No knitting in this post. None. Nada. I’ll post a picture of my Welt Fantastics later during Supergirl’s naptime because I’m totally in love with Jessie’s yarn and the pattern and am going to have a really hard time sending these to my Sock Pal.
I have a favor to ask of each of you. I’m used to listening to 12 songs on my previous Mp3 player. I have no clue how to fill up 240 songs on my new Nano. I put all the ones I had and it was only 43 songs. I run 3-4 days a week and that’s when I listen to my music. I like upbeat songs that will keep my butt running up hills and burning off the peanut butter pretzles I’ve consumed from Trader Joes. No slow songs. So tell me. What is your favorite upbeat, shake-your-ass kinda song? To give you an idea of what’s on there right now? Lots of Gwen Stefani and Black Eyed Peas. Hey now! Don’t laugh! It’s great running music. If you want to really be a love, you can just send it to me. That works right? Yeah, I need to catch up here. It’s 2006 baybee and I’m getting there.
Help a sister out. I need 200 songs. I’m counting on you. If each one of you sent me one/two songs I think I’d be all set. I’m off to run and test this bad boy out. I can’t wait.
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ok to keep in your black eyed peas theme, here are a few that I can’t stop listening to. The are from Dirty Dancing Havana nights, LOVE that movie!
Dirty Dancing - Black Eyed Peas
Dance Like This - Wyclef Jean
Hmm, I’m thinking I maybe need to send you an mp3 cd of peppy music. My iPod (40 gb) has about 5800 songs on it.
Hey Ya! Outkast
Happy Belated Birthday
here are some of my favs : when I actually get my a** to the gym:
Bad Day :REM
Beautiful Day :U2
Mr Brightside: Killers
I also… weirdly enough like the soundtrack to garden state when I am cooling down… ok the qualifier was “when I get my a**to the gym”
I hear you on the peppy workout mix! I have to have my mp3 player when I am at the gym (everyday!) My old standbys are Franz Ferdinand (both albums are good) and The Killers. My hubby laughs and says that they are music that girls like to dance too. He’s right - they keep my feet moving!
My favorite song to work out to lately is Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. You wouldn’t think it would be a shaker, but it really has a great pace. I think Fatboy Slim generally is great to work out to, and Outkast, and I personally dearly love The Streets - check out Fit But You Know It…I’ll try to think of others.
I concur on Fatboy Slim. I would also throw out some Groove Armada (I See You Baby, If Everybody Looked The Same)
Any of the remixes of old Whitney (It’s Not Right, But It’s Ok), Music by Madonna
And sadly enough, MmmmBop always makes me shake my butt. Yes, I know, my whiteness know no bounds.
Canned Heat by Jamiroquai
Krafty by New Order
Feeling Alright by either Joe Cocker, or the cover on the duets album keeps me moving.
Sometimes when I’m running with the dogs in the woods, I get caught dancing instead.
It’s a little embarrassing, but, hey, I just pretend I’m Baby. And we all know that nobody
puts Baby in a corner!
Modern Woman, Billy Joel. Can’t get enough of this these days.
I started typing some of my favs, but the list started to get really long! (I seriously dont’ know how I ever worked out before my iPod) I just went to iTunes and noticed I can export my playlist as a text file. If you want me to email it to you, I’d be more than happy to share.
Terri
Sandstorm by Darude is a great song-I use it those mornings when it’s hard to get out of bed.
anything from Madonna’s new Confessions on a Dance Floor…Jump is my fave.
or what about some good old disco tunes? Donna Summer, KC and the Sunshine Bankd
beeGees…stayin alive? oh heck yeah!
No Doubt’s Rocksteady has some awesome tunes…
#1 Crush by Garbage has some amazing beats. It’s groovetastic! If you ask me. And the Matrix Reloaded soundtrack has some great techno music.
Not very dancey but if I want to get myself whipped up into a mood then it’s got to be Rage Against the Machine.
I always liked working out to Soul II Soul’s “Keep On Movin’ ” album. I know it’s (old) - but it’ll keep you movin’.
Hey! You got the other skein of stripes
I have the red, orange, yellow one. I’m probably not much help on the music front. My IPod is all 80’s-90’s Hair Bands, I just can’t seem to grow up 
How about some Red Hot Chili Peppers? Anything from Blood Sugar Sex Magik makes me want to dance. AlsoSublime, 311’s From Chaos album has some great, upbeat music on it. And the North Mississppi aAllstars are awesome too.
Happy Belated Birthday!
Ok don’t laugh at ME now, but I LOVE listening to Kyie Minogue’s Fever album while working out. It’s got a constant beat even from song to song, so it’s easy to get into rhythm.
My Nano (which I have named eyePawed) has a lot of Bonnie Raitt on it right now. Oh, and I like Jimmy Buffett’s live stuff for upbeat excercising type stuff.
I like running to songs that make me move, they’re not always my fav artists, but they sure keep me moving. “Walk This Way” Aerosmith, “American Idiot” Greenday, “I’m Still Standing” Elton John, nearly all of “THE Blackeyed Peas” and evwn some of Keith Urbans songs. I know I go from one extreme to the other, but at my age I need something that makes me want to move.
“Float On” by Modest Mouse is a great song to kick off a run to, and if I’m dragging my feet halfway through I do dig Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al.”
Lyle Lovett: (1) You’re Not from Texas, and (2) She’s Hot to Go
SOS - Rhianna
Shake That - Eminem (yah I know it’s not exactly PC but it has a great beat)
My Humps - BEP (again, not PC but it makes me giggle)
ugh my brain has gone blank(-er than usual) and now I can’t remember any more songs…
I can check the memory on my XM Radio and send you more if you’d like ;o)
I like dance-y music when I work out. Chemical Brothers. Daft Punk. Dee Lite. Saint Germaine. Underworld. New Order.
That sort of thing.
O.k. you asked for it. Just remember I’m old enough to be your mo–, uh,
older sister, and now I mostly listen ot country music. Here’s my contribution:
Ain’t Going Down (Garth Brooks)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)
Survivor (Gloria Gaynor)
Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)
Physical (Olivia Newton John)
That’s the Way I Like It (K.C. & the Sunshine Band)
Turn the Beat Around (Gloria Estafan)
I know that’s more than 2, but I had to represent, you know?
Redneck Woman (Gretchen Wilson)
Hell Yeah (Montgomery Gentry)
Don’t laugh but Eminem’s Lose It really does it for me. That and Come on Feel the Noise (which I now has alternit spelling, but I don’t like ti!)
anything by ‘The Gossip.’ The best thing is that all their songs are super-short, which is great for intervals.
Go here for some samples.
Boys of Summer (Don Henley or the Ataris)
Will You be My Girl (Jet)
Harder to Breathe (Maroon 5)
Get the Prty Started (Pink)
Hope these help. If you want some kickin’ 80’s stuff let me know. I have plenty!
Oh, one more song suggestion you might like since you like BAP and No Doubt. Try Saturday Night by Ozomatli. They are kinda hip-hoppy with a Latin edge.
BAP. Duh. I din’t mean that. I meant BEP. Black Eyed Peas.
I like some old school Madonna, Paula Abdul, and I’ll confess, some “early” Britney Spears - hey, it’s catchy!
Let me throw my hat into the ring here… i second motions for New Order, Eminem, Aerosmith.
Let me add Metallica and Nine Inch Nails. I also like some Audioslave.
Behind the Wheel/Route 66 by Depeche Mode gets me going too… Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out of My Head and Love at First Sight have a nice beat to them as well.
I’m a huge disco whore. That’s what makes me happy. Right now, I’m favouring “That’s All” by Genesis, “FNT” by Semisonic, and “El Tiburon” by El General or Proyecto Uno (same song). It’s a good time at a party. Or running!
I should get a workout mix. I’m lazy. >.