Girlwithnoname – Fitness at Home

Perfect timing!

Not only did I recently get a question about motivational workout music for one of my “Your Questions Answered… On Video” features over on the “Hot at Home” site, but I’ve also recently updated my own workout music playlist.

At first I culled my big 600+ songs playlist down to JUST my very favorites.

That worked out to be about 100 songs, and I called it my ‘Best of the Best’ playlist. I shared it with you here a few months ago.

However, I found that my ‘Best of the Best’ playlist was a little lacking just because there were only about 100 songs on it and I was hearing the same songs over and over again.

Quite frankly, they were starting to wear thin from hearing them too often.

But, I still love those songs for working out …

… I just don’t want to get SICK of them.

And there were a few songs I found myself missing, and wishing would come on while I was grinding away on the weight stack or out for a long run or intense intervals session.

So, I updated my playlist by adding in what I was missing and a few other selections that always make me want to move my body.

And THAT’s what makes a song a good WORKOUT song.

You may love it like MAD, but if it doesn’t make you want to move your body or feel more energy in your body, it just WON’T be right as a workout song.

So, now my list is about 200-ish songs.

I think I will call this one my ‘Goldilocks Mix’. It’s not too big, it’s not too small, it’s JUUUUST RIIIIGHT!!! (lol)

And, incidentally … HOW did we EVER get along with just a walkman with a self-made mixed cassette tape in it? Same 16 songs over and over with every workout? I could never do that these days. I’m too spoiled with the awesome functionality and storage capacity of my mp3 player.

But I digress. Let’s get on with wandering through my new workout playlist.

BUT FIRST, PLEASE NOTE: Some of these songs come with a STRONG parental advisory warning.

Don’t start downloading and listening around the tykes or at work … no sense scarring our future generations or getting yourself fired, right? Listen with an open mind and in a safe (for everyone) environment.

Okay, here ya go. Feel free to peruse it and see what’s in there that might be perfect for your own workout playlist.

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Jackie’s ‘GOLDILOCKS MIX’ Workout Playlist

(btw, any song I felt needed an explanation, I added it italicized in brackets)

5th Dimension, The – Age of Aquarius, Let the Sun Shine In (love the 2nd half the most)
Acid Horse – No Name, No Slogan (great beat)
Adam And The Ants – Dog Eat Dog (tribal beats make for fast feets)
Adele – Rolling in the Deep
Aerosmith – Dream On
Anti-Flag – The Press Corpse (great angst for strength)
Armah, Bomani ‘D’mite – Read A Book (just really damned funny)
Audra – What Your Eyes Had Seen (so many goth songs are great for beats and emotion)
Bauhaus – Third Uncle (most intense beat ever)
Beastie Boys with Santigold – Don’t Play No Games That I Can’t Win
Belfegore – All That I Wanted
Beverly Sisters, The – The Wait (not the trio of sisters from the 40s, its a Canadian 80s alt band)
Big Audio Dynamite – I Turned Out A Punk (speaks to me cuz *I* used to be punk in the 80s)
Big Pig – I Can’t Break Away
Blancmange – Feel Me Now
Blondie – Atomic
Blondie – Victor (Blondie does great angst!)
Bodyrockers – I Like The Way You Move
Bow Wow Wow – Wild In The Country
Cameo – Word Up
Candlebox – You
Cars, The – Dangerous Type
Chameleons, The – Swamp Thing
Chapin, Harry – Cats In The Cradle (yes, it’s super cheesy but it makes the list cuz it makes me move)
Charlatans UK, The – Tremelo Song
Chemical Brothers, The – Believe
Chrome – Trip The Switch
Clan Of Xymox, The – A Day
Clan Of Xymox, The – Stranger
Clark, Anne – Our Darkness
Click Click – Sweet Stuff
Cochrane, Tom & Red Rider – Ocean Blue (some slow songs make me want to move or feel strong, it’s weird, I know)
Constellations, The – Felicia
Covenant – Afterhours (more awesome moody goth)
Cracker – Low
Cracker – Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)
Cranes – Shining Road
Cure, The – Fascination Street
Cure, The – Lullaby
Damned, The – Eloise
Damned, The – In Dulce Decorum (sometimes it’s about the story the song tells)
Dandy Warhols, The – Bohemian Like You
Dandy Warhols, The – Get Off
Dandy Warhols, The – Godless (my brain leaves for other planets when I listen to this song, which makes me feel powerful in a weird way)
Dangerous Muse – The Rejection
Dave Clark Five, The – Bits And Pieces (yes, even old 60s songs can make the cut)
Days Of The New – Enemy
Deadmau5 with Kaskade – I Remember (another song that takes my brain away and leaves me with nothing but strength)
Death In Vegas – Dirge (bye bye brain, hello body, let’s work)
Derek and the Dominoes – Layla
Diamond Rings – I’m Just Me
DJ Champion – Alive Again
DJ Champion – No Heaven
DOA – War
Eminem – Without Me
Everlast – Let Go
Faith No More – Epic
Faith No More – Midlife Crisis
Faith No More – We Care A Lot
Fiction 8 – Let Go
Fischerspooner – Just Let Go [thin white duke mix]
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Florence & The Machine – What The Water Gave Me
Flying Lizards, The – Dizzy Miss Lizzie
Folk Implosion, The – Natural One
Front 242 – Lovely Day
Front 242 – Until Death Us Do Part
Fun Boy Three – The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (it’s all about the lyrics)
Fun Boy Three & Bananarama – It Ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It)
Gomez – How We Operate
Granddaddy – The Crystal Lake
Handsome Furs – Cheap Music
Headless Chickens – Expecting To Fly
Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Heaven 17 – We Live So Fast
Holger Hiller – Das Feuer (an old one from my punk days, inexplicable, I know! LOL)
Hoodoo Gurus – I Want You Back
Hoodoo Gurus – Leilani
Hoodoo Gurus – Like Wow! Wipeout
Hot Butter – Popcorn (okay, I should maybe hang my head for this one! so cheesy!)
Idol, Billy – Dancing With Myself
Idol, Billy – Rebel Yell
Idol, Billy – White Wedding
Imperial Teen – Yoo Hoo (oh, she’s SO angsty!)
Information Society – Ending World 1.1
James – Lose Control
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit (another oldie, love the lyrics and her voice)
Judas Priest – You Got Another Thing Comin’
JX – You Belong To Me
K-Os – BLondes
Kasabian – Days Are Forgotten
King Crimson – Sleepless
LaTour – Allen’s Got A New Hi-Fi
LaTour – Blue (goodbye brain, hello body)
Linkin Park – Bleed It Out
Linkin Park – Burn It Down
Live – I Alone
LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem (cheesy, sure, but I love the ‘shufflin, shufflin’ part)
Lords Of The New Church – Russian Roulette
Love & Rockets – Haunted (When The Minutes Drag) (another ‘brain, go away’ song)
Love & Rockets – Kundalini Express
Love & Rockets – No New Tale To Tell
Love & Rockets – Yin & Yang The Flower Pot Man
Loverboy – Turn Me Loose
Madness – One Step Beyond
Manchester Orchestra – I’ve Got Friends
Marr, Johnny – Bangin’ On
Maurice And The Cliches – Soft Core
Men Without Hats – Living In China
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Middle Class Rut – I Guess You Could Say
Mission UK, The – Tower Of Strength (now THIS is a PERFECT song to help you feel STRONG!)
Moby – Extreme Ways
Moev – Head Down
Monkees, The – All Of Your Toys (oh shush, I like the Monkees! What’s wrong with 70s cheese? lol)
Monkees, The – Randy Scouse Git
Mundy – To You I Bestow
Murphy, Peter – Cuts You Up
Naked And Famous, The – Girls Like You
Nine Inch Nails – March Of The Pigs
Offspring, The – Gone Away (the emotion this guy belts out just pushes serious strength into me)
Oleander – Why I’m Here (same here, emotion = strength)
One Dove – Fallen
Partridge Family, The – I Think I Love You (LOL.. okay, ya got me. I’m embarrassed! haha)
Pennywise – Fuck Authority (the epitome of angst)
Petty, Tom And The Heartbreakers – Running Down A Dream
Pink Floyd – Run Like Hell
Pixies, The – Gouge Away
Placebo – For What It’s Worth
Platinum Blonde – Doesn’t Really Matter (love the angst in this one too, although it’s less obvious than other songs)
Platinum Blonde – I’m Not In Love
Prefab Sprout – Faron
Prince – The Beautiful Ones (it’s the screaming at the end that gets me, so much RAW EMOTION there!!)
Propellerheads – History Repeating
Psychedelic Furs, The – Love My Way
Puscifer feat. Milla Jovavich – The Mission
Queens Of The Stone Age – Go With The Flow
Ramones, The – I Just Wanna Have Something To Do
Ramones, The – Somebody Put Something In My Drink (growwwwl… ANGST + ANGER = STRENGTH!!)
Rational Youth – City Of Light
Rational Youth – Saturdays In Silesia
Redlight King – Old Man
Republica – Ready To Go
Rob ‘n Raz & Leila K – Got To Get
Roberts, Sam – I Feel You
Rolling Stones, The – Emotional Rescue (I love the story and emotion, it takes me away, lends me power)
Run DMC with Jason Nevins – It’s Like This
Santana – Smooth
Severed Heads, The – Twenty Deadly Diseases
Shamen, The – Make It Mine
Shamen, The – Move Any Mountain (sometimes it’s just the concept… I too want to move any mountain)
Shriekback – Lined Up
Simple Minds – I Travel
Simple Minds – Theme For Great Cities
Skinny Puppy – Candle (angst and the weird beat that isn’t quite on the beat take me into ‘the zone’)
Smiths, The – What Difference Does It Make?
Sneaker Pimps – Six Underground
Sniff ‘N The Tears – Driver’s Seat
Squeeze – Take Me, I’m Yours
Stabbing Westward – Save Yourself
Stabbing Westward – Shame
Stabbing Westward – What Do I Have To Do
Starr, Mazzy – Into Dust (this takes my brain into other worlds and there I am left with just the thing I’m doing – LIFTING HEAVY)
Starsailor – Into The Crossfire
Stranglers, The – Life Shows No Mercy
Stray Cats – Stray Cat Strut (it makes me want to sing along, which makes me want to move and work hard)
Streetheart – Miss Plaza Suite (sad story, emotion = strength)
Styx – Mr. Roboto (haha, whatever, I like this song, think what you want)
Sweet, The – Fox On The Run
Sylvester – You Make Me Feel (GREAT disco song for cranking up the intensity)
Talk Talk – It’s My Life (the messages in these first two Talk Talk songs makes me want to work hard and make my life the best it can be)
Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
Talk Talk – Talk Talk
The The – This Is The Day (same deal as the Talk Talk songs, it’s the first day of the rest of your life, make it count)
Time, The – Jungle Love
TSOL (The Sons of Liberty) – Revenge
Trooper – The Boys In The Bright White Sports Car
TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
Violent Femmes – I Hear The Rain
Visage – Fade To Grey
W.A.S.P. – Paint It Black (angst at it’s finest, this might be my MOST favorite lifting song)
Watchmen, The – My Life As A Stereo
Waterboys, The – Don’t Bang The Drum (starts slow but builds to something magical and strength-inducing)
Whip, The – Trash
Williams, Mason – Classical Gas (I have no explanation, it just makes my body get moving)
Wobble, Jah, Czukay, Holger and Leizbeit, Jaki – How Much Are They (another ‘bye-bye brain, hello body’ song)
Wolfsheim – Touch (another goth song that covers my brain in emotion and wraps my body in strength)
Yello – Bostich
Yello – Call It Love [trego snare mix]
Yello – Lost Again (time to get lost in the sounds and the emotion and just be one with the iron)
Yolanda Be Cool feat. DCup – We No Speak Americano
Zager, Michael Band – Let’s All Chant (hey, disco has it’s place and it spells it out for you right there in the lyrics – MOVE YOUR BODY!)

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Wow! Those were fun to type out, since I had to listen to a clip of each one and write it down as I went. It was hard to sit still with this laptop on my lap!

So, there ya have it. My latest workout playlist. Embarrassing admissions and all!

Hey, those are the songs that make me want to MOVE … or that make me feel strong and powerful while listening to them. Perfect for working out.

Who cares if some of them are cheesy or downright politically incorrect? I’m the only one that has to listen to them and they make my workouts BETTER …

… and that’s all that really matters.

I hope my list gave you some great ideas for songs for your own workout playlists.

Have fun downloading!

Have a fit, fun and fantastic day.
Girlwithnoname

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