Pump Up Before Interview?

How do you guys get pumped up in the few minutes before an interview? It's tough to bring energy and enthusiasm into an interview after waiting nervously in a quiet room for 15+ minutes. Any techniques to help smile, be in a good mood?

How about listening to this:

Other suggestions?

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lol I actually did do that at a recent interview. The guy asked "so what do you know about this group" and I'm like "well I know you do this and this, but I was going to actually ask you about it." So the interviewer was like "Oh, so you're interviewing me now? ok..." and went on telling me about his group for like 5 minutes haha.

As a side note, I have figured out that it helps if you have a picture of something that makes you laugh and look at it before an interview. This has been working for me: http://billpaxtonismydad.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/yo-dawg-the-ori…

 
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"soundtrack" from any porno. I personally prefer JAV

ROFLMAO

I vote for The Fighter - Gym Class Heroes

Fortes fortuna adiuvat.
 

this made me contemplate suicide.

I usually opt for calm uplifting music to get the mind clear. one of my favorite songs:

also common in the headphones before interviews: James Taylor: Fire and Rain, Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear the Reaper, The XX - Intro, Boston: More Than a Feeling

"My name's Ralph Cox, and I'm from where ever's not gonna get me hit"
 

Can't be touched - Roy Jones
Lose yourself - Eminem
Stronger - Kanye West

Very specific in genre focus but worked for me shrugs

Incoming Spring Discovery Day Participant at J.P. Morgan Stanley
 

Drum & Bass to get your adrenaline pumping without any lyrics interrupting your killer focus.

UKF always has a great line-up. https://soundcloud.com/ukf

>Incoming Ash Ketchum, Pokemon Master >Literally a problem, solve for both X and Y, please and thank you. >Hugh Myron: "Are there any guides on here for getting a top girlfriend? Think banker/lawyer/doctor. I really don't want to go mid-tier"
 

black and yellow by wiz khalifa...also my two favorite types of women juicy - biggie smalls winner - jamie foxx / TI Can't Be Tamed - Miley Cyrus

------------ I'm making it up as I go along.
 

Sky's the Limit - Lil' Wayne All the Above - Maino Handlebars - Flobots Lose Yourself - Eminem Put On - Young Jeezy Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix Dame el Poder - Molotov (for you hispanic monkeys)

Lot of narcissism in the lyrics of these. Oh, and the BEST SONG EVER FOR GETTING PUMPED IS:

PS - If you suck at your interview, I recommend Journey's Don't Stop Believing for afterwards, lol

 

What the fuck is wrong with you people. Fucking pussies.

Going through a Lamb of God phase.

Lamb of God: Walk with me in hell. Now you've got something to die for.

Metallica: The Unforgiven. That was just your life.

 

Wolfgang Gartner - Illmerica

(Probably the sickest song in the world)

Tiesto - Escape me (Electro White Panda Remix) SICK!

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Khara 3alekonWolfgang Gartner - Illmerica

(Probably the sickest song in the world)

Tiesto - Escape me (Electro White Panda Remix) SICK!

Have you heard Wolfgang Gartner - Wolfgang's 5th Symphony?

Masterpiece.

 

Remember the Name - Fort Minor, I know I've said it before but this song makes me want to murder someone....

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

Judas fucking Priest, "Riding On the Wind," "Heading Out to the Highway," and "You've Got Another Thing Comin'." In that order. That is all.

Metal. Music. Life. www.headofmetal.com
 

If we are talking metal: Iron Maiden - The Trooper Slayer - South of Heaven Metallica - Four Horsemen (any Metallica album after Black was aweful).

Gotta throw In The Mood by Glen Miller out there. An oldie, but a goodie!

 

THE Definitive List...for listeners of real music

Walk- Pantera (Possibly the best pump up song ever) O Lets Do It -Waka Flock Flame Perfect Crime- Guns N' Roses Devil's Island (the intro least)- Megadeth Reckoning Day- Megadeth Ride the Lightning- Metallica Killing in the Name- Rage Against the Machine Nothin' But a Good Time- Poison As the Worm Turns- Faith No More Surprise You're Dead!- Faith No More Tornado of Souls- Megadeth Burn in Hell- Judas Preist Livin' After Midnight- Judas Priest Run to the Hills- Iron Maiden Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden The Trooper- Iron Maiden Pretty Tied Up- Guns N' Roses Don't Damn Me- Guns N' Roses It's So Easy- Guns N' Roses Stuntin' Like My Daddy- Lil Wayne & Birdman What If- Creed Bullets- Creed Bloodtrocuted- Dethklok Awaken- Dethklok Perfect Insanity- Disturbed Inside the Fire- Disturbed Indestructible- Disturbed Voices- Disturbed Droppin' Plates- Disturbed Down with the Sickness- Disturbed Die MF Die- Dope Bodies- Drowning Pool You're Crazy- Guns N' Roses Welcome to the Jungle- Guns N' Roses Out Ta Get Me- Guns N' Roses Head Out to the Highway- Judas Preist You've Got Another Think Comin'- Judas Preist Black and Yellow- Wiz Khalifa Seek and Destroy- Metallica Trapped Under Ice- Metallica For Whom the Bell Tolls- Metallica The Four Horseman- Metallica The Mechanix- Megadeth Metal Militia- Metallica Fuel- Metallica Fallen angel- Poison Hustlin- Rick Ross Rollin (Air Raid Vehicle)- Limp Bizkit When Worlds Colide- Powerman 5000 Hit 'Em Up- 2Pac Ridin Solo- Jason Derulo Strobelight- Jason Derulo Steady Mobbin'- Lil Wayne Whoomp! There It Is- Tag Team U Cant Touch This- MC Hammer What's Up People?- Maximum the Hormone Buikikaesu- Maximum the Hormone Zetsubou Billy- Maximum the Hormone War Ensemble- Slayer Angel of Death- Slayer Mandatory Suicide- Slayer Raining Blood- Slayer Psychopathy Red- Slayer I'm So Hood- DJ Khaled We Takin' Over- DJ Khaled All I Do Is Win- DJ Khaled World Painted Blood- Slayer 44 Minutes- Megadeth Peace sells- Megadeth Tha Block Is Hot- Lil Wayne Thunderkiss '65- White Zombie You're Going Down- Sick Puppies Más Tequila- Sammy Hagar & The Waboritas Bad Girlfriend- Theory of a Deadman The Air That I Breathe- All That Remains Six- All That Remains Laid to Rest- Lamb of God The Light That Blinds- Shadows Fall

Reality hits you hard, bro...
 

Serenity - Armin Van Buuren Das geht ab Traum von Amsterdam

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. - Tacitus Dr. Nick Riviera: Hey, don't worry. You don't have to make up stories here. Save that for court!
 

^^^^^ Walk from pantera will do XD

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. - Tacitus Dr. Nick Riviera: Hey, don't worry. You don't have to make up stories here. Save that for court!
 

SB, MMB. Amazing list except for Disturbed and Poison. Thank you for including the highly underrated late 90's rap classic that is "The Block is Hot". Metallica>Megadeth (just playin) and I've always hated "Walk" but at least it's Pantera. I also love that new Kesha song...

 

Relax everyone... you've worked hard to prepare for this moment. I'm sure everything will come naturally.....

Money Never Sleeps? More like Money Never SUCKS amirite?!?!?!?
 

[quote=sayandarula]Relax everyone... you've worked hard to prepare for this moment. I'm sure everything will come naturally.....

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Fuck dude, I feel like I have to go turn myself in for viewing child pornography after watching 30 seconds of that

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

Feel the energy!

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. - Tacitus Dr. Nick Riviera: Hey, don't worry. You don't have to make up stories here. Save that for court!
 

1) This Must Be the Place - Talking Heads (I was looking for the version played in "Wall Street" but had a tough time finding it.)

2) Poppa Was a Playa - Nas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-BQ14aJxLQ

3) I Wish - Skee-Lo

EDIT- A lot of people here have garbage taste in hip hop, and have been brainwashed by the media. For some underground hip hop masterpieces check out Binary Star. If I hear "Black and Yellow" one more time I'm gonna stick a gun in my mouth and blow my brains out, due to disgust with humanity.

Masters of the Universe - Binary Star http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8IzlbDTgNM

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. -Niccolo Machiavelli
 

Oh Yea - Lil Scrappy Smile - Slim Thug They Don't Know - Paul Wall & Mike Jones

Gotta show some love to the H-Town All Stars

I'm on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen.
 

Eye of the Tiger- Survivor Don't Stop Believing- Journey

My first superday was my first on-site interview and first time-ever- in New York. I felt totally outgunned and outclassed wearing a light gray sharkskin suit and having a state school on my resume interviewing against a bunch of kids from MIT and Princeton. I felt like some amateur at a high-profile boxing match. But they hit us with technical question after technical question, and I managed to get one of the offers.

 

Why Ya Wanna Get Funkee Wit Me? - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. -Niccolo Machiavelli
 

The fact that anybody still listens to Disturbed is, well, disturbing. My contributions:

Fireman - Lil Wayne Til I Collapse - Eminem Got Money - Lil Wayne

One of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.
 

Bro Anthem - Pennywise

There is a good chance you haven't heard this one (unlike the majority of the songs already mentioned) so I highly suggest checking it out.

 

Oh yeah, Tear It Up by Yung Wun and Like a Pimp by David Banner

One of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.
 

Naked Pictures of Your Mother- Electric Six

If only for the chorus that goes "I make lots of money, I make more money than you, I driver around in my Limo, thats what I was born to do"

 

It's a pretty neej song but house/trance/dub music gets me in the mood to party, not concentrate....

Rap is aggressive and it's all about money. The concepts mesh well.

‎"Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns or dollars."
 

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“Millionaires don't use astrology, billionaires do”
 

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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
 

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Life is more than dollars
 

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