playlists

Here's a random list of songs I dig, with artists when I know them  I'm kind of a classic rock fan. Have fun with your new toy

Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
Hot Blooded
Born to be Wild
Start Me Up
Hurt So Good
Don't Bring Me Down - Electric Light Orchestra
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
Harajuku Girls, What You Waiting For, Danger Zone - Gwen Stefani
Soak Up the Sun, Every Day is a Winding Road - Sheryl Crow
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Hell's Bells - ACDC
Mortal Kombat Soundtrack Theme Song
The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Boss Tones
Send Me An Angel - Paul Oakenfold
Listen Like Thieves, Need You Tonight, Devil Inside - INXS
Shake Your Booty, That's the Way I Like It - KC and the Sunshine Band
Pump It, Dum Diddly - Black Eyed Peas
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels

This is my current trainer workout list. It's not my everyday listening music (although all stuff I like), just things I like to hear whilst riding the trainer. I don't listen to music when running or swimming, or biking on the road. (I'm sure I'm gonna get made fun of for this .)

You Shook Me All Night Long 3:36 ACDC
Sweet Emotion 3:15 
Walk This Way 3:33 
Love In An Elevator 5:22 Aerosmith 
Rag Doll 4:25 Aerosmith 
Eat The Rich 4:10 Aerosmith 
Cryin' 5:08 Aerosmith
Pink 3:55 Aerosmith
Love Shack 4:21 B-52s
Hard to Handle 3:07 
Get It Started In Here 3:41 Black Eyed Peas    
No Rain 3:38 Blind Melon
Run-Around 4:40 
Hook 4:50 Blues Traveler  
Born to Run 4:29 Bruce Springsteen 
Treat 'Em Right 4:43 Chubb Rock 
Girls Just Wann Have Fun 4:02 Cindy Lauper 
Sunshine Of Your Love 4:12 Cream 
White Room 5:00 Cream 
Ants Marching 4:31 Dave Matthews Band
Groove Is In the Heart 3:52 Deee-Lite 
Pour Some Sugar 4:52 Def Lep    
Come on Eileen 4:14 Dexy's Midnight Runners   
Humpty Dance 6:31 Digital Underground    
Party Up 4:37 DMX
The Next Episode 2:42 Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg 
Lose Yourself 5:22 Eminem 8 Mile
Without Me 4:21 Eminem    
Smack That 4:36 Eminem & Akon    
After Midnight 2:54 Eric Clapton 
Paralyzer 3:28 Finger Eleven 
Handlebars 3:27 Flobots Fight With Tools 
Live And Let Die 3:04 Guns N' Roses 
Jump Around 3:36 House Of Pain 
Laid 2:39 James   
Somebody to Love 2:56 Jefferson Airplane 
Authority Song 3:50 John Mellencamp 
Don't Stop Believin' 4:09 Journey 
Rock Your Body 4:27 Justin Timberlake
Sign 3:59 Justin Timberland & Snoop Dogg
Stronger 5:12 Kanye West
Footloose 3:47 Kenny Loggins
Let It Rock 3:56 Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne
Sex On Fire 3:23 Kings of Leon
My Sharona 4:59 The Knack  
Whole Lotta Love 5:34 Led Zeppelin 
Heartbreaker 4:14 Led Zeppelin 
Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman) 2:39
U Can't Touch This 4:18 MC Hammer
The Impression That I Get 3:15 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Spirit In The Sky 4:05 Norman Greenbaum 
Come Out And Play 3:18 The Offspring 
Jumpin 4:26 Pointer Sisters 
Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are) 4:21 Pras
We Will Rock You 2:02 Queen
Crazy Little Thing Called Love 2:44 Queen 
Scar Tissue 3:37 Red Hot Chili Peppers
Start Me Up 3:34 The Rolling Stones
It's Tricky 3:04 Run-DMC
Fake It 3:14 Seether
Baby Got Back 4:27 Sir Mix a Lot
Gimme Some Lovin' 2:56 The Spencer Davis Group
Two Princes 4:18 Spin Doctors
Dance, Dance, Dance 2:19 Steve Miller Band
Wrong Way 2:16 Sublime Sublime 
Whoomp! (There It Is) [Radio Edit] 3:45 Tag Team
Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog 3:21 Three Dog Night
Shut Up and Let Me Go 2:52 The Ting Tings
Sex Bomb 3:56 Tom Jones    
American Girl 3:32 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Runnin' Down A Dream 4:23 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Baba O'Riley 5:09 The Who
Play That Funky Music 5:00 Wild Cherry
Bust a Move 4:24 Young M.C.

Nowhere With You - Joe Plaskett
Walls Fall Down - Bedouin Sounclash
When I'm Up (I can't get down) - Great Big Sea (Ridiculously Happy Song!)
Ain't it Funny - J. Lo. (I know ... pathetic...*laughing*)
Starry Eyed Surprise - Paul Oakenfold
Stronger - Kanye (AWESOME running tune!!)
Run It - Chris Brown
Bleed It Out - Linkin Park
Holiday - Green Day
Numb - Linkin Park
In the End - Linkin Park
Right Now - Van Halen (Always makes me want a Crystal Pepsi *snort*)
Consequence Free - Great Big Sea (Also ridiculously happy tune.)
The Power of Love - Hewey Lewis & The News
Rockstar (remix) - NERD feat. Jason Nevins
Pump It - Black Eyed Peas
It's Over Now - 112
Gravity - Soul Decision
Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
I'm Raving - Scooter
Get Your Walk On - Xzibit
Like A Prayer - Madonna
Changes - 2Pac
Slang - Def Leppard
Fable - Robert Miles

Some of these are seriously questionable. *snort* Some are awesome - some are just kinda stuff that I like. I can't live without the Great Big Sea, Kanye and NERD.

ETA:

U2 Beautiful Day

Eminem Lose Yourself

There are two categories of songs on my "Go go go!" playlist:songs that are motivating, and songs I just like.

Motivation/"I'm The Man" songs
These are songs that contain inspirational lyrics about not quitting, going for it, or just say "I am a total bad azz."

Thunderstruck - AC/DC
TNT - AC/DC
AC/DC is great for this kind of song. "Cause I'm TNT, I'm dynamite!"

Go Faster - The Black Crowes
Snatched from someone's sig on beginnertriathlete.com. "You can't stop or I will pass ya/If you slow down, I will outlast ya"

Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Can you have a triathlon training song list and not include Iron Man?

Iron Lion Zion - Bob Marley
Reggae may not be the best training music, but this one is uptempo and has great lyrics. Being a Leo, I have always thought of the lion as my "spirit animal". "I'm gonna be iron, like a lion, in Zion"

The Distance - Cake
About a bike racer (I think). "He's going the distance, he's going for speed"

Whorehoppin' (Sh00t Goddamn) - Eagles of Death Metal
Another "I'm bad" song. "I said shirt, goddamn, I'm a man, I'm a man"

Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood
The ultimate "bad dude" song.

You Only Get What You Give - The New Radicals
I don't know what the verses are about, and the end has some rap/rant about fighting Courtney Love and Hanson or something, but the chorus reminds me that I have to put in effort to get results. "Don't give up, don't let go, can't forget you only get what you give"

Princes Of The Universe - Queen
(From the movie Highlander.) Oh man. If I could only choose one song on this list, this would be it. I should listen to this song every day when I wake up. I'll listen to this ten times on race day. "I am immortal, I have inside me blood of kings, yeah! I have no rival, no man can be my equal!"

Crowd Cheer - Sound Effects
This is a 40 second sound effect of a big crowd cheering. Helps me visualize the finish line.

I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
I am focused on my goal. I am the FIERCE TORTOISE.

Songs I just like
You may laugh at some of these, but they always make me turn up the radio. They're uptempo and energetic.
Take On Me - a-ha
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Shake Your Rump - Beastie Boys
Shakedown - Bob Seger
Peace Of Mind - Boston
Rock & Roll Band - Boston
Taking My Time - Boston (Boston rules!)
Train in Vain (Stand By Me) - The Clash
Not Exactly (Original Mix) - Deadmau5
Groovy Train - The Farm
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Last Train To Trancentral - KLF (five stars - I could go all day on this one)
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
My Old School - Steely Dan
Step it Up - Stereo MC's
Legs - ZZ Top

 Also podrunner.com has free mixes that are techno music at a high tempo for an hour or so. They also have interval mixes, again just techno, but if you like dance music, chek it out.

My current "I can get through this freaking workout" playlist

• Can I get a   Jay-Z
• American Boy- Estelle, Kanye
• Go Girl- Pit Bull
• Hate Me Now-Nas
• Headstrong- Trapt 
• Ho- Ludacris
• I'm a Flirt- R Kelly
• Live your Life- T.I.
• Reason to Believe-Dashboard Confessional
  
• Remember the Name-Fort Minor
  
• Superstar-Lupe Fiasco
• Swing-Soulja Boy
• Til I Collapse- Eminem

After you get a few gig's of music loaded to your computer and start using iTunes for your iPod, try using the new 'genius' feature.  iTunes takes your database of songs and compares it all the other lists of users' songs and then will formulate a playlist based on the songs only on your computer - it's a pretty sweet feature!  I use it regularly and the program does a decent job putting together a solid list of songs with the same basic tempo and music style...

Enjoy the new iPod!

I like your style. I have a playlist on my itunes that gives me a bit of "swagger" in my step.

The new Ludacris CD is a lot of fun as well. Check it out. Estelle has a new album out too.

My iTune list is too big, but the main ones are from Tool, different eras of Black Sabbath, Motorhead - okay, most of the "heavy", fast stuff.  Then I have some old Moody Blues, Train's Calling All Angels, Angel City, Rik Emmett (post-Triumph), Warren Zevon, Collective Soul, Rush, Robin Trower, The Doobie Brothers (pre-Malcolm McDowell, who sucked) and ZZ Top.

I have many songs I like from Newgrounds (http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/ ).  I also like Killswitch Engage and All That Remains for fast tempo, and a few Armin Van Buuren (30+ min) trance songs for longer runs.

Thanks for this recommendation! This is great!

Also, to the OP, if you have itunes, you can go to itunes essentials, click on my groove and search for one of the "total workout" playlists or one of the "running" playlists. I haven't downloaded them but I liked the lists and I can pick and choose without having to search very hard.