"Type of music when painting Miniatures?" Topic

TV is way too distracting, so when painting I put on music. John Williams movie scores are my favorite. (Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Superman, Close Encounters. etc.)

I know I'm a moaning git, but I really can't understand why people can't sit in silence. Every aspect of human life these days seems to require a backing track.

I'm sat here listening to the sound of my PCs fans, the cat on my lap purring and the patter of rain on the windows. Know what? It's great. :)

Loud.

French Napoleonic military music. Assorted Russian and Prussian period military music, as well as British…

Classical from the era, also.

When not listening to a book on tape, that is.

All over the place.
Last night, for instance, was early Bruce Springsteen.
And sometimes, yes, even just the purring cats!

I sometimes listen to this online stream: Radio Rivendell
radiorivendell.com

Sometimes I listen to my 8GB worth of MP3s, "watch" a DVD, watch something on Hulu, or watch shows on TBS.com--10 Items or Less, Meet the Browns, ect. I also listen to BBC radio dramas, like Judge Dredd, Superman, ect. Whatever I'm in the mood for. My computer sits across from my work/game table.

Often I like nothing on. We live near a lake. It's nice listening to the birds, especially when a nice breeze is blowing. Relaxing. Now when the kids are swimming in the nearby pool, that is different!

second radiorivendell, audiobooks on history or fantasy but I've also sat in the waiting room at the dentist and painted while the wife had her teeth cleaned and checked. and have sat and watched tv with my wife while painting.

I hate silence. That's why I live in a big city. I have an inability to do only one thing and I need several things going on at once. It's a necessity in my particular practice.

My wife needs to concentrate on only one thing.

For painting, I usually watch TV because that's where my station is, but I prefer to listen to national public radio.

I often match the music to what I am painting. Bagpipes and Scottish folk music for Jacobites, Prussian marches for the SYW, classical music (Mozart and Bach in particular) for SYW, various ACW bands for the ACW (95th Regt. String Band), French military marches and the Waterloo sound track for Napoleonics, etc.

Varies:

BBC Radio 4 (UK Domestic Speech Network)
Podcasts – from the Skeptic community
Last Romantics or Post Romantic composers (Bruckner, Mahler etc)

Like nycjadie I have watched tv with my wife whilst painting.

When i used to paint Napoleonics i would listen to Napoleonic music.

And when i'm painting Samurai then it's the Last Samurai music for me.

Captain Gideon

Usually heavy metal while painting. Although I have listened to Soviet music while painting Soviet WWII stuff, as well.

"and now the 3rd Dneipr Flotilla's Men's Choir will sing 'Defense of the Red Star Tractor number 5'"

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The late Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Leonard Cohen
Tom Waits
Abney Park
'Heavy Metal' Soundtrack
Lustmord

All sorts of stuff.. normally hardcore dance music though

Whatever they're playing at work at the time…

Rock…pop…metal…adult contemporary…movie soundtracks….talk radio

I normaly watch tv, but when I listen to music, it's Queen or AC/DC
Nothing like paiting when listing to Highway to hell.
Because we all know thats were we and all other wargamers are going.

Marches. I have @ 6 hours worth

I usually watch or listen to Football, Basket or Hockey during the season.

Otherwise, lots of different stuff; classical, electronics, Hip Hop, Metal, punk, new wave. French music when working on French soldiers (Jacques Brel especially). I have eclectic tastes in music.

I've reached the age that I have to paint with my glasses off, so I can no longer watch TV at the same time, even sports. On the plus side I have listened to a number of books, especially fiction, that I would never have taken the time to read otherwise. Bernard Cornwell is a better author than I would have thought. I've also discovered the classics, such as RED BADGE OF COURGE through audio books.

I listen to music sometimes, too. Celtic tunes seem to go well with military miniature painting for some reason. :-)

Mark

French music when working on French soldiers (Jacques Brel especially).

Quelle ironie

Perhaps not everyone knows that Jacques Brel was Belgian…

I only listen to soundtracks. Never have I been able to understand how one can paint and at the same time do something other with his eyes (like watching TV).

Grateful Dead concerts.

At the moment the sound of (hopefully Australian) wickets falling.

Perhaps not everyone knows that Jacques Brel was Belgian…

Quite

He was also a pacifist, albeit with Communist leanings.

Yes, I do know Brel was Belgian.

I should have wrote "Listening to music *in* French" when working on French soldiers. That would include French Canadian music, too.

How about Charles Trenet? Couldn't paint to him though

CT "BOUM"

CS "what the f?

Metal, punk, neo-folk or martial industrial. Usually metal.

- Communist leanings. -

Well, he gave us "Les Bourgeois"…love that song.

Trenet? Non. Georges Brassens, oui. You must like "Quand on est con", hey, Sage?

Lately I have been listening to Pandora with Nick Lowe as my starting point. Try Pandora, you'll love it! pandora.com

I listen to sermons from All Souls Langham Place – usually by Hugh Palmer.

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That way I can argue I am doing sermon and Bible study prep while I create Napoleon's Grande Armee!! The Devil will find no idle hands here! ;-)

Rich

I prefer 'Ne Me Quitte Pas' and 'Le Moribond'.

Brassens? You have the measure of me M. le Duc

Great to find other fans of Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens here!

For Conrad:

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I'd add

Marieke – YouTube link

I have to add "Dans le Port d'Amsterdam", then, to that list

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1) Old time radio programmes (Shadow, Inner Sanctum, Lone Ranger, Sherlock Holmes…)

2) AudioBooks (Harry Potter lately…)

3) Adam Ant. Dunno why…

4) the sound of another beer being poured…

5) My swearing at how I cannot paint eyes….

6) my kids bickering… just kidding…

7) and lots and lots of DMB (Dave Matthews Band)

In a first for historical wargaming (or at least I can't think of another example), Snappy Nappy comes with a FREE music CD called Emperor Triumphant (while supplies last) as well as a copy of Napoleon issue 17 (so you have all the color illustrations [including some Rocco] to go with the B&W rules).

I hired a composer to do original classical music with one of those synthesizers that have plug in modules to make strings, horns, and such (I'll let some other rules writer to be the first to hire a Philharmonic orchestra for a wargame soundtrack). We've used it for painting and for background music for wargaming, usually in shuffle play with other classical music CDs.

Any others?

I recall there was a re-issue of Dungeons and Dragons where TSR included a CD with a sample D&D session of DM and players talking which might have had background music on it. There was also a computer game called Loom where they did a promo CD with storyline and music. (Not including every computer game release nowadays which has background music while you play).

But as for miniature wargaming, Snappy Nappy is the only one with a music CD…

BBC Radio 7….spoken word….BBC Radio 4.

All types of music from Classical (currently smitten with Rameau) to Metal.

Pete

..And I forgot, anything live by Phil Collins.

All the problems of the world, Connard Sage, have been attributed to the fact that none can sit alone in a room; music not mentioned.

Old Time Radioplays
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I know I'm a moaning git, but I really can't understand why people can't sit in silence.

Hah, is there anything the rest of us people get up to that you DON'T mind? (said with tongue firmly in cheek) ;)

Actually, come to think of it, I sort of agree with you, it does seem that a lot of people simply can't get through their day without play music non-stop. I like music (a lot), but I mostly save it for car rides, working out or similar 'down time'.

When I paint, if do listen to music it is usually listen to either folk (or neo-folk, or whatever it's called now), period pieces, or podcasts (gaming or history related- History of Rome is an excellent one). I find that trying to paint to Metallica seems to only work for sci-fi forces. ;)

-Will

I know I'm a moaning git, but I really can't understand why people can't sit in silence.

I absolutely adore the quiet. So much so, in fact, that I often mourn the fact that it is *never* quiet where I'm currently ensconced… Thusly, headphones have become de rigeur for day-to-day life, let alone painting- if I'm going to be endlessly bombarded with sound, it's damn well going to be sound of my own choosing.

That said, I tend to go with slower stuff while painting- My Dying Bride, Opeth, Goatsnake, Khanate, KHLYST, or Daturah, as far as metal/pseudo-metal goes, or downbeat indy rock/folk, along the lines of National Lights, Belle de Gama, deadboy & The Elephant Men/Dax Riggs' solo stuff, or Pilot Speed. Even occasionally a bit of jazz, usually Jill Tracy or Jonas Hellborg.

- Monk

-The neighbors pack of extremely stupid dogs

-The other neighbors pack of extremely excitable dogs.

-The other other neighbor's attempts to be both Liberace and Wayne Newton, but sounding more like a Bronx version of Ricky Ricardo.

- The sound of my teeth grinding and cracking as I put up with this crap

- Whatever DVD or CD I can put my hands to that will drown out all this obnoxious clatter. Usually Space: Above and Beyond, Record of Lodoss War, Dead Can Dance, or whatever Netflix has brought me this week.

Why do we need background noise? Because everyone else has it, and if we can't beat it, we must join it.

Radio 4 or Radio2 (Radcliffe & Maconie)

Sci-fi/Fantasy – Heavy Metal

Historical – Classical Period Music

Oh yea…. Streaming live audio of The Ashes, or any cricket games…

If I am up late, then I will paint and enjoy the quiet and solace. Other wise, It's a toss up between Marilyn Manson, Brooks & Dunn or Sisters of Mercy. Depends on the mood somewhat, but mostly it's because I literally live across the street from a shipyard that makes destroyers and cruisers for the US Navy. During the daytime, music stifles the sounds from over there. At night, it's pretty quiet, though.

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radio 4. or radio 2 if mark radcliffe is on.

Silence and music are both alright, but painting is learning time. Historical podcasts, audio books, mp3 lectures from ted.com , it's all good.