Raw Food Forums

Hey guys, I was given a great gift for Christmas this year... an MP3 player. AWESOME! I've got it loaded with Wayne Dyer and David Wolfe among other things. I've loaded it up with music that I listened to as a teenager because that is what I have been craving lately but as I was listening to it tonight, while I still love it, a lot of it has negative undertones.

I would love something more positive. What are you listening to? I don't really mind what sort of music it is so long as it has a good beat for fast paced walking and jogging. Nothing slow and I'm not a big fan of heart wrenching stuff either. I understand it's talented and very loving and all... it just rubs me the wrong way unless I'm really looking to listen to it!

xoxoxox

Hey Jenhen, I know what you mean about stuff you listened to as a teenager having negative undertones, LOL! I know I am still a teenager but stuff I used to like was all so SAD!  :(
Anyway, I don't actually listen to much music but I absolutely LOVE Mika's stuff... especially 'Love Today.' It is so happy and boppy and fun. And I saw him interviewed last year and found out that he is dyslexic (he wears heaps of colourful watches, but can't tell the time on any of them!) but he was so comfortable with himself, it was awesome!

Now, shouldn't you be popping off to bed missy? Lol!  rofl

Have an amazing weekend gorgeous!
 :-*

I should be but I'm all pumped up on Motley Crue! And Iron Maiden. I could go for a run now! But I used to be a cd junkie, I would be 2-3 per week. I know that no matter how much music you have it is possible to get bored... I'm sure that Sacha will have something to say about that! LOL.

Thank Freedom. I'll check out Mika for sure. I was listening to Tom Morello this morning on JJJ and he was awesome. A very intelligent man with a lot of passion.

xooxox

Woo hoo! Metallica... Bouncing. I feel like I should be wearing black. How is this fun? I dunno?  :yahh:

xoxoxo

LOL Jen Yes You can never have too much music, Just like you can never have too many ways to feel happy and pumped.

Just like when I was a Dj I am still hooked on the never ending search for that next song that captures my human essense, my own human emotions and emotions I want to feel more of.

I will post songs that make me feel like I am training for the Olympics soon.lol
They always pump me right up like a steam train.

Sleep time

Love Sach

Better idea, why don't you just trundle on over with your CD's and then I can test and measure! You don't have to leave them here... I won't bite them! Currently listening to Run DMC and Aerosmith - Walk this way! Heaaaaaven!

xoxoxoxo

You mean all 250- 300 of them in there dj brief cases...lol

I can burn you a copy of my 'One on One with the Person I am Becoming' playlist. Which is my running playlist. I can also put the list of songs on this board. I will be having someone to fix my computer first so hopefully next week.

I love those songs Jen.

Love Sach!

jen ur taste in music rocks.

Just my 10 cents Jen, one of my favourite walking tunes is DaftPunk "Harder, Better, faster Stronger"

and if you are in the mood for a dance just watch this video bet you CANNOT sit still watching this groovy dancing girl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2JneittqQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr2JneittqQ)

Love eve

Thanks Aguacate!

Eve that clip is awesome! I hope that Sacha sees it. I could watch her dance all day. Doesn't it amaze you what people can do with their bodies.

Actually that's how I dance... err when I am alone. Or in a club. But in a club, everyone else is drunk and they just don't see me properly! When I'm alone I rock!

I love that clip... here's one for you: Hyperactive - Lasse Gjertsen (http://youtube.com/watch?v=o9698TqtY4A) Cool Norwegian guy. I'd love to get this on my mp3 player!

xoxoxxo

Hey Eve, Here is one in response to your groovy vid!

Break Dance Baby (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FiNUkDnDMFA)

oxoxoxo

EEEEKKK!!! To funny!  :yahh: :yahh: :yahh:

I like your old-school 'rock' choices there Jen!

I go through genre phases with my music listening.  But I think each genre just has some songs which have so much energy and life in them that they impart something to the listener.  And thus, become good workout songs! hehe.

Currently am listening to happier upbeat songs than my old alternative/grunge/rock days.  Some of my current playlist songs that have heaps of excess energy are:

We Intertwined, by The Hush Sound
Caught in the Rain, by October Fall
Hello Hello, and Sly;  by The Cat Empire.

Check 'em out!

DP were awesome live!

I need fast music to work out to, too. I walk/cycle to the beat so if it's slow, I don't work out hard enough.

I used to use house, but I prefer drum n bass as it's faster and there are some awesome tracks that you can really push yourself to.

Artists like London Elektricity and their Hospital Mixes, Benny Page (reggae vibe), Jenna G (for some powerful female vocals as well as good beats) and my mate's mixes are fantastic too, always such fun and funky track lists.

I <3 this track, Hard to Beat remixed by L.Elek, makes me pedal like a maniac ;) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIEsrcnbOj8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIEsrcnbOj8) and the remix of the White Stripes' Blue Orchid is tops too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFK-bo2ZLsg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFK-bo2ZLsg)

Wow thank you Kitteh. HERE (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4) is another one I was lead to by a friend... mwarr harr harr harr!

xoxoxo

Haha, I've seen the Potter Puppets before, funny

I'm waiting on a new mix from my mate, need some new gym music ;)

And here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=jWk9VJ3wVX8) are some fit boys playing happily with their errrr balls. Opps!  Vulgar vulgar. Soccer meets capoeira.

I like the background stuff with this as well.

xoxoox

I would LOVE to answer you but daren’t.........

I posted a similar reply when I first joined this site and was shot down in flames for (shock horror) wanting to listen to music whilst exercising.

I am not falling into that trap again.


 :laugh: :rolleyes: :laugh:


.

hehehe... I remember that KittyK!
... I went on and kept listening to music during my workouts too.  I adore music and can't live without it :)

Besides, I think there's some credence to being able to do more than one thing at once, both pay attention to your body and concentrate on exercising properly, as well as listening!

Jennie I loved the FIFA street soccer video.  It seemed to have a few parkour moments in it, which reminded me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhgIdP3l3I) vid!  I love parkour, imagine having that much confidence in moving through your surroundings... wow.

I wont ask who but why was anyone being shot down for listeming  to music while exercising KittyK?

I wish I was there to defend you.

Seems crazy to me. Like eating raw choc cake and turning off your taste buds if you could. Just idiotic

LOL Sach!

Yeah just combining 2 awesome things!!

Like Eating raw with friends...

2 great things at the same time.

Hey KittyK, some  comments need to be taken with a grain of salt (sea pref) but then it is sometimes hard to see what people mean...

Hi Jen

Try listening to worldy music from other countries i always get pumped on latino . ;)

I should tape u a greek cd ;) that will get gia pumping.I have a few remixy things .
I am in the process of sorting them out because I find when i walk or treadmill jog it gives me better energy

( Man I havent posted on here for so long but I occassionally pop in.
Jen thanks for emailing me but i found youir email by accident it had ended up in my jumk mail :( lucky i checked.)

I have had a few ups and downs but back on track . ;)

XX
Alegne

KittyK, you enjoy your music and exercise love. I like to listen to the music some days and others I like to listen to my surroundings. I find music often pumps me up when nothing else will. Gets me ready for the day ahead.

Alegne I would LOVE a Greek cd thanks! I love Greek music although I don't think I have heard anything modern. I went to a Greek wedding once that went forever! But it was beautiful and I had a ball at the reception. An absolute ball. I ended up playing the beard for a friend of mine whose boyfriend left her on the day of the wedding and so for the night I was known as 'Mark'. Tee heee. It's good to see you here girl. Mwah!

Waterberry, how do you find that stuff? That was awesome! I loved it. I got the kids to watch it as well. I agree about knowing your surroundings. I challenge you to a game of parkour when I'm in Melb. If we last longer than two minutes we get a young coconut each! Yaaaaaaaaay!!!

xoxoxoxxo

Oh well, I decided to post. I am a big girl now (I can take negativity if need be) and of course, Sacha may even defend me if I get picked on!!

I change the songs around, introduce new songs and make a new workout CD every six months.

I like to start off slowly and end slowly - to ease into it and then cool down. I keep it uplifting and fast paced in the middle (with the odd slower song to help me catch my breath). The CD lasts for ages, well over an hour.

This is my most recent workout CD.

Land of hope & glory by Dame Vera Lynn

Life in a northern town (Extended) by Dream Academy

Where's your head at by Basement Jaxx

Cotton eyed joe by Rednex

Walking in Memphis by Cher

Sunshine on a rainy day by - not sure– maybe Zoe (80’s/90’s)

Strength of a woman by Shaggy

Dancing with myself by Billy Idol

Just can’t get enough by Depeche Mode

I ran by Flock of Seagulls

I get knocked down by Chumbawamba ?

Come back (love has got a hold of me) by Haddaway

Love is in the air by John Paul Young

Me & Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

Wicked game by Chris Isaak

Farewell to Tarwathie by Judy Collins


I know, an odd mix but it works for me.

.

Oh that is a great mix! I love that it is so ecclectic. Billy Idol was my favourite for years and years. I was invited to go to his concert when I was 14 or 15 with my best friend, her older brother and his best friend. Dad wouldn't let me go and I loathed him for it for years. Not only was the Grand Withholder of Money for Jeans he was preventing me from meeting my One True Love! Billy Idol. The tickets the boys had included passes to the afterparty as well and it was mad.

In hindsight Dad was right not to let a young teenager to that but at the time.....

I have a lot of those songs on my mp3 player.

Awesome!

xoxoxox

I love this one too... how awesome is this kid (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Re1XEmjNG6c)? What an actor... makes me want to go for a run now... but I am going leepy leepies!

xoxoox

I've just started running intervals... listening to 'podcasts' of dance tracks put into timed segments so I know where my intervals are.  Getting the mp3s from DJ Steve-boy's site (http://www.djsteveboy.com/intervals.html).  Seems an interesting way to use music constructively, to do interval training :)

Hey people,

I'm a personal trainer and aerobics "freestyle" (meaning i do what I want)
I've just started taking SPIN classes (on a bike in a room with a black light and some thumping music!!!) and need to do a new cd for it. Any good high intencity songs around? I mainly stick to underground so I need some help.

Cheers
The Vegan Wolf

fitmusic/ (http://www.fitmusic.com/)  Just saw the link to this site on another forum, figured it needs to be shared here too!

Not sure if it's any good, but looks like it has some of the faster bpm things that I know some of you (Jen!) were searching for!   Free downloads too :)