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Do you listen to music? The ambient noises of your environs?

Anything or nothing in particular?

Audio books or podcasts.

Mostly comedy radio, just something with people talking mostly.

I listen to actual plays of Call of Cthulhu scenarios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkkGeDYv3Lc this

Audio books and podcasts for the most part. If it is a really frustrating project, music or movies/tv I've listened/watched a million times. As having to go back to catch parts I missed is annoying.

Recently, Bowie's Berlin trilogy and Blade Runner soundtrack.

Either whatever's on TV, or Youtube series that don't require much watching. I haven't listened to music while painting, though I probably will at some point.

Audio dramas -usually 40k ones- power metal, or classic rock.

Typically I'll have one of my enormous TV playlists just shuffling on my computer.

Either Simpsons, Forensic Files, Trailer Park Boys, Star Trek, etc. It's better to have stuff you've watched many times but still find entertaining that way you can tune in/out when it suits you.

The Black Library Audio books/dramas I can't have playing when I'm hobbying. I usually want to listen to every detail, and when I'm painting I'm 100% focused on the task at hand and I'd lose track of the audio.

I prefer to keep BL audiobooks for the gym when I'm doing the daily cardio, because it's boring to sit on a bike for an hour but at least I get lost in epic 40K battles and intrigue. I look forward to it, tbh.

All india radio.

I have a painting mix on Spotify...it is a hilarious mix of artists, containing everything from Slayer to Ace of Base. So, either that, my regular playlist, or Youtube batreps.

I listen to celtic music mostly.

It doesn't matter.

If I'm concentrating on painting, I won't hear it anyway. My attention goes towards what I'm doing.

If I'm listening to music, then I'm not painting the mandollies - and if I'm not painting the mandollies, they aren't getting used - my only motivation for painting is not wanting to put unpainted models on the table.

Generally podcasts of some kind, true crime, comedy, and Warhammer podcasts.

Audiobooks as well. Painted up about one bajillion points in Beastmen while listening to the entirety of Conn Igguldens Mongol Empire series. Presently on a horror book fixation while I do my 40K Daemonkin and some Nurgle stuff for AoS.

 nels1031 wrote:


Presently on a horror book fixation while I do my 40K Daemonkin and some Nurgle stuff for AoS.

Mind if I ask you that you're reading actually? I'm pretty much doing the same thing with my Daemons army.

 Crankpin wrote:

Do you listen to music? The ambient noises of your environs?

Anything or nothing in particular?

1. Podcasts! I used to listen to Independent Characters, but those fethers are going off the air. 40k Radio is basically defunct, so now I'm moving towards 5E podcasts, and maybe FFG 40k RPG podcasts.

2. Also, baseball and football. I can finish 1-2 minis over the course of a game, and I LOVE college football.

3. Audio books. I have a couple of Horus Heresy books from the Black Library. However, I REALLY like all of the free audio books here: https://librivox.org/ Just know that this is all public domain books (old ass books, nothing under 30 years old), and since it's volunteer, the quality of the readers is hit or miss. Still, free fething audio books. I've listened to tons of Lovecraft and others.

Opeth, agalloch, the contortionist, the ocean, alice in chains, mastodon, coheed and cambria.

I don't paint very well at all, though.

 kronk wrote:
[ I REALLY like all of the free audio books here: https://librivox.org/

Had a quick skim over some of the titles and it looks like a handy resource. I'm gona give it a go when I get back to Dub.
Cheers.

Lately, Californication on Netflix. Sometime How I Met Your Mother or Red vs Blue. Basically, a dialogue driven show with few visual gags and fight scenes that I've seen before and don't need to actively watch.

If I put on music, it's usually electronic or mellow stuff like Tychoo or The XX or something similar.

Metal. Gets the blood flowing - feels like i paint more quickly. I usually have it at a moderate volume though.

 zgort wrote:
Metal. Gets the blood flowing - feels like i paint more quickly. I usually have it at a moderate volume though.

Yeah, I need to keep the volume low or it makes it hard to concentrate -I have the same problem when I write.

Besides, it's kind of hard to focus when you're headbanging

I don't quite understand the correlation with this hobby and metal music.

Anyone care to attempt an explanation?

 Hoitash wrote:

 zgort wrote:
Metal. Gets the blood flowing - feels like i paint more quickly. I usually have it at a moderate volume though.

Yeah, I need to keep the volume low or it makes it hard to concentrate -I have the same problem when I write.

Besides, it's kind of hard to focus when you're headbanging

THAT'S why it's so difficult. Thanks for the tip *writes down, "NO headbanging while painting..."


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 cincydooley wrote:
I don't quite understand the correlation with this hobby and metal music.

Anyone care to attempt an explanation?

The joke answer is that 40k is METAL AS FETH. /m/ You've got chainsaw swords, infinite death/war, giant machines and jetsuitarmorpacks, blood for the blood god, the list goes on. Nice and brutal.

The real answer probably lies in overlapping demographics. Young adult and adult white males are the primary consumer of both tabletop games and metal music.

Plus 40k came out in the eighties, when metal was becoming more mainstream.

I listen to all kinds of stuff while I'm painting, recently I have been mainly listening to:

Titus Andronicus
FKA Twigs
Ariel Pink
Ninja Sex Party

Variety is the spice of life.

Howard Stern of sat radio

A continuous 3 second loop of a small dog barking.

 cincydooley wrote:
I don't quite understand the correlation with this hobby and metal music.

Anyone care to attempt an explanation?

My own armchair theory is that, like recent studies have shown that metal fans, as well as classical music fans are among the more creative and artistic people out there. Combine that with another study that found the same combination of musical fans (metal/classical) were also the least stressed out overall (compared to other genres), as well as being collectively among the higher end of the IQ spectrum (not surprisingly, Country was the lowest overall IQ, followed IIRC, by hip hop, then Pop)

The last study that I read, dealt with people being well adjusted in social settings, which I've often wondered how that applies to this case as well. Personally, I think it goes into that whole "least stressed" thing as well: the majority of metalheads that I've known like what they like, don't like what they don't and don't really care what you think. Then there's the whole cathartic affect that metal tends to have on it's listeners

I don't like Metal music at all.