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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.

i normally plop myself down dead infront of the tivo

I normaly put on some anime and watch the cool fights. I watch 98% gundam 1% dragonball Z 1% misc

I listen to 40K Radio or some other suitable podcast.

Lemmesee...

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.

Various other grades of rock and metal...

And some of the darker classical ones.

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.

Lately, I've been listening to a lot of Puscifer.

For painting Chaos I have found Kreator's (German Thrash metal band) Hordes of Chaos particuarly apt.

Is it just me or this there a thin connection between liking metal and warhammer?

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.

Most of the time I paint with nothing in the background so I can focus on painting.

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.

black metal ftw

Soundtracks are the way to go I reckon, the Battlestar Galatica ones are amazing, or gladiator or some other epics with loads of fighting in them.

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

Thanks to a late night painting project at the kitchen table..

Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers.

Painting SOBs to boot.

-P

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.

You don't need music, just the Disney Channel and locally broadcast City Council meetings.

Hardcore dance... really gets me in the mood for painting

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).

40k Radio while painting is always a good choice.

I cannot believe no one has said this yet:

Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack.

I love the part when I was painting my Daemon Army, where it says "Daemons! Daemons! Daemons!"

Maiden rocks too, all the time!

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.

Mostly Black metal, while still a metal head, i'm going through a Gogoroth/Dimmu Borgir/Infernus stage.

I think i was listening to Amon Amarth when i painted my first Chao's marine hehe, he was the most fail Iron Warrior to ever walk the earth

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

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.