What song gets you amped?

III · Nov 16, 2007

If you need to get fired up for something, what song do you crank up? When I'm driving my girls to basketball, we blast Stricken by Disturbed.

KTC · Nov 16, 2007

AC/DC Back in Black on the way to my son's hockey games.

KTC · Nov 16, 2007

For myself...on my way to a reading...The The's Perfect

sunna · Nov 16, 2007

Crystal Method's Keep Hope Alive, Save Ferris' cover of Come on Eileen, or Hole's Violet.

dolores haze · Nov 16, 2007

I'm probably a terrible mother, but me 'n' my boyz love rockin' out to the Ramones. Their fave is "I Want to be Sedated." Sounds pretty funny coming out of the ole minivan - we've had some strange looks.
REM's "It's the End of the World as we know it" floats their boat, too. It's really funny hearing a six year old trying to belt out all those words.

KTC · Nov 16, 2007

one of my guilty 'getting amped' pleasures is also Tool. Anything by them, really.

III · Nov 16, 2007

In High School, my workout song was The Cross by Prince. It just builds and drives.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 16, 2007

Amped? Isn't that a company that used to make cassette tapes?

I don't have just one song. I have a whole slew of songs. Some of them in no particular order:

Highway Song by Blackfoot
Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath
Love Machine by Uriah Heep
Master of the Universe by Hawkwind
Highway to Hell by AC/DC
Easy Livin by Uriah Heep
Tears in my Eyes by Uriah Heep
Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath
Dragonfly by Mahogany Rush
Little Sexy Annie by Mahogany Rush
that yodeling song (Hocus Pocus?) by Focus
Buzzard by Armageddon
Toys in the Attic by Aerosmith
Hell Bent for Leather by Judas Priest
Space Station #5 by Montrose
Silver Dollar Forger by Nazareth
Great King Rat by Queen
Polar Nights by the Scorpions
Day of the Eagle by Robin Trower
Running with the Devil by Van Halen
Quadrant 4 by Billy Cobham (excellent guitar by Tommy Bolin)

to name just a few.

truelyana · Nov 16, 2007

At the moment it's 'I like it' by Narcotic Thrust. Songs are always changing, pretty much how I change.

auntybug · Nov 16, 2007

Mary Moon.

Someday my daughter will figure the lyrics out....at least she'll have something to tell the therapist....

poetinahat · Nov 16, 2007

To build that 'Kill!!!' fervor, it's
Follow the Leaders by Killing Joke
or
Sweatloaf by Butthole Surfers

If it's a happier vibe, then I'd go
Dub 56 by the Toasters (actually, the Toasters, period, get me grooving)
or
Cumberland Blues by the Grateful Dead (the live version from Europe '72)

A recent discovery, for nights out (yeah, I remember those) is
Flawless (Go to the City) by George Michael

But now it's late night. Debussy, then sleep.

(ETA: A tip of the hat to Shadow's selection of Day of the Eagle -- good one.)

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 16, 2007

poetinahat said:
To build that 'Kill!!!' fervor, it's

I didn't realize we had a kill fervor. In that case, how about "Let's Lynch the Landlord" by the Dead Kennedys?

KTC · Nov 16, 2007

Ooh. Kennedys good!

cray · Nov 16, 2007

last resort - papa roach

Serena Casey · Nov 16, 2007

You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone

auntybug · Nov 16, 2007

Serena Casey said:
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone

Mjollnir13 · Nov 16, 2007

Currently its The Pretender by the Foo Fighters. Actually they have a lot of great "pump up" songs.

Sean D. Schaffer · Nov 16, 2007

I can think of a couple:

Doolin' Dalton and Desperado, and their respective reprises on the Eagles' Desperado album, 1973.

Also, I try every morning to listen to Boston's self-titled LP, from 1976, the first song of which is my all-time favorite Boston song. The song is More Than A Feeling, and it just wakes me up like little else can.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 16, 2007

I forgot about Boston.

How about "No More Mr. Nice Guy" by ALice Cooper?

III · Nov 16, 2007

Serena Casey said:
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone

How many times do I need to push your lunch tray off the table?

C.bronco · Nov 16, 2007

My son and I turn up the song "Everything" when it comes on in the car, and he bangs his cute little head! I don't know who does that song, so please tell me. It's a bit mellow, but picks up at the end.

Rough Justice by the Stones gets me hopping, and I like Coming Down the Mountain by Jane's Addiction.

jennifer75 · Nov 16, 2007

System of a Down gets me going sometimes.....and the Killers.....I love me some Killers. And Interpol...

Alternative Rock gets me goin, I guess. Good ole head bangin fun.

Nolita · Nov 16, 2007

I'll outcheese the lot of ya. Hang on, pain killser. Wherewas I? Oh yeah, One Way Ticket by The Darkness. It's pretty much AC/DC meets I dunnowat. Yehae that's good.

sunna · Nov 16, 2007

Sheesh, I forgot one of my favorites. Live, Lakini's Juice. I love to blast that one in my car.

Shadow_Ferret · Nov 16, 2007

Nolita said:
I'll outcheese the lot of ya.

You kids today with your strange phraseology!

I have no idea what this means.

What song gets you amped?

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Stand in the Place Where You Live

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Set yourself free

teh other evil broad

Numbers are beautiful

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Superior Life form

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teh other evil broad

I am the Meatlump King!

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I have plans...

SupahStah!

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