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LA Marathon Soundtrack

March 2nd, 2007 @ 3:04 pm PST

iTunesHead coaches in the NFL often “script” the first dozen or so offensive plays of a game. They do this to set the tone and pace of the game, and to try to get their players to understand that they want to dictate how the game will go. With that in mind I have “scripted” the first 3+ hours of the music I’ll hear on my iPod during Sunday’s LA Marathon.

For more than two years now I’ve been aggregating my favorite “running” songs into a discrete playlist specifically geared towards keeping me motivated and moving towards that 26.2 mi marker. Any time I see a song in my 9900+ track iTunes library rated with only one star, I know it means one of two things. Either it’s a crap song that needs to be deleted, or it’s a song that I one-starred while running because I wanted to save it to my special cardio playlist. It’s my own little iTunes lifehack.

Here is what will be the soundtrack to my run on Sunday. If you’re building your own playlist for a long run, any one of these is a great background to help you overcome heart-pumping exhaustion. This is more or less the order I’ll be playing them, too. So if you happen to see me on TV Sunday, you can estimate what is driving me through the streets of Los Angeles …

  1. Mrs. Robinson [Theme from The Graduate] – Simon & Garfunkel
    I have been listening to this song to start running since I got my first iPod.
  2. Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Green Day
  3. Great American Sharpshooter – Less Than Jake
  4. Out in the Cold – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
  5. Salty Coffee – The Usuals
  6. I’m Looking Through You – The Beatles
  7. Blue Monday – Orgy
  8. I Try to Think About Elvis – Patty Loveless
    Or, rather, I try to think about anything other than the fact that I probably have twenty miles to go.
  9. Callin’ Baton Rouge – Garth Brooks
  10. Light of Day (live) – Bruce Springsteen
  11. Nothin’ But the Taillights – Clint Black
  12. From a Buick 6 – Bob Dylan
  13. Hit the Road Jack – Ray Charles
    The tempo of this classic is excellent for a long run.
  14. I’ve Been Everywhere – Johnny Cash
  15. The King of Bedside Manor – Barenaked Ladies
  16. Never Going Back to New Jersey – Less Than Jake
  17. dire – becky
  18. Duel of the Fates – John Williams
    Here’s one that just builds and builds. By the time it’s over I’ll be sprinting.
  19. Boulevard of Broken Dreams (live) (SNL version) – Green Day
  20. The Dirty Glass – Dropkick Murphys
  21. Two Way Action – Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire
  22. C’mon C’mon – The Von Bondies
  23. Big Brown Eyes – Old 97’s
  24. Somebody Told Me – The Killers
  25. …Baby One More Time – Britney Spears
    Laugh all you want; this is an awesome running song.
  26. Debaser – Pixies
  27. We Care a Lot – Faith No More
  28. Mr. Chainsaw – Alkaline Trio
  29. Anthem – blink-182
  30. A Hazy Shade of Winter – Simon & Garfunkel
  31. Scott Farcas Takes It on the Chin – Less Than Jake
  32. Get Free – The Vines
  33. Jesus Walks – Kanye West
  34. My Friend Peter – Alkaline Trio
  35. Shoplifter – Green Day
  36. Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
  37. Desdemona – Rebecca Lord
  38. Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies
  39. ‘Till I Collapse – Eminem
  40. U-Mass – Pixies
  41. Tear You Apart – She Wants Revenge
  42. Mr. Brightside – The Killers
  43. Bye Bye Love – Simon & Garfunkel
  44. No Sleep Tonight – The Faders
  45. Wake Up – Rage Against the Machine
  46. Wonderful Night (feat Lateef) – Fatboy Slim
  47. Crazy People – Rehab
  48. Fight for Your Right – Beastie Boys
  49. Jammin’ Me – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
  50. Letterbomb – Green Day
  51. Hell – Squirrel Nut Zippers
  52. Remember the Name – Fort Minor
  53. Give the Po’ Man a Break – Fatboy Slim
  54. Surrendering – Alanis Morissette
  55. (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult
  56. Mutt – blink-182
  57. She’s A Rebel – Green Day
  58. I Predict a Riot – Kaiser Chiefs
  59. Celebrity Skin – Hole
  60. End of the Line – The Traveling Wilburys
    I know by this point I’ll be desperate to finish and this is a great track about getting to the end of things …
  61. New Way Home – Foo Fighters
    This is the song that I play when I am starting to really lose it. Towards the end of the song it just gets faster and faster and I can’t help but start running to match it.

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One Response to “LA Marathon Soundtrack”

  1. March 30th, 2007 @ 6:55 am
    Greg

    Awesome playlist, I’m going to cherry pick several songs, thx!

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