American Idiot – Green Day (pretty much the entire album is good for running)
Baby Got Back – Sir Mix a Lot (hey, when you’re running for hours at a stretch you need some comic relief!)
Brick House – Rick James (ditto)
Go Baby Go – Garbage
Footloose – Kenny Loggins
Hey Ya – Outkast
I Wanna be Sedated – the Ramones
Lose Yourself – Eminem (“Eye of the Tiger” for the younger set!)
Seether – Veruca Salt
Maneater – Nelly Furtado
Volcano Girls – Veruca Salt
Seven Nation Army – White Stripes
Take Me out – Franz Ferdinand
Paralyzed – Finger 11?

People are evry passionate about their music. I really appreciate everyone responded and giving me a chance to expand beyond the same old music I always listen too:

Here is the list:

51 Artists to Explore on iTunes

1. Alicia Keys: “No One”
2. A New Found Glory: “It’s Not Your Fault”, “Kiss Me”
3. Atmosphere: “The Arrival”, “Pour Me Another”, “Get Fly”, “Smart Went Crazy”
4. Augustana: “Boston”
5. Avril Lavigne: “Girlfriend”, “When You’re Gone”
6. Beyonce: “Irreplaceable”
7. Bowling For Soup: “High School Never Ends”, When We Die” (and the entire “A Hangover You Don’t Deserve” album)
8. Boys Like Girls: “The Great Escape”
9. Code Red: “For My People”
10. Common: “A Dream”, “Go!”
11. Corinne Bailey Rae: “Put Your Records On”
12. Daughtry: “Over You”
13. Diddy & Keyshia Cole: “Last Night”
14. EG Daily: “Don’t Even Care”
15. Faber Drive: “Second Chance”, “Tongue Tied”
16. Fabolous & Ne-Yo: “Make Me Better”
17. Fergie: Glamorous”
18. Goo Goo Dolls: “Stay With You”
19. Good Charlotte: “I Don’t Want to Be In Love”
20. Gwen Stefani & Akon: “The Sweet Escape”
21. J-Status: “All Rise”
22. Jack Johnson: “Upside Down”
23. James Blunt: “1973”
24. John Legend: “Save Room for Me”
25. John Mayer: “Waiting for the World to Change”
26. Kanye West: “Stronger”, “Good Life”, “Touch the Sky” (2006)
27. Kevin Michael & Wyclef: “It Don’t Make Any Difference to Me”
28. Landon Pigg: “Can’t Let Go”
29. Lucas Prata: “All the Girls”
30. Mary J Blige: “Be Without You”
31. Mat Kearney: “Nothing Left to Lose”, “Undeniable”
32. Matchbox 20: “How Far We’ve Come”
33. Mika: “Grace Kelly”, “Love Today”
34. My Chemical Romance: “Welcome to the Black Parade”
35. Natasha Bedingfield: “Love Like This”, “Single”
36. Newsboys: “Something Beautiful”
37. Paula DeAnda: “Easy”, “Walk Away”
38. Plain White T’s: “Hey There Delilah”, “Our Time Now”
39. Red Hot Chili Peppers: “Snow (Hey Oh)”, “Tell Me Baby”
40. Relient K: “Must Have Done Something Right”, “The Best Thing”
41. Sara Bareilles: “Love Song”
42. Sean Kingston: “Beautiful Girls”, “Me Love”, “Take You There”
43. Simple Plan: “When I’m Gone”
44. Skillet: “The Older I Get”
45. Snoop Dogg & R Kelly: “That’s That”
46. Stacie Orrico: “I’m Not Missing You”
47. The All-American Rejects: “Move Along”
48. The Fray: “Look After You”, “Over My Head (Cable Car)”, “How to Save A Life”
49. The Killers: “Read My Mind”
50. Timbaland: “Give It to Me”
51. Vanessa Carlton: “Nolita Fairytale”

Here are a few artist/song recs. Some of these artists already mentioned above:

KT Tunstall (Scotland) — “Suddenly I See”
Keane (England) — “Everybody’s Changing”
Joss Stone (England, soul/R&B) — “Tell Me ‘Bout It”
The Thrills (Ireland) — “One Horse Town”
The Kooks (England) — “She Moves in Her Own Way”
Gomez (England) — “See the World”

Also, back on home turf, most definitely get the latest Springsteen album!

Thanks for your comments. I am actually listening to Dave Mathews band (thanks DB) right now. I look forward to checking out some of your other suggestions.

Stacey – wow that’s a long list. One name jumps out at me Alecia Keyes – I was in a LA restaurant with her a few months back and had NO idea who she was.

I NEED TO GET OUT MORE!

Thanks.

Merrill

Many people have given you some of my favorites and hopefully I can give you a few more. I saw an great concert last night by David Gray you MUST check him out.

Knowing you like The Fray, I think you will also like;

Rob Thomas
Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Nickleback
John Mayer
Van Morrison
Maroon 5
Ray Lamontagne

Some of my other favorites are;

James Morrison
Matt White
Alicia Keyes
James Blunt
Jack Johnson
Seal
Colbie Cailat
Paulo Nutini
Sonia Dada
KT Tunstall
Sara Bareilles
DHT

I could go on and on but try some of these out. I am also going to try some of the ones suggested here. I always love finding new music. Let us know what else you end up liking!

I would bring you back into the ’50′s with my taste and perhaps a little ’60′s and 70′s with Neil Diamond and Simon and Garfunkel and John Denver.

The person I suggest you get in contact with is my daughter Janet who is a real afficionado and has well over 5000 songs/albums on her I-pod.

Joe

Thanks Matt!