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Recently I've been listening to Ahab, a Moby Dick inspired funeral doom metal band.
Yes, it's as awesome as it sounds

I listen to a lot of rock radio stations (mostly Bandit Rock Gothenburg, for those who want to know), though I don't always like what they're playing. Sometimes I connect my cellphone to a pair of small, mobile speakers with crappy quality and listen to metal. Metallica, Linking Park, Mustasch, In Flames, Killswitch Engage, Rammstein, Slipknot, Raised Fist etc. I would listen to my Spotify playlist on the computer, if I had it in my room... But it's down the basement, while I'm up the 1st floor (no, not ground floor). I'm considering borrowing my sister's laptop to listen to music to, while she is sleeping at her boyfriend's place tonight.

Please don't flame me for thread-necromancing.

I like to listen to Evanescence and its ilk or show tunes.

Pat Benatar, Journey, Asia and Boston. Regardless of the army, this is truly inspirational music.

I love KOREAN music because it's so CATCHY.

Lately I've been listening to Queens of the Stone Age, the OST for cowboy bebop, or Eminem's latest album. There's other stuff I throw in there but that's the main stuff lately.

Also, nice sig Luna.

Well, when I finished converting a bit back, I ended on The Smiths.

I bascially just pick an album I feel like listening to as I go. There's no real painting music for me, just what I feel like listening to.

Lately, the bands that have been getting the most playtime from me are The Cure, New Order, Muse, and MGMT.


...I like melancholy...

Normally my tastes run towards mid-90's "alternative" (I hate that label) such as Garbage, Green Day, Offspring, Nirvana, etc. However, when I'm painting, I switch to the Beatles, American Idiot (the broadway cast version), and the Buffy musical episode soundtrack. Not sure why but they seem to go better to me.

I don't tend to listen to Music. I did once, for a particularly lengthy Painting Session; things such as Die Toten Hosen, Silbermond, and even Mumford and Sons. No, I'm not German.

DTH was something that I was just drawn to, from the first time I heard them play. Silbermond, I saw advertised on a Concert Poster during a Holiday in Berlin. Having remembered how good DTH were, I memorised the name, and looked for them when I got back home. I wasn't disappointed.

Below is a Music Video. Funny as hell, if you watch the whole thing.

Either hardstyle/hardcore (preferably livesets and mostly Dutch or Italian DJ's (well there aren't many others)).

That, or a couple of the many, many episodes of Law & Order.

Let's see its
Distrubed
Slipknot
Any Heavy Metal....Period.
Any of the doctor who themes
If i am really on a paint schedule
The last song i loop in the playlist is...
Europe-Final Countdown

Just my two cents

When I first started, we listened to Linkin Park and all the other popular stuff like that (it was 2000, what can I say?).

Now, I stick to (passively) watching stuff, like Red Dwarf, Star Trek: TNG, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, or whatever else happens to come on the computer.

Jonathan Coulton and Stephen Lynch also come up a lot on my playlists.
-Dave

Phantom of the Opera. Best. Soundtrack. Ever.

Myself, Beethoven actually. 5th, 9th, Ode to Joy, Fur Elise, you name it. For some reason I always feel more motivated to paint while listening to him.

Demons and Wizards, Iced Earth and Blind Guardian, perfect for both necrons, tyranids and emperors children

\m/ >_< \m/ long live metal...

Not music or such, but I tend to put on comedian standup shows, or funny series like black books or red dwarf.

You don't have to be watching to still be entertained by them, and it is nice to have some laughs while working away

I've been in the Celtic Rock mood lately for the most part.

I like classics like Ray Charles and Nina Simone, the Supremes for everything.
When im painting my Nids I prefer the calm before the storm power of Beethoven.
For Chaos is my metal collection, SOAD, Korn, Slayer.
For Eldar i prefer more middle of the road kinda stuff 3 Doors Down, Stained.
For the Marines its Guy Ritchie sound tracks all the way. RocknRolla is one of my fave movies and the music is awesome. Lock Stock is great too, an even mix of goodies.
And if i want to glance up and see something while im Painting i always put on the 'FireFly' series dvds. Loved that show.

Khornholio wrote:Wow. No one else listens to Slayer when painting Chaos? It's like the ultimate Chaos music...that or I'm just getting old. haha.

Not if you don't like Slayer....

currently enjoying the Asylum Street Spankers..

I think this has been covered by the "Music while painting?" polls and "What kind of music does Dakka listen to?" threads, but what the hell, I'll have another (and more specific, for variety's sake) go.

When I paint, I focus on painting, so no watching TV/movies, for me. I don't bother matching music to an army theme, so it's whatever I'm currently in the mood for, which does vary, a bit (leaning heavily towards metal, with various electronica in second). I've been scratchbuilding a cardboard Warhound for the past week or so (I'm either brilliant and thrifty or a bit daft) and I've gone on a different band/style spree every day of it. One day was pretty much everything (LPs, studio demos, live albums...) the Misfits have ever recorded. Next day was a Joy Division marathon. Another day was Anabolic Frolic and British/Happy Hardcore. Another day was black metal day, with Burzum, Mayhem, and Gorgoroth. Yesterday was folk/battle metal day, with Tyr, Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Finntroll, Lumsk etc. on shuffle. Another day was industrial/EBM - Combichrist, HOCICO, Life Cried, a few Haujobb vs. Wumpscut mixes. Had one day of nothing but trance. So far, today has been stupid/fun/crunchy '90s electro-metal: Static-X, Powerman 5000, some Rob/White Zombie, a bit of Stabbing Westward... even a few scattered Prodigy songs. I really should've recorded my music for the day along with my progress for the eventual unveiling/retroactive progress thread...

I've got a PC set up on my painting station so I have access to 22k plus tracks of music and about 2tb of TV shows to chose from, usually though I listen to podcasts

Children of Bodom, Dethklok, Cannibal Corpse, Suicide Silence, Skeletonwitch, Iron Maiden, Amon Amarth, Black Dahlia Murder, The Agony Scene, Bolt Thrower, etc....

I really like metal all the time no matter what I'm doing!

My friend and I listen to the Protomen while playing. I just put my iTunes on shuffle while painting.

Either hardstyle/hardcore (preferably livesets and mostly Dutch or Italian DJ's (well there aren't many others)).

Someone else with decent taste.
This +1 for me.

40k Radio

i listen to disturbed when painting

For me it have to be a bit of G'n'R,Velvet Revolver,Slash(see the common denominator)and maybe a ska now and again

Most of the things I put on are merely used for background noise. Explosions in the Sky, Red Sparrows, Russian Circles, Neurosis and the like. That said, I've recently found that putting on Made Out of Babies while doing more 'finesse' work is quite nice....figure that one out....

Usually just throw the headset on and let the MP3 player go on random. 4 Gig mix of everything from classic rock to opera.
Added bonus is I am not disturbed by annoying things like the phone or the door...or the wife.