Music To Workout To - Great Playlists

Published 24 August 07 05:22 PM | Corinne

PnP Sample Playlists

The key to playlists is that YOU like the music and it motivates YOU.  Below are suggested tunes and artists for a variety of genres.  (Note:  Some of these tunes may contain suggestive lyrics or profanity)

Feel free to leave comments on this page with your own favorite song title and artists. It might make the official PNP List!

80's

Song Title

Artist

I Ran

Flock of Seagulls

Goody Two Shoes

Adam Ant

The Metro

Berlin

Let's Go Crazy

Prince

The Reflex

Duran Duran

Love Shack

B52's

Cosmic Thing

B52's

My Sharona

The Knack

Freeze-Frame

J Geils Band

Working for the Weekend

Loverboy

Young Turks

Rod Stewart

Rock This Town

Stray Cats

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

Wham

Hot, Hot, Hot

Buster Poindexter

Maniac

Michael Sembello

 

Slower Tunes/Contemporary

Song Title

Artist

She Believes In Me

Kenny Rogers

One Moment in Time

Whitney Houston

Wind Beneath My Wings

Bette Midler

Because You Loved Me

Celine Dion

Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong

Clocks

Coldplay

Alive and Kicking

Simple Minds

The One

Elton John

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting

Elton John

Old Time Rock and Roll

Bob Seger

Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

K.T. Tunstall

 

Swing

Almost the whole "Jump, Jive An' Wail" album by the Brian Setzer Orchestra is fabulous for workouts.

Song Title

Artist

Sing, Sing, Sing

The Spitfire Band

Jump, Jive ‘N Wail

Brian Setzer Orchestra

Candyman

Christina Aguilera

Mambo Italiano

Bette Midler

Pennsylvania 6-5000

Brian Setzer Orchestra

Take the "A" Train

Duke Ellington

In The Mood

Glenn Miller

Puttin' on the Ritz

Benny Goodman

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Glenn Miller and the Andrews Sisters

Americano

Brian Setzer Orchestra

 

HipHop/Rap/Pop

Song Title

Artist

Sexyback

Justin Timberlake

Crazy in Love

Beyonce

Let's Get It Started

Black Eyed Peas

My Humps

Black Eyed Peas

Don't Cha

Pussycat Dolls

Gonna Make you Sweat

C&C Music Factory

Push It

Delorean/Club Mix

Baby Got Back

Sir Mix-A-Lot

Hollaback Girl

Gwen Stefani

What is Love

Haddaway

Work It

Missy Elliott

Hey Baby

No Doubt

Sex Bomb

Tom Jones

These Boots are Made for Walking

Jessica Simpson

Whoomp!  There is Is!

Tag Team

Switch

Will Smith

Hey Ya!

Outkast

All Star

Smashmouth

Pump Up the Jam

Technotronic

Hips Don't Lie

Shakira

Buttons

Pussycat Dolls

Celebration

Kool and the Gang

Yeah

Usher

Stupid Girls

Pink

U + Ur Hand

Pink

Get the Party Started

Pink

Smack That

Akon

I Wanna Love You

Akon

Ms. New Booty

Bubba Sparxxx

Ridin'

Chamillionaire

Rock Yo Hips

Crime Mob

Last Night

Diddy

Snap Yo Fingers

Lil Jon

Money Maker

Ludacris

Buy U a Drank

T-Pain

Walk It Out

Unk

Shoulder Lean

Young Dro

It's Goin Down

Yung Joc

Glamorous

Fergie

Say It Right

Nelly Furtado

Promiscuous

Nelly Furtado

SOS

Rhianna

All the Things She Said

TATU

Give It To Me

Timbaland

Stranger In My House

Tamia

Temperature

Sean Paul

Enjoy the Silence

Depeche Mode

Desert Rose

Sting

 

Rock - Classic/Hard

Song Title

Artist

Start Me Up

Rolling Stones

Rag Doll

Aerosmith

Bad Medicine

Bon Jovi

American Woman                         

Lenny Kravitz

Whiskey in the Jar

Metallica

Fat Bottomed Girls

Queen

Welcome to the Jungle

Guns N'Roses

ROCK in the USA

John Mellencamp

Eye of the Tiger

Survivor

We're Not Gonna Take It

Twisted Sister

Jump

Van Halen

Paint it Black

Rolling Stones

We Got It Going On

Bon Jovi

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

Born to Run

Bruce Springsteen

Pour Some Sugar on Me

Def Leppard

Smokin' in the Boys Room

Motley Crue

Mas Tequilla

Sammy Hagar

Animal

Def Leppard

Rocket

Def Leppard

Nothin' But A Good Time

Poison

Tear Down the Walls

Poison

Shook Me All Night Long

AC/DC

Thunder

AC/DC

Heaven's On Fire

KISS

99 In the Shade

Bon Jovi

Girls, Girls, Girls

Motley Crue

 

Rock - Alternative/Modern

Song Title

Artist

All The Things I've Done

The Killers

Pain

Three Days Grace

Tainted Love

Marilyn Manson

Holiday

Green Day

The Saints are Comin'

U2 and Green Day

Vertigo

U2

Pride (In the Name of Love)

U2

Rock n Roll High School

The Ramones

Land of Confusion

Disturbed

Kryptonite

3 Doors Down

Mr. Brightside

The Killers

Disease

Matchbox 20

This is How A Heart Breaks

Rob Thomas

Sugar, We're Going Down

Fall Out Boy

 

Country

Song Title

Artist

Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy

Big and Rich

Devil Went to Georgia

Charlie Daniels Band

East Bound and Down

Jerry Reed

All Jacked Up

Gretchen Wilson

Here for the Party

Gretchen Wilson

Before He Cheats

Carrie Underwood

Stays in Mexico

Toby Keith

Hot Mama

Trace Adkins

Honky Tonk Badonadonk

Trace Adkins

Folsom Prison Blues (live)

Johnny Cash

Jalapeno

Big and Rich

Sin Wagon

Dixie Chicks

Life is a Highway

Rascal Flatts

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

BlueGrace

Chattahoochee

Alan Jackson

Ain't Goin' Down till the Sun Comes Up

Garth Brooks

Where the Blacktop Ends

Keith Urban

When the Sun Goes Down

Kenny Chesney

This One's for the Girls

Martina McBride

Hell Yeah

Montgomery Gentry

He Drinks Tequilla/She Talks Dirty in Spanish

Sammie Kershaw and Lorrie Morgan

Real Good Man

Tim McGraw

Brown Eyed Handsome Man

Waylon Jennings

Hey Good Looking

Jimmy Buffett

Man!  I Feel Like a Woman

Shania Twain

Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad

Tammy Wynette

Margaritaville

Jimmy Buffett

Cheeseburger in Paradise

Jimmy Buffett

Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town

Kenny Rogers

 

Miscellaneous

Song Title

Artist

Riverdance

Bill Whelan

All That Jazz

Chicago Movie Soundtrack

You'll Never Beat the Irish

Wolfe Tones

 

Dance/Techno

Song Title

Artist

Sweet Dreams

Eurythmics

The Creeps

Camille Jones

Ecstasy

ATB

Proper Education (Club Mix)

Eric Prydz vs. Floyd

Odysee

Scarf!

Club Inferno

Scarf!

Innocente

Delerium

Only If I

Kate Ryan

Raindrops

Stunt

Faithfully

Judy Torres

More Than Words Can Say

Lucas Prada

And She Said

Lucas Prada

I Believe

DJ Dark Raven

Ahead

Normen Paris

Beauty and the Beast

Symbios

Scream for More

Kate Ryan

Somebody's Watching Me

Foundation

Here Come's The Rain Again

NRC

Alone

Lasgo

Something

Lasgo

Blockbuster

Nostrum

Cristalle

Viframa

Estatica

A.C.

Flash

Johan Gielen

SOS

Filter Funk

Take Me Away

4 Strings

Clear

Cybotron

Dreams

Deep Dish

Silence

Delerium

I See Right Through To You

DJ Encore

You Promised Me

In-Grid

I'll Be Your Light

Kristine W.

Satellite

OceanLab

Love Bites

QED

 

50's

Song Title

Artist

The Twist

Chuck Berry

These Boots are Made for Walking

Nancy Sinatra

Devil with the Blue Dress/Good Golly Miss Molly

Little Richard

Jump in the Line

Harry Belafonte

Shout

Isley Brothers

The Wanderer

Dion

Hound Dog

Elvis Presley

Maybelline

Johnny Rivers

Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu

Johnny Rivers

Born to Hand Jive

Sha Na Na

Do You Love Me

The Contours

Build Me Up Buttercup

The Foundations

Long Cool Woman

The Hollies

Good Lovin'

The Rascals

Rockin' Robin

Bobby Day

Rock Around the Clock

Bill Haley and the Comets

Chain of Fools

Aretha Fraklin

RESPECT

Aretha Franklin

Hooked on A Feeling (Ooga Chacka)

Blue Swede

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Comments

# Cass said on August 31, 2007 05:41 AM:

If you aren't offended by racy lyrics, here are some of my favorite songs from my workout playlist;

Missy Elliot- Work It, Get Ur Freak On

Eminem- Lose Yourself (not a huge fan, but this song makes me want to WORK)

Salt N' Pepa- Shoop and Push It

Outkast- The Way You Move

Beautiful- Christina Aguilera

Kellis-Milkshake (cause I don't want to shake like jelly)

Prince- Gett Off

And several of the ones already listed above :)

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