Playlist

Music is a huge part of my life and I love reading (hearing?) what other runners listen to while they run. To that end, I thought I would share my current running playlist. Some of the song titles are hyperlinks; if you click on them it will take you to an Amazon page where you can listen to a sample of the song and/or download the mp3 file. Fair warning: some of the lyrics are explicit.

• "Castanets" by Alejandro Escovedo
• "Call Me" by Blondie
• "Cherry Cola" by Eagles of Death Metal
• "Takin' Care of Business" by Bachman Turner Overdrive
• "Radar Love" by Golden Earring
• "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lennie Kravitz
• "Free For All" by Ted Nugent
• "Canary in a Coalmine" by The Police
• "Fell in Love With a Girl" by The White Stripes
• "So Alive" by Love and Rockets
• "Intergalactic" by Beastie Boys
• "Orphans" by Beck
• "Gamma Ray" by Beck
• "Modern Guilt" by Beck
• "Profanity Prayers" by Beck
• "One Way or Another" by Blondie
• "Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash
• "Complete Control" by The Clash
• "Save It For Later" by English Beat
• "I Want You" by Fefe Dobson
• "Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2)" by Gary Glitter
• "She's Got A Hold on Me" by Hacienda
• "All This Time" by Heartless Bastards
• "Hey Little Girl" by Icehouse
• "Been Caught Stealing" by Jane's Addiction
• "Die, Die My Darling" by The Misfits
• "She Wants to Move" by N.E.R.D.
• "True Faith" by New Order
• "Go With the Flow" by Queens of the Stone Age
• "Little Sister" by Queens of the Stone Age
• "Blitzkrieg Bop" by The Ramones
• "Beat On The Brat" by The Ramones
• "Judy is a Punk" by The Ramones
• "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" by The Ramones
• "The KKK Took My Baby Away" by The Ramones
• "Higher Ground" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Living Dead Girl" by Rob Zombie
• "Dragula" by Rob Zombie
• "L.E.S. Artistes" by Santigold
• "Creator" by Santigold
• "List of Demands (Reparations)" by Saul Williams
• "Panther 1" by Slowride
• "Story of My Life" by Social Distortion
• "The Rubberband Man" by The Spinners
• "Mighty Little Man" by Steve Burns
• "Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads
• "Hazy Shade of Winter" by The Bangles
• "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles
• "Bang! Bang!" by The Knux
• "Smack My Bitch Up" by The Prodigy
• "Dead Sound" by The Raveonettes
• "You Want The Candy" by The Raveonettes
• "Taking The Farm" by The War On Drugs
• "Filthy Flowers" by Thomas Function
• "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes
• "Sexyback" by Justin Timberlake
• "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails
• "Hotel Song" by Regina Spektor
• "No Sleep Till Brooklyn" by the Beastie Boys
• "More Human Than Human" by White Zombie

I know some runners set up their playlists to match the pace at which they run, but I'm not that organized. I usually just listen to mine on shuffle and hit "skip" if the beat of the song isn't a close enough match for my pace. I'm not sure what it says about me that this list skews so heavily toward Rob Zombie and The Ramones, but there you go.

In actual running news, yesterday I did two miles again, alternating one minute of running and one minute of walking between my warm-up and cool-down (instead of 30 seconds of running and one minute of walking like I'd been doing). Holy cow, that kicked my ass. But it felt pretty great, too!

I'm taking today off, and tomorrow I'm back at it again. Flipping the calendar over to August this morning lit a fire under me -- my 5K is September 25. I'd better get moving!