Subway Playlist: Working Out Sucks So Bad But Music Makes iIt Beter.

I'm trying to lose weight. I don't want to get into it. It just makes me mad.

I hate watching what I eat. I just want to be able to eat something I like until I'm full.

I hate working out. I hate sweating. I hate it when my heart rate increases. I hate floor exercises, stomach exercises and squats. I hate sweating (it needed to be mentioned twice).

Let's not even begin to discuss what working out has done to my hair. Frizzy, kinky roots are not something I can make work.

But I monitor what I eat and I work out anyway. I fucking hate it but I do it and I'll continue to do it because if I don't I'll gain weight and make it easier for life to screw me and give me diabetes, cancer, high-blood pressure etc.

Anywho, this playlist rocks my world and helps me forget about the sweat:

Calvin Harris - Feel So Close

Metric - Dead Disco

Metric - Monster Hospital

Alex Clare - Too Close

Metric - Help I'm Alive

Beyonce - Get me Bodied

Beyonce - Diva

Shakira - La Tortura

Shakira - Loca

Beyonce - Green Light

Taylor Swift - We Are Never Getting Back Together

Pitbull - Hey Baby

The songs aren't exactly new but they help me get revved up enough to keep on going.

I run up and down a flight of stairs for the 44 mins of this playlist, visualizing myself driving my dream car, dancing up a storm in a Parisian nightclub, having a blast at my book release party, hanging out with my friends in Orlando, NY, and Antigua, salsa dancing in Miami in a sexy orangey-pink dress.

I get super-specific with my daydreams.

Subway Playlist

• Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love
• The Cataracs ft. Dev - Top of the World
• Sabi - Wild Heart
• Avicii - Levels AND Flo Rida - Good Feeling
• Karmin - Crash Your Party

Happy Weekend! Can you tell I want to go dancing?

Subway Playlist

• Rihanna - We Found Love 

That's it, the only song on my playlist because I've been listening to this song pretty much all day.

It's been a long time since I've been this obsessed with a music video. With pop, it's hard to get really deep (the lyrics often leave much to be desired) which is why music videos often elevate or sink a song. This video definitely elevated the song for me.

In response to the Chris Brown comparisons: Duh people.

Subway Playlist

• The Toadies - Possum Kingdom
• Duran Duran - Ordinary World
• Soul for Real - Candy Rain
• Wiz Khalifa - Say Yeah
• Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
• The Knife - Heartbeats

Subway Playlist

1. The Beatles - Revolution
2. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway
3. Garbage - When I Grow Up
4. Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man
5. Mariah Carey - Fantasy
6. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Happy Friday everyone : )

Subway Playlist

1. Metric - Wet Blanket
2. Staind - Right Here
3. Colbie Caillet - I Never Told You
4. Bush - Warm Machine
5. Kate Nash – Mariella
6. Michael Jackson – Pretty Young Thing
   
7. Lionel Richie – All Night Long
8. Dave Matthews Band - Where Are You Going
9. Garbage – Sex Is Not The Enemy
10. The Temptations – Ain’t Too Proud To Beg
11. Bowling for Soup – Ohio (Come Back To Texas)

Subway Playlist: I Love The 90s!!!

I've been feeling a little nostalgic lately.

These songs may not have defined the 90s for you but they're some that left an impression on me. And it's my playlist so suck it. Besides a lot of these songs don't get love anymore. Show them some love!

1. Luscious Jackson - Naked Eye
   
2. Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want
3. Third Eye Blind - How’s it Going To Be and Semi Charmed Life and Graduate.
   
4. Tom Petty – Free Falling (Released in 1989 but discovered by me in 1997 because of this).
5. Coyote Shivers – Sugar High
6. Harvey Danger – Flagpole Sitta
7. Janet Jackson – Runaway
8. Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
9. Blink 182 – Dammit
10. Marcy Playground – Sex and Candy
11. Republica – Ready to Go
12. No Doubt – Spiderwebs
13. Blessid Union of Souls – Hey Leonardo
14. Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
15. Nirvana - Lithium
    

Subway Playlist: Dancing It Out.

1. Outkast - Roses
2. Looper - Mondo 77
3. Ratatat - Loud Pipes
   
4. Santigold - Lights Out
   
5. Mirah - The Garden
6. Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
7. Cypress Hill ft. Pitbull and Marc Anthony - Armada Latina
8. Ashlee Simpson - La La
9. Velvet Revolver - Slither
10. Lady Gaga - Born This Way
11. Keri Hilson - Turnin Me On
12. Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko
13. Santigold - Creator
14. Pitbull ft. T Pain- Hey Baby (Drop it to the Floor)
    
15. Far East Movement - Like a G6
16. Rihanna - S&M
    

Dancing makes you brave!

Subway Playlist: Back in NY

I spent most of my time in Nigeria talking to parents and with zero access to the internet so I didn't really listen to a lot of music which is unfortunate because I really wanted to do a Subway Playlist: Naija Style post.

Anyway, these are the songs that have been stuck in my head this week : )

1. "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" Cage the Elephant
2. "Shattered" The Trucks
3. "Love, Save the Empty" Erin McCarley
4. "I'll Try Anything Once" The Strokes
5. "Down Boy" Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6. "Leader" Bif Naked
7. "Shut Your Mouth" Garbage
8. "Bathwater" No Doubt
   

Subway Playlist

1. Garbage – Metal Heart
2. Ratatat – Nostrand
3. Nelly Furtado – Turn off the Light
4. Third Eye Blind – Losing a Whole Year
5. No Doubt – Hella Good
6. Martha and the Vandellas – Nowhere to Run
7. Eric Clapton – Layla
8. Blessid Union of Souls – Hey Leonardo
9. Silversun Pickups – Kissing Families
10. Weezer – Island in the Sun
11. Metric – Glass Ceiling
12. Our Lady Peace – One Man Army

Subway Playlist: Covers I Love More than the Originals

• Rock Kills Kid - I Turn My Camera on (Originally Spoon)
  
• The Sundays - Wild Horses (Originally Rolling Stones)
  
• Bif Naked - Nothing Else Matters (Originally Metallica)
  
• Anya Marina - Whatever You Like (Originally TI)
  
• Dynamite Hack - Boyz N Da Hood (Originally E Eazy)
  

Subway Playlist: Songs That Changed My Life

Lovely Disco did a fun post on songs that changed her life so I compiled my own list.
Boy, that was hard! My list was originally 50+ so don't be surprised if I add to it in the future.

These are songs that had such an impact on me, I still remember the first time I heard them. Now I literally lose my shizz when these songs come on: the radio in a car, at the mall, or on the iPod of the person next to me. Theyhave the ability to take me to a different place and some of the songs introduced me to some of my now favorite artists.

Check it out and feel free to share your list with me. And remember Music = Love.

1. Aerosmith - Dream On
2. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
3. Metric- Dead Disco
4. Oasis - Wonderwall
5. Lady Gaga - Just Dance
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
7. Justin Timberlake - I Think She Knows
8. Michael Jackson - Beat It
9. Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag
10. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
11. Alicia Keys - Unthinkable/ I'm Ready
12. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
13. Coyote Shivers - Sugar High
14. Madonna - Like a Prayer
15. Garbage: Cherry Lips
16. Cream - Sunshine of Your Love
17. Michelle Branch - Goodbye to You
18. Nerf Herder - Buffy Theme Song
19. Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
20. Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Honorable Mentions:

• Staind - Outside
• Beyonce - Get Me Bodied
• No Doubt - Underneath it All
• Jewel - You Were Meant For Me
• Nirvana - Lithium
• Paramore - Misery Business
• No Doubt - Spiderwebs
• Fiona Apple - Criminal

Subway Playlist

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• Joan Jett - Crimson and Clover
  
• Metric - Help I'm Alive
• Pixies - Where is My Mind
• CSS - Music is My Hot Hot Sex
• Radiohead - 15 Step
• Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind
• The Sundays - Wild Horses

Subway Playlist

Lauryn Hill- Ex-Factor

Janet Jackson – I Get So Lonely

Missy Elliot – Supa Dupa Fly

Jon Secada – Just Another Day

Blessid Union of Souls – Let me be the one

White Town – Your Woman

Subway Playlist: Otown Funtown

This place is so much more fun now that I don't live here...

Happy Friday : )

1. Letters to Cleo “Awake”
2. Save Ferris “Superspy”
3. Kosheen “Crawling”
4. Poe “Angry Johnny”
5. Postal Service "Brand New Colony"

Subway Playlist

I can't wait for summer. Summer means free music festivals. Free people!

My iPod will have to do... for now.

1. Soul Kitchen – The Doors
2. Uprising – Muse
3. She Moves In Her Own Way – The Kooks
4. Renegade – The Styx
5. Let Go – Frou Frou
6. Girls are Mad – The Ettes
7. Like I Do – Minipop
8. Violet Hill – Coldplay
9. Gnarls Barkley- Going On
10. Heads will Roll – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
11. Music is My Hot Hot Sex- CSS
12. The River of Dreams – Billy Joel
13. Wheels – Cake
14. Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder

Subway Playlist: High School Jams

I was walking home from work and I heard Craig David and it reminded me of high school.
Home Science represent!

What what : )

Anywho, I want to put together a playlist of songs that take me back.

I’m nostalgic like that : )

These are some songs that I associate with HSASS every time I hear them:

1. Vertical Horizon – Everything you want
2. Craig David – Walking Away
3. Ja Rule ft Ashanti – Always on Time
4. Sisqo – Unleash the Dragon/ The Thong Song
5. Lagbaja – Konko Below
6. Boomkat – The Wreckoning
7. Missy Elliot – Get Ur Freak On
8. Aaliyah – More than a Woman

Which songs take you back to your high school days?

Subway Playlist: Songs that make me want to dance till I pass out.

Everyone has that song.

You know what I'm talking about; you hear it and you start shaking your ass, bobbing your head, tapping your foot.

We all have those songs. Here are a few of mine. If I listed all of them, this post would go on forever. I exercised restraint.

1. Metric - Dead Disco
2. Enur ft. Natasja - Calabria 2007
3. Black Eyed Peas - Imma Be
4. U2 - Vertigo
5. Sean Paul - Temperature
6. Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
7. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
8. Beyonce - Green Light
9. Black Eyed Peas - Pump It
10. Thunderheist - Jerk It
11. Missy Elliot - Work It
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
13. Lady Gaga - Just Dance
14. Shakira - La Tortura
15. House of Pain - Jump Around
16. Beyonce - Get me Bodied
17. Teddybears - Cobrastyle
18. Republica - Ready to go
19. Greyscale Music - Follow Me
20. LMFAO - Shots
    

Which songs do you listen to in preparation for a night out or to burn some calories to?

Subway Playlist: I Hate You Edition

1. Taylor Swift - You're Not Sorry
2. Soko - I'll Kill Her
3. Lit - Miserable
4. Kelis - Caught Out There
5. The Wreckers - Leave the Pieces
6. Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now
   
7. Hole - Violet
   
8. Lisa Loeb - How

If you're all filled with lovey dovey feelings, go away.

If you're angry, welcome!

I need help with my "Love Will Make You Miserable" playlist. Any suggestions?

Note: Less "woe is me" and more "grrrrr, I hate you."

Give me your picks for angry songs about love.

Subway Playlist.

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
2. The Sounds- Dorchester Hotel
3. Blondie - Call Me
4. Wheatus - Hump Em and Dump Em
5. Matisyahu - Time of Your Song
6. Regina Spektor - Us
7. Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
8. Metric - Empty
9. The Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What you Want
10. Make Her Say - Kid Cudi
11. Franz Ferdinand - Come on Home
12. The Bravery - Above and Below
13. The Like - Falling Away
14. Santigold - You'll find a way
15. Kid Cudi- That New New
16. Postal Service - Nothing Better
17. Blondie - Maria
18. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
19. Bloc Party - This Modern Love
20. CSS- Off The Hook