Music To Write To

[Guest]

I've got an all-purpose writing playlist that I tweak depending on my mood and what I'm writing. It generally includes a bit of upbeat alt rock (Cake, Modest Mouse, Scissor Sisters), a lot of more mellow, folky rock (Sufjan Stevens, Neil Halstead, Hank Dogs), I bit of rock (David Bowie, PJ Harvey), a dose of Canadiana (Gordon Lightfoot, Weakerthans, Rheostatics), and a bit of jazz (Mingus, Ron Carter). Oh, and some mellow or low-fi electronica (Beta Band, early Amon Tobin). Right now I'm finding the Sufjan Stevens stuff really works fantastically for writing.

I LOVE the Scissor Sisters!!

I have a writing playlist, too! Seems like many of us do. As Jeanne (or was it Og?) said, when you know the music really well, you hear it without having to concentrate on it. An hour can go by, while I'm sat here writing, and I honestly can't remember what I've just been listening to, or if I was listening to music at all. I always have it up pretty loud, too!

Lou

 

[fogbank]

Yeah, the Sisters are great. I'm not sure exactly how they made it onto my writing playlist, although I listened to their Comfortably Numb so often that it became familiar to the point of being therapeutic.


Curious to know if anyone has tried working while listening to Correlli's music, particularly his Christmas Concerto. The soviets had a theory that there was something about certain baroque music where the harmonies matched brain waves, and they believed it stimulated the brain. So in some factories and laboratories, they would apparently pipe in baroque music to try to maximize both alertness and relaxation.

 

[amicus]

OMG MAB?

Mancini & the Peter Gunn albums? Gerry Mulligan Chet Baker, the MJQ?

Sighs..the US POst office is using Brubeck/Desmond, Blue Rondo ala Turk on a television commercial....

relegated to the past am I, oh my, oh my...

Sergio Mendes...Joao Gilberto...Susannah McCorkle, Maria Ninguem, No more blues...Thelonious Monk...'..round midnight' Jim Hall...Django, Billy Holiday (have you seen the aussie film, 'Billy's Holiday?)

the nat king cole quartet/quintet...benny goodman quarter/trio, sighs...days gone by....

regards...amicus...

 

[Belegon]

I mostly write to:

Ohhhhh - who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Absorbent and yellow and porous is he
If nautical nonsense be somethin' you wish
Just drop on the deck and flop like a fish



I have a four-year-old, what can I say?

or how about.....

F is for fire that burns down the whole town
U is for uranuium...bombs!
N is for No survivors.....

 

[Xelebes]

I write music so I guess I have to listen to the music I'm writing. Oy.

 

[ferociouskittycat]

I'm all over the place when it comes to the music I listen to when I write. I'm not currently writing(unless you include this post, LOL) but I do have music playing.
My play list is presently as follows although it really doesn't change much.

Rest In Pieces - Saliva
Figured you out - NickleBack
Rockabye - Shawn Mullins
One Last Breath - Creed
Bitch - Meredith Brooks
Can't Get No Satisfaction - Stones
She Fuckin Hates Me - Puddle of Mudd
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Fat Bottom Girls - Queen


I have a ton more that I put on as a loop and it usually plays the whole day once and a half around. Of course depending on my mood I skip around a lot too.

Wicked

My kinda woman!!!!!!

OH, and don't forget All American Rejects, Fountains Of Wayne, Daniel Bedingfield... shit you got me all excited LOL



EDIT: Ooh, ooh... David Usher, The Offspring, Violent Femmes, Lifehouse, Maroon 5, Hot Action Cop, Otis Redding, The Darkness, Jet, Amazing Rhythm Aces... too many to name, they all motivate me

Okay, I'm done LOL

Going off to load the carousel

 

[ferociouskittycat]

Yeah, the Sisters are great. I'm not sure exactly how they made it onto my writing playlist, although I listened to their Comfortably Numb so often that it became familiar to the point of being therapeutic.


Curious to know if anyone has tried working while listening to Correlli's music, particularly his Christmas Concerto. The soviets had a theory that there was something about certain baroque music where the harmonies matched brain waves, and they believed it stimulated the brain. So in some factories and laboratories, they would apparently pipe in baroque music to try to maximize both alertness and relaxation.

Who are the scissor sisters, and what songs can you recommend while I have WinmX open?

 

[Vincent E]

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom
When the jungle shadows fall
Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock
As it stands against the wall
Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops
When the summer shower is through
So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you

Night and day, you are the one
Only you beneath the moon or under the sun
Whether near to me, or far
It’s no matter darling where you are
I think of you

Day and night, night and day, why is it so
That this longing for you follows wherever I go
In the roaring traffic’s boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you

Day and night, night and day
Under the hide of me
There’s an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won’t be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you

Day and night, night and day

 

[amicus]

"In this world...of ordinary people...extra ordinary people...I'm glad there is you....."

"My funny valentine, sweet comic valentine...."

 

[fogbank]

Who are the scissor sisters, and what songs can you recommend while I have WinmX open?

The Scissor Sisters are a New York band (I think) that's somewhere between Supertramp and the Village People. Absolutely gorgeous 70s-style compositions. Best tracks of there's, I think, are:

Take Your Mama Out (apparently about taking your mother out for drinks with your gay friends and coming out to her)

Comfortably Numb (a gorgeous dancy-electronica cover of the Pink Floyd song of the same name)

Laura, and Tits on the Radio are also worth a download.