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hotsauceman1 wrote:
Um, Whats wrong with people listening to soley metal?

It's just a stereotype. Gamers that listen to metal/acdc/rush/led zepplin etc. Granted I do listen to rush, but I wouldn't be caught dead listening to ac/dc.

And as a musician, it is annoying when people limit themselves to only one style of music.

I agree. I discovered my love and passion for music in Metal and all its sub genres, but I soon diversified from it, and now I have sixty gigs of music on my laptop and an additional thirty on my external hard drive.

I've been kustom-building an Ork army for the past few months, including my own Tater Titan the past few days, and I think my playlist has centered around the following:

Skrillex http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw&ob=av2e
Bjork http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EnZzE89Qn7w
Two Steps from Hell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1GbBlS9wM

My taste is a little eclectic.

Not a big fan of Skrillex or dubstep at all, but I love Bjork, so high five to that.

1500pts huh? thats gonna take a while, good thing you now have this, no need to thank me:

I opt for things that are easy to zone out to, whether because of the style or simple familiarity. Gives me something pleasant in the background without being distracting, as spoken word or new and hard/high energy music would.

There's an industrial (mostly softer stuff, as opposed to more grating EBM - think more In Strict Confidence and VNV Nation than HOCICO, but expect all three to come up, eventually ) webradio station that I like to paint to, as it's mostly familiar stuff, by now, but the size of the library and the small but consistent cycling of the tracks therein are enough to keep it from going stale.

Doom is great (especially the groovier West Coast-style stuff) for painting, too. Once you get down to business, you stop noticing whether you just listened to a song or an entire album (sometimes they're the same thing, e.g. Sleep's "Jerusalem"). Not as great if you're just slipping in half an hour here and there, but I love it for longer sessions.

I also like using Last.fm to form a "station" based on a particular artist I'm in the mood for if I'm doing scattered bits and pieces of projects. It tends to make me want to keep stopping and checking what I'm listening to, so it's less than ideal for longer/more focused sessions.

DPBellathrom wrote:1500pts huh? thats gonna take a while, good thing you now have this, no need to thank me:

Thats my jam.

Instead of music, You might want to pop in a movie, perticuarally a long one(lotr). But a movie youve watched already and just listen to it.

How about you listen to music you like?!?

I prefer to listen/watch 80's movies or good TV shows like:

Superman(1,2, and 3)
Back to the Future Trilogy
Karate Kid
Doctor Who
Battlestar Galactica


For music I just turn my itunes on to shuffle and listen to the whole collection I like a variety of Music.

DPBellathrom wrote:1500pts huh? thats gonna take a while, good thing you now have this, no need to thank me:

first off I had my one year old doing the funniest dance to this, now it's playing in the background while I surf the web. Thank you for this gift to mankind.

Painting is also a great excuse to burn through cartoons. Painting and custom modeling alone, I've gone through the entirety of Harvey Birdman, Archer, Frisky Dingo, and The Venture Brothers. Up next, Space Ghost!

Whatever I felt like at that moment or listening to a MWG vlog usually did the trick for me.

Dabedman wrote:I'll just make it easy for you, here is a link to my youtube playlist that I listen to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi5ku0YXh8o&feature=BFa&list=PL78E73BE73D0C26FF&lf=results_main

Give it a look

you win the internet.

Mainly listen to podcasts but I'm getting into Dark Psytrance and Hard Psytrance.

TheHarleqwin wrote:Painting is also a great excuse to burn through cartoons. Painting and custom modeling alone, I've gone through the entirety of Harvey Birdman, Archer, Frisky Dingo, and The Venture Brothers. Up next, Space Ghost!

I thought i was the only one who did that.
But i do documentaries more. Learning and painting.
YAY MULTITASKING!!!!!
Also be careful of comedies. I have ruined models that way.

I usually paint when I'm listening to a radio show called Coast to Coast AM, which is on in the Midwest from midnight to 4 am. They discuss a wide range of topics from current events to the wildest conspiracy theories. Failing that, I have a playlist of over two dozen CD's ripped to my windows media player. I have it on shuffle, so it's like my own personalized radio station with no commercials. I also sometimes listen to an internet interview show called Red Ice Radio, which comes from Gothenburg, Sweden. Same as C2C, but without the occasional, irritating religious undertones.

While it may not be music, I listen to Warhammer Fantasy/40k podcasts while painting, they are length, informative, and down-right hilarious. Perfect for your painting session. Here are the main two that I listen to:

Screaming Heretic:
http://screamingheretic.com/

The Independent Characters:
http://theindependentcharacters.com/blog/

I highly recommend them

I listen to a underground artist called nonelikejoshua when I paint.If you guys want me to I will link to his youtube page.

bombboy1252 wrote:How about you listen to music you like?!?

I LOVE I set my friends on fire! They have two songs with Smosh! Why would you think that we were kidding?

I actually listen to the Spoony One while I work. Well, either that or Folk Metal. Equilibrium or Ensiferum.

I listen mostly to soundtracks. When appropriate, the Dawn of War II ones, or from the Ultramarines movie.

Gorrilaz sounds good to paint too. I usually listen to something instrumental and catchy.

Nuclear Whales Saxophone Orchastra. Espicaly Casbah Shuffle composed by them. Love me some contrabass sax.

I listen to music mainly ranging from heavy death metal and the like to trance and progressive, dubstep, audio books and background tv and films.

first off I had my one year old doing the funniest dance to this, now it's playing in the background while I surf the web. Thank you for this gift to mankind.

you are most welcome ^_^

My suggestion is terribad. Absolutely horrendously terribad. To get twice the warhammer experience (i am assuming its warhammer) in the same amount of time (and savagely shred whatever self esteem I have), I listen to the warhammer audio books....

Just for the pokemon reference earlier>
The space marine soundtrack is also suitably awesome

Aquaterry

poda_t wrote:My suggestion is terribad. Absolutely horrendously terribad. To get twice the warhammer experience (i am assuming its warhammer) in the same amount of time (and savagely shred whatever self esteem I have), I listen to the warhammer audio books....

Sounds pretty sweet to me actually. TBH I didn't even know they had audiobooks for warhammer