The Tunes Thread

[Pheidippides]

I am interested to know what other people listen to when they workout.

I have a very specific set of music that I listen to when I am running, and for longer runs I have it in very specific places. For beginning and end, I need something fast and gnarly, like Metallica or Megadeth. But when I'm just grinding out the middle miles, I need something toned down a touch - I find that Smashing Pumpkins (and specifically the Siamese Dream era stuff) does the trick. But I don't go exclusively for metal/harder stuff - I have some Dire Straits, SRV, Peter Frampton and even Tori Amos for the middle as well.

My powersong on the iPod thing is currently Cowboys from Hell. But I rotate that in and out as well so I have the benefit of having several powersongs along the way.

For weightlifting, I am a thrash metal guy. The aforementioned Cowboys from Hell and Metallica's Disposable Heroes are my favorites. I need something that gets me a bit angry and intense for weightlifting - which is the same stuff I need at the beginning and end of runs. Smooth and controlled doesn't do it.

This thread is now open for business.

[Donuthole]

On a semi-related note, I wish there were a website where you could input your stride length and it would give you certain songs for your pace: i.e. these songs for an 8-minute mile, these songs for an 8:30 mile, these songs for a 7:30 mile, etc.

I have several OCD tendencies, and one of them includes running at a different pace than the beat of the music to which i'm listening. I fight with it every time I run, and I think I would run more often if I could ever get it figtured out.

[Pheidippides]

On a semi-related note, I wish there were a website where you could input your stride length and it would give you certain songs for your pace: i.e. these songs for an 8-minute mile, these songs for an 8:30 mile, these songs for a 7:30 mile, etc.

I have several OCD tendencies, and one of them includes running at a different pace than the beat of the music to which i'm listening. I fight with it every time I run, and I think I would run more often if I could ever get it figtured out.

I do this with iTunes, which will tell you how long each song is. The real rub, though, is that most songs are 4-5 minutes in length, and finding an 8:30 song is a trick.

Disposable Heroes is 8:17 and is the opening song on my marathon playlist. Money for Nothing is 8:30 or so and is in the middle somewhere (warning: it has anti-gay type slurs, which I didn't realize when I first heard it 20 years ago). ...And Justice for All is about 9:30, I think, as are Freebird and Green Grass and High Tides. Anything longer and you may as well just download In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

[Donuthole]

I do this with iTunes, which will tell you how long each song is. The real rub, though, is that most songs are 4-5 minutes in length, and finding an 8:30 song is a trick.

Disposable Heroes is 8:17 and is the opening song on my marathon playlist. Money for Nothing is 8:30 or so and is in the middle somewhere (warning: it has anti-gay type slurs, which I didn't realize when I first heard it 20 years ago). ...And Justice for All is about 9:30, I think, as are Freebird and Green Grass and High Tides. Anything longer and you may as well just download In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

It wouldn't have to be a single song. I can get my stride on beat when the song changes. I'd just like to create groups of songs with the same pace. i.e. here are all my 8:00 mile songs, etc.

[Pheidippides]

It wouldn't have to be a single song. I can get my stride on beat when the song changes. I'd just like to create groups of songs with the same pace. i.e. here are all my 8:00 mile songs, etc.

I think that's much harder because stride length and speed varies from person to person. I don't match my pace to the beat anymore, but rather to my breathing and my garmin.

[ERCougar]

I think that's much harder because stride length and speed varies from person to person. I don't match my pace to the beat anymore, but rather to my breathing and my garmin.

I actually don't think it would be hard, and possibly even a good training tool. I've heard that an ideal pace is 90 steps/min for all speeds, with faster runners just taking larger paces. Coincidentally, this is nearly the same as the ideal CPR chest compression rate. There was a study where they had subjects hum "Staying Alive" in their head while they did CPR (on dummies) and found that this worked better than traditional methods (essentially telling them a rate...) to keep them close to this ideal rate.

[Pheidippides]

There was a study where they had subjects hum "Staying Alive" in their head while they did CPR (on dummies) and found that this worked better than traditional methods (essentially telling them a rate...) to keep them close to this ideal rate.

I heard about this on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me. But I refuse to have disco on my playlist.

[ewth8tr]

I listen to a band named Snot. I've heard they got back together last year with a new singer, but I haven't heard the new stuff yet. They put out 1 album, named Get Some, back in 1998 and I saw them in concert with Suicidal Tendencies, then the singer died in a car accident a month or so later.

http://www.last.fm/music/Snot

[thesaint258]

I'm probably weird, but I downloaded tracks of drill sergeants calling cadence, and I like them a lot more than music. I'm not sure if it's because I added running to my workout in the hopes I'll get accepted to JAG or the fact that they're pretty much the same rhythm, but I liked my runs a lot more when I started running to a military cadence.

[Hot Lunch]

I have to be listening to Gangsta Rap or Hip Hop when I work out. Everything else bugs me when I run or lift.

[ewth8tr]

I'm probably weird, but I downloaded tracks of drill sergeants calling cadence, and I like them a lot more than music. I'm not sure if it's because I added running to my workout in the hopes I'll get accepted to JAG or the fact that they're pretty much the same rhythm, but I liked my runs a lot more when I started running to a military cadence.

You're right, that is weird.

[BoylenOver]

Nik, I like to listen to Killswitch Engage and Static-X when I run. Static-X is on the mellow side of metal, but Killswitch is pretty hard, and they probably have some lengthy songs. Slipknot is pretty good, too.

[FMCoug]

Before I can participate in this thread, we need a thread defining the various genres of music in a manner that is agreeable to everyone.

[falafel]

Before I can participate in this thread, we need a thread defining the various genres of music in a manner that is agreeable to everyone.

I don't know, FM, your signature is getting pretty lengthy already.

[Mr Incredible]

I do this with iTunes, which will tell you how long each song is. The real rub, though, is that most songs are 4-5 minutes in length, and finding an 8:30 song is a trick.

Disposable Heroes is 8:17 and is the opening song on my marathon playlist. Money for Nothing is 8:30 or so and is in the middle somewhere (warning: it has anti-gay type slurs, which I didn't realize when I first heard it 20 years ago). ...And Justice for All is about 9:30, I think, as are Freebird and Green Grass and High Tides. Anything longer and you may as well just download In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

Mr. Scary from Dokken's Beast From the East 8:23
The Root of All Evil - Dream Theater 8:26
Aurthur Rubinstein's performance of Chopin's Bolero, Op. 19 8:27
Roundabout by Yes 8:33
Year to the Day by Van Halen 8:35
Rite of Passage by Dream Theater 8:36
Devin Townsend's version of Rush's Natural Science 8:39
Locomotive by GnR 8:42
The Killing Hand by Dream Theater 8:44
Opeth's Heir Apparent and Lotus Eater are both 8:50
Metallica's Call of Ktulu 8:54
Master of Puppets 8:55
Dark Eternal Night 8:54
November Rain 8:54
Release by Pearl Jam 9:06
Song for America by Kansas 9:09
Tin Pan Alley by SRV 9:12
La Villa Strangiato 9:36