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

[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.