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Ours does an endless rotation of Mechwarrior 2, Lord of the Rings, 300 and Conan the Barbarian. I'm sure the red shirts who work there have come to loathe it.

Heavy loud stuff usually. Unless it's a weekday and there's none of the yoof crowd in, then they listen to quieter things and occasionally classical.

The load rock music is probably disguising a subliminal message saying "BUY BUY BUY"

utulien of the imperium wrote:What kind of music is normally played at your local GW store?
for mine it's movie soundtracks and seasonal music.

There was a time (when I worked for GW) that it was all sound tracks with no words. Then it was soundtracks and some industrial/metal (disturbed, SOAD, etc) as long as the lyrics were radio safe. I'm not sure what they listen to much anymore, the last 3 times I went it was dead quiet as far a music was concerned..

we had the matrix soundtracks, lotr soundtracks, last samurai, metallica, disturbed, Soad, even some cruxshadow, the manager was a part time dj, so he mixed up alot of stuff, so it wasn't just the soundtrack. it would bounce from one style to the other. I think we had about 30 albums mixed up on 8 or 9 cd's .. we had a 5dc changer and would just hit random.. we had conan, but I grew to hate that soundtrack.. it's just too neutral for me..

Lord of the Rings.
Continuous Lord of the Rings.
I couldn't work there, because eventually I would stop playing Whr 40k and only play Lord of the Rings.

Well,my town doesn't have a GW store,but it does have a RC car store and in my misfortune being there they where listening to our local radio station,and now I can't get the radio hosts stupid voice outta my head it grinds at my mind like...er...something that grinds,but I imagine if I had one they would listen to much the same as mentioned before.

That dang "last of the mohicans" kinda music they wrote for the pirates of the far far away isles...

Lots of movie soundtracks. Mostly instrumental

The guys at the Chicago Battle Bunker used to put ABBA on every now and then. Mostly as a joke.

Joke? ABBA's awesome. If Fernando & Waterloo can't get you in a wargame mood, you may be clinically deaf.

Brian P wrote:The guys at the Chicago Battle Bunker used to put ABBA on every now and then. Mostly as a joke.

I can't tell you how much that used to piss me off.

"HEY! HEY! This is serious business here! You're ruining my immersion!"



The stores closer to me rock the soundtracks pretty exclusively, both Video Games and Movies. Dark Knight, Gladiator (That's the big one), Pirates, Starship Troopers (makes me gooey inside to watch Guard die to this), Star Wars (Albeit rarely), Dawn of War (doesn't get much more appropriate than that), Diablo, Command and Conquer, Warhammer Online, and other such assorted goodness. Personally, I LOVE these soundtracks, so I totally dig it. But I can see where some others might think it a tad boring.

Oh and I swear I heard the soundtrack to Beautiful Mind one time.

But man, I'd KILL to have them rock some of the hardest metal known to man, Dragonforce.

Fifty wrote:I remember back in about 1992 when GW was trying to shift its customer base, GW Maidstone was banned from playing anything remotely metal. Ironically, this prevented them from playing anything from GW's own record label. Anyone remember any of the old GW label music? I remember one album was even reasonably listenable!!

Could be Bolt Thrower.They were GW sponsored. Especially with the releases of "Warmaster" and "Realm ofChaos". All Bolt Thrower is good though. They actually sing about 40k...can't beat that!

On thread: My LGS doesn't play any music. The table area is way to big and up front they have Wii games on a big screen. They would have to play it so loud that gamers would have to shout to communicate.

The Seattle battle bunker had the Metal Gear Solid soundtrack going on a loop for the longest time.

Hand of Dume wrote:

Fifty wrote:I remember back in about 1992 when GW was trying to shift its customer base, GW Maidstone was banned from playing anything remotely metal. Ironically, this prevented them from playing anything from GW's own record label. Anyone remember any of the old GW label music? I remember one album was even reasonably listenable!!

Could be Bolt Thrower.They were GW sponsored. Especially with the releases of "Warmaster" and "Realm ofChaos". All Bolt Thrower is good though. They actually sing about 40k...can't beat that!

On thread: My LGS doesn't play any music. The table area is way to big and up front they have Wii games on a big screen. They would have to play it so loud that gamers would have to shout to communicate.

I remember when all the regional managers made the staff listen to bolt thrower before cell meetings.. While I don't mind bolt thrower, if I want a daggone pep rally before a football game, I'll return to highschool.. it was hilarious watching the managers get all pumped up though.. lol

Brian P wrote:The guys at the Chicago Battle Bunker used to put ABBA on every now and then. Mostly as a joke.

I would've loved some ABBA. I mostly visited THT's store so it was always some sort of industrial/metal stuff. Bleh.

At my FLGS they used to have the Pirates Of The Carribean theme,a little rob zombie,dragon force,metallica,iron maidenand such,but all of a sudden it changed to popish music and some kind of toned down rave I can't tell you how much of a shock I got when I walked in there after the music change

We have things that make good music for battle scenes in movies, the 'Requiem for a Dream' remix is quite good

JD21290 wrote:hahahaha TR

1: they should use earphones if they are not the only people about, respect other gamers and they wil respect you.


2: i myself have earphones in when im at airsoft, allthough its only 1 and its on pretty quiet.


3: nah, thats frazz's job

(puff of smoke)

Did someone summon Crotchety Old Man?

I've been mistaken for having epileptic fits , when bebopping to some of the music you youngins dance to. If Jack Benny was good enough for me, it was good enough for you hooligans.

Store I've been in recently has been playing the Doors. Respect the Lizard King baby.

We have put on ride of the Valkyries...

Charlie DON"T SURF!

Chrysaor686 wrote:80's Metal.

Ugh...

Though the teams that paint at Tabletop Game and Hobby are pretty open with what you pop in the CD player, Iron Maiden is pretty much the default music for my FLGS. While I respect 80's metal, it's nothing I would really choose to listen to. So I always bring in some of my own music, and so far they've never had a problem listening to it. They enjoy it, actually. And that's always a good thing.

Yea usually when I go up to Tabletop(on Sunday's usually, but I'm going to be up there on Saturday's from now on since that day is now free) it is usually 80's rock. Though on Sundays there aren't too many people there so I get listen to what I want. Which is either rock(pirate rock actually, gotta love Alestorm) or electronic/industrial.

When I worked at GW a while ago we were allowed to play pretty much anything we wanted to as long as it was radio safe (can't offend the kiddie's parents) and played at a reasonable volume. I usually went with prog rock (Dream Theater, Symphony X, Vanden Plas) classic rock (Zeppelin, the Doors, Kansas) or Johnny Cash. Can't beat the man in black.

ArmoredReaper wrote:none, but id wish they would play some cannibal corpse or dimmu borgir!!

Aye that'd be cool.

Me and my friends generally play/paint at my house and we're usually listening to melodic death metal or grind. Usually Arch Enemy, Opeth, Children of Bodom or Carcass.

Oh come on you guys Sepeltura is for painting opeth is for nice buss rides man can he sing.

the store i went to, while not a gw store specifically, though almost half the wallspace was their product, played movies.
not new movies, or popular movies, but weird 70's and 80's things with small rabid cult followings. That, and a weird turkish(i think) starwars that had kung fu skeletons and the death star expodes 342 times in a row or so.

But man, I'd KILL to have them rock some of the hardest metal known to man, Dragonforce.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA /Died Laughing

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Every time I go in there I want to cut myself.

BYE

If you're as cheerful in real life as you are on here I image many of the other customers may feel the same way when you vist

Uhh... yeah. Ok. Who are you again?

BYE

My GW plays the worst techno music ever, then the salon next door plays pop muisc ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HORRIBLE MIX. Sometimes funny too, playing a apoc game while hearing that umbrella song by that one girl who got beat up.

Rihanna?

I thought that was by Madonna?

IAmTheWalrus wrote:When I worked at GW a while ago we were allowed to play pretty much anything we wanted to as long as it was radio safe (can't offend the kiddie's parents) and played at a reasonable volume. I usually went with prog rock (Dream Theater, Symphony X, Vanden Plas) classic rock (Zeppelin, the Doors, Kansas) or Johnny Cash. Can't beat the man in black.

High-5 for the Symphony X mention.

There are 2 GW stores here in the Chicago area that I've been visiting almost a year now. Everytime I've been in them, there's either been no music playing at all, OR, if there is music, it's one of the LotR soundtracks, or the Gladiator soundtrack.

Which doesn't bother me at all. My d&d group also listens to those quite regularly, as they are really atmospheric soundtracks for gaming of all kinds.

Back when I was first introduced to GW in the late 80's, I visited the GW store in the Laurel Mall, and sometimes the cute lady behind the counter would be playing some Rush. Man, how I loved visiting that store for both the sights AND sounds!

Up in The Chicago Bunker I rarely, or come to think of it, hear NO music at all ever, while I go down to the hobby center in Willowbrook, Texas and they play LOTR, POTC, any soudtrack to an epic movie that came out in the last ten years. I think some metal would definetly make the mood better, specially when you get all the winy little twelve year olds who know everything about everything.

Endless Blue Oyster cult...

aaaaand on a side note Dragonforce is not the hardest metal known to man...