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Got any songs that really pipe you up when you're running/cycling/driving/racing etc? Post them here.
I'm working on a playlist for running, and I've got to say that Midnight Runner is an amazing running song. It has a tempo that perfectly matches my footfalls, and 4:50 makes, similtaneously, me sprint extremely hard, the hair on the back on the back of my neck stand up, and for me to need to change my underwear when I get home.
Anyway, if you have any good running songs you think I should add to my playlist, speak up.

Quick pass through my music, limiting choices to one song per artist:

Eminem - Run Rabbit Run (music video is inexplicably slow-paced for the song; ignore it)
Fort Minor - Be Somebody (much of the lyrics is pretty mindless, but good for setting a rhythm for a workout)
Genitorturers - Lecher Bitch (choruses like this are especially good for intense workouts)
Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes (this video chosen specifically... gotta love Team Ryouko)
Katatonia - Increase (might just be me)
Marilyn Manson - This is the New Shit (almost completely mindless, but high-energy; ignore the music video)
OOMPH! - Menschsein (YouTube link is pretty low quality)
Opiate for the Masses - 21st Century Timebomb
Rammstein - Ich Will (awesome music video, incidentally)
Rob Zombie - Feel So Numb (mindless)
Thy Catafalque - Az Ősanya Szól Ivadékaihoz (after it picks up ~1:30, anyway; zoning out with this droning in the background has helped me work through fatigue)
Unreal Tournament 2004 Soundtrack - Onslaught 08 (maybe good for running? i don't do a lot of running)

Untitled by Neutral Milk Hotel, and pretty much anything by Creedence Clearwater Revival, especially Fortunate Son, Run Through the Jungle, Travelin' Band, Ramble Tamble, and Don't Look Now.

Woah, woah. I had no idea Suki also listened to MM.

Rage Against the Machine - Testify

12 Stones - Adrenaline

Metallica - Fuel

As I Lay Dying - Forsaken

Nirvana - Breed

Just a few. I'm too lazy to get links, so search em if you wanna hear em.

Anna Molly by Incubus, above all others. So damn catchy. I'm pretty much guaranteed to listen to it at least once on a race day.

Burnin' For You -- BOC

Pantera is always great to blast whilst driving.

Riot by Three Days Grace
Sugar by System of a Down
Byob by System of a Down

And I agree with Vy here, Pantera will seriously pump you up.

Pheidippides wrote:Anna Molly by Incubus, above all others. So damn catchy. I'm pretty much guaranteed to listen to it at least once on a race day.

Ditto.
Maybe some Highway Star?

Boredoms - Super Going
Drive Like Jehu - Here Come The Rome Plows (This is of pretty fantastic quality for a YouTube video.)
Fucked Up - Crooked Head
Mogwai - Auto Rock (The few times I actually got out to run, I was listening to this.)

UniverseZero just made me realize that my music taste for the preceding years went from a lot of fucking music with crescendos, to a short stint of music gushing with climax and power, then slowly sliding out of that and declining into music with decrescendos and heavy breathing.

/me takes a drag and listens to Bon Iver.

One-armed Scissor by At The Drive In.
Unholy Confessions by Avenged Sevenfold.
Technologic by Daft Punk.
Texas is South by The Devil Wears Prada.
Stricken by Disturbed.
Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce.
Texas Cries by Element Eighty
Out of Control by Hoobastank
This is Halloween by Marilyn Manson.
Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson
Shout at the Devil by Motley Crue
Knights of Cydonia by Muse
Firestarter by The Prodigy
Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
Holy Diver by Dio
Tom Sawyer by Rush
U-Fig by System of a Down
Attack by System of a Down
Fuck the System by System of a Down
Major Tom by Peter Schilling

These are just songs I skimmed from my library that have good beats. You probly know most of these songs already, I'm just giving you some ideas.

Antichrist Super Star - Marilyn Manson.
1996 - Marilyn Manson.

Play them in order.

Another awesome duo:
Postmortem and Raining Blood by Slayer.

Just hack the album mirrored by battles on. I do it when cycling and it turns me into a crazed pedal maniac.

Don't Stop Believin'

ALSO: Sandstorm by Darude

Don't Stop Me Now, by Queen.
Great to listen to if you're driving to your ex-girlfriend's wedding when you realize you love her, and to stop her from throwing her life away to the more attractive guy with a shallow personality.
Oh, and any song from David Lee Roth-era Van Halen.

Life247 wrote:ALSO: Sandstorm by Darude

Agree 100%. Something about overplayed techno hits just has a strange invigorating effect.

"I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys.

EDIT: I agree with Torex even though I don't like Van Halen too much. Definitely pump-up music. ("Jump," "Eruption," "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" etc.)

OH! Powerman 5000!

mintnut wrote:Just hack the album mirrored by battles on. I do it when cycling and it turns me into a crazed pedal maniac.

Agreed there.

"Street Dreams" by Noisia

"Honor Thy Father" - Dream Theater

Glosóli, Hoppipolla. By Sigur Rós.
Suds and Soda, Sun Ra, Cold Sun of Circumstance, Fell of the floor, man. By dEUS.
Many songs by Animal Collective like Purple Bottle, Peacebone, Forest Gospel and We Tigers.

I browsed through the entire topic and couldn't find "Eye Of The Tiger". Shame on us.

Oh. The mini-boss music from Links Awakening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50eZ5h0Xo7Q