Do You Like Good Music?

Do You Like Good Music?

QIC: Starfish

Date: 9/17/2026

PAX: Green Acres (WD), BAM (EC), Mutton, Lamb Chop (WB), Sgt Schultz (#Kotters), Superfly, Turnover, D-Day, Spamalot, Dr. Toot, Boomerang, Starfish (QIC, EC)

So, YHC is on a text chain with several guys from F3 Metro where we trade music tips, clips and stuff.  A couple of weeks ago, one of the guys shared a reel from Owen Cutts, who sends out “Old Music Friday” clips and did one about Arthur Conley’s “Sweet Soul Music”…”straight in with the horns, no messin’…” and “you can’t just start with the mega horns, hornsey rise, you can’t just give me the horn ultimatum, serve me some steak with some pepper horn sauce, and the ask me if I like good music!”  As soon as YHC saw the clip, the seeds were planted for his next Q, which just so happened to be this morning at The Rock Quarry.  Knowing that the regulars were all fellas of certain age who were also all know to like good music, the playlist was curated from the sweet soul music that is spotlighted in Conley’s banger and then the beatdown was figured out using the initials of said spotlighted artists to suggest particular body movements to work ourselves to failure while listening to a stellar lineup of soul music superstars.  As Cutts suggested in the clip, the song that inspired this workout is “like bumping down a hill in a go-kart that you and your pals made and you suddenly realize that you’re going too fast….” and there were times where this workout felt just like that.

Walk-Up Music

Theme (From “The Magnificent Seven”) [Elmer Bernstein]

Pax were a bit confused as they gathered around the VSF with this music blaring.  But as Cutts mentioned in his clip, Arthur Conley’s “Sweet Soul Music” borrowed heavily from this theme so it seemed appropriate.

Warm-O-Rama

Sweet Soul Music [Arthur Conley]

Funky Street [Arthur Conley]

• SSH x20 IC
• IW x15 IC
• Copperhead Squats x10 IC
• Copperhead Merkins x10 IC, hold it
• Peter Parker x10 IC, hold it
• Parker Peter x10 IC
• Hillbilllies x15 IC

Mosey to flagpole/planter.

The Thang, Part 1:  Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (“Going to a go-go….”)

Going To A Go-Go [Smokey Robinson & The Miracles]

I Second That Emotion [Smokey Robinson & The Miracles]

• Step-Ups
• Russian Twists
• Merkins

x2 each, x4 each, x6 each, etc etc repeato and escalate for the duration of the Smokey Robinson songs

Inchworm to second median/weinke.

The Thang, Part 2:  Lou Rawls (“Spotlight on Lou Rawls, y’all; Ah don’t he look boss, y’all; Singing Love’s A Hurtin’ Thing, y’all, Oh yeah, oh yeah …”)

Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing [Lou Rawls]

You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine [Lou Rawls]

• Lunges
• Rocky Balboa

x4 each, x8 each, x12 each, x16 each, x20 each etc etc repeato and escalate for the duration of the Lou Rawls songs

Bear crawl back to flagpole

The Thang, Part 3:  Sam & Dave (“Spotlight on Sam and Dave, y’all; Ah, don’t they look great y’all?; Singing “Hold On I’m Coming”; Oh yeah, oh yeah…”)

Hold On, I’m Comin’ [Sam & Dave]

Soul Man [Sam & Dave]

Hold It Baby [Sam & Dave]

• Squats
• Dips

x3 each, x6 each, x9 each, x12 each, x15 each, x18 each, etc etc repeato and escalate for the duration of the Sam & Dave songs

Toy Soldier to second median/weinke

The Thang, Part 4:  Wilson Pickett (“Spotlight on Wilson Pickett, now; That wicked Wilson Pickett; Singing, “Mustang Sally”; Oh yeah, oh yeah…”)

Mustang Sally [Wilson Pickett]

Land of 1000 Dances [Wilson Pickett]

• WWII
• Plank Jacks

x5 each, x10 each, x15 each, x20 each, x25 each etc etc repeato and escalate for the duration of the Wilson Pickett songs

Lunge walk back to flagpole

The Thang, Part 5:  Otis Redding (“Spotlight on Otis Redding now; Singing “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa”; “Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa”; Oh yeah, oh yeah; Get it, Otis…”)

Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) [Otis Redding]

I Can’t Turn You Loose [Otis Redding]

Your Feeling Is Mine [Otis Redding]

• Overhead Claps
• Ranger Merkins

x4 each, x8 each, x12 each, x16 each etc etc repeato and escalate for the duration of the Otis Redding songs

Bunny hop to second median/weinke

The Thang, Part 6:  James Brown (“Spotlight on James Brown, y’all; He’s the king of them all, y’all; He’s the king of them all, y’all; Oh yeah, oh yeah…”)

Get Up Offa That Thing [James Brown]

The Boss [James Brown]

• Jump Squats
• Burpees

x2 each, x4 each, x6 each, x8 each, x10 each etc etc repeato and escalate for the duration of the James Brown songs

Mosey back to VSF

2 MOM

Yeah Man [Sam Cooke]

Arthur Conley also plagiarized this Sam Cooke tune for “Sweet Soul Music”

• LBC x15 IC
• Snow Angels x10 IC
• Low Flutters x8 IC

COT/BOM:  YHC took us out

FIN.

NMM

That one was fun…tunes were spectacular.  Math and counting were a bit more challenging than expected.

Garmin says 2.8 Aerobic and 2.1 Anaerobic over 0.49mi.  Not bad.

Tclaps to @BAM for joining YHC and for the push at TRQ Run Club.  #RunningIsStillStupid

Tclaps to @Boomerang for helping out with transporting the speaker back and forth.  #HelpingHand #InchwormAndBearCrawlRefusenik

Cobains for accidentally cutting off “Get Up Offa That Thing”.  @LambChop was gonna complain but then thought otherwise when he realized that got us out of a bunch of jump squats and burpees.

Kotters to @SgtShultz…great to have him back in our midst as YHC had to promise no Rush covers of soul music to get him out.

Here’s the playlist (it’s a #CertifiedBanger):

Thanks for obliging my music geekery.  #TheyDon’tMakeEmLikeTheyUsedTo

Your friend,

Starfish

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