My uncle told me that when he wrote his first book, 90% of it was done while listening to Led Zeppelin. Right now I'm listening to Dark Side of the Moon while writing an Indian essay due tomorrow

So tell me, what type of music do you like to listen to when you write?

PS I know there was a thread very similar to this a month or two ago, but that was homework, while this is writing specifically

PPS Poll to follow shortly

Metal and Other, but I'm too lazy to specify so I'm just going with Metal.

I voted metal to try and be different but then I remember I'm on a video game forum.

Very funny azza.

Generally it has been found the music that is best to study to is Mozart due to the nature of his music and the fact it si the one that allows your brain to relax the most.

I voted metal to try and be different but then I remember I'm on a video game forum.

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I was actually listening to that yesterday when I was writing my Swedish story :)

The song is about a man in Moscow telling someone else about his time in Morocco (Marrakesh), and how he met a girl called Fatima who he fell in love with. She took him to some place with S&M tools. He walks up to her and takes off his clothes while she turns off the light. After, he waits for her to come to him but no one comes... He turns on the light and finds that all of his stuff is gone. The only thing left in the room (besides the gun, latex clothes, whip and electric chair :lol:) is her purse. He uses it to cover up his private area and runs out.

But it's filled with people outside :lol: when they see him they proceed to stone him and hit him. "I was convinced that my final moment had come right then... But if I was going to die it was going to be with my underwear on!" He screams and fights and eventually the police come.

Now, they disperse the crowd and then ask him what's in the purse. They open it up and find a kilo of kief :lmao: Before he knows it, he's in a jail with murderers, thieves and pedophiles and other bad people.

"There I sat for a year, until I could bribe myself out. A tattoo richer, freedom at last. Say what you want about a sinful life, but one thing is for sure: it's educational. So hold onto your underwear and avoid adventures; wandering hoes are free but love is expensive.

It's a funny song and that guy is awesome :goodjob: I'm going to read some of his books soon.

I usually don't listen to anything because I find it too distracting, bu I get distracted anyway. Perhaps I should take this up, try music without lyrics and see what happens.
Well this isn't entirely true, if I'm writing for myself I'll listen to whatever is on my iPod, usually looking for something that mirrors my emotions at the time.

sesame street tapes.

I listened to The Resistance and Absolution by Muse about 50 times each during September/October whilst studying last year. Anything with a tempo more than about 60 (IIRC) is meant to kill your concentration and make it hard to study, but my anecdotal evidence trumps that. BTW, most of studying for me was writing, so this is applicable to writing. Classical music was an option sometimes, though, if I wanted to give my brain a rest.

Can't concentrate on reading/writing if I'm listening to crap or junk or whatever.

I can't write while listening to music. I however draw while listening to either rock, metal, or the occasional classical.

I really like listening to Indian music while I'm writing. It's very long and most of it is improvisational.

Mozart is also very good to listen to, though I usually listen to waltz when I'm working though.

There are some great improvisational songs the Dead do that I like to listen to when I'm working.

For example: Dark Star

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Classical, jazz, blues, and under "other" - hip-hop and trance.

Rap because the sheer speed and amount of words stimulates my vocabulary.

I can't listen to music and write. I can listen to music and do math, though

In which case I listen to whatever is playing on my MP3

Music is too distracting for me when I'm writing.

I was actually listening to that yesterday when I was writing my Swedish story :)

The song is about a man in Moscow telling someone else about his time in Morocco (Marrakesh), and how he met a girl called Fatima who he fell in love with. She took him to some place with S&M tools. He walks up to her and takes off his clothes while she turns off the light. After, he waits for her to come to him but no one comes... He turns on the light and finds that all of his stuff is gone. The only thing left in the room (besides the gun, latex clothes, whip and electric chair :lol:) is her purse. He uses it to cover up his private area and runs out.

But it's filled with people outside :lol: when they see him they proceed to stone him and hit him. "I was convinced that my final moment had come right then... But if I was going to die it was going to be with my underwear on!" He screams and fights and eventually the police come.

Now, they disperse the crowd and then ask him what's in the purse. They open it up and find a kilo of kief :lmao: Before he knows it, he's in a jail with murderers, thieves and pedophiles and other bad people.

"There I sat for a year, until I could bribe myself out. A tattoo richer, freedom at last. Say what you want about a sinful life, but one thing is for sure: it's educational. So hold onto your underwear and avoid adventures; wandering hoes are free but love is expensive.

It's a funny song and that guy is awesome :goodjob: I'm going to read some of his books soon.

That story is... great!! No, scratch that, it's brilliant. :D I listened to the whole thing although I understood only 5-10 words in total - I just loved the expressiveness of the voice, and couldn't stop. I've just finished reading about the author's life in the German wikipedia (no English article available, I'm afraid), and I already love the guy, without even having read anything from him. That's the kind of life I wish for myself.

It varies, i listen to old stuff which i've already listened to when im learning new stuff but when i'm revising i pop on some new music, i figure if it's good enough to catch my ear then that i'll listen to it again!

It depends on what I'm writing. I used to listen to medieval music and quiet instrumental music when I was pulling my "14-hour term paper marathons" (yes, I usually procrastinated on my anthropology and sociology papers :blush:). I needed music that was interesting enough to listen to, quiet enough to relax me, but not to the extent that I would fall asleep. Strings and flutes work best for me. So does mood music such as thunderstorms, ocean waves, and rain.

Mozart wouldn't work for me, because I've had to learn so much of it in my music lessons and exams... my fingers would be constantly going through the motions of playing it on a keyboard. :crazyeye:

If I'm doing fanfic that isn't pure satire or silliness, I could listen to music, but usually don't. If I'm doing something that takes concentration (such as my Crow: Stairway to Heaven fanfic), I do NOT use any music that doesn't come from the TV show.

Normally music just tends to run through my mind about 99% of the time anyway; right now I'm mentally listening to the music from "Missing" - the ice dancing routine by the Duschenays way back in 1990-1991 (recently found it on YouTube and it's been playing in my mind ever since).

Generally it has been found the music that is best to study to is Mozart due to the nature of his music and the fact it si the one that allows your brain to relax the most.

I was under the impression that those studies had been superseded by others which found that in fact the best music to listen to is music that you like.

At any rate, I wrote most of my doctoral thesis while listening to the Lord of the rings soundtracks repeatedly, with the occasional Jean-Michel Jarre for variety. I managed to churn out about half of the first draft in a fortnight on that combination. My other research was written mostly in silence, because most of that was done in the British Library where I didn't want to disturb other people (ironic, as anyone who has been in said library will know). When in other libraries I have listened to the Ambiance app on the iPod Touch a great deal. I couldn't say what I listened to while writing most of my books, except that it would all have been ambient/electronica sort of stuff, not music that I would actually listen to for its own sake, because that would be too distracting.

Although, having said that, I don't actually listen to music for its own sake anyway, or hardly at all - I'm not really into music or anything purely auditory, really.

I am currently working on an edited volume of papers, which involves alternating between reading the other contributions and writing mine (which is supposed to introduce the others), and for this I've been listening to the Ghostly Discovery app, which is absolutely excellent for both reading and writing this sort of thing.

I was under the impression that those studies had been superseded by others which found that in fact the best music to listen to is music that you like.

At any rate, I wrote most of my doctoral thesis while listening to the Lord of the rings soundtracks repeatedly, with the occasional Jean-Michel Jarre for variety. I managed to churn out about half of the first draft in a fortnight on that combination. My other research was written mostly in silence, because most of that was done in the British Library where I didn't want to disturb other people (ironic, as anyone who has been in said library will know). When in other libraries I have listened to the Ambiance app on the iPod Touch a great deal. I couldn't say what I listened to while writing most of my books, except that it would all have been ambient/electronica sort of stuff, not music that I would actually listen to for its own sake, because that would be too distracting.

Although, having said that, I don't actually listen to music for its own sake anyway, or hardly at all - I'm not really into music or anything purely auditory, really.

I am currently working on an edited volume of papers, which involves alternating between reading the other contributions and writing mine (which is supposed to introduce the others), and for this I've been listening to the Ghostly Discovery app, which is absolutely excellent for both reading and writing this sort of thing.

Pretty sure i saw someone walking in with the modern equivalent of a boombox as i was walking out one day!