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I do to prevent tiredness &/or bordom. A lot of the time I feel like I shouldn't to have better concentration though. Please share your thoughts or music choices!

3 Inches of Blood
Amon Amarth
Children of Bodom
Cannibal Corpse
Cattle Decapitation
Slayer
Gojira
Alice in Chains
Blind Melon
Infected Mushroom
Clint Mansell

those are my choices when I am painting

If I don't have the TV on behind me, then I've got Stuff Radio playing.

Well I used to listen to alot of music back in my painting marathon days. In fact, the old color scheme of my guard was created listening to mastodon's Blood Mountain.


Other favorites are pretty much your typical war/death music.
Amon Amarth
Bolt Thrower
Lamb of God, stuff like this.

Then, I also like to listen to music that stimulates my brain. This could be of any genre, most of the time its stuff like gojira, clutch, porcupine tree, pelican or modest mouse.

Most of my music is of some rock/metal genre. Though I am a huge fan of country, I don't feel as if it's a good choice for painting.

i find i get a lot of painting done when i pop in the white album

greenskin lynn wrote:i find i get a lot of painting done when i pop in the white album

This I like.

Yes. I love to paint to eric cartman's poker face. If I don't I'm usually watching my Two and a Half men episodes on dvd.

I've been setting paint dates with a friend who also just got into the hobby. I like sharing paints, brushes, advice while chatting it up. If you can get anyone to paint with - do it. Makes the painting go quicker.

Failing that, I paint with sponge bob on in the background.

I listen to radio, and also soundtracks from various movies, LOTR and The Dark Knight mainly, with a little bit of this and that thrown in to break it all up

Old marches, mostly (O' Sullivan's, Lillibulero, Brian Boru's, Gerry Owen, Bonnie Blue Flag) .

Sometimes things like Lowlands of Holland, O' Donnell Aboo, Turkish Revelee, Captain Kidd, Cumberland Blues, The Minstrel Boy, Prince Charlie Stuart, Hard Times of Old England, The Diamond, Lady Franklin's Lament, Northwest Passage, Greenland Fisheries, Boney was a Warrior.

Sometimes older stuff: Pilgrim Songs (Cuncti Simus Concanentes is a favorite) and chants and things like that. Helps get me in the mood.

You know, the usual!

I mainly do alternative, power metal or classic rock. My favorites include

Led Zeppelin
Cream
The Beatles
Bob Dylan
Kamelot
Symphony X
Circus Maximus
Nightwish
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Arctic Monkeys
No More Kings
Social Distortion

Or I find I get a lot done when I throw on an episode of the Pacific or Band of Brothers.

Tik Tok?

i listen to music while painting, i usually find a classic rock channel and put that on.... on of my favorites to paint to is Iron man by black sabbith, or Vertigo by U2
If i am not doing classic rock, Halo soundtracks usually help xD

yup, but i listen more to audio books or the background from films on the DVD player in the background.

I enjoy listening to audio books while I build, paint, sculpt, and convert. I've listened to the unabridged versions of Lord of the Rings, Harry Potters, various Star Wars, etc... The Black Library audio books have been especially entertaining and a good way to keep me in the mood. If you dont want to buy audio books, or get them off the internet, try your public library; they usually have audio books for check-out. Also, if you have a blind friend, great! They have access (through a government website) to some unabridged books that are not available commercially. That is how I listened to an unabridged version of Shadows of the Empire.

There is a side affect however. I can look at my miniature collection, and I can literally identify which book I was listening at the time I painted what miniature. Just a little weird sometimes when I go to grab my Champion of Slaanesh and start thinking about the Deathly Hollows. Or my Nurgle Daemon Prince and Twilight...uhgh.

I have a painting playlist actually:

Artists including;
Muse
Radiohead
Coldplay
Interpol
Nightwish
Queen
Pink Floyd
Daft Punk
Depeche Mode
The Shins
Rush
Snow Patrol
Nine Inch Nails
The Cure
Jethro Tull
The Who
CAKE
Bloc Party
Kaiser Chiefs
Foo Fighters

I always listen to music when I paint, what I like to listen to depends on what I'm painting, over the past year I've developed this taste for Christen Rock while I paint Marines...Wierd
If you can find them, there are several Bluegrass Tribute Albums out there to bands like Nickleback, Ozzy Osborn, Guns ' Roses, Metalica, Linken Park and a few others I find a new one about once a month, these work real well & something about them just seams to fit, also chants of all kinds and anthying in Latin work great...And of course Novelty Music for my Orkz
Any suggestions on good Tyranid Music


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TakeABow wrote:I have a painting playlist actually:

Artists including;
Muse
Radiohead
Coldplay
Interpol
Nightwish
Queen
Pink Floyd
Daft Punk
Depeche Mode
The Shins
Rush
Snow Patrol
Nine Inch Nails
The Cure
Jethro Tull
The Who
CAKE
Bloc Party
Kaiser Chiefs
Foo Fighters

Most of these have found there way in and out of my painting playlist over the years...Kaiser Chiefs, Cool

I actually watch pro painters on the internet paint the same kind of army I'm painting with music in their videos.

I find they have a lot of techno, dance, or hard rock in their videos, mostly in good taste.

I voted yes but it's not always music...Usually I'll pop in a movie that I've seen a hundred times before and know by heart. That way it doesn't catch my attention that well and I always know when to turn to catch my favorite parts!

I tend to watch tv while I do mine. I also have been painting a lot while my son plays outside.

I've got a 160Gb iPod that doesn't leave my paint station that I listen to all the time, there's all sorts on there. Punk, metal, pop, dance, trance, classical, whatever takes my fancy at the time. I also like to listen to the Giant Bomb and Cheap Ass Gamer podcasts

c34r34lk1ll3r wrote:3 Inches of Blood
Amon Amarth
Children of Bodom
Cannibal Corpse
Cattle Decapitation
Slayer
Gojira
Alice in Chains
Blind Melon
Infected Mushroom
Clint Mansell

those are my choices when I am painting

slayer and infected mushroom,thats awesome.

a lot of what c34r34lk1ll3r mentioned.

plus

metallica
himsa
godsmack and things like that ^_^

i cant focus on painting without music

You cant beat the "Trojan ska box". The 60ties Ska really get the stuff done. However, I know this is a strong"IMHO", and that the ska dont work for everyone.
Dark industrial like Skinny Puppy works too

I don't, but I should try it!

I try to listen to music, but my brother has been forced to close his door when his iPod is docking.

i listen to muse and coldplay and u2

I used to listen to music. A lot of older stuff,

Tom Petty
The Stones
The Doors
Supertramp
Stepponwolf
Bob Segar
Billy joel
Elton John
ETC

That kind of stuff. I feel it has a slower more relaxing tone to it. Plus my pops made us listen to that stuff since we were kids.

TV / DVDs but failing that:

Trance

Hour Long Tracks FTW

The one and only Warhammer metal band: Bolt Thrower!

Tried W40kRadio, but didn't like it as much. Too much nonsence talk, and not so much as I hoped about warhammer. I spendt alot of hours painting/glueing the new Blood Angels while watching/listening to Beasts of War's 7 Days of Sanguinius.

Indeed i do, helps me get more depth into my ideas.
The offspring
No trigger
the aquabats
iron maiden
judas priest
system of a down
and occasionally some musical movie. (DONT JUDGE ME! )

thats what i listen to