Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Creamtastic Motivation Station: Rock While You Sweat
Posted by Lee Stabert on Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:35 PM
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Anything by C & C Music Factory, Europe or Asia.
In all honesty, Ratatat, Aesop Rock and Black Moth Super Rainbow are all pretty cool to ball to.
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I run like a fiend to J. Dilla, Battles, Daft Punk, Bad Brains, and any/all dub I can get my hands on.
with me, it's the Vision Quest soundtrack or nothing at all. but then i guess The Protomen could serve as a reasonable facsimile.
i don't actually do this, but if i were to spend time in a meat locker punching dangling beef carcasses, i'd probably listen to the mattoid while i did.
Phelps listens to the same song before every race: "Party Up" by DMZ. He was listening to it before he broke his first-ever world record, and it's been his pre-race song ever since.
C&C Music Factory, Patrick? Seriously? I'll bet you also listen to "2 Legit 2 Quit." I kidd I kidd.
I'm sure an American Idol victory song wouldn't be anyone's first choice for Olympics coverage, but if you read this blog by the songwriter, you'll see just how appropriate that song is for these 2008 Beijing Olympics.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=54139274&blogID=423067994
I don't really exercize, but if I did it'd be Megadeth - Killing is My Business & Rust in Peace.
Battles would probably work too... or The Field... or Burning Airlines.
I've run and worked out to Slack on a few occassions. Are we allowed to mention Slack again yet?
i haven't listened to any music while running for several months now, even on the treadmill. i've yet to take along an ipod on an outdoor run. it's quite nice, actually.
The Rapture "Pieces of the People We Love" is great exercise music, and New Pornographers too.
was anyone dismayed? I was thrilled. David Cook has taken what in the past might have been a somewhat sappy song and turned it into an emotional piece about appreciating the important things in your life. If you read the link that Heidi provided above, you will see why Regie Hamm's song is EXACTLY what should be played at the Olympics.
do your research. Just because David Cook has American Idol attached to him right now doesn't mean what he sings is useless.
I was neither thrilled nor dismayed, but I think the choice of that song, regardless of the interpretation, is a little too obvious. It's like playing Take Me Out to the Ballgame after every MLB telecast or Sweet Georgia Brown after B-ball. They really couldn't think of something a little more creative?
running music of my choice:
messhuggah
miles davis - tribute to jack johnson
propagandhi
kerosene 454
burning airlines
fugazi
rage against the machine
oh god, i adore david cook.
not local in any way, shape or form, but CSS is my current favorite workout music.
Playing that David Cook song is straight up corny and cheesy. Especially with all of his fans taking all of the credit for that happening and emailing NBC the songwriter's story. It's ridiculous.
david cook's silly little fans are only watching the olympics waiting for the song to show up. they don't care about the olympics. they just care about the exposure the song is getting.
I love to run to JayZ 99 problems. I have issues.
The Cook song is obvious but its the Olympics, they are not trying to make artistic statements. The situation kinda calls for obvious to me.
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