musical inspirations

[Crunch]

i have no clue if a thread like this has been started before but i wanted to know what type of music people at concept art listen and what music inspires them.
my musical type varies with mood. but my favorites are Tool, the Doors, Pink Floyd, and occasionally moby.
i think music has a huge influence on me. does it influence your art or is it just for fun? thanks all

[skrubbles]

for me its usually incubus (my fav band), hoobastank, linkin park, disturbed, tool, del, dredg.... my gf just got me into marilyn manson, but I've discoverd my art really suffers when I listen to that band... and I still need to test out Our Lady Peace :)

[boehmke]

Any one of my 200+ movie scores!

:nod:

[tyboogie]

Yea Boehmke movie soundtracks are great! some of my favs

braveheart
last of the mohicans
crouching tiger
out of africa
Disneys DINOSAUR
Heavan and Earth
DAnces with wolves
Lord of the rings
the Edge
titanic
Dantes peak
gladiator
the mummy
far and away
Wyatt Earp
Willow
BRam stokers dracula
Interview with the vampire
starwars--Indiana jones

The last temptation of christ --Oliver stone-- AAAAAmazing soundtrack by Peter gabriel

IMAX movies Soundtracks
mysteries of egypt
Amazon

its funny sometimes a soundtrack blows away the film--entertainment and replay wise


other stuff


trip hop--------
ESTHERO!!!
Bjork
PLAid
Coldcut
boards of canada
AIR
baxter
Portishead
BT
Apollo four fourty
DJ shadow
sneaker pimps

Rock
new linkin park album is pretty good
finch
afi
radiohead
coldplay
saves the day
the verve
alice in chains
garbage
Incubus
tool--perfect circle


cultural
GOVINDA!!!!!
Adiemus
Delerium
buddha bar albums
LISA GERRARD

hip hop
Pharcyde!!!---labcabincalifornia (album)
Cannibal Ox
Aesop rock





and lots more---ty

oh crunch--i would wither and die without music--so yea its important to me too!

[Lost]

Tom Waits......
I see so much twisted shit when I close my eyes and listen to his music...

[Crunch]

tom waits...hm i need to look him up. is he hip hop, metal, or what? i will def look into that.
ty yeah some sound track stuff is good. but i tend to like the musical artists who are not in it for the money. the ones who do it because it drives them and they love it. im not into the new poppy junk that is on the raido. i love radiohead...but only in certain moods and in lower quanties.

[tyboogie]

well i agree there is alot of JUNK on the radio--but all the "pop" artists i listed, as far as i know, write their own music--so their just as legitimate as unpopular artists in my opinion.

btw--how do you know if a musician is in it just for the money? if theyre succcessful?

if you want to hear some unconventional stuff check out some of the trip hop bands i listed like plaid and boards of canada

[Nimrod]

I love music, all kinds, great inspiration to me.

Some faves from all over:

Radiohead, of course
Jurassic 5
Deltron 3030
Handsome Boy Modelling School
Rammstein
Depeche Mode
311
Apocalyptica
cEvin Key, Skinny Puppy, Download, etc.
KMFDM
Delerium
Moby
Rolling Stones
Smashing Pumpkins
U2
Stabbing Westward
Prodigy
Weezer
Yoko Kanno
Propellerheads
Wumpscut
Funker Vogt
X-ecutioners

The list goes on and on.. Lots of classical stuff, lots of movie scores, and MC HAWKING MOTHERFUCKERS!

[Lost]

crunch-
Tom waits is hard to explain. Kinda bluesy...sometimes.
He is one of those guys you love or hate. There is no in between.

I suggest listening to Bone Machine first. It is some of his best stuff.

[Lono]

or Rain Dogs,,, or Franks Wild Years.. those are my favorite Tom Waits albums. the new ones are good too.

yes Tom Waits is very difficult to describe. hes a good mix of jazz, blues, rock, folk, soul, and art rock...
its full of character,, and some of the most creative stuff out there.

-Lono

[Crunch]

nice...well im glad this post is going well...i dont get too many responces from my work...hmph...
well as far as legit music is concerned i think you can kinda feel if they are in it for the money or not. that is hard to explain. if they stay true to their roots no matter if it is popular or not is a good way to look. being original is a biggie on my part. i hate hearing bands or groups or whatever who just sounds like some cover band...just my opinion though. also the lyrics have to be nice for me to dig them. thats why i love tool...alot of symbolism. pink floyd is more upfront but there is a double meaning in alot of songs. wow im ranting arent i? whoops well thats all i have to say about that....

[Blackwell]

Tom Waits IS a good choice for inspiration - no one else has a voice like that. And if you like him, you might like Nick Cave - pretty twisted shit there, too.

I've been listening to Tool's Lateralus almost exclusively. Brilliant album. Other current favorite is Explosions in the Sky - instrumental post-rock from Austin, TX. Good stuff.

[Lost]

Nick Cave is good.

If anyone is interested Nick Cave's brand new album is available for streaming from www.anti.com


Which, ironically, is the same label as Tom Waits.

[Halis_Aetrous]

I listen to Enya, Dead Can Dance, Viennateng, random bass techno, and maybe some orchestrated FF songs.

I tend to write and draw in the epic style (IE Dungeons and Dragons). So, that explains the music choices.

[Crunch]

yeah ff orchestrated is definatly cool. but for me it is only in moderation. i used to be a ff junky...now i just draw alot...

[franz]

This has to be like the 3rd or 4th thread on the topic.. :)

As far as Tom Waits goes, I have every album and right now I'm enjoying Black Rider, Rain Dogs and Blood Money the most.. Changes all the time though

[Severith]

I read that you can get creative with music, but only if you listen to music without lyrics, avoid music with large, sudden changes.

Classical, jazz, electronic and insturmental are a few recommendations.

Recommendations on a few things you could listen to

. Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in Csharp Minor Op.27
. Brahms: Concerto in a Minor, Op 102
. Snow Flakes are Dancing by Tomita

[kaini]

oh no not again one of these threads, ah what the heck I'll post my list though :) :

Joseph Nothing (absolutely amazing)
Mitsoobishy Jacson
Jon Hassell
Morton Feldman
Frederik Chopin
Igor Stravinsky
Sergej Rachmaninoff
Zbigniew Karkowski
Giacinto Scelsi

[pibb991]

cave in, radiohead, sunny day real estate, karate, the red chord, zao, nile, cannibal corpse, coldplay, lamb of god, bon jovi, converge, foo fighters, deftones, at the drive in, queens of the stoneage, the dillinger escape plan, jimmie's chicken shack

[mcotie]

Sorry I'm kinda old school.

Danzig
Led Zeppelin
Old Judas Priest
Maiden
Metallica
AC/DC
Corrosion of Conformity
Bad Company

Some of the newer stuff:
Marilyn Manson
Mudvayne
Godsmack
Disturbed
Chronix Agression internet Radio
Immortal Continuum internet


Drink Beer to:
Old Fleetwood Mac (Bluesy stuff)
Sonny Boy Williamson
SRV
Buddy Guy
Tab Benoit
Keb' Mo'
Jonny Lang
Lightnin' Hopkins
B.B. King
Elmore James
Little Milton

And often if I'm in an art rutt, I'll break out the guit' and shread a little to get the creative juices flowing.



Mitch

[R_M]

Listening to albums or radio is fun when working, but I heard this theory from a friend of mine who is doing animation, and it goes a bit like this:

You shouldn't listen to music while working,

cause it affects the way you draw (duh!)

we are to sensitive to it, and we can't really control the final output.
guess it is fine to listen to stuff when you are doing a single picture, but if you are drawing pose number 509 for mickey mouse you should be able to keep the same lines trough the entire series...

what do you think? does music affects you to much?

Oh if you are into Tom Waits you should chek out "the blind boys of alabama" they made some awsome covers on some of his stuff (and Ben Harper makes a guest appereance on one of their cds)

[Crunch]

well yeah for work...but when you are doing art for art sake and not for a job...i think we should let music effect us. the world would be a extreemly boring place without music.
mitch: old school is great sometimes.
pibb:converge is great but only when you are in that pissed off i want to kill people mood. it lets me draw some crazy stuff.jimmies chicken shack is great. i lost my cds of them but i gotta download them now...

[Sketch]

Ghostface Killah... Daytona 500. Go Speedracer!!!

[stikler999]

mcotie!!! wow... mine would be
johnny cash (his new american recordings 1-4 & his earlier stuff especially live from folsom prison)
nick cave
nick drake
tom waits
the bauhaus
killing joke
iron maiden
joy division
skinny puppy
oghr
alien sex fiend
electric hellfire club
thrill kill kult
iron maiden
iron maiden and um.... oh yeah!
IRON MAIDEN!!!!
hahahaha

[Nimrod]

skinny puppy! oghr! thrill kill kult! stikler you rock.

what about Download? have you hear cEvin Key's solo stuff? pretty rockin'.

[boehmke]

Track #3 to Fluke's album Risoto....'Kitten Moon' has inspired me for the past 6 years alone. Its a nine minute plus techno trance track that makes the creativity leak out of me.

Give it a try and get prepared to draw Sci-Fi stuff!

boehmke

[Tanika]

#1 Chrono Cross Soundtrack
#2 Zelda Oot/MM Soundtracks
#3 Escaflowne soundtrack

^^

[arkanos]

Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin, Bersuit Vergarabat, Sarah Brightman, Lenny Kravitz, Red hot chilli peppers, Chopin, Vitale - Baglietto, Little Buda Soundtrack, Radiohead, Coldplay, Pink Floyd, Vivaldi, Vanessa Mae, Paco de Lucia.