Pump Up Music

So the game tomorrow doesn’t start until 8:00. So what are you going to do all day? Well, probably watch football for the first half of the day. But what about that break between when the 4:15 games end and the Steelers game starts?

If you said “Listen to pump up music and pump some Iron” then you’re on the right track.

If you’re having trouble putting together a good mix of pump-up songs for tomorrow night’s game, here are some suggestions.

You don’t talk pump-up music without talking AC/DC. They pretty much wrote the book on songs that are played at stadiums to get people fired up.

The essentials:
Back In Black
Thunderstruck
Highway to Hell
You Shook Me All Night Long

Other worthwhile songs:
Hells Bells
It’s A Long Way To The Top
For Those About To Rock
TNT

While Metallica has had a different sound in each of their albums, you can probably find at least one good pump-up song from every album.

The essentials:
Battery
Seek & Destroy
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Enter Sandman

Other worthwhile songs:
Master of Puppets
Of Wolf and Man
Creeping Death

Undeniably the greatest band ever has to make an appearance on this list. However, the greatest song of all time, as it usually comes out on top of many “Best Songs” lists, doesn’t make the essentials part of this list because of the slower first half. By all means, rock out to the second half of Stairway.

The Essentials:
Black Dog
Rock & Roll
The Ocean
Kashmir

Other worthwhile songs:
Stairway to Heaven
Trampled Underfoot
Over the Hills and Far Away

No playlist of adrenaline-pumping songs is complete without the Boss. Springsteen has been rocking stadiums since the 1970s and has shown on his current tour that he’s still got it.

The Essentials:
Born to Run
Radio Nowhere
Badlands
Dancing in the Dark

Other worthwhile songs:
American Land
Jackson Cage
No Surrender

One-song wonders:

Renegade (Styx)
Smoke on the Water (Deep Purple)
Rainbow in the Dark (Dio)
Burn in My Light (Mercy Drive)
Crazy Train (Ozzy)
Rock You Like A Hurricane (The Scorpions)
Cigarette (The Clarks)
Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)
Devil’s Dance Floor (Flogging Molly)
Jukebox Hero (Foreigner)
Fire (Jimmy Hendrix)
Carry On Wayward Son (Kansas)