During my second fight I had really wanted some calm, soothing music to keep my heart rate under control during the long hours of waiting before I actually entered the arena to get in ring. That playlist was called “The Unexpected Bell” (since I didn’t know I was going to fight until the day of) and it worked, completely and totally.
So naturally as I prepped for fight number three I created a similar, calm and quiet — even inspiring! — playlist. Since I was fighting in Atlanta, I called the list “Coollanta” and I filled it with Paul Simon, Manhattan Transfer, Luciano Pavarotti, and the like.
As it turned out, the Coollanta playlist was a complete flop. I didn’t want “calm” at all. I wanted hype.
So when I returned, I made the list I wished I’d had, and it includes my walk in music for that fight, which was Mötley Crüe’s “Kickstart My Heart” (I love you Nikki Sixx!). This still isn’t the playlist I really want it to be, but I have time before my next fight, which is slated for August 2011, to refine.
Meanwhile, here’s some of the list in its early form. I call it “Walk In Rock.” These are actually in order of how many times I’ve played them on my Shuffle. I’ve kept it well-known old school, but I may make a back-up list with more deep cuts from the 80s. Stuff like King Kobra and W.A.S.P. and Kix.
If you have some great hair metal to suggest, please tell me in the comments so I can get this bad girl hot and blistering before the next fight. Otherwise, enjoy. Fight update coming soon.
Walk In Rock
Back In Black, AC/DC
Heavy Metal, Sammy Hagar
Rock You Like a Hurricane, Scorpions
Down on Me, Jackyl
Turn Me Loose, Loverboy
Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne
Coming of Age, Damn Yankees
Tie Your Mother Down, Queen
Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith
Youth Gone Wild, Skid Row
You Shook Me All Night Long, AC/DC
Walk this Way, Aerosmith
Unskinny Bop, Poison
Paradise City, Guns N’ Roses
Nothing But A Good Time, Poison
Love In An Elevator, Aerosmith
Living After Midnight, Judas Priest
Once Bitten Twice Shy, Great White
Bang Your Head, Quiet Riot
Bad Medicine, Bon Jovi
Sweet Child O’ Mine, Guns N’ Roses
Lick It Up, Kiss
Kickstart My Heart, Mötley Crüe
Fly By Night, Rush
Super Freak, Rick James
Celebrity Skin, Hole
Rockin’ Into the Night, .38 Special
Boom, P.O.D.
Breadfan, Metallica
Primal Scream, Mötley Crüe
Shout at the Devil, Mötley Crüe
Dr Feelgood, Mötley Crüe
Over Now, Alice In Chains
Again, Alice In Chains
Take It Off, The Donnas
You Wanna Get Me High, The Donnas
Immigrant Song, Led Zeppelin
Crazy Train, Ozzy Osbourne
Iron Man, Ozzy Osbourne
Don’t Stop Me Now, Queen
Hell Yeah, Rev Theory
Dragula, Rob Zombie
Spookshow Baby, Rob Zombie
Light Up, Styx