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I am 2 weeks into getting into shape with erg!! i love it - the Valentines challenge got me started. I have been listening to Tool it really keeps me rowing pretty steady, but I would love some other suggestions.
Thanks so much!

Meg - I have created a bunch of playlists on my ipod that are around 40 minutes - 50 minutes in length. I try to listen to songs with a fast pace to them (Tool would certainly fit the bill). Some of the songs that I have on the playlists include

Seether - Veruca Salt
We've Got Everything - Modest Mouse
Sweet Child Of Mine - Guns & Roses
Santa Monica - Everclear
World Wide Suicide - Pearl Jam
The Sweat Descends - Le Savy Fav
Anything By The Ramones
American Idiot - Green Day
Love You In The Fall - The Replacements
When You Were Young - The Killers
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Joker & the Thief - Wolfmother
The Knack - My Sharona
And She Was - Talking Heads
Pardon Me - Incubus
Meglomaniac - Incubus
Keep Em Separated - Offspring

Nice playlist Andy!

I personally go with the following
Bleed it Out - Linkin Park
Riot - Three Days Grace
Runaway - Linkin Park
Letterbomb - Green Day
Always - Blink-182 (Weird, but the start gets me going)
Drowning Pool - Bodies
Till I Collapse - Eminem
8 Mile - Eminem
Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle) - Limp Bizkit, Method Man, Redman, DMX
A Place for My Head - Linkin Park
Streamline - Newton
Kryptonite - Three Doors Down

Everything else I listen to is normally deemed "weird" by my team and they've decided never to let me play music at workouts again. But good music definitely helps a ton.

Bloomp - I will get these into a Playlist on the ipod and give it a whirl. Always looking for additiional tunes to row to.

I have a couple of playlists that are heavy on the Linkin Park too. Their songs provide a good rhythm and pace to row to.

I also have the following on my playlists based on the pace/rhythm:

Fight For Your Right - Beastie Boys
Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins
All The Small Things - BLink 182
Over My Head - SUM41
Baba ORiley - The Who
La Grange - ZZ Top
Stronger - Kanye West
Foo Fighters - Best Of You
Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
Big Bang Baby - STP
Shiny Happy People - R.E.M.
Can't You Hear Me Knockin - Rolling Stones
Vertigo - U2
And The Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen


Your music choices are deemed "weird"? I beg to differ.

Love rowing to the Stones! Gimme Shelter is good for my distance pieces. I haven't heard that song by the Beastie Boys, but I like Intergalactic for running/erging.

I've got most of your songs, so I too will make a playlist and try it out!

I have several playlists myself but thought I'd share my pre race warm up one

Welcome to the jungle - GNR
Run to You - Bryan Adams
My Sharona - The Knack
More Human than Human - White Zombie
Turn me Loose - Loverboy
Where the streets have no name (IMO the greatest workout song ever) U2


hmmm am i showing my age or what

These are songs that seem to make it onto many of my playlists (I have about 30 different playlists so that things don't get stale). I try to place the really up tempo songs at the beginning, mellow things out a bit mid-way, then pick up the pace for the last few songs or few thousand meters.

Machinehead - Bush
Rats In The Cellar - Aerosmith
Holiday - Green Day
The Chemicals Between Us - Bush
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
Tommy Tutone - Jenny/8675349 (Cheesy song but good rhythm)
Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen (Same song as above but different lyrics)
Jesus, Etc. - Wilco
Gloria - U2
Midnight Blue - Lou Grahm
I will Follow - U2
Photograph - Def Leppard
What's My Age Again - Blink 182
Bittersweet Symphony - Verve Pipe
Hard Sun - Eddie Vedder
Free Bird - Lynard Skinner - Like to begin with this sometimes because it starts slow (warmup) but then really gets going. Long song so you knock off many meters with this one
Layla - Derek & The Dominos (the abridged version)
Tatooed Love Boys - Pretenders
Space Invaders - Pretenders
Message Of Love - Pretenders
Talk To You Later - The Tubes
System Of A Down - Toxicity
The Kids Aren't All Right - Offspring
Celebrity Skin - Courtney Love
Four Kicks - Kings Of Leon
Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon
Everest - Ra Ra Riot
Highly Suspicious - My Morning Jacket

Thank you so much to all of you music lovers!! i really needed that. now i will have to burn myself some cd's (i am old school with my cd player )
thank you again and hey keep 'em coming - new music happens all the time!!

If you don't mind foreign music - I highly recommend Danish rap. They have a sort of anger in their lyrics and unique beats so it really does get me moving. But then again, I only understand half of what they say, so maybe it's better that way.

My last session included:
Living on the Edge - Aerosmith
Wish I Could Fly Like Superman - the Kinks
Mr Roboto - Human league
Some Reggae - UB40
Some Taiko drumming - Kodo
Turkish belly dance music

grams

Wow Grams. That is some eclectic and varied stuff. The drumming music really sounds interesting. I don't know if I could handle the belly dancing music but perhaps I will give it a try.

All the Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band I can find + The Eagles Greatest Hits 2 CDs worth

hey just thought you would like to know that i have a friend who was visiting and saw my "hand me down sponge bob" cd player die on me.
she said she will send me her ipod nano - she recently got an iphone ( why would she give away her nano? ) haha i am looking forward to making fun playlists from all your suggestions - thank you so much and i look forward to hearing more suggestions. music is new all the time!!!!
keep the wind in your hair - fake or real
meg

i'm sure some of these have already been listed but here's what my university crew listens to when we have to erg all winter long

bleed it out-linkin park
untouched - the veronicas
right round- flo rida
just dance - lady gaga
disturbia - rihanna
hot n cold - katy perry
ruby - kaiser chiefs
hella good - no soubt
here it goes again - ok go
4 minutes - madonna & justin timberlake [especially good for 1000m or of course 4 min pieces ]
remember the name - fort minor
stronger - kanye west
paralyzer - finger eleven
let it rock - kevin rudolf (my all time favorite erg song, most of PRs were done with this)

and here's what the guys use...they seem to be into some of the older stuff

movin' out - billy joel
welcome to the jungle - guns n' roses
come on eileen - dexy's midnight runners

can't think of any more off the top of my head probably cuz i only hear the beginning of their playlist when im warming up at the boathouse

anyway hope this helps! i'm always looking for good erg music too! it makes such a difference!

For interval work try Explosions In the Sky. They are a post-rock band that is very under-rated. I can't believe aren't as well known as Sigur Ros (another post-rock band). Their music is instrumental with significant crescendo/decrescendo which is great to motivate short sprints. If you have seen the movie "Friday Night Lights" you have already heard their music. I recc starting with either "The Earth is not a cold dead place" or "Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever"