Author Topic: Workout music (Read 13454 times)

iago · « **on:** April 07, 2006, 09:52:03 pm »

My stepdad wants me to make him a CD of workout music. Anybody have suggestions of music with good beat/energy? Specific artists or songs would be best. Something that a 40+ person would listen to.

His first suggestions -- Life is a HIghway.

Any ideas?

Joe · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2006, 10:22:12 pm »

Jeff Deyo - Lose Myself
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
Deliverance - J.I.G.
Deliverance - Purgatory Sandwich With Mustard (unless your dad is catholic!)
Hillsong - Better Is One Day
The Insyderz - Shout To The Lord

Lose Myself isn't all that heavy of a beat, but J.I.G will provide an intense workout. Better is One Day would be a stretch / cool down, I think.

Sidoh · « **Reply #2 on:** April 07, 2006, 10:53:53 pm »

Unearth - The Great Dividers. There's a point where it picks up; if you're working out, I think it would really help you get moving (if you're into that kind of music, which I know you are).

iago · « **Reply #3 on:** April 07, 2006, 11:02:48 pm »

Cool, I'll check it out. Here are other songs I've been thinking of:

Life is a Highway
Summer of '69
Believe (gotta have some Cher!)
Enter Sandman
Worlds Collide
Dragula
Toxic Waltz

igimo1 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 07, 2006, 11:03:44 pm »

Any sort of non-lyrical techno would be good for workouts.

iago · « **Reply #5 on:** April 07, 2006, 11:14:01 pm »

I don't think he likes techno. He wants more like something he can listen to and enjoy.

RoMi · « **Reply #6 on:** April 07, 2006, 11:34:22 pm »

Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

Joe · « **Reply #7 on:** April 07, 2006, 11:56:16 pm »

Sure, just ignore my Christian workout program. =(

d&q · « **Reply #8 on:** April 08, 2006, 01:44:02 am »

Olivia Newton-John - Physical

Chavo · « **Reply #9 on:** April 08, 2006, 03:00:29 am »

Any upbeat classic rock is great workout music. AC DC - *

rabbit · « **Reply #10 on:** April 08, 2006, 07:10:25 am »

Another good Powerman 5000 workout song is When Worlds Collide. You could always use Immigrant Song too.....

Hitmen · « **Reply #11 on:** April 08, 2006, 08:35:13 am »

Quote from: iago on April 07, 2006, 09:52:03 pm

My stepdad wants me to make him a CD of workout music. Anybody have suggestions of music with good beat/energy? Specific artists or songs would be best. Something that a 40+ person would listen to.

His first suggestions -- Life is a HIghway.

Any ideas?

Fuck!...I'm Dead

iago · « **Reply #12 on:** April 08, 2006, 09:40:04 am »

Eye of the Tiger and AC/DC are good calls.

I already put When Worlds Collide on my list.

And no, I'm not making my stepdad listen to "Fuck!...I'm Dead"

Newby · « **Reply #13 on:** April 08, 2006, 02:36:57 pm »

Pig Destroyer
Napalm Death
Carcass
Discharge
Bolt Thrower (first few albums)
Terrorizer

Super_X · « **Reply #14 on:** April 08, 2006, 02:42:50 pm »

http://www.bushflash.com/nazi.html <--- the Rush Limbaugh -- I'm a Nazi rap's pretty good. I like it. And it's up beat!

flight of the valkyrie that's a good song, not really work-out like, though.

Joe · « **Reply #15 on:** April 08, 2006, 03:56:33 pm »

Quote from: Newby on April 08, 2006, 02:36:57 pm

Pig Destroyer
Napalm Death
Carcass
Discharge
Bolt Thrower (first few albums)
Terrorizer

Are you trying to give iago's old stepman a workout or a heart attack?

iago · « **Reply #16 on:** April 08, 2006, 05:26:24 pm »

Ok, what don't you guys understand about OLD PEOPLE MUSIC?

Sidoh, he hated Unearth. I put it on there hoping it would be something appropriate, but it wasn't.

Here's the final list that they don't seem to mind (divided onto two CDs):
1.Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
2.ACDC - Hells Bells
3.ACDC - Highway To Hell
4.Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
5.Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
6.Cher - Believe
7.Deep Purple - Highway Star
8.Gary Glitter - Rock and Roll
9.Rush - Fly By Night
10.Streetheart - Action
11.Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

1.Tom Cochraine - Life is a Highway
2.ACDC - Back In Black
3.ACDC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
4.ACDC - TNT
5.Black Sabbath - Iron Man
6.Bryan Adams - The Summer of '69
7.Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name
8.Metallica - Enter Sandman
9.Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
10.Ozzy Osbourne - Paranoid
11.Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like I Do

Sidoh · « **Reply #17 on:** April 08, 2006, 05:35:06 pm »

Quote from: iago on April 08, 2006, 05:26:24 pm

Sidoh, he hated Unearth. I put it on there hoping it would be something appropriate, but it wasn't.

Heh, missed the part (initially) where it was for your stepdad. You mean you didn't listen to it before you put it on? I would've thought you'd heart hat song before anyway.

Hitmen · « **Reply #18 on:** April 08, 2006, 05:45:27 pm »

Judging by that list, he might like Jethro Tull. My dad loves them, and they rock pretty hard. JAZZ FLUTE SOLO!!

iago · « **Reply #19 on:** April 08, 2006, 05:47:26 pm »

Quote from: Sidoh on April 08, 2006, 05:35:06 pm

Quote from: iago on April 08, 2006, 05:26:24 pm
Sidoh, he hated Unearth. I put it on there hoping it would be something appropriate, but it wasn't.

Heh, missed the part (initially) where it was for your stepdad. You mean you didn't listen to it before you put it on? I would've thought you'd heart hat song before anyway.

Well, it was sort of a demo cd. Pretty much, "Which of these song styles do you like?" to give me a better idea. For like $.10/cd, I'm not worried about throwing one out. I threw a second one out, too, when my laptop's battery died. Oops

I'm sure I've heard the song, but I didn't specifically remember.

iago · « **Reply #20 on:** April 08, 2006, 05:51:25 pm »

Quote from: Hitmen on April 08, 2006, 05:45:27 pm

Judging by that list, he might like Jethro Tull. My dad loves them, and they rock pretty hard. JAZZ FLUTE SOLO!!

Hah, that's not bad! Flutes are awesome, when used properly.

Quik · « **Reply #21 on:** April 08, 2006, 06:13:44 pm »

Quote from: iago on April 08, 2006, 05:51:25 pm

Quote from: Hitmen on April 08, 2006, 05:45:27 pm
Judging by that list, he might like Jethro Tull. My dad loves them, and they rock pretty hard. JAZZ FLUTE SOLO!!

Hah, that's not bad! Flutes are awesome, when used properly.

I'm guessing the screenwriters of American Pie do not fall into the "correctly" category?

iago · « **Reply #22 on:** April 08, 2006, 06:35:42 pm »

Quote from: Quik on April 08, 2006, 06:13:44 pm

Quote from: iago on April 08, 2006, 05:51:25 pm
Quote from: Hitmen on April 08, 2006, 05:45:27 pm
Judging by that list, he might like Jethro Tull. My dad loves them, and they rock pretty hard. JAZZ FLUTE SOLO!!

Hah, that's not bad! Flutes are awesome, when used properly.

I'm guessing the screenwriters of American Pie do not fall into the "correctly" category?

When played properly, I meant!

deadly7 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 08, 2006, 11:24:13 pm »

Blue Man Group and The Chemical Brothers should suit your father's needs quite well.

Newby · « **Reply #24 on:** April 09, 2006, 04:47:15 pm »

Hah. I forgot Cryptic Slaughter. Fack.

I was kidding about the bands. Hitmen recommended Fuck I'm Dead, so I contributed the same way.

Towelie · « **Reply #25 on:** April 09, 2006, 04:50:27 pm »

Quote from: iago on April 07, 2006, 09:52:03 pm

My stepdad wants me to make him a CD of workout music. Anybody have suggestions of music with good beat/energy? Specific artists or songs would be best. Something that a 40+ person would listen to.

His first suggestions -- Life is a HIghway.

Any ideas?

Ok, something that has a shit load of energy, Fuck!... I'm Dead or Torsofuck..... ok just kidding

. Umm, what does your dad like to listen to in general ? Is he into classical rock, or what?

iago · « **Reply #26 on:** April 09, 2006, 06:38:29 pm »

Yeah, classic rock and light rock. But don't worry, I have enough for now.

Towelie · « **Reply #27 on:** April 09, 2006, 07:52:44 pm »

sorry, didnt bother to read the whole thing

. Reading it now, a lot of that is what I was thinking of for suggestions, except no led zepplin in there. if you ever make another cd for him, but maybe the immigrant song on it.

Mythix · « **Reply #28 on:** April 11, 2006, 06:38:43 pm »

YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND NOTHINGS GONNA EVER BRING YOU DOWN! /karate kid

zorm · « **Reply #29 on:** April 11, 2006, 08:57:21 pm »

Like you should tar+gzip those songs and email them to razorm@gmail.com iago! I have to put together a presentation with a target audience in the same age group.

Newby · « **Reply #30 on:** April 11, 2006, 08:59:57 pm »

AFAIK the best compression on mp3 files is rar. gzip and bzip2 fail to compare to how much space you can save. (the half a megabyte that is)

iago · « **Reply #31 on:** April 11, 2006, 09:17:52 pm »

Quote from: zorm on April 11, 2006, 08:57:21 pm

Like you should tar+gzip those songs and email them to razorm@gmail.com iago! I have to put together a presentation with a target audience in the same age group.

Just use Limewire. I found them all with ease.

Quote from: Newby on April 11, 2006, 08:59:57 pm

AFAIK the best compression on mp3 files is rar. gzip and bzip2 fail to compare to how much space you can save. (the half a megabyte that is)

By design, MP3's already have really high ... bah, what's that word for randomness? Entropy? Something like that. Anyway, they don't have very many patterns to exploit so compression won't do much at all to them.

Newby · « **Reply #32 on:** April 11, 2006, 09:48:06 pm »

So? You can still shave off half a meg or so.

zorm · « **Reply #33 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:29:13 pm »

Quote from: Newby on April 11, 2006, 08:59:57 pm

AFAIK the best compression on mp3 files is rar. gzip and bzip2 fail to compare to how much space you can save. (the half a megabyte that is)

For the sake of iago I was going with something Linux natively supports. Wouldn't want him to have to go out of his way but if he won't send me the music anyways bleh @ him!

Chavo · « **Reply #34 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:30:25 pm »

If you wanted to go all out, you could reencode all of the mp3s in a variable bitrate format that supports higher compression :-P

Newby · « **Reply #35 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:34:32 pm »

Quote from: zorm on April 11, 2006, 10:29:13 pm

Quote from: Newby on April 11, 2006, 08:59:57 pm
AFAIK the best compression on mp3 files is rar. gzip and bzip2 fail to compare to how much space you can save. (the half a megabyte that is)

For the sake of iago I was going with something Linux natively supports. Wouldn't want him to have to go out of his way but if he won't send me the music anyways bleh @ him!

Uhh, winRAR works on Linux.

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rar a -r -m5 forzorm.rar ./path/to/mp3s

zorm · « **Reply #36 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:51:21 pm »

Quote from: Newby on April 11, 2006, 10:34:32 pm

Uhh, winRAR works on Linux.

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rar a -r -m5 forzorm.rar ./path/to/mp3s

Thats something Linux distros normally ship with? Cause on the winRAR site is says its not free... so yeah I doubt iago is using winRAR.

rabbit · « **Reply #37 on:** April 11, 2006, 10:56:14 pm »

WinRAR is not free. RAR is free.

iago · « **Reply #38 on:** April 11, 2006, 11:40:25 pm »

Quote from: zorm on April 11, 2006, 10:29:13 pm

Quote from: Newby on April 11, 2006, 08:59:57 pm
AFAIK the best compression on mp3 files is rar. gzip and bzip2 fail to compare to how much space you can save. (the half a megabyte that is)

For the sake of iago I was going with something Linux natively supports. Wouldn't want him to have to go out of his way but if he won't send me the music anyways bleh @ him!

Linux doesn't natively support any file compression. however gzip, bzip2, and infozip (which uses .zip format) generally ship by default. You shouldn't mix those up!

zorm · « **Reply #39 on:** April 12, 2006, 12:03:21 am »

Quote from: iago on April 11, 2006, 11:40:25 pm

Linux doesn't natively support any file compression. however gzip, bzip2, and infozip (which uses .zip format) generally ship by default. You shouldn't mix those up!

Erm, I was thinking correctly but only stated it correctly in my previous post when mentions linux, distros and shipping normally.

Newby · « **Reply #40 on:** April 12, 2006, 02:14:16 pm »

Quote from: zorm on April 11, 2006, 10:51:21 pm

Quote from: Newby on April 11, 2006, 10:34:32 pm
Uhh, winRAR works on Linux.

Code: [Select]
rar a -r -m5 forzorm.rar ./path/to/mp3s

Thats something Linux distros normally ship with? Cause on the winRAR site is says its not free... so yeah I doubt iago is using winRAR.

You didn't say ships with, you said "natively supports".

You lose.

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Author Topic: Workout music (Read 13454 times)