songs to listen to while running REALLY FAST

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Lightning Bolt "The Faire Folk"
DJ Shadow "Building Steam With a Grain Of Salt"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, replace "Building Steam..." with "High Noon".

MORE.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link

the prodigy - wind it up / voodoo people
depeche mode - it's no good (speedy j mix) (this is the superfast one, right?)
conemelt - crash, bang

and erm,

frankie goes to hollywood - born to run

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this because your son wants to be Dash from The Incredibles?

Pink - There You Go (Sovereign Mix)
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

oneida, "sheets of easter." can you run fast for like 25 minutes?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

"Breadfan" - Metallica. Not that I ever run really fast.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 11 November 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, the other night I made a complete tit out of myself by running around and around an otherwise empty club room to 'Hood Street Gyratory' by Shrug, so I would suggest that.

― emil.y (emil.y), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Deep Purple - Speed King

― briania (briania), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Early '90s techno (or hardcore or whatever it was called): Set Up System's "Fairy Dust," T99 "Anastasia," Quadrophonia, Bomb the Bass, N-Joi, Underground Resistance, etc. Because "rave" and "race" are almost the same word.

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Deep Purple's "Highway Star" would probably work, too.

― Nemo (JND), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

A song that makes me WANT to run really fast is Stereo by Spooky.

― Bill A, Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to get myself psyched up for cross country races by listening to Husker Du's version of "Eight Miles High."

― Bren (Bren), Thursday, 11 November 2004 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Booker T & the MG's - "Hang 'Em High"

Grass Roots - "I'd Wait a Million Years"

The Cult - "Fire Woman"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Happy Family - "Rock & Young"

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Superchunk - 'Precision Auto'

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 11 November 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I run four miles a day, and I couldn't do it without music. Surprisingly enough, its not the cliche "peppy" stuff that always motivates me. Some days I listen to spacey ambient stuff (really loud!) and it can get me into the right headspace to do what I need to do.

― peepee (peepee), Thursday, 11 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Try to be best
‘Cause you’re only a man
And a man’s gotta learn to take it

Try to believe
Though the going gets rough
That you gotta hang tough to make it

History repeats itself
Try and you’ll succeed

Never doubt that you’re the one
And you can have your dreams!

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you dow-ow-ow-ow-own

Fight ‘til the end
Cause your life will depend
On the strength that you have inside you

Ah you gotta be proud
starin’ out in the cloud
When the odds in the game defy you

Try your best to win them all
and one day time will tell
when you’re the one that’s standing there
you’ll reach the final bell!

INSPIRING GUITAR SOLO

Fight ‘til you drop
never stop
can’t give up
Til you reach the top (FIGHT!)
you’re the best in town (FIGHT!)
Listen to that sound
A little bit of all you got
Can never bring you down

You’re the best!
Around!
Nothing’s gonna ever keep you down
You’re the Best!
Around!

repeat to fade, occasional background shouts of “Oh Ye-eah!”

― pher (pher), Thursday, 11 November 2004 19:59 (nineteen years ago) link

haha pher wins

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, sometimes ambienty stuff is the best. Also, pounding pinnacle of faggotry house music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 11 November 2004 20:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Also,

Ghostface - Run!
B&S - Stars of Track & Field / Loneliness of a Middle Distance Runner
Roy Ayers - Running Away
Information Society - Running

etc

― rentboy (rentboy), Thursday, 11 November 2004 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Superfast music -- like say, vintage Bad Brains or someone -- probably isn't the best, or at least not for helping you set a pace. I'd imagine you'd be better served by something with a steady, quick pulse -- like something by Underworld or something. The last time i went out for a run that I remember -- suffice to say, it does not happen often -- I think i played William Orbit's "Adagio for Strings" Remix and "Juanita/Kiteless" by Underworld.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 11 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Carl Lewis: Going For The Gold

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 11 November 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd imagine you'd be better served by something with a steady, quick pulse

so true. i was surprised at how great magnetic fields' Charm of the Highway Strip was for running, for instance. not what i would have expected.

― john'n'chicago, Friday, 12 November 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

eye of the tiger - survivor
works expecially well if you're near a many-stepped library.

― bucket (bucket), Friday, 12 November 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Giorgio Moroder, "The Chase"

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 12 November 2004 01:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Pink Floyd: On The Run

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" just like in the video!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 12 November 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

I learned two years ago that my jogging pace is precisely timed to the BPM of 90% of the hits from Tommy James & the Shondells. It won't help your REALLY FAST running but it might be helpful if you're out for a Sunday jog ...

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 12 November 2004 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I just used "Juanita/Kiteless" last week!
As far as bpm goes, I find that if its close, but still off your ideal pace, it can fuck you up.

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't run so fast anymore, but if I want to swim fastly, I just have to imagine the theme from Jaws by John Williams. (the other John Williams)

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 12 November 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

armin van buuren vs m.i.k.e. - pound
paul kalkbrenner - zeit
alden tyrell - phaze me (instrumental)
hatiras - spaced invader (j majik remix)

none of which are tested, mind you.

― :| (....), Friday, 12 November 2004 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"the switch" - rival schools. that always exhausts me.

― bg, Friday, 12 November 2004 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

nomeansno - it's catching up

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Run, Baby, Run -- Amanda Lear

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 12 November 2004 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's my current running list. When I run. Which I don't seem to anymore. Because of the drugs. Anyway, these are tested and work (for me at least):

Kanye West: The New Workout Plan
Lady Sovereign: Ch-Ching
Ghostface and Missy: Tush
Lil' Jon: What You Gonna Do?
Trina: B R Right
Central Services: I Work for the Government Now
Twista and R. Kelly: So Sexy
Goodie Mob: We Back
Basement Jaxx w/Diz: Lucky Star (Pojmasta Remix)
Basement Jaxx: Good Luck
Ying Yang Twins: Grey Goose
Ying Yang/Bone Crusher/Killer Mike: What the Fuck
Lil' Kim: The Jump Off
3-6 Mafia: Ridin' Spinners
Armand Van Helden: You Don't Know Me (Extended Remix)
Lil' Flip: Game Over
Ghostface: Run
Talib Kweli: Lonely People
De La Soul: The Grind Date
Basement Jaxx: Red Alert
Basement Jaxx: Yo Yo
RZA: Cherry Range
Giorgio Moroder: Faster Than the Speed of Love
Hangar 18: Where We At?
NWA: Gangsta Gangsta
Annie: Chewing Gum
Tatu: Not Gonna Get Us
Ramones: I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement
David Banner/Twista/Busta: Like a Pimp (remix)
Jay Z/Big Boi/Killer Mike/Twista: Poppin' Tags
Mannie Fresh: Real Big
Lil' Flip: You See It
The Streets: Blinded By the Lights
Jay-Z: Sunshine (Ratatat Remix)
Big Boi: Ghettomusick
Kylie Minogue: Red Blooded Woman
Prince: Musicology
Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy
Memphis Bleek/Freeway: Just Blaze/Bleek/Free
Mystikal: Family
Orbital: Acid Pants
Orbital: You Lot
Underworld: Born Slippy NUXX
Underworld: Dinosaur Adventure 3-D
3-6 Mafia: Bin Laden
Dizzee Rascal: Jus' a Rascal
Scissor Sisters: Get It Get It
Big Moe: Purple Stuff
Wiley: Pies
Destiny's Child: Lose My Breath

Okay, that'll do for now. Go forth and run!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 November 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

Not really running REALLY fast but this is what I've been playing this week:

Sideshow – Television Feat Cortney Tidwell
Diddy - Dirty Money – Ass On The Floor
Funkadelic – Super Stupid
Iggy & The Stooges – Search And Destroy
Eagles Of Death Metal – I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)
The Damned – New Rose
Nine Inch Nails – Head Like A Hole
Iggy & The Stooges – Shake Appeal
Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
Kanye West – Monster
Battles – Atlas
The Modern Lovers – Roadrunner
Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen

― Moka, Friday, 6 May 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link

that's just (great) on the run music.

some music just makes you want to sprint

― cop a cute abdomen (gbx), Friday, 6 May 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link

super roots 7

― hippy borthday, free wings for u (Matt P), Friday, 6 May 2011 23:06 (thirteen years ago) link

Zatopek - ach wie gut

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXa4hDil1JU

― meisenfek, Sunday, 8 May 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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