What do you listen to while painting?

[St. Murphy]

I started out "watching" various tv shows, but dropped that since I was really only listening anyway. Books on tape are great, but expensive and the things I want to read don't always get me into the vibe of the grim dark. Unless I'm painting LOTRSBG then I could listen to LOTR again and again. But my latest go to while painting are the TED Talks. There is nothing more grim dark than real life. I usually pick out the ones on ecological disasters, or future technologies that are here now. Give it a shot.

[Cpt Codpiece]

for me its the horus heresy audio books :)

or the doors........ something about Jims tone just keeps me painting.... though horse latitudes sometimes can be a little distracting.

my painting circle has been known to have the odd bit of slayer and rollins band right down to oasis and paul weller. but the slayer and stuff was a while ago... back in our teens and twenties LOL

[Grenadier]

I've never been a big music lover so around the house my background noise is my television. So I'll tune into the History Channel, Discovery, AMC, or Fox News since I'm an evil right winger and listen to them as I work on my models. When it comes to the handful of shows I actually want to watch I'll do my models later.

[Kataklysm]

Since I do most of my modelling and painting in my barracks, I get to listen to a menagerie of young soldiers wrestling, yelling, playing loud awful rap music, things/people being tossed around and general pandemonium. It used to be distracting, but now I have grown used to it. It kinda makes me feel like I can paint in a warzone. So its good training in my opinion. If i do have a choice of listening music it is usually something lite like easy listening.

[Yriel_The_Angelic]

I listen to the band "American Football." I don't need a drimgark musical inspiration session. I need calming music that helps calm meself so i can paint shenanigans. In a non shenanigan way of course.

[plasticaddict]

I normally paint out on my patio in the evening, I just enjoy the quite after a busy day.

[Jenn]

When I'm painting I usually watch/ listen to musicals. Namely Moulin Rouge, Glee, Phantom of the Opera, Repo! and the like. Alternatively I like to listen to 40k podcasts here and there to mix it up but generally I have a hard time finding ones that arent just a total boys club with fart jokes and the like. Failing either of those I like to listen to Russian pop music, the stylings of Nyusha and Chi-li being personal favourites of mine... Then again thats what all 40k players listen to/ watch, right?... Right?

[Grenadier]

Not this 40k player Jenn.

[Krisken]

Generally I catch the 11th Company podcast and a few others if I have the time while painting/modeling. I've also watched shows on Hulu or Netflix in the past, though I find it can be a little distracting.

For music I am a 90's kid so lots of Alternative/Grunge/Punk stuff. Whatever is in my playlist gets shuffled on random, so there can be quite a mix of music.

[Houghten]

This (http://patientzero.bandcamp.com/track/dwarf-hole-diggy-diggy-hole), over and over and over.

[Meph]

Depends a bit on the mood, some nice engaging bass music, like lounge, UK dub, chill music in general.
Or melodic and not too hectic death metal like Opeth, Thurisaz, Ghost Brigade, Swallow The Sun.

Or a 40K audio book :D

[ElDuchen]

If I have a movie on, I usually end up watching the show as opposed to painting. So I usually listen to 40k podcasts: 11th Company, 40KUK, and Life after the Cover Save. They are all nice and long, so I can get a decent amount of painting in at a shot.

[BHound1981]

I tend to listen to movie and game soundtracks and epic classical pieces for the most part.

[Tynskel]

I started out "watching" various tv shows, but dropped that since I was really only listening anyway. Books on tape are great, but expensive and the things I want to read don't always get me into the vibe of the grim dark. Unless I'm painting LOTRSBG then I could listen to LOTR again and again. But my latest go to while painting are the TED Talks. There is nothing more grim dark than real life. I usually pick out the ones on ecological disasters, or future technologies that are here now. Give it a shot.

You could always get books on tape from your local librarium. Just don't return the data slates back late, or the librarians might smite you.

[Tynskel]

Rooster Teeth Drunk Tank Podcast.

[eldargal]

Audio books, Bach, the Mass Effect 3 soundtrack...

[Mr.Pickelz]

I'm a bit bipolar when it comes to music, going from Chopin to Metallica to Prodigy, as an example. For me it's really about how the music relates to the model/squad I'm painting. This helps me get in the mood to paint all the orks for my green tide.
Songs like: Nocturne op.9 / Blitzkrieg / Texas flood / Warrior's Dance / Don't stop me now / etc...

[MrGiggles]

I find I listen to things more now that I'm painting. I used to watch movies or shows, but now that I've gotten good enough to care about where the paint goes, I find myself paying more attention to that and thus listening rather than watching.

Generally, I prefer podcasts like the 11th Company, Independent Characters and Screaming Heretic or audio books. In a pinch, the local classic rock station will do.

[Cherub]

I listen to crazy music like LMFAO and ICP when I paint.

[bfmusashi]

Depends on what I'm painting, but it's almost always a game soundtrack. I've been on a Hitoshi Sakimoto (mostly Final Fantasy 12, but some of his Final Fantasy Tactics and Valkyria Chronicles* stuff) kick lately with a few songs from Blazblue.

*This one is most fitting for my continued efforts to paint my guardsmen like the Gallian Militia.

[jifel]

I don't really listen to "Grimdark" music for a painting mood. A lot of my Tyranids were painted to Jimmy Buffet and the Beatles, and then my WIP Marines have been mostly Boston with a bit of Queen.

[Levitas]

Disco House. Its the only way to paint Dark Eldar. :cool:

[Brakkart]

Really depends on the time of day. Lately I've been doing a lot of painting during the early hours of the morning (Unemployment sucks, but it does mean I get to keep what hours I want for the most part) and the quiet helps me focus. During the day though it's either 80's rock & pop, or else a folder I have of mp3's of my favourite tunes from the movies. Put winamp on random play and repeat and chill out listening to great themes from John Williams, Danny Elfman, James Horner, Howard Shore, David Arnold, Bear McCreary and a few more.

[Loshkins]

Listen to a pod cast, battle report or a movie I've seen a bunch of times.

[UltramarineFan]

This (http://patientzero.bandcamp.com/track/dwarf-hole-diggy-diggy-hole), over and over and over.

I am Dave! Yognaut and I have the balls!

[Grenadier]

The best thing to listen to when working on your models are the voices in your head. Am I right?

Of course you are right sir. You're a man of greatness after all.
Why thank you for those kind words!
Don't listen to him! He's lying to you. You're a slob!
Why I oughta.....

[planet psyrum]

Podcasts, Podcasts Podcasts. My favorite is the 11th company. Deepstrike radio is in second. Turn 8 is third and frontline something is second. If it is a good painting week, and I run out if Podcasts to listen to, i will pip on Pandora and listen to menomena radio station. Menomena - check em out

[thereverend]

Audio books are a good choice. I tend to listen to Radio 1 and 1 Xtra and catch up with the latest moosak

[gwensdad]

Podcasts, audio books or plays, the previous day's Daily Show/Colbert Report. Sometimes have playlists from youtube going. If I'm not alone I have to listen to whatever is on the TV (the Gwen is currently switching between Bratz movies and the animated Avengers series.)

[L192837465]

I usually just put my Zune on shuffle. If I had to pick a band, it'd be Dream Theater or System of a Down. And it had better be loud enough to filter everything else out.


I used to paint to The Wall. Every time I hear any songs from that album I taste paint.

[Necron2.0]

I listen to my wife ... nagging me on why is it I'm wasting time with childish things, not working on the house, not paying attention to her, not exercising, not taking her out to dinner, not taking care of her pets, not ..., not ..., not ..., etc., etc., etc. ...........

Actually no. She's a good woman and puts up with a lot from me and I'm lucky to have her. Only every once in a great while does she have a WTF moment.

When I'm painting I prefer silence. When I'm working in a delicate area, I'll sometimes concentrate on the beat of my heart in order to time my brush stroke.

[St. Murphy]

Just listened to a powerful Ted Talk while painting up some Salamanders:

Why I Chose the Gun by Peter Van Uhm

Check it out.

[Captain Ismer]

I focus pretty intently while I'm working, so I tend to just turn on some music or leave the tv on Scifi or Food Network. A little background noise to keep me from getting lonely.

[Happosai]

Depends on what I'm painting, but it's almost always a game soundtrack. I've been on a Hitoshi Sakimoto (mostly Final Fantasy 12, but some of his Final Fantasy Tactics and Valkyria Chronicles* stuff) kick lately with a few songs from Blazblue.

*This one is most fitting for my continued efforts to paint my guardsmen like the Gallian Militia.

You, sir, are AWESOME for the reference.

For me, I am not quite yet to the painting stage, but while assembling I have been listening to things like ME3 soundtrack, Final Fantasy Tactics, some LotR music, Star Wars soundtracks, but mainly game soundtracks.

Oh, also I listen to this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYV96VsFf2U&feature=fvst) :-) (just kidding)

[Defenestratus]

I listen to "Two Steps from Hell" epic trailer and soundtrack music. YOu might recognize it as some of the music in the recent Mass Effect 3 trailers.
http://www.amazon.com/Invincible/dp/B003MOHX8S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331820056&sr=8-1

[Defenestratus]

Just listened to a powerful Ted Talk while painting up some Salamanders:

Why I Chose the Gun by Peter Van Uhm

Check it out.


Thats a great speech and you can just see the TED brainiacs squirming in their seat when the captain brings out the weapon to the stage.

[Malok1013]

I'll usually listen to some jazz on pandora. Nice, calm stuff to paint by. Helps keep a mediocre painter like myself from screwing something up.

[Necron2.0]

I'll usually listen to some jazz on pandora.

Oooh, no. I couldn't do it. I'd stop painting and just listen to the music. Late at night, I love Jazz, especially if it has a Latin rhythm, something like >>this<< (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PhRgXNbXwk), or >>this<< (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHgNqbdBKs). That could just be my roots coming out, though.

[Sippin' On Paint Water]

I listen to stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1-dUtieog0&feature=g-hist&context=G260bb3fAHT2GWLAAfAA

YEAH BUDDY!

[Pendragon38]

swing music like Big Bad Vodoo Daddy some good up beat stuff:cool:

[Bracchus]

I find that audiobooks are great for when I'm painting, but finding good scifi books can be hard sometimes. And if I can't concentrate on the book I usually switch over to my spotify playlist, basically a mish mash of different kinds of metal, anything from Iron Maiden, Sabaton (great 40k music as they have a WWII theme on most of their stuff), Danzig, Judas Priest, to heavier stuff such as Entombed, Graveworm and Raubtier gets my painting mood going.

Some of the bands mentioned above are probably to small and/or regional for most of BoLS members, so here are some links for those interested in metal music.

Raubtier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogLwHEPyXBE&list=UUMNfcuhfcXJDr-EdSAD9sGg&index=8&feature=plcp) (Swedish lyrics)
Sabaton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCdRLWkwhA&list=UUjQhd1APsd5NQhiVZV7GYzg&index=10&feature=plcp)
Graveworm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKVCOAVJiyU) (I need a hero cover, lolz)

[Kaiserdean]

I listen to the radio. Sometimes it's folk, jazz or classical, depending on my mood.

[Hive Mind]

There isn't one thing I listen to. Sometimes I'll put my 'pumped' playlist on, sometimes I'll put an album on, sometimes I'll have The Economist podcast on, sometimes I'll just have BBCNews24 on in the background, sometimes I'll have the Leafs or Jays game on, sometimes the missus will be watching something...

[BossLike]

Honeymoon returned and my husband feels like a teenager again with cialis pills (http://acidinks.com/) and really helps
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[iheartgrimdark]

BBC radio 4 extra is good for painting to. They have some good old radio plays, a sci-fi hour, old detective stuff and some cracking old BBC radio comedy like the goon show. Either that or some power electronics.

[FeralOni]

i usually listen to my rather expansive collection of 90's alt. rock, though recently my friend has lent me both Horus Heresy 'Garro' audiobooks... too bad i can't paint as i have a fractured clavicle :(

[Garamond]

i like to listen to justin bieber

[St.Germaine]

I usually paint while watching tv but when I do listen to music while painting, it's not the noise that seems to be very popular with the online 40k-ers. :confused: I'm a fair bit older than most of you so that's not terribly surprising. In the couple of towns I've played regularly I've not seen many people in the group who are enthralled by death metal/thrash metal/etc... that seems very popular with the online crowd. Generally I have extremely varied taste in music excluding rap, death metal, and twangy country. I am most likely to be listening to melodic metal, progressive rock, some electronica, female adult alternative vocalists, Irish folk, movie soundtracks, and filk.

[doom-kitten]

Personally I prefer music, tv will distract me with moving pictures and audiobooks make me sick, for some reason I hate the idea of a machine reading to me. I mostly listen to various styles of metal, anything from Amon Amarath to Nightwish.

[Ignatius Grulgor]

I like to listen to the hithchhikers guide to the galaxy or black library.

[canoebuilder001]

PodCasts. 11th Company, the ICs, you name it. Nothing is more inspiring than listening to some new ideas for what the models can do on the table top.

[Embergem]

Some flavour of metal, mostly something from the Scandinavian melodeath scene.

[Necron2.0]

Some flavour of metal, mostly something from the Scandinavian melodeath scene.

Would that be Nightwish, then?

[Vralka]

Disney all the way, surely?

[bigheaddan]

I listen to audiobooks while I paint. I currently am listening to the Wheel of Time Series.

[Colonel Falkenberg]

Mostly the TV, since it's right beside my paintingbtable... more often or not it's either on the weather channel or the guild channel.

[Neb08]

I watch Hulu since most of the time shows come up that I dont really care about. If something comes on that catches my attention and I start to focus too much on it, then it shows badly in my painting! (happens probably too often)

[ArchonPhelps]

I cant do hulu or any television. My A.D.D. kicks in and I'll start watching the shows instead of painting. I'll go through all the podcast I can get my hands on

[DeathsHead]

I pretty much have killed all of netflix streaming, Im having trouble finding stuff to watch while I paint. I always paint late at night so music is out. Sometimes I do the podcast thing too, the overlords and Kev Smiths stuff, nerdist, and sometimes Doug loves movies.

[jorvic]

Painting feels pretty mindless so to counteract that I either listen to college lectures from i tunes university or i just double up on the mindlessness and watch/listen to tv shows.

[I_R_Chaos]

I will usually listen to movie soundtracks and classical music. Sometimes I pick music that some call depressing, but it works for me.

[Cartographer]

Dubstep has been filling the airways lately, gives me a lot of energy to keep going when some of the redundancy from painting settles in. That and Game of Thrones in the background...

[Duck]

Classical all the way. It'll keep me from going insane when I make that giant mistake ><'

[gruubii]

Usually Pandora, Digitally Imported, Audio books, or podcasts.

[Inquisitor A]

I usually listen or watch sports because it's easy to know what's going on without really having to pay attention to it.

[Feynmann]

I listen to a whole bunch of smodcasts, that or some sort of techno-y music, I am not too particular.

[z3n1st]

Mainly I listen to audio books, helps me focus. If not then I am listening to a mix of classical, reggae, hard rock, and dance music put on shuffle so I never know what to expect, again it helps me focus.

[Abides]

Usually a youtube channel of a random band i heard on the radio that week, sometimes a season of a good tv series. Has a side effect of grouping batches of models to certain soundtracks when i look at them now.
Empire models sound like Metric and Hey Ocean, Ogres are Sons of Anarchy and Game of Thrones.

[ntjones92]

Whatever I'm in the mood for.

Usually some form of classic heavy metal to 80's power and speed metal. Although sometimes I've been known to flip on Pandora and do a random station like Sinatra or Cash. :D

[ragnarcissist]

depends on the mood, but usually ill just put on netflix and throw on some standup comedy or a tv show that i dont have to have my full attention on, if im doing a big project (terrain or vehicles) ill throw on some metal (american metal is the best, cant stand that euro emo "metal") and drink an energy drink

[Brother Cruorem]

If I think about playing music before I start painting I usually listen to classical. It's something to keep me calm and entertained with out distracting me, because if I know the words to a song I tend to sing to it.

[Zuul]

I've designated Queen as my working music.

[gruebot]

:eek:
http://soundcloud.com/gruebot/shwompthang