MP3 player tunes... does every runner have (Read 786 times)

Born to Run on his or her MP3 player or what?

Nope...but I do have Eminem's "Lose Yourself," which seems to be a pretty universal running fave.

Nope. I have 766 songs on my ipod and that's not one of them. My favorite running song is "Believe" by the Chemical Brothers.

Good call, you might want to check out "Crystal Method" or "Fischerspooner" if you like the Chemical Bros. Good beats for music.

Not a Springsteen fan. I have two iPods, a shuffle and a 30gb. Plenty of good running music, Metallica, Green Day, Korn, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Zeppelin, AC/DC, etc. Lots of electronic music too, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Fat Boy Slim.

Born to Run on his or her MP3 player or what?

oh god no - I would rather take sledgehammers to my feet (Misery style). Or ears.

Good call, you might want to check out "Crystal Method" or "Fischerspooner" if you like the Chemical Bros. Good beats for music.

Here's wishing DJ steveboy used more Big Beat in his mixes. Used to have hours or playlists for gym workouts and spinning, with Crystal Method, Propellerheads, the brothers Chemical as well as Dust, and whatever industrial had good elecro beats such as late Frontline Assembbly. Here's wishing DJsteve used that stuff too, hehe.

Funny, I made a discovery today - I have this CD "Blowback" by a guy called Tricky and I've always found it difficult to listen to - it's good, but it's very "agressive" and always leaves me feeling vaguely angry. So, I played it while running today - instant PB for the course AND it made me forget it was sleeting and blowing a gale out there

I only use tunes on the treadmill. Lately, I switched from my well-worn DopeRunnin' Groovz playlist to some of the Podrunner mixes by our own DJ Steveboy Boyett. I've been pretty pleased -- I thought the repetition would wear on me, but it's quite the opposite -- I seem to zone out into a trance, and the next thing I know another mile has flown by.

There is a Nike+ workout on iTunes by Crystal Method called "Drive." It is excellent. Peaches has some great remixes that are fantastic for running, too.

Here's an interesting story about that mix and Nike. When Podrunner first hit, we negotiated with Nike for sponsorship. Podcasting was still relatively new and corporate sponsorship was nonexistent, and here I was at the top of iTunes talking to NIKE, ferchrissake. They got all kinds of info from us -- demographics, methodology, blah blah -- and then just ... went away. Wouldn't return calls. Didn't answer queries. Two weeks later Nike announced the Nike Sport Kit device. I went berserk -- this thing was genetically engineered for Podrunner! What gives? Two weeks after that, iTunes announced the Crystal Method workout mix for Nike Sport Kit in a special Nike section of iTunes. Golly, what an amazing coincidence. The karma on that was wonderful: a lot of people posted iTunes reviews about how lousy the CM mix was, and how there was a ton of free Podrunner mixes right over this way. My listenership doubled within two weeks of the CM mix's debut. I like Crystal Method as DJs and doubt they knew anything about me when they were contacted by Nike. But I did read an interview with them in which they said, no, we're not runners, but we talked to friends who run. Not easy to come by that level of of commitment and research nowadays.