If we've done this before, I apologise.
Inspired by WWRs excellent provoking threads re music of bygone ages... here's my question. In these days of CD-Rs, we can make up our own CDs to inspire us mid run.
What would be on your ideal running CD?
Mine include:-
Madonna - You'll see
Jimmy Nail- Running man ( it's better than it sounds)
Areosmith- don't want to miss a thing.
Boston- more than a feeling
I'm still working on this.
Any lists or ideas???
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Always look on the bright side of life - Eric Idle
Both on my MP3 player at the moment.
R-E-S-E-P-E-C-T - Franklin
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
Beautiful Day - U2
Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
We Are the Champions - Queen
Don't Stand so Close to Me - The Police
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
I'm Still Standing - Elton John
Highway to Hell -AC/DC
Running with The Devil ? - Van Halen
The Long and Winding Road - Beatles
Running Up that Hill - Kate Bush
Running with A Clanger - Jason and the L's
Yours with the blinkers on
Scotty
P.S. good luck with this potentially record-breaking thread Barkles
Nice steady pace - White Wedding-Billy Idol
Treadmill - Incline - Thats the way it is - Run DMC
They're plying Reading Festival on Sunday and I can't get a babysitter...guess we'll have to sit in the back garden and imagine it all instead!!
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
Wig Wham Bam - sweet
Will
They are currently usinging it on the Clarks shoes advert - along with Electric by OMD
Will
Fraggle you can't move in Reading at the moment, its hell. They make me feel very very old.
The rumour is that you “are very old” ))
Will
I keep meaning to ask you. What is that in your hand. At first I thought it was a cigar.
This always comes to mind on a long run
You the second person on this forum to think I was smoking – It is actually a very large Greek Brandy with coke – the picture was take on holiday in Tsivilya (Spelling ??) in Zante
Will
Obsessions - BeeGees
Show Me Heaven - Maria McKee
Kiss The Rain - Billie Myers
Feel It - The Temperer Feat,Maya
I will Survive - Gloria Gayner
Give me a little more time - Gabrielle
Northern Skyline - Clannad
The Smiths "Charmless Man"
Totally addicted to bass ( dont know)
Last train to transcentral KLF
Status Quo ;o)
Will
Blur "on your own" (esp remix on "the beach" ost)
the soundtrack to the movie Pi (strange movies - good music)
One step Closer - Linkin Park
close to the edge - art of noise..
I am lucky enough to have been bought a minidisc player - can thoroughly recommend them as they are jog-resistant and smaller than CD players (but alas not as small as MP3 - but then my machine takes about a week to down load the RW home page - I dont hold out much hope for files over 1MB!)
eye of the tiger by........survivor
other than that, i've run to music so can't comment.is it any good?
I also find that when recording something for a run, if I mix up the speed of the music I tend to mix up my pace - again just to keep my interest up.
On the treadmill at the gym, where you can choose from about a dozen selections they offer, I've found that the Ibiza-type rave music is great. No idea who its by or what its really called but the constant and fast pace really seems to work for me.
But after I've finished running I'd leap for the off switch if it came on my radio.
Ca plane pour moi brought memories flooding back by the way. School discos, bacardi and coke, safety pins in my jeans. What a time. If I was loading up a minidisc now I'd either go for a compilation of early stuff by Jam, Stranglers, Clash or else go completely the other way and fill it with Salsa by someone like Joe Arroyo.
I like anything by Madonna (dance stuff especially) or even a bit of Savage Garden (completely different I know!).
Need to add:-
Boys of summer - Don Henley - great on a November evening.
Olivers Army- Elvis Costello
Fugees - anything from The Score
Australia-The Manics
200 metres: So Solid Crew: 21 Seconds
Marathon: Res: 700 Mile Situation
General distance run: Supergrass: Moving
Painful run: Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy
Seasonal: Earth, Wind and Fire: September
Weather: Aora: Out of the Rain
And so on!
DC
Dayla is clearly from an age I was too old to visit. Apart from Earth Wind and Fire.
Burce ( yes Burce -apparently his parents mis- spelled his name on his birth certificate)Springsteen - Philadelphia.
The Cure: A Forest
Joy Division: She's Lost Control
or The Only Mistake
Radiohead: In Limbo
- alternatively, when on the run from hell, Radiohead's "Just" - if only because of the refrain:
"You do it to yourself you do
and that's what really hurts
You do it to yourself you do
you and no-one else
You do it to yourself"
I think this is the new must for all runner. I am itching to give it a try on my long run tomorrow.