I've tried several times to sit down and come up with a list of my Top 20 Albums, but I fail each time. It's not that I can't come up with that many, it's that I can't narrow things down to that few. It helps to think of entire albums instead of simply individual tracks, because some of my favorite songs are surrounded by drudgery. Still, even with complete albums, it's hard to come up with any kind of inclusive list.
So I give up. For now.
Admitting defeat is hard, so I've countered my humiliation by setting a more achievable project and completing it instead. What follows is a list of nineteen tracks that I recently burned onto a CD for something to listen to while I work out in the morning. I'll save the commentary for after.
| 1 | 2 Unlimited | - | No Limit | 03:32 |
| 2 | Alicia Keys | - | Fallin' | 03:30 |
| 3 | Arrested Development | - | Tennessee | 04:32 |
| 4 | Audio Adrenaline | - | Free Ride | 03:22 |
| 5 | Audio Adrenaline | - | Big House | 03:31 |
| 6 | B-Side Players | - | Spill The Wine | 05:11 |
| 7 | Beastie Boys | - | Intergalactic | 03:29 |
| 8 | Ben Folds Five | - | Stevo's Last Night In Town | 03:27 |
| 9 | Blues Traveler | - | But Anyway | 04:09 |
| 10 | Boyz II Men | - | Motownphilly | 03:55 |
| 11 | Bruce Hornsby | - | Rainbow's Cadillac | 04:38 |
| 12 | Church Of Rhythm | - | Take Back The Beat | 04:36 |
| 13 | Filter & The Crystal Method | - | (Can't You) Trip Like I Do | 04:28 |
| 14 | Harry Connick, Jr. | - | To Love The Language | 05:00 |
| 15 | Pink | - | Get The Party Started | 03:11 |
| 16 | Santana | - | Smooth | 04:55 |
| 17 | Scatman John | - | Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) | 03:33 |
| 18 | O.C. Supertones | - | Louder Than The Mob | 03:53 |
| 19 | Us3 | - | Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) | 04:37 |
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Article comments
1 - Phillip Winn
Oops, I forgot that I'm limited to ten albums. I probably would have skipped the one for which Amazon has no cover art if I'd remembered...
2 - Phillip Winn
There, I fixed it! Now one of my true Top 20 albums (Harbor Lights) appears in the list.
3 - Eric Olsen
Very cool workout list - i think I'll go do my lats right now!! Let's go, now, okay now!
4 - The Theory
interesting mixing audio adrenaline in there. thier version of "free ride" is cool.
peace.
5 - Phillip Winn
Thanks, TT. As I assemble future workout CDs, I've decided to start using themes, and one will definitely be an all-Christian disc. When mixing this one, I couldn't think of a ton of Christian stuff that had the kind of beat I was looking for to work out to, so aside from AA, only Church Of Rhythm and Supertones made the cut.
Then, of course, I threw in Bruce Hornsby's tune to balance the whole thing out. I used to work for a televangelist, so I've got a pretty jaded view of those types of people. I would have put Genesis' Jesus He Knows Me, but I only have a live version, and live tracks don't seem to work well on mix discs.