Modeling Music?

Spooky! Anyone would think this is a Metallica fan site!

I'm into a range of rock/alternative stuff but I generally model to the Pixies, the Sisters, Queens of the Stone Age, Jane's Addiction, Audioslave, Soundgarden or the Red Hot Chilli Peppers depending on my mood. The Black Album occasionally makes it onto the stereo as well!

Cheers,

Rob M.

I gotta keep it happy and/or kool! I mostly listen to late 1920's and 1930's jazz: Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Eddie Condon, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, King Oliver, etc. Once in a while some later Dave Brubeck, MJQ, Gerry Mulligan, or Stan Kenton.

Pete

To name just a few:

Eric Clapton, SRV & his brother Jimmy, Dire Straits, BB King, Buddy Guy, Glenn Miller, Pete Fountain.

Jim

I tend to listen to classical stuff,soul and jazz. It helps me relax and enjoy whatever I'm doing in my workshop. However, I reserve the right to blast out some of my favourite rock tunes whenever the mood takes me.

Cheers,

Darren.

I like a broad range of 80's music. Public Image Limited, Suicidal Tendancies, The Cure, X, The Smiths, Modern English, Faith No More, The Sex Pistols, and the list rolls on forever. I also enjoy heavy metal..Turn it up to 11. Ted Nuggent, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, etc...etc. Just say no to (c)rap and country, unless it's Johnny Cash... Sorry.

When I was working, I'd do almost all my modeling in the evening. Usually when I model in the evening, I'd have heavy metal on--anything from classic Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple all the way through AC/DC, Metallica, Motorhead, even some of the "hair metal" like Britny Fox or Def Leppard, the Seattle bands like Nirvana or Alice In Chains, some of today's "nu metal" bands like System of a Down if I can get them on vinyl LP. (Of course this means having to stop every twenty minutes to change the record, but I'm one of those vinyl fanatics that hates the sound of CD's.) While modeling during the daytime, I like other kinds of music--Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Dionne Warwick's "Soulful" album (the greatest non-metal album ever made), INXS, The Cars. Other times I might listen to talk radio ( Jim Rome is a favorite of mine).

Now that I'm not working, I find that lately, I've been doing more of my modeling with the music off. It's too distracting sometimes with all the great stuff in my record collection! Conversely, more often I don't model while I listen to music; now I just kick back and enjoy!

Tigerman...

>>BrianH1011, I love George Carlin, but I'd be afraid to play him for fear of slicing my >>finger off from laughing so hard!

I did just that the first few times I listened and tried modeling!! Having listened to George and the rest of the bunch quite alot in the last 8 years, I have a good idea when the real juicy stuff will happen, and tend to pause so I don't make another blood donation!! Robin Williams, OTOH... Well, just have to put the models down with him, 'cause I can't stop laughing at the guy... ;^))

Brian
SJAFB

Glad to see this was a good question! Lots of variety! I loved the feedback. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who listens to metal. My choices?
chimaira, cannibal corpse, fear factory, helmet, unearth, killswitch engage, slayer, candiria, vision of disorder. Now for something differnet: ABBA, Beethoven, Bhuddist monks ritual music, Boston. I have a tape of 2 guys that remade a bunch of classical Mozart and Beethoven pieces on acoustic quitars. Being a guitar player myself I like almost anything with a guitar, except country, I can't get past the twangy sound and whiny lyrics.

Usually i dont listen to anything..lets me concentrate on the model instead of the music..but if i listen to anything it will be mostly rock like Metallica or Blink 182 oe something.
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Lots of New Age stuff for me. Richard Burmer, Jeanne Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, David Arkenstone. I find I'm more creative when I have that punched up. But I will also punch up some 80's and big band stuff as well.

I also have a very large collection of Medieval Music that gets a share of playtime and my own guitar music. I play classical.

Now Blackwolf had it right. I am a huge fan of Radio Theatre as well.

My tastes are changing. THe kid that works for me likes alot of new hard stuff. Limp Bizkit, Marylynn Manson, Rage at the Machine, Korn, so I get exposed to that at work for a while. Its o.k. till I get tired of it and make his head explode by plugging in a CD of 13th c. German Baudy Songs or 18thc. Sea Chantys. Its good to be the boss.

Mike

Metal, rock, country, some classics, allsorts really as long as its got a good beat if i had to choose a fave track it would be born to be wild...Greg

Great thread. I salute all you modelers who admit that you play 80's music. BrianH1011, I love George Carlin, but I'd be afraid to play him for fear of slicing my finger off from laughing so hard! For the comment on rap with a "C" in front of it, I couldn't agree more.

mostlyjets yeah and western also, I like to sum it up as if it sounds like the banjo playing kid on deliverence then it's bad/time to cover your seat and RUN!!!!

Blackwolf, I get my wife to dance for me... Modeling activities normaly stops soon after...

Every once in awhile I'll also hire a band...


Fade to Black...

Rarely music, usually TV in the background. One or another cable news chanel or the History channel. Occasionally I'll put in a DVD as background. As for the music thing, the only songs I seem to be able to remember how to play escept for my own(guitar) are old Def Leppard, Judas Priest or Pre-Justice Metallica! Can anyone recommend a good collection of popular songs from the 40's? I bought one but it's late 40's. It's good but I want more.

I love to listen to U2 while modeling, gets my inspiration flowing..

Aw, demono69, no Zamfir? I mostly listen to classic rock radio, talk radio or anything out of my meager CD collection(classic rock[mostly 70's], classical to Sousa marches). I like the Cobrahistorian approach of period music for the kit being built. As for the 80's stuff, I don't think I could paint straight with Oingo-Boingo, Devo, B-52's etc. playing. Too much jumping around going on! "Country makes the ears bleed!" I like that! That counts for both types, right...Country and Western?

Internet radio...thank god for spinner...i switch between all sorts of mixes mostly rock and pop...and the digital big band music channel on my digital cable...

lots of metal, punk, techno, industrial, some shockrock, aww heck just about everything cept country, it makes your ears bleed!
although if you play it backwards it's a love song he gets the truck gets the dog gets his girl back? go figure, hahahaha!
Misfits right now though!!!!!

I'm an 80's man as well.

Other than that- Rock, Classic rock, even tiny little pebbles.

Tori Amos, please! I got almost all her albums and man she rocks!

I like metal as well but singing loudly along with the music just gets in the way of modelling.

I am a musician, bass player since 1963. (FSM's Paul Boyer is also a bass player.) I run the full gammit of music that I listen to. Lately I have been listening to Steely Dan's new "Everything Must Go" CD and the sound track to the movie "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" which is really about the best bass player ever, James Jamerson, and the band they called themselves "The Funk Brothers". I suggest anyone who loves any kind of music to watch that movie/documentry. It is a real eye opener.
I also enjoy Classic Rock, Classic Country, Blues, Bluegrass, Big Band, Jazz, just about anything that features talent. Some of the garbage out today is very lacking in talent and goes for something different, sort of a shock treatment to get attention and they don't have mine.
Cheers
Bob S.

What to listen to while modeling??

For me, anything comedy.... Usually George Carlin, but Bill Engvall, Jeff Foxworthy, and Dennis Leary all get their play time, too... On occasion, I'll listen to the AOL Broadband Comedy Corner... Just for something different...

I've got to have something to keep me smiling, else this hobby would give
me a coronary!!

Brian
SJAFB

Classic rock and serious head banger - depends on how close the knife is to my face

80's all the way brotha!!
Its good to hear that I'm not the only one that does that! I load up the Windows media player with Smith's, Cure, Depeche Mode, Dead Can Dance, Oingo Boingo...all the true "ALTERNATIVE" from the 80's. Also a some Def Lepard and other old school big hair bands!
I agree with Tigerman...before the days of responsibilities, kids, mortgage, wife(now ex--thank God!!), insurance, job(did you get the memo about the new cover sheet for the TPS reports?!?), traffic, being 30...........I'm going to go shoot myself now.
Just joking! Its not THAT bad!
Carlos

Harry Potter Audio CDS' performed by Jim Dale. They are entertaining and well written - Makes me feel like a kid again.

I guess this makes me somewhat of an old phart but I usually listen to "talk radio" rather than music.
If there's nothing interesting being discussed I will usually switch it over to "the Oldies"

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THE KINGS OF LEON....rock..n .. roll.. cool stuff..i love music whislt i work ..i got about 30gigs of MP3 files on a H/D and when i'm in the workroom i switch on winamp ..and can play music non stop for a week and not hear the same track twice
i like most music but i'm afraid i cant appreciate RAP, hip hop, or wobbly lipped coloured chicks, woooo-wooo ooooohhhh yeeeeahhh-ing all over the shop, all the cheesy mass market quick consumption stuff ,makes me wanna grab the rifle and head for a clock tower.....

LOL Despite the fact that you won't try 1/144, we do seem to have a few things in common, Blackwolf...