I remember when I was 18, at home during winter break freshman year in college. My father had moved to a new town, and I had nothing much to do with myself — except run, of course. Only, Massachusetts in January is so cold … and at the time I really didn’t have any cold-weather running gear. So it was tough to get going. For motivation, I’d pump up AC/DC’s Thunderstruck . It’d never fail to get me out the door.
In the winter of 1998-’99, training for my first marathon in New Hampshire, I pretty much exclusively listened to Alanis Morrisette’s Jagged Little Pill and Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled album on my handheld cassette deck.
In the summer I don’t listen to music so much … but now that it’s winter again, I’m looking to refresh the tunes in my little Samsung YP-MT6 MP3 player. With y’all’s help, I also thought I’d try to make a little list of some of the best running music … either angry stuff, tunes with driving beats you can “dance” to at a 7:30 pace, or cheesy lyrics related to running.
- Just about anything by Rage, esp. “Killing In The Name”, “Freedom”, and “Bullet in the Head”
- U2’s “Vertigo”, “All Because of You”
- Pearl Jam’s “Do the Evolution,” “Push Me Pull Me”, “Not For You”, “Hail Hail”
- AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck”, “Moneytalks” and “Are You Ready”
- Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” (Rocky III theme)
- Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” and “Born in the U.S.A.”
- Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”
- Cake’s “The Distance”
- Veruca Salt’s “Volcano Girls”
- The Offspring’s “Nitro (Youth Energy)”
- The Rolling Stones’ “Jumping Jack Flash”
- Tori Amos’ “Crucify”
- Beastie Boys’ “Sabatage”, “Fight for Your Right”
- Liz Phair’s “Supernova”
- Fatboy Slim’s “Right Here, Right Now”
- Neil Young’s “Freedom”
- Weezer’s “Buddy Holly”
- Moby’s “Run On”, “Bodyrock”
- Guns n’ Roses, “Welcome to the Jungle,” “It’s So Easy”
- Hole, “Violet”
- Brian Setzer Orchestra, “Jump Jive an’ Wail”
- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, “Jumpin’ Jack”
- Meredith Brooks, “Bitch”
- Puff Daddy & the Family, “Victory”
- Tribe, “Joyride”
- Stone Temple Pilots, “Vasoline”
- Silverchair, “Lie to Me”
- Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
- Cracker, “Let’s Go For a Ride”
- Kool & The Gang, “Jungle Boogie” (on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack)
- Bush, “Everything Zen”
Please help me out here with suggestions for new songs, or songs you think don’t belong… There are also a pretty good lists of running songs here and here.
UPDATE: Also try,
Good Charlotte, “The Anthem”
Jimmy Eat World, “Pain”
Keeps the legs pumping:
Saliva- Ladies and Gentlemen
Static X- Cold, Push it, I’m with Stupid
Audio Slave- Cochise
Fallout Boy- Sugar, we’re going down
My Chemical Romance- I’m not okay
Sum 41- Get back (featuring Ludacris)
Ludacris- Move Bitch
DJ Irene- Global House Diva
Bad Boy Bill- Stomp to my beat
Hey I have found some great music to run with. I have just started running and find this music helps me keep up a solid beat on my run. A few tracks I particularly like are anything by Adrian Vincent and Taran Carter. This is not mainstream music, it has been specially composed for the sole purpose of running. Lots of different styles and beats ranging from slow jog to really fast run. I listen to pop mainstream in the car and relaxing at home, but this music I only ever use for my runs. It takes me out there and keps me going. Try it! run2r.com
This blog continues to host a great little music-paced running community. We’re grateful at jogtunes.com for your support. We also took the liberty of posting runnable songs that we found as a result of reviewing the playlists on this site. We’ve already been posting from Peter Andersson’s list for several months. This week we posted from FancyPants’ and Creep’s lists. Sometimes the BPM (tempo) of an artist’s song on a list is, in our opinion, too slow or too fast for running (190), so we posted some songs by the same artist that are runnable. Othertimes, the songs on a list are perfect running tunes and we posted them. Not every runnable song or every artist on the lists have been posted as they may not be in iTunes. Needless to say, there are other lists in this blog that we haven’t reviewed yet. We’ll get there someday soon. Thanks to you all for posting these great bands and songs on this blog.
Dr. Bob
jogtunes.com
jogtunesindie.com (Our podcast website)
Guys,
are there any good remix albums of popular songs???
Cheers all, great site
excellent music to run , thanks amigos
I stumbled on your site as I’m a bit eager (for now) to get into some spring training. I found a few songs from your site that I added to my MP3 player, but a few more from
http://www.treadmillmusic.com/index1.htm
Here are a few that get my feet going no matter where I am or how I’m feeling
* You can call me Al – Paul Simon
* Booka Mutoto – Amadou et Mariam
* Home for a rest – Spirit of the West
* Mama Mia – ABBA
* Saturday Night – Whigfield
* Paradise by the dashboard light – Meatloaf
* Maria – Blondie
* Me gustas tu – Manu Chao
* When I’m up – Great Big Sea
* Accidentally in love – Counting Crows
Weather has been good here. Out and about running. Mp3 getting stacked for a new season of hitting the pavement. Some suggestions…
Move On Up- Curtis Mayfield
Good- Better Than Ezra
Virginia Plain- Roxy Music
Ruby Soho- Rancid
Big Me- Foo Fighters
Dr. Bombay- Del the Funky Homosapien
No Myth- Michael Penn
I’ll Never Let You Go- Third Eye Blind
My Old School- Steely Dan
Peg- Steely Dan
Glamorous Life- Sheila E.
Dead Flowers- The Rolling Stones
Shattered- The Rolling Stones
Interstate Love Song- Stone Temple Pilots
Big Bang Baby- Stone Temple Pilots
Waiting For a Friend- The Rolling Stones
Can’t Truss It- Public Enemy
You Get What You Give- New Radicals
Sweet Freedom- ichael McDonald
Queen of Hearts- Juice Newton
What a Fool Believes- Doobie Brothers
Hot Steppa= Ini Kamozi
What Goes Around- Grand Puba
Queen Bitch- David Bowie
Punk Rock Girl- Dead Milkmen
….still building the list for the upcomin season. Happy running.
Here is a list that I prefected during the last years.
4Tune 500 – Dancing In The Dark
acdc – Whole lotta rosie
Beyonc‚ – Crazy In Love
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Bluesbrothers – Everybody Needs Somebody
Brain Adams – Summer of 69
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the USA
Coldplay – Clocks
da boy tommy – halloween
Daddy Dj – daddy dj
David Bowie and Queen – Under pressure
Eiffel 65 – Blue [da Ba Dee]
Elvis & JXL – Little Less Conversation
Five – Slam Dunk Da Funk
Foreigner – Cold as ice
Genesis – Jesus he knows me
Gigi d’Agostino & Albertino – la passion
Golden Earring – Radar love
Golden Earring – When The Lady Smiles
Guano Apes – Open Your Eyes
Ice Mc – It’s A Rainy Day
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Killing Joke – Love Like Blood
Kiss – I was made for loving you
l.a. style – james brown is dead
Lipps Inc – Funky Town
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet home Alabama
Mark Van Dale With Enrico – Water Verve
Midnight Oil – Beds are burning
Neil Young – Rocking In The Free World
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
Out of grace – anglia
Queen – Tie your mother down
Ram Jam – Black Betty
Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe
Robby Wiliams – Feel
Safriduo-playedalive
Sash – Stay
Scoop – Drop It
Sean Paul – Get Busy
Serious Beats – The Sunclub – Fiesta
Sin With Sebastian – Shut Up
snap – rhythm is a dancer
SoftCell – Tainted love
Soul Asylum – Runway train
Spencer Davis Group – Keep On Running
spiller – groove jet
Status Quo – Whatever you want
Steppenwolf – Born to be Wild
The Offspring – Pretty fly (for a white guy)
The Tamperer Ft Maya – Feel It
The Underdog Project – Summerjam
The Wee Papa Girl Rappers – Wee Rule
U2 – Pride (In The NameOf Love)
U2 – Sunday bloody Sunday
There is some house and techno there but all have a good bas beat o run on.
Greetings from the Netherlands
BONZO’S MONTREAUX — led zeplin
Rock me like a hurricane — scorpions
superman — three doors down
fighter — christina aguilara
beverly hills — wheezer
bittersweet symphony — verve
family affair (?) — mary j blige
falling apart in your hands — shakira
whenever, wherever — shakira
ragdoll — aerosmith
rock me — great white
don’t phunk with my heart — black eyed peas
crazy –gnarls barkley
pon de replay –rihanna
a little bit more — jamie lidell
Great site…
Almost everything from Nine Inch Nails is good for running
“Come With Us” – Chemical Brothers (Great for final kick)
“Get ‘Em High” – Kanye West
“Earth Blues” – Jimi Hendrix (Puts spring into stride)
“Narc” – Interpol
“Dirty Harry” – Gorllaz
“Sunset (Bird of Prey) – Fatboy Slim
“Bullet and A Target” – Citizen Cope (Great pace song)
“Piku” – Chemical Brothers
“Moment I Count” – Boom Boom Satellites
Just found this site and so far so good. Anything by the Ramones is great for fast pace running. My favorite
1. I wanna be sedated
2. My brain is hanging upside down.
They were not called “Beach Boys on speed” for nothing. Any “mature” punker will appreciate this.
Found this site while searching for best running music. Everything sounds good so far. Here’s my top ten favorites:
1. “Boom” by P.O.D. (Great song for finishing a run strong)
2. “Motorcycle Drive-By” by Third Eye Blind
3. “Rush of blood to the head” by Coldplay
4. “Anna Molly” by Incubus
5. “Megolomaniac” by Incubus
6. “Jesus Christ” by Brand New
7. “Echelon” by Pillar
8. “I’m Not Okay” by My Chemical Romance
9. “You Get What You Give” by The New Radicals
10. “Beautiful Day” by U2
Anyhow, that’s just a short list. Changes all the time. I love running with an MP3 player full of music I haven’t listened to so I can discover great new songs.
Try Rock To The Rhythm
Try Rock To The Rhythm by Lexicon great song
Til the Dawn – Drew Sidora
The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani
Shout – Jimmy Barnes
Love Shack – B52’s
Hey Baby – Gwen Stefani
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Cotton Eyed Joe – Rednex
Buttons – Pussy Cat Dolls
Black Horse & The Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
Just a few of the songs on my running playlist 🙂 Still looking for more though.
Here are some of my favorites…
Paper Wings – Rise Against
Ready to Fall – Rise Against
Prayer of the Refugee – Rise Against
Life Less Frightening – Rise Against
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Bombs Away – Blade Trinity Soundtrack
Heyo Captain Jack (uncensored) – Captain Jack
As The Rush Comes – Motorcycle
Dam Dariam – DDR
Only You – Captain Jack
Where’s your head at – Basement Jaxx
I Ran – Bowling For Soup
Many many thanks to you all, I’ve just created a fab playlist from your lists, I’m so looking forward to tomorrow morning now! Must add Razorlight, “fall to pieces” great to run to although you might find yourself doing funny little dance moves along with it as it’s infectious!
Great site!!! This has helped me to get a great start- thanks to all.
(HALO FANS)
HALO FALL FROM ABOVE – ARKIMEDES – OC REMIX
I LOVE MY SEX – BENASSI BROS.
TRIP LIKE I DO – THE CRYSTAL METHOD
ANTS MARCHING – THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
LOST NOT FOUND – DIRTY VEGAS
TAKE A PICTURE – FILTER
IT WAS A GOOD DAY – ICE CUBE
If anyone wants to go for an 1.5hour run use the following music from run2rhythm at http://www.run2r.com and be totally exhilerated and inspired by the experience.
Golden Mile 160bpm – Taran Carter
till you end up somewhere 160bpm – Taran Carter
Walls and Mirrors 160bpm- Taran Carter
Meshoeu 163bpm – Adrian Vincent
Finish Line 160bpm- Taran Carter
Vienna 163bpm- Adrian Vincent
Each of these tracks is 15minutes long so you get a great rhythm going and keeping pace with the music helps with enjoying a great long run.
Please post here and let me know if anyone else has tried their long runs listening to run2rhythm music. Out on the run, the music is a hell of a lot better than just the samples.Very well crafted compositions specially composed.
I’ll post another long run but harder run later on.
Regards to all runners out there for the long journey
REQUIM FOR A DREAM MAIN THEME SONG
(also known as clint mansell – lord of the rings two towers theme)
best running song EVER easy. please get it and try it out… its amazing all throughout.
its about a minute long but for sprints or finishing up a long run i suggest…
ENIGMA – CAMERA OBSCURA
after you download those 2 songs you will love me forever.
Well – here’s what I’m running to right now, one of the playlists on my iPod:
“The Obvious Child” – Paul Simon – the drums kick you in the butt and get you out there
“Galaxia” – Gipsy Kings
“Beast of Burden” – The Rolling Stones
“The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth”- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
“Temperature” – Sean Paul
“You know I’m No Good” – Amy Winehouse
“Read My Mind (Pet Shop Boys are Blazing Mix)” – The Killers
“Starlight”- Muse
“Standing outside a Broken Phone booth…” – Primitive Radio Gods
“Hella Good” – No Doubt
“It’s My Life” – Gwen Stefani
“Take Me, I’m Yours” – Squeeze
“Better than the Real Thing” – U2
“Say it Right” – Nelly Furtado
“Save Me” – Aimee Mann – a good way to end – 15 songs, 1 hour
I must admit – I’m tempted to just play “The Obvious Child” on an endless loop… Thanks for the blog – it’s great -my iPod thanks you too.
By far the most helpful website I have found for stuff like this is technosweat.com. It has excercise setlists by beat per minute that you can use as reference for free and buy the songs from the site if you want to. I really like it.
this gives me the extra kick in case I get tired:
love in an elevator – aerosmith
the end of the world – REM
don’t stop me now – queen
da funk – daft punk
satisfaction – Benny Benassi
My favs are:
I like to start with: Carmina Burana – O Fortuna by Carl Orff
ACDC- Thunderstruck
Joan Jett- I love Rock N Roll
Belle & Sebastian- Your Cover’s Blown
Bone Thungs N Harmony ft Phil Collins- Home
Eric Prydz- Call on Me Remix
Justin Timberlake- Sexy Back
Nelly- Heart of a Champion
Dragostea Din Tei- O-Zone
Outfield- I don’t want to lose your love
Queens of the Stoneage- Burn the Witch/ Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Sarai-Ladiez
Ted Nugent- Fred Bear
Wolfmother- Woman
Laura Brannigan- Gloria (from the Flashdance Soundtrack)
Thank you all for the suggestions!
Wow, what a great list! However, my favourite psych-up tune still isn’t here…WE WILL ROCK YOU by Queen…it gets me going every time! Just something about the impact of the beats is stimulating!
DOWNLOAD !!!!! vvv
remember the name – Fort Minor
till i collapse (remix) – eminem
show me the money – petey pabloe
imma shine – youngbloodz
Watch Me Shine – Joanna Pacitti
Great site! I’ve found it very helpful! My favorites right now include:
“Dirt off your shoulders” – Jay-Z
“Survivor” – Destiny’s Child (LOVE this song for running)
“Breathe” – Fabolous/Jay-Z remix
“Walk It Out”remix – DJ Unk remix with Andre3000
“Lose My Breath” – Destiny’s Child
“Back Then” – Mike Jones
“Bonnie and Clyde” – Jay-Z/Beyonce
“One Thing” – Amerie/Jay-Z
Can’t be touched roy jones jr
You are like a soulmate. Was just searching the net for the same thing check this:
http://www.iminlikewithyou.com/i/game/d/12640/6187
Some great suggestions on this site.
A few others that I find motivational are:
Let’s Get It Started – Black-Eyed Peas
Mr Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra
Lose Yourself – Eminem
Do You Want To – Franz Ferdinand
Run – Lighthouse Family
Changing Man – Paul Weller
Don’t Get Me Wrong – Pretenders
This site is great; my MP3 player is rejeuvenated! Here are some songs I don’t think have been listed yet, rangeing from bubble gum pop to heavy. Hey Driver and When the Night are a couple that often make it on my repeats:-)
Beautiful – Flickerstick
Hot – Avril Lavigne
Put ‘Em Up – Edun
No Heaven – DJ Champion
When the night feels my song – Bedoin SoundClash
The Boys of Summer – DJ Sammy
Touchdown Turnaround – Hellogoodbye
Send me on my way – Rusted Root
Break it Off – Rihanna
I think we’re alone now – The Click 5
Catch Your Wave – The Click 5
We Used to be Friends – The Dandy Warhols
More and More – Captain Hollywood
Whisper to a Scream – Social Code
Slipping Away – Mylene Farmer
Dangerous – Roxette
Make You a Believer – Sass Jordan
Adrenaline – Gavin Rossdale
Tango Shoes – Biff Naked
Heaven is a Place on Earth (remix) – Julia
Forca – Nelly Furtado
Hey and Thanks for a good site. I’m training for the half marathon and run a’lot. I like to recomend a song that give me the right feeling, running at about 10,5-12 km,h. Trick Pony- “More like me”
Try it and you will bw surprised ( I hope 🙂
Mvh. anders
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holy hang, i love this site
i was so tired of moving the same old songs around my ipod trying to break up the monotiny, i dig this site alot, i am looking for great remixes of songs with good beats, i find that a couple of good trance remixes get my heart rate up so i can second wind it into a longer run, any suggestions let me know, my favorite song is Going Insane by the warp brothers, try it it honestly pumps you up a hill let me know what you think
Here’s my run mix!
The Distance-Cake
This Modern Love- Bloc Party
Hummingbirlds- Venus Hum
When you were Young- The Killers
Radar- Britney Spears
Hilary Duff (DJ Kaya Remix)- Wake Up
DJ Hyperlite- Adrenaline Power Rush Mix ’07
DJ Sammy- Heaven
The Killers- Read My Mind
ATB- Don’t Stop
The Killers- Mr Brightside
Modest Mouse- Float On
Astroline- Close My Eyes
System F- Out of the Blue
DJ Jean- The Launch
Top Modelz- Your Love (Club Remix)
Cascada- Truly Madly Deeply
Sash- Encore Une Fois
HOPE U LOVE IT!
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions. Even though some of these are already listed, here is my running playlist:
Some contain EXPLICIT lyrics:
Promised Land- Chuck berry
Hey Ya- Outkast
100 Miles and Running – NWA (EXPLICIT)
Are you gonna be my girl- JET
Lets get it started- Black Eyed
Monosyllabic Girl- NOFX
12:51- The Strokes
BOB- outkast
Holiday- Pixies
Hotel Yorba- White Stripes
Rosa Parks- Outkast
Going Back to Memphis- White Stripes
Let me clear my throat- DJ Jubilee
Colorado- Kabat (in czech)
Judgement Night- Biohazard and Onyx
Last Caress- Metallica
Sellout -Reel Big Fish
Heart in a Cage- the Strokes
Hot Dog- Led Zepplin
Just some quick additions:
Fort Minor – Remember the Name
Timbaland – The Way I Are (remix – fatman scoop)
Kanye West – Stronger
T-Pain – Church
Rihanna – Please Don’t Stop the Music
KT Tundstall – Suddenly I see
Britney Spears – Piece of Me
Linkin Park/JayZ – Encore
Eminem vs. Justin Timberlake – Mashup “Cry me a Superman”
Suzie McNeil – Believe
Mary J. Blige – We RUn THis
very good suggestions above…..
well im 16 and i hate to run but i have to for my football team well these are the songs that i love to listen to while im running
im so sick-flyleaf
helicopter-bloc party
turning Japanese-the vapours
hero/heroine-boys like girls (my favorite)
enter sandman-metallica
bright idea-orson
i really recommend these songs if you hate running but have to because you love soccer
So good list so far, here’s some ones I think are key: (VERY MIXED)
Finger Eleven – Paralyzer
Ashley Tisdale – Headstrong (remarkably good for running even though she is HSM cast)
Twista – Hit the Floor
Fergie – Glamorous
Daft Punk – Technologic
Lupe Fiasco – Go Go Gadget Flow
Rusted Root – Send Me On My Way
DHT – Listen to your Heart
J-Kwon – Tipsy
Flow Rida Ft. T-Pain – Low
Nelly – Heart of a Champion
Pink – U & Ur Hand
Jay-Z – Hollywood
Britney Spears – Piece of Me
Scissor Sisters – Filthy/Gorgeous
Savage – Swing
I am in my 40’s so most of this is 80’s and 90’s music. Everything has a fast beat(150 – 170 bpm) so it keeps you moving.
Animals-Nickelback
Another Nail in My Heart – Squeeze
Baby I’m a Star – Prince
The Boys are Back – Thin Lizzy
Boys of Summer – Don Henley
Breakdown Dead Ahead – Boz Scaggs
Call Me – Blondie
China Grove – Doobies
Come Baby Come – Elvis Crespo
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen
Dancing with Myself = David Bowie
Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
Dontcha Stop – The Cars
Every Little thing she does is magic – The Police
Feel Good Inc – Gorillaz
Footloose – Kenny Loggins
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Head Over Heals – Go-Gos
Hollywood Nights – Bob Seger
The House is Rocking – Stevie Ray Vaughn
I Love Lucy – the Producers
I would die 4 u – Prince
Jungle Love – Steve Miller Band
The Kid is Hot – Loverboy
Lorelei – Styx
Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benatar
Maniac – Flashdance soundtrack
Melt With You – MOdern Englilsh
Message in a Bottle – Police
Metro – Berlin
Modern Love – David Bowie
One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx
Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel
Paradise By the Dashboard Light – Meatloaf
Perfect Day – Hoku
Pulling Mussels from a Shell – The Squeeze
The Queen and I – Gym Class Heroes
ROCK in the USA – John Mellencamp
Rebel Yell – Billy Idol
Red Barchetta – Rush
Rio – Duran Duran
Running Down a Dream – Tom Petty
Saturday Night – Elton John
Serpentine Fire -Earth wind and fire
Shake it Up – The CArs
She Sheila – The producers
Smokin – Boston
Sufragette City – David Bowie
Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams
Synchronicity II – the Police
Take on Me -Aha
Time Warp – Rocky Horror
Turning Japanese – The Kinks
Two Hearts – Phil Collins
Vacation – The Go-Gos
Wake me Up before you Go – Wham
We Got the Beat – Go-Gos
Working for the Weekend – Loverboy
Young Turks – Rod Stewart
25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
I just made a a couple of running mixes for a friend of mine. They include swome of the following songs:
The Presets – The Girl and the Sea
Moby – Dream About Me (Booka Shade Remix)
Booka Shade – In White Rooms (Neo Mix)
Gorillaz – Dare (Soulwax Remix)
Underworld – Crocodile (Oliver Huntemann Mix)
Azzido Da Bass – Lonely By Your Side
DJ T – Electrofied (Album Version)
The Crystal Method – Busy Child (Oakenfold Mix)
Midlake – Roscoe (Jody Den Broeder Mix)
Hot Chip – Ready For the Floor
Hot Chip – Over and Over
!!! – Must Be the Moon (Hot Chip Remix)
Miss Kittin (w/Goldenboy) – Rippin’ Kittin
Digitalism – Zdarlight
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
The Knife – Silent Shout (Album Version)
The Whip – Trash (Single Mix)
The Black Ghosts – Any Way You Choose To Give
Book Shade – Darko
Mylo – Drop the Pressure
The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control
MSTRKRFT – Work on You
Chemical Brothers – Do it Again
I personally like almost anything by Muse.
Time is Running Out
Hysteria
Stockholm Syndrome
Starlight
Supermassive Black Hole
Knights of Cydonia
Butterflies and Hurricanes
Feeling Good
Awesome to exercise to in general!
One of the best music websites for running music is at http://www.run2r.com. It has a comprehensive library of specially composed music for runners and matches running stride with beats per minute.
Music is downloaded in 15 minute run session tracks.
therefore no breaks in rhythm during your run, changing of songs etc which can interrupt your run.
Some good examples of tracks
Warm your soul 160bpm Taran carter
Power of sound 156bpm Andrew Batterham
Looking for a Clue 163bpm Harald Riedel
Phunk my bass 166bpm Adrian Szondy
Ther’s an hour of music just there and it only takes 5 minutes to download.
Very quick and easy.
great to run to.
Anything ELO! Wicked awesome…The “All over the World” best of album really kicks!
Been running awhile, and here are some old stand-bys as well as some new finds:
Dirt off my Shoulder – JayZ
Testify – Common
Play Your Cards Right – Common ft. Bilal
Hip Hop – Dead Prez
Poppin’ My Collar – Three Six Mafia
Trick Daddy ft Trina – Shut Up
Sabotage – Beastie Boys
What’s My Name – DMX
Public Service Announcement – JayZ
Break em Off – Paul Wall
Neva Scared – Bonecrusher
Unsung – Helmet
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
House of Cards – Radiohead (starting)
Gasoline – Audioslave
Beyond the Wheel (live) – Soundgarden
Clean My Wounds – Corrosion of Conformity
Say it ain’t So – Weezer
Guaranteed – Eddie Vedder (for starting)
Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder
Santa Monica – Everclear
Boom Boom Boom – John Lee Hooker
Time is Running Out acoustic – Muse
Chop Suey – System of a Down
Madonna – Die Another Day
4th of July – Evanescence
I Wanna Be Your Dog – Iggy Pop and the Stooges
Promontory – Trevor Jones (instr. from Nike commercials)
Nine Inch Nails: Perfect Drug
Common ft. Andre 3000: Green Light
Bush: Machinehead
Beyonce: Single Ladies
Estelle ft. Kanye WestL: American Boy
M.I.A.: Bamboo Banger
Linkin Park: Bleed it Out
Prodigy: Breathe
Nas: I Know I Can
When I run, I listen to books, nothing, or music. I was running one day a few weeks back. I had just finished “Hot, Flat and Crowded” (I highly recommend it) and needed a change. So I was listening to music, going through my normal run. And then the Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There” came on. The effect was magical. The beat was right in time to my steps, or maybe just a little faster. While “I Saw Her Standing There” played, I ran happily pushing my limit. When next song (I forget) came on, it was a real let down. The beat did not fit my pace. It got me thinking about putting together a pace-based playlist.
I have a Macintosh. The Mac has a class of programs called “widgets” that run in a Apple program called “dashboard.” Widgets are little, single-function programs that appear ontop of running applications, summoned with a keystroke. If you had one of the original Macs, “widgets” translates roughly into “desk accessories.” Windows probably has something similar. There are a variety of widgets. Widgets for weather, stock prices, date and time, quote of the day, snowfall at your favorite ski resort… There are tons of them. And there is one to calculate beats per minute (bpm). You click on bpmWidget in time to the music and it reports the beats per minute (bpm).
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/bpmwidget.html
So I launched iTunes, played “I Saw Her Standing There” and launched dashboard. I tapped bpmWidget in time, and it gave me one of the keys to a good running playlist (for me) – 160bpm. My pace when I run is naturally right around 160 beats per minute.
So now I needed to figure out what the beats per minute for all of my tunes.
I searched around and found beaTunes, a sort of housekeeping utility for iTunes. It looks at your tunes, and tries to figure out the bpm of your songs. I read reviews of beaTunes that said it was slow. That was not my experience. I have a fast Intel Mac, and I experienced very rapid performance in calculating the BPM of my tracks, even when set to “precise” and not “fast.”
http://www.beatunes.com/
Speaking of precision, the accuracy of beaTunes is hit and miss. I went through and did a spot check using my ears and bpmWidget, and it was often wrong. On many, many songs it got a very accurate bpm. These songs seemed to have a traditional, classic rock beat. I know that an inaccurate bpm is of no use, but the alternative – tapping the beat of thousands of tracks – was prohibitively time-consuming and mind-numbing. On the glass-half-full side, beaTunes got it right often enough to provide me with a great starting place.
In iTunes, I made a playlist called “bpm candidates” of just my music. I have other things as well: sound effects, poetry, audiobooks, speeches, and Spanish vocabulary. I don’t care about the beats per minute of these, so they’re not in my “bpm candidates” playlist.
Back in beaTunes, I click on the playlist, then on one of the songs within it, then say select all.
Once the songs are selected, I click the button in the upper left, “Analyze songs.” That’s where the bpm thing is hidden.
Up pop my analysis options. For my purposes, I only checked the first one, calculate bpm, and set it to “precise” and 80-160 beats per minute. Then I clicked “OK.” BeaTunes ran through my “bpm candidates” playlist tracks, all 6 thousand of them, estimating beats per minute. It crashed about five times, and I had to baby-sit it, but in the end, it was worth it. When the automated beaTunes was done, I was able to go to iTunes and manually sort things out. This is where the hit-and-miss accuracy comes in, because now it is time to test the accuracy of beaTune’s bpms.
In iTunes, click on your entire library (the word “Music” with a note next to it in the upper left), to view the entire music collection.
Go to the view menu and click on “View Options…” and a track attribute list will come up. You want to check “beats per minute” so that you can sort by bpm.
BeaTunes had narrowed my search with its estimates. There are really two bpms I was interested in – 80 bpm and 160 bpm. They are essentially the same thing. So, for a range, I chose songs with a bpm of 79-81, and those with 157-163. So I selected those and put them in a new playlist “bpm double check.” I went through the playlist, playing each song, and while it was playing, launching dashboard/bpmwidget, tapping with the beat, and correcting beaTune’s errors. If it was in the neighborhood, a few bpm off, then I left it alone. If the bpm was way off, I would get info on the track and type in the new value. About 1 out of 4 was wrong, and had to be corrected.
When this was done, I had a set of tracks to road test. I put them in a playlist – “workout – run ~80/160 bpm.” I went running with the playlist on “shuffle.” It worked relatively well. The run went by faster, and I ended up running longer than usual.
There is more to a song than bpm. The lyrics, vibe, and message of a song also effect me. Some have long passages of non-beat confusion that may work well in a home listening situation, but interfere with my run and annoy me. There were a few songs that threw me off my pace due to some combination of lyrics, vibe, message, and non-beat sections. In the future, I will probably take these off the list. And add others.
Playlists are like small children. They are yours; they know about you; and they embarass you simply by speaking the truth. (Okay, I admit it, I do like that song.) And so, I apologize in advance for anything my little playlist says.
Some songs made the playlist at 145-150 bpm. That is too slow, and out of my range – what gives? Rationalization: when this one comes on, I will run slower, providing automatic circuit training. Real Reason: I liked the song, and stubbornly kept it in. I can always skip it.
Here is my preliminary playlist, before pruning, for what it is worth:
It Takes All Kinds; Aimee Mann – 160 bpm (Pop)
Yo sin ti; Alejandro sanz & Eros Ramazotti Р156 bpm (Espa̱ol)
Superwoman; Alicia Keys – 154 bpm (R&B)
Mama Knew Love; Anthony Hamilton – 80 bpm (Rap)
Eternal Flame; Bangles – 159 bpm (Pop)
Brian Wilson; Barenaked Ladies – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Barbara Ann; Beach Boys – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Because; The Beatles – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window; The Beatles – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Rocky Raccoon; The Beatles – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I’ve Just Seen A Face; The Beatles – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Paperback Writer; The Beatles – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Across The Universe; The Beatles – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I Saw Her Standing There; The Beatles – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
For No One; The Beatles – 156 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Doctor Robert; The Beatles – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Love So Right; Bee Gees – 81 bpm (Disco)
Lullabye; Billy Joel – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Sometimes a Fantasy; Billy Joel – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Hey Girl; Billy Joel – 79 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Strange Times; The Black Keys – 80 bpm (Rock)
Get Up; Bleu – 156 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Hunting For Witches; Bloc Party – 157 bpm (British Pop)
Roygbiv; Boards of Canada – 84 bpm (Electronic)
Mack The Knife; Bobby Darin – 81 bpm (50s)
Can’t Wait Too Long; Brian Wilson – 81 bpm (Pop)
7/4 (Shoreline); Broken Social Scene – 158 bpm (Indie Rock)
Rave On; Buddy Holly – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Peace Train; Cat Stevens – 160 bpm (Folk)
Wild World; Cat Stevens – 150 bpm (Folk)
Hard habit to break; Chicago – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
La dama de Rojo; Chris the Barge – 155 bpm (Escuchar en ingles)
Yes; Coldplay – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Uninspired; Connells – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Round Here (Piano); Counting Crows – 160 bpm (Rock)
Teach Your Children; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Ohio; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Don’t Dream It’s Over; Crowded House – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
32 Bar Riff Instrumental; Dean Mora’s Modern Swingtet with Rusty Frank – 164 bpm (Jazz)
Inside Job; Don Henley – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Annabel; Don Henley – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Hurdy Gurdy Man; Donovan – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
My Dreams are Getting Better; Doris Day – 159 bpm (50s)
Do You Call That A Buddy?; Dr. John – 81 bpm (Blues)
Try And Love Again; Eagles – 156 bpm (Rock)
Rock ‘N’ Roll is King; ELO – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Ticket to the Moon; ELO – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Just For Love; ELO – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Teacher I Need You; Elton John – 155 bpm (Rock & Roll)
The Ballad Of Danny Bailey; Elton John – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Roy Rogers; Elton John – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Circle Of Life; Elton John – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Tears in Heaven; Eric Clapton – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
One Thing; Finger Eleven – 150 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Landslide (original); Fleetwood Mac – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I Know I’m Not Wrong; Fleetwood Mac – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I Wanna Know What Love Is; Foreigner – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Heat Wave; Funk Brothers – 81 bpm (Soundtrack)
Any Road; George Harrison – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Pisces Fish; George Harrison – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Hey Jealousy; Gin Blossoms – 87 bpm (Pop)
Touch of Grey; Grateful Dead – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Good Lovin’; Grateful Dead – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Taste Of Honey; Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – 160 bpm (60s)
Shame On You; Indigo Girls – 160 bpm (Folk)
Parle-Moi; Isabelle Boulay – 81 bpm (Francais)
Two Of Me, Two Of You; Jackson Browne – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I Am a Patriot; Jackson Browne – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
plug in test; James – 80 bpm (James)
A Break In The Clouds; Jayhawks – 81 bpm (Folk)
Jamacia Mistaka; Jimmy Buffett – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
The Middle; Jimmy Eat World – 161 bpm (Rock)
I’m Old Fashioned; John Coltrane – 159 bpm (Jazz)
Morningside; John Gorka – 82 bpm (Folk)
Wisheries; John Gorka – 82 bpm (Folk)
People My Age; John Gorka – 80 bpm (Folk)
Boom Boom; John Lee Hooker – 160 bpm (Blues)
Long Lost John; John Lennon – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Authority Song; John Mellencamp – 156 bpm (Rock)
Blaze Of Glory; Jon Bon Jovi – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Love Bug; Jonas Brothers – 158 bpm (Pop)
Free Man In Paris; Joni Mitchell – 81 bpm (Pop)
La llave de Mi Corazon; Juan Luis Guerra Р80 bpm (Espa̱ol)
Queen of Hearts (jslow 160 bpm); Juice Newton – 160 bpm (Country)
I predict a riot; Kaiser Chiefs – 91 bpm (British Pop)
Hounds Of Love; Kate Bush – 145 bpm (Rock & Roll)
California Waiting; Kings of Leon – 150 bpm (Rock/Pop)
Come Dancing; The Kinks – 153 bpm (Rock)
Somewhere in Between; Lifehouse – 77 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Heat Wave; Linda Ronstadt – 158 bpm (Pop)
Somewhere Out There (with James Ingram); Linda Ronstadt – 159 bpm (Pop)
Ultimate; Lindsay Lohan – 80 bpm (Pop)
I Wish; Lisa Loeb – 80 bpm (Pop-Folk)
I Wish (Anywhere But Here Soundtrack); Lisa Loeb – 80 bpm (Pop-Folk)
You say; Lisa Loeb – 80 bpm (Pop-Folk)
Kiss Me Deadly; Lita Ford – 89 bpm (Rock)
Glad You’re Here; Macy Gray – 160 bpm (R&B)
All My Roadrunning; Mark Knopfler – 156 bpm (Blues)
Everybody Pays; Mark Knopfler – 158 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Ain’t That Peculiar; Marvin Gaye – 81 bpm (R&B)
Damn; Matchbox 20 – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Magnet and Steel; Matthew Sweet – 157 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad; Meat Loaf – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
4th Dimensional Transition; MGMT – 160 bpm (Rock)
Goodbye To You; Michelle Branch – 160 bpm (General Pop)
Use Me Up +Lenny Kravitz; Mick Jagger – 80 bpm (Motown)
Evening Gown; Mick Jagger – 156 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I’m a Believer; Monkees – 80 bpm (Pop)
You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me; Motown – 156 bpm (R&B)
Smile; Nat King Cole – 160 bpm (Jazz)
Saint Judas; Natalie Merchant – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Love Hurts; Nazareth – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
D’you Know What I Mean; Oasis – 80 bpm (Rock)
Dont Go Away; Oasis – 81 bpm (Rock)
Don’t Look Back In Anger; Oasis – 82 bpm (Rock)
Here Today; Paul McCartney – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Ballroom Dancing; Paul McCartney – 157 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Venus And Mars; Paul McCartney – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Live And Let Die; Paul McCartney – 155 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Maybe I’m Amazed; Paul McCartney – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic; The Police – 82 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Back On The Chain Gang; Pretenders – 153 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love; Queen – 155 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Driver 8; R.E.M. – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Take A Message; Remy Shand – 80 bpm (R&B)
SOS; Rhianna – 91 bpm (R&B)
Rehab; Rihanna – 80 bpm (R&B)
First Cut Is The Deepest; Rod Stewart – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
What God Wants, Part I; Roger Waters – 159 bpm (Rock)
What God Wants, Part II; Roger Waters – 159 bpm (Rock)
Paint it Black; Rolling Stones – 159 bpm (Rock & Roll)
What I Like About You; Romantics – 80 bpm (Punk)
Sweet Dreams Baby; Roy Orbison – 157 bpm (Rock & Roll)
This Boy; Rufus Wainwright, Moby, Sean Lennon – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Hold My Hand; Rutles – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Piggy In The Middle; Rutles – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Fallen; Sarah McLachlan – 80 bpm (Pop)
Adia; Sarah McLachlan – 159 bpm (Pop)
Building A Mystery; Sarah McLachlan – 81 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Killing the Blues; Shawn Colvin – 80 bpm (Pop)
Chelsea Morn Big Yellow Taxi; Shawn Colvin – 80 bpm (Pop)
These Four Walls; Shawn Colvin – 82 bpm (Pop)
Cinnamon Road; Shawn Colvin – 79 bpm (Pop)
I’m Gone; Shawn Colvin – 80 bpm (Pop)
Let It Slide; Shawn Colvin – 84 bpm (Pop)
First Cut is the Deepest; Sheryl Crow – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Bye, Bye Love; Simon & Garfunkel – 80 bpm (Rock)
Your Winter; Sister Hazel – 160 bpm (soundtrack)
Goodbye Girl; Squeeze – 156 bpm (Rock & Roll)
I’m a joker; Steve Miller Band – 83 bpm (Rock)
Take It Or Leave It; The Strokes – 154 bpm (Punk)
You Can Still Change Your Mind; Tom Petty – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Finding Out; Tom Petty – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Southern Accents; Tom Petty – 160 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Gangsters and Thugs; The Transplants – 84 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Stuck in a Moment (Acoustic); U2 – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
Sandusky; Uncle Tupelo – 79 bpm (Folk)
Brown Eyed Girl; Van Morrison – 150 bpm (Rock & Roll)
You Better You Bet; The Who – 80 bpm (Rock)
She Knows It; Wonders – 81 bpm (Soundtrack)
Shrimp Shack; Wonders – 163 bpm (Soundtrack)
My Brown Guitar; XTC – 80 bpm (Rock & Roll)
In The Waiting Line; Zero 7 – 80 bpm (Soundtrack)
stereophonics – dakota
POD – alive
papa roach – last resort
oasis – turn up the sun
band of brothers soundtrack
(excellent if you loved the series – its got a real “lets go train like a biatch and fight a war” feel to it)
queens of the stone age – lightning song
hilltop hoods – its your round
beck – devils haircut
beta band – she’s the one