The Secret Shame of Your Running Music Mix
by kleph on Feb 9, 2012 8:18 AM PST
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For me, it's Bronski Beat. To this day I find it absolutely impossible to omit "Tell Me Why" from my running music mix. Because each and every time it comes on it provides me a burst of energy no matter how exhausted and worn out I might be.
I'm a child of the 1980s so my embarrassment is tempered somewhat that this song can now be safely considered retro enough to be somewhat hip. But believe you me, if anyone in my high school knew I regularly ran to the songs by an openly gay British synthpop band I would never have lived it down. Hell, even admitting you liked the Cure back then put you pretty much in the "weird" category by default.
Alright, now lets hear about yours.
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Looking through my current list
The most ‘embarrassing’ song I have on there is ‘Marathon’ by Tennis. It’s delightful.
'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
I have been told I have bad taste.
Ten random songs from my 10k playlist:
The W.A.N.D. by the Flaming Lips
The Ghost Inside by the Broken Bells
Soak Up the Sun by Sheryl Crow
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
Born on the Bayou by CCR
When You Were Mine by Prince
Girlfriend by Matthew Sweet
Deceptacon by Le Tigre
So Fresh, So Clean by Outkast
Fancy by Drake
The most embarrassing song? Tie between several Katy Perry songs.
by Lady Commenter on Feb 13, 2012 12:34 PM PST reply actions
Cobra Starship
“Good Girls Go Bad”
This song usually gives me a much-needed laugh late in my long runs. If I’m too far gone for it to wake me up a little, then I know I’m in trouble.
The perfect thread for me
I think it’s because my music only offers so many great running songs and I can only take so much of one style of music during a run. Even though my white-ness is off the chart, I won’t apologize for my rap, but some of the songs I was jamming to during last year’s Green Bay Marathon?
Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus
Something Kinda Ooooh by Girls Aloud Run
Standing in the Way of Control by The Gossip
Firework by Katy Perry
Lady Gaga and Katy Perry bug me the most because I would never say I’m a fan, but I can’t help it if they write such catchy tunes. Damn them!
"You just don't know understand how frustrating this is"- Kevin Borseth
I think you mean
Damn their songwriters.
/snobbery
'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
Yeah that's probably more accurate
"You just don't know understand how frustrating this is"- Kevin Borseth
i'm currently evaluating my music collection
for each song’s Beats Per Minute in order to build a few playlists with specific cadences. the offerings for some of them are extremely… eclectic.
SB Nation's The Historical: Because all those games way back when matter.
Where are you finding BPM data?
Is there some embedded metadata that I’m not aware of? Are you going through manually and referencing the songs individually?
'There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.' - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
to start
i found a downloadable bpm counter which i’m giving a go. i plan to mix what it finds with other songs identified by folks in various forums and such.
a runner/musician i found via twitter has created a 180BPM music archive you can get through iTunes. if you do a google search you’ll find others of these around as well.
also, dj steveboy has been making workout mixes for several years now and most of them are BPM specific.
SB Nation's The Historical: Because all those games way back when matter.
I've got two that I'm ashamed of:
Jump by Kris Kross
Take on Me by A-Ha
Neither of them belong in my collection, but they both give me a kick when running. It’s really embarrassing.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Feb 20, 2012 11:12 AM PST reply actions
i always thought
the sun always shines on tv was a pretty good song.
wait… did i say that out loud?
SB Nation's The Historical: Because all those games way back when matter.
NOTHING wrong with A-Ha.
Kris Kross is another story.
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6
by LB31Monster on Feb 23, 2012 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
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