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Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:00 AM

Why do gyms play such crappy music?

Monotonous techno monopolizes the sound system at my local gym. Is it really the best music for working out?

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  • Monday, June 18, 2007 10:58 AM

    I run and I, too, (pant pant) am sick of rock and pop

    Hey I like techno! I find a lot of pop and R&B too slow and I am SICK of classic rock, cock rock, caterwauling pop, sad alterna-chicks, angry alterna-chicks, the lot of it.

    Like an earlier poster, I like to mix up the techno/electronica/whatever you call it with Latin and some other genres that have a pretty fast beat. Even gospel! Here are some of my workout favorites:

    Jean-Michel Jarre, Oxygene parts ii and iv

    Chemical Brothers, Racing the Tide

    Juliet, Avalon (I don't know what genre you call this)

    (Various groups do this one) Mas Que Nada

    MFSB/TSOP

    A Fifth of Beethoven

    (A lot of groups do this one ) Sway (Marimba Rhythm)

    Chicane--Saltwater

    Southern Culture on the Skids -- Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu, Haw River Stomp, you get the idea

    Shpongle--Dorset Perception

    Ozomatli -- (Who Discovered) America

    Crusaders -- Put It Where You Want It

    Rev. Ernest Davis Jr.'s Wilmington Chester Mass Choir -- Hosanna

    Hallucinogen -- Alpha Centauri

    Overclocked Remix -- Fortuna Favors the Funk (this is some site where they take the music from old video games and remix it)

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