For previous pieces, I haven't had one. But for Kissing Dragons, it's definitely this (a perfect driving beat for the pacing I tend to want):
What about you? Got any songs that you could listen to again and again to really get you going?
(PS - you can loop a youtube video by adding the word 'repeat' to the url: e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hI3YUOVg1w becomes http://www.youtuberepeat.com/watch/?v=6hI3YUOVg1w)
During my last project I couldn't get enough of I Don't Care by Fall Out Boy. I do love Nickelback, though!
ReplyDeleteI usually write in silence, or with general background noise (think airport, or a Schnauzer barking). I'll put my iPod on shuffle when I'm writing on a plane, but that's really just to keep the person next to me from talking to me. I pretty much ignore the music.
ReplyDeleteSusan, I'm not sure if I'd heard that one before -- checked it out and I like.
ReplyDeleteRick, I usually have your approach -- especially on the plane... nothing worse than the person next to you being a chatter (well, maybe being a snooper, but it's close).
My song that I could listen to on loop would be Michael Huang's version of Via Purifico, a song from the Final Fantasy video game. It is stunningly beautiful...
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ReplyDeleteThis one gets me going because it reminds me so much of my WIP. It's on the CD "You're Awful, I Love You" by Ludo and I listen to the entire CD while writing. Over and over again...
Void, though I've never experienced any of the FF franchise, I've heard the entire series (for the most part) is done w/ high quality in all facets.
ReplyDeleteJen, interesting song -- who knew there was a song out there w/ Lake Ponchatrain as the ultimate rhyme :)
I like Middle Eastern music while I write. Axiom of Choice is good.
ReplyDeleteI have a tendency to put in Pink Floyd's Pulse CD's and practically forget they're playing until they go silent. Then I'll start them again.
ReplyDeleteI like upbeat music with no words, and movie and video game sound tracks are my favs: Last of the Mohicans, LOTR, Morrowind, Halo Theme. I'm always on the look-out for different music.
Silence makes it hard for me to think though. I don't think I'd mind the airport, but the dogs would drive me insane.
........dhole
Stephanie -- had never heard of AoC -- just checked em out via utube -- very nice... now I just need a belly dancer :)
ReplyDeleteDonna, I love the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack (and anything where Clannad performs).
I can't listen to music while I write-- too distracting. I get caught up in the words of the lyrics instead of the words I'm supposed to be writing.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love that Ludo album J.J. mentioned above!
ReplyDeleteI write (clean, drive, and everything else) to music. I try to pick song(s) that will help me set the mood for the scene I plan to write. I really am a musical (and literary) omnivore, I enjoy all genres, so I can really run the gamut, depending on the novel and/or scene.
Action scenes, or scenes of high tension clearly get very different music than an introspective or emotional scene. But here are some of my recent muses:
~Written in Reverse by Spoon
~New Fang by Them Crooked Vultures (their entire album is working for me right now)
~Wrong by Depeche Mode, from their newest album (I'm a lifetime fan, they still got it!) or anything else by DM, like Policy of Truth
~Trigger Happy Jack by Poe (swoon!)
~Vampire Weekend's Contra album
~Alkaline Trio's This Addiction album
~Jonsi's Go album is full of AWESOME!
~anything by Peter Gabriel
~for a 'we're going our separate ways'/emotional/angst scene Snuff by Slipknot is powerful and works to get me 'there' every single time. (I know, you're thinking Slipknot?! But try it. The lead singer wrote it while going through his divorce, and it is powerful..and ballad-ish)
~Ain't No Rest For the Wicked by Cage the Elephant
~Destiny by Zero7 (LOVE!)
Okay, I'll go away now, I wasted enough of your space and time. You asked. ;o)
~Lola
Lola, some are outside my narrow bandwidth of experience, but I love Wrong (and anything Depeche Mode).
ReplyDeleteI can definitely see how that Slipknot song would be powerful during emotional strife (and, yeah, not what you'd expect from them). Thanks for the list... I'll have to check out the ones I'm unfamiliar with.
I love writing in silence. But that is sometimes hard to come by, in which case I put on something I know so well that it blurs into the background and gives me some white noise coverage.
ReplyDeleteSusan -- ha! White Noise is my title post for tomorrow... Silence is very hard to come by for me, so it is nice to have something that can just fade to black or white or what have you.
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