Favorite Music for Drawing?

[Sketch]

I miss the old music thread, so I'm starting a new one. Only this one is only for tunes you think are good to draw to.
Mine are...
DJ Shadow
Last of the Mohicans Soundtrack
Mr Scruff
old Swollen Members
Squirell Nut Zippers

[cucaracha]

Royksopp

other soft electronic stuff

[Sketch]

Nice choice... Royksopp is awesome to draw and paint to.

[Clodhopper]

That electronic stuff puts me in a coma.

I draw with the stereo up, blasting Soulfly, Filter, rage against the machine, or sometimes Tantric.

I've recently rediscovered "Toadies", good stuff.

[ODIN SIX]

Back when I used to do "real" painting like oils and such,,,

I'd listen to Phantom of the Opera.....

but now it depands on my mood and what I am drawing

[Blind]

I find that anything without words allows my left brain to shutdown and my right brain take over, giving that feeling of time flying by. Whether it be an instrumental from Miles Davis, some classical piece from Mozart, Bach, et al, or some driving trance thing that just goes... so long as it sounds good. Lyrics tend to keep my left brain paying attention.

[gekitsu]

most time, it's just the usual mix of:

electronica
-feindflug
-front 242
-suicide commando
-wumpscut
...

gothic
-therion
-lacrimosa
-the sins of thy beloved
...

neofolk
-von thronstahl
-blood axis
-belborn
-mila mar
...

orchestral
-nobuo uematsu stuff
-hans zimmer stuff
-harry gregson-williams stuff
mainly epic movie or good game soundtracks

classic
-wagner
-chopin
-berlioz
...

and a lil bit of metal (the real thing, not that disgusting unheavy new "metal" thing...)
-hypocrisy
-limbonic art
-old iron maiden

pretty much mixed styles but it's funny to see how different styles of music change the way of working.

[mcotie]

While modeling it's got to be Metal, Industrial, stuff.
drawing fantasy stuff: soundtracks, because they are filled with moody stuff and most don't have lyrics so I can base my own ideas from the music. LOTR is by far the best.


Mitch

[cucaracha]

Originally posted by gekitsu
thronstahl ; blood axis

sorry aber das klingt so nazimaeßig? was ist das fuer musik?
wirklich sorry wenn ich da falsches vermute, aber die namen klingen schon ein bisschen so...

@ all: don't mind, just stupid chat ;)

[ZippZopp]

depends on my mood....i usually listen to motion picture scores...my favorites are

Black Hawk Down
Lord of the Rings
Perfect Strom

also i really like symphonic led zeppelin...great instrumental stuff!

so its either that or i like to listen to:
Coldplay
Counting Crows
Pat mcgee band
pink floyd

as much as i love heavy music, it gets me goin too much and i end up moving too quickly and my drawing and paintings look muddy and messy

[Android]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
and Bitches brew are my faves

I also enjoy drawing to Danzug Samhain and the misfits.

[davi]

movie scores mostly... producers like:
Badalamanti, Alejandro
Ennio Morricone
Kilar, Wojciech
Shore, Howard
Revell, Graeme
Kawai, Kenji
Andrews, Mike

some hardcore...
Odd Project
Zao
Thrice
Waterdown
Poison The Well
Walls of Jericho
Refused

Some soft music like...
Nina simone
Sigur Ros
GY!BE
Elvis Costello
Flly Pan AM
Tom Waits

Emo/Indie when i'm down
Sunny day real estate
Supergrass
huggy bear
Modest Mouse
Juliana Theory
Sparta

and I have a very nice collection of background sounds, thunderstorms, rainfall, forests and such to get me through the times when i get migranes from music :P

[egerie]

Depends of the mood .. AND the deadline ;)

I discovered Mr Scruff from that Ford ad. Good stuff !
- Miles Davis / Soundtrack of "[u]Ascenseur pour l'échaffaud[u]"
- Skunk anansie to kick ass
- techno stuff when I need to produce at warp speed
BUT the best is classical like
- The Red Violin soundtrack
- Giorgino soundtrack
- anything by Handel
- Mozart's requiem (I know I know overated)
- all of Chopin's left hand studies

[Sketch]

Wow great picks guys! Such variety. Keep em comming!

[gekitsu]

how yould i forget one of the best bands around?

in the nursery

if you like soundtracks and similar things, you might love them.

[MindCandyMan]

Anybody know a band named "Kings X"...I listen to them all the time...and POD and some incubus. I usually have a mix going. That's funny zipp that you can't listen to heavy music...I find that I can't listen to soft music. I've always been that way though...easier to fall asleep to metal than to a symphony. I'm weird like that.

[clayrodery v.03]

Anything by Miles Davis, lately "Corrado" from the Complete Bitches Brew Sessions. Frank Sinatra, especially "It was a very good year". Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" album

[jester]

MCM - you listen to King's X? Are they still alive? It must have been ages since they've published their songs.

As for my taste, I like to listen to film sound tracks (yes, LOTR and TTT, of course) like John Williams' stuff or SF soundtracks. I'm also a fan of classics, esp. Beethoven and Mozart. And I like to listen any time to my favourite band Jethro Tull. Runrig is great stuff, as is Clannad and Enya. From time to time Meat Loaf and Nazareth. R.E.M., Guns'n'Roses and Crash Test Dummies. Yeah, that's it mainly. Irish and Scottish Folk Stuff, too. :rolleyes:

Jester

[Blind]

I keep hearing about the soundtracks for LOTR. I'll have to pick them up. Are they both available already? Is there a particular one to look for? Or is it just one for each movie?

Jester: TULL?! Hehe... I love Tull. You don't hear much from their fans these days. My favorite song from Ian: Only Solitaire

[amphex]

I love listening to chevelle or finger eleven or finch while doing anything "artistic"..they really bring out my emotions where I need em =)

[jester]

Blind - I can't believe it, another Tull fan? Just great! My favourites are songs like Bourree, Songs from the wood, Budapest... hmmm, difficult to decide which I like most, since there are only very few I don't like. (I just recently bought a ticket for a concert on 30th June - looking forward to it!!!)

Yes, both LOTR soundtracks are available (separately). The first is better than the second IMO, probably because I think the music plays a more important part in the first than in the second part. At least the musical motives are much clearer in the first.

:)

Jester

[Travis_Bourbeau]

I love music of all kinds which makes it so damn hard not to listen to it while i work ! its hard at first but after a while if your lucky enough to be in complete silence you find that its very easy to think and work better at least in my case though even i cheat and listen to it once in a while

[kaini]

Joseph Nothing
Rachmaninoff, Debussy
Ellen Allien, 2 Raumwohnung
Vangelis
Terre Thaemlitz
Modest Mouse
Einstürzende Neubauten

[gekitsu]

jester, so you're an good ol' rock chick, yeah? ;)
what do you think about uriah heep? they are among my favs of that epoque of music. jimi hendrix owns me bones, too.

[boykin]

like most artists, prolly depends on the character/scene im working on-but:

queens of the stone age
sevendust
gitaroo man ost
good bad ugly ost
vf4 ost
final fantasy ost
spiderman ost
macross plus ost
transformers ost
tenchu ost
black rebel motorcycle club
oakenfold_bunkka
a perfect circle
dracula 2000 ost
queen of the damned ost
cold
labyrinth ost
radiohead
black eyed peas
busta rhymes
talib kweli
get carter ost
roots
...

[jester]

Good ol' rock chick? Yeah (I like this!) :)

I always used to listen to music which was popular at least a generation earlier than me. So Uriah Heep is cool, too. Jimi Hendrix is a problem - he was definitely a genius, but sometimes a genius can drive you mad! ;)

I also like Janis Joplin (she would have been 60 just lately - can you imagine?) and the Beatles as well as the Stones... Eric Clapton... :D

Jester

[coriat]

hmmmz, okie draw on any music i like, but mostly more 'soft'music :D

-Toto
-stone temple pilots
-metal-ballad-stuff songs like savatage and Trans-Siberian orchestra
-Erik Satie (classical composer)
-Granados
-Debussy
-some pop music :) i know, i suck
-Led Zeppelin
-Michael Hsiao (contemporary piano composer, great stuff, check his site : http://www.hsimusic.com)
-Loreena McKennit and Enya
-Coldplay
-some weird dutch bands (Abel, Blof etc.. :D )
- " " " band: Relax
-Santana

Playing piano before i go drawing also makes me feel more relaxed :)

[empty]

varies...

recently it's been

queens of the stone age
nappy roots
system of a down

and always of course...

new mexico's own...

TABULARASA
www.therealtabularasa.com

[Lono]

Tom Waits is GREAT for putting me in the creative state.
his music is so rich with feeling and character that it inspires the same in my artwork.

"Secret Chiefs 3" is also great for inspirado.

-Lono

[franz]

Tom Waits! Incredible diversity. Buy all the albums. Ok, I'm a fanboy (see sig)
Blackalicious
Röyksopp
Modest Mouse
Looptroop
Ravel
Aesop Rock
My Morning Jacket
Roots Manuva
etc

There's so much great music out there.. you just need to let it find you

[sVtcObra]

i listen to lots of stuff from dre to metallica (old)... but the best stuff to lsten to is sinatra, billy holiday, louis armstrong, dean martin, ella fitzgerald, etc!! old stuff rULEs!!:rambo: :chainsaw: ...