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Your Favourite Spinning Tracks?

Post by Kermit » 28 Nov 2014 10:11

Last winter I completed around 1500 miles on my Turbo and this year it looks like I'll have to sit on the *!<>%#!! thing even more as I have a shoulder operation coming up in a couple of weeks. Unlike some I don't mind these sessions (mostly at 06.30 before work) but only made endurable with the aid of music. Trouble is I'm getting a bit tired of the tracks, having used them for the last three or four years (see list below)

Can anyone suggest any of their own that I can add to my playlists?

David Bowie & Mick Jagger – Dancing In The Street
Dire Straits – Walk Of Life
Bob Dylan – Things Have Changed
Duffy – Mercy
Bloc Party – Helicopter
Queen – Don't Stop Me Now
Billy Joel – We Didn't Start The Fire
Kings Of Leon – Sex on Fire
Bloc Party – Price Of Gasoline
Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
Elton John – Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
Snow Patrol – You're All I Have
Maximo Park – Once, A Glimpse
Mumford & Sons – The Cave
Bloc Party – She's Hearing Voices
Bonnie Tyler – Holding Out for a Hero
Dr. Feelgood – Roxette
The Rolling Stones – Shake Your Hips
Maximo Park – Limassol
Bobby Darin – Mack the Knife
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
The Weather Girls – It's Raining Men
The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
Bloc Party – Helicopter
Darude – Sandstorm
Snow Patrol – Open Your Eyes

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Post by Tim » 28 Nov 2014 13:27

http://youtu.be/vm262cXxRrU

I used to teach spinning 12 years ago, this was on the CD. Everyone loved it. Not quite Snow Patrol or Block Party though

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Post by AlanW » 28 Nov 2014 18:44

Now I have been known to do the odd turbo session, :roll: and like you Paul I started to build up a regular play list. However, I then purchased a number of albums called "Running Trax". If you search on Amazon there are a whole host of them.

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Okay admittedly one or two tracks can be a bit iffy and probably not ones that I would normally listen to, but if you buy the albums as a download just delete the one or two iffy ones.

I can also recommend any albums by David Guetta
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Post by Philmondo » 28 Nov 2014 19:43

I like listening to the Chemical Brothers and stuff like that on the turbo. Wouldn't listen to it normally but the hypnotic beats seem to suit the turbo somehow. I'm on Dig Your Own Hole at the moment 8)
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Post by Philip Whiteman » 28 Nov 2014 19:56

To be honest, off the shelf music tracks for running / spinning / cycling, just give me an enormous headache.

Here are a few of my eclectic mix that are matched for tempo.

John Barry's Zulu, which is a slow paced hard slog. Ideal for imagining the hard relentless climb. And something more contemporary is Ms Mr's Hurricane

Reaktor's Can't Slow Down, a fast paced burst or wanderlust

Woodkid's Run Boy Run or Iron

Florence and the Machine's Spectrum contains variable tempo

and where would we be, without Norman Cook's classic Right Here; Right Now

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Post by keith » 28 Nov 2014 20:26

Dead beat holiday - Green Day
Dead. My Chemical Romance
Easy Livin Uriah Heep
Kashmir Led Zep
Ace of Spades Motorhead
Fear of the Dark Iron Maiden
Smells like Teen Spirit Navarna
American Girl Tom Petty
Atomic Blondie
Don't Believe a word Thin Lizzy
John I'm only dancing David Bowie
Flight of the Valkyries Richard Vagner
Birdie Song The Tweets

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Post by laurence_cooley » 28 Nov 2014 21:25

I've found the latest Daft Punk and Arcade Fire albums quite good on the turbo this year. How anyone can ride to Snow Patrol, I don't know, so you have my respect for that Paul. :D

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Post by Kermit » 28 Nov 2014 23:15

Brilliant Guys! thanks. Can't wait to try these out. I will let you know how I get on.

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Post by keith » 29 Nov 2014 15:19

laurence_cooley wrote:I've found the latest Daft Punk and Arcade Fire albums quite good on the turbo this year. How anyone can ride to Snow Patrol, I don't know, so you have my respect for that Paul. :D
All Depends on you cadence I suppose

Films can be quite good too I once turboed though the first of the new Star Treck films so I cycled from Earth to Vulcan and back again ,Did think of putting in for the touring trophy for that one ! but no :lol:

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Post by rdleaper » 29 Nov 2014 20:50

Maximo Park - Our Velocity
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Feeder - Just A Day
Feeder - Come Back Around
Anything by The Prodigy
Fratellis - Baby Fratelli
Underworld - Born Slippy
The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
The Clash - Rock The Kasbah

A variety of speeds there!

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Post by slogfester » 29 Nov 2014 22:29

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Post by AlanW » 30 Nov 2014 07:22

slogfester wrote:Run Lola Run
Blimey....you do short turbo work!
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Post by slogfester » 30 Nov 2014 17:45

AlanW wrote:
slogfester wrote:Run Lola Run
Blimey....you do short turbo work!
12" disco mix ;)

But, yes, VERY short. Like, 5 mins and I'm bored. 10 mins and I want to go to the dentist and request an extraction without anaesthetic as a more interesting alternative!
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Post by AlanW » 30 Nov 2014 21:02

slogfester wrote:
AlanW wrote:
slogfester wrote:Run Lola Run
Blimey....you do short turbo work!

But, yes, VERY short. Like, 5 mins and I'm bored. 10 mins and I want to go to the dentist and request an extraction without anaesthetic as a more interesting alternative!
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