Are you listening to music when you map ?

[Jao]

Do you listen to music when you're mapping ? If so, what kind of music do you listen to ? For my part, I can't do anything with heavy metal ! Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Soilwork, Despised Icon, Divine Heresy, Arch Enemy, Unearth, Beneath The Sky, The Agony Scene and so on !

[Alexforcefive]

I've been listening to the new Streetlight Manifesto album, as well as a bunch of System Of A Down and Joanna Newsom

[drpepper]

i think listening to music while mapping is pretty much mandatory, or else you would go insane with the silence

[Intraman]

I tend not too. Since when testing the sounds interfer. Though as a composer, I always have music going on in my head so... I guess I do.

[Dox]

Hard techno, anything with a fast paced beat and few words i find is great for mapping.

[Octopus]

Hard techno, anything with a fast paced beat and few words i find is great for mapping.

Yes I agree, I either have hardcore techno, or I have Mars Volta and other rock. Sometimes though, I have nothing going, but I am really focused.
It is weird.

However Vocal trance is really sick, you should try it out.

[Immortal-D]

For mapping, I tend to play melodic alternative, with heavy metal ballods thrown in for variety; RHCP, Foo Fighters, Evanescence, Megadeth, etc. Really puts me in the zen mood. Ingame however, straight up metal and classic rock; Van Halen, Children of Bodum, Dragon Force, Lynard Skynnard, and so on. Great thread btw :D

[Snipergen]

mapping without music is boring! of course i listen to music :)

listen to everything actually mmostly rock, but atm oldschool songs, dire straits, led zeppelin, and well yellowcard :p

and i love coldplay

[Scoobingsthe2nd]

Lately it's been a mix of Bare Naked Ladies and Sigur Ros

[Pad See Ew]

There was a time when I only listened to music while mapping.

And it was nearly always Bill Frisell.

http://www.youtube.com/v/zvVQ3WU51CI&rel=1 for a sample.

[Nizzem]

I'm always listening to music or I have a podcast running while I'm mapping. I like a lot of rock, but my personal library is pretty small. I tend to listen to same 2 vocal artists majority of the time because I find their music so phenomenal. These two musicians being Mike Patton and Maynard Keenan. I also listen to some trance, mainly Infected Mushroom.

I shall put some links below to my two favorite artists if your interested in a sample of what I listen to.

Artist: Maynard James Keenan
Band: Tool
Song: Sober (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=hglVqACd1C8)
Song: Lateralus (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlC7oG_2W4&feature=related)

Band: A Perfect Circle
Song: Passive (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=T7PTgi_5MR0)

Band: Puscifer
Song: Momma Sed (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=t4HI2ylVmOA)

Artist: Mike Patton
Band: Mr. Bungle
Song: Air Conditioned Nightmare(Live) (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=J4rqXqpLCZ0)

Band: Faith No More
Song: Falling to Pieces (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr5gdrj6bZQ)

Band: Tomahawk
Song: God Hates a Coward (Live) (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt856_nRxQk)
Song: Rape This Day (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=fBav2Z3w_W0)

[MacNetron]

I appear to have a slightly different taste. A bit older... :)
Like to listen to the complete range of 60's to 90's.

An internet radio station with classic rock is 3wk.com. Fun thing is that they also play music I've never heard before. "New" music (although old) may trigger
creativiness.
Or some dance/trance mixes on di.fm :)

But mostly now I listen to 'Gare Du Nord' and 'Roisin Murphy'.

Roisin Murphy - Overpowered (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFjf1pWk2c)
Roisin Murphy - Sow into you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpINtHXjLek)

Gare Du Nord - Marvin & Miles (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=BL4G0FqrfY4)

[Squirrelly]

yea i don't think i would have ever a decent map if i didn't have music.

they go together so well like peanut butter & jeally

[Youme]

Music + me + gaming = terribly distracted and off form

[Thristhart]

me, i listen to anything by Lemon Demon or Weird Al.

I think funny music helps you make lighthearted, spirited maps. So Weird Al is a must :D

[shpladoink]

Classical.

[DJive]

I go to youtube and search of all the early 90's and 80's stuff =) I listen to hip-hop to roxette while i map =p

[Mindcrime]

Rush, Yes, Dream Theater, Queen, Styx, Queensryche, Symphony X...

Any long, intricate, cerebral music usually does the trick for me :)

[Immortal-D]

Rush, Yes, Dream Theater, Queen, Styx, Queensryche, Symphony X...

Any long, intricate, cerebral music usually does the trick for me :)

Rock on brother! \m/

[timberghost_paintball]

Sometimes I listen to music but most of the time I listen to podcasts like the control point, ign games, game theory, Bungie, insomniac, Games for Window, Pc Gamer, EGM live, and others podcasts. People talking about gaming inspires me while making games.

[Gonzales]

Tom Petty, Jethro Tull, Bob Segar, Dire Straits, AC/DC, Stones, Who, etc...

Rock and roll.

[TheBladeRoden]

I'm watching Cashmere Mafia. As a show it sucks ass, but it has two off of my celeb hot babes list! I don't know what to do!!!

[Kernel]

I have a 21 inch gateway monitor, with 4 video inputs and pip, i mostly watch tv when mapping, it's pretty nice because the pip can be resized, put in any corner and you get transparency control. Mapping and watching tv at the same time, makes time go by very fast!

If only i could get multiple monitor support within hammer!

[Irksome]

It's impossible to do anything work related on a computer without music, for me.

I usually listen to www.radioparadise.com, usually a pretty good play list, but sometimes I get a little fed up when it's like 5 songs in a row of some southern country girl singing about her abusive boyfriend, or moving somewhere, and each song is 6 minutes long.

No offense to people who like that, just not my cup o' tea.

[TheFragMan]

I feel you on the country music thing. Being here in the South though, it's kind of hard to escape, haha.

And are you saying 6 minutes is short or long? Because most of what I listen to averages at about 10-15 minutes per song. Mindcrime knows what I'm talking about. :)

To answer the thread's question, yup, I definitely have the music going in the background. Too boring otherwise. I usually mute it when testing the map, but once I'm back in Hammer, it gets turned right back up. Yes, Genesis, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, The Flower Kings, Phish, Marillion, Rush, on and on... It's gotta have depth, or I get bored of that too.

[roninmodern]

Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Third Eye Blind, Soundgarden, Audioslave, RHCP, Zeppelin, Queen.

I think you can tell I like grunge/heavy :)

(But I don't like metal)

[MacNetron]

Today, I went from Enigma, to Greenday, to Air and finally Arrow Jazz FM.
Broad taste :)

[FaTony]

Petula Clark - Downtown
Foreigner - I wnat to know what love is
Charles Wright - Express Yourself
All vice city soundtrack
K-DST, Master Sounds from San Andreas
Head radio, lips 106, rise fm from liberty city stories
All GTA3 sountrack especially Slyder ones
Some tracks from Midnight Club 2
Evil Genius soundtrack (awesome)
Splinter Cell Chaos theory soundtrack (pure awesomeness)
Some random songs from games