By Elizabeth Jenkins
Merry Christmas (to everyone who celebrates Christmas)! If you found an iTunes gift card in your stocking this morning, you will love this blog post. Here is a list the staff at Salt Lake Running Company compiled of the best running songs to crank out while accumulating the miles. If you don’t see some of your favorites on this list, please add them to the comments section below. Sometimes the only thing that can get you through your run is a good song. Enjoy!
100 Best Running Songs
(In no particular order)
- MIA- Paper Planes, Born Free, Boyz (Jay-Z version), Bamboo Banga
- Cee Lo Green- Forget You
- Jason Derulo- Ridin’ Solo
- Ke$ha- Your Love is my Drug, We R Who We R, Tik Tok
- Katy Perry- Firework, Waking up in Vegas
- Lady Gaga- Just Dance, Poker Face, Paparazzi, Bad Romance
- Phoenix- Lisztomania, 1901
- Owl City- Hot Air Balloon, Umbrella Beach
- Will.I.Am- I Got it From My Mama
- The Downtown Fiction- I Just Wanna Run
- Chris Brown- Dreamer
- Flo Rida- Club Can’t Handle Me
- Jack’s Mannequin- Dark Blue
- The Killers- Mr. Brightside, Human
- Matt & Kim- Daylight, Don’t Slow Down,
- Vampire Weekend- A-punk, Run
- Miley Cyrus- Party in the USA, Can’t be Tamed
- Neon Trees- Animal, 1983
- Taio Cruz- Break Your Heart, Dymanite
- Modest Mouse- Paper Thin Walls
- Rhianna- Only Girl in the World
- Shakira- Waka Waka
- Beyonce- Sweet Dreams, Crazy in Love,
- Daft Punk- Technologic
- Sean Kingston- Letting go, Fire Burning, Eenie Meenie
- Pink- Raise Your Glass
- Glee Cast- Halo/Walking on Sunshine, Don’t Stop Believin
- LCD Soundsystem – Get Innocuous!, Beat Connection, Yeah, All My Friends
- Rampage – Ambush
- Arcade Fire – Intervention
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Weapon of Choice
- Bloc Party – Helicopter
- Built to Spill – Going Against Your Mind
- Led Zepplin – When The Levee Breaks
- The Hives – Two Timing Touch and Broken Bones, Tick, Tick, Tick Boom, Hate To Say I Told You So, Abra Cadaver
- Interpol – Not Even Jail (Daniel Kessler Remix), Fog Vs. Mold For The Length of Love, The Heinrich Maneuver
- Neil Young – I’m The Ocean, Big Green Country, Change Your Mind
- Passangers – Always Forever Now
- Run DMC- It’s Tricky
- MC Hammer- U Can’t Touch This
- AC DC- You Shook Me All Night Long & Thunder Struck
- Alien Ant Farm- Smooth Criminal
- Bon Jovi- Living On A Prayer
- AFI- Silver and Cold
- Lynard Skynard- Sweet Home Alabama
- Bonnie Tyler- I Need a Hero
- Black Eyed Peas- Let’s Get It Started
- Box Car Racer- I Feel So
- Busta Rhymes- Fire It Up & Break Your Neck
- Cypress Hill- Rap Superstar
- Eminem- Lose Yourself & Till I Collapse
- Eve 6- Anytime & Insideout
- Fall Out Boy- Sugar, Were Going Down
- Flogging Molly- Drunken Lullabies; Seven Deadly Sins; Irish Pub Song ( Anything by these guys would be good)
- Garth Brooks- Rodeo
- Good Charlotte- Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
- Hoobastank- Crawling In The Dark
- Jay Z- Dirt Off Your Shoulders & 99 Problems
- Composer: John Williams- Superman Theme (Superman Soundtrack)
- Kanye West- Stronger
- Lil John- Remix of Crazy Train & Get Low
- Linkin Park- Bleed It Out
- MGMT- Time To Pretend & Kids
- MXPX- Responsibility & Punk Rock Show
- Nappy Roots- Aw Naw
- Nelly- Hot In Here & Here Comes The Boom
- New Found Glory- My Friends Over You
- The Offspring- You’re Gonna Go Far Kid
- Outkast- Hey Ya!
- Papa Roach- Last Resort
- Paramore- Ignorance
- Rolling Stones- Paint It Black
- Savage- Swing
- Seether- Fake It
- Sick Puppies- Your Going Down
- Slip Knot- Sick & Wait and Bleed
- Snoop Dogg- Drop It Like It’s Hott
- Soulja Boy- Crank Dat Soulja Boy
- Angels & Airwaves- Call to Arms
- Sugarcult- Riot; Memory & Stuck In America
- Sum 41- In Too Deep; Fat Lip; Kick Me When I’m High
- Three 6 Mafia- It’s A Fight
- Three Days Grace- Riot & I Hate Everything About You
- Venga Boys- I Want You In My Room (Techno)
- Warren G- Regulaters
- Yellowcard- Ocean Avenue
- 30 Seconds to Mars- The Kill & Kings and Queens
- 311- Down & All Mixed Up
- 504 Boys- Wobble Wobble
- Story of The Year- Until The Day I Die
- Ricky Martin- Livin’ La Vida Loca
- Selena Gomez, Livin’ a Year Without Rain, Naturally
- C+C Music Factory- Gonna Make You Sweat
- Leanne Rimes- Can’t Fight the Moonlight
- Matchbox 20- How Far We’ve Come
- Creed- Higher
- Kelly Clarkson- Breakaway, My Life Would Suck Without You
- 3 Doors Down- When I’m Gone
- Linkin Park- Leave Out All The Rest
- We The Kings- Skyway Avenue
If you didn’t get an iTunes card for Christmas, don’t worry. I am going to share with you one of the Internet’s best kept secrets. It’s called Gomusicnow.com. To access the site, you have to go to Gomusic.ru and it will direct you to the site. You can buy almost ever song iTunes has, but songs are only $.09-.15 each. I have been using it for over a year and it is totally legal so you don’t have to worry about that. I read all the terms and conditions for you. There is one hurdle, its all in Russian… ok, just kidding. It’s not. But, you do have to pre-pay for songs. I put $25 on my account over a year ago, and I still have a few dollars left. They do that to make the songs cheaper. That way, they don’t have to pay a transaction fee everytime you buy a song (like iTunes). The set-up of the site is similar to iTunes. You can listen to all the songs before you purchase them. All the songs are GREAT quality and no file sharing business. Anyone else get music legally from somewhere else other than iTunes?
Enjoy this music list! Have a Merry Christmas!!!