Eye of the tiger?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

What dudes training for the London Marathon have on their ipods

Some peculiar picks from these two: dude 1 swaps between Metallica and the Mountain Goats, dudette 2 sticks with Britpop/mainstream indie.

- Assuming you do some exercise, what do you prefer to soundtrack it with (if anything)?
- If you have never so much as broken a sweat, what music do you use to psyche yourself up for something/motivate yourself to keep going?

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(If I have a big old nasty spreadsheet to wade through I often put on Jungle Mania 94 or I Love Techno 2007.)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

You need julietk here!

When I have gone out alone on bike adventures I have brought Emergency Bosh, in case of running out of energy oh no here is a hill WOE. Scooter is abt PERFECT for this. For less frantic cycling, stuff I can sing along with is good.

I don't usually cycle with music in my ears, because I am usually in London, or in company. I sing quietly up horrible hills, though (when I can still breathe enough to), because this makes me less gaspy, and distracts me. Sisters Of Mercy, by the L Cohen dude, is a favourite with me and with dogrando, because the 3/4-ness of it helps pedalling rhythm.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

when i have to go stomping around places i like to listen to mastodon or high contrast. what i listen to to psyche myself up for something tends to vary according to whatever it is (in the case of eg: my dissertation, it was very much comfort rock) but grills aloud are a fairly firm fixture, as are the lovely mcfly, johnny panic and the offspring.

[cis.livejournal.com]

if i am doing some kind of exercise (on rare occasions when this happens) my best bet is POP-METAL; proper dance music is out cos you'd just want to dance to it instead, but pop-metal makes me kind of motivated and antsy anyway so it's perfect.

sometimes i sing or whistle while on the bike but that is usually super tuneful stuff like the carpenters or paul simon or uh belle and sebastian.

[cis.livejournal.com]

if i need to write for a long period of time (perhaps when i ought to be sleeping) the answer is of course EUROBEAT.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

what sort of POP-METAL? are we talking linkin park/avenged sevenfold/coheed & cambria/that kind of thing or like power ballads? or something completely different, obv.

[cis.livejournal.com]

we are talking linkin park, avenged, mcr, some pop-punk. For some reason i think of coheed as a jam band? so not them.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

i am never sure where i stand on coheed&cambria. i always feel a bit unreasonable saying it's uniquely horrible because i'd like it if jc chasez did it. :/ it is almost uniquely horrible tho, in a semi-hypnotic manner that leads to me listening to 'welcome home' really quite a lot.

i approve of this use of pop-metal, anyway! it is jolly good for exercisin' to.

[cis.livejournal.com]

for a while there coheed were the number one 'mentioned in lj profile' band on lj! which i have always found kind of insane. i mean come on people you could be listening to tool! (why is there no tool on spotify -_-)

that j-lang spam down the bottom of the page is super distracting.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

oh wtf? that's so bizarre. i don't like tool but there's some kind of maynard vanity project i'm quite fond of. puscifer or something equally absurd.

got rid of the spam, will keep an eye out for any more.

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Dudette #2 is NOT WRONG if by "britpop" she means the EMPOWERING EFFECTS of "girl from mars" by Ash which has seen me through the last kilometres on way too many occasions. Occasionally something with a slowwwwww-burrrrn start is worth sticking through for the lift when it kicks in, although my example for this is THE VISITORS by ABBA so call me the exercisegoth.

The real thing I need to know is good music for studyin' to - exercise/commuting music is too attention grabbing but I don't want something so bland I might as well just hem hem ENJOY THE SILENCE.

Apropos of nothing, HEAD LIKE A HOLE popped up on the mp3 player the other day and that was awesome but ye gods it's 10yrs (omg) on and I still cant get over the *pinches nose* naaaa-saaaaal voice.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

That song (it is the one by ye NINE " NAILERS is it not?) is now just about 20 years old...

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

Oh but I wouldn't have heard it before then!

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

ye gods that's nearly older than me. it's one of my favourite songs.

[theastronomymod.livejournal.com]

NEW ORDER NEW ORDER NEW ORDER NEW ORDER

They are, like, my motivational HYPE MYSELF UP music for pretty much everything from exercise to programming to number crunching to everything.

I am listening to Bizarre Love Triangle RIGHT NOW to try and psych myself up to go to the shops.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

i'm surprised no one else has mentioned new order actually; i tend to think of them as DEEP EMO music due to childhood affection for 'True Faith' but 'Blue Monday' always appears on 'MOTIVATE YRSELF TO DO MORE THINGS NOW' dance compilations.*

*nb: by this i may mean 'Ministry Of Sound Anthems compilations'.

[theastronomymod.livejournal.com]

New Order could pretty much bring me back from the dead.

Honestly, I'd have New Order played at my funeral if I didn't think there was a danger I'd leap out of the coffin and start dancing around.

[koganbot]

I'd be curious how it is that marathoners can listen to different songs consecutively without this affecting their pace.

I have never used a walkman (nor that new thingy, whatever it's called) when exercising - or at all, actually - being that my only outdoor exercise is "brisk walking." But when I walk (which is always brisk walking* because I am naturally impatient) I pace myself by having songs going in my mind, different tunes for whether I'm going uphill, down, or flat, and of course different tunes for how fast my "fast" is. My basic pace used to be "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" but then I upped it to "John Hardy," but when I'm getting too tired I'll drop back down to "Grapevine" and of course uphill will pull me down further to "Muirshin Durkin" (Pogues version) or something even slower.

*Except when I'm carrying heavy groceries

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

banging techno mix - the Redshape RA podcast is pretty good. when I'm running I don't listen to headphones any more though, it's a distraction (not the music, the...headphones, wires and so on).

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Bon Jovi; Dragonforce

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Biking (to get somewhere): happy soaring twee pop, like Spitz or late Belle & Sebastian

Brisk walking (to get somewhere): 100bpm disco downbeat - Franz Ferdinand, Hercules & Love Affair, basically anything that could be used as fashion show runway music

Out and about during the day w/ caffeine intake: punk rock, indie, "big" pop (current PSB album)

Lack of sleep, working, frazzled need soothing but with enough energy to get home: minimal techno

Yoga: as with bus/metro commuting this is undivided attention time for music cos nothing else is going on

Dance Dance Revolution (the only aerobic exercise I get): Dance Dance Revolution

[andthatisthat.livejournal.com]

This is probably going to sound quite weird but when I exercised a lot more than I do now and had a sort of gym playlist, it was full of showtunes and American Idol performances. There's something about the verse/chorus/keychange/glory note/end structure that's very good for short bursts of motivation, I found.