I saw this go by on my social media feed this weekend and couldn't agree more. I mean, could you just imagine it?
Even though we are mostly known for our love of wine, we definitely have a soft spot for margaritas. Founding member, Smoked Gouda is known for making a mean margarita. Once when we were out celebrating her birthday, we ended up with a super-sized margarita that was almost as big as a whole pitcher. I'm fairly certain I still have a picture of it somewhere. I may have to dig around on my older computer and find it. Follow up post to come....
So in honor of the margarita theme, I present two tunes from the Mayor of Margaritaville himself, Jimmy Buffet.
Margaritaville (a little too slow for my running playlist, but it deserves recognition)
Cheeseburger in Paradise (now this is more my tempo for running and of course even Jimmy Buffet realizes that everything is better with cheese)
It's Monday. I'm recovering from a cold and a busy weekend filled with birthday fun for my youngest daughter. Somehow my Girls on the Run coaching gig starts tomorrow, and I'm not even close to 5k running shape. My goal today is not to gorge on candy at work and cheese at home.
I had a song all picked out for today, but then one of my students was jammin' to another song I love to run to. I couldn't decide which one to post, so I am posting both. Happy Monday!
Today's music choice comes from the animated band Gorillaz. While they have a lot of great running songs, this is my favorite. It's the remixed version of 19-2000. Other than a fun, upbeat sound, it's got a great line about music: It's the music that we choose. Isn't that the truth?
The post is a bit late in the day, but for today's music selection, we are heading into techno territory. I picked this song as my first techno entry for 3 reasons:
It's techno and techno is pretty much made for running. And dancing. The only downside is that it could possibly make you run too fast. That is certainly a problem we don't have around here.
The song is called Don't Give Up. So not only does it have a great beat, but it's also super motivational.
The techno-ized voice singing the few lyrics that appear are by Bryan Adams. Seriously. Bryan Adams, who has turned out to be one of those rockers that gets better looking with age.
1980's
Nowadays. Nothing more motivating than a little salt and pepper older man.
I feel bad mentioning that the song is actually performed (and Bryan Adams' voice was techno-ized) by Chicane, a British music act which I know nothing else about. Sorry Chicane, but love this song.
To make up for missing last Monday, I hereby present 2 very different songs that I enjoy running to.
First, can I just say that I love me some Killers? Seriously. Love them. Brandon Flowers' voice is awesome. When their first major hit, Somebody Told Me, came out I was hooked and loved that jam, especially the '80s-ish sound it has. I still do. It's still one of my favorites to run with cause it just makes me MOVE. And let's face it, that's exactly what I need now that school is back in session.
Speaking of the '80s, I am a child of the late '80s and '90s which means I also love me some Beastie Boys and was super sad about losing Adam Yauch (and really the Beastie Boys as we know them) earlier this year. While I love all things Beastie, one of my favorite songs to load up for a run is Intergalactic, a late '90s Grammy winner. Seriously, the Beastie Boys are that good (don't even get me started on how awesome their videos are). Not only is it a great running song, it brings back some great college day memories! Best line of the entire song: "I'll still fry you in my wok." That's great stuff, folks.
When I'm hunting for running music, I typically don't head towards break-up songs. As a genre, those songs are usually too sad/angry/resentful/slow/dreary/hateful to be of any use. However, every once in awhile someone, somewhere writes an upbeat break-up song. This one by Carolina Liar is one of my favorites to run to. I know it's not the happiest of songs, but the upbeat music always gets me going.
In the real running world, there is a debate about running with or without music (or other electronic devices). Most of the folks who get in on this argument are much more serious, long-distance runners than what we do around here.
Here are just a few links if you want to read more about the pros and cons of running with tunes:
Fun Running Ryan (although I like running with music, I have the same "marching band background" issue he does)
However, whether we run with music or not, most club members enjoy music of some sort. Except Stephanie. She's never really been into music, and this has led to some interesting discussions between club members. I'm pretty sure I even questioned if she was human at some point. We suspect she may be more of the feline persuasion. She did admit one time, though, that she found it a little easier to workout when there was music on. So, I thought it might be fun to have a regular blog segment where we post songs that we like to run to in an effort to support and inspire each other.
So let me officially introduce Music Mondays here at the Whine and Cheese Club. As teachers, we can always use a pick-me-up on Mondays, and I love alliteration. I'm going to start off with a song that gets me moving (and probably singing when I am sure I am alone) no matter where I am.
I was first introduced to Blue Man Group in the late nineties. My senior class trip in high school was to NYC where we saw the original Blue Man Group show off broadway. When they started making music albums later on, I was thrilled. This song came from their 2nd music album The Complex, which I love, love, love. They hooked up with Venus Hum to cover Donna Summer's "I Feel Love."
Here's the official music video for the song:
Here's a video of the live version. I saw this when they were touring and yes, she really did wear that super awesome light up dress. Wonder how we could run in something like that?
