Running playlist #2.

Still walking for a lot of it, of course.

1. "An American Girl" (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)  After all, it was a great big world/with lots of places to run to...
2. "Shock the Monkey" (Peter Gabriel)
3. "It's the End of the World As We Know It"(R.E.M.)  Time I had some time alone!
4. "The Lazy Boy" (Moxy Fruvous)  The cushion is comfy and the works don't rust...
5. "Chick Singers" (Dan Bern)  Kate Bush, Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin...
6. "Eat for Two" (10,000 Maniacs)  You know where this will lead/To hush and rock in the nursery...
7. "Go" (Indigo Girls) Use your years to psych you out/You're too old to care, you're too young to count...
8. "King of Spain"(Moxy Fruvous)  Hey Clinton, hey Yeltsin, got problems?  You call me!
9. "Cut to the Chase" (Rush)  
10. "Why Does the Sun Shine?" (They Might Be Giants)  Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees!
11. "Hammer to Fall" (Queen)

This is one of four 40-minute lists on my iPod.   Do you have an exercise playlist?  What's on it, or what would be on it if you had one?

Comments

[Barbara C.]

If I exercised (beyond the Amish variety) and owned an iPod, my playlist would probably involve lots of ABBA and ELO, as they tend to pump up my mood.

[Barbara C.]

Although, I do like me some Queen.

[Kate]

Two Moxy Fruvous songs AND TMBG? Color me impressed. Especially with the Moxy Fruvous, I didn't know they'd ever made much splash out of Canada.

[shelly]

Oh, your timing is perfect. I just started walking with my IPOD and realized that the songs are all calming and uplifting. Well, except for Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakwell, Cars, and 2 Snazzy songs. I was just going to put a request on my blog for some ideas (or dig out my Turbo Jam exercise videos and download those songs)...but I'll be checking into some of your songs and watching the comments for more ideas.

[bearing]

OK Barbara -- specific songs? I'm looking for more.

The only ABBA I can think of off the top of my head is "Dancing Queen." Surely there is more. I don't know any ELO at all...

Re: Moxy Fruvous, I think I must have heard them on NPR back in college. IIRC the song was "My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors." I heard the first verse, walked out the front door of my apartment and down to World Record on High Street, and bought two of their CDs. I think I was back before Fresh Air was over.