Every Thursday we create a list composed of 3 songs that can, or should be, added to your workout playlist. This week’s theme is RADIO JAMS, more or less some songs that were made popular (or annoying) by their constant play on the radio. They may not catch your attention the first time, but by the 100th time you are singing it out loud without regard for how you look. You know you run to it, just admit it.
Here is the simple format:
Something Old: Songs that are at least 5 years old. (I know that isn’t too long to be considered old, but music turnover happens quickly.)
Something Current: Songs that have been released within the past year.
Something to Consider: This is the wild card category. Feel free to list any song: old, current, guilty pleasure, underground, whatever.
Something Old
Artist: I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Title: The Proclaimers
Side Note: Running a marathon will sound pretty easy when you have this guy already committing to walking 1,000 miles… fall down at your door, he just may.
Quotable: “But I would walk 500 miles. And I would walk 500 more.”
Something Current
Artist: Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams
Title: Get Lucky
Side Note: This song is getting constant radio play. I like Daft Punk’s sound and I’m already a fan of Pharrell’s music with N.E.R.D and his production with the Neptunes, so it seems like a good fit. I wouldn’t list this as a “go to” speed workout song, but it’s nice to have on there for a long run when quantity is favorable.
Quotable: “We’ve come to far to give up who we are”
Something to Consider
Artist: AWOLNATION
Title: Sail
Side Note: This may not be a song you have heard, but it reached top 10 on the US Billboard Rock Songs a few years ago. This was brought to my attention by a good friend and it was immediately added to my running playlist. It has been road tested and approved. FYI: the front man is formerly of Under The Influence of Giants and THIS song has been featured before and has never left my playlist.
Quotable: “Maybe I’m a different breed”
There you have it. That’s the list and some new songs that can be added to your playlist. If you have to listen to ONE song on this post, go with the last one and let me know what you think about it in the comments below.
Oh ya, I’m pretty excited about this:
#RWRunStreak. Yep, I’m working with Runner’s World again.
But sadly, I won’t be streaking this year.
Add your Playlist Thursday post below!
What song have you heard one too many times on the radio?
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The Proclaimers are classic!
While I’m betraying all female kind by saying so, I can’t take anymore Maroon 5 on the radio. I’ll look at Adam Levine all day long but I’m tired of hearing him song every 5 minutes. End rant.
Totally love SAIL. It has this haunting, kind of eerie tune to it, but I love blasting it.
I can’t stand Gotye’s Somebody that I Used to Know, anymore, because of how many times it was played on the radio.
I’d never heard of AWOLNATION. COol!
I love Sail…it has this evil/eerie feeling to it. Great for blasting in the car with the windows down. :)
i’m one of the weirdos who don’t mind hearing the same song on the radio over and over and over again!
The Band Perry’s “Better Dig Two.” I heard it on the radio three times the day I was moving.
I haven’t added this to a playlist yet because it’s a bit slow, but I do love this song. I can see it being good for getting through the part of the run where you’re wondering if it’s over yet :)
Thank you! I love the Get Lucky song and yet didn’t know who sang it–just downloaded it. I like your 3rd choice, too–very different sound all around.
Get Lucky & Sail have gravitated to the top of my workout playlist recently – love them!
T.
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Great picks. “Sail” was a song I started listening to a few years back..it became our official early morning wakeboarding jam! It’s perfect for starting the day..the sun is rising, the water looks like glass, the boat is slowly swaying back and forth and you’re the only souls for miles. Of course it’s also on my running playlist as well!
Now i have 500 miles stuck in my head. Thank you for that… :-)
I don’t usually mind hearing the same song on the radio because I barely listen to the radio. But Call Me Maybe started to drive me a little crazy.
Old: “Jump” by Kris Kross
New: “Thrift Shop” by Macklemore
Wild Card: “Pony” by Ginuwine. Why, you ask? Channing Tatum’s dance to it in the movie Magic Mike. When I need motivation during my run, that does it for me!
That Daft Punk song is my JAM right now. Perfect for running too!
THe proclaimers! YES. That song will always remind me of How I Met Your Mother though, they had an episode allll about it. Great list again PR!
Ah! I love Daft Punk’s Get Lucky right now! I don’t have it on my half marathon playlist because while I love it, I like it for grooving at a slower pace — not racing!
My current favorite is “Can’t Hold Us” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. It’s a serious pump me up song… enough where I put it on my half marathon list 4 times strategically.
I wish I could be runstreaking! I alas, am not allowed to run more than 3 times a week at max 3km a time.
However, I will be doing my own version of runstreaking by hitting every one of those workouts with gusto.
Please consider getting on Spotify! I’d love to follow these jams there :)
LOVE sail! My personal favorite is the LED remix of Sail! If you haven’t heard it download it ASAP. I’ve used it in my hip hop and jazz classes for choreography. I love it and my dancers love it.
I also use it as a fabulous song for a 5 minute killer ab workout. Go straight through with no stops!