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Depends, but i try to go with the theme of the army that i am painting, it helps me visualize how they should be and that motivates me to keep going with painting.
So since at the moment i am painting WW2 Americans its mostly been...
Any big bang type music, specially Glenn Miller
Andrews sisters and other artists from that era
While doing my Russians it was mostly red army choir stuff and werchmart marching tunes and a bit of Lili Marlene for the Germans
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Actually, at the moment I'm thinking Tron/Mirror's Edge soundtrack. I was pointed onto them as matching up with Tau pretty well and I think they're correct.
I have also been known to put on random boring episodes of mystery Science Theater 3000 for some background noise.
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I'll occasionally put a very familiar movie on too but i find visual things more destracting. If i'm listening on iTunes i always get distracted by Dakka just because my laptop is on.
I listen to a fair bit of Rammstein, but my playlists also include a lot of Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Ramones, Icehouse, The Cure, Duran Duran, Men at Work, etc.
Usually Led Zeppelin, Status Quo, Slade, Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones... I like my late 60's/early 70's rock. I recently bought The Who's Tommy album. Good stuff.
I find vocals distract me, as do tracks with gaps between. A lot of the time, a good painting session is almost like a trance of sorts, so I like music that aids that mood. Lately, this:
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"The 75mm gun is firing. The 37mm gun is firing, but is traversed round the wrong way. The Browning is jammed. I am saying "Driver, advance." and the driver, who can't hear me, is reversing. And as I look over the top of the turret and see twelve enemy tanks fifty yards away, someone hands me a cheese sandwich."
1. Podcast: The Independent Characters or 40k Radio
2. Baseball
3. American Football (College or Pro)
4. 4 of the 5 voices in my head. The 5th is Italian and I can't understand him anyway.
5. Random movie I've seen a hundred times.
Whatever I happen to be listening to a lot at the time, though it tends not to be anything to loud/noisy/thrashy. I also "watch" whatever interesting/amusing stuff that might be on TV that doesn't need a lot of attention paid to the screen. Stuff on the Comedy Channel, Documentaries from the Crime Investigation Network, reruns of Stephen Fry's QI, or trash TV like Jerry Springer's Baggage, Wife Swap, Come Dine With Me, that sort of thing...
Let's Play videos on youtube, either from Helloween4545 or Kikoskia.
Once that's done, it's back to game's OST.
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Last night i went for something a little different... Classic episodes of Thomas the tank engine (Gotta get a bit of nostalgia from time to time) but with the American narration. Which to my surprise was every bit as good as the british ones i grew up with. The result was a lovely group of warriors of Minas tirith.
tonight, it is necrons, so some variety of metal would be appropriate.
I'm the type who doesn't see a point in watching a show or "reading" an audiobook without actually focusing on it, so I stick to music. No particular theme-matching, although it's occasionally appropriate, by chance. I just toss on what I'd normally listen to - usually metal, sometimes industrial, something else entirely on comparatively rare occasion.
Doom (more West Coast/Stoner stuff than Funeral - think Sleep, YOB, Electric Wizard, etc. not My Dying Bride), in particular, seems to distinctly boost my productivity. The "dronier" stuff gets me into a nice groove and saying "I'll just keep going until this song is over" usually nets me an extra 10-30 minutes of work. Throwing on a long one right before my motivation flags has saved more than a few hobby sessions from fizzling out.
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I paint in front of the TV, usually with some show from netflix that has enough dialogue that Ican watch my brush instead. Right now it's DS9. When I finish with that, who knows?
I think that as you paint more and things become more rythmic and automatic, it frees up your attention and you can start both painting and giving an audio book or podcast enough of your attention to make it worthwhile.
Balance in pick up games? Two people, each with their own goals for the game, design half a board game on their own without knowing the layout of the board and hope it all works out. Good luck with that. The faster you can find like minded individuals who want the same things from the game as you, the better.
I'll listen to my favorite bands most often, so lots of Bad Religion, Dinosaur Jr., Pixies,
I'll also listen to a lot of sludge/stoner metal, lots of Southern Lord-type stuff, and post-metal instrumental: Pelican, Boris, Weedeater, Sunn 0))), Isis, Gifts From Enola, Russian Circles, Earth
During hockey and football season, I'll turn the games on and every once in a while I'll turn a baseball game on.
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Usually throw on an episode of something I've seen before but can easily watch again, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, or Game of Thrones are pretty common for me. Either that or some chillout mix that I found on Youtube.
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