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What do you listen to when you write? i'm writing Slacker 3 right now and i have been trying to get into a skater mindset, so Phantom Planet, ween, Fountains of Wayne, Avril... a little, offspring... but i was wondering if anyone else soundtracks their writing?
Rawking out,
Diana
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A lot of what I listen to...
...often shows up as a counter "melody" to the story. I've used Evanescence, Krall, Korngold, Rozsa, the Final Fantasy soundtrack, show tunes, Alison Krauss, even some of my own compositions. Iona is my music of choice lately, and I've recently featured the Irish band Dervish as well. A lot of Celtic stuff floating around. Eclectic works for me. I'll go over to youtube today and listen to the music you just cited. Thanks
Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
It is a scientifically proven fact
Listening to Mozart makes you smarter.
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Soundtrack to my thoughts
Me, if I listen to music, it's either contemporary Christian, Country Western, or Classic Rock
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Moods
I couldn't write without it. Currently, trying to finish off my long gestating Halloween story, I've got Apocalyptica "Hall of The Mountain King" playing as well as O'Fortuna as done by Therion. It seems to be best when I try for a given mood. Nancy Sinatra, Cindy Lauper (Because Girls DO want to have fun!), Johnny Cash, classical flutist James Galway, and let's not forget Paul Mauriat because 'Love is Blue.' Speaking of composers, Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, but I love the more recent movie soundtracks done by John Williams, Elmer Bernstein, and others.
If the music can move me to tears, then somehow I can put part of that into what I write. Shhh..., don't tell anyone. Don't want my tissue stock to go down.
hugs
Grover
Stuff that I like to hear.
Hm... I hear skillet, Pur (german band ;), rammstein, evanescence, Simple Plan, Linkin Park and other stuff...
Just stuff that I like to hear...
Kitchen Sink Eclectic
I tend to rotate genres of what I listen to when I'm writing. Jazz until it gets monotonous, punk until it gets me too jittery, classical to show Starkist I got good taste, country when I want to jar my more maudlin emotions. But always something.
When I wrote my novel TOO MUCH OF A GOODYEAR THING (posted at FICTIONEER) I wrote down what I listened to while writing and listed them at the end. If you ever write a satiric rubber fetish novel you can't go wrong with these:
~hugs, Veronica
The Beatles: RUBBER SOUL /// Jefferson Starship: RED OCTAPUS /// Billy Holiday: THE VERVE COLLECTION (disc 2) /// the Pixies: BOSSANOVA /// Berlin: PLEASURE VICTIM /// Ike + Tina Turner Review: WHAT U SEE IS WHAT U GET (Live at Carnegie Hall) /// the Scientists: WEIRD LOVE /// Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band: LICK MY DECALS OFF BABY /// the Who: QUADROPHENIA /// Luciano Berio: LABORINTUS II (Berio conducts Musique Vivante) /// Soft Cell: NONSTOP EROTIC CABARET /// Lou Reed: CONEY ISLAND BABY /// Shonen Knife: BIRDS & THE B-SIDES /// Akiru Ifukube: GODZILLA SOUNDTRACK /// Brian Eno: HERE COME THE WARM JETS /// Dolly Parton: BUBBLING OVER /// Ali Akbar Khan: "80 MINUTE RAGA" /// John Cale: FEAR /// GAMELANS OF JAVA (Nonesuch ?) /// Psychedelic Furs: FOREVER NOW /// Marty Robbins: IT'S A SIN /// Prokofiev: SCYTHIAN SUITE (Boulez/Paris) /// the epidemics: YOU CAN BE ANYTHING /// Roxy Music: FOR YOUR PLEASURE /// CRUMB soundtrack /// Love & Rockets: 7TH DREAM OF TEENAGE HEAVEN /// Pharoah Sanders: MESSAGE FROM HOME /// Syd Barret: BARRET /// Screamin' Jay Hawkins: VOODOO JIVE /// Blondie: PARALLEL LINES /// Ramatam: IN APRIL CAME THE DAWNING OF THE RED SUNS /// Bowie: STATION TO STATION /// Lil Green: WHY DON'T YOU DO RIGHT? (1940-42) /// Henry Kaiser: HEART'S DESIRE /// Hole: PRETTY ON THE INSIDE /// Beethoven's 7TH (Reiner/Chicago) /// Tom Waits: FRANK'S WILD YEARS /// Goo Goo Dolls: SUPERSTAR CARWASH /// Modern Jazz Quartet: PLASTIC DREAMS /// Bonzo Dog Band: URBAN SPACEMAN /// Sly & the Family Stone: STAND /// Jesus & Mary Chain: BARBWIRE KISSES /// Patti Smith: RADIO ETHIOPIA /// X-Ray Spex: GERM FREE ADOLESCENTS /// Thee Midniters: WHITTIER BLVD. /// BRAZIL soundtrack /// the Fugs: IT CRAWLED INTO MY HAND, HONEST /// Boss Hogg: RUBY RUBY /// the Kinks: LOLA VS. POWERMAN & THE MONEY GO ROUND /// Dan Hicks: WHERES THE MONEY? /// Howlin Wolf: CADILLAC DADDY 1952 /// TRAINSPOTTING soundtrack /// STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE /// Current 93: IMPERIUM /// LOST HIGHWAY (soundtrack) /// The Cramps: A DATE WITH ELVIS /// CCR: PENDULUM /// Grace Slick: BARON VON TOLLBOOTH VS. THE CHROME NUN /// Hooch: MAXIMUM SHINDIG /// Captain Beefheart: SHINY BEAST (Bat Chain Puller) /// Pain Teens: BEAST OF DREAMS /// John Handy Quintet: LIVE @ MONTEREY 1965 /// Buddy Morrow: NIGHT TRAIN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD /// Iggy Pop: AMERICAN CAESAR /// Miles Davis: BIG FUN /// Hendrix: RAINBOW BRIDGE /// Ravel: DAPHNIS & CHLOE (???) /// Royal Fingerbowl: HAPPY BIRTHDAY SABO /// STUFF SMITH & his Onyx Club Boys: 1936-1939 /// Pere Ubu: DATAPANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO /// Passion Fodder: FAT TUESDAY /// Bowie: LOW /// Louie Armstrong: HOT 5'S & 7'S (vol. 2) /// Bobby Bare: DOWN & DIRTY /// Sonic Youth: WASHING MACHINE /// Camper van Beethoven: OUR BELOVED REVOLUTIONARY SWEETHEART...
"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU
Soundtracks
On the rare occasions when I have the time and motivation to write, I prefer to do so in silence, without any distractions. The same for reading.
When I'm not doing either, I have a very eclectic taste, covering a multitude of genres. Here's a lightning tour of my collection:
Classical - a mixture of compilation albums, plus Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture / Marche Slave / Italian Caprice / Piano Concerto / Nutcracker excerpts. Clementi's Opus 36 (also in sheet music, some of which I can make a reasonable attempt at playing!) and finally Pirates of Penzance.
Crossover - Hooked on Classics, Adiemus, Tubular Bells
Pop - ABBA, The Beatles, Weird Al
Rock - Meatloaf, Queen
Game - SimCity 2000 / 3000 / 4 soundtracks, Acorn Lemmings / Oh No More Lemmings tunes
Christmas - the obligatory compilation album, plus the TSO albums
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
depends...
I'm almost always listening to music, no matter what I'm doing, but it doesn't always have too large an impact on what I write.
With Open Your Heart, however, I've made music an integral component of the stories composition. I even titled it after a song! Open Your Heart, by Yuki Kajiura. It's sequel will be titled Come to the Grace, another line from the same song.
Every chapter so far has opened with at least one song reference, and this is no accident. Every time I refer to a song in prose, there's a reason for the reference. Every time I quote lyrics from the song, there's a reason for the quote. Music plays so integral a role in Open Your Heart, that to strip out the music would be to strip out at least half the story.
I've actually been considering writing a blog entry of my own describing the purposes of the songs already used, and of the songs I'm going to use in Chapter 4.
The reason I'm considering doing this? I'm not really trying to be vague or hard to understand with this integration of songs that most readers are likely to have never encountered, but I have a sneaking suspicion that my readers might not be taking the musical integration seriously. I want to point out to them what they might be missing if they aren't, so that in future chapters they might be more accustomed to the style and look for the clues on their own.
The music integration serves my stylistic approach to prose - layered meaning - beautifully, and, in my opinion, is much better to read than pages and pages of literal description of what's going on in my characters head. A few lines from a song, describe the feel of the music, and describe the characters reaction, and I get my point across in a quarter of the words that it'd take to do it literally.
At least, I hope it does.
Abigail Drew.