Best Alternative Songs For Good Workout and Exercise

Groovy songs are not just good for dancing but also good when you’re doing exercise,driving your car or drinking fast. The regular magazines choose usually very lame songs when they make a list like this, so I decided to create my own list with my very own taste. 

PS : In my experience I also find these songs very helpful when I work in the kitchen, all you have to do is turning the volume really really up, so you don’t hear your co-workers/partner/friends/kids/pest/pets/neighbours while cooking!

Hope you enjoy it (In an alphabetical order)

1- A Certain Ratio - Do the Du

2- A Tribe Called Quest - Check the Rhime

3- Animal Collective - Chores

4-  Beck - Mixed Bizness (Actually the whole Midnite Vultures album is excellent for lifting up the mood)

5- Black Flag - Rise Above

6- Black Sabbath - Paranoid

7- Blur - Parklife

8- Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?

9- Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up

10- David Bowie - Star / Golden Years/ Young Americans

11- De La Soul - Jenifa Taught Me(Derwin’s Revenge)

12- Defunkt - Defunkt

13- Erkin Koray - Hadi Hadi Oradan

14- ESG - You Make No Sense

15- Fela Kuti - Buy Africa

16- Fugazi - Waiting Room

17- Gang of FOur - Natural’s not in it

18- Groundhogs- Cherry Red

19- Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro/God’s Cop/Loose Fit/Step On/24 Hour Party People

20- Herbie Hancock- Hang Up Your Hang Ups

21- Jackie Mittoo - Get Up and Get It

22- James Brown - The Boss/Payback/It’s a New Day

23- LCD Soundsystem - Drunk Girls/I Can Change

24- MC5 - Teenage Lust

25-  NWA - Straight Outta Compton

26- Pixies - Debaser/Tame/ Broken Face

27- Public Enemy - Don’t Believe the Hype/Bring the Noise/Fight the Power

28- Ramones - Ramones/ Rocket To Russia (Two albums)

29- Rolling Stones

30- Sly & Family Stone

31- Talking Heads

32- The Brother Johnson - Get The Funk Out Ma Face

33- The Clean - Thumbs Off / Anything Could Happen/Big Soft Punch

34- The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck

35-  The Fall - The Classical/ Totally Wired/New Face In Hell

36- The Monochrome Set- He’s Frank/Avanti/Fat Fun

37- The Notorious B.I.G. - Things Done Changed/Gimme The Loot

38- The Slits - Cut

39- The Stooges

40- The Vaselines- Oliver Twisted / Dying For It/ The Day I Was a Horse

FAUST 2012

   


    There is so many nice things about being a rock star. I always dreamed about it(well,not anymore!). But it’s always nice to see that they are like us,normal and ordinary people(most of the time). It can give you the motivation to try to achieve your dream,although it’s very very difficult to be a “fake” rock star like Bono,Axl Rose or Coldplay.

    The other night, I saw  Krautrock pioneers Faust live for the first time in my life. Faust is probably one of most influential rock band in the music history, they started in 1971, made at least three very important album(Faust,So Far and Faust IV) that mixed minimalism,electronic,dub( please listen Jennifer again if you don’t know what I mean) with kind of untraditional rock music.  Minimalism was on their lyrics too,saying a lot with very few words(for example, the song “It’s a bit of pain” goes like this ,it’s a bit of pain,to be where I am. But it’s all right now.)

    I had a little chance to chat with “art-errorist” Jean-Herve Peron. Faust had a humorous side, I believe which came form Jean Peron. He is the leader of one the coolest band in the rock music history, and you see him joking with the audience at the merch table,making jokes,sipping wine. Real modest,down to earth personality exactly proves why I love rock music, because it’s natural, it’s real and it is not FAKE.

     Midday Veil singer made an interesting comment during their show. She said that Faust members  were sharing their banana split. It’s weird and upsetting to see really untalented people are making millions and musicians like Faust are playing in a small venue and they’re obviously on a budget!

    Anyways, the show was good, Jean and Zappi also proved their handy man skills while using a cement machine and a chain saw. It added some excitement to the show. My favorite part was that they went to the back stage after finishing their famous song “It’s A Rainy Day Sunshine Girl” and actually they never finished playing the song,only much quieter and they continued to play at the back. And then they came back and continued to play the song.

    The important thing is Faust is still rocking after 41 years!