need music recommendations

[sundial]

I need music recommendations from you'uns. Mr. Sundial is burned out on his music for his workouts. He likes classic rock and southern rock and on his iPod he has U2, Van Halen, AC/DC, ZZ Top, some Led Zeppelin.

Don't know that much about the new bands and if any of you have recommendations, please post away. :)

[blackhillsbiker]

Mika: Life in Cartoon Motion. My daughter has that CD and it's delightful! Quirky, upbeat, melodic, guaranteed to make you smile.

Deb

[letsride89]

call me crazy...but i listen non stop to ONEREPUBLIC and JOHNMAYER...slower music makes me pedal harder, i know i'm crazy.

[KnottedYet]

"No Heaven" by Champion (Quebecois)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPyNOhXFd0

Hard working pushy beat crazy good song!

[ny biker]

Foo Fighters. Monkey Wrench, All My Life, Overdrive, DOA, many more.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Roscoe Holcomb.

[sundial]

Roscoe Holcomb--a banjo player??

OneRepublic has a nice mellow sound, but maybe too mellow for cycling. We have John Mayer and he has a nice sound.

Knot, your video--LOL! It made me want to get up and dance. Very good beat and makes your foot tap. :)

Foo Fighters--a little too much intensity. Great music to get going in the morning though, especially on a rainy day. :cool:

Mika does put a smile on my face.....but it's still not what we're looking for. :(

Looking for something that makes you want to bang your head, but not in the sense of heavy metal if you get my drift.

[Zen]

I especially like the White Stripes , #'s 3 and 4 and 5 on this play list (http://www.playlist.com/playlist/16734728971)

Or you could browse through these-
http://www.playlist.com/playlist/8870374923

http://www.playlist.com/playlist/16606985483

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Roscoe Holcomb--a banjo player??

I think of him more as an amazing singer. He's...how should I say...an acquired taste. :cool:

[Zen]

Bela Flek is a banjo player I really like. Especially the song Sinister Minister

[crazycanuck]

I don't know much of the newer stuff & I don't have much taste in music:o soooo here are a few albums to flick through:

early Tragically Hip stuff :cool: (The hip, Road Apples)
Loverboy :o
RObbie Williams-Sing when you're winning
Bryan Adams-his first 3 albums :cool:
David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust :cool:
Wings-Band on the run
Eric Clapton-Slowhand
Dire Straits-Love over Gold& Dire Straits
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here, Dark side of the moon
Rolling Stones & THe who..pretty much anything :cool:
Jimmy Barnes-For the working class man
Cold Chisel-Cold Chisel & Circus Animals
Tina Turner-Private Dancer
Tom Cochrane & Red Rider-all of thier stuff
Tom Cochrane-Mad, Mad World, Ragged *** Road (real road name too!!!)

[papaver]

call me crazy...but i listen non stop to ONEREPUBLIC and JOHNMAYER...slower music makes me pedal harder, i know i'm crazy.

Maybe your subconscience wants to run away from it. :D

[papaver]

"No Heaven" by Champion (Quebecois)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwPyNOhXFd0

Hard working pushy beat crazy good song!

I love it!

[papaver]

Why not try bands like

Air traffic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEAqBwDTTFU

Razorlight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wegOJS02znY

Snowpatrol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSfw-qWAJ4w

Now that last song reminds me of a certain... well 'newbie'... here on this forum. :D

[Becky]

Drive By Truckers are one of DH's favorites.....a good southern rock sound and very talented.

[Miranda]

Hey Sundial:) I was in a music rut too before I started teaching Spinning at my gym. Now I am constantly looking for new music. Pandora radio is also a great tool to find bands with the same sound. It's free and works great! Type in a band you already like and it does the rest... http://www.pandora.com/#/stations/create/

Below some things outta my current library that are rock...

Papa Roach: Lifeline, Scars, and this from them...

...To Be Loved (comes as CLEAN radio edit too--my kid loves WWE that's how I found it:o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPd0PnpXjY

Gotta comment-
Good hard core sprint interval rock song I love to use in class...

"...we are taking back to a hard core level... you better be ready, put your pedal (& bici pedals count;)) to the metal... GO! ...I never give up, I never give in... I just wanna be loved... ". Visualize some friendly competition against one of his guy ride buddies and hammer it out like there is no tomorrow (or hounds from h*ell chasing--whatever works for ya! lol).

Sick Puppies: You're Going Down (beat the bike up song, bad day at work--also from WWE)
Skillet: Monster (more WWE find... core rock sound)
Seether: Fake It, Broken, Breakdown, Rise Above This
Shinedown: 2nd Chance, Sound of Madness, Devour
3 Doors Down: Kryrptonite, Let Me Be Myself, It's Not My Time
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Otherside, Scar Tissue, Give It Away
Stone Temple Piolets: Plush
Theory of a Deadman: Not Meant To Be, Bad Girlfriend
Seven Mary Three: Cumbersome
Nickleback: How You Remind Me, If Today Was Your Last Day, Rockstar
Linkin Park: What I've Done, Bleed It Out, New Divide, Numb
Lifehouse: Hanging By A Moment
JET: Are You Gonna Be My Girl
Green Day: I love them, but alternative, sprint song "Nice Guys Finish Last"
Creed: My Sacrifice (greatest hits has a lot good heavy climb songs)
Buckcherry: warning-explict though, but great rock beat
Bad Company: Can't Get Enough (oldie but goodie)
BTO: Takin Care Of Business (oldie but goodie, fast beat)
The Offspring: Pretty Fly (more alt. rock, but nice guitar +more in my lib)

I am not normally a techno music person. However, I found Fatboy Slim w/a Lance climbing vid. The song is Acid 8000. It has a great driving beat for some pedaling focus without words. "If this don't make your booty move, your booty must be dead!". YouTube link w/song... it's hypnotic almost lol!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHJErrp4eOw

Hope he finds some tunes he likes!

Miranda

[TsPoet]

I'm not an individual song type of person. If I don't like at least 3 songs by an artist, I don't listen to them.
I've posted this before - for some loud "war music" try this Celtic drum band

http://www.last.fm/music/Albannach

[Zen]

I like Playlist over Pandora or LastFM because when you type in 'Wicked Tinkers" you get Wicked Tinkers, not another band 'like' them.

The other two are good if you want to discover new music but you can do that in Playlist too, just look at other peoples playlists.

[MartianDestiny]

I like to work out to:

Disturbed
Godsmack
Breaking Benjamin
Three Days Grace

And similar.

A bit removed from classic rock (much closer to metal) :o But it definitely makes you want to hammer (well, at least it makes me want to). Lots of energy, lots of drums, but if you can't handle screaming not for you (they do however scream on pitch).

[Aggie_Ama]

How about Clutch or Kings of Leon? I like to run to things like Rancid, Sublime, umm and now my mind is blank. :)

[Starfish]

Phish
Dixie Chicks
Afro Celt Sound System

[TsPoet]

Answer

Phish
Dixie Chicks
Afro Celt Sound System

Question
Name 3 very different bands from 3 different genres.


I like Phish and Afro Celt Sound System, too.
I don't like the term "Chick" and I completely stopped listening to anything they did after the FUTK incident. Bad taste.

[Zen]

Starfish! :) :) :)

[Starfish]

Starfish! :) :) :)

:) :) :) Back at ya! (end of drift!)

[Jolt]

Not exactly "head-banging" music, but upbeat and good to work out to:

Gaelic Storm
Leahy
Fiddlers 3
Stone Soup Band (at least the songs I've heard)

[GLC1968]

Shinedown
Days of the New (slightly older since they've gone separate ways)
Linkin Park

and a little different, not nearly as rock, but fun none-the-less:
Guster

[tc1]

He should look into
The Reverend Horton Heat
The Cramps
Hillbilly Hellcats-Rev it up with Taz album-and Hillbilly Love song
Georgia Satellites
Motorhead- Lost Johnny, Ace of Spades, Vibrator

If you all do the internet radio thing, KEXP 90.3FM Friday nights from 6 to 9, shake the shack hosted by Leon Berman.

[Irulan]

He should look into
The Reverend Horton Heat
The Cramps
Hillbilly Hellcats-Rev it up with Taz album-and Hillbilly Love song
Georgia Satellites
Motorhead- Lost Johnny, Ace of Spades, Vibrator

If you all do the internet radio thing, KEXP 90.3FM Friday nights from 6 to 9, shake the shack hosted by Leon Berman.

Heh, KEXP Any day, any time.

[sundial]

Wow, you guys have some great suggestions! I'll have to investigate these for myself. I can still see hear the song that Knot posted. Thank you all! :cool:

And Starfish--it's so nice to see you here again!! :) :)

Ok, here's what hubby went with: Chickenfoot. (http://www.chickenfoot.us/band/)

[nscrbug]

Some of my favorite artists to workout to are:

Creed - they just released a new CD and it's AWESOME!
3 Days Grace
3 Doors Down
12 Stones
Linkin Park
Seether
Hoobastank
Foo Fighters
Breaking Benjamin
All-American Rejects
Green Day

[shootingstar]

Thx for these songs lists...I admit it feels like a whole tidal sound wave washed over me ..and I ducked under, untouched..not knowing many of these song names, groups. :rolleyes:

My world when working out at home indoors, is tv ..or outside on bike...highly visual, tactile sensory and lost in bits of thoughts. :)

I dislike intensely earbuds/headsets, etc. (I get headaches) which explains my cluelessness on knowing more "current" music. :o

[e.e.cummings]

What gets me going lately:

-Queen's Greatest Hits (3 CD set) - includes some remakes on the third desk, some tributes. Check out hyped up version of Under Pressure with David Bowie. So many songs: Fat Bottomed Girls, Bicycle Race, Radio Gaga, We Will Rock You, We are the Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody, Hammer to Fall, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Killer Queen, Someone to Love, etc. Ready Freddie!