Life In 19x19

Anyone else blast music while playing on KGS, Probably not the best for concentration but it helps tune out more general noises. What are people listening to.

Me:
Florence & the Machine
Broken Bells
Duke Ellington: New Orleans suite

For a short period of time I would play music as I started a game to relieve stress, but I found it too distracting as I was trying to read. I like to try my hardest every game, and I just can't do that while listening to music I like or know the words to.

There's only certain activities I can listen to music to at the same time. If I'm doing math or coding, I can listen to music only once I've figured out how to solve a problem, and simply have to write it out. However, if I have to write an essay or read something, I can't listen to music at all. So generally, I listen to music only when I'm not doing anything else.

I've found Ratatat to be excellent background music for just about anything.

Ordinarily I listen to metal and jazz, with some punk, reggae, whatever thrown in for flavor. But recently I was shown these acoustic guitarists from Candyrat Records, and wow...

Where do they find such amazing virtuosos?

Andy McKee - Art of Motion -- one of my favorite songs now, I always listen to it during the opening when playing online.
Andy Mckee - Ebon Coast -- definitely early endgame music.
Andy McKee - Drifting -- just awesome.

Antoine Dufour - Trilogie -- WARNING: If you listen all the way through you'll never want to listen to pop radio again!
Antoine Dufour - To Run in a Dream -- I really like the melody and the flourishes at the end

Ewan Dobson - playing Paganini's Caprice #5 (originally written for violin)
Ewan Dobson - Time -- How do you make an acoustic guitar sound like an 8-bit video game without using effects? Get REAL good at staccato.
Ewan Dobson - Motion Potion -- This is the only song I've ever liked that requires a slide to play

Bonus:
Don Ross - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
Andy McKee - Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Tears for Fears cover) -- the guitar solo in this song isn't that complicated by itself, but it's awesome to hear him play it at the same time as the rhythm section.

EDIT: just realized the link to Don Ross's cover of Crazy was wrong; fixed now.

ethanb wrote:Ordinarily I listen to metal and jazz, with some punk, reggae, whatever thrown in for flavor. But recently I was shown these acoustic guitarists from Candyrat Records, and wow...

Where do they find such amazing virtuosos?

Andy McKee - Art of Motion -- one of my favorite songs now, I always listen to it during the opening when playing online.
Andy Mckee - Ebon Coast -- definitely early endgame music.
Andy McKee - Drifting -- just awesome.

Wow, thank you.

You can make different songlists for different purpose... if I am on a losing streak (and want that to continue) I know which music I am going to listen

I listen to Koji Kondo or Nobuo Uematsu. Nobody can match an atmosphere like these two awesome composers.

Nobody does Billy Joel?
That's so funny...

Bantari wrote:Nobody does Billy Joel?
That's so funny...

Haha (:
And so it Goes...

Akeboshi

I usually play classical music, especially Rachmaninov piano concertos. Also lots of Oscar Peterson. When I'm in the mood for less concentration I switch to some deep house or drum and bass mixes.

I find it best to have music only, or vocals in a language I don't know at all.

I tend to listen to the Mountain Goats when playing. Fairly quiet and mellow so it's not too distracting, but I love it.

Chew Terr wrote:I tend to listen to the Mountain Goats when playing. Fairly quiet and mellow so it's not too distracting, but I love it.

Life of the world to come is one of my favorite albums but I think the lyrics would distract me too much.