80's Workout Music

[sovereignstar]

So I was watching South Park yesterday and Joe Esposito's "You're the Best" made an appearance. You know, the song that played while all the miscellaneous crap guys were knocked out of the tournament in first Karate Kid. I downloaded the song and got to thinking that I'd like to make an 80's Workout CD. Now I need help determining some other worthy songs. I've already got this Rocky sountrack which has some good stuff on it already, including Eye of the Tiger.

Any suggestions?

[rkmsuf]

Flashdance

[rkmsuf]

Footloose soundtrack.

[rkmsuf]

dammit now I'm thinking about humping Ali Mills again

[TroyF]

The Rocky IV soundtrack

[rkmsuf]

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go

[Arctus]

Lunatic Fringe from Vision Quest

[rkmsuf]

We Built This City - Starship

[Arctus]

Shake It Up - The Cars

[rkmsuf]

We Got The Beat - Go Gos

[sovereignstar]

We Got The Beat - Go Gos

Okay, you need to take a break.

[Draft Dodger]

the best song of the 80s is Electric Avenue. end thread.

[Pumpy Tudors]

WALK THE DINOSAUR

[Arctus]

Jam On It by Newcleus

Wikki Wikki Wikki Wikki!

[rkmsuf]

Say Say Say - Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney

[Passacaglia]

Damn, I saw that episode of South Park last night, and I thought it was from Teen Wolf. My bad. :(

[stevew]

Too Shy

[Passacaglia]

A-Ha, Take On Me
Dexys Midnight Runners, Come On Eileen
Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science
Antmeister, Cheat

[Arctus]

Cult of Personality - Living Colour

[rkmsuf]

Too Shy

Hush hush

[BishopMVP]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000YTP5M/qid=1149795644/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/002-6657303-2308854?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

Arnold beat ya to it. Pure gold.

[Franklinnoble]

The Rocky IV soundtrack

Beat me to it.

I'd also throw out "Physical" by Olivia Newton John.

[Antmeister]

The Rocky IV soundtrack

Awesome soundtrack. One of the best suggestions on here.

Anyways, here are a few others:

Prince - When Doves Cry
Run-DMC - Rock Box
GrandMaster Flash - White Lines (Don't Don't Do it)
Whoudini - Friends
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Madness - Our House
Gap Band - You Dropped the Bomb on Me
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

[Antmeister]

Jam On It by Newcleus

Wikki Wikki Wikki Wikki!

Shut up! :D

[Antmeister]

A-Ha, Take On Me
Dexys Midnight Runners, Come On Eileen
Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science
Antmeister, Cheat

LOL!

[KevinNU7]

Damn, I saw that episode of South Park last night, and I thought it was from Teen Wolf. My bad. :(
I thought it was from the original Rocky

[moriarty]

Try the Vision Quest soundtrack ... I'm sure that probably has some gay 80's pump me up music.

[Schmidty]

99 Luft Balloons

[Pumpy Tudors]

The "level complete" music from the C64 version of Commando

[Desmond]

Would this be for lifting or cardio? My suggestion is to fill a backup up with as many 50lb plates as you can, load up your ipod with Samantha Foxs Touch Me and start running.

[Mustang]

"Shine" - Martin Ansell from Better Off Dead soundtrack......

[Joe]

simply the best - tina turner

[terpkristin]

Oh come on, as a last song on any mix like that belongs Chariots of Fire. ;)

/tk

[Draft Dodger]

other obvious choices, especially if you are going to exercise in a loincloth while lathered up with oil:

Animotion's Obsession and Olivia Netwon-John's Let's Get Physical

[Ksyrup]

Well damn, my list is a tad different...

Disposable Heroes
Necrophobic
Wake Up Dead
It's a Secret
Kill As One
Caught in a Mosh

The trick is to get your heartbeat up to the bpm of the song.

[timmynausea]

"Push it to the limit" from Scarface. You will have no choice but to push it to the limit.

[Bonegavel]

Hungry for Heaven, Dio.

[Warhammer]

Isn't Thunderstruck from the 80s?

If not, Just a Gigalo..

[cuervo72]

other obvious choices, especially if you are going to exercise in a loincloth while lathered up with oil:

Animotion's Obsession and Olivia Netwon-John's Let's Get Physical

Hmm, I like Obsession...yeah, I could work out to that.

Maybe some Billy Idol (To Be a Lover, White Wedding. Dancing With Myself, Cradle of Love), Eurythmics (Would I Lie To You, Missionary Man). You want uptempo here if you're doing anything cardio (if you're lifting, you should be going heavy metal). Some Robert Palmer (Simply Irresistible, Bad Case of Loving You, and Get It On w/Power Station), Robert Plant (Hurting Kind, Your Ma Said You Cried, Tall Cool One), Walk this Way (DMC). Maybe even a little Duran Duran.

[Draft Dodger]

Hmm, I like Obsession...yeah, I could work out to that.

Maybe some Billy Idol (To Be a Lover, White Wedding. Dancing With Myself, Cradle of Love), Eurythmics (Would I Lie To You, Missionary Man). You want uptempo here if you're doing anything cardio (if you're lifting, you should be going heavy metal). Some Robert Palmer (Simply Irresistible, Bad Case of Loving You, and Get It On w/Power Station), Robert Plant (Hurting Kind, Your Ma Said You Cried, Tall Cool One), Walk this Way (DMC). Maybe even a little Duran Duran.

I think you and I were seperated at birth.

[sovereignstar]

"Push it to the limit" from Scarface. You will have no choice but to push it to the limit.

As long as I don't end up buying a tiger...

[Buccaneer]

I can't believe some of the suggestions here. Do some of you actually know what "workout music" means? Some of the songs listed are so limpid and lame that they are the opposite of workout music. Or were you just thinking of whatever 80s songs that pop into your head?

On the other hand, cuervo's list is good.

[Groundhog]

Antmeister, Cheat

Most under-rated song in the thread.

[cuervo72]

Oh, forgot Peter Gabriel. Songs like Big and Steam have a nice steady pace too. Kiss that Frog sometimes, but has a slower part in the middle.

(and thanks Bucc)

[Glengoyne]

Come on Irene?

Edit: Doh! when I saw this thread tonight, I remembered my post. Ooops Eileen!
This is not my night.

[cuervo72]

It's Eileen...and I can't imagine working out to it. At least, not without wretching.

[Bonegavel]

Come on Irene?

I swear, it was just a Bavarian Creme from Dunkin.

[Schmidty]

Do some of you actually know what "workout music" means?

For you, I assume it's this:

http://www.kingmaker.net/images/richcd.jpg

:)

[Passacaglia]

St. Elmo's Fire

[Franklinnoble]

Bucc assumes we should be making suggestions from the 1880's.

[Antmeister]

For you, I assume it's this:

http://www.kingmaker.net/images/richcd.jpg

:)

Bucc assumes we should be making suggestions from the 1880's.

Okay these quotes had me rolling. I could just imagine Buccaneer jamming to this music as he works out.

[KeyserSoze]

http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php

This is a spanish web with a lot of links to videos of the 80's. There are some spanish, but most of them are in english. There are jewels like


Baltimora - Tarzan Boy

Nena - 99 Luftballons

A-HA - Take on me

Big Country- In A big Country

The Proclaimers - I'm gonna be (500 miles)

Morrisey - Suedehead

And so on...

[Neon_Chaos]

Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions
Highway to the Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins

:)

[Northwood_DK]

Kids in America Kim Wilde

[Raiders Army]

OMFG...I can't believe that Matthew Wilder's Break My Stride isn't on here.

[gottimd]

Shut up! :D

Three words to the whack, step yourself back
Just gettin' down, and you then you're givin' no slack
Like a Burger King with a sack of Big Macs
We're throwin' down with the radical sacks
On time, in your mind you see
You gotta boogie to your best ability
You gotta funk it up until it knocks you down
And when you're funkin' up, be sure to pass it around
Come on, let's go to work
We got what'll make your body jerk
Make you throw your hands up in the air
Shake your booty and scream, "Oh, yeah"
'Cause we are the Jam On Crew
And jammin' on it is how we do the do
We'll funk you up until you boogie down
So come people check out the sound


Have you tried working out to anything by Patrick Swayze....what was that song...she's like the wind?

[rkmsuf]

I can't believe some of the suggestions here. Do some of you actually know what "workout music" means? Some of the songs listed are so limpid and lame that they are the opposite of workout music. Or were you just thinking of whatever 80s songs that pop into your head?

On the other hand, cuervo's list is good.

guess gramps isn't seeing the humor in it

[Mustang]

guess gramps isn't seeing the humor in it

When I was young we didn't have no Metallica or Flashdance to workout to.. We had to hit a wooden barrell for a beat and we liked it.

[condors]

metallica - get ride lighting cd press play - good to go

[Vinatieri for Prez]

Ah yes, this thread was a nice comic diversion. Too funny. May I add Donna Summer's "She Works Hard for the Money."

[MJ4H]

Walkin on Sunshine by whoever that was.

I'm Gonna Be - The Proclaimers


Best Song Ever

[Vinatieri for Prez]

http://www.milinkito.com/los80.php

This is a spanish web with a lot of links to videos of the 80's.

That website rocks. Ah, the good ol' days. I did learn a shocking truth. Back in the days of my serious clubbing, Holiday Rap was big one summer. I knew they were from Europe, but two geeky white guys? C'mon, MC Miker G and DJ Sven, say it ain't so. Now I know why I never did see a video of that song on TV. Sven looks like Jim Carrey with a porn moustache, and he wears loafers, for god's sake.

[Vinatieri for Prez]

I will say the trip was worth it however, seeing Ms. Carlisle tucked in the corner of the room in heaven is a place on earth and Ms. Hoffs at the mike like an egyptian. I'd say Belinda still looks pretty good in her 2005 performance on the associated linky on youtube.

[kingfc22]

the best song of the 80s is Electric Avenue. end thread.

I concur.

[biological warrior]

Love Shack...better yet...Whip it.

[Philliesfan980]

Sunglasses at Night

[sovereignstar v2]

Ten years later and I'm putting something together again. Go ahead, laugh and share your shitty suggestions. You won't be laughing when I'm BUFF!

http://i68.tinypic.com/23jmqur.png

[sovereignstar v2]

oh shi

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Boom.

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[sovereignstar v2]

Shit just got real. I just added 'Cruel Summer'.

[Ben E Lou]

Shit just got real. I just added 'Cruel Summer'.Bump. Sorry for the delay in moving.

[Kodos]

Dang. I'd forgotten about "No Easy Way Out." Good song. Silly video.

[Kodos]

Isn't Thunderstruck from the 80s?

If not, Just a Gigalo..

One of my favorite songs on my running playlist.

[Umbrella]

Come on Irene?

Edit: Doh! when I saw this thread tonight, I remembered my post. Ooops Eileen!
This is not my night.

No worries, that's the title in China.

[Bobble]

Some of these may be (read: definitely are) from the 70s or 90s:

Are You Ready For The Sex Girls - Gleaming Spires
The Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet
Be Good Johnny - Men At Work
Daddy Cool - Boney M
Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
Hip To Be Square - Huey Lewis
Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe - Whale
La Bamba - Los Lobos
Life's Been Good to Me - Joe Walsh
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Mama Told Me (Not To Come) - 3 Dog Night
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
My Girl - Chilliwack
Nutbush City Limits - Tina Turner
One Night in Bangkok - Murray Head
ONe Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Pump Up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S
Run Runaway - Slade
Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Sausalito Summernight - Diesel
Solomon Bites The Worm - The Bluetones
The Stroke - Billy Squire
Suicide Blonde - INXS
Switchin' to Glide - The Kings
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
The Hitman - AB Logic
U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
900# - The 45 King


Go, be buff.

[cuervo72]

That's a solid list. (Especially like the Nutbush inclusion).

Some harder tunes that have a nice running beat, not all 80s (might have mentioned these on another workout thread?):

It's a Long Way to the Top - AC/DC
Hair of the Dog - Nazareth
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Living After Midnight - Judas Priest