Recommend me energising songs to do housework to!

November 15, 2024 8:36 PM

Recommend me energising songs to do housework to! I find it helps to listen to music while I do housework, but I need some new songs to add to my playlist.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries to Media & Arts (21 answers total)

I have no particular songs, but many baroque trumpet instrumentals help me move ahead in tasks. Alison Balsom is a recent favorite.
posted by tronec at 9:06 PM on November 15, 2024 [2 favorites]

My recent "ear scratcher" (ADHD focus song?) is Max Richter's remix of Vivaldi's four seasons, particularly the winter track. Then I found this techno track:
LANNÉ & Blaze U - Winter (The Four Seasons)(Techno Mix)
(YouTube)

And then there's a 37 minute version (YouTube music link)
posted by freethefeet at 9:18 PM on November 15, 2024 [1 favorite]

I think these are all in the vein of indie stomp/clap except for the last one:

Mt. Joy's Strangers

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Cecilia and the Satellite

The Mowgli's - San Francisco

Patrick Wolf - The City

posted by dearadeline at 9:20 PM on November 15, 2024

Tom Cardy writes bangers
posted by flabdablet at 10:01 PM on November 15, 2024 [1 favorite]

I've sometimes used top 10s on Beatport to make high energy playlists elsewhere. They've had issues as a company, but everything I found there a year ago was also on Youtube: Where you are; Olympia; Living on Video; Alone; Crying on the Dancefloor; Miracle; Pump; Quake; Bassline Growler; Alarm; Scanners; Come Together; Stayin' Da Club; The Enemy Between My Ears; One Night in Bangkok 2k23; Push Up; Be the One; God Made Me Phunky; Self Control; Transmission; The Cage of Love; Koka; Your Mind is Dirty; The Blaze; Bust a Beat; Bad Company; Baby Hot Stuff; 1998; Flashdance; Anjuna; Don't Stop the Music; Havana Cola; Metamorphosis; Phantom; Bonzai; Golden; Drifting; Upside Down; Dreamstate; Fragments; Amnesia; Otherworld; Tempest; Missing; Lights Go Out; Sound of Vondel; One of a Kind; Lost in the Rhythm.

On Spotify, I've sometimes listened to New Dance Pop, Massive Dance Hits, Dance Hits, young & free, and teen beats. I also thought the song in this AskMe was fun.
posted by Wobbuffet at 10:12 PM on November 15, 2024 [1 favorite]

I vacuum to Thunderpussy.
posted by away for regrooving at 10:23 PM on November 15, 2024 [1 favorite]

Two of my faves:

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
A Little Knowledge Is A Dangerous Thing - Tower of Power
posted by kristi at 11:14 PM on November 15, 2024 [1 favorite]

Icona Pop—I Love It
posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 11:48 PM on November 15, 2024 [2 favorites]

Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves

and of course the mash-up of that for when the chlorine bleach has to come out.
posted by flabdablet at 12:25 AM on November 16, 2024

I have found the Peter Tosh album compilation The Toughest to have a lot of songs with the right beat and cadence to vacuum and the scrub to.
posted by JohnnyGunn at 1:25 AM on November 16, 2024

Róisín Murphy - Incapable. Bleak as lyrics but what a banger!
posted by happyfrog at 1:52 AM on November 16, 2024

I guarantee you'll not sit still to this: Dirty Loops "Work Shit Out". Starts off with a bang and every time you listen you'll notice some of the extra intricacies....
posted by mightshould at 2:21 AM on November 16, 2024

Try London Afrobeat Collective.
posted by Paul Slade at 4:00 AM on November 16, 2024

I need some new songs

when i'm in this mood, i check bandcamp &/or freemusicarchive
posted by HearHere at 4:04 AM on November 16, 2024

I find Housework by the B-52's fun and motivating.
posted by juggler at 6:07 AM on November 16, 2024

“Atlas” by Battles

Some backstory: I first heard this song in a Doctor Who spinoff called Torchwood, in an episode a character who has recently been killed and resurrected and is now profoundly depressed cleans his kitchen to it. It has been my kitchen cleaning psych-up song ever since!
posted by ejs at 10:25 AM on November 16, 2024 [1 favorite]

OK, some things on my housecleaning list. All relatively short (pop song length) which means I clean furiously at one thing for one song's worth and then move to a different task for the next song.
I Wanna Be Like You (Louis Prima)
Big Chief (Professor Longhair)
Weapon of Choice (Fatboy Slim)
Against the Wall (1111, BIIANCO)
Hot Knife (Fiona Apple)
Hallelujah, I love her so (Ray Charles)
Bistro Fada (Stephane Wremblay)

I could go on but now I feel the urge to go grab a broom.
posted by sonofsnark at 11:39 AM on November 16, 2024

Darude - Sandstorm
posted by Kiwi at 12:55 PM on November 16, 2024 [2 favorites]

My dad used to put on rousing Scottish bagpipe music. To this day, I blame this for my aversion to any type of housework.
posted by invincible summer at 4:11 PM on November 16, 2024 [1 favorite]

Oh love Hot Knife - that’s a great song.
Lately I’ve been into hick-hop for chore day, like Moonshine Bandits (especially Stomp Like Hell) and Jelly Roll. Also love To the Bar by Alan Cooper - sort of a country shanty. And John Deere Green by Jay Webb.
posted by hilaryjade at 5:48 AM on November 17, 2024

Justice - Planisphere is 17 minutes of pounding, movement inducing, electronica rock.
Bakermat - Baianá is punchy, happy and catchy.
posted by neonamber at 8:06 AM on November 18, 2024