/lit/ - Literature

god i hate this faggot show.

no, i can't read and listen to music with lyrics.

Yes. Ambient and classical and sometimes jazz.

Ambient instrumental type stuff... or music that isn't in English.

>>994874
This isn't the show your talking about

>>994871
I did today. It was mostly blues.

william basinski

Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans. That's about it.

Actually I often like the tv on in the background when I read. Usually something I don't want to watch but not something I hate... and sound on low. If I'm only doing one thing my mind wanders...but if there are other distractions around I can focus on one thing. Contradictory, I know.

Sun Baked Snow Cave

Yeah, sometimes i'll play some of bonobos instrumental stuff.

>>994871


What is the name this guy show?

>>994939
The Office

I can listen to like, TLC's greatest hits when I'm reading certain things (e.g. today Chuck Klosterman's latest book).
But for other stuff (like Gravity's Rainbow) I can't be listening to anything.

>>994955

It's any good?

>>995069
Not anymore.

>>994871
I read a a lot of fantasy/sword and spell books

So I guess its fitting that I say Power Metal (Dragonforce, Demons and Wizards, Power Quest) so I am fully emerged in it

often, but not always

has to be instrumental

lotsa jazz (bop era mostly)
orchestral
Tortoise and the like
my old traditional chinese record

thats the bulk of it, but could be anything, really

maybe instrumental, but I prefer silence when I'm reading. i can't imagine listening to lyrics and reading at the same time, i'm not that smart.

I listen to instrumental math rock (By the End of Tonight), post-rock ( Godspeed You Black Emperor), jazz (Charles Mingus, Sun Ra) and drone (Boris). Depending on the book though. For example I read the Great Gatsby when listening to jazz. I am currently reading Madame Bovary and I listened to post-rock.

Instrumental stuff, like soundtracks. Or nice post-rock in a foreign language, like Sigur Rós. I just can't listen to anything in English whilst reading, since I get distracted by the lyrics.

Sun Ra

Captcha:moon the

Power Metal
Progressive Rock
Chiptune
Golden Age Hip-Hop

Melodic goth rock, like Clan of Xymox...
Or really fucked up glichcore (See: Venetian Snares)

Iannis Xenakis, Feldman, etc. (inb4 the list could go on)

Or more electronic: aphex twin, stars of the lid (ambient stuff)

>>995069
It's not bad, and could be way worse.

Anyone who says the show sucks now is either heavily biased towards the UK version or is just trying to be cool

>>995321
It lost a lot of the spark it had in the beginning. They try to make American television shows so incredibly long so they can make more money... it's hardly about the story after a certain point.

>>995079
the new season was fucking hilarious, quit trolling.

i urge the guy who asked to see it for himself.

the story/development is great considering its a fucking sitcom. why would you care if they make more seasons if its actually good? so you can complain about how they cut it short and how they should bring it back?

No, I don't listen to anything. I find it distracting, and that it "colors" my impression of the book with my impression of the music.

>>995344
While I agree with this, I also think the show has gained a lot from its longevity as well, such as new characters, and the further fleshing out of characters that were bland in the beginning (like ryan).

It's a good show.

I usually have music going on inside of my head anyway, but when I really want to shut everything out I'll read on a rainy day.

>>995697

the chemistry between michael and ryan is one of the funniest dynamics of the show

This.

I can only listen to classical music while I'm reading. Anything else is to distracting.

If any of you had any respect to the music you like, you wouldn't do that.

>>995765

>>995748

Bohren & Der Club of Gore?

>>995898
That's a bingo

Anything instrumental really. Jazz and classical work fine.

>>995765
Oh, please. I'm perfectly capable of sitting down, contemplating Allegri's Miserere, and reflecting on the music as a vehicle for the psalm.

I'm also perfectly capable of enjoying it as ambiance. Artists are pretentious about what they do; that doesn't make them or their works any more special.

Explosions in the Sky

>>995929
OP probably wants to listen to good music if doing it while reading, not generic post-rock.

I listen to the Gorillaz album plastic beach over and over, so if I'm having a hard time focusing I listen to THAT story for awhile, then come back to my book.

Ambient, light classical, post-rock and shit like that. It can't be anything that'll distract me, you know?

This.

>>995930

you were the worst thing about /mu/ and i left there as soon as /lit/ came online.

at least i had a few months of peace.

oh well

>>995930

anything without vocals, mostly trance as that is my preference.

>>996214
>>trance

Inception Soundtrack
DJ Shadow
Ambient stuff
Miles Davis
Daft Punk

john coltrane

Mozart and Vivaldi mostly

Emancipator usually, or whatever laid back music I can find.

Philip Glass, John Cage, John Adams, Max Richter. Minimal, Contemporary Classical.

Mostly classical, but I've been reading along to some lovely Gregor Samsa of late.

I never do, because it distracts me.

But then, that's because I listen to music to listen to music, rather than as background noise or as a fashion accessory. I guess this board can't really relate.

I'm a huge classical fan but I don't listen to music when I read. You can't appreciate music when your mind is on a book, and vice versa. Usually the music will be blocked out and becomes irrelavent background noise.

You can't enjoy either fully while doing the other.

I listen to ambient music when I read speculative fiction. Everything else, no. The Book of the New Sun is inextricably linked in my mind with Hecq's "Night Falls" because of this.