Favorite Song - Just for fun...

ForeverSwimForeverSwim Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaCharter Member
edited January 2013 in General Discussion
What's your favorite song which motivates you while swimming?

Also, which song have you had stuck in your head while swimming that you could not stop repeating in your head?

Favorite Song: 'Forever' - Dropkick Murphys

I could not get 'Church on Sunday' by Green Day out of my head during the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in 2010 - great song, and I enjoy normally, but it drove me nuts as I felt I sang it for 6-hours, ha!

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania U.S.A.

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  • ChickenOSeaChickenOSea Charter Member
    Try having "we're all alone" by Boz Scaggs going through your head for a 10k....
    Comfortably Numb had a soothing effect on me last year during a panicky situation (the 1650 in the pool).
  • ssthomasssthomas DenverCharter Mem​ber
    Before my Catalina swim, we made a CD of all night time/swimming/California type of songs. Try having "26 miles across the sea, Santa Catalina is a-waitin for me" stuck in your head for 9 hours. UGH!
  • SharkoSharko Tomales BayGuest
    There are several songs on Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone that work well for a long swim....I don't think a pounding song works for me..

    "I never met a shark I didn't like"

  • IronMikeIronMike Northern VirginiaCharter Member
    Mostly Smiths or Morrissey songs get stuck in my head and I'm okay with that. Although lately I've had "My love took me down to the river to silence me" by Little Green Cars knocking about in my cranium.

    We're all just carbon, water, starlight, oxygen and dreams

  • Leonard_JansenLeonard_Jansen Charter Member
    Usually it's math or physics problems, but if it's music, it often is Mozart's Requiem in D Minor. At the end of leg 1 of 8 Bridges last year the wind was blowing, it was pouring and there was lightning. During that I kept hearing the Deus Irae (Wrath of God) section from the Requiem. It felt right.

    -LBJ

    “Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.” - Oscar Wilde

  • Anything Beach Boys!! Especially Catch a Wave.

    And more recently some One Direction songs. What can I say, I like my boy bands both young and old :)
  • KarenTKarenT Charter Member
    My current swimming favourite - Would You Be Happier, by the Corrs.

    But then there's my recurrent ear worm song of the moment that I can't shake off - tragically, the elephant marching song from the Jungle Book.

    Corrs vs elephants.... "Oh we march from here to there, and it doesn't matter where..."
  • GordsGords Syracuse, UTCharter Member
    I typically don't have songs go through my head, but last year when Maroon 5 came out with "Moves like Jagger", I had that going through my head one workout, but with a slight modification: "I got to swim like Streeter" (Alison Streeter that is)
  • jcmalickjcmalick Wilmington, DEMember
    Being born outside of Philly, "Eye of the Tiger" always comes to mind!
  • Ever since signing up for MIMS, and after a conversation with Andrew Malinak, I cannot get the Harlem River Blues out of my head. It's... not uplifting.

    Here are the only lyrics from the song that I remember (and so hear on repeat):

    Lord, I'm goin' uptown
    to the Harlem River to drown
    Dirty water gonna cover me over
    and I'm not gonna make a sound
  • lakespraylakespray Senior Member
    I've always liked "Santa Monica" by Everclear, for the chorus which goes like this "live beside ocean leave the fire behind swim out pass the breakers watch the world die"
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6E_TNgCsY
  • jendutjendut Charter Member
    One day, many years ago, I swam (in place) near a gas tank in the Boston Harbor for several hours (this was before Greg O was in charge of BLS) and the song -over and over- was U2 "Stuck in a Moment" which changed to "Stuck in a Current" as the day wore on.
  • SalishSeaSalishSea Nanaimo, BC CanadaMember
    So I scoured the MSF archives for all the songs mentioned and made a play list of them. I used grooveshark because it's free and most of the songs were there except Pink Floyd and the Rawhide theme song. It's an interesting mix.

    http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Marathon+Swimmers+Forum+Play+List/98499329
  • flystormsflystorms Memphis, TNSenior Member
    I used to hear "Pressure' by Billy Joel when I was doing 500's back in HS. It still comes up in my head on occasion and doesn't go away.

    But if you need an earworm just for today, I'd gladly pass you "Sweet Caroline" (wa, wa, wa!) that's been in me since yesterday. I can't get it out!
  • gtswimgtswim PennsylvaniaMember
    From time to time I'll get Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer in my head, but substitute Swimming for Living.

    Recently it's been Thunderstruck by ACDC.
  • swimmer25kswimmer25k Charter Member
    I still remember the songs I had in my head for most of my swims. Here's a list of some:

    USS 25K Nats
    1995 Atlanta: "Keep the Faith" Bon Jovi
    1996 Quad Cities, Iowa "Changes" Yes
    1997 Indiatlantic, FL: "Big City Nights" Scorpions
    2000 Daytona Beach: "Master of Puppets" Metallica
    1999 Honolulu: "Orion" Metallica
    2001 Clemson, SC: "Machinehead" Bush
    2003 Clemson, SC: "For You" Stained
    2005 Ft. Myers, FL: "Creeping Death" Metallica

    Atlantic City
    1995: banjo version of "Those Were the Days" playing in the Showboat casino elevator on my way to the start. Very annoying. I swam well, so I can't complain too much.

    MIMS
    1998: "Unchained" Van Halen
    2004: "Suicide Solution" Ozzy Osbourne

    Key West
    1996: "We Were Freshmen" the Verve. Had a terrible swim. Song came into my head because of my tempo. Slow.
    1997: "Santa Monica" Everclear
    1998: "Piece of Your Action" Motley Crüe
    1999: Carnival Cruise-line "If You Could See Me Now" jingle sung by Kathy Lee Gifford. Don't know how this one snuck into my head.

    Tampa Bay
    1999: "Pretty Fly For a White Guy" Offspring
    2000: "She's Got Issues" Offspring
    2001: "Sad But True" Metallica
    2002: "Turbo Lover" Judas Priest

    2001 English Channel
    "Same Ole Situation" Motley Crüe (My video incorrectly says that it was "Kickstart My Heart".)

    USMS 25K Nats
    2008: "Into the Void" Black Sabbath

    For the pool:
    2008 USMS Nats 1500: "The Ripper" Judas Priest with Tim "Ripper" Owens singing. Not OW, but an important swim for me. I did a lifetime best at 38 of 16:32.72. My previous best was a 16:44 from 1986. The time was a World Record [previously held by Rowdy Gaines, and broken (crushed) in 2012 by Petar Stohchev.]
  • suziedodssuziedods Mem​ber
    Jaysus! You guys have great memories!
    I lost count in a 100 last night...
  • bobswimsbobswims Santa Barbara CACharter Member
    "The Police - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"

    Most useful for 1500 meter to 5K swims.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v2GDbEmjGE
  • swimmer25kswimmer25k Charter Member
    suziedods wrote:
    Jaysus! You guys have great memories!
    I lost count in a 100 last night...

    Hey, 4-9 hours of the same tune over and over again gets burned in pretty easy.

    While working up to a race I would routinely have a playlist or the swim. I could bore you with those if you'd like me to. Or, not!
  • tortugatortuga Senior Member
    edited June 2014
    Swords by Leftfield
  • I offer...

  • Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
    Your Song - Elton John
  • sharkbaitzasharkbaitza LondonMember
    Enter Sandman - Metallica


  • I always think of these three as one long song and the bass line and drum beat make it the perfect "This is the song that doesn't end" song in that it just keeps going long after you've finished wanting to hear it.

    Now that I've heard it again ba buggada duggada, duggada guggada domp bomp, ba buggada duggada, duggada guggada domp bomp Ba womomp duomp ... I'll be playing all day long in my mind. So remember, to kick it o o ver no one can guide you armagideon time.
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