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craigrr
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Date Posted:
8/10/01 9:41pm
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What do you listen to when you write?
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I know I can't be the only one here who listens to music when they write. I use it to either set the tone for a scene I'm working on or just to block out other distractions. I can't write very well when the TV's on.
Anyway, here's a sample of what I usually put in the CD player:
Just about anything by John Williams
Classics like Orff's "Carmina Burana" or Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries". The soundtracks to both "Fantasia" movies also help a lot.
Punk. Lots of it for fast paced scenes like fights. Rancid, Black Flag, the Ramones. They've all helped considerably.
Some mainstream stuff like Creed, 3 Doors Down, Staind for intense scenes. Interchangeable with the Punk selections. Iron Maiden has also been party to a lot of my writing binges.
What about the rest of you? What helps you write or gets you in the mood to write? What music inspires you to put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard?
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Talon Squad Leader
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Date Posted:
8/10/01 9:55pm
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Hans Zimmer and other composers, but mainly Blink 182, Everclear, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Lucky Boys Confusion, Savage Garden, Smash Mouth....I have a very diverse musical selection here that would take quite a while to list.
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Amidelta
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Hi. I don't usually hang around the FanFicton boards. I am a writer, but any SW-related stuff I write I hide from the world.
I'm intrigued by your question. Strangely, I rarely listen to the John Williams scores, especially when I work on my own material. I have a collection of 80's CD's I do listen to: Chaka Khan, Sting, Sade, Hall & Oates, Genesis, Robert Palmer, and others. (I'm dating myself, aren't I?) 
I can't stand to have silence in the background when I work. I'll even turn the TV on to have some kind of noise happening.
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craigrr
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8/10/01 10:04pm
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Honestly, Amidelta, you aren't dating yourself. I'm a child of the 80s, too. The hair metal bands are a guilty pleasure of mine. I graduated high school in 1989 so I was right there in the middle of the big, hairy revolution. I was a total metal geek.
Anyway, the Williams scores (not just from SW either) help me capture the mood I'm looking for. For me, it helps get the tone just right. My all time favorite theme from the SW movies is "Binary Sunset" from ANH. It's just a wonderful, moving piece. I listen to that when I work on something that needs a feeling of longing.
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ThatJediGirl
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I usually listen to my Moulin Rouge CD or my Napster Songs: Enya, Dido, Everclear, Moby, Jay-Z, Some Country, and my Sarah McLachlan CD.
ButI get so wrappd up when I write or read the stories that the songs tune out everything else and I tune out the songs and don't even realize the CD stopped until 10 minutes later when no music is playing.
And when I am on the computer I have to listen to music because I cannot read/write without it!
Weird huh?
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craigrr
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8/10/01 10:12pm
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Actually, it's not weird. I can't write if it's silent. It just feels strange. Like you, I tend to tune out the music. Just there for white noise to break up the monotony.
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Mara Jade, Emperor's Hand
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For some odd reason, I am extremely partial to female vocals while I'm writing. My first choice for all writing is Sarah McLachlan. The emotion in her music is wonderful and inspiring. However, depending on what I'm working on, I also listen to such diverse female artists and female-driven bands as Fiona Apple, Garbage, Rasputina, Pat Benatar, Tori Amos, Lori Carson, and a whole lot of others. Mostly it depends on the mood and pacing of the piece I'm working on. I occasionally listen to instrumental or classical music, and *very* rarely to music with male vocals.
Actually, one of the more eccentric quirks to my writing habits is that if I find a song that really gets me in the right mindframe for the piece, I will listen to it over and over and over while I write. For instance, I still cannot listen to Pat Benatar's "Too Long a Soldier" without cringing slightly because last year, while writing the final post for one of my stories and having a bit of trouble getting it finished, I listened to that song for about eight hours straight while trying to get the words to the post just right...
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ThatJediGirl
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8/10/01 10:56pm
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Oh me too! I listen over and over to Sarah McLachlan's song: Angel, Do what you have to do, and Witness.
Enya's song: Only Time is good to listen to and Dido's: Thank you.
Female Vocalists do indeed set moods and are inspiring.
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Skar Kjoil
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8/11/01 3:27am
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My top ten:
*Chris Cornell
*Tool
*A Perfect Circle
*Creed
*The soundtrack to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
*Radiohead
*Tim Christensen
*The Phantom Menace Ultimate Elition
*The Metal Gear Solid Soundtrack
*Kashmir
I just can't put words on paper without music!
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LordMoltar
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Whatever Japanese gaming soundtrack appeals to me at the moment I usually listen to while writing. I seem to recall most of my Squaresoft soundtracks are popular for my writing fests. (Especially "Final Fantasy VI and VII", and "Chrono Trigger".)
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Anakin's Angel
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8/11/01 9:49am
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I ususally prefer instrumental to songs with words, but when I do put it on it's usually:
Sting and/or The Police
Moby
80's (wedding singer soundtracks are good)
Tori Amos
Sarah McLachlan
Matchbox Twenty
U2
Dido
TPM and ROTJ soundtracks
Classical
Oy, I could go on and on....but there has to be something, and it cannot be the TV.
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I have a CD of Beethoven sonatas that just inspire me, so I listen to those, especially the Pathetique. I also rely heavily on Rachmaninoff.
My mother makes fun of my tastes in music, despite being a piano teacher herself, because she claims I only like music if it's "bipolar." But it's not bipolar, it's music that explores a broad spectrum of emotion. If a piece leaves me breathless from the effort, I usually love it.
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jango-joe1
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8/11/01 10:31am
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Anything i have that is SW
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Ginger_Jedi
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Depends what I want to write I guess. I listen to Moby, Blink 182, the Final Fantasy VII soundtrack, Moulin Rouge soundtrack, The Matrix soundtrack, Silent Hill music when I want to write horror, and plenty others.
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Melyanna
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I'm with Ishy. I have "weird" taste in music too.
I can't listen to songs with lyrics and write at the same time. I type fast enough that I can type the lyrics, and if someone is talking to me while I type, I end up typing what they're saying. This goes for lyrics too.
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Melyanna, I know your dilemma. Once, I was writing a paper on John Steinbeck's "Winter of Our Discontent" while listening to the Mausoleum Scene from Phantom of the Opera. The Phantom is taunting Raul, going, "let's see, monsieur, how far you dare go" and I started writing the paper based on that line. It took me hours to undo the damage.
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