What Music Do You Find Motivational/Inspirational?

[linkblade91]

Currently, I am bogged down with a massive amount of schoolwork, and it's beginning to stress me out. However, whenever I get depressed, or worried about the future, I look to "up-lifting" music to renew my hope and optimism.

So, my question is for you: what music do you find motivational or inspirational, that picks you up when you are down, and/or the song/music that gets you to keep fighting in the face of defeat or failure?

For myself, I often listen to Stan Bush's "Dare", most notably featured in the 1986 Transformers: The Movie soundtrack:


Don't forget to add a link to your selection; how can the rest of us be inspired by your motivational music if we cannot listen to it?
(For those that do not know, that would be through posting ["youtube=..."], without quotes, where "..." is the listing of numbers and letters found at the end of the URL of the page. Example: my link looks like this: ["youtube=UKjNVVmLCGQ"], without the quotation marks of course.)

 

[IamQ]

Excuse the lewd picture, it's the only one I could find.
The good part begins at around 02:30.

I listen to this one alot, as it fills me with energy when I listen to it.

 

[Meanmoose]

I lipsynch along with the song...and...and I just know it's true *sniffle

 

[emeraldrafael]

I lipsynch along with the song...and...and I just know it's true *sniffle

Fixed that for you. I'll show mine when I find it.

EDIT:
This song makes me feel better. I dont know why, but when I listen to it, it makes me feel good and melts away my worries. Like, seriously, this song pulled me out of my suicidal depression after I lost my first GF
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Oka, maybe that was a bit too personal, but whenever I say this song makes me feel better I just get wield looks like I'm insane or something.

Other
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.... dont look at me like that.

Anyway, it really just depends on the mood I'm in and what I need to feel inspired with. FOr example, after playing a hockey game where my team was down 0-4 half way through the second period, I conviced our coach to leave our goalie (Ryan, one of my better friends who just for every 3 shots let in 1, each incredibly difficult to block on its own) in goal, I as captain had to give a motivational speech. So I pulled something together, quoted a bit of 30 Seconds to Mars (Vox Populi and This is War), My friend (jake, our top d-man) then said he needed a hero, then proceeded to sing this:
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Which inspired me to score the Natural Hat trick in the remaining 9:16 seconds, and our entire team to come back from the 0-4 to a 7-4 win, With Jake getting a goal and 2 assists, myself 3 Goals, 1 Assist, my line mate Mike getting his first goal of the season (since he mostly does set up and nets assists) giving him 1 Goal 2 Assists, and our goalie scoring an empty netter, where my assist came from (and no, i'm not entirely sure how it happened either).

Then again, 1901 just inspires me to drive.

 

[Wayward Man]

Generally Radiohead for me, and that encompasses several hours worth of music to keep me going.

 

[Meanmoose]

aaahh I just figured it out myself XD thanks though

 

[Sacman]

I don't really have many songs that I find compelling... So I'm just gonna post some more Nirvana...<.<

 

[Anarchemitis]

Organ music. It's loud, it's bold, it's strong, it's complicated, all of them have bombastic finishes. It's like an auditory defibrillator.

 

[TeeBs]

Excuse the lewd picture, it's the only one I could find.
The good part begins at around 02:30.

I listen to this one alot, as it fills me with energy when I listen to it.

I will not excuse myself, I shall view this with great intent.


Also for the sake of this thread, this song is fucking beautiful

 

[IamQ]

Excuse the lewd picture, it's the only one I could find.
The good part begins at around 02:30.

I listen to this one alot, as it fills me with energy when I listen to it.

I will not excuse myself, I shall view this with great intent.


Also for the sake of this thread, this song is fucking beautiful

Glad to be of some use then, I guess.

 

[MartianWarMachine]

You make a thread about music, and I post the same thing each time.

 

[emeraldrafael]

aaahh I just figured it out myself XD thanks though

No worries. Sorry, saw that and it was kinda bothering me. But glad you know how to do it.

Snip

I clicked that link. i dont blame you, every song has a lewd pic of her. Still hot though. 0///0 I mean um... Good song! XD Seriously though, it is a good song.

 

[Chefodeath]

Freedom, pure and wordless.

 

[smearyllama]

Or anything else by this man, really. Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite composers.

 

[Crazy_Dude]

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Skillet is awesome didnt know more people here listend to them.

This song usually cracks me up. Once I hear that guitar solo my day is great again.
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[Shock and Awe]

Oddly enough I have always found Hip Hop to give me the best boost.