc. I, too, used to bang my head to my favourite tunes. I still love some of the classic stuff, but yes, I've morphed into my father. (And I like it)

I used to ride my bike (15/20 years ago) to Pink Floyd's The Final Cut. Don't know why... but it worked for me.

Try "Animal" remix by Paul Oakenfold. This song is baddass!!! Get that beat in your head and you'll want to rip faces and destroy the universe. It's on, Perfecto Presents Another World (cd 2).

Another good set of tunes is the first 20 minutes of Paul Oakenfold's essential mix, Home at Space in Ibiza (cd 2). Amazing stuff, a favorite of mine for 2 years now.

Dhing

I used to use to following songs to run mediocre times:

Radiohead: Idioteque (off of the "I might be wrong" LP)

The Roots: The Next Movement

Static X: Wisconsin Death Trip

Daft Punk: Face to Face, Da Funk

The Rolling Stones: Paint it Black, Jumping Jack Flash

Rage Against the Machine: Sleep Now in the Fire

Outkast: B.O.B.

And that's all I can remember.

Actually, maybe XCpotential is right. They didn't seem to work for me.

Sam The Parrot,

Nice collection. I really enjoy Idioteque and B.O.B. Both of them are burned on my travel music mix CD for those long ass road trips.

Truthfully, every PR of mine with the exception of one comes without the aid of music.

BTW, if you really think that what I have been arguing against are the merits of no music, then you should check out how the thread progressed from the very beginning. Many here have somehow interpreted this discussion as such. How? I do not know. The debate is valid and intriguing, however not the reason I started this thread. I am just searching for some more ideas for motivating listening pleasure. Period. Telling XCpotential to listen to music was sarcasm, which some readers had trouble detecting.

TRANCE TRANCE TRANCE!!!!!!

Email me if you want a list of some good trance tunes. Peace.

Hatebreed: I WILL BE HEARD, VENGEANCE IS BORN

Fear Factory: WHAT WILL BECOME OF US

Pantera: BY DEMONS BE DRIVEN, UPLIFT, FUCKING HOSTILE, WALK, SUICIDE NOTE I and II, 13 STEPS, (f***, anything by Panf***ingtera!!)

Slayer: RAINING BLOOD

Static-X: I HATE THIS

Ozzy Osbourne: FLYING HIGH AGAIN

Metallica: CREEPING DEATH, ESCAPE, OF WOLF AND MAN, ONE, SHORTEST STRAW

Only a few of my faves....

Jason

Punk mother f***in Rawk!

It's sort of a song..

This Is Your Life, by Tyler Durden (Fight Club Soundtrack)

"This is your life; good to the last drop. This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. This isn't some weekend retreat. Where you are now you can't remember what the bottom looked like. You are not your bank account. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your "grande latte". You are not the car you drive. You are not your f***ing khakis..."

pearl jam - do the evolution, go, and brain of j

when i was in high schooli used a walkman before eevry race, and the last song i listened to before i raced was the fly by u2. i thought that if i could just get the solo bass groove in my head during the last few laps of the race i'd rip it up. it never worked, i never remembered to remember the song because i was always too involved with the race to worry about it.

in one of my last high school races, i left my walkman at home by accident. i thought i was f***ed. i just went on as usual but i was worried that i wasn't going tor run well. not only did i crush my 2 mile best (18 seconds) but with 3 laps to go the f***in song popped into my head. go figure the day i didn't listen to the song is the day it came to me, and it's also the day i ran really well.

Sensitivity Trainer - No it is not. Merely an observational counterpoint in XCpotential's tortured, flawed, and illogical argument.

Sam The Parrot - You know me well enough to realize I don't attack unless attacked upon. Do you have a song or album of choice for race preparation? How's about some Radiohead or perhaps a bit of U2? They say Bono will save the multiverse! Cheers and enjoy your Champagne In A Can. Oh, and yes, have you ever tried Wine In A Box?! , Or how 'bout a Captain Coke? A couple cold rocks, a shot or two of Captain Morgan's Rum, and some Coca-Cola. Voila!

XCpotential - Ha! It's you *again*. What a terrible screed. Unimaginative and uninspired. Simply, boring. Now you're back again shouting and begging me from roof tops, "Thank You Captain Coke, may I have another sir?" That you certainly can. Your use of the word "potential" indicates your lack of *real* accomplishments. You've done nothing. A zero, an empty, blank space. You're a screw up. You couldn't make a shoe stink and you call yourself a "runner." A total f*** up. Now go listen to some tunes in preparation for your next race and unleash your "potential."