I'm curious to know what other gamers/painters/modellers listen to while they're painting or modelling. I know that I listen to a lot of music while painting or at least have a movie on in the background, hockey in the winter.
When I paint Chaos stuff I listen to a lot of Slayer, Therion or Arch Enemy. I like a lot of Norse Metal bands, but if the vocals are too cookie monster, forget it. When I'm painting Empire stuff, I go a lot mellower: Rainbow, Dio, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin. When I'm doing Orks, it's ACDC, Priest, Maiden, pre 1991 Metallica. I even have the Bolt Thrower Realm of Chaos CD issued by GW way back when.lol. Black Sabbath always makes the playlist. Chemical Brothers and Fatboy Slim get some air-time too when I get tired of the Devil's chord.
So what about you other dakkaists? What background noise or music do you listen to while painting your figs? Or do you paint in silence by candlelight?
I'll generally have Adult Swim on, since I do a lot of painting late at night. Alternately, I'll put on a movie from my collection, but that's less common. After Adult Swim is over (or if I'm painting before and Spongebob's not on) I'll break out the music.
Mostly it's been a lot of rockabilly/psychobilly stuff - Reverend Horton Heat, Nekromantix, Stray Cats, etc. Sometimes I put on the Dawn of War II soundtrack for kicks. A lot of the time I'll have Tarantino soundtracks on too. Eclectic enough to be interesting, but not loud enough to be distracting.
I save my metal albums for train rides.
E: There's a million of these threads on every 40k board, why do I post in all of them.
malfred wrote:Audio Books
Movies I've already seen
DVD Commentary
Podcasts (rare)
Pretty much the same, I like to watch really long movies in the background. Watching the Star Wars Trilogy (original, derrr...) or as many episodes of Planet Earth (documentary) usually sets me in a great mood for modeling and painting.
Stand-up comedy is also great, as are spaghetti westerns.
Anything thats heavy I will listen too while im painting... Although once I kinda got carried away with the head banging and broke an orks arm off....hurted my head too
No music while i paint , ( paint room no speaker , and too hot for earphones )
So i talk to myself in my head -_-
Yay for schizophrenics!
Personally I listen to whatever crosses my MP3 list or listen to old series or shows that I has on the HD, like Sealab 2021, Wallace & Gromit. If feeling very adventurous I sometimes try to Skype while painting, playing the agony aunt.
When I paint I generally listen to something with a beat be it trance, EBM, IDM, electronica, etc. Sometimes I will throw on something lighthearted that I've seen a million times as well like The Simpsons, Futurama or Invader Zim.
But when I'm painting Chaos Marines, nothing beats this:
It's the chorus that just makes it, to me, the theme tune for Chaos.
No music while i paint , ( paint room no speaker , and too hot for earphones )
So i talk to myself in my head -_-
This.
I stopped painting in my 'gaming room' because of this (either because I was starting to have very in depth, philosophical discussions with myself, in my head, or I was extremely overly critical of my painting). Now I paint on an overpriced couch with no table and poor lighting
But I enjoy old sitcoms I've seen a hundred times over. Nick@Nite, TV Land, and TBS during the day. Family Guy and Roseanne get me through the day, but Frasier is, for some strange reason, my absolute favorite.
And now the voices have finally stopped! At least while I paint.
System of a down
Jimmy eat world
Paramore
Metallica
Creed
Disturbed
Tenacious D
The Used
Nightwish
Sonata Arctica
In Flames
Alkaline Trio
Rammstein
Hawthorne Heights
late beatles
pink floyd
system of a down
blind guardian
gregorian chant covers of rock songs
blues brothers-(soundtrack or movie)
random other movies
tried playing anime for a while, but i'd get distracted reading subtitles and goof something up (i dislike most dubbing, due to either strange voice actor choices, or hearing the same few voices again and again and thinking its another show all of a sudden)
I have an iMac loaded with every MST3k episode I can find that's in a giant list that I have on shuffle that constantly plays when painting (or playing computer games or whatever). Here's a shot with "The Final Sacrifice" playing in the background.
All kinds of heavy metal, metal, black metal, rock, heavy rock...you get the idea.
Basically Cradle of Filth, Diablo, All That Remains, Bullet for my Valentine, Kalmah, Ensiferum, Metallica and System of a Down.
And for some reason Linkin Park.
Even thought i hardly listen to music when I paint.
I listen to soundtracks and Bolt Thrower. Usually the former when I'm doing delicate work, and the latter when I'm just doing basic painting and putting stuff together.
Arch Enemy, Alan Parsons Project, Devildriver, Iron Maiden, Jekyll and Hyde Soundtrack (With Anthony Warlow. Freaking EXCELLENT), Repo soundtrack (stupid innabillity to buy it in Oz...), Dimmu Borgir, Dethklok, Jethro Tull, Disturbed, Amon Amarth, Dream Theater, Nightwish,Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, Sonata Arctica, Kamelot, Epica, After Forever.
It all depends on my mood to be honest. For the majority of my music playing at home I stream pandora. If I'm just relaxing I'll throw it on my station I call "Lulz" Bloodhound gang, the Presidents of the United States, Tenacious D, lots of punky/metally rock that if you really listen to the lyrics you'll either laugh or go WTF. I also have a station that I am DESPERATLY trying to keep all instrumentals, Apocolyptica, some nightwish stuff pops in every once and a while, I tolerate their voices cause that woman has a soothing voice, things like that. It makes for nice background music. And then theres my "Beats" station which is gorillaz, fatboy slim, flobots, lots of nice stuff in there. But in the end it just comes down to what I really feel like listening too.
I listen to a lot of stuff, including film commentary, German language films and audio stories, as well as music including but not limited to jazz, rock, classical (Frank Ticheli, Hans Zimmer, and Johan de Meij are some favorites), hip-hop, older country (like Hank Williams Sr.), and other stuff.
if the wifes not watching the t.v, then i normaly have eitherplanet rock on, or i stick the mp3s on, on the comp and play anything from acdc to slayer, arch enermy to zz top and all rock and metal in between
Early morning space ork painting is usually to silence but later on it mostly Black Sabbath, Lightning Bolt, Dick Dale, Man or Astroman?, The Ghastly Ones, Talking Heads.
I tend to pick out an album I dont know very well, because I can just leave it on while I paint, rather than skipping through to my favourite songs like I usually would. It helps me make the most of albums I maybe bought on a whim or for one song & just gather dust, if I paint enough, Ill end up loving the album through sheer repetition. Like a not unpleasant form of brainwashing
Lately Ive been spinning a bit of Sylosis, Meshuggah & an old metal hammer power metal compilation.
various sub-genres of black and death metal
the occasional bit of psychedelic trance or trip-hop
maybe an action-packed video, like LotR or Band of Brothers
Mostly I just listen to a whole bunch of obscure black metal. It makes up roughly half of my music collection: 300+ of the 600+ artists, over 11,000 songs and eating up 80GB of space.
Noble713 wrote:various sub-genres of black and death metal
the occasional bit of psychedelic trance or trip-hop
maybe an action-packed video, like LotR or Band of Brothers
Mostly I just listen to a whole bunch of obscure black metal. It makes up roughly half of my music collection: 300+ of the 600+ artists, over 11,000 songs and eating up 80GB of space.
Painting , NIN,Tool,KMFDM,Combichrist,Wumpscut,Manson. Playing and/or driving to the game.....BOLT THROWER and SLAYER! I'm just glad to see other Bolt Thrower fans.
It really depends on the time of day that I'm painting but normally you can find me listening to 40K Radio. When there isn't a new 40K radio show I will hit up hulu and stream some tv shows for background noise. We have an upstairs loft which is my painting/gaming room which overlooks the living room and TV. If I'm real lucky and the wifey is playing a computer game or MMO I'll turn on the UFC and listen/watch/paint. Once upon a time I had an iPod but that found its way into my daughters life and has yet to return
I think Queen's Flash Gordon soundtrack would be pretty intense to paint to.
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
FLASH! AH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
He'll save everyone of us!
'course if you're concentrating, that could totally freak you out and mess up.
Really though, I can't paint without some music in the background. I usually put my ipod on the stereo, it's easy for me to integrate sounds I'm familiar with to help block out distractions.
@porkuslime: The thing I don't get. If Hannah and Miley always tour together, why don't they perform a duet on stage...are they unwilling to share the spotlight with each other? Maybe Hannah is too self-centered to let Miley sing with her, I don't know.
Everyone else is doing it wrong! The proper listening order is as follows:
1. A baseball game during the summer. The Houston Astros play almost every evening.
2. American football games in the Fall/Winter. Both College and NFL. College on Thursday night and Saturday, NFL on Sunday and Monday night.
3. DVD's of movies I've seen several times. (The Dark Knight, LotR trilogy, the nonsucky Star Wars movies, Harry Potter (1-5), and so on).
4. My iTunes list. Genesis (pre and post Peter Gabriel), classic rock, 80s, some industrial, some metal, some clasical, some musicals (on a Wicked kick, currently), and some alternative.
I've taken to listening to Bolt Thrower lately while airbrushing, or listening to old paranormal radio talk shows(always fun to hear the nutters with the I HAS GHOSTZ IN JAR!!11! versus the guys who're actually trying to be scientific about it).
I basicly listen to alot of "punk" when I'm painting (Misfits,Exploited,Dead Kennedys,etc),but from time to time I mix it up with Metal (Slayer,Hatebreed,Dimmu Borgir),anything raw and brutal to get the creative juices flowing.
Just a small town girl
Livin' in a LONELY W-O-O-O-RLD...
Took a midnight train going A-N-Y Where....
Just a city boy, born an raised in S-O-U-T-H D-E-T-R-O-I-T.
I listen to lots of stuff, the Halo sound tracks, Star Wars sound tracks, Rammstein, Hammerfall, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Garth Brooks, Scissor Sisters, Conan the Barbarian sound track and the Half-Life 2 sound track.
General music listened to is various kinds of techno.Lighter stuff, usually, the heavier more hardcore stuff is warm up music for soccer or for gaming.
I enjoy being relaxed, so I just listen to DJ Krush and Tokinori Kondo's Fu Yu. That is some fine music... Or I just turn on the radio to a suitable station and let it go in one ear and out the other. I am concentrating too hard on my stuff, usually.
It varies depending on what mood I'm in.
Usually it varies between:
Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Foo Fighters, Pendulum, Coldplay,
Elbow, The Hoosiers, The Miserable Rich and Empire of the Sun.
Although sometimes I just put my Ipod on Shuffle.
I like some pretty chill stuff, mostly Canadian bands though.
I listen to Sloan, illScarlett, BarenakedLadies, City and Color, Alexisonfire and Incubis (the only non Canadian one lol)
warpcrafter wrote:Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Arch Enemy. Anything where the vocals are so gargly that you can't understand the lyrics. It's just background noise after all.
yeah that but mostly i listen to the radio maybe some Japanese music of some kind
A lot of house music. A buddy of mine is a DJ and a 40K player is well, so he'll cook up something from time to time that's really good to paint to.... not usually a whole lot of lyrics, but it's good stuff.
Haha, you don't like to listen to 16yr olds whining because they want Usher to perform at their bday party and mom and dad can't book him so she might have to settle for Backstreet Boys? Man, get with the times.
For me it's mostly metal...Dimmu, Arch Enemy, Otep, Cradle of Filth, etc.....
stone sour for painting eldar, machine head for painting IG, and i hit shuffle for other stuff. i thikn some music gets me into the mood for a certain model or race easily then i just go for it.
Sister Christian
Oh the time has come
And you know that you're the only one
To say O.K.
Where you going
What you looking for
You know those boys
Don't want to play no more with you
It's true
Instrumental stuff is nice. I enjoy the DoWII soundtrack, but also the soundtrack for The Witcher has some really good music on it, along with the soundtrack for Shadow of the Colossus.
Otherwise I just listen to all sorts of random.
Have I already posted in this?
Anyways, if I listen to music while painting, it is usually metal. Not the heaviest Satan-praising metal, but industrial, melodic black metal, progressive metal and stuff like that.
Like Pain and Sonic Syndicate. The only two things you swedish have done right on top of Marabou (don't take it too seriously).
I listen to a lot of rock radio stations (mostly Bandit Rock Gothenburg, for those who want to know), though I don't always like what they're playing. Sometimes I connect my cellphone to a pair of small, mobile speakers with crappy quality and listen to metal. Metallica, Linking Park, Mustasch, In Flames, Killswitch Engage, Rammstein, Slipknot, Raised Fist etc. I would listen to my Spotify playlist on the computer, if I had it in my room... But it's down the basement, while I'm up the 1st floor (no, not ground floor). I'm considering borrowing my sister's laptop to listen to music to, while she is sleeping at her boyfriend's place tonight.
Lately I've been listening to Queens of the Stone Age, the OST for cowboy bebop, or Eminem's latest album. There's other stuff I throw in there but that's the main stuff lately.
Normally my tastes run towards mid-90's "alternative" (I hate that label) such as Garbage, Green Day, Offspring, Nirvana, etc. However, when I'm painting, I switch to the Beatles, American Idiot (the broadway cast version), and the Buffy musical episode soundtrack. Not sure why but they seem to go better to me.
I don't tend to listen to Music. I did once, for a particularly lengthy Painting Session; things such as Die Toten Hosen, Silbermond, and even Mumford and Sons. No, I'm not German.
DTH was something that I was just drawn to, from the first time I heard them play. Silbermond, I saw advertised on a Concert Poster during a Holiday in Berlin. Having remembered how good DTH were, I memorised the name, and looked for them when I got back home. I wasn't disappointed.
Below is a Music Video. Funny as hell, if you watch the whole thing.
Let's see its
Distrubed
Slipknot
Any Heavy Metal....Period.
Any of the doctor who themes
If i am really on a paint schedule
The last song i loop in the playlist is...
Europe-Final Countdown
Myself, Beethoven actually. 5th, 9th, Ode to Joy, Fur Elise, you name it. For some reason I always feel more motivated to paint while listening to him.
I like classics like Ray Charles and Nina Simone, the Supremes for everything.
When im painting my Nids I prefer the calm before the storm power of Beethoven.
For Chaos is my metal collection, SOAD, Korn, Slayer.
For Eldar i prefer more middle of the road kinda stuff 3 Doors Down, Stained.
For the Marines its Guy Ritchie sound tracks all the way. RocknRolla is one of my fave movies and the music is awesome. Lock Stock is great too, an even mix of goodies.
And if i want to glance up and see something while im Painting i always put on the 'FireFly' series dvds. Loved that show.
I think this has been covered by the "Music while painting?" polls and "What kind of music does Dakka listen to?" threads, but what the hell, I'll have another (and more specific, for variety's sake) go.
When I paint, I focus on painting, so no watching TV/movies, for me. I don't bother matching music to an army theme, so it's whatever I'm currently in the mood for, which does vary, a bit (leaning heavily towards metal, with various electronica in second). I've been scratchbuilding a cardboard Warhound for the past week or so (I'm either brilliant and thrifty or a bit daft) and I've gone on a different band/style spree every day of it. One day was pretty much everything (LPs, studio demos, live albums...) the Misfits have ever recorded. Next day was a Joy Division marathon. Another day was Anabolic Frolic and British/Happy Hardcore. Another day was black metal day, with Burzum, Mayhem, and Gorgoroth. Yesterday was folk/battle metal day, with Tyr, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Lumsk etc. on shuffle. Another day was industrial/EBM - Combichrist, HOCICO, Life Cried, a few Haujobb vs. Wumpscut mixes. Had one day of nothing but trance. So far, today has been stupid/fun/crunchy '90s electro-metal: Static-X, Powerman 5000, some Rob/White Zombie, a bit of Stabbing Westward... even a few scattered Prodigy songs. I really should've recorded my music for the day along with my progress for the eventual unveiling/retroactive progress thread...
I've got a PC set up on my painting station so I have access to 22k plus tracks of music and about 2tb of TV shows to chose from, usually though I listen to podcasts
Children of Bodom, Dethklok, Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Skeletonwitch, Iron Maiden, Amon Amarth, Black Dahlia Murder, The Agony Scene, Bolt Thrower, etc....
I really like metal all the time no matter what I'm doing!
Most of the things I put on are merely used for background noise. Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparrows, Russian Circles, Neurosis and the like. That said, I've recently found that putting on Made Out of Babies while doing more 'finesse' work is quite nice....figure that one out....
Usually just throw the headset on and let the MP3 player go on random. 4 Gig mix of everything from classic rock to opera.
Added bonus is I am not disturbed by annoying things like the phone or the door...or the wife.
Hopefully not repeating, as I've not read through the whole thread, but.
Two Steps From Hell.
It's a 'band' (studio?) that exclusively does music for movie trailers.
I find most things with words (in English, anyway; other languages are just another instrument that happens to be coming from someone's vocal chords) can end up distracting me, but I'm quite a fan of instrumental stuff.
pdawg517 wrote:Children of Bodom, Dethklok, Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Skeletonwitch, Iron Maiden, Amon Amarth, Black Dahlia Murder, The Agony Scene, Bolt Thrower, etc....
I really like metal all the time no matter what I'm doing!
I just fire up my massive playlist on windows media player on shuffle and let it go. Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, Cannibal Corpse, Job for a Cowboy, Judas Priest, Cradle of Filth, Behemoth, Slayer, Six Feet Under, Nile, Amon Amarth, Overkill, Megadeth, Warbringer, Dio, Cryptopsy, Suicide Silence. It goes on far longer than I could actually sit and paint, so I never get bored.
I mostly listen to stuff like Godmack, Seether, Disturbed, In Flames, Lamb of God, and the mandatory Pantera (so...all Pantera I guess). But from time to time I get a little crazy and throw on some Hollywood Undead, Eve 6...Garth Brooks...
I like to crank up the electro-pop and nu-disco, keep me on my toes. Midnight juggernaughts, miami horror, pnau, empire of the sun. I think they're all Australian groups too.
My brother is also a dj so I routinely get blasted with drum and bass and techno, and the loathesome dub-step (i'm sorry, if i can't dance or sing to it, I don't wana listen to it!).
Also, AQUA TEEN HUNGER FORCE. I try to get a batch paint stage done per episode lol
