Music to Make You Move

Lissa mentioned music she liked to work out to, and asked:

What songs get your heart kicking in the morning?

So, naturally, being one who recognizes blogfodder when he sees it, I had to expound... *g* I've been working out daily for over three years now, adding in a daily workout component to my fitness regimen after a year's worth of weight loss. I started out with an iPod shuffle, the little teeny tiny (I call it "inhalable" form) weighs-as-much-as-a-bandaid form of Apple crack; then moving up to my present Nano (which actually has less music on it, because I am a lazy-assed bastard). I can't get through my workout with the tunes pumpin'...

There's a definitive preference for hard rock/metal in my listening pleasure for several reasons, not the least of which being that it's just damn good for getting the blood pumping. I used to disappear into the library the week before a big test with my Walkman and a bunch of Metallica/Iron Maiden/Judas Priest tapes (yeah, I'm that old) and listen to 'em all back-to-back-to-back at a volume just shy of pain threshold...

As the expression goes, I told you all that so I could tell you this. Here are some of my very favorite songs to work out to:

• Run to the Hills, Iron Maiden
• Anti-Social, Anthrax
• Unchained, Van Halen
• (You've Got) Another Thing Coming, Judas Priest
• My Town, Montgomery-Gentry
• Living in America, James Brown
• Thunderstruck, AC/DC
• How Do You Like Me Now, Toby Keith
• I Don't Wanna Grow Up, The Ramones
• Hair of the Dog, Nazareth
• Over the Eggshells, Mighty Might Bosstones
• Photograph, Def Leppard
• Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf
• Bulls on Parade, Rage Against the Machine
• Stayin' Alive, The Bee Gees

(okay, I threw that one in to see if y'all were paying attention...)

So, what do you like to listen to when it's time to get the ol' ticker pumpin'?

That is all.