/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.890049]

For all you writers out there, do you find it helpful to create, like, playlists of music to listen to while writing which shares the same feeling you're trying to envoke in your work?

I personally do, but it's only Life on Mars. I literally just dragged Life on Mars into a playlist on iTunes 764 times, it's like, almost 12 hours long, it's really fantastic.

[Anonymous No.890072]

>>890049
There's a repeat track button you know.

[Anonymous No.890069]

Uh, sometimes. Mainly Pink Floyd.

[Capt Haddock !Fzb9d9iCrg No.890078]

Vangelis.

All day.

Every day.

[Anonymous No.890085]

Sure is /lit/ in here....

[Anonymous No.890087]

You haven't lived until you've heard Frida from ABBA sing "Life on Mars" in Swedish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVUofM61HVY

[Anonymous No.890088]

>>890072
There...is...?

Motherfucker

[Anonymous No.890090]

Godspeed. Always Godspeed.

Lift yr Skinny Fists and Slow Riot for serious shit. Yanqui if I'm tired and need something somnolent.

[Anonymous No.890091]

I create of playlist of other books and material to read (and then steal from) for my writing

[Anonymous No.890094]

>This idea

Mother of God. How the balls did I not think of this?

[Capt Haddock !Fzb9d9iCrg No.890101]

Vangelis.

All day.

Every day.

EDIT - Boards of Canada too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQvz9bpYWzk

[Anonymous No.890122]

>>890101
Yeah brotha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYeDsa4Tw0c

[Anonymous No.890132]

>I literally just dragged Life on Mars into a playlist on iTunes 764 times

You didn't simply:

A) Type in "Life on Mars" into the search field and then let it play on repeat.

B) Dragged it into a playlist ONCE and set it to repeat.

[Anonymous No.890135]

Pet Sounds
Highway 61 Revisited
Blood On the Tracks
The Wall
Dark Side of the Moon
Meddle
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

[Anonymous No.890918]

>Writing with a wild-west setting

>Blast Ennio Morricone

WE CAN FIGHT

WE CAN FIGHT

[Anonymous No.890929]

Yeah, I choose something thematically appropriate and build a playlist. Usually one genre or style or one artist. It rocks.

[Anonymous No.890935]

Usually medieval/fantasy themed shit.

[Anonymous No.890936]

They might be giants is good for creativity usually. Or megaman music. sometimes classical. without words is best but tmbg somehow always works when you're feeling creative

[None !UyhAEqbnp. No.890943]

I usually try to avoid music, but Brade Runner and Ghost in the Shell are usually pretty good

[Guybrarian No.890947]

I use a mixture of AC/DC, Aerosmith, Boston, Beatles, Led Zep, Journey, and soundtracks. Also, various other songs I like.

[Anonymous No.890948]

I tend to lean more towards trance for my writing music, I find it helps me "zone out" and better allow me to think from the perspective of my characters.

[Anonymous No.890954]

Power metal. Always.
Most forms of symphonic metal work too though.

It has to lyrically or musically reflect what I'm writing about though.

[Anonymous No.890959]

>>890954
Fantasy writer detected.

[Anonymous No.890961]

I like listening to Vangelis, Boards of Canada, Stars of the Lid, Milieu, Ulrich Schnauss.

If I'm writing something with lots of action, I'll flip over to a dance/house streaming radio station on iTunes.

If it's contemplative, I'll go to Liszt's piano works.

[Anonymous No.890990]

WHERE IS MY SON. WAAAAAALT. WAAAAAAAALT.

[Anonymous No.890998]

mouse on the keys. I suppose they're a jazz-piano group of some sort, but the music sounds a little more 'solemn' (if that's the word) than what I'd expect of jazz. No vocals.

[Anonymous No.891017]

post-rock, mogwai, lights out asia, etc.
brilliant fuel for the creative mind, a little depressing though.

[Anonymous No.891020]

>>890049
>Too stupid to put a song on loop
sage

[Anonymous No.891036]

If and when I do listen to music while I write it has to be instrumental. For me music is used to drown out the people in the other rooms and maybe the neighbors.