to ask you to tell me some good running tunes

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I need inspiration!

Nothing beats the Benny Hill chase music for when you need that extra burst of speed.

Nothing beats the Benny Hill chase music for when you need that extra burst of speed. 😂

Veruca Salt (female rock band) - any of the uptempo tracks from their Eight Arms to Hold You album I find great to run to. Straight, With David Bowie, Volcano Girls, Sound of the Bell. The screaming guitars, kickass female musicians aNd pumping drumbeats always get me going.

I also love McFly and Busted to run to, weirdly. The kind of positive cheesy guitar vibe puts a spring in my step.

Lynx-take back the night

I like it because the beat gets measier back into a steady running tempo (good for fartleks too)

If you can download a Fatboy Slim set from you-tube, it's all at 120 bpm.

Sorry about typos

But at 120 you're either walking or terribly over striding, surely? If you're running your the beat.

Booyah by Showtek

Off the top of my head.

Welcome To The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance (slow start but brilliant once it gets into it)
Screamager - Therapy?

And for a final sprint

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme - Nerf Herder

I'll probably think of more later.

I have different playlists for different tempos

Rivers I can run to some 120bpm songs, but I take 3 strides for 2 beats.

All time favourite running song is "Stop the rock", by Apollo 440. Doesn't matter how tired I about, it always gives me a boost!

I don't run but when working out I like:
Eminem- til I collapse
Sia- unstoppable
Netsky- come alive and work it out
Sigma- higher and coming home
Calvin Harris- lets go

I have some of the other songs mentioned on my play list. They must be good running tunes!

My guilty pleasure for running to is Hall and Oates-you make my dreams come true

Queens of the stone age - No one knows.
Lady Gaga and beyonce - Telephone.
LCD soundsystem - Daft Punk is playing in my house (soulwax Shibuya remix).
Riton feat Kah-Lo - rinse and repeat.

Tina Turner-Proud Mary

Oh and

Dropkick murphys-shipping up to Boston

Another vote for Tainted Love ...

Going to date myself big time but a lot of 80s stuff has a good beat for running (Madness, YMCA etc)
I use quite a bit of classical as well - nothing quite like ending a run to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance (Land of Hope and Glory). Fast movements from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos (think Antiques Roadshow theme tune) get me through tough patches.
I also like a bit of swing - Java Jive - and some of the Scott Joplin piano rags.

I listen to terrible 90s eurodance, Daft Punk, Cut Copy, The Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx...

N-Trance - Set You Free
Redline - King of the Mountain
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
The Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
My Chemical Romance - Teenagers
Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me
The Libertines - Campaign of Hate
Aqua - Doctor Jones
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Bernard Cribbins - Right Said Fred
NWA - Gangsta Gangsta
Ladytron - Ace of Hz
Babyshambles - Fuck Forever
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues
Meat Loaf - Where the Rubber Meets the Road
James - Laid
The Wildhearts - Red Light Green Light
The Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man
The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Thanks for this thread OP! I started a similar one and someone linked to this. Some awesome running songs here that I've just added to my playlist.

My running music is also very eclectic, I'm so pleased to see everyone else's is! One more time by Daft Punk, Kick-starts by Example, Say my name by Florence and the Machine, Knights of Cydonia by Muse and Dammit by Blink 182 are my favourites.

So many of the ones that I've thought will be great to run to are songs I would never really listen to at other times.

Hyberno oh my god the Buffy theme tune!! How have I never downloaded this? This will get me through every single walk/run in the future!

Coming back to resurrect this and add some of my favourite songs:

Limp Bizkit - Rollin'
Arctic Monkeys - I bet that you look good on the
Jay Z/Linkin Park -
Paramore - Misery Business
Guns N Roses - Night Train
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth
Kanye West - Stronger