Thursday, March 10, 2011

Big Hair

Pace Breakdown

Slow Walk 7:57
Mod Walk 7:42
Brisk Walk 13:34
Slow Jog 7:17
Mod Jog

Brisk Jog 8:58
Run
Total 45:28



Distance: 2.1 to 3.2 miles
Speed: 2.8 to 4.2 MPH

Ave BPM: 123
Jog Beats: 42%

Pace Variability: High



We’re talkin’ teased up, boufed up, glammed up, and mulleted: that’s how the Rock Gods and Goddesses of the Arena Era wore their hair. Back then, there was no talk of “Arena Rock” or “Alternative Rock,” and “New Wave” was just something in a magazine. It was just over-the-top rock, with blistering lead guitar solos, power chords, and huge, growling vocals. Shallow? Maybe. Dated? You could say that. But you could also say these groups dished out fun with a wallop, and what better company for a vigorous wog?


Title

Artist

BPM

Time

PC

Comment

Genre

Album/Source

Unskinny Bop

Poison

93

3:48

5

Catchy opener.
SKBL

Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986 - 1996

Hard Rock

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

AC/DC

138

4:11

5

Oh, what evil fun!

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

Hard Rock

Turbo Lover

Judas Priest

152

5:29

5

Straight ahead, in your face jogging

Turbo

Hard Rock

Unchain The Night

Dokken

126

5:19

5

Fabulous axe solo

Under Lock and Key

Metal

I Want You To Want Me (live)

Cheap Trick

103

3:38

5

Whoa! Rock out, Rick Nielsen!
SKBL

Live at Budokan

Arena Rock

Urgent

Foreigner

116

3:59

5

Backbeat funk makes this hit move

4

Arena Rock

Eye of the Tiger

Survivor

109

4:04

5

Rocky III theme song

Eye of the Tiger (Remastered)

Arena Rock

Rock You Like a Hurricane

Scorpions

125

4:16

4

German rockers pick up the pace

Love at First Sting

Hard Rock

Heartbreaker

Pat Benatar

156

3:29

4

Pat goes incendiary on us

Greatest Hits

Arena Rock

Dance the Night Away

Van Halen

130

3:06

5

Oh, those party boys...

Van Halen II

Arena Rock

Love Is a Battlefield

Pat Benatar

94

4:09

5

One more time, Ms. Benatar, with feeling.
SKBL

Greatest Hits

New Wave