Best Cardio Songs!

[RescueMom]

What are your favorite cardio songs, the ones that keep you going when you're at your most tired?  Mine change all the time, and I'm always looking for new ones to add to my running playlist.  Some of my current favorites (No laughing!  Oh, go ahead and laugh...) are:

"Smooth" - Santana/Rob Thomas

"Born this Way" - Lady GaGa

"Bad Romance" - Lady GaGa

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - Iron Maiden

"Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen

"Hand Jive" - Sha Na Na, from the Grease soundtrack

"Jai Ho" - From the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack

"Mayhem" - Imelda May

 

[Tabbyclaw]

Big yes to both those Lady Gaga songs, and adding "Applause" to the list. The rest of my workout playlist, in no particular order:

 

Sanctuary! - Alan Menken (from Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Kryptonite - Three Doors Down
Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall - Coldplay
Counting Stars - OneRepublic
Renegade - Daughtry
Pompeii - Bastille
Skulls - Bastille
The Boys Of Summer - The Ataris
Thnks Fr Th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor

Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult

Tiptoe - Imagine Dragons
Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) - Silversun Pickups
Out of Breath - Silversun Pickups
The Pit - Silversun Pickups
The Royal We - Silversun Pickups
Help I’m Alive - Metric
Some Nights - fun.
Discord (Eurochaos Mix) - Eurobeat Brony ft. Odyssey
This Day Aria (Changeling Mix) - Eurobeat Brony ft. Odyssey
Outta My Head - Daughtry
Ghost Of Me - Daughtry
What You Want - Evanescence
Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At the Disco
My Best Theory - Jimmy Eat World
Blame - Cavo
You Know My Name - Chris Cornell
The Hand That Gives You Up - Rick Astley, Nine Inch Nails, and BRAT Productions
Luisa’s Bones - Crooked Fingers
Bleed It Out - Linkin Park
This Is How a Heart Breaks - Rob Thomas
Crutch - Matchbox Twenty
Downfall - Matchbox Twenty
Running Up That Hill - Within Temptation
Robot Riot - Luv Handel (of Phineas and Ferb)
I Am the Doctor (Eleven’s Theme) - Murray Gold
Silent Running - Mike + The Mechanics
Somebody Told Me - The Killers

Hey Brother - Avicii

Golden Time Lover - Sukima Switch (one of the themes from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy

Edited May 4, 2014 by Tabbyclaw

[Bastet]

My main exercise is walking various routes around the neighborhood, about four miles, with the first mile being all uphill.  On days where the last block of that hill seems to be growing longer like something out of a horror movie, Eminem's Lose Yourself or Bruce Springsteen's The Rising will get me through.

 

Other walking songs include:

 

Christina Aguilera, Fighter

En Vogue, Free Your Mind

Animotion, Obsession

Kanye West, Stronger

Shania Twain, Man! I Feel Like a Woman

Haddaway, What is Love

The Chemical Brothers, Block Rockin' Beats

Marky Mark, Good Vibrations

Waylon Jennings, Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way (seemingly an odd choice, but walking to the beat makes for a good pace)

Edited May 4, 2014 by Bastet

[photo fox]

What a fun topic!

I run to pretty much anything by Green Day. Also most of Depeche Mode's Violator album.

[ElleryAnne]

My favorite song for cardio is "Dhoom Taana", hands down.  

[stillshimpy]

Vampire Weekend Unbelievers and then also Cousins kicks ass.  

 

Then Florence + the Machine ]The Dog Days (this one is a great cardio song, I think).  I've got a bunch more, but I'm sure I'm completely embodying some terrifying cliche with nearly all of my choices.  Garbage Cherry Lips

Edited May 6, 2014 by stillshimpy

[discorules]

Anything by Lime!

[ALenore]

I've got about 15 different playlists I rotate through for my exercise routines (not all of them are cardio, some are weightlifting routines).  This is a playlist I call "Peppy Songs":

"Cups" -- Pitch Perfect

"All of Me" -- Tan Lines 

"Smile" --Barenaked Ladies

"Shake! Shake! Shake! -- Bronze Radio Return

"Love for Long" -- Jenny Owen Youngs

"Heartbeat" -- Kopecky Family Band

"Another One Bites the Dust" -- Queen

"Airport Taxi Reception" -- Sondre Lerche

"Autoclave" -- The Mountain Goats

"Bathtime in Clerkenwell" -- The Real Tuesday Weld

"Do Do Do" -- Nellie McKay

"Dusky Stevedore" -- Louis Armstrong

"In the Meantime" -- The Ditty Bops

"The One" -- Old 97s

"It's Martini Time" -- The Reverend Horton Heat

"One After 909" -- The Beatles

"Over My Head" -- The Fray

"Breezeblocks" -- alt J

"Out the Door" -- Kate Micucci

"Rattlesnake" -- Spider John Koerner

[galax-arena]

"I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Disney's Mulan.

 

It's THE workout song.

[Sir RaiderDuck OMS]

Pretty much the entire It's Alive album by The Ramones.

[MrsRafaelBarba]

Radioactive/Imagine Dragons

Arcade/Hans Zimmer MOS soundtrack

Planet Hell/Night wish

Battle Without Humanity/Kill Bill soundtrack

The Walker/Fitz and the Tantrums

Seven Nation Army/The White Stripes

The Hand that Feeds/NIN

Smack My Bitch Up/Prodigy

[CaughtOnTape]

Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys

Supermassive Black Hole - Muse

Hysteria - Muse

Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance

Magic - The Cars

Yeah - Usher

I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas

Lonely Boy - The Black Keys

Love Stoned - Justin Timberlake

Sexyback - Justin Timberlake

Raise Your Glass - Pink

Dance With Me Tonight - Olly Murs

Pretty Handsome Awkward - The Used

Low - Flo Rida

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark - Fall Out Boy

Lay Your Hands On Me - Bon Jovi

Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys

Roar - Katy Perry

I Want You - Savage Garden

Strangelove - Depeche Mode

Some Nights - Fun

True Faith - New Order

C'mon C'mon - One Direction

Closer To The Edge - 30 Seconds To Mars

Good Life - One Republic

Lose Yourself - Eminem

Starships - Nicki Minaj

Love Don't Die - The Fray

Pumpin Blood - NoNoNo

Rude - Magic!

[Bastet]

Lose Yourself - Eminem

 

I know it's cliché, but I swear I could climb a mountain to that song.

[roamyn]

Not quite cardio, but Frank Sinatra is great for walking.

The beats and cadence gives one a tempo to walk at a quick pace w/o losing step. (And ole Blue Eyes is more my Grandparents generation).

[Wiendish Fitch]

"Dead Man's Party" - Oingo Boingo

"Keep on Running" - Journey

"Real in Rio" from Rio

"You Should Be Dancing" - the Bee Gees

"Music" - Madonna

"Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" - the Andrews Sisters

"It's Just Begun" - the Jimmy Castor Bunch

"Got to Give it Up" - Marvin Gaye (I liked this song long before "Blurred Lines", thank you very much)

"Electric Lady" - Janelle Monae

"Uprising" - Muse

"The Stripper" - David Rose Orchestra (What?! What better song is there to motivate you to get in shape?!)

"Cool" from West Side Story

[Bort]

I'm not much for working out but I do have a playlist I created for when I do yard or housework that's full of upbeat songs. The staples include:

Just Dance - Lady Gaga

S&M - Rihanna

ET - Katy Perry

Hey Now Now - Swirl 360

Hella Good - No Doubt

I've recently added to it:

Come with Me Now - Kongos

Turn Down for What - DJ Snake

[BabyVegas]

I'm constantly working on my playlist to get it perfect and right now it's a mix of high energy and slightly slower tempo songs. Here are a few I haven't seen mentioned:

 

Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson 

Hello - Martin Solveig ft. Dragonette. (It's got a killer drumbeat that gets my behind in high gear.) 

Barbie Girl - Aqua (don't judge me)

Call On Me - Eric Prydz (yet more high energy) 

Vengaboys Remix - The Vengaboys

We Run This - Missy Elliott 

Kick Ass (We Are Young) - Mika

I Love It - IconaPop

And to close the workout out, because it's just so damn triumphant, Eye of the Tiger followed by Final Countdown.

[braziliangirl]

Sing a Song, September - Earth Wind & Fire

Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder

American Boy - Estelle

Ex-Lover - Friendly Fires

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes

Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Bad Girls, Paper Planes - M.I.A

Love on Top - Beyonce

Call it what you want - Foster the People

Shove it - Santogold

Temptation - New Order

 

And I thInk I'm gonna include Taylor Swift's new song: Shake it off. I can't stop moving every time I hear this song. Should I be ashamed?

[briochetwist]

I would never have learned to run if it weren't for Marianas Trench.   Desperate Measures, Haven't Had Enough, Stutter, Pop 101, All To Myself, Fallout, Celebrity Status, and Shake Tramp.