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Now that I look at my list of songs off my mp3 player written out – I’m thinking: omg, my taste in music is in the shitter when it comes to work out music. That’s ok I guess; I can’t be bothered to listen intently to sweeping melodies or clever lyrics while sweating up a storm. Here’s my top 15 CURRENT favorite work out songs in no particular order:

• Deciblast Radio Mix – DJ Apot – Back when I was was really into trance I would download mixes to listen to and this hard trance mix really caught my ear. I bumped this in my car for awhile during my college days. Now I usually listen to this during my cardio workouts
• ASAP – T.I. – This song grew on me… Slower pacing so I listen to it before I start lifting. The verbage is angry – I love anything where I can sense sincere hate in the vocals
• Brackish – Kittie

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  – Is it ok to like this song? Fast vocals, heavy guitars and screaming chicks who kinda sound like dudes. This is another lifting song.

• Cochise – Audioslave – ’nuff said.
• Cool – M.I.R.V.

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  – “I wish I was bad…bad as fuuuck…I wish I was cool…cooler than you” Cheeky lyrics, heavy guitars. MIRV rocks.

• Disconnected (live 2004) – Face to Face

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  – Cardio & lifting song, fast, and the lyrics are easy to listen to and really hit home for me.

• Just Stop – Disturbed – I have no idea what the song is about, just pure angry singing that gets my pumped.
• Never Enough – Papa Roach

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  – Probably my #1 lifting song of all time. Never enough. That’s me.

• Soldier – Eminem – Cheesy, but it does the trick.
• Stain of Mind - Slayer

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  – I’ve been listening to this song since I was 15. I still love it. Lots of aggression.

• Sticken – Disturbed – See the other Disturbed song
• The Fight Song – Marilyn Manson – “I’m not a slave, to a god that doesn’t exist” Cheesy? Works for me. Anything that pumps me up.
• The Way I Am – Eminem – See the other Eminem song
• This Way – Dilated Peoples & Kanye West

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  – Sometimes I ask myself why must I force my body to endure intense pain and duress and the key lyrics for me are “I can’t keep living my life…this way” But on the flip side, it also applies to a time in my life where I was a total slob and didn’t give a shit about my health and well-being.

• U Don’t Know Me – T.I. – See the other T.I. song.

Song that should be on the list but isn’t because I’m too lazy to find it and add it to my mp3 player: Battle Without Honor or Humanity – Tomoyasu Hotei – most recognized as the song from Kill Bill. A few years ago while I still lived in the Bay Area I would listen to this song as I walked from a distant parking lot to the gym.