Musak Monday

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I am a doer. I like doing shit. Running, hiking, yoga, swimming, sky-diving, pilates, hanging upside from the ceiling... You could probably lock me in a gym and as long as there were protein bars and water I'd be fine.

If I had my way (read way more $$) I'd probably spend my time doing volunteer work and working out (and traveling, natch). I know you've heard of weird people like me, the people who always have to be doing something, who feel better after a run than they do after a beer (but it's close) and always have to have music while we do it. So, this playlist is for us, the movers, the twitchers, the people who were brainwashed by Nike and think 'Just Do It' is the 11th Commandment.


Get Up Off Your Ass

1. The Roots f/ Saigon & Truck North 'Criminal' <-- Entourage people, yes, this is that Saigon.
2. Lily Allen 'Knock'em Out'
3. Dans Le Sac vs Scrobious Pip 'Thou Shalt Always Kill' <-- A song about the perils of believing anything. Ever.
4. Harvey Danger 'Flagpole Sitta'
5. Kaiser Chiefs 'Everyday I Love you Less and Less' <-- For every ex that made you go WTF?
6. Razorlight 'In the Morning' <-- A strangely good song for doing stadium stairs.
7. Madonna 'Ray of Light' <-- If you tell me you don't groove to Madonna, you are LYING
8. Jay –Z '30-something'
9. Pulp 'Disco 2000' - <-- Bless you Life on Mars
10. Teddybears f/ Mad Cobra 'Cobrastyle' <--Appeared in an advert for Chuck and was covered by Robyn; I prefer the original
11. Dandy Warhols 'All the Money or the Simple Life'
12. Ingrid Michalson 'Be OK'
13. The Verve 'Love is Noise' <-- If anyone had told me five years ago there'd be a new Verve anything ever again I'd've laughed myself all the way to the pub.
14. Wheatus 'Teenage Dirtbag' <-- for all my Generation Kill people.
15. The Doors 'Peace Frog'
16. Missy Elliott 'Gossip Folks'
17. Dil Se 'Chaiyya Chaiyya'
18. Ben Folds 'Army' <-- In keeping with that military theme
19. The Chemical Brothers 'The Sunshine Underground'

>> Can be downloaded here <<

Comments

[longsunday.livejournal.com]

Beautiful. Snagging, thanks.

[lanthano.livejournal.com]

Ooh, something new to listen to at the gym today. Thanks!

[britchick5000.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)
I always need new exercise playlists. Also, Madonna's Ray of Light has been one of my favourite songs forever, and it is a perfect running song.

[tmelange.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[antheia.livejournal.com]

Teenage Dirtbag! YAY! I lost that ages ago, and need it!

[juno.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for posting - always looking for new running music.

I have some of these but had not put them on my iPod for running - so this is most welcome.

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

yay music thank you! (i recently uploaded a zip of music as well which you can see link at my lj if you are at all interested. Since I have downloaded so much from you, I mention just in case you've been dying for that song from Chorus Line.)

[elzed.livejournal.com]

Thanks, ma'am.

[kristories.livejournal.com]

I was just, like two minutes ago, lamenting the fact that I did not have a good gym mix anymore. So thank you from one doer to another :) you totally saved me a night of clawing at my face over my music drive.

[duckyjane.livejournal.com]

New gym playlist - most excellent, thank you!

[dine.livejournal.com]

this is an excellent mix!

sadly, my joints don't allow much bopping around, but I promise to chair dance to it whilst thanking you.

[fatema.livejournal.com]

I love this sort of a playlist. You can never have too much music that makes you want to MOVE. Also, number seventeen is LOVEEEEEEEEE! :D

[notworthy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[papertissues.livejournal.com]

Awesome mix.

I'm just slightly disappointed that with all the love you have for Phelps/Lochte, there's no Lil Wayne on here! :-P

[starfishchick]

Fun, thanks!

[souliesoul.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I started uni yesterday, and didn't get to gym like I normally would on a Monday, so I'm planning to head over this evening - perfect timing to see your post, I needed new music as I've started to zone out on mine!

[copernica3.livejournal.com]

Ha! Awesome. Thank you!

[mylenn.livejournal.com]

This looks really good. Snagging, thanks!

[romancandles.livejournal.com]

Late to the party, alas, but still taking! Also, the inclusion of so much awesome 90s music makes me LOVE YOU EVEN MORE.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

You're my knight in shining armour! I've had serious motivation issues lately, and this mix really does get me off my arse. And makes me happy. You're great! Thanks.

[anna_luna]

Dowloading, thank yu so muchfor sharng these!

[lyredenfers.livejournal.com]

I downloaded this when you first posted it up here (and shamefully didn't even say Thanks), but uploaded it to my mp3 player recently and it has become my favourite running playlist. Ever. It has a lot of tracks that I would probably never listen to outside the confines of running/erging (with the notable exception of Army, which is on all my top tens ever, and came on to my delight just when I was fading on my time out with this playlist, and it gave me what I needed to kick it up a level and say screw you, hill...) but now I can't imagine not running to Jay-Z, Lilly Allen and Thou Shalt Always Kill. Anyways, rambling, but Thank You!