Exercise music

Well, Dekay, that helps explain it. The "getting lost" feeling is an interesting one. I agree that the idea of distracting your mind from some of the agony and/or boredom of exercise is attractive. I do find, however, that I like the way an aggressive, pushing, driving bit of music makes you feel like the pain you're feeling from the effort you're making is being enveloped and welcomed by the music. It reinforces your work and makes it feel almost poetic. The rebellious, defiant energy of rock works well this way to help you feel like "c'mon! Let's push it!"

Ok. In that vein I would listen to The Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed", Led Zeppelin "Houses of the Holy" and maybe some of the early Pretenders. If you are up for it Oingo Boingo and anything by Zappa, The Rubber City Rebels, The Ramones and last but not least the sountrack to "Saturday Night Fever". Your'e wearing private headphones - right? Unfortunately I do not know much about current bands (within the last 15 years. I also have a CD of James Brown doing five different versions of "Move On". Twenty-five minutes plus of only "Move On". Hope you get an exhaustive list from this thread.

James Brown, anything by JB.  My favorite work out music.

Dig the Reggae man, Marley, Burning Spear, Tosh should keep you moving. The Clash London Calling and the Doors will also be a mover. When younger we would blast Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 while unloading trucks.

Not exactly in the vein of what you were asking for, but when I get on my elliptical trainer I play the techno station on Pandora. Almost always high energy and high beats per minute.