What are your ArtTunes?

[S51]

I've noticed, both for myself and for many other artists, music plays a big role in doing work. To sit down and paint is one thing, but to listen to some kind of music adds a whole seperate dimension to the experience. I guess I'm just curious as to what most of you use to get your creative juices flowing. My personal favorites are as follows:

-Just about all of the music off sutemos.net (first learned about it off Bengal's site)
-Pink Ployd (everything before Roger Waters left)
-Led Zeppelin (especially Presence, III, IV)
-Ravi Shankar
-Pixies
-Velvet Underground
-Miles Davis
-John Coltrane
-Ornette Coleman
-Eric Dolphy
-Dexter Gordon
-Jimi Hendrix (I have a ton of his studio bootlegs)

Feel free to post your lists, your thoughts on music with regards to art, pictures from your latest colonoscopy, whatever floats your boat.

[Denart]

I find it best to listen to symphonic pieces, either movie soundtracks or classical pieces.

But it mostly depends on what I'm drawing, if its an action scene, I put on something powerful and energetic. If its emotional and calm, I put on some emotional and calm music! (surprise!!!) ;)

Here are some favorites:

Gladiator,
Braveheart,
Lord of the Rings,
Beethoven's 9th,
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (powerful, powerful music)

I also listen to other music, like Modest Mouse (Float On), Wheezer, Franz Ferdinand (Take Me Out), and sometimes the talk show LoveLine :D

[Red_Rook]

some one should move this to the sub forum.
I have about 9 days of music on my play list but here are some favs
Head Automatica
Oasis
Beatsteakes
incubus
donots
The Vines
wir sind helden
sport freunde stiller
The Pixies
Ryan Adams
Smashing Pumpkins
Hot Hot Heat
The Hives
The Strokes
Franz Ferdinand
Muse
Wicked Beat sound system
The White Stripes
Nine Inch Nails
Sonic Mayhem
Gorrilaz
Common
Cold Play
Radio Head
Billy Talent

ok i better stop
this list is endless

[Scubasteve]

I like epic and syphomic pieces as well. Even Hi production videogame soundtracks are good.

[cartoonfox]

i listen to the beat basement (http://beatbasement.com/bb.htm) stream on iTunes.
underground, old school hip hop, rare grooves and beats, etc etc blah blah ^-^




peace

[Undertow]

Bands with the most frequent play on my iTunes right now are
BT
Junkie XL
Meat Beat Manifesto
Rammstein
Paul Van Dyk
Royksopp
Dieselboy
Modest Mouse
The Postal Service

I also listen to allot of Nick Drake, The Cure, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Deftones, Dntel, PJ Harvey, Soul Coughing, Tori Amos, Yoji Biomehanika, Rob Dougan, Yoko Kano, Groove Armada, James Brown, Radiohead, The Pixies, Coldplay, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, and EDR Club Tech on iTunes radio electronica radio station.

-Mike V

[Dished]

Its usually these bands on my playlist so far these are the bands ive had here for the past week or few weeks.

-Rancid
-Blink182
-Story of the Year
-Yellowcard
-Jimmy eat world
-The Misfits
-New Found Glory
-The Ramones
-The Sex Pistols
-The Casualties
-Operation Ivy
-The Strokes
-NOFX
-River City Rebels
-The Starting line
-Anti Flag
-Less than Jake
-MxPx
-Green Day


Once in a while i add some techno or some trance. Maybe some instrumentals,these are what I have often.

[OLSEN]

Right now it´s:

-Depeche Mode
-DJ Swamp
-Massive Attack
-DJ Faust
-Morrisey

[WildSpruceMoose]

Live internet feed at edge.ca of radio station. Most of the music is acceptable as I'm not picky. I've been listening to it a lot lately, however it may change even tomorrow if some new music i liked came along =)

[N D Hill]

Anything from:

Alice in Chains
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd
Staind
Radiohead
Cold
System of a Down

Plus, I have the Alien3 soundtrack which I can't seem to stop listening to.

[amphex]

Some good taste in music in here haha :D
Here are my favorites to listen to when sketching or painting..mostly mellow stuff (in alphabetical order!! because im just that cool):

The Appleseed Cast
As Tall As Lions
Broken Social Scene
Death Cab for Cutie
Grandaddy
Interpol
Jimmy Eat World
Minus the Bear
Pedro the Lion
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Wrens

Haha theres a huge list for you all to not read...
Its odd that all the music that has been listed so far is, in general, fast-paced "pump up" music, but I try to listen to the exact opposite when im making any sort of art.
Maybe I'm just some sort of freak.

[Drawnblud]

Depends on what I'm drawing, but usually I listen to:
-Johnny Cash
-Rammstein
-Corvus Corax
-Flogging Molly
-Dropkick Murphys
-Led Zeppelin
-The Doors
-The "Freedom Fighters" game soundtrack
-Richard Cheese (Dawn of the Dead really turned me on to this guy!)
-And the Renaissance channel on Netscape NetRadio
-Various movie soundtracks
This is the music that really get my juices going.....

[ANGELICA]

I guess your right music does play a part. While taking my first studio class last year i was struggling UNTIL one day I remembered to bring my cd player and headphones to class. My still lifes elevated 150%.... amazing. i guess I just needed to create my own little world.
(Now I listen to 1 cd start to finish for my drawings)
anyway here's my playlist
--limp bizkit
--babyface
--musiq
--dido
--3 doors down
--evanescence
--creed
--the calling

[Orban]

Mostly ambient track, or nearly without lyrics on it(just disturb myself), like

Inade
Aphex Twin
Autechre
Amon Tobin
Coil
The Resident
Lots of OST(from horror movie :d)
Track taken on many CD(Soulfly, Marilyn Manson, Oomph!, The Gathering).
It's just to create an ambient where my mind can sink... So I just "see".

[skrubbles]

Um Lotsa stuff.... depends on my mood.

Hot Hot Heat
Incubus
Our Lady Peace
CKY
Disturbed
Spine Shank
Flaw
Dredg
Hoobastank
Kenna
Del
Staind
System of a Down
Radiohead
Smashing Pumpkins
Tool
A Perfect Circle
Bush
311
Coldplay
Modest Mouse
Audioslave
Rage Against the Machine
Grandaddy
Metallica
Pavement
Beastie Boys
Prodigy
Stone Temple Pilots
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Hives

Those are the usual ones... I'm sure there's lots more I'm forgetting about.

[dr. brie]

Ditto what Amphex said, I prefer more laid back, sonically "rich" stuff when I'm drawing.
Stuff like:

Broken Social Scene
Interpol
Menomena
Radiohead
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Architecture in Helsinki
Sigur Ros
Nada Surf
Smashing Pumpkins
Wilco
Modest Mouse
Radiohead
Neutral Milk Hotel

[gasmask]

Radiohead

[SicFrost]

These are few of the current ones, but they trully make my clock tick. :blahblah:

At The Gates
Amon Amarth
Borknagar
The Berzerker
Children of Bodom
Chimaira
Dark Tranquillity
Dream Evil
Dimmu Borgir
Dub Buk
Five Pointe O
Hate Forest
Mastodon
Napalm Death
Nile
Nightrage
Nokturnal Mortum
Rammstein
Sepultura
Soilwork
Unearth

[nmcleod]

nice choices everyone, some really good taste in music here. heres a few things i like to listen to when im doin art.

-the beatles
-the who
-red hot chili peppers
-kanye west
-beastie boys
-jurassic 5
-buck 65
-billy talent
-led zep
-queen
-guns n roses
-wayne shorter
-john coltrane
-modest mouse
-hot hot heat
-the darkness
-ac/dc
-pink floyd

[antecraft]

- a perfect circle
- aphex twin
- bob marley
- deftones
- dream theater
- dredg
- jimi hendrix
- king crimson
- led zeppelin
- les claypools frog brigade
- liquid tension experiment
- rage against the machine
- incubus
- massive attack
- mr. bungle
- modest mouse
- nine inch nails
- pink floyd
- primus
- radiohead
- the beatles
- the doors
- mars volta
- the who
- tool
- yes

and thats the abridged version :dur:

[rey del bongo]

Big piles of: Aphex Twin
Eat Static [Sciance of the Gods]
Stella Starr*
Banco de Gia
Goldfrappe
The Coral
Apollo 440
Radiohead [Kid A onwards]
Clint Mansell
The Polyphonic Spree
Moby
Fatboy Slim
Eminem
Roni Size
Lemon Jelly
Pepe Dulux
Faithless [post Dido]
The Avalanches
Gorillaz
Kosheen
Massive Attack
The Beastie Boys
The Strokes
The Hives
2 Many DJ's
The Zutons
The Prodigy
Miss Dynamite
Manu Chao
Basement Jaxx
Westwood D&B
Rob Dougan
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Timo Mass
Leftfield
Space

All on my playlist, but mostly it's the Aphex Twin and the crowd pleasers of the classical world [Zadoc the priest, Bathoven, Wagner].

Huge radiohead fanbase here. Good to see.

[Zaknafain]

Strange mix of Jazz and Punk

NoFX
Beatsteaks :hat:
Chet Baker
Jimmy Eatworld
Wes Montgomery
Miles Davis
Homegrown
Helge Schneider
Die Ärtzte
Propagandhi
red hot chilli peppers
Rancid
Sublime
Terrorgruppe
Dropkick murphys

and sometimes Apocalyptica or Iron Maiden