1. We have Pink’s ‘Trouble’, great for weight lifting. Makes you keep pumping that iron, and so is Rage Against The Machine ‘s ‘Testify’. 

2. On the treadmill and running and feeling like you are out of breath and at your limit? Dimmu Borgir’s ‘Burn in Hell’ will pump you back to speed and give you an extra few minutes.

3. Sit back and start spinning your legs on the bicycle while listing to AC/DC’s ‘Back in Black’ and Deff Leppard’s ‘Rock of Ages’ show your legs a limit they have never seen before.

4. Well, of course there are those of you out there that want to do yoga and think that there is no song that suits it. Well, you are wrong, Scorpions’ ‘Still Loving You’ does wonders with the breathing and the stretching.

5. Let’s get our blood pumping and our rage started with a little kickboxing while either Foo Fighters ‘Pretender’ or In this moment’s ‘Whore’ playing in the background:

6. Some cardio workout to start your day, AC/DC ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’

7. This one is for the ladies. Did you know that belly dancing is a form of exercise? Myrath’s ‘Merciless Times’ works best.

8. And of course the best workout song of all time that can work with any type of exercise, Survivor’s ‘Eye of the tiger’

Now there is no excuse, go get you exercises started in rocking way!

Written by: Nj bakr and Aya Eweis

Then suddenly a song comes up, you hear the song, your nerves start to shake and BOOM!! You are unstoppable! Well here then, I brought you the best pumping songs to put on your iPod/mp3 player in these situations;

10- ‘Black Dog’ by Led Zeppelin
Even through the whole song you can feel the adrenalin jitters moving up and down your body.

9-‘Stone Cold Crazy’ by Metallica
Personally this was my sit down and study song, I never actually passed the subjects but it did make me sit down at my desk and get in the mood to study, even if I just held the pencils and started drumming.

8- ‘Given Up’ by Linkin Park
Oddly enough this song used to help you do anything but give up.

7- ‘Sway’ by Coal Chamber
Best song to listen to when you want to do something that you are absolutely positive will get you in trouble.

6- ‘Riot’ by Three Days Grace
I think of this song whenever I have to stand up for myself to a bully who looks much larger than me, this song makes all the logical reasoning go away.

5- ‘The Pretender’ by Foo Fighters
This song just speaks for itself; there are no words to describe how this song pumps you up!

4- ‘Last Resort’ by Papa Roach
Though the lyrics might give you the impression of giving up, this song does well when you have had enough of something and need to punch a hole in the wall.

3- ‘Highway To Hell’ by AC/DC
Yup, I’m in my car, with my friends and I’m going to have a wild night, NO CAN STOP ME!!!

2-‘Eye Of The Tiger’ by Survivor
This song has been used and worn out, but still the best work out song out there.

1- ‘We will Rock You’ by Queen
#1 pumping song of all times, if this song doesn’t get your blood rushing and start banging the table I don’t know what will.

I hope you enjoyed this list and had a little blood rush, if you think I missed anything please feel free to suggest the song(s) in the comments bellow.

Regardless, we will have another list for that; but for now, let’s discover more about people who really helped in modern music development, and worked with international artists and bands that we know and adore their hits. However, 50% of their success returns to their producers. Let’s know those music market masters…

Jimmy Page

Many people know him as the lead guitarist of the legendary classic rock band Led Zeppelin. Actually, the reason that Page created the band was his love to record production as well as putting new recording techniques, which became his legacy that was followed by music makers afterwards. Page spent hours and hours in the studio just trying to record techniques as well as observing the different points and changing microphones access, amplifier and trying new sounds and sometimes creating sound effects! Jimmy Page mainly produced for Led Zeppelin, The Firm and Screaming Lord Sutch bands. In addition, several side projects, one of them was Puff Daddy’s hit ‘Come With Me’.

Rick Rubin 

One of the wide known names in Europe and States. This artists didn’t work on a specific genre; he just knew how to get the right tunes for an artist and deliver it to the audience. I guess there’s few of the music industry that Rubin didn’t work with. Yes, any international artist/band you know you will find his name behind them. Some of these are: Johnny Cash, Metallica, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Slayer, RHCP, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Limp Bizkit, SOAD, The Cult, Neil Diamond, Mick Jagger, ZZ Top, Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine Danzig, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow. Away from rock music, he worked with Adele, Justin Timberlake, Shakira, Public Enemy, Eminem, Lady Gaga and many more…

Bob Rock

Bob is considered to be the man behind the success of Metallica. Yes, Bob was actually the main reason of letting some of Metallica’s riffs reach the fans in a proper sound and song structure. And that was so obvious in ‘A Year and Half in the Life of Metallica’; the documentary film that was made for the recording production for Metallica: ‘Black Album’ shows him giving instructions to the band and sometimes guiding, even arguing with them to work hard and get it right. In addition, he worked with Aerosmith, Motley Crue, The Cult, David Lee Roth, Bon Jovi, Cher, Skid Row, Bryan Adams, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Michael Buble, and The Offspring. Besides, he is a well-known audio engineer, so he worked with Survivor, Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and many else.

Quincy Jones 

Quincy Jones is considered as the most famous music producer on Earth! Jones started as a producer in the early 50s and was a well-known for his work with the King of Pop Michael Jackson, as well as, Little Richard, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Frank Sinatra, Samuel George – a.k.a Sammy Davis, Jr. – Aretha Franklin, Eddie Van Halen, Will Smith, 2Pac, Ray Charles and hundreds! Besides, he was the producer, composer and conductor of many international hits such as ‘We Are the World’ and ‘Bokra’ – Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me with many Arab artists such as; Shakira, Tamer Hosny, Souad Massi, Marawan Khoury, Latifa, Diana Karazon, and the American hip hop artist Akon. The song was written by Magda Al-Roumi.

Paul O’Neill

For you, who don’t know Paul, he is one of the responsible of creating the genre of progressive metal. O’Neill started as an engineer and worked with many international acts, such as; Aerosmith, Joan Jett, Def Leppard and others. In the 80s, he became the number one promoter for shows in Japan and promoting every tour of Madonna and Sting. The real change happened was with Savatage, which was when he changed the whole concept of the band from just a heavy metal band to become the first influential progressive metal band as well as his other orchestral works with same band members and other musicians in the ranked #1rock orchestra, Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Tony Platt 

Tony is one of the greatest English sound engineers and record producers. His resume could talk better than we do. Some of his notable works were with; Bob Marley, Buddy Guy, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Gary Moore, Johnny Cash, Samson, Manowar, Celtic Frost, Ronnie James Dio and Anathema.

Dieter Dierks

Most known as the owner of one the best international studios, Dierks Studios (audio and video studios), and the producer for the legendary band Scorpions. Many international artists worked and record there, such as; Michael Jackson, Accpet, Tina Turner, and many others.

R. Kelly 

This could be a name that many readers weren’t expecting in such a list, but this awesome composer, song-writer, arranger, mixer and record producer should be mentioned also. Kelly worked with numerous artists as a producer since the early 90s till now, and he was even the main reason behind many international artists production besides the younger ones. He produced for Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, Toni Braxton, Aaliyah, Billy Ocean, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Whitney Huston and many else.

Mike Clink

Well, he is a man with not much of a resume but no one can deny he was one of the developers of the hard rock/heavy metal movement. He started as an audio engineer – like many other producers – in the 80s and then found his interest in record production. Clink produced for Gun N’ Roses, Triumph, Motley Crue, Megadeth, UFO, Jefferson Starship, Heart and many others.

Roy Thomas Baker

Baker isn’t only a music producer but he is also a songwriter, arranger and the governor of The Recording Academy – the U.S. organization of musicians, producers and audio engineers. His notable productions were for many legendary bands, such as: Queen, Yes, Jet, Nazareth, Free, Journey, Chris de Burgh, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns N’ Roses as well as motion pictures soundtracks for Heavy Metal in 1982 and American Anthem in 1986.