Music to sooth the savage painting beast

[Eastern Front Studios]

What music do you guys listen to to get your painting mojo going? I will kick it off with a medley of a bit of everything really no certain thing really does it for me but heres a smattering:

Pearl Jam
Metallica
almost anything from the 80's..this list is wayy to huge to list
Bob Marley

[vincegamer]

no music.
I listen to NPR

[Eastern Front Studios]

Vince someone told me once they liked to paint to talk radio..Opey and anthony maybe,..I think id be wanting to feed the minis to Rush Limbaugh about 5 min into it ;)

[supervike]

I like talk radio quite a bit, at least when I am driving. I have a radio in my painting room, .but i usually paint to the television...usually the Discovery Channel.
I think though, I want to get a dvd player in there, so I can paint while watching movies and such.

[james sequeira]

I quite like heavy rap :P, as if lol, anything thats catchy and good the killers, RHCP, kooks ect. Most of the time I put films on but I prefer tv series so they will keep me painting for a fair while.

[Eastern Front Studios]

Vikey I will admit I do that also((tv/movies)) even if im not watching it but just listening..in my work room I have the pc to the front and the tv to the right , so something is constantly going if not both..but working and people im you can be annoying I find it best to do it with the pc off.even audio books is pretty good.

James I like Lil john but I feel like I wanna riot afterwards ;)

[matty1001]

Some blues like Taj Mahal or some jazz, lol, gets me in the mood.

But a nce bottle of wine always does the trick!

[Frustrated Father]

Emily Autum, Spiderbait, English Beat, Police, Dresden Dolls, Tool, Mindless Techno, Nat King Cole, Zydeco, Pantera, Sepletura, L7, pretty much anything from the 80's ... I could go on.

Mainly though I listen these days while I'm working on one thing or another, answering e-mails, etc. I haven't picked up a paint brush in almost a year and a half.

[Coneman]

I listen to a local radio station that plays mainly 80's music along with the better stuff from recent times. I havnt put a CD in the player for quite awhile.

[Duende]

Gah! *80's music giving painful high school flashbacks* :ahhhhh:

Stuff I listen to but you're probably never heard of:

Balligomingo
Rose Chronicles
Delerium
older Sarah McLachlan stuff
L'Arc-en-Ciel
Hyde
Lunik
Bel Canto
various anime soundtracks

:music:

[Xenon_Wulf]

Depends what I'm painting. I'll usually listen to something in a style that'll inspire me for what I'm doing - dark, gloomy, futuristic stuff a la Rezolution or Dark Age will get music like Mlada Fronta, while say Western Cowboy style minis will get the soundtrack to the good, the bad and the ugly....

[EricJ]

sometimes I do get the feeling that I am the only painter out there that actually does listen to rap while painting...and I don't mean the crap R&B they try to pass off as rap now days, real rap! Also I have a TON of DJ sets saved, which I throw on sometimes. I also often paint to TV, usually sports, Hockey recently, but baseball is great too since it doesn't demand much attention :D

[lauth81]

Normally, I put my audio books in the CD player while painting. I´ve got Lord of the Rings in German and English, The Hobbit, Dracula and some Lovecraft stuff.

If I put music in there, it depends on my mood and I prefer something slow while painting. Most of the time some experimental/industrial electro stuff gets selected then. I don´t know what would happen if I put more aggressive music on, CombiChrist for example. I guess I would screw the mini badly ...

Sometimes (I paint sitting at my desk) I have the PC running and a) listen to internet radio (www.digitalgunfire.com) or b) watch people playing bloodbowl online on fumbbl.com.

[Ritual]

I prefer to listen to slow, atmospheric dark ambient or industrial music. Something dark and evocative that gets me in the mood. Not too up-tempo or noisy as that makes me distracted. One artist that's been spinning in my CD player a lot during painting sessions lately is Lustmord (http://www.myspace.com/lustmord). Great stuff!

[Xenon_Wulf]

Oooh. Yeah, Lustmord is quite awesome, same as with older stuff by Delerium. If you like Lustmord, you might want to give This Morn Omina and Mlada Fronta a listen...

[Ritual]

Earlier TMO is quite good, I think, but the more recent albums are too trancey for my taste. Mlada Fronta is great, though, and I allready have most of his stuff! :)

I also listen a lot to bands from a Swedish label called Cold Meat Industry! Today I've been spinning Erotikon by Deutsch Nepal a lot!

[Eastern Front Studios]

sounds like we are as diversified in our music as our likes and styles of minis, someone mentioned sound tracks,.. one I have which is all pretty much instrumental is the soundtrack to "Conan the Barbarian" the first movie..more good ambient for painting or gaming..lots of horns and drums.here is a link so you can get a taste:

http://www.radioblogclub.com/search/0/conan_anvil_of_crom

I searched for lustmord but couldnt find it.

[Ritual]

@Mick
There's the link to his Myspace page in my post above if you're interested... ;)

[Eastern Front Studios]

Ritual very different indeed has a sort of Blade Runner feel to the music, seems a very fitting mood music for 40k ;)

[Queeny]

O boy, what a weird ecclectic range of sounds I'll have here, just a few..

Tool
Metallica
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Police
Patsy Cline
Credence
Eagles
Nirvana
Weird Al
Rancid
Ramones

All mixed together in a random mix.

[Eastern Front Studios]

Queeny good mix indeed..ahh CCR :) good stuff

[Zeke]

Wow, Lustmord is the scariest thing I have ever heard....

I listen to Progressive metal... and Folk Metal..
Like Rhapsody (Rhapsody of Fire now.. name change) and Fairyland (lame name, great music) they are both on iTunes.. - Progressive Metal

and Turisas and Korpiklaani.. Turisas is great battle music with tavern type songs.. with a metal feel...

Both great to paint with... or Enigma when I want quiet.

Paul

[lauth81]

Finally came around to visit the Lustmord myspace site and listen to the tracks. I really like that.

[Ritual]

Yeah, Lustmord is really great. One of the best dark ambient artists ever! But then he's been doing it longer than most...

[callumrice]

I tend not to listen to metal or heavy rock when painting, I need calming down when painting, not geared up! I can get very irritated when painting if its not going my way and metal music just adds to the rage! there is nothing worse than painters rage, when the blending process goes horribly wrong.

If im listening to music I need to just have background music, either the radio or some poppy rubbish. Helps me concentrate!

[Duende]

I tend not to listen to metal or heavy rock when painting, I need calming down when painting, not geared up! I can get very irritated when painting if its not going my way and metal music just adds to the rage! there is nothing worse than painters rage, when the blending process goes horribly wrong.



My feelings exactly! That's why I listen to the more soothing stuff or just have the TV on as background noise.

:cheers:

[callumrice]

My feelings exactly! That's why I listen to the more soothing stuff or just have the TV on as background noise.

:cheers:

Aye, nuts music just ends up making me paint nuts!:thinking:

[flynn]

I listen to alot of different stuff when I paint, but I think my favourite group to listen to while painting is Ozric Tentacles.

[minimaker]

When sculpting beast in my case. I don't have a favourite hobby music and my taste tends to go with my mood. Right now I have Shakira, Nightwish, Apocalyptica, Delain, Ilse Delange, Kate Bush, Tori Amos and Stream of Passion stacked near the CD player. So it's going from pop-country to gothic metal.

Bye, Ming-Hua