Songs That Get You Moving!

[Lyric]

What songs really get your motivated, whether to do work, clean house, play a sport, etc.?

My number one song for that would be "Holiday" by Green Day. If I stick that on repeat in the stereo, I can get nearly the whole house cleaned up in record time.

Edited to add lyrics:

Hear the sound of the falling rain
Coming down like an Armageddon flame
The shame
The ones who died without a name

Hear the dogs howling out of key
To a hymn called "Faith and Misery"
And bleed, the company lost the war today

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line
To find, the money's on the other side

Can I get another Amen?
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

The representative from California has the floor

Sieg Heil to the president Gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don't agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that's meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we're outlaws yeah!

I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives

This is our lives on holiday

[MissMillie]

1. that one has a great cadence for jogging

So does Cheap Trick's "Surrender"

and

Eminem's "Lose Yourself"

[Patiod]

2. Just dancing around to "The Two Princes" (Spin Doctors)

Said, if you want to call me baby
Just go ahead, now
And if you like to tell me maybe
Just go ahead, now
And If you wanna buy me flowers
Just go ahead, now
And if you like to talk for hours
Just go ahead, now

(Interlude)

Said..

One, two, princes kneel before you
That's what I said, now
Princes, Princes who adore you
Just go ahead, now
One has diamonds in his pockets
That's some bread, now
This one, he wants to buy you rockets
Ain't in his head, now

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There's a lot more songs that make me move, but an hour ago I was just dancing around the little convenience store in the lobby of our building to this -- haven't heard it for AGES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p3mFM1Vyb0

[Lyric]

3. Oh god, I remember the Spin Doctors!

What was that other song of theirs--Little Miss Can't-Be-Wrong? :rofl:

[Arkansas Granny]

4. "Pocket full of Kryptonite" was always one of my favorites.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. One that always got me going was "Sweet Home Alabama" by

Lynyrd Skynyrd.

[taterguy]

6. Drivin 'n' Cryin's Powerhouse

The relevant lyric is reproduced below:

Power fucking house

[SKKY]

7. This one really gets me moving...

...I bet when I run, and this comes on my MP3 player, I go from a 9:00-9:30 mile to a 7:00-7:30 mile.

"More Human than Human" - White Zombie

I am the Astro-
Creep a demolition
Style hell american
Freak - I am the
Crawling dead - a
Phantom in a box
Shadow in your
Head say acid
Suicide freedom
Of the blast read
The fucker lies -
Scratch off the -
Broken skin - tear
Into my heart make
Me do it again yeah

More Human Than Human

I am the jigsaw
Man I turn the
World around
With a skeleton hand say -
I am electric head a cannibal core a
Television said
Yeah do not victimize
Read the mother
Fucker-psychoholic lies -
Into a psychic war I
Tear my soul
Apart and I
Eat it some more

More Human Than Human

I am the ripper
Man a locomotion
Mind love american
Style yeah I am
The nexus one I
Want more life
Fucker I ain't
Done - yeah

More Human Than Human

[Lyric]

8. Hell yeah!

*is currently listening to "I'm Your Boogeyman" :D

[Patiod]

16. Let's Give it up for KC and the Sunshine Band!!!!

I used to hang out at a bar at the beach that had a KC & the Sunshine Band cover band.

The next year, they came back as a Doors cover band.

The guy that used to be "KC" was now "Jim Morrison". Very strange.

[dixiechik]

9. Songs That Get You Moving!

I'm showing my age:

Good Morning Starshine
Ain't to Proud to Beg
Proud Mary
JUMP
Can't Get No Satisfaction
Do YOu Feel Like I Do

[Jimbo S]

24. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[mark414]

10. tumbling dice by the stones...

one of the best songs ever written...

women think i'm tasty but they only trying to waste me
make me burn the candle right down
but baby, baby
i don't need no jewels in my crown

cause all you women is low down gamblers,
cheatin like i don't know how
baby, i go crazy
there's fever in the funk house now

this low down bitchin got my poor feet a itchin
you know you know the deuce is still wild
baby, i can't stay
you got to roll me, and call me the tumbling dice

always in a hurry, i never stop to worry
don't you see the time flashing by
honey, got no money
i'm all sixes and sevens and nines
say now baby i'm the rank outsider,
you can be my partner in crime
baby, i can't stay
you got to roll me, roll me
and call me the tumbling dice

oh my my my, i'm the lone crap shooter
playin the field every night
baby, i can't stay
you got to roll me
and call me the tumbling dice

[William Bloode]

11. Freeze Frame by J Giels Band.

Always made me wanna dance. Maybe it's fond memories of my old skating days. :shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

12. Depends on the situation

Driving: Let Them Eat War - Bad Religion
Running/Having to get somewhere quickly on foot: The Flameout - Soilwork
Lifting weights: Jane - The Loved Ones
Imagining flying a spaceship through a raging battle around a couple of cosmic strings: Kings of the Carnival Creation - Dimmu Borgir

and so on...:P

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. I'm showing my age here too.......

"Piano Man" by Billy Joel

"Who can it be now?" by Men at Work

And like that!

:bounce: :bounce:

[rhiannon55]

14. Late in the Evening by Paul Simon

I can't hear that song without dancing. My two-year-old granddaughter and I consider it OUR song--LOL!:)

[Patiod]

17. My Paul Simon dancing song is "Call Me Al"

I'm kind of hoping it makes a BIG comeback.............................................

[rhiannon55]

19. I love that song, too!

That was my granddaughter's mommy's favorite song when she was little.

[Wapsie B]

15. Foreplay/Long Time by Boston

AC/DC Thunderstruck

[spinbaby]

18. I'm working to opera

Le Nozze Di Figaro. I don't understand the words so I tend to put in my own. For instance, the soprano just sang, "Oh, the trouble, the mosquito." At the beginning of this thing, there's a bit where they sing "Surrender the Cheetos! No, they are too cheesy!"

[VenusRising]

20. I would listen to that kind of opera!

Otherwise, I just can't take it.

:rofl:

[spinbaby]

27. You might enjoy PDQ Bach

Oedipus Tex is one of my favorites.

http://www.schickele.com/shoppe/pdqrec/tex.htm

[VenusRising]

37. That was awesome!!

:spray:

It could have been a Bugs Bunny episode! :rofl:

[bridgit]

21. Lipps Inc - Funkytown...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUm6TCbEK0g

[movie_girl99]

22. Groove is in the Heart by Dee Lite

It gets me movin' every time I hear it.

[Arugula Latte]

28. I was just going to post that one!

It never gets old! :hi:

[redqueen]

30. Oh yeah... definitely that one!

:D

[hellbound-liberal]

23. Highway Star by Deep Purple! I also like Foreplay/Long Time from Boston.

Others:

Radar Love- Golden Earring
Trampled Underfoot- Led Zeppelin
Movin' On- Bad Company
The Boys are Back in Town- Thin Lizzy

[bridgit]

25. Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy (1986)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL5zQ6qHlUQ

[sakabatou]

26. Too Good Too Bad

by the Seatbelts

[redqueen]

29. Good Day Sunshine

I love that one!

There are plenty more of course, but that's the one that's in my head just now. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. Blue Flames by Quannum MCs.

[Arugula Latte]

32. Let's Get It Started -- Black Eyed Peas

My daughter and I like to dance to that one...

[Strawman]

33. One of mine in particluar is too embarassing to post

But it gets me fired up to clean, run on the treadmill, work out...whatever it is almost without fail even though I don't go to that well very often.

[Arugula Latte]

34. Oh, come on. 'Fess up.

We promise not to laugh.
:D

[Strawman]

35. Now that sounds like a total setup!

:P

[Arugula Latte]

39. Okay. I'm now picturing you doing elaborate choreography to "Dancing Queen."

Am I wrong? :shrug:

[Strawman]

40. I could fess up to that

[WritingIsMyReligion]

36. "Rock the Casbah."

Fucking AWESOME!

[taterguy]

38. Not according to Sharee

Whoever the hell he is

[WritingIsMyReligion]

41. It's "Sharif."

A "sharif" is a Muslim cleric.

:P

[BreweryYardRat]

42. These three are doing it for me lately.

By Leaves' Eyes, in case you're wondering.

2. Tale Of The Sea Maid

Fantasies in my head
I drift away to all seas
Deep underneath the ocean
I heard the tale of the sea maid

All this beauty
It lights up my life
I ride the waves
To far-off seas
And I lay on the golden sand
I reflect the sun
I make you dream

I glow with the silver light
Thousand-and-one stars bright
This labyrinth of life
Takes me to your home shore


3. Ocean's Way

The way of the ocean
Touch my heart like fire
I cannot control you
You have deeper layers

You're alive and you're wild
When you're nearer to me
I lean forward to touch you
But you surprised me

When I lean against you
I will only fall through
Sometimes you seem to sleep
Then a storm's coming through
Fear the ocean's way

Ah should I fear you
Are you caught in anger
Gods cannot control you
Winds make you go higher

If I swim to the ground
I will need to go up
You will turn me around
When the storm's coming through

When the morning dawns bright
I admire the silveriness inside you
I look into this mirror

Ocean's way

The way of the ocean
It's the waves ruled by the winds

Elegy

Teardrop on a fragile eyelash
She's looking like a dream
Hoping for some understanding
And answer or at least
Cunning word a single sentence
To restore her heart
Aching since the day I left her
Crossing lonely seas

Silent tears of a woman
Make a warrior cry
Heaven, I beg you
Please release hopes from fears

This is my elegy
Do you know what I feel?
This is my elegy
Do you believe it's real?
Will I hold you in my arms again?

Dewdrops on a single rosebud
This purity of rain
Reminds me of the moment I left her
Kisses filled with pain
And if I should leave her waiting
For another year
Will she ever know the answer?
Will she follow me?

Silent tears of a woman
Make her warrior cry
Heaven, I beg you
Please release hopes from fears

This is my elegy
Do you know what I feel?
This is my elegy
Do you believe it's real?
Will I hold you in my arms..
Hold you in my arms again?

Cunning word, a single sentence
To restore her heart
Aching since the day I left her
Crossing lonely seas