What do you listen to while you paint?

[PPS_Meg]

I listen to Discovery's How Stuff Works Podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You and Stuff you missed in History Class. When I'm waiting a few days for new podcasts to enter the queue, I listen to audiobooks. Currently relistening to GRRM's Game of Thrones. I also listen to movies and TV shows at home.

Audiobooks are pretty awesome.

[empireofdirt]

I usually watch TV. Been catching up on old Buffy, Farscape, and watching the new Stargate Universe.

I find random docs to usually be the best, since actually watching isn't important. Ditto with the old buffy's since they spend most of their time talking to each other.

Star Trek (any series) is also good for this. The characters narrate their own actions constantly.

[Zato]

I listen to Voltaire, or have some awesome movie/series on in the background. But mostly Voltaire.

[baronvonchaos]

Star Trek (any series) is also good for this. The characters narrate their own actions constantly.

ha ha ha! I've been watching through Voyager. The acting and cinematography isn't "necessary" to drive the story. 95% of the time it's a dialogue driven story so I just look up every now and then to catch up. . Good series, Great writing, moderate acting... but lets not digress too much.

I also listen to audiobooks, or techno/trance music. If I can get lost in what I'm doing and focus, I can finish almost an entire unit in an hour and a half. (As opposed to just the commander of the unit in the same amount of time).

[Sanguinary Dan]

Gregorian Chants or baseball.

I stay away from stuff that gets me amped. My highlights get really sloppy if I'm listening to metal.

[dracphelan]

The Red Army Chorus. Ir eally like their rendition of "16 Tons"

[Hansel]

If I'm listening to something while I'm painting, it's a podcast, either about Warmachine (Lost Hemisphere and Guts 'n Gears are the only ones that've stuck so far) or indie RPGs or This American Life or something like that. I've recently begun to sometimes watch stuff with my wife while I'm painting, but painting takes so much concentration that I can't really pay that much attention to what I'm watching.

[TheInfidel]

Hatebreed, Machinehead, Sepultura, Cavalera Conspiracy, Soulfly, Icepick, Kingdom of Sorrow, Jasta, Otep, and In This Moment (Maria Brink brings me to my knees; 'The Gun Show' is epic)

[SgtPepper]

Warmachine by Kiss!!! Not really, I usually have Dr. Who running in the background as I've seen every episode a million times and don't really have to pay attention. Just some nice background noise.

[althai]

Audiobooks are great while painting.

Also, TV shows which are strong on dialog are very good. I've really enjoyed The West Wing, The Practice, and Boston Legal while painting minis, and also The Daily Show and The Colbert Report (which you can watch online for free, with very few commercials if you live outside the US). More action-oriented TV shows don't work as well.

[PG_Shi_no_Kami]

DVDs... long TV series that are big on dialogue. MST3K, Star Trek (any of em), Eureka, Top Gear, Doctor Who (anything from 1963 to today), BSG, Big Bang Theory, Myth Busters, Sherlock...

[Drakeoss]

for me I tend to listen to my youtube mix list mostly

Music
ManOWar, Within temptation, Abney Park, Evenescence, Lacuna Coil

Movies
Anything with a good sound track aka Repo the genetic opera, Sweeny Todd, Rocky Horror Picture Show

TV shows
mostly building things Biker build off, Unchained reaction

Or just put in an anime and work thro a box set Noir, Blue gender, Escaflona, Please teacher
things like that

[Sherbertking]

Audio books, just finished up the entire Song of Ice and Fire series, now on to Tolkien!

[reaper2zero]

Watching BSG (new series) while I repaint my 201 points of Khador. Then it will be listening to the unabridged Lord of the Rings audio books. After that all of Stargate.

[Washburn]

\m/ Meshuggah \m/

This is one band I have always found great to paint to over the years. I'm a big fan anyway but there is plenty of other bands I love which don't go down as well while I'm painting. Meshuggah's heavy, progressive and mesmerizing songs are perfect for long painting sessions where I'm working away till 3 or 4 AM.

I also find adult swim cartoons like Squidbillies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Metalocalypse are good to watch while painting. The hysteria and abstract nature of these shows finds me having a big old gut laugh all of a sudden despite being red eyed and well tired.

[Washburn]

Oh, and comedy of course. Bill Hicks is always great but I don't like to wear his works out. Doug Stanhope and Billy Connolly are very frequent comedians in my playlist.

[LichLordVexing]

Let's see... I haven't painted in a long time, but I have my playlist ready!

Pantera, Dethklok, Sepultura (when Max and Igor were both in it), Decapitated, Fear Factory, KMFDM, MDFMK, Machine Head, Killswitch Engage, Unearth, Amon Amarth, Mudvayne, Lamb of God, Deftones (only Adrenaline and Around the Fur, everything else sucks!), White Zombie/Rob Zombie/Scum of the Earth, Tool, APC, Trivium, The Union Underground, Rammstein (older stuff), Gwar, Chimaira, and last but not least.... BEASTIE BOYS!

[Karnstein]

- The sound of my compressor, when it kicks on again to refill its 1gallon tank
- planetrock.com... the one and only radio station I'm listening.

[PG_warlordgarou]

Warmachine podcasts, mostly. I have other podcasts (some on other games like FoW, some onrunning, some on Disney) that I listen to as well, but I get more painting done when I am listening to a gaming-related podcast.

[Cursed]

Right now I listen to Sabatons new album Carolus Rex and its glorious.

[Solid_Smurf]

Usually I listen to the Guild Wars 2 Soundtrack

[baronvonchaos]

Oh, and comedy of course. Bill Hicks is always great but I don't like to wear his works out. Doug Stanhope and Billy Connolly are very frequent comedians in my playlist.

Hey Wash. Were you as surprised as I was to see that Dethklok is now a Scenario. Yay for metalocalypse

[Washburn]

Scenario/Time format - Yes I'm tempted to go back to being a PG and run a Death Clock event just to use a Nathan Explosion voice for the whole of the event....

"TIME!"

[Col_Festus]

Chain attack!

[Brandubh]

Usually NPR, The Daily Show, or Bones. But I will also listen to Guts N Gears if the episode intrigues me.

[Morganstern]

Rammstein.

[Mr.chair]

For those of you that listen to audiobooks, where do you get them? Amazon? I'm running out of muse on minis and my first love (focus and fury) only feeds me one hour of podcast on a quarterly basis.

[Sanzima13]

Glenn Beck.

[Brandubh]

For those of you that listen to audiobooks, where do you get them? Amazon? I'm running out of muse on minis and my first love (focus and fury) only feeds me one hour of podcast on a quarterly basis.

Libraries are great places to get audiobooks on CD. Usually they have a network through which they can get media from multiple sources. And it's free!

[Phat13uddh4]

I've been listening to a lot nerdcore lately mostly Dr. Awkward but a little of whatever I can find it's that or TV shows/Movies I've seen before.

[PG_screamindaemon]

Audio books are the key to sanity. Harry Potter, Wheel of Time, Star Wars... those are the ones I've listened to way too many times
Jim Dale is a fantastic reader, and I cannot wait for the last WoT book. But that's a tangent, ain't it...

Podcasts are great too, I just find there aren't enough of them at any given time without repeating.

[KamenRiderNecro]

I mostly listen to J-pop; as I don't speak Japanese at all, I can listen to it over and over without getting too drawn in. But an album I love to listen to while painting is Killing Joke's "Absolute Dissent", a right killer.

[The Buoyancy of Water]

Currently working through Red Dwarf. Once that's done it'll be whatever series is on the PS3 Love Film that grabs me, more comedy I imagine

[Akiyama26]

I listen to movie, tv and game soundtracks as well as pop music. (Mostly Jpop but some Western pop songs too.)

[Nuriochi_sol]

Old/doom metal... mostly Saint Vitus, Venom, Electric Wizard. Sometimes some upbeat power metal... Helloween and DragonForce in particular. Or once in a while, soundtracks... LotR, Conan, or PotC. Lately, for my piggies, I like Dethklok. They really jive with a Lord Carver feel.

[Wumby79]

Usually my daughter playing with her trains. If it was music, it would be the Lithium station on XM Radio.

[NapalmDeath]

I find I'm able to absorb information really well whilst painting. I've found myself listening to a lot of business related podcasts and videos recently.

[Zemmi]

I like to watch episodes of Dexter, also I listen to Goldfish, it's awesome!

[PG_Shi_no_Kami]

Audio books are the key to sanity. Harry Potter, Wheel of Time, Star Wars... those are the ones I've listened to way too many times
Jim Dale is a fantastic reader, and I cannot wait for the last WoT book. But that's a tangent, ain't it...

Podcasts are great too, I just find there aren't enough of them at any given time without repeating.

You should add the Game of Thrones audiobooks to the list. Those were good... I've been listening to WoT recently, I'm nearing the end of Book 5. But that's ok, I've got until January to finish the audiobooks. And then - AMoL! (I've yet to listen to the Potter ones.)

[Falcon42]

I listen to whatever the family has on the TV.