What music do you listen to?

[Johnny Boy]

A movie soundtrack on rare occasion but it's usually an audio book with a tie to what I'm painting. Currently my head is in my Old West project so I've started listening to The Last Gunfighter to help keep the mood. For Homefront it's the Dads Army episodes done for the radio etc etc

[Eric the Shed]

currently listening to Walter Trout - fantastic blues guitar music - everybody i have recommended him to loves it !!

[Basementboy]

Thanks for the responses! Might have to try out some of these mentions, I’m always on the lookout for new music

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

Audiobooks, reggae and dub, 70’s-80s electronica.  Down tempo.

[Dentatus]

When I game? Genre-appropriate soundtracks.

When I paint or build terrain? Same or audiobooks.

When I work? Nothing. I need space and silence.

[infelix]

For gaming: someone at the club usually has some soundtrack or something similar playing in the background.

For painting: a bad tv show in the background or some 70/80s experimental industrial music.

[modelwarrior]

Recently listened to the Ink Spots while painting up my Fallout figures.

[Aethelflaeda was framed]

When gaming i avoid anything that is too much of  a “soundtrack”.  the climax rarely synchronizes and is often hard to talk over.  I generally prefer no music to game with but occasionally i like Carbon Based Lifeforms or Tangerine Dream when playing anything Cthulhu.

[LoxIslay]

Thanks for the responses! Might have to try out some of these mentions, I’m always on the lookout for new music

Seems more like you look for good music  the following albums there playing this weekend more or less while doing some hobby stuff

John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right To Suffer
Amy Antin - Just For The Record
Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street
Sevdaliza - Shabrang
Kim Petras - Feed The Beast
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
Karl Blau - Introducing Karl Blau
Jim Hall - Concierto
Yello - The Race
Sade - Lovers Rock
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

non music would be some lore like LAWhammer  re-livestreams

or some interviews of gw legends at jordan sorcery

or some call of cthullhu from stream of bloods neptun society

or some Mark Felton Productions WW2 stuff or simmular history productions


In the end I have to many interests and genres i listen/paint or pile up lead for

[zemjw]

I'll usually cue up a few albums and let the player randomly jump between them.

Choices tend to be folk, quiet country (veering towards folk), classical or some 80s stuff. It's just background noise, so it's usually on pretty low.

Every couple of years I'll listen to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

I gave up Amazon streaming as I was just listening to the same set of albums over and over (most of which I already owned). Gaming (what little there is) is done without music.

[Vanth]

I normally listen to old school punk and post-punk: New Model Army, Virgin Prunes, Dead Kennedys, stuff like this...

[Basementboy]

Seems more like you look for good music 

Let’s hope so! I’ll check out the recommendations

[carlos marighela]

Mostly Bucks Fizz, Deacon Blue, James Blunt and Celine Dion. Listening to them has made me realise that there is a human endeavour arguably worse than war. This salves my conscience as I paint toy soldiers.

Besides, to produce art you need to suffer.

[dadlamassu]

During a game? no music - interaction with players more important.
Painting, building/converting figures or building terrain? Classical - Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Sibelius or Classic FM (radio)
Clearing up after a game?  60s or 70s compilation CDs

[Daeothar]

Looks like I'm actually able to be stereotyped for once! I'm a miniature wargamer who is also a huge metalhead, so that's what's usually playing whenever I paint and also when I game (with likeminded opponents; I do tend to be considerate towards those of lesser taste  ).

But truth be told, it's just about anything but current pop music. I have taken a real liking to eighties feelgood music for instance, such as Huey Lewis and the News, Stan Bush, King Cobra, Kenny Loggins and a plethora of other, usually soundtrack related, songs. You know; from Rocky, Kickboxer, Karate Kid, Iron Eagle, Commando, Transformers etc. The ones that make you pump your fist in the air and go 'Yeah!' ('Never surrender!')

Then there's the whole Synthwave/New Retro Wave corner, which is a mix of eighties inspired electronic music, often combined with a healthy dose of metal. Groups like Pertubator, Carpenter Brut, Dance with the Dead, Gunship, Scandroid or Meteor.

Soundtracks are pretty good too. Last night we played a game of Grimdark Future, pitting my Necrons against my mate's Eldar, so naturally I put on the Terminator soundtrack(s)! But I also still love the ones from The Abyss, Lord of the Rings or Jurassic Park for instance.

Classically, I really like the Canto Ostinato by Simeon ten Holt; it really helps getting into, for lack of a better word, a painting trance, if you will. But only when I have an entire day to paint, which is not very often at all I regret to report.

Coming back to the metal though, when painting I like playing Melodic Deathmetal such as Amon Amarth, Dethklok and Archenemy, but also the classics such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, ACDC and Metallica.

Then, I also love 'fairytale metal' such as Nightwish, After Forever, Epica and Within Temptation. And when I'm in a truly brütal mood, I tend to play stuff like Slipknot or Orbit Culture.

A guilty pleasure are the hairmetal bands, such as Mötley Crüe, W.A.S.P., Europe, Quiet Riot, Poison, Skid Row etc. But also modern interpretations of the genre, such as Steel Panther and Crazy Lixx.

I usually tend to match the chosen music to the subject matter of the miniatures on my painting table, but as you can tell from the above, there is a prevalent general theme of riffs and powerchords...