Workout music suggestions?

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The homebeast is back, and I didn’t lose any data,. Life is good.

Now, as ya’ll may or may not know, I’ve gotten into working out recently — either running or doing the elliptical, for 45 minutes, four or five days a week. I have a music player that I use when I exercise (a mini iPod — the music beast — which I truly adore.) I’m always looking for new music to exercise to, and am asking for any suggestions. I’m not looking for illegal music — am more than happy to buy it through iTunes or elsewhere.


I tend to like stuff with a driving beat. It isn’t what I listen to on a regular basis — this is just what I work out to.

I create a new playlist every day. This helps me get through the work out — I never remember what music is on it, so it’s always a surprise and keeps me interested. This is what’s on my running music playlist right now. The first few songs tend to be slower because I’m stretching, as do the last one or two:

I Can’t Make You Love Me — Constantine Maroulis (what?)
Try a Little Tenderness — Nadia Turner (she sings the hell out of this song.)
Whipping Post — Bo Bice (Stop looking at me that way!)
Can’t Find My Way Home — Blind Faith
Rock and Roll — Led Zeppelin
You Blew Me Off — Bare Jr (Cruel Intentions Soundtrack)
mOBSCENE — Marilyn Manson
Obsession — Animotion
Ah-Ah — Moby
Open Road Song — Eve 6
Unlearn — Psykosonic — Mortal Kombat Soundtrack — which is a *great* soundtrack for this kind of driving beat music.
Praise You — Fatboy Slim (Cruel Intentions Soundtrack)
Sex (I’m A. . .) — Berlin (brilliant social commentary. This song always makes me smile.)
Do That Thang (polite mix) — Da Juice — Cool World Soundtrack
Technologicque Park — Orbital (XXX Soundtrack)
20th Century Boy — Placebo — Velvet Goldmine soundtrack
Next is the E — Moby
Smooth — Rob Thomas/Santana
The Brazillian — Genesis (I always have this as the last song — it lets me know that I’ve reached the end.)

Other songs that have been on my running playlist include: Unbelievable (EMF — Coyote Ugly Soundtrack), Every Little Thing She Does (The Police), Criminal (Fiona Apple), Going Under (Evanscence), Rolling Stones, Garbage, Aerosmith, Doobie Brothers, Seal, Orbital, Kane, Beatles, Elton John, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. . . lots of different stuff.

So — any suggestions? What do you listen to that makes your body move?

20 thoughts on “Workout music suggestions?”

  1. witchchild

    I tend to listen to heavily electronic music that gets thrown under the label of “industrial.” Also asian underground and arabic influenced electronics.
    And most anything involving Mike Patton.

    Should I still make suggestions?

    1. leah

      Absolutely. I think some of what I listen to would count under that category — the Orbital, Moby, and Mortal Kombat stuff. . . And I listen to a lot of Asian influenced stuff as well — just don’t tend to work out to it. . .

  2. ferragus

    An Irish Evening: Live At The Grand Opera House, Belfast [LIVE]

    But then my taste in music is rather limited.

    Semi-off topic.

    What are you using for backup? I’ve had great luck with the newer external USB based hard drives. Say something like the Maxtor One Touch Backup A01E200 External 200GB Hard Drive (if you’re PC based, not sure if the one touch part works with Macs).

    I use pricegrabber.com to price shop, they show you the cost per gigabyte, which is Very Handy. This should be the drive I mentioned: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2755852

    Hate to think of folks without backups, it’s just too scary!

    1. leah

      For daily backups, I now have a 256 MB memory key, which really, is all I need for the daily writing stuff. As a secondary backup to that, I throw everything into a zip file and email it to a special yahoo! email account I have just for backups (this was my only daily backup until recently.) The first of every month I burn a couple of CDs with everything on them. What had happened was I was offline for a while, and so didn’t email myself stuff, then kind of fell out of the habit. NEVER AGAIN.

      Thanks for the link though. . .

  5. witchchild

    I tend to listen to heavily electronic music that gets thrown under the label of “industrial.” Also asian underground and arabic influenced electronics.
    And most anything involving Mike Patton.

    Should I still make suggestions?

    1. JeremyT

      Absolutely. I think some of what I listen to would count under that category — the Orbital, Moby, and Mortal Kombat stuff. . . And I listen to a lot of Asian influenced stuff as well — just don’t tend to work out to it. . .

  6. ferragus

    An Irish Evening: Live At The Grand Opera House, Belfast [LIVE]

    But then my taste in music is rather limited.

    Semi-off topic.

    What are you using for backup? I’ve had great luck with the newer external USB based hard drives. Say something like the Maxtor One Touch Backup A01E200 External 200GB Hard Drive (if you’re PC based, not sure if the one touch part works with Macs).

    I use pricegrabber.com to price shop, they show you the cost per gigabyte, which is Very Handy. This should be the drive I mentioned: http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=2755852

    Hate to think of folks without backups, it’s just too scary!

    1. JeremyT

      For daily backups, I now have a 256 MB memory key, which really, is all I need for the daily writing stuff. As a secondary backup to that, I throw everything into a zip file and email it to a special yahoo! email account I have just for backups (this was my only daily backup until recently.) The first of every month I burn a couple of CDs with everything on them. What had happened was I was offline for a while, and so didn’t email myself stuff, then kind of fell out of the habit. NEVER AGAIN.

      Thanks for the link though. . .

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