music to train to
 

just got my trainer set up...now i just need some good tunes to train to....any suggestions??

"Intravenous Agnostic" by the Manic Street Preachers. It's on the "Know Your Enemy" CD.

Anything heavy and hard. Fast paced works best. If the song goes high and low it works best for intervals as you can try to match the rythm

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene.
It's all instrumental and has a variety of themes to it, to keep the listening experience interesting.
I keep a beater boom box in the garage for entertainment while on my Nordic Trak. Hope this helps.

It depends on what you like.

I actually like a lot of variety- that's probably because I teach a lot of indoor cycling classes, so I constantly have to put together a cd for each class every week.

Here are some music selections from different genres I like:

Riverdance Sountrack- try Anacondia and the Riverdance Theme

Afrocelt Sound System- Whirl-y-wheel, Release, Lover of Light, Riding the Waves

Dario G- Sunchyme, Peaches

Creed- (anything)

Living Colour- Cult of Personality

Seal- Kissed by a Rose, Fly Like an Eagle, Crazy, Don't Cry

Charlie's Angels soundtrack

Prodigy- Firestarter, Smack My B*tch Up

Moby- Bodyrock, Porcelain

Paul Hardcastle- Feel It

Safri Dao- Played Alive (The Bongo Song), Sweet Freedom

Apollo 440- (anything)

Juno Reactor- Conga Fury,

Gus Gus- Believe

Sasha and Digweed (anything)

The Crystal Method (anything)

Orbital (anything)

Dr. Didg- Sun of Tut, Serotonality, Bouncy

Underworld (anything, especially from the Trainspotting soundtrack)

LTJ Bukim (I'll have to get the name of the album from home- he is an awesome dj with some good tracks)

John Tesh (Canta Domine, Tour de France soundtrack- the official music of the 1988 Tour de France and it's good.... scary good....)

Sting- Desert Rose, Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

Quindon Carver- When Doves Cry (awesome remake from the Baz Luhrmann soundtrack- Something for Everybody)

Janet Jackson- Son of A Gun, Scream

Jennifer Lopez- Let's Get Loud, Play

Da Brat- What Chu Like

Brandy- Full Moon

Faith Evans- You Gets No Love

Mary J. Blige- No More Drama, You Remind Me, Real Love

Madonna- Ray of Light, Music, Fever, Like a Prayer

Van Halen- Hot for Teacher

Guns N' Roses- Welcome to the Jungle, Sweet Child O' Mine

Queen- We are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody

Rush- Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Fly by Night

Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil

Led Zepplin- Whole Lotta Love, Dazed and Confused (ok, just about anything... too many to list)

Yes- Owner of a Lonely Heart, Roundabout, America

Steely Dan- Peg

Pink Floyd- the entire album of Dark Side of the Moon

Jimi Hendrix- The Wind Cries Mary, Purple Haze, Are You Experienced, Foxy Lady

Fatboy Slim- Praise You, Gangster Tripping, Rockafeller Skank, Going Out of My Head (Michael Jackson remake), Funk Soul Brother (I think that's what it's called),

Dirty Vegas- Days Go By (if you're not tired of hearing it yet)

Faithless- God is a DJ

Luscious Jackson- Roses Fade, Naked Eye

Moodswings- Moodswings Overture, Spiritual High (State of Independence)

Chicane- anything (I like "Saltwater" and "Don't Give Up" a lot)

Stevie Wonder- As

Jamiroquai- Deeper Underground, Cosmic Girl, Emergency on Planet Earth, Space Cowboy, Canned Heat, Virtual Insanity, Revolution 1993, Too Young to Die, Didgin' Out

Koffee Brown- After the Party
(my personal favorite.... :D )

Ok, that should be enough to hold anyone over for weeks and weeks of riding. That was the stuff that came off the top of my head. I'm sure you can find these in the popular downloads section. The only caveat- just make sure the music fits the mood of what you're trying to do. For instance, I wouldn't be playing Faith Evans if I were working on speed intervals. It's too slow. And I wouldn't play Hot for Teacher for hills- it's too fast. You really want to find music that reflects the objective of the exercise.


Koffee Brown

uh....wow...impressive. :)

Koffee,

Jamiraquoi? didn't know he was popular here,
haven't really heard any since I stopped listening
to european music.
a few others:

Wamdu project - queen of my castle (great video too!)

Al DiMeola - Race with the Devil on Spanish highway. good
for fast workouts. . .

Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien.

Seeds - Pushing too hard (thanks Velocipedio, I had forgotten
this gem).

Focus - hocus pokus (or is it hocus pokus - focus?)

Steve Kahn - arrows

Tim Weissberg - forget album name, but the one showing
him riding a COLNAGO (yeah he's a rider!).
Stones Can't you hear me knockin? (all of sticky fingers is good).

Marty

Eurodance, Techno

Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve - interesting use of rhythms

Tiny Tim -- "Tiptoe Through The Tulips."
Anything by Lawrence Welk that features accordianist Myron Florian.
Anything by the U.S. Marine Band, 8th and I, Washington, DC.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins -- "I put a spell on you!" :D

I like hip hop / RnB / rap.

Pantera

Deja Vu all over again.

Every Day Should be a Holiday - The Dandy Warhols

Spineshank-(Anything)

Definitely. Spineshank is awesome. I saw Meshuggah suggested too. All good bands to train to. As some can tell, I like heavy music to train to also. Even while in a car you get an adrenaline rush while listening to it. While training, heavy music provides a fast pace and that adrenaline rush can be transferred into more intense training (A year or two ago I used to run every morning, and bands like these seemed to help push me to go just a bit further). Here's some song-specific suggestions:

Spineshank
1. Athsmatic
2. Synthetic

In Flames
1. Cloud Connected
2. Reroute to Remain

And of course one by good ol' Metallica
1. It's Electric

Dark Tranquillity
1. Damage Done
2. Monochromatic Stains

Now getting more Alternative\Punkish
The Offspring
1. Nitro (Youth Energy)
2. All I Want

Foo Fighters-All My Life
The Vines-Get Free
Sabbath-War Pigs

-Middi-zon

Update to the song list-

I had to do a movie theme ride for this week, and I debuted the profile today- the class liked it... had some good beats, so I'll add these songs on:

Sir Mix-A-Lot- I like Big Butts (from the Charlie's Angels soundtrack)
Kool and the Gang- Jungle Boogie (from Pulp Fiction)
Afrocelt Sound System- Release ( from Stigmata)
Supermarket - Reinhold Heil (from Run Lola, Run)
Apollo 440- Charlie's Angels (from Charlie's Angels)
John Williams- Chariots of Fire
Madonna- Die Another Day (from James Bond)
Mission Impossible theme- get the album from MI 2, if possible
A. Morissette- Uninvited (from City of Angels)
Underworld- Born Slippy (from Trainspotting)
Brand New Heavies- Worlds Keep Spinning (from The Truth About Cats and Dogs)
Suzanne Vega- Caramel (from The Truth About Cats and Dogs)

The last song is for cooldown- they really did like it.... I kinda enjoyed it myself, although it was a b*tch putting together a one-size-fits-all profile based on road riding with the music this time around.

As a P.S., I should have mentioned the Run Lola Run soundtrack in my earlier post- it's one of the best albums I've ever enjoyed cycling to, indoors or outdoors. Every song on there is great.

Koffee

Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Queen of the stoneage

Progressive House.
DJ Encore
DJ Sammy
Alice DJ
Orbital
JFK (Whiplash Bad Boy Remix. Highly recommend this to get you hyped)
Christopher Lawrence
Oakenfold
Anything by Misistry of Sound
Anything Gatecrasher
John Digweed
atb
Tall Paul
Aurora
BT

Just to name a few.

Portent - I second Foo and Queens of the Stoneage. Wicked bands.

I don't listen to music to train... mainly because I don't train. ;)

However, if I was to train, and listen to music, My Goddess by The Exies would get me going!

if you need some good chillout music for winter spinning, try anything from Thievery Corporation, my favorite french techno group. Also most Oakenfold mixes or CDs are great for warming up and high intensity workouts.

Emporer - In the nightside eclipse , Anthems to the Welkin at dusk.
Satyricon
Dark Throne
Children of Bodom
Dimmu Borgir
Venom
Iron Maiden - Powerslave , Somewhere in time
Blind Guardian
Rhapsody
Virgin Steele
Kreator

I like to listen to everything..one of my personal favorites is Incubus. All of their music is great. John Mayer is awesome too, but maybe not for training. :)

If you're in an Americana mood:

Although you might not necessarily think of the Grateful Dead as good training music, try

"Not Fade Away/Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad"
"Johnny B. Goode"
"Turn On Your Love Light"