What You Listen to for Top Sets

[IntenseVolume]

 

[MackCoach]

“Buried Alive” by The Big Durty (no longer an active band)

 

[CorgisOnTren]

always works

 

[control]

 

[xpoc]

Bringing this one back because I really do enjoy listening to a great playlist while training and I look for ideas from others. Here is my "go to" playlist right now:

1. Rage Against the Machine (this is a given) but some of those deeper cuts on that first album are insane and worth re-visiting. Fistful of Steel, Township Rebellion, Freedom, Settle for Nothing, Wake Up and Take the Power Back. These got very little air time compared to the big hits, Killing in the Name, Bullet in the Head and Know your Enemy for example. Those 3 are amazing songs, but a bit overplayed. Drill down deeper into some RATM stuff and there are gems. That Renegades album is all covers by them... listen to Pistol Grip Pump, How I could just kill a man (Cypress Hill cover), I'm Housin (amazing song), and the Ghost of Tom Joad (Springsteen cover).

2. I am not a huge hip hop fan but the duo RUN THE JEWELS has a unique sound that is a great soundtrack for your workout. I recommend the songs, Call Ticketron, Run the Jewels (song name same as the band name), and Close your eyes and count to fuck (guest singer is the RATM singer).

3. Straight Edge punk band called xWEAPONx. They have a couple gems including, Paid in Blood, Intro, Brothers Blade, and Inclination to name a few. They only have about a dozen songs out but WeaponX brings the hard into hardcore.

4. 3rd Strike has a couple really good rap/metal hybrid songs like No Light and a mashup of the Sabbath song Paranoid.

5. Don't underestimate BODY COUNT. This is rapper Ice-T's side gig metal band. They do some great covers such as Raining Blood (Slayer), Ace of Spades (Motorhead) and a few good orginials such as Body Count's in the House and a metal version of the song Colors (from the movie Colors with Sean Penn).

6. For a single one song add, STROKE ME by Mickey Avalon is a perfect pump up song where he raps over the Billy Squire song The Stroke.

7. Single song, Worldwide Warfare by Landfill Crew (dudes from Rancid with some rap, punk, ska fusion). Catchy tune.


Feel free to pile on. And hopefully you will find a few gems in my recommendations.

 

[gungalunga]

The two albums I will never get tired of:
Metallica Master of Puppets
Pantera Vulgar Display of Power

 

[Biggerp73]

 

[Biggerp73]

 

[Biggerp73]

 

[Biggerp73]

 

[kastro]

Lately I've been on a Slayer kick.Paint the world blood is on repeat.

 

[specter]

 

[derzwerg]

I like to listen to classical music during my sets and in between. Modern Music just is not the same. I like Operas and Concertos for lifting.

Nice. I don't think I could do it for lifting but those are some solid picks. I studied voice for a while and my favorite piece, as my username might suggest lol, is Schubert's "Der Zwerg." I don't really care for Fischer-Dieskau's so much but I quite like how Esther Valentin performs it.

@xpoc maybe you'd like some Dimmu Borgir? Their album "Abrahadabra" has some throat singing in the first couple tracks... Not really a focal point but I quite like it. I've listened to that album countless times.

For top sets... I'm all over the place. It might be Cradle of Filth one day and Lady Gaga the next ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The first few tracks on Slipknot's "Iowa" used to be a go-to. Lamb of God's "Memento Mori" never lets me down.

Lately it's been more electronic stuff. I'm really feeling two tracks from Satellite Empire - Warrior's Vigil and Eternal Vespers.

I have a playlist of stuff similar to Seven Lions. His heavier stuff is great. Some would recognize Serpent of Old from John Wick.

 

[derzwerg]

Lately I've been on a Slayer kick.Paint the world blood is on repeat.

I'm not too big on Slayer but Raining Blood never gets old

 

[JUICEDUP3]

How about some Lil Jon? Throw it up!

This one gets me everytime!!

Also some Five finger, and Slipknot

 

[Primoisthebest]

Nirvana teen spirit.

 

[Biggerp73]

Nirvana teen spirit.

Teen spirit,

Meet teen dirtbag

 

[Biggerp73]

 

[R3aper7]

Anything from knocked loose is my current go to.

 

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The one song I’ve used for over 12 years:

Till I Collapse - Eminem

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