I put this knowing full well that I will probably get criticized…the point here is, if you have trouble getting prepared, psyched for a race – music could be the answer. Whether it is to calm you down or to pump you up. Coach Bonnette the all-knowing recommends…
30 Seconds to Mars – The Kill
30 Seconds to Mars – From Yesterday
Angels and Airwaves – Valkyrie Missle
Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies)
Armor for Sleep – Basement Ghost Singing
Bloc Party – This Modern Love
Boondock Saints Theme
Brandtson – Mercy Medical
Brand New – Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades
Bruce Springsteen – Thundercrack
Coheed and Cambria – The Crowing
Copeland – When Finally Set Free
Dave Matthews Band – Two Step
Denali – Surface
Dropkick Murphys – I’m Shipping Up to Boston
Emery – The Secret
Explosions in the Sky – A Song For Our Fathers
Foo Fighters – Everlong
Foo Fighters – Best of You
Glen Hansard/Marketa Irglova – When Your Mind’s Made Up
Gnarls Barkley – I Try
Imogen Heap – The Walk
Jeff Buckley – Grace
Jimmy Eat World – Disintegration
Jimmy Eat World – Goodbye Sky Harbor
Juliana Theory – You Always Say Goodnight
Junior Boys – In the Morning
Justin Timberlake – Lovestoned
K’s Choice – Shadowman
Kenna – Love Hate Sensation
Kenna – War in Me
Kings of Leon – King of the Rodeo
Led Zeppelin – Battle of the Evermore
Lemon Jelly – Nice Weather for Ducks
Mae – Mistakes We Knew We Were Makin’
Mae – Painless
Mars Volta – Intertiatic E.S.P.
Millencolin – No Cigar
Muse – Butterflies & Hurricanes
Muse – Hysteria
My Chemical Romance – Ghost of You
Nitin Sawnhey – Sunset
Notwist – Off the Rails
Paramore – Never Let You Go
Perfect Circle (A) – Passive
Pinback – Penelope
Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
Radiohead – Let Down
Radiohead – Paranoid Android
Radiohead – Sit Down, Stand Up
Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – False Pretense
Rihanna – Please Don’t Stop the Music [I know...I know]
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Tamacun
Rodrigo y Gabriela – Daiblo Rojo
Saosin – You’re Not Alone
Saosin – Voices
Silversun Pickups – Lazy Eye
System of a Down – Chop Suey!
The Used – Blue and Yellow
The Used – The Bird and the Worm
The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
Thrice – Artist in the Ambulance
Thursday – Asleep in the Chapel
Tool – Schism
That’s a lot, but there’s always more – share your own or comment on them in the Comments section…
