The Ultimate Workout Song?

Inspirational music. It would seem like alot of you guys are waaaaaaayyyyy lot older than I am. Just kidding guys.
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Before going to fight, I would eitherr listen to soft melodic, soothing music or hard, fast, heart pounding rock. Lately, I've been listening to some of the words in rap songs. These guys produce music in which they talk about being the best, being on top of the world, being the baddest, how everyone wants to be like them, all the girls want to beat them, how they will demolish their enemies, etc. Guys like Wu Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, Snoop, Cash Money Millionaires, etc. are making, in one way or another, inspirational music. No, this is not a troll, or an attempt to change the topic, but just some thoughts I was having as to how and what type of music can affect us and why. Ah, just rambling on. AC/DC - Highway to Hell is some great work out music. I also listen to kulingtang gong music and Thai music. I would like to try working out with some capoeira or japanese drum music as well.


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Chad
Full Contact Stickfighting Hawaii
www.fullcontacthi.com
 
Rock & Roll baby!!! AC/DC, Hole, Zeppelin, etc... If it's loud, it will work.

Jody

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Keep your chins up and your blades sharp!
 
Ahhh music one of my favorite topics..
Let's see I prefer:
Danzig
Boo Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
Slayer
G.B.H.
Hatebreed
Corrosion of Conformity
Litefoot
Sepultura
Some polynesian music like Fiji, B.E.T. and others out of Hawai'i
but as far as one song right now it would be
Danzig's Belly of the Beast
or
Slayer's - Mandetory Suicide.
 
Slayer's South of Heaven sounds like someone walking on your grave.
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The intro riff is about as haunting as anything that has ever been composed in the Guitar Realm.

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"You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar." ~Jeff Cooper
And the same goes for a knife...
And, I'm a Usual Suspect.
 
Most anything with a good beat:

Offspring, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Eve Six ("On the roof again").

Also like some Blues Traveler and one of Carlos Santana's new songs. I can't remember the title, but it came out around the same time as "Smooth" but didn't get as much Top-40 play time ... probably because of the lyrics being a little "dark".

Dave.

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Full Contact Martial Arts Association.

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."
 
CD's on top of the stack in the training hall:
Fear: The Record
Link Wray: Rumble, Ling Wray's Greatest Hits
The Cramps: Gravest Hits, Psychedelic Jungle, Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Stooges: Funhouse
Iggy Pop: TV Eye Live
Etta James: Rocks the House
Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers: Beware of the Dog
Motorhead: Ace of Spades



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"There are no 'men-in-themselves' such as the philosophers talk about, but only men of a time, of a locality, of a race, of a personal cast, who contend in battle with a given world and win through or fail, while the universe around them moves slowly on with a godlike unconcern. This battle is life, life, indeed, in the Nietzschean sense, a grim, pitiless, no-quarter battle of the Will-to-Power." -- Oswald Spengler
 
This is the freakin' HUGE stack of CD's I have slowly piled up next to the boombox in the garage:

The Stooges: Raw Power, Funhouse
Mobb Deep: The Infamous
Bad Brains: Rock For Light, I Against I
The Rollins Band: Lifetime
Motorhead: No Remorse
Jimmy Cliff: The Harder They Come
The Clash: London Calling
The Selecter: Too Much Pressure
Slayer: Reign In Blood
Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune
Black Flag: Damaged
Moby: Play
Curtis Mayfield: the SUPERFLY soundtrack
James Brown: Greatest Hits
The Who: Who's Next
The Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street, Hot Rocks
Dead Boys: Young, Loud and Snotty
The Notorious BIG: Ready To Die
DMX: It's Dark and Hell is Hot
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Metallica: Garage, Inc., Kill 'Em All
Bob Marley: Uprising
Jane's Addiction: (self-titled)
Sly and The Family Stone: Greatest Hits
The GROSSE POINT BLANK movie soundtrack, vol. 1 and 2

I also have some Japanese Kodo drumming and Filipino Kulintang (like Indonesian Gamelan music) on tape, which is also very cool to train to...I stretch out/cool down to jazz, usually Miles Davis' "My Funny Valentine".

It occurs to me that I really need to get my CD's outta the garage and make a cool mixed tape...just haven't yet found the time...

Hey, James Sass--cool effin' taste!

My Fave workout songs at present: Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear The Reaper" and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs "El Matador" back to back--AWESOME!

Later, everybody...peace.

~bayani~

[This message has been edited by bayani (edited 03-06-2001).]
 
Oh yeah can't believe I forgot Bad Brains.
The nice thing about mp3's that is you got a computer near by and some good speakers you will never run out of music.
 
Heh, like I forgot these--

The Misfits: Walk Among Us
Black Sabbath: Paranoid, Master Of Reality
Public Enemy: Yo, Bum Rush The Show!, It Takes A Nation Of Millions...
Korn: (self-titled)

These were in the car...I should have included them earlier.

Okay, I'll stop now...

~bayani~
 
Training CD I gotta get around to burning will have these songs...In no particular order

Queen-Princes of the Universe
Queen-Gimme the Prize
Queen-Don't loose your head.
Iron Maiden-Flash of the Blade
Iron Maiden-Sun and Steel
Iron Maiden-Invaders
Led Zepplin-Immigrant Song
Metallica-Whiskey in the Jar
And anything and everything by Black Sabbath!

And probably many more, but those spring to the 'fore of the mind.


[This message has been edited by Eliashan (edited 03-08-2001).]
 
Look at all the Sabbath!!!

I used to play guitar, I could, at one time, play rhythm guitar to almost every Black Sabbath Song on the first three albums, and quite a few off of albums after that...

WICKED WORLD

"The world today is such a wicked thing,
Fighting going on between the human race,
People give good wishes to all their friends,
While people just across the sea
are counting the dead...

A politician's job they say is very high,
For he has to choose who's got to go and die,
They can put a man on the moon quite easy,
while people here on earth
are dying of old diseases...

A woman goes to work every day after day,
She just goes to work just to earn her pay,
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder,
he doesn't even know who is his father...

©Essex Music


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"You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol than you are a musician because you own a guitar." ~Jeff Cooper
And the same goes for a knife...
And, I'm a Usual Suspect.
 
James and Bayani,
You da Men! Anyone who even knows Funhouse, much less trains to it, rates highly in my book. Don, as far as all the Sabbath, what more do you need? Metal that grooves started and seems to just about end with Sab., and the grooveis what you want to train to.

SO, let me throw my choices into the ring:

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange, X-tra Acme
The Beastie Boys: Check Your Head (a modern classic)
James Brown: Sex Machine, Funky People Vol.1,(This album includes a song that has one of my favorite lines,"I don't know Kara-te,But I know Ka-razy!" Classic.)
The Melvins: Stoner Witch
Man or Astroman?: Destroy All Astromen!
Brujeria: Raza Odiada
Morbid Angel: Domination
Fear Factory: Fear is the Mindkiller
Black Flag: The First Four Years
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (I saw an Aikido school do a demo to this once and it fit perfectly. Now when I train to it, I really pick up on the flow and improvisational quality to it,and it carries over beatifully. Buy this album!).
Thinking Feller's Union Local 282: Stangers From the Universe
The Voodoo Drums of Le Gip

Oh, somebody stop me already!

Mark
 
My favorite workout tunes:

"Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" - Boy George and the Culture Club

"Puppy Love" - Donnie and Marie Osmond

"It's Raining Men"

"Billy, Don't Be A Hero" - Paper Lace

"YMCA" - The Village People

"I Did It My Way" - Frank Sinatra

"Theme From 'Deliverance' (Dueling Banjos)

"The Internationale" - The Red Army Chorus

(just kidding.)

Actually, my favorite CD for stick/knife work is "Planet Drum" by Mickey Hart (the Grateful Dead drummer) - he got together the best percussionists from all over the world for this. Try this if you haven't heard it before, it _really_ puts you in the mood!

Any kind of tribal music is great for me - Tribal American, Irish, Scottish, African, Indonesian.

BAGPIPE MUSIC! There's nothing like the skirl of "The Devil's Handbag" to waken the old bloodlust in your veins. It will clear out most of the rest of the gym, to be sure, except for any Celts.

For grappling/heavy bag/ Revgear dummy/lifting weights

Hair of the Dog - Nazareth
Expect No Mercy - Nazareth
Gone Dead Train - Nazareth (I'm showing my age here...)

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones or especially the new version by the Gobs

The County Hell - The Pogues
Turkish Song of the Damned - The Pogues
Transmetropolitan - The Pogues
Back in the County Hell - The Pogues

(The Pogues, baby! Yeah!)

Most of the Rocky IV Soundtrack

Anvil of Crom from The Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack

The Fort Battle Theme from Last of the Mohicans (The Gracies use this as their entry theme)

Enter Sandman - Metallica

Theme from "Escape From LA" by White Zombie

I Will Not Go Quietly - Don Hendley

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty

Theme from "The Warriors" and "Baseball Fury Chase"

Lots of Warren Zevon: The Ballad of Boom Boom Mancini; Jungle Work; Porcelain Monkey; Seminole Bingo; Transverse City; Stand in the Fire; The Factory

AC/DC - All Night Long

American Bad*** by Kid Rock

Carmina Burana

Lunatic Fringe - Red Ryder

Fight Like A Brave - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Soundtrack to "Mortal Kombat" (no, really!)

I Still Believe (from the "Lost Boys" soundtrack)

The Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth

Iggy Pop: Lust for Life

Los Lobos - "Will the Wolf Survive"

For cardio (on the recumbent bike, elliptical trainer, stairclimber): I gotta confess, when I'm doing cardio, I listen to music I wouldn't listen to at any other time - upbeat, peppy, fluffy Top 40 stuff. Go figure. I'd be too embarassed to list some of these titles. Lots of 80s girl group music (the Bangles, the Go-Gos, Blondie). I also like to put on those ESPN Jock Jam CDs.

Gotta listen to some of the choices the rest of you listed - thanks!
 
Well, I don`t practice FMA, but I couldn`t resist this thread.....

Walk This Way- Aerosmith
Apache- Tim Viner`s Incredible Bongo Band
Around The World- Daft Punk
Get Up, Get Into It, And Get Involved- James Brown
I Believe In Miracles- Jackson Sisters
The Smurf- Tyrone Brunson
Gym Tonic- Bob Sinclair
Master Of Puppets- Metallica

That`s what I thought of as for now, I have in exess of 300 CDs and Vinyls with various types of music.
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Of course there are other selections as well, my Massive Attack CDs, the Chemical Brothers CDs, movie soundtracks (Rocky, Streetfighter, The Warriors, and others), maybe even Kraftwerk on a weird day.
Forgot to mention Theme From S.W.A.T., don`t know the artist though.....

NILS

[This message has been edited by NILS (edited 03-14-2001).]
 
I used to belong to this boxing gym where the owner would play constant Doors, ya know, Whiskey Bar (Alabama Song) and The End. Nothing in the world like working oyurself into a tearing the bag off the chain frenzy with a drunken Jim Morrison in the background. Sorta makes for a good psycho edge image, this goofy freak in the middle of the room ripping the heavy bag own again with Jim urging the killer on down the hall....

More practically, I dig on Crystal Method's Vegas album.

Iggy Pop's Cold Metal (Instinct album),

Nothing better than Led Zepplin's Bring it On Home for a good last set of heavy bench work. A solid clubby techno for a hard contact workout.

These days I prefer to hear the heavy constant THWOP of a body hiting the mat, either mine, partner's or the guy next to me. Though a chorus of "It's Raining Men" is always good in the gym.
 
Don't know if anyone put this one down yet, but this one song gets me all fired up: The theme from Enter the Dragon. Just downloaded it off of Napster.
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Lets see, here's some great music to flip balisongs to:

Aerosmith
Korn
NIN
Linkin Park
Union Underground
Led Zepplin-Immigrant Song
Rob D.-Clubbed to Death
AC/DC
Insane Clown Posse
Powerman 5000 (especially "When Worlds Collide")
Kittie-Brackish
Machine Head
Primus
Rammstein
Rob Zombie
Rollins Band
Tekken 3-Tekken theme (dance remix and techno version)
Rage Against the Machine
Pink Floyd
Godsmack
Limp Bizkit
Coal Chamber
Kid Rock
P.O.D.

And my favorite: Disturbed


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Cameron

"And shepards we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, so we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be, En Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti"
A few of my balisongs
My Photopoint album

[This message has been edited by BalisongMan (edited 03-28-2001).]
 
my most recent music I listen to for balisong flipping is from the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon soundtrack. "Night Fight". It's got a good steadily increasing beat, and hey, it was made for a fight scene
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