Trekking Tips - Ashley's GET PSYCHED Playlist

Welcome to a misleading title! I have precisely no practical trekking tips, but I do have awesome taste in motivational music. If you like a very specific sound and genre. So, that's not very practical either... But this is MY blog, so read on for impractical fun!

Day 2 on the Inca Trail is commonly known as the most difficult (for me most dreaded) day. Not only are you gaining 1,200 metres elevation of mostly large stone steps, you're reaching 4,198m (13,769 ft) altitude.

I needed something to help me keep positive and power through the day. Besides candy, that was my trusty iPod - the same device I write this blog on! I pulled together the most awesome, formidable, majestic, magnificent, rock band-ing, air guitar-ing jams I had on hand to tackle the never-ending stairs and make them my b*tch. So I expertly crafted a list of mostly 80s and 90s jams to get you pumped up.

Me needing some serious psychitude on the last incline before Dead Woman's Pass. It's the... EYE OF THE TIGER, IT'S THE THRILL OF THE FIGHT! RISING UP TO THE CHALLENGE OF OUR RI-VAAAAAAL!

I now present Ashley's Get Psyched Playlist!


Let's start with the best rock-a-longs of the 70s and 80s:

• “Any Way You Want It” by Journey
• “Ballroom Blitz” by Sweet
• “Beat it” by Michael Jackson
• “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson
• “Blitzkrieg Bop” by The Ramones
• “Danger Zone” by Kenny Loggins
• “Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough” by Michael Jackson
• “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey
• “Dr. Feelgood” by Motley Crue
• “Eye of the Tiger” by Survivor
• “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins
• “Hard to Handle” by The Black Crowes
• “Hot Blooded” by Foreigner
• “Hungry Like the Wolf” Duran Duran
• “I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by The Proclaimers
• “Joker and the Thief” by Wolfmother
• “Just What I Needed” by The Cars
• “Life is a Highway” by Tom Cochrane or by Rascal Flatts
• “Living on a Prayer” Bon Jovi
• “Message in a Bottle” by The Police
• “More than a Feeling” by Boston
• “My Sharona” by The Knack
• “Pump it Up” by Elvis Costello
• “Rock you like a Hurricane” by Scorpions
• “The Boys Are Back in Town” by Thin Lizzie
• “The Touch” by Stan Bush
• “Wake me Up Before You Go-Go” by Wham!
• “Walking on Sunshine” by Katrina and the Waves
• “We Got the Beat” by the Go-Gos
• “Welcome to the Jungle” by Guns ‘N’ Roses
• “What I Like About You” by The Romantics
• “You Give Love a Bad Name” by Bon Jovi
• “You Shook Me All Night Long” by AC/DC

Full playlist on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPBJ01-K9tR7bj2GgSm2iFyvQp7lpvzXA

Now we'll move on the 90s and 00s (pronounced "aughts" apparently).

• “All the Small Things” by blink-182
• “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet
• “Basket Case” by Green Day
• “D.O.A.” by the Foo Fighters
• “Dammit” by blink-182
• “Danger! High Voltage” by Electric Six
• “Dirty Little Secret” by The All-American Rejects
• “Fat Lip” by Sum 41
• “Flavour of the Week” by American Hi-Fi
• “Fly” by Sugar Ray
• “FNT” by Semisonic
• “Girls Who Play Guitars” by Maximo Park
• “Here it Goes Again” by OK Go
• “Hey Jealousy” by Gin Blossoms
• “Hole” by Celebrity Skin
• “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” by The Darkness
• “I Want You to Want Me” by Letters to Cleo
• “If You’re Wondering If I Want You Too” by Weezer
• “Lump” by Presidents of the United States
• “Monkey Wrench” by Foo Fighers
• “Move Along” by The All-American Rejects
• “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit
• “Only Wanna Be with You” by Hootie and the Blowfish
• “Semi-Charmed Kind of Life” by Third Eye Blind
• “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus
• “The Impression that I Get” by the Mighty Might Bosstones
• “Troublemaker” by Weezer
• “Two Princes” by Spin Doctors
• “What’s My Age Again?” by blink-182

Full playlist on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPBJ01-K9tR7Az_bBRe12wVr92kNRPn5m

Additions, subtractions, random adorations? Leave your thoughts in the comments!