Full albums that are good to listen to while running

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I would imagine that, statistically at least, ILM ought to have a few runners in its midst. I'm interested to know your own favorite albums for running -- and I'm talking start to finish, no individual tracks.

I've been thinking about my own favorites lately, so here's a handy top ten (not looking at my collection, just from memory, so I may be missing something obvious) to read over. All of them are more or less thematically and sonically consistent, maintaining a certain mood over the entire play time, yet with peaks and valleys throughout...and one or two may break this rule, but I think most of them have a pretty good sense of rhythm, whether obvious or underlying.

Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
New Order - Brotherhood
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Depeche Mode - Violator
Yo La Tengo - Painful
Massive Attack - Protection
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Daft Punk - Discovery
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

For you runners out there...your top albums to listen to while running? For all you couch potatoes...your top albums that you'd listen to while running, if you decided to do so? And I ask both out of curiosity, and for recommendation purposes. I'm hoping to get a couple ideas out of this thread, perhaps.

― stephen, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Basement Jaxx - Singles
Rammstein - Mutter
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
AZ - Doe Or Die
OOOIOO - Taiga

― admrl, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

like rammstein but not

Laibach - Opus Dei

― admrl, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Looking at my collection now, a handful of honorable mentions that I didn't mention above:

Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire
Björk - Post
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Stoned and Dethroned
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Junior Boys - Last Exit

― stephen, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Rother- Flammende Herzen (uplifting and tuneful motorik all the way through. Leibezeit on drums!)

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I always used to use Ted Nugent "Live at Hammersmith '79." Completely retarded? You bet. But it did the trick.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Come on!

― stephen, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't run to any of the original albums listed. There needs to be a steady beat throughout most songs.

― filthy dylan, Saturday, 5 May 2007 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

sunn 0))) - black one

― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 5 May 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

There is nothing better in the world to run to than Orbital's Brown Album (also called Orbital II), from start to finish.

― Bimble, Saturday, 5 May 2007 04:09 (eighteen years ago)

yep...Orbital II is great!

― stephen, Saturday, 5 May 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

I would always hum "The wind cries mary" to myself while running, but otherwise I preferred to just listen to the sounds of nature.

― filthy dylan, Saturday, 5 May 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

The last time I jogged was to Close to the Edge.

― mulla atari, Saturday, 5 May 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

I love to jog to the following albums:

Yes " Going For The One "
Black Devil Disco Club "28 After"
I-F "Mixed Up In The Hague Vol.1"
Led Zeppelin " Physical Graffiti"

plus a bootleg Zep show from the '75 tour in St. Louis, Mo. that
is *magic* whilst on thee treadmill.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 5 May 2007 07:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh... and Kevin Saunderson " Faces & Phases " is just as magic.

― Capitaine Jay Vee, Saturday, 5 May 2007 07:54 (eighteen years ago)

woot.

― stephen, Saturday, 5 May 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Discovery has been a running staple of mine since it came out. Big ups to Close To The Edge and Sound of Silver, too. ABBA's Voulez-Vous is a surefire winner.

― Davey D, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

XTC's Black Sea is awesome too.

― Davey D, Sunday, 6 May 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

Frank Sinatra's Watertown. it makes me run faster so i can get home for a good cry.

― AmyCamus, Sunday, 6 May 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

Thomas Brinkmann - Click
Boredoms - Super Ae
Grateful Dead bootlegs
Andrew WK - I Get Wet
Michael Mayer - Immer
Tom Moulton - A Tom Moulton Mix

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

i think if i was to run while listening to music i'd grow too distracted and run into something. like a waist level pole that could do a number on my member

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

blog house

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

Swans - Filth
Pharoah Sanders - Karma

Those are my favorites.

― Ivan, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:44 (eighteen years ago)

some of you people jog to weird shit

discovery and black devil disco club OTM

― cutty, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

"from the underground and below" - overkill

― violoncellos, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

I choose the Last Poets because I imagine "Run Nigger" could be potentially quite motivating.

I have a strict rule that I don't run unless someone is chasing me though.

― Saxby D. Elder, Monday, 7 May 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

lindstrom "it's a feedelity affair"

― cutty, Monday, 7 May 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Sloan - A Sides Win
Eric Serra - 5th element soundtrack
Can, Nirvana, Zappa, Magazine, The Sea and Cake, The Replacements, The Who
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Pinback, MBV, GBV ????? Classical? Brahms?

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 7 May 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

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