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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?
Audio Books
Movies I've already seen
DVD Commentary
Podcasts (rare)
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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.
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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.
The soothing voices of Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble and several other swing/jazz/vocalists
As if on cue, you hear two people singing from the stairwell, and the door is opened and a pair of very smelly, very dirty guardsmen stumble in, completely drunk, and covered in vomit, and immediately collapse unconsious on the porch. You drag them to their beds, realising that they will not be waking up for some time.
Whenever i model/paint i just put my Green Day Bullet in a bible CD on Repeat, no matter what army i'm doing.
"...More Space Marines that you can poke a stick at..."
95% of teens would go into a panic attack if the jonas brothers were about to jump off the empire state building copy and paste this if you are the 5% who would pull up a lawn chair grab some popcorn and yell JUMP BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then the Prophet spake:"Frak this, i'm going home."
"Revenge is a dish best served with mayonaise and those little cheesy things on sticks."
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
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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.
Armies:
(CSM/HH) - Iron Warriors; Death Guard; World Eaters; Night Lords
IG - Vestfalian Expeditionary
Force (Solar Auxilia - HH)
SM - Blades of Inaros (Homebrew)
DE - Kabal of Ouroboros
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.
Iorek on Zombie Dong wrote:I know you'll all keep thinking about it. Admit it. Some of you may even make it your avatar
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)
"...More Space Marines that you can poke a stick at..." 
