Please share your running playlists

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Hello, I'm new to running and am working my way through the NHS Couch to 5k podcast. I'm looking forward to running 30 minutes non stop (eventually) and am looking forward to running to my own music. I like rock, hip hop, country, indie and pop (but not techno) and can't wait to start making up my own playlists.

What tunes do you run to - perhaps we can all share ideas?

uhhhhh i have so many "guilty pleasures" on my running playlist! It's my "me time" so I indulge.
Freemasons, LMFAO, Black Eyed Peas, Groove Armada, Lady GaGa, David Guetta, DJ Tiesto, Faithless, La Roux, Ladyhawke, a couple of those Euphoric House Clubbers Guide type compilations, I find the sort of anthemic nature of these quite uplifting. At heart I love indie/new wave so I also have Maximo Park, Foo Fighters, Bloc Party, Kasabian, New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Ramones etc. Also ska is good to run to e.g. the Specials. OK now for the dodgy 80s rock - that's the real guilty pleasure, Survivor, ZZ Top, Bon Jovi, The Cult ... for some reason I just find these fantastic to run to! Happy trails!

this could be a long one.
Music is vital to my running so I choose v carefully and change regularly.

Currently:- The New Orbital track, never. Chicanes last album Giants, U2, Puressence, Stone Roses, Radiohead. Elbow.

Other faves are most trance tracks Willaim Orbit, Tiesto, Chicane, Ian Van Dahl.
Puressence are brilliant to run to.
Owl City when I'm in the right mood.
Kasabian, especially velociraptor
I Break Horses
Suede/The Tears
Flaming Lips/Mercury Rev
Bauer
Frank Turner
Aztec Camera
The Jam
Scritti Politti
Coldpaly
Robyn
REM

Never Country and western, Opera, Rap, Hip Hop, evil cheesy chart pop.

Thank you. Please feel free to suggest particularly favourite songs as well as artistes.

i listen to pow wow music, the drum matches my pace and pushes me to go a little bit faster than i would

this music is probably not to the taste of UK people, but if you like it i highly recommend the thunder mountain singers, they are from my patch and v good

A recent scientific study showed that listening to music with a bpm of
120-150 increases your output significantly when running.
Trance music is perfect as the definition of trance music means it has to have a bpm of 140.

I recommend the In Search of Sunrise compliations by Tiesto.
Great call on Flaming Lips & Mercury Rev kunahero.
Cyan by Arno Cost and On a Good Day by Above & Beyond ... these 2 stay in my playlist come what may.

anything by chicane is good too. his last album even had a track called middle distance runner

My current playlist is...

White blank page - Mumford and sons
Little lion man - " " "
Viva la vida - Coldplay
Dakota - stereophonics
? - Mark Ronson w. Amy Winehouse (can't remember title!)
Dog days are over - Florence and the Machine

Also, most things Kings of Leon, Keane, Foo Fighters - and all very, very loud (think it's so I can't hear myself struggling to breathe haha)

Am experimenting with Janelle Monae as well.

Stones : paint it black
Blur: song 2
Muse: pretty much the whole of blackholes and Revalations
alanis Morisette : jagged little pill ( whole album)
Killers : Mr Brightside
ting tings : shut up and let me go
Strokes : reptilia

AngeChica, thanks to you I have just downloaded In search of Sunrise by DJ Tiesto. Talk about value for money.... 14 tracks 6-10 minutes in length and a Tiesto supermix at 71 minutes long for £6.99. If i put that on my mp3 then go for a run I will be gone for 2 hours!!!
Thanks for the reccomendation.

Uncannily, I have just been checking out some Chicane tracks on Youtube on your recommendation! :) There are 7 volumes of Sunrise to collect kunahero. Vols 3 and 6 are my faves. We played "Love Comes Again" signing the register at our wedding :)

Kunahero - I listen to trance and progressive techno when running. If you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them.

Cote,
Chicane is my fave trance artist.
There were a number of 'Dave Pearce Trance Anthem' Complitaions out a few years ago which are all very good.
The DJ Tiesto 'In Search Of Sunrise' Series is good though I have only just been introduced to them.
The New Orbital album is really good for runnign and jsut as a damn good listen too.

Gah. I wrote a long and detailed post with individual song recommendations and it got erased

I think we run to similar music. Thanks for the recommendations. I would heartily recommend you try the earlie Paul Oakenfold albums:
Resident (from the 2 years he was resident DJ at Cream in Ibiza - brilliant 2 CD album)
GU 7 New York
GU 4 Oslo
GU Departures (1st one, from around 2000)

And a few song recommendations:
Rebirth of the Saga (GU 38 Carl Cox)
Wrong Intentions (GU Afterhours 2)
The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon mix)
Crash (GU 14 Hong Kong)

Age of Love:TUNE. Another old school classic I have = 1998 by Binary Finary

PS if you are out running somewhere quiet and you think no-one can see do you ever put your hands in the air...?

Now you have to mention Universal Nation and El Niño I dare say we may have partied in the same era.

No, I don't raise my hands because I couldn't run like that. I do, however, almost close my eyes, move my upper body & head as if I'm dancing rather than running.

You're prob a tad younger than me Cote if you were a Crasher kid :) When I worked in London many years ago "Oaky" was my boss's next door neighbour. Apparently he neglected his cat (presumably because he was always off to Eye-Bee-fa). Fact!

Let me put it this way - I'm running a 5K race tomorrow in the "mature" category (40 & above)

Sorry re Oaky's cat but I'd be more interested in knowing what exactly happened to him about 10 years ago that ended the good music. Quit the good stuff and took up wine?

I listen to mainly pendulum, prodigy, and a bit of heavy metal (trivium, machine head etc). Works for me.

Ey up Naetha!

I set up long playlists then put them on shuffle. Current Playlist (which pretty much carbon dates me!):

? Even though I?m a woman (seeker lover keeper)
? Gilt Complex (sons and daughters)
? Talking like i?m falling downstairs (sparkadia)
? Specials: Our lips are sealed, Little bitch, It?s you, Too much to young
? Yeah yeah Yeahs: Zero, Y Control
? Mark Ronson: 6 of the higher temp tracks from Record Collection
? Martin Solveig: Ready to Go
? Sleeper: Nice Guy Eddie and Sale of the century
? White Stripes: Hotel Yorba, Fell in love with a girl
? The Gossip: For Keep, Heavy Cross
? Maximo Park: Most of tracks from ?A Certain Trigger?
? Florence and the Machine: Hurricane Drunk, You?ve got the love
? Garbage: Till the day that I die, Go Baby Go
? Kaiser Cheifs: Most of ?Employment?
? Killers: On Top
? Duke Spirit: Into the Fold, Send a Little Love Token
? Dandys: Bohemian Like you
? Belly: Slow Dog
? Beck: Sexx Laws
? Amanda Palmer: Leads United, Map of Tasmania, Girl Anachronism
? Abbe May: You Could be mine