The other day, as my husband wrangled the kids out the door at a pre-climate-change glacial pace, I fought back an involuntary impulse to scream until my throat was raw and my lungs were on fire. Rage. It had been building up since the end of 2019. Rage. When I was in my third trimester experiencing unrelenting lower back pain for months on end. Rage. When I was constantly anxious that I was doing a disservice to my first kid by having the second just two years later. Rage. When I was regretting living so far from family support. Rage. When I finally admitted that I needed help in the form of a part-time nanny only to have lockdown hit us the same day. Rage. When I realized that the many months of isolation were going to add up to years. Rage. I won’t even begin to list the macro level of rage inducing events, policies, and politics (DOT does a good enough job of that). What could I do to unleash and cleanse myself of all that negative energy? I dusted off my CD case and found the perfect fix in the form of Velvet Revolver’s Contraband. Cranked the volume to deafening and rage moshed until my heart nearly exploded.
Luckily, their song lineup does a nice job of mixing in some calmer tunes. As I lay panting on the floor, I imagined that I was at their live concert using the interlude to get a beer or go to the bathroom. In hindsight, I should have been drinking water or at least stretching.
I’m looking for albums to workout to. Think Zumba but on steroids. Yes, I still use CDs. It’s mostly for nostalgic reasons and ease of use. Just pop it in, let it spin, and no skipping. Another quirk is that I like to listen to songs in the order that the artist intended. So my fellow Deadsplinterites, what albums have you got for me? What music do you workout to? Do you have pent up rage that needs releasing? What songs do you scream sing to? Thanks for letting me vent my raging woes. Thanks for your continued support of all things Deadsplinter! If you need me, I’ll be right here…
CDs really are still the best way to go. The dirty little secret about streaming services, or even purchased downloads, is that you’re not buying anything other than a license to play the songs–you’re not buying the songs themselves. So, if the streaming platform and the publisher get into a pissing match (a good parallel is a cable service and a network, in which the cable service stops airing everything from that network when they get into a contract dispute), then either the platform or the publisher can simply yank everything off the service–and you no longer get to listen to your favorite Taylor Swift songs. Remember when Microsoft shut down its e-book service and all of a sudden people lost all the books they’d “bought” from Microsoft’s e-book store? Same thing here.
CDs, on the other hand, are forever. You bought them so you get to keep the music even if you rip the CD and load the songs onto your phone.
Anyway…
Bare Jr’s first album, “Boo-Tay” was good for a few screamers like “I Hate Myself.”
Another screamer from that album is the totally-not-a-stalker-song, “Why Won’t You Love Me”
THISSS is why I’m still into physical media.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL USED BOOK & MUSIC STORE.
Otzeki, Angry Fix
@HammerZeitgeist also, you are not alone in your rage. I hear you. And I am not navigating the raising and protection of two small humans. You go right ahead and rage and rant.
I don’t like Limp Bizkit … except for this song. I blame my college roommate.
I didn’t mind their collab with Method Man, but that was 98% to do with Method Man.
i dont actually have music to work out too…sometimes ill have music when cycling..but mostly i believe in the value of hearing traffic….at the gym i tend to listen to whatever the army of yoga moms puts on…
anyways
This was a song that inspired my high school track team. We were terrible. Awful. But it’s a great song.
https://youtu.be/jQvUBf5l7Vw
The Plasmatics – The Damned
Back in my early days on set – my set partner and I would blare Red Hot Chili Peppers in the morning to wake us up. We would jump around and mosh pit in the privacy of our work trailers as we were prepping for the day. After a couple of months – we realized that we were both being uncharacteristically mean to each other a lot of the time. We decided it was the Chili Peppers and quit listening to them. And, like that – the meanness was gone.
What? Give it away is the greatest Xmas song of all time!!! I got banned from a Xmas party by a DJ for making that argument repeatedly!
The album “Wrong” by the band Nomeansno
A highlight of the album
To hell with it. I’m posting twice. Like whho’s gonna stop me?
When I think of mosh pits, I think of Murphy’s Law and you cannot have a proper mosh pit without a good amount of beer on board…
But the craziest mosh pit I have ever seen was at Rage Against the Machine & luckily I was in a cage they called the beer garden away from the pit of death!
Whoops…Manchu beat me to the rage! Sorry! Or as they say in Canada…SAAAAWRREEEE
Reading only your headline, my first thought was to unearth this. I’m a little disappointed I couldn’t find an actual full-length track that exists outside the advert.
As for workouts, I miss watching Jeopardy! )or whatever 80s or 90s movie TBS is showing in between commercial blocks) whilst on the elliptical. And Lizzo always seems to be good for a workout.
https://youtu.be/XaCrQL_8eMY
This one-hit wonder was also on a couple of my cardio playlists:
Young Love ,”Discotech”
Damnit. Reposting Lizzo, because she’s worth it.