What kind of music you like planeters?

[Ernest]

I like differnets styles, sometimes Jazz, blues, classics, also likes stuff as electronic ambient music and chill out, but my favorite the Metal classics lke Iron Maiden and progrsive Rock like Dream Theater...
what you planters like must when are you painting?

 

[Roc]

I like good old fascion Rock and Roll, such as the Rolling stones, The doors, Beetles ect. ect...



Cheers
Roc

 

[Figure Mad]

I like to listen to stuff a little off beat and a bit earlier than that, mostly black RnB vocal groups and western swing bands from the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s and some 60’s

Dave

 

[Guy]

I just loaded my CD player a few minutes ago. It holds 5 CD's and it has a mixture of jazz guitar, jazz Saxaphone (Kenny G ) and a couple of CD's of classical flute. I like relaxing, soothing music when I paint.

 

[Jason W.]

I can listen to practically anything. Classical, Rock, Country and Jazz. Sometimes when I'm really into a subject, I'll put on German, French or British military marches. When working on American Civil War subjects I'll put on fife and Drum or brass band music. Movie soundtracks are cool too.

It's strange that I CAN'T concentrate without some sort of background "sound".

Jason

 

[DaveCox]

I don't listen to any music whilst modelling. When I sit back and chill out then I like traditional English & Scottish folk music, 70s-80s heavy rock (Zep, Sabbath, Uriah Heep etc) and a band that my daughter turned me onto - Nightwish.

 

[KeithP]

Man, I cannot listen to Rock music when painting and I remain a huge LedZep and Pink Floyd fan. I guess that stuff keys me up a wee bit too much. :lol:

I generally tune in to a local Classical music station.

Ketih

 

[DEL]

Hello all.
try this, http://magnatune.com/ someone posted it on another forum a few months ago.
Great site with some really good obscure stuff.... you can even find music to match pretty much anything you're painting from medieval to present.

Best wishes to all, have a happy, prosperous and healthy new year.

Derek

 

[Blind Pew]

Jason, I did read somewhere ages ago, that having background music enables part of the brain to switch off, thus enabling it to concentrate on whatever matter is in hand, something like that anyway.

Myself, I have 100's of songs on the PC here and listen to them in rotation. Depeche Mode, Level 42 & Squeeze are the best.

One thing to watch out for - I don't know if anyone else can bear me out here - I tend to find I work to the tempo of the music. It's not a conscious thing but I find myself doing it...

 

[megroot]

Ernesto,

My favorite music is blues played by Stevie Ray Vaughan, and second and third Albert King and BB King.
After that it is all 60 and 70 s and some 80. In my younger years i was what they called a soul brother. So Tamla Motown, The sound of Philadelphia like MFSB, Tramps, Tree Degrees.
And above all BARRY WHITE.
That is the music i have on CD and playing when i am painting.
After that the tuner is on ARROW CLASSIC ROCK that name says enough.
But i never paint or do anything else without music except

Marc

 

[Wlas]

Depends on the mood I guess.
Being an old fart I love Doo-Wop.
Being a Polack I have all the Chieftains' cds.
Pink Floyd, Bowie, Robert Palmer, Sting, Michael MacDonald, and Luther van Dross have a home here.
Likewise G'vmnt Mule, Steely Dan, Moody Blues, Hall and Oats.
As well as Ry Cooder ( my fav' guitarist ).
I play Mary Fahl a lot....what a voice.
All of Chuck Berry's stuff is right beside Domingo and Pavarotti.
I've got some great modern Native American cds.
Easier to ask what I don't like!
What I don't like is military music. I quote: Military music is to music what military justice is to justice....
And tho' I love Italian Opera I'll pass on Gilbert and Sullivan.

 

[slaj]

My fave music is the good old '70's rock....led zeppelin,deep purple,sabbath and the great pink floyd

Stephen Mallia

 

[Blind Pew]

Steve, you're showing your age now mate

 

[Jim Patrick]

I listen to all of the above mentioned music however, I'd like to add a group to the Classic Rock category. Credence Clearwater Revivial. You have to have some CCR at least once a week. I too have hundreds of songs on my puter and play whatever I'm in the mood for. Like Jason, I too listen to Military Marches, but only when a project is nearing completion. Also, a genre that hasn't been mentioned (and YES! it is music!) is Bluegrass. I guess it's an acquired taste but I was raised on it. That and Country. Especially the "old" country music but nothing quite replaces that banjo.........aghhhhhhhhh well, I guess I'm one of the few, the proud, the bluegrass listeners!

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Jim Patrick

 

[megroot]

Originally posted by Jim Patrick@Dec 31 2005, 12:20 AM
I listen to all of the above mentioned music however, I'd like to add a group to the Classic Rock category. Credence Clearwater Revivial. You have to have some CCR at least once a week. I

Jim Patrick

This is one of my favorite groups out of my younger years. I still have the LP (black Cd but then larger for the younger guys :lol: :lol: ) Cosmos Factory.
On Cd i think i have them all, maybe two missing (bootlegs)
Jim, i can get them all here, there are so many where i have music from
What do you think about the song Locomotive Bread, In a Gadda da Vida with his great drumsolo. etc. etc.

Marc

 

[PJ Deluhery]

I listen to almost everything, but primarily jazz, blues and soul (Tower of Power, etc.). Depends on my mood. I also have a large classical library that I listen to while working. Of courese I also enjoy classic rock, Motown, some metal bands and even a soundtrack or two.

 

[Jim Patrick]

:lol: Marc, I still have and listen to my LP's. Wife and kids give me a hard time though. They can't understand why I would listen to vinyl when there's a CD to listen to. I can't explain it to them and gave up trying several years ago.

Jim Patrick

 

[quang]

When I start a project (sculpting or painting), I always put on the same record over and over again (it's easy with iTunes, just click on 'Repeat All' :lol until the project is completed.

As such, each one of my figures is associated with a type of music/singer. For the Crow, it was the Legends Of The Fall soundtrack during the sculpting and Katie Melua during the painting. Don't ask me why . I also find that Peggy Lee's early recordings make some good 'sculpting music' so does Rickie Lee Jones' Pirates and Flying Cowboys.

And of course you cannot go wrong with Ry Cooder and Steely Dan.

Q.

 

[Glen]

Ooh, an easy one... Enya (her new 'Amarantine' is outstanding), Chieftains, Loreena McKennitt, Moody Blues, Classical, Clannad, Glenn Miller (great for WW II subjects), various Celtic, and others of the like.

 

[Dan Morton]

Interesting thread. And I can listen to a lot of the bands and artists you guys mention.

Marc - Sorry to disagree with you, but "Inagaddavida" is NOT a good drum solo and I say that as a drummer since 1965, playing soul, rock, jazz, but never Country.

Anything by the immortal Buddy Rich - now THAT's A HELLUVA drum solo!!!!

Anything by Dave Weckl - now THAT's a well-crafted and intricate drum solo. Weckl's a jazz drummer, debatably the best living.

In terms of rock drummers, Neil Peart is debatably the best living and the only rock drummer I know of that writes such interesting song lyrics. The best immortal - no question - John Bonham. How did he play consistently behind the beat like that, so late all the time and still sound right!!!??? I've heard drummers try to duplicate his style so many times I've lost count. Nobody can.

No offense, I'm not saying you aren't entitled to your own tastes in music and drums, Marc, but just give those guys a listen for inventive, incredibly difficult to play chops.

When sculpting, mostly I listen to jazz, other than modern bop or post-modern bop or some of the less melodic fusion stuff. Horace Silver, Dizzy, the Count and the Duke, Dave Brubeck. Also Latin jazz - although not all of it - Poncho Sanchez, Chick Corea, Tito, & Joao Gilberto. Having said that, right now I'm listening to a rotation of a Traffic CD, a Santana CD and a re-issue from the FIRST true heavy metal band EVER - Blue Cheer (1967), the loudest band ever!

All the best,
Dan