Finally gettin' an iPod! Gimme some good fencing song titles...

[Sciurus-Rex]

My wife and I are buying twin iPods next week. I expect she'll exceed her song memory within 48 hours, but I'm not such a music collector -- an earlier MP3 player with the same 30-odd tunes kept me happy during training for a full year (yes, I know it's sad).

So in preparation for this Most Excellent(tm) device, I'd like your suggestions: Fencing workout music? Fencing competition tunes?

[Mr Epee]

Dude,

If you're asking me to make you a mix tape, then I think you've got the wrong idea about our relationship.

I'm just not ready for that level of commitment.

[D+F+P=Hadouken!]

I'm gonna go with entire albums you need to upload, not songs.

Kill em all
Ride the Lightning
Master of puppets
.... And justice for all
The black album
Load
Reload
S&M
Powerslave
The number the beast
Symptom of the universe
Paranoid
Follow the reaper
Americana
Smash
Appetite for destruction
Overkilll
Bomber
Ace of spades

That'll get you started...

[Elemental]

If you can find a complete version of it the "A la Menthe" by DJ Nikfurri will get you moving.(It's the song from the capoira scene in Ocean's 12)

You'll need something with a good tempo

check out

Flogging Molly (any album)
Linkin Park's Re-Animation Album
Iron Maiden's greatest hits
Franz Ferdinand's self titled album has a good groove to it

It's really a matter of personal taste but check out the above to see if any are to your liking.

[parrythis]

How about:

Yes, we have no bandanas

[telkanuru]

Panzermensch, by And One

One of the best damn techno-rave songs I've heard, although if you were to translate the lyrics from German to English, apparently it would be quite silly.

Holiday in Cambodia, by The Dead Kennedys

Funny as hell, and so true.

United States of Whatever, by Liam Lynch
D-Devil, by System of a Down
Staring at the Sun, by The Offspring
Another Brick in the Wall, by Korn (cover of the Pink Floyd song)
Particle Man, by They Might Be Giants
Another One Bites the Dust, by Queen

And, of course, my favourite fencing song ever,

Can't Touch This, by MC Hammer

[Inquartata]

I'll give you what I'd put on mine

Overture to the Flying Dutchman
Ride of the Valkyries ( both by Wagner )
Rob Roy Overture, Berlioz
Selections from Carmina Burana, Orff
Themes from the ambush battle and final combat, from the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack
Main theme and battle sequences from the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack

[telkanuru]

Oh, Inq reminded me. March Slave by Tchaikovsky (or however you spell his name) is excellent for footwork. It contains many tempo changes, etc, and lasts for a good period of time.

[Li'l Bebe]

For me, I'm too poor to get an ipod, but I do have a fencing mix that I practice with. It has 45 minutes of faster songs that I divide up for warm-up, footwork, and bladework, and then 15 minutes of slower songs for stretches and visualization. Just pick whatever music you generally like. Also, if you use the same songs over and over again in practice, try listening to them right before you get on the strip at the competition and it should help you get pumped up, and more "in the zone."

[cornflower]

I want an iPod soooo badly... those things are so freaking cool!


And I'm deaf.

[mrbiggs]

Originally Posted by Elemental

Linkin Park's Re-Animation Album

Eugh! Get a real Linkin Park album instead.

For artists, Black Sabbath is good. I'd recommend Jethro Tull, but I realize that they're unappealing to many.

"Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple is a good song.

[broncofencer]

Some of my favs for fencing work are:

#1 - Nelly
In the End - Linkin Park
Sabres of Paradise - Chemical Brothers
Mortal Combat theme
Playin Chicken with a Train - Cowboy Troy
Headstrong - Trapt


Thats a short list at least

[CvilleFencer]

Depends a bit on your musical preferance but some I like are as follows.

Metal/Rock:
Feuer frei/Rammstien
By Demons be driven/Pantera
Vodoo/Godsmack
I stand alone/Godsmack
Bodies/Drowning Pool
After the flesh/My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult
Battleflag/Lo Fidelity Allstars

Also check out Rob Zombie, Garbage and Soundgarden although signature songs escape me this early.

Classical/unpowered:
Inq mentions a few good ones but ignore the wagner bit. Let that no talent hack be lost to the sands of times. Instead try there:
Night on Bald Mountain
Danse Macabre
In the Halls of the Mountain King
Death and the Maiden
Any Taiko Drumming you can find.

Rap (well, okay sort of)/Dance:
Aint no Sundshine/DMX
California Lovin/Tupac
Ive Got the Power/C&C Music Factory
Cowboy/Kid Rock
Lose Yourself/Eminem
Yeah/Usher

Goth/Techno (Fair warning, I lean to blood doll type goth tunes...)
Translvaynian Concubine/Rasputina
Last Beat of your Heart/Mission UK
Hemoglobin/ Beborn Betton

I tend to like differant kinds of music depending on what sort of things I am training/working on. What I like for Cardio is differant than what I like fo weight training and so forth. I will try to remember to look through my box and come up with some others I listen to fairly often if someone else does not beat me to them.

[ojc]

'adiemus' can be very usefull at tournaments

[Gav]

Originally Posted by mrbiggs

Eugh! Get a real Linkin Park album instead.
.

Ugh - get a real metal album instead ...

[EpeeConvert]

I dont know if anyone suggested this but
Sandstorm~ I dunno,
crazy techno music, everyone knows sandstorm.
nothing caps off a 12 hour round robin fencing tournament like a dance party. impress your friends with the ability to move after the most grueling tournament of your life

[Morgaine]

Originally Posted by EpeeConvert

I dont know if anyone suggested this but
Sandstorm~ I dunno,
crazy techno music, everyone knows sandstorm.
nothing caps off a 12 hour round robin fencing tournament like a dance party. impress your friends with the ability to move after the most grueling tournament of your life

The artist is Darude. If you really want to check out more music like that, go to www.di.fm. The eurodance channel is my favorite, and it's sure to give you some great ideas for upbeat techno music to fence to. If that's not your style, let me recommend...

Over the Hills and Far Away/Nightwish- An awesome song.. and a great band.
Crimson Tide Deep Blue Sea/Nightwish- Gotta get this one.. incredible instrumental.
Die Mother*ucker/Ghetto Boys- Gets you in the right mood.. if you've seen Office Space, this is the song they play when they beat the crap out of the fax machine.
Winter/Tori Amos - Great for stretching
3rd Symphony/Beethoven - Screw the 5th it's over commercialized. This is where it's at. And the horn parts in the 3rd movement.. woo hoo. (but then I'm biased, I play the horn)
Kung Foo Fighting- Awesome and silly

Get the Nightwish songs at the very least, you won't be disapointed!

[LUDICROUS]

Metallica albums - Kill em all really, because thats the thrash album, and fast angry thrash metal is good for you. If you get any of their albums, only get these ones: Kill em all, ride the lightning, and justice for all, master of puppets - the rest are crap. Those are their first 4, and most suited to getting "in the zone."

Iron Maiden - The duellists, flash of the blades, sun and steel (sure its about a samurai, but hey), anything by them.

And sandstorm by darude, damn, awesome techno song.

[riptide]

Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)-Jimi Hendrix
Get in the Ring-Guns n' Roses
Wake Up-Rage Against the Machine
Sucker Train Blues-Velvet Revolver
Nervous Shakedown-AC/DC
Gimmie the Prize (Kurgan's theme)-Queen
Tales of Brave Ulysses-Cream
Get Inside-Johnny A.
Martyrs Lounge-Ellis Paul
Steppin' Out-Eric Clapton
Samba Pa Ti-Carlos Santana
Bad Horsie-Steve Vai

[swordwench]

Kind of a weird mix here, but they all manage to get me moving. And that's saying something.

"Immigrant Song" - Zeppelin
"Mysterious Ways" - U2
"Instanbul (Not Constantinople)" - They Might Be Giants
"One Week" - Barenaked Ladies
"Burning Down the House" - Talking Heads
"Blister in the Sun" - Violent Femmes
"Ants Marching" - Dave Matthews Band
"Closer" - NIN
"Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure (I dunno, it works for me)
"Mexicali Blues" - Grateful Dead