help me pick music for my iPod! i am lost!!

[lizajane]

my sweet honey got me a shuffle for christmas (it is the cutest thing ever! so tiny!) and even asked if i would rather have the more expensive one so i could have more songs. um. no. i can't even think of TEN songs for it!

help!!!

i want workout music! what would you/have you bought for your iPod or what songs to you listen to when you exercise??

i am 32, like 80's goofy stuff, like classic rock (nothing "angry"), like alternative stuff like dave matthews, nothing grungy, no rap, hard rock, country... like some stuff on the radio today but i have NO idea what it is... i just listen to it on the radio! i want warm up and cool down mellow music and then super fun go that extra mile songs...

so far i have:
100 years
waiting on the world to change
come on eileen
brown eyed girl
every little thing she does is magic
jack and diane

???? help me!!!!:confused:

[Pennylane]

I love Journey and have loads of it on my IPOD. Here are some of my other favorites right now:

10,000 maniacs
Soundtrack to Mamma Mia or anything Abba
Michelle Branch with Santana
Tracy Chapman , Fast Car
Barenaked Ladies, any and all of their songs
Footloose, Kenny Loggins
Love is a Battlefield, Pat Benatar
Dancing with Myself, Billy Idol
INXS
No Doubt
Live
Good Vibrations, Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch (should I be embarrassed that I just wrote that?)
Counting Crows

I could name so many more, but I'll stop there! Have fun with your new toy.

Ann

[purpleeyes]

Ok, there was a great thread with a similar topic a while ago-someting about picking one song...at least I think so. I'm not crazy, right? There *was* this thread, right? I couldn't find it at all in a search.

Oh well, here's the totally random stuff I've been listening to lately:
Kelly Clarkson
Pogues (somewhat angry, tho) ;)
John Mayer
Feist
The Fratellis
The Ramones
KT Tunstall
Gwen Stefani

Good luck!

[caleymama]

Oooh - I got a shuffle too! It is so cute and tiny! I haven't even taken it out of the box yet but hopefully will get to play with it this weekend.

Here is a recent thread about the same topic, hopefully the one Beth (bethandcian) was referring to:
http://www.windsorpeak.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=130175

[SnuggleBuggles]

I posted this on the MommyFit page. This is my workout playlist.

Ready for my playlist? It's long! I often just do through to "Footloose" before I move from cardio to weights/ abs but I mix it up. And I like to have the variety.

Warm up
Olympic Fanfare 4:22 Cincinnati Pops Orchestra & Erich Kunzel
Walkin' On the Sun 3:26 Smash Mouth
Suddenly I See 3:22 KT Tunstall
Raiders Of The Lost Ark 2:29 Orlando Pops Orchestra

Cardio:
Girlfriend 3:37 Avril Lavigne (*great workout song even if she totally plagarized the song and won't admit it!)
Pump It 3:35 Black Eyed Peas Monkey Business
We Got the Beat 2:32 The Go-Go's
Song 2 2:01 Blur Blur
Seven Nation Army 3:52 The White Stripes
The Cup of Life 4:39 Ricky Martin
Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) 4:06
It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) 4:07 R.E.M.
Cigarette 6:25 The Clarks
SexyBack 4:03 Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland
Footloose 3:43 Kenny Loggins
Let's Get It Started (Spike Mix) [Bonus Track] 3:39 Black Eyed Peas
Hey Ya! 3:55 Outkast
Intergalactic 3:33 The Beastie Boys
Welcome to the Jungle 5:09 Guns N' Roses
Blister In The Sun 2:24 Violent Femmes
Cut Your Hair 3:07 Pavement
Insane in the Brain 3:35 Cypress Hill
It's Raining Men 5:29 The Weather Girls (*Funny side note- if you go to iTunes and search for this song you will find a version with Arnold Schwarzeneger giving workout instructions to it- it's really funny)
Jump Around 3:36 House Of Pain
Soul Bossa Nova (Original Mix) 2:49 Quincy Jones & Quincy Jones & His
Fame 5:16 Irene Cara
I Will Survive 3:18 Gloria Gaynor
The Middle 2:46 Jimmy Eat World
Elevation 3:47 U2
Bust A Move 4:26 Young MC
Beautiful Day 4:08 U2
Switch (Main Version) 3:17 Will Smith
Whoomp There It Is 3:46 Tag Team
Start the Commotion 5:52 The Wiseguys
All the Small Things 2:52 Blink-182
First Date 2:52 Blink-182
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) 2:38 They Might Be Giants
Livin' La Vida Loca 4:03 Ricky Martin
The Humpty Dance 6:31 Digital Underground

Weights/ abs:
Fighter 4:06 Christina Aguilera
Accidentally In Love 3:11 Counting Crows
Beverly Hills 3:18 Weezer Make Believe
Baby Got Back 4:23 Sir Mix-A-Lot
Feel Good Inc. (Album Crossfade) 3:41 Gorillaz
Since U Been Gone 3:09 Kelly Clarkson
Bootylicious 3:28 Destiny's Child #1's
Need You Tonight 3:01 INXS
Don't Bother 4:17 Shakira Don't Bother -
Lose Control (Featuring Ciara & Fat Man Scoop) 3:47 Missy Elliot featuring Ciara & Fat Man Scoop
Jumpin', Jumpin' 3:48 Destiny's Child #1's
Gold Digger (Featuring Jamie Foxx) 3:28 Kanye West
Sure Shot 3:20 The Beastie Boys
I'm a Believer 3:03 Smash Mouth

Cool down:
New Slang 3:51 The Shins
Upside Down 3:31 Jack Johnson
If I Had $1,000,000 4:27 Barenaked Ladies
Hero Enrique Iglesias

Beth

[ThreeofUs]

Hey, have you heard the newish Robert Plant/Alison Krauss "Raising Sand"? Really good. Sometimes eerily good.

[Jen841]

Wow, I am impressed by the previous list!

Missing... Madonna. I have the Immaculate Collection loaded. Olivia Newton John and or Grease Soundtrack always make me smile. For a cool down I use Enya.

Other ideas (some of which I need to add):
Bizarre Love Triangle (Depeche Mode?)
Depeche Mode
I will Survive
'at the Carwash'

[tylersmama]

Excellent! I'm always looking for new songs to add to my workout music. I just filled up my new Shuffle with random stuff from my Itunes library, but some of it needs to go, just too slow!

[sgr]

I may have missed it, but since you like 80s music, what about Oingo Boingo, New Order, The Cure, The Smiths, etc...?