What are some deeper cut or more obscure songs that are on your running playlist?
Posted by Playful-Park4095@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 66 comments
I'm curious as to what forgotten or obscure songs other Gen Xers have on their running playlists. Yeah, we all have Sabotage and Eye of the Tiger, but what's a deeper cut that gets you up the next hill and that you aren't going to get in every "workout playlist" article on the interwebz?
Ulcer Breakout and Get Down by Butthole Surfers and Fucken Awesome by Spiderbait would be my examples.
I haven't modified my running playlist in over a year, so help me mix it up.
Ricekake33@reddit
Move any Mountain by The Shamen
Headhunter - Front 242
Rough Sex - Lords of Acid
Temple of Dreams - Messaih
Take it Personal - Gang Starr
Time 4 sum Aksion - Redman
NWA - F*ck tha Police
Point of No Return - Exposé
I’m Your Man- Wham
I Can’t Wait - NU Shooz
Let the Music Play - Shannon
I Feel for You - Chaka Khan
45thgeneration_roman@reddit
Lords of Acid did the best remix of Injected with a Poison by Praga Khan
Ricekake33@reddit
If you have a link please share! I can’t seem to find on Spotify etc
PappyBlueRibs@reddit
Happy Boy - The Beat Farmers
45thgeneration_roman@reddit
Closer by Liquid
Not as iconic as Sweet Harmony but still excellent
Celebration Generation by Westbam
Still gives me goosebumps
Your love takes me higher by The Beloved
The best remix of any of their tracks
Raining again by Solomun
Perfect chugger
PHL2287@reddit
Im definitely not an obscure music person so not sure this fits the criteria but I must’ve been going through something in high school because I got Partytime by 45 Grave on a few playlists 😊😬. Love to rage clean to it but the lyrics are a bit shocking to the uninitiated.
OginiAyotnom@reddit
Was that the one used in "Return of the Living Dead"?
Troutsicle@reddit
Common People - William Shatner's cover (no joke, it slaps.)
Sex Dwarf - Soft Cell
Finland Red, Egypt White - The Sisterhood
DesertRatt@reddit
Thanks for mentioning a Soft Cell song that isn’t Tainted Love.
Playful-Park4095@reddit (OP)
Not of my running list, but Pecos Hank does a great Common People.
Comedywriter1@reddit
Love that Shatner cover. The whole album is great. (The song Shatner does with Aimee Mann 😢)
4Brtndr1@reddit
I Love You by Yello
Big Hollow Man by Danielle Dax
Money by The Flying Lizards
It's a Shame by Monie Love
Army Dreamers by Kate Bush
DesertRatt@reddit
Thank you for mentioning a Yello song that isn’t Oh Yeah.
JohnnyPiston@reddit
Chlorine and Wine- Baroness
Soxogram@reddit
Perfect Game- Thompson Twins Calling Your Name-Simple Minds I Can’t Escape Myself-The Sound Higher Hell-Echo and The Bunnymen Giant-The The
abbagodz@reddit
'Sorcerer', a Stevie Nicks song originally sung by Marilyn Martin. Stevie remade it with Sheryl Crow decades later. I believe Marilyn's version was from the movie 'Streets of Fire'. Love it.
Comedywriter1@reddit
Good song.
ThatOtherOtherGuy3@reddit
Lately I’ve been playing Love Spreads by The Stone Roses a lot. Before a few weeks ago I probably didn’t hear it for almost 30 years.
Comedywriter1@reddit
Love that song and the album.
Tony_Tanna78@reddit
Soul Asylum by The Cult
EasyHangover@reddit
Does Pledge Your Allegiance by Suicidal Tendencies count?
Tony_Tanna78@reddit
Great song by Suicidal. As long as your heart beats, pledge your allegiance.
DC55449@reddit
I Will Dare - The Replacements
JJQuantum@reddit
I have a couple Matisyahu songs on mine, Chop ‘em Down from Live at Stubb’s being one of them.
chz668@reddit
Clockhammer - Mother Truth
sd_glokta@reddit
Quicksilver Lightning by Roger Daltrey - even better than Eye of the Tiger
JoeMagnifico@reddit
AFK - Pinback
devo0630@reddit
https://youtu.be/FvM0uO78Geo?si=MUTMA4h0_RNKjshU
https://youtu.be/Vw2s6fw8ATY?si=3ribvH8YZXFLrK5j
https://youtu.be/HEa5_Ki33nA?si=hphb5h0pqWfCIycL
https://youtu.be/9Iwspf5L1Qk?si=SiZI-g7WudTMsjF6
https://youtu.be/lZQ4I2RB_Ek?si=WzPAhDytUEwNkdF4
https://youtu.be/YqcjGh2WEBU?si=ovoYthRH-IvwQVU1
Ralph728@reddit
Voices by Russ Ballard. It was in an episode of Miami Vice I believe.
Boris_Darling@reddit
We Don't Exist - Meat Puppets ; Dinosaur Jr album Where You Been ; Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Ralph728@reddit
Too High to Die was a great album.
jabrown0101@reddit
Amon Amarth all day long. Run for hours. Imagine you’re storming the monastery.
Coffee_24-7@reddit
Been set free by Son Volt
madhatter-75@reddit
Euro trash girl cracker
DeezDoughsNyou@reddit
The lost track on the Kerosene Hat cd. Great album. Still.
h0rt0n@reddit
Definitely worth catching them when they do the Cracker Van Beethoven shows!
BaconToTheBaconPower@reddit
24 Gone, a band that only Detroiters and Windsorites would know from the station 89X in the mid 90's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHw4yXYfEh0
Edward_the_Dog@reddit
Go For a Soda by Kim Mitchell.
PutridWorth938@reddit
OMFG when I was 14, I had a summer pass to geauga lake Amuseme park in Ohio, and they played that song like every third song in the rotation... It did make me want a soda, tho
Troublebot23@reddit
You get an upvote for being the same age and mentioning Geauga Lake.
PutridWorth938@reddit
My step mom had a rental house in Bainbridge, and she got a free pass, since the road in was completely blocked by park traffic... I would bike to the park every morning in the summers from Stow and just ride every ride in the park all day.
Troublebot23@reddit
My Grandpa worked for Sohio (I think?) and every year the company had a day out at Geauga Lake. Even though my family had moved to Missouri, we’d come back to go to the park with our cousins. I had a lot of really good times at that place.
PutridWorth938@reddit
I was really sad to learn that it was abandoned some years back... Pictures are haunting
https://www.tripsavvy.com/geauga-lake-six-flags-seaworld-ohio-3226033
Apparently, six flags tanked them...
Edward_the_Dog@reddit
You might as well...
Snackatomi_Plaza@reddit
It's better than slander, better than lies.
mnreco@reddit
New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite
MrsByrne80@reddit
Also, Wave Babies!
logan48227@reddit
"Supercollider" by Dag
aluminumnek@reddit
Don’t get me started. My whole catalogue is obscure bands and albums.
Suitable-Gap-8789@reddit
Robin Lane and The Chartbusters, When Things Go Wrong
The Atlantics, Lonelyhearts
The Neighborhoods, Prettiest Girl
Face to Face, 10-9-8
Haunting-Prior-NaN@reddit
Twenty 4 seven - I Can't Stand It. This was the bomb certain summer of the 80s, and was blasted by most discos in Europe.
CheetahNo9349@reddit
Faith No More/Boo-Ya T.R.I.B.E.- Another Body Murdered
Exact-Estate7622@reddit
Tonight is what it means to be young. 7 minutes of cardio hell!
SnoSlider@reddit
Static X, Who’s Fist or Push It Fear Factory’s cover of Gary Numen’s Cars Alice In Chains, Grind Deep, deep unheard heavy ass cut, Vision of Disorder, Formula for Failure. You’re welcome.
Phantomtastic@reddit
Cats are Neat by Apple Maggot Quarantine Area.
magerber1966@reddit
Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits...but I don't run, I dance.
Ianthin1@reddit
Anything from Doo Dad by Webb Wilder.
raf_boy@reddit
I listen almost exclusively to drum 'n bass and jungle while working out, but this'll get your heart pumpin'
edasto42@reddit
I have an entire playlist of essentially outsider music. Sunn O))), the Boredomd, Swans, Burial Hex, bloodyminded, Merzbow, OOIOO, and stuff like that
ConfidenceAlways64@reddit
I’m Afraid of Americans (NIN Remix) - David Bowie
Synchronicity II - Police
wyocrz@reddit
My high school years were all metal. In the 90's, I kind of went along with my woman who was very much into New Wave. Not much new from then, until the last year or so, when I got into some stuff that's completely different.
Have a listen, and be sure to have subtitles on (unless you speak Turkish).
TwistedMemories@reddit
The Normal- Warm Leatherette and TV OD
MaximumJones@reddit
Running to Stand Still by U2
Longjumping-Low8194@reddit
Butcher - Killing Joke
corneliusvanhouten@reddit
Waiting, by The Suburbs
mike___mc@reddit
All Day by Girl Talk. Perfect for running.