Good music for running

grimbergen

Am spending these cold winter days adding music to my new iPod. Not sure if this has been discussed here before but what do others find good music for running?? I'd love to hear your recommendations for individual songs.

I prefer up-tempo stuff myself - kind of stuff I mighn't listen to at home but it gets up those hills after a few miles!

yop

Have a good few songs on the ipod, depending on whether I am running or doing weight circuits but these are a few

Take me away - 4 Strings

Der Dritte Raum Trommelmaschine

Tiesto - I Feel My

Tiesto - Pulsar

Matt Darey - From Russia With Love

Seven Cities-Solar Stone


Fatboy Slim - Star 69

The Roof Is On Fire

BK - Revolution

RubyK

I got a ipod shuffle from Santa, and downloaded the following onto it. It's not going to be to everyones taste, but it keeps me moving

Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
You're not alone - Tinchy Rider
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
What's that coming over the hill - The Automatic
Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Don't Phunk with my heart - Black Eyed Peas
Pump it harder - Black Eyed Peas
Love is gone - David Guetta
Toxic - Britney Spears
Give it away - Deepest Blue
Panjoo - Eric Prydz
Toca's Miracle - Fragma
Infinity 2008 - Josh Guru Project
What you waiting for - Gwen Stefani
Love is a battlefield - Pat Benatar
Bullet in the gun - Planet Perfecto
U sure make me feel - Strike
Out of touch - Uniting Nations
On the Beach - York
Calabria 2007
Low - Flo Rida
Dance Dance - Fall out boy
Beat it - Fall out boy

RayCun

Haven't tried this one myself
http://www.djsteveboy.com/podrunner.html
free running mixes

--amadeus--

RubyK wrote: »

I got a ipod shuffle from Santa, and downloaded the following onto it. It's not going to be to everyones taste, but it keeps me moving

Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
You're not alone - Tinchy Rider
Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm
What's that coming over the hill - The Automatic
Good Luck - Basement Jaxx
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Don't Phunk with my heart - Black Eyed Peas
Pump it harder - Black Eyed Peas
Love is gone - David Guetta
Toxic - Britney Spears
Give it away - Deepest Blue
Panjoo - Eric Prydz
Toca's Miracle - Fragma
Infinity 2008 - Josh Guru Project
What you waiting for - Gwen Stefani
Love is a battlefield - Pat Benatar
Bullet in the gun - Planet Perfecto
U sure make me feel - Strike
Out of touch - Uniting Nations
On the Beach - York
Calabria 2007
Low - Flo Rida
Dance Dance - Fall out boy
Beat it - Fall out boy

:eek:

Eclectic is the word that springs to mind...

RubyK

--amadeus-- wrote: »

:eek:

Eclectic is the word that springs to mind...

Yes indeedy! Variety is the spice of life

--amadeus--

I was talking with someone once about music and the stuff I listened to then. They looked a bit bemused so I said "I've got a pretty wide taste in music" and they said "ehhhh, I think you mean no taste...!"

Of course I rarely run with music these days but even if I did the stuff I listen to is so uber-cool and obscure you'd never have heard of it...

















<sings>
when you go
will you send back
a letter frooooom America....
</sings>

RubyK

Noooo, I've now got an earworm! Thanks Amadeus

spaceylou

I find prodigy really good to listen to or muse when I am running or in the gym.

In particular:

Prodigy: firestarter
breathe
out of space

Muse: supermassive black hole
Hysteria
Time is running out

Other good ones are (I think):

Amanda Palmer - Guitar Hero
BellX1 - Tongue
Bodyrox - yeah yeah
Chemical Brothers - Galvanize
Faithless - Insomnia
Kings of Leon: Sex on Fire
Les Cowboys Fringants - Le Pouceux
Louise Attaque - Amours
Louise Attaque - J't'emmene au vent
Louise Attaque - L'imposture
Rage against the machine - wake up

Huff n Puff

Personally, dance music or pretty much any up tempo music would drive me nuts while out running. I only listen to music when out for long slow runs so the selection below suits me. For harder runs I just listen to my puffing and panting.

Here are some of the songs I listen to while out running:

Modest Mouse - Float On
Sigur Ros - Glosoli
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
Vampire Weekend - A Punk
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
MGMT - Time to Pretend
Mercury Rev - Night and Fog
Rufus Wainwright - Modern World
Interpol - Evil
The Buzzcocks - Why Can't I Touch It
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
De Votchka - till the end of time

Something classical:
Ennio Morricone - The Mission
Ravels - Bolero
The Flower Duet

nerraw1111

Nice tracks Huff N Puff.

LCD Sound System's Nike mix fantastic, from 2006

One of the best electronic releases of that year in fact.

I find running mixes to be weird. For instance, Runner's World is giving a free mix this month and it's awful. Listening to Black Eye Peas would cause me to run in front of a truck.

tripper167

Rocky 4 soundtrack Music for the Jilted Generation from Prodigy used to be my favourite album for running though.

ecoli

Wouldnt be my normal music to listen to pretty much at home but each song has been selected precisely because of its tempo and how gets me going during running

Flashdance- Maniac
Bon Jovi- Runaway
Bon Jovi - Its my life
Bonnie Tyler- Hero
Eminem- Till I collapse
Eminem- 8 mile (not lose yourself)
Fall Out Boy- Thanks for the memories
Fall out boy- I slept with someone.....
Fort Minor- Remeber the name
Metallica- Seek and Destroy
Megadeth- Duke Nukem Theme
Micheal Jackson- Beat it
Muse- Hysteria
Nelly- Here comes the Boom
Placebo- Running up that hill
Queen- Dont Stop Me Now
Survivor- no easy way out (rocky 4 soundtrack)
Timbaland- Bounce

RubyK

ecoli wrote: »

Wouldnt be my normal music to listen to pretty much at home but each song has been selected precisely because of its tempo and how gets me going during running

I'm the same, my home music is very different. Smiths/Cure/Depeche Mode. Quite the opposite to my ipod.

misty floyd

Everyone seems to be posting random songs. Makes me think the whole itunes thing....is it killing albums? I never listen to anything but full albums or sections of albums. Don't know why, I just prefare it.

- An album that I found great for a tempo run was 'Entroducing by DJ Shadow'. Brilliant.

- Really like the florence and the machine album 'lungs' but its all over tv adds and documentary background music that it'll soon get on my tits.

- Led Zepellin 1-4....pretty much most of their stuff except their last few albums.

- Radiohead: Kid A/Amnesiac/in Rainbows

- Pink floyd for recovery runs.....nice.

- Black keys album (might be called black keys?)

- As posted on the 'treadmill' thread, audiobooks are brilliant for long boring treadmill work.

I actually only occasionally use an mp3 player but for those 'I don't want to go out' runs....they are great.

RedB

I got a compilation CD called 101 Running Songs at Christmas and there's a good mix of stuff on that. Just need to put it on ipod shuffle now but I don't actually listen to music much when I'm running.

eliwallach

:eek:

Only for ecoli (you can always rely on a bacterium :rolleyes:) I was struggling to recognise any of those songs/artists :o.
When I use my MP4 (which is rare) I have a collection of music which when my closest friend heard it said that my taste in music "was up my h0le" .

Mostly 80's rubbish.

Although I do have *sits up proudly*Lady Ga Ga in there somewhere! (I obviously mistook it for Queen's Radio Ga Ga when downloading......)

Bart Roberts

Yea i like Huff n Puffs tunes there aswell.
Great running songs for me are:

Chemical Brothers - Saturate & Surface to Air
and then when your struggling toward the end Johnny Cash - Hurt!

Good band - Explosions in the Sky any album, decent for running

ecoli

eliwallach wrote: »

:eek:

Only for ecoli (you can always rely on a bacterium :rolleyes:) I was struggling to recognise any of those songs/artists :o.
When I use my MP4 (which is rare) I have a collection of music which when my closest friend heard it said that my taste in music "was up my h0le" .

Mostly 80's rubbish.

Although I do have *sits up proudly*Lady Ga Ga in there somewhere! (I obviously mistook it for Queen's Radio Ga Ga when downloading......)

Im an 80s baby and proud to be
It does the job for running gets me going which all that matters ha

louthandproud

misty floyd wrote: »

Everyone seems to be posting random songs. Makes me think the whole itunes thing....is it killing albums? I never listen to anything but full albums or sections of albums. Don't know why, I just prefare it.

- An album that I found great for a tempo run was 'Entroducing by DJ Shadow'. Brilliant.

- Really like the florence and the machine album 'lungs' but its all over tv adds and documentary background music that it'll soon get on my tits.

- Led Zepellin 1-4....pretty much most of their stuff except their last few albums.

- Radiohead: Kid A/Amnesiac/in Rainbows

- Pink floyd for recovery runs.....nice.

- Black keys album (might be called black keys?)

- As posted on the 'treadmill' thread, audiobooks are brilliant for long boring treadmill work.

I actually only occasionally use an mp3 player but for those 'I don't want to go out' runs....they are great.

Did pretty all my Marathon long running with zeppelin, agree with the above on 1-4 but I'd add Physical Graffiti also.

ofthelord

deftones
dizzie rascal
joanna newson
bright eyes
belle & sebastian
house of pain
iron & wine
& joy division.

usually listen to whole albums by the above, or a random mix of their songs
they vary greatly, deftones vs joanna newsom, but all very good for running to

Art of Noise

Apologies if i'm going slightly off topic but would anyone not think there could be risks if running while listening to music - particularly if its a long run. You might get tired, lose your concentration and bump into something. Even worse, if your on roads or areas where you have to cross the road a lot while runnin could that be dangerous?

I've been runnin two years and enjoy the longer distances havin done one marathon but i've never even considered runnin with earphones. I'm tempted to give it a go after reading this thread as it would be a nice distraction from the old lactic acid!

RacoonQueen

Look up 'running' music on itunes or amazon and you'll get a load of cds with songs that have either good bpm or good motivational lyrics. I just made up a new one for the gym to get me through long cardiovascular equipment sessions.

ecoli

Art of Noise wrote: »

Apologies if i'm going slightly off topic but would anyone not think there could be risks if running while listening to music - particularly if its a long run. You might get tired, lose your concentration and bump into something. Even worse, if your on roads or areas where you have to cross the road a lot while runnin could that be dangerous?

I've been runnin two years and enjoy the longer distances havin done one marathon but i've never even considered runnin with earphones. I'm tempted to give it a go after reading this thread as it would be a nice distraction from the old lactic acid!

Any long runs i do on my own which go as long as two hours i use head phones and never have a problem. In terms of bumping into something your sight is not impaired and as long as you stay aware of your surroundings you should be ok. If you are worried try headphones with low volume as background music so you can still hear whats going on around you.

Foxx92

ecoli wrote: »

Any long runs i do on my own which go as long as two hours i use head phones and never have a problem. In terms of bumping into something your sight is not impaired and as long as you stay aware of your surroundings you should be ok. If you are worried try headphones with low volume as background music so you can still hear whats going on around you.

Or if you're running on the right side of the road just put on your right headphone. Easier to hear traffic on your left.

downthemiddle

After browsing through the above lists I think it is safe to conclude that not too many boardies will be buying Jedward's debut single!

misty floyd

louthandproud wrote: »

Did pretty all my Marathon long running with zeppelin, agree with the above on 1-4 but I'd add Physical Graffiti also.

Can't go wrong Louth;). Yeah I love that album. Its Coda and in through the outdoor that aren't up to scratch. House of the holy is great too. Just love the opening song, the song remains the same.

guerito

I find drum'n'bass has the perfect tempo for running. There's a great old Essential Mix by Ed Rush & Optical (from 1999) that works for me. The new Rodrigo y Gabriela album's good too. For a short, fast run, then There's No Easy Way Out, You're The Best, the South Park Montage Song, etc

rainbow kirby

guerito wrote: »

The new Rodrigo y Gabriela album's good too.

+1

I tend to mostly listen to metal or classic rock when I'm running. Favourite albums to run to include:
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth
Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live
Alice Cooper - Goes To Hell
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide
Arch Enemy - Tyrants of the Rising Sun (Live in Japan)
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Queen - any of their many Greatest Hits albums :pac:

louthandproud

misty floyd wrote: »

Can't go wrong Louth;). Yeah I love that album. Its Coda and in through the outdoor that aren't up to scratch. House of the holy is great too. Just love the opening song, the song remains the same.

Yeah running up a tough hill with Kashmir the iPod on just somehow seems epic!

Oooo yeah yeah.....da da da....da da da..

artisttobe

Chris cornell all the way!
Never take me alive.
Scream.... (hey, why do you keep screaming at the top of your head.)

Long gone...(that's why long gone , long gone, you need to let me find home.)

(How can you) Silence the voices (that say NO!)

Enemy. (Everytime the blood runs to my head, I hear a ring. Something to remind me I am not dead, but caught in between.)

Rihanna Cry
Flo Rida Roots
Flo Rida Rewind
Fray How to save a life

Miley Curys Simple Song (I know it pretty bad. "I want to do is make it stop. We got to make it stop. Because all I want to hear is a... Simple Song.")

Linkin Park In the End (remix)
Linkin Park Hands held high

Taylor Swift Should have said no! (you should have gone home, should have thought twice before you let it all go!)

Pink Misery

T.I. Slide show
T.I LIVE YOUR LIFE
T.I. Dead and Gone

Amy Winehouse Losing game

I have lots more. Hope I helped.

jrar

Probably wear headphones on 4 out of every 5 runs on average - just for a distraction as much as anything else

Have about 3500 songs on my iPod so just hit "shuffle" and off I go - if something comes on that I'm really not in the mood for, it's simple to skip it.

If I'm on planning a run on the quieter roads around my place, I often set up podcasts to listen to before I leave the house - they can make the time slip by very easily.........even better, for my LSRs coming up to marathons, I'm particularly partial to going out for 2/3 hours whilst listening to live football games - again,, provides a good distraction whilst helping the time to pass slightly less painfully !

Barname

slipknot

Krusty_Clown

On the subject of MP3 players:
I am sadly on my second MP3 player of the year already, the first one having gone (like so many others) to a watery spinning grave in the washing machine. I find the iPod Shuffle is good for a wash or two, but will eventually kick the bucket regardless of the number of days it sits in the hot press.

This time, I've opted for another Sansa Clip, despite having had the last one fail on me while running in heavy rain. So in future, I'm going to carry a plastic bag, for those eventualities. Having both a radio, and support for audio-books (which I've never tried), the Sansa is a decent little player, that only falls short on it's water-proofedness.

So, for when this one fails on me, anyone got any suggestions for a discrete 'water-proof' mp3 player with radio and support for audio books?

These days, I am mostly listening to:
Florence and the Machine
Mumford and sons
Sigur Ros

I have also gone through my entire music collection, and selected about 800 megs of songs that are slightly up-tempo (but not nearly as up-tempo as a lot of the artists posted in this list). Stuff like:
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
Kasabian
Massive Attack
Arcade Fire
Jeff Buckley
Flaming Lips
Elbow
Radiohead
Skunk Anansie
Tricky
Faithless
Ian Brown
Muse
Turin Brakes
Patrick Watson
Pixies
Queens of the stoneage
Raconteurs

footing

The sound of silence does it for me every time; running on my own is my quiet time.
Try it; you may like it!

Pisco Sour

Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMJjF4LHOkY&feature=fvst

and

Into the Night - Santana and Chad Kroeger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkHTk9d9oX4

are two very good running songs I've discovered recently. I'd recommend them.

iguana2005

ministry of sound...running trax...the run section is the best

Cool Running

Excellent running tune, also brilliant for press ups as you will see if ya listen to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZarmRLa2p9Q

johnnyboy4711

The Dropkick murphy's "The meanest of Times"
great lively album!

also hybrid "wide angle"
different but also good!
slan
john

JuJuBean

iguana2005 wrote: »

ministry of sound...running trax...the run section is the best

+1
Just downloaded it the other day, really good and a few old school tracks in there too.

MarieC

John O'Callaghan......you'll find yourself
Bloc Party...............Flux

2 class tunes to run to.

jasonbourme.cs

i generally run to songs from movie scores -- usually faced paced and get more intense near the tracks ending so perfect motivation if you find your energy flagging

few tracks by John Powell from the bourne Movies
The Bourne Supremacy - Berlin Foot Chase
The Bourne Supremacy OST Moscow Wind Up
The Bourne Supremacy - Bim Bam Smash

The Bourne Ultimatum OST - Six Weeks Ago
The Bourne Ultimatum - Tangiers
The Bourne Ultimatum - Waterloo

Mark Mancina
Shooter OST -- Shootout in Virginia

Hans Zimmer
Tears of the Sun -- The Jablonsky Variations On A Theme / Cameroon Border Post

Casino Royale - David Arnold
African Rundown
Miami International

Battlestar Galactica Series 4 soundtrack bear McCreary
assault on the colony

ecoli

jasonbourme.cs wrote: »

i generally run to songs from movie scores -- usually faced paced and get more intense near the tracks ending so perfect motivation if you find your energy flagging

few tracks by John Powell from the bourne Movies
The Bourne Supremacy - Berlin Foot Chase
The Bourne Supremacy OST Moscow Wind Up
The Bourne Supremacy - Bim Bam Smash

The Bourne Ultimatum OST - Six Weeks Ago
The Bourne Ultimatum - Tangiers
The Bourne Ultimatum - Waterloo

Mark Mancina
Shooter OST -- Shootout in Virginia

Hans Zimmer
Tears of the Sun -- The Jablonsky Variations On A Theme / Cameroon Border Post

Casino Royale - David Arnold
African Rundown
Miami International

Battlestar Galactica Series 4 soundtrack bear McCreary
assault on the colony

Pirates of the Carribean theme song is another good one in terms of high tempo music to get you going while running

Killerz

Will probably be slated for this answer, but nonetheless... I usually listen to the radio. Especially on those longer runs - Off the Ball on Newstalk in particular keeps my mind off the longer midweek evening runs, but I also like listening to a bit of Spin 103 on the Weekend long runs (except there's poor reception on the howth village side of howth hill, where i have to change channel).

I don't really find the bpm of the music influences my speed.

In a strictly music sense, current listening includes the following:

Eric Prydz - Pjanoo
Guru Josh Project - Infinity
Dropkick Murphys - Shipping Up to Boston
Mumford and Son - Little Lion Man
Dave Matthews Band - Two Step
Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night

RJC

AC/DC

Can't beat Back in Black for a good run

misty floyd

Killerz wrote: »

Off the Ball on Newstalk in particular keeps my mind off the longer midweek evening runs,

+1 love that show. I was listening to it last night and they kept playing this clip with Pat Kenny in it. Every time they did I cracked up laughing.

Jip

Killerz wrote: »

Will probably be slated for this answer, but nonetheless... I usually listen to the radio.

I would like to listen to the radio, particularly if I'm out when The Last Word etc is on, but the constant buzzing and interference you usually get on a portable radio while running bugs me too much to find it viable.