Music to make models go by

Ivica Valjak

I am fastest when I listen some tech or trance music but best thing that makes me powerful is Jaguar from Aztec Mystic a.k.a. DJ Rolando.

Shaun Tennant

Really depends man. Some days it'll be gregorian Chant, somedays it's metal type stuff or rock, most days it's hip hop, but I'll listen to pretty much anything, execept perhaps adult contemporary and the radio (yech!)

juju

Bluegrass! Naah, just messing with you. Depends on the day, sometimes good old rock & roll, some days metal, some days the more quiet type of tunes and some days no interference at all please! Call me moody, I don't care...

Glenn at home

Got a little mix right now going on in WinAmp....

monsterzero

It's weird I tend to listen to NPR or podcasts when I model, and will only go into music after I've listen to all my shows. My top picks:

  - The Adam Carolla Show
  - This American Life
  - Creative Screenwriting
  - Gamespot The Hotspot
  - KCRW The Treatment
  - KCRW The Business
  - Science Friday
  - Word Balloon

When I write or read, I will listen to more ambient types of stuff. During my daily writing routine where I don't want to get distracted at all I will put on my headphones and just loop one of these two songs.

  - Who Am I? (Animatrix Edit) by Peace Orchestra Featuring Hubert Tubbs
  - Everyday by Carly Comando ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B26asyGKDo))

(and for some reason I can listen to these two loop for hours)

For the most part the difference in activities is that I tend not to think creatively (language wise) when modeling so I like to catch up on radio. When I'm writing, I really need to concentrate and even hearing lyrics can be distracting.

not registered yet

Totally mood-based. Fatboy Slim & Chemical Bros are favs, but I usually run the gamut from Sia to Sepultura. And since I have no shame I'll admit... I like me some Kelly Clarkson from time to time. Don't laugh, I know she's on your iPod too!

Dave

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Phil Meadows

I listen to podcasts too but only a few. Mostly old radio programs and tech talk. When I do go to music it ranges from prog to '70s and '80s pop. I also dig bubblegum from time to time. Yes I admit it. Truthfully the music on most '60s bubblegum singles is very well played.

oh, and Pandora. just type in a band or artist and enjoy the ride!

Burkhard

Chillout or irish on internet radio - and Pandora, too.

Shaun Tennant

Phil,
Old radio podcasts? Would you be so kind as to share a link? I used to listen to the broadcast here from 11PM to 1AM and then listen to Coast to Coast AM after that till I'd be asleep. The Shadow, The Whistler all those Hard-boiled detective ones, Suspense, the creaking door, X minus 1 etc. I would love to get some of that on my ipod for working.
I forgot that I streamlink Coast To Coast AM while I work too, that show is just too entertaining, focuses on the paranormal and is just a real free-for all for ideas (sign above door says "nutcases and cracker-jacks enter here!") Once in a blue moon they break a story that turns out to be pretty big though (like the current mysterious mass disappearance of honeybees)

jeff jacobs

Rammstein.

Robert Pearce

ZZ Top and techno music to make me work fast. I feel more creative when I listen to Devo and Talking Heads.

azuby

Well, I rarely model with Sketchup, just doing extensions. So it's Speed Metal Coding

azuby

Alex Jenyon

I'm an audiobook fan myself - I own quite a few, and my local library now lends them for free.

Seems to help me concentrate far better than any playlist - listening to a story must use a completely different part of the brain to painting. Strangely enough, as soon as I start compositing I have to turn it off, as the two start competing for brain space.

Just painted about four hours straight to 'Thud' by Terry Prattchet.

AJ

boofredlay

I am all over the board here.
I listen to Contempoaray Christian, Country, Classical, Trumpet concerto's, Brass ensemble & British style brass band, rock, some metal and lots of Jazz.

lewiswadsworth

What do I listen to these days? Autechre, AFX, Plaid, and maybe some Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails when I want to cheer myself up. Our IT tyrant has banned internet radio at work, but before that I spent a lot of time with SomaFM's Cliqhop and this weird Czech station that is all Trent Reznor, all the time (NINnet).

Do you really listen to Rammstein, Jeff?

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Phil Meadows

Sean, I get my podcasts from itunes, but they originate from Podshow.com. Just checked that site and they're on a channel called "Old Time Radio" natch.

not registered yet

Seems everyone's "all over the board" on this one. I like to mix it up a bit on WinAmp, but mostly rock to metal.

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jeff jacobs

Lewis Wadsworth wrote:
@unknownuser said:

What do I listen to these days? Autechre, AFX, Plaid, and maybe some Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails when I want to cheer myself up. Our IT tyrant has banned internet radio at work, but before that I spent a lot of time with SomaFM's Cliqhop and this weird Czech station that is all Trent Reznor, all the time (NINnet).
Do you really listen to Rammstein, Jeff?

Yea, Du Hast and Engle are a couple of my screaming favorites. I like NIN too. Devo; Kraftwerk; Karl Orff; RL Burnside; Soul Coughing, Eels; Liquid Soul; Medeski, Martin and Wood; Bitter:Sweet; Sountrack from Baraka; and the Pixies have all been on my play list in the last week.

Buffett and Bob Marley were about it over the holiday weekend.

Tobobo

The band I'm into at the mo is a usigned british band called Glamour of the Kill. You all should check them out.

Here is their myspace site.

http://myspace.com/glamourofthekill

Give them a listen.

lewiswadsworth

It's a pity Kompressor, my favorite pseudo-German, pseudo-alien, death metal artist from the Midwest, has retired from the music business. But his music lives on "to crush puny America with German industrial might":

http://www.kompressormusic.com/mp3/

Try "K is for Kompressor"...you just cannot imagine how wonderful the video was. At one point he (rather flabbily) sings in the shower...with the alien mask on.

And then, "for something completely different", listen to Herr K's version of "The Girl from Ipanema."

--Lewis

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