What do you listen to while you work on models?

Any thing from the 50's 60's 70's

Over the Christmas holiday, a couple of us got together at my buddy Scott's house, for a painting/building day.  We worked at his kitchen table, with BBC/America's "Star Trek" marathon playing on the TV in his living room.  As we worked, I called out lines, since I've seen every one of the original episodes over and over when I was a kid.

"Tellarites do not argue for reasons, they simply argue."

"They can't do nothin' till they're through sparklin'!"

"He called the 'Enterprise' a garbage scow!"

I will listen to anything that my moods put me in. It could be country, 50's to the present time, almost everything, well except rap.  I am very fond of new age to mystical/star/meditative type. That type is number one with me. 

I mainly just need something in the background to break up the silence.

Rap.

I listen to the radio, then when they start repeating songs I pop in a CD in the sterio.

I tend to have Pandora on the bench and listen to a widw range of music. 50"s - 80's....Boston, Zepplin, CCR, Toto and so on. I also will play 3rd Day, Casting Crowns, classical and everything in between. No Rap or Hip Hop....never found that to be music.

tonka

I 'listen' to the TV, usually an old movie or a DVD that I have seen so don't need to concentrate. SInce I build mostly military --old war movies are a top choice.

 

Same here. Have around 30+ war movies and around 400 DVD's. I tend to play war movies more so, but the occassional 1950's sci-fi horror flicks work as well. When I built a 1/48 F4U I watched seasons one and two of the old TV show Baa Baa Blacksheep playing.

I tend to listen to rock when I do pretty much anything. Mostly 70s - 90s because 90% of music made after 1999 is awful. If I'm working on something that I'm less comfortable with, that requires considerable concentration, I'll put on some string quartet. I find the cello to be very relaxing, and I need that on some of the more challenging kits so I can work without breaking stuff. 

Oh man, I listen to all sorts of strange stuff. I've got a pretty diverse record collection but I was bit by the punk rock bug back in my teenage years... so my record shelf is chock full of Ramones, Social Distortion and Clash albums.


Recently, I've been trying to listen to bands that hail from the same country as the subject that's on my bench. For example, I built a 1:72 Hampden a few months back and listened to nothing but The Damned, Motorhead and Def Leppard. Right now with this Brummbar I'm working on I've been blasting the Scorpions, Rammstein and Mad Sin.

No matter what I listen to though, it's always LOUD!

Heavy metal music. I have thousands of metal albums from 1970 all the way to "not released yet" (I have a metal music review web site, so record companies send me a lot of albums before they are released).

Gee, that depends on what my model subject is.  Boston, Chicago, Styx, CCR, Kansas, Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, and maybe some German WWII stuff starting and ending with Panzerlied.  Jan and Dean and Beach Boys are in the mix too.  Sometimes its not music, just some Earl Pitts or Roy D. Mercer.  Then there are times I just get out the old LP's and listen to the 1973 "Watergate Comedy Hour" or maybe some Red Foxx.    All this could be the reason I dont get much built.

Love to hear CCR specially Green River.

80's music.  Synthesizers and keyboards all the way!

I've just got back into the hobby but I've been listening to Audible (books on tape).  Plus Podcasts (Leonard Maltin on Movies, some comic book ones, and others).  For music, my tastes are too varied to list here, but sometimes I will throw on BBC Radio 2, or 4.  I've tried throwing on some DVD's or Blu-Rays but that doesnt work too well.  Basically I'm still messing around with what I like the best.  So far the audio books from Audible are winning.  Just finished Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller.  Up next a reading of "The Wolf's Hour" by Robert R MCammon about A British secret agent goes behind German lines to stop a secret weapon from being launched against the Allies. The twist is that this agent is a werewolf.

Hey WirbelWind. I tend to listen to classic rock particularly the Vietnam era while working. Credence is a must. Pandora is great for it.

I 'listen' to the TV, usually an old movie or a DVD that I have seen so don't need to concentrate. SInce I build mostly military --old war movies are a top choice.

Talk radio, or ball games, depending.  In the evenings during the winter, that's Mark Levin's show, on WABC 990 AM out of New York, followed by John Batchelor's show.  Or podcasts of Hugh Hewitt or Dennis Prager.  During football season, I'll listen to the games on the radio, and during baseball season, it's the Phillies.

I'm not usually at the bench long enough to listen to anything. But, if I do get some music playing, it will be classic rock like Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Aerosmith. Also, 80's hairbands, all of them!

And last but certainly not least, Manowar!

I pretty much will listen to anything and everything (with a couple of exceptions ). I find myself going to my computer, finding YouTube, then selecting music from the Medievil period to listen to while I work on my model in the next room. It's that or listening to (but not watching) old Charlie Chan, Thin Man or Sherlock Holmes movies on the t.v. like the old radio broadcasts. 

“We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.” 
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Usually I listen to sports talk radio. Music-wise, I love classic metal like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Slayer, Pantera, AC/DC, etc. Also in small doses, hairbands like Poison and Motley Crue. But then there are days like today and I have Frank Sinatra playing. I also like Big Band music. But really, as long as it's not opera, pop, rap or hip-hop and I can listen to it.

Depends on the mood. Lately I have been stuck in the 70's remembering my High School days (class of 73) listening to Chicago, Skynyrd, BTO, The Guess Who, Grand Funk Railroad...........

modelcrazy

... “Delain”, 

 

 I saw them a few months back...opening for Sabaton (who I LOVE!...and perfect for the metalhead/military history modeler). I was not very impressed when I checked em out on youtube. Live though...very good, and I was quite entertained as well as impressed.

I usually listen to a ball game (or puck game...lol).    When I want to listen to music it's usually something heavy (Metallica, Slipknot, etc or classic rock (Van Halen, Led Zep, ZZ Top).  I don't like that the music I grew up on is now on the classic rock station.   I listen to alot of iHeart radio.

generically classical, new age, and movie scores. if i need something to get the blood flowing Lady Gaga or Two Steps From Hell. sometimes it is model (or wargame) specific. Russian, German, Finnish, war movie scores appropriate to the build or game.

mrmike

The date stamp on my music is also the Blue Note Jazz era. I started listening when I was a teen in suburban Philadelphia, and have always come back to that music after serious sidetracks into 60's rock, country and other genres.

 We're fortunate to have an NPR station that plays an eclectic mix of Blues, Singer-songwriter, Jazz and Folk from 9-3 weekdays, so it's that or the CD player. Right now what's up is John Fogerty's "Wrote a Song for Everyone", Art Blakey, Ben Flocks and a few other Jazz CD's. When I need to kick it up, Electric Ladyland works every time!

Happy New Year!

Mike 

 

Sweet.

You can probably pickup WBGO down there (or online).