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I don't usually write with music on, but I like to listen to music beforehand to get into a certain mood. For some reason Coldplay inspires me. What about you?
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Apocalyptica, Ozzy, Debussey, Garou, and Hedley.
This week.
Next week it'll be a new song list. -
Jazz,Michael Buble, soft sissy crap.
I had to think about this one.
I tried Apocalyptica but I just end up rocking and forget about writing.
Sometimes Ray Charles and Miles Davis do the trick too. -
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Hey, headbang enough to Apocalyptica, and you're bound to type out a few sentences with your head.
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I can't sit down and rock out
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I have used Korn as inspiration in the past. I guess it depends on the song and how 'good' the band is, whether or not I can stay focused.
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hmmm i should try Apocalyptica
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The type of music would have to depend on the mood of the story you want to write.
Personally, I like listening to Blue October, Green Day, or Anti-Flag while I write (huge variety of rock ;D) -
Nightwish, Loreena Mckennit, Enya, Epica, most new age, all celtic, and almost anything with unique orchestral/symphonic sounds that portray images in the way classical music is intended to.
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It depends on what kind of story that I'm writing, although I love to listen to Weezer, Coldplay, The Killers, Keane, Panic! At the Disco, Paramore, the list goes on and on. ^_^;;
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It changes a lot, but I like to listen to classical music while I'm writing.
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Lol, I did? I listened to Panic! At the Disco a lot while writing 'Accepted', but just their first album. -
I like their new song, 'Nine in the Afternoon'.
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Well... it comes down to my two favorite bands: Boston and Dave Matthews Band... or I'll listen to my mixed classic rock CDs (it's not old, it's classic
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I like music that hasn't been totally copied from some famous predecessor(s)
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I always listen to Korn when writing. I turn it up really loud and just write, so I'm totally not sure if it's helping me or not. My favorite to listen to is Take a Look in the Mirror, but also their Greatest Hits vol. 1.
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I suck at listening to music an writing at the same time.
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i like listening to the artists that refuse to have their music on radio/telivised music videos, so i'm prolly listening to artists that most of you have prolly never heard of, but i also like listening to the bands listed on this thread, listening to music doesn't really seem to help me write though
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Evanescence & L'Âme Immortelle
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I usually have a hard time writing to music with lyrics. I usually have to listen to stuff by Hans Zimmer though. His music has a lot of emotion and feeling to it, a lot of energy. It really helps me fit the mood I'm writing.
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I've always found that Metallica and Evanescence has helped me write.
I'm about too publish my new book, but I don't know how. -
Definitely Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle for me, both have songs that fit my every mood.
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Any type of Christian Contemporary music. I'm not picky about the artist. I also tend to get in a Céline Dion mood, sometimes French, sometimes English. I nearly wore out the "One Heart" CD while writing the first five chapters of my novel. I have a hard time writing without music.
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Kings Of Leon, The Fray, Cute is what we aim for. All quite different. But when your sister starts blasting 50 cent and other R&B crap in the next room it inspires me to go and kick her chavvy ass
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For me, it depends on the scene I'm writing, or the character I'm writing about. At the moment I like listening to the stereophonics and was listening to them when I started characterizing one of the main characters in the novel I'm writing.
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Annie Lennox, Natalie Merchant, Creed, Shinedown, Audioslave and any artist heavy on lyrical artistry as well as the musical.
But generally, I don't listen to music while actually typing, but rather as I am composing and thinking a piece through. The actual writing is quiet as I find music a distraction. -
This week, I have this whole 80s 'blue-eyed soul/punk mixture' going... Paul Young, Adam Ant, Souxsie & The Banshees, Hall & Oates...and so on.
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it depends on the story. i have this [one of many] post apocalyptic stories i only listen to old folk while writing where as one about people in a night club i listen to techno. i have a 'book' full of depressing stories and poems and i listen to slow sad songs while writing it.
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dance music for happy stories, slow music for sad stories, and Rock music for love stories. I don't know why rock = love, but it does for me....hmmm.
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I listen to Nightwish when I'm writing... though sometimes I get lost in the music rather then my story
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I always listen to music while I'm writing. I don't know why, it helps. Usually, though, I don't really get inspired by the music...I just write with it as background music. I make playlists on my iPod...currently I'm listening to one which has Paramore, M.I.A., Coldplay, and Jason Mraz among others in it. It changes, though...tomorrow I could get a whim to listen to Nightmare Before Christmas or Lily Allen, and so I will.
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Anything Japanese or associated with Anime, even english dubbed songs. X3
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New Age , Nightwish , Secretgarden(Prayer)
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I usually listen to Jpop when i am writing. Morning musume is one of my faves, along with Emi Hinouchi and Aiko Kayou
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MCR!!!
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The Smiths and Nine Inch Nails,
depending on what I'm writing (:
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It's got to be Jazz! Not the new stuff thats they call soft Jazz thats just cheap port music. i' taking about old school 1930's and 1950's is the best. It has a sound like no other kind of music it sets in you that creative groove.
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Apocalyptica, Godsmack, Three Days Grace, Nirvana... some other rock bands- depends on my mood really.
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I usually listen to a mixture of nu-metal, thrash metal, and celtic music. Altohugh I love rock and classical music as well.
At the moment it's mostly Godsmack, Disturbed, Nirvana and Metallica, with a bit of Celtic Spirirt, and Clannad
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Classical or Jazz. Beethoven. Wagner. Mozart. Cole Porter. Ella Fitzegerald. Miles Davis with his cool cd Some Kind Of Blue. and popsongs Stevie Wonder and sometimes, even Cindy Lauper. Depends on what I am writing at the moment. I need music to calm the savage beast within me so that i can sit at the computer and write, and maybe to entice the muse.
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me
I listen to whatever the part of the story is about. eg sad part then id find a sad song or if its over happy id find some rediculously happy song XD
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