Are you putting together a NaNo "soundtrack"?

In 2006 it was mostly Aerosmith's last six albums.

2007 was the year of Foo Fighters and Pete Droge.

2008 looks like all Todd, all the time. I've stocked my Mac Air with all of his solo albums except Hermit of Mink Hollow (which I'll get soon), and five Utopia albums. I also have an album of Carl Stalling music from Warner Brothers cartoons. Surely I'll need that for something. And maybe some mid 70s Pink Floyd (Animals and Wish You Were Here). And Pete Droge, because I can't go more than a few days without firing up one or two of his albums. Oh, and the new Queen+PR album that comes out the Thursday before NaNo.

I have a ton of great classical stuff, but I usually write in coffee shops, and the background noise makes it impossible to listen to any music that hasn't had the dynamics squashed out of it.

Dale

I don't have the means to put a soundtrack together so it will be entire albums or nothing. I need some Led Zeppalin and Pink Floyd for the bits where the MC is planning the murder...
Apologies for spelling, I was never a fan but used to sit through a lot...

No lyrics, unless it's turned down enough that I can't make them out.

So far Loreena McKennitt or silence seem to be the choices, but it's fairly unpredictable for me.

I don't usually come up with a soundtrack, but I like having a theme song for my WIP. Last year's NaNo song was "The Basket Game" from the Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack. Still looking for something for this year.

I think everyone will enjoy this delightful song "Writer's Block" by a 50/90'er AND NaNoWriMo'er!

E.S. Posthumus (albums) Cartographer & Unearthed.
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Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Muse
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Dahlia

If I had to choose a single song: The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning (Remix) by The Smashing Pumpkins

I write to the voices in my head, doesn't everybody?

cdoctor13 said:

I write to the voices in my head, doesn't everybody?

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True, but it would be nice if the voices in my head could carry a tune.

Music slows down my writing. If the music's good, I want to listen. If it's bad, of course I want to turn it off.

So no music during NaNo until at least when I'm within sight of the 50K.

If I have music on, I'll gradually tune it out then realize later I had music going.

The same stuff I listen to whenever I write...a lot of Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, some AC/DC and Ozzy, Bon Jovi and other various hair bands...and the single Alannis Morissette CD I own.

astonwest said:

The same stuff I listen to whenever I write...a lot of Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, some AC/DC and Ozzy, Bon Jovi and other various hair bands...and the single Alannis Morissette CD I own.

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I was with ya right up to Bon Jovi

But I have a rather specific playlist this time as music ( or rather the lyrics) play an important role for my MC. He's used to Wagner. Metallica is really going to stir him up lol

Falling inside the black - skillet, is a great song. That would probably help with the dark theme.

I hadn't thought of a NaNo sound track, but it's a great idea. I'll be doing that now

XX

I don't really listen to music to much while I'm writing but I like to listen to Santana's Samba Pa Ti-which is just instrumental, and Jason Mraz's-I'm yours, plus a few other songs with a good beat. This just helps me clear my mind so that I can write.

benbradley said:

I think everyone will enjoy this delightful song "Writer's Block" by a 50/90'er AND NaNoWriMo'er!

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LOLThat was too cute

I haven't made any Playlists for the story I'll be working on for NaNo or anything else in that universe. This reminded me that I could have some fun with it. Thanks.

My ideas: Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest (Especially Beyond the Realms of Death)... Maybe some Butterfly Effect, almost certainly some Dream Theater, possibly some Metallica (Master of the Puppets, incidentally, would be perfect). Hmm... I love me some good old fashioned metal with my daily wordcount.

I'm just planning on using the playlists I usually use. I have one with a bunch of JPop on it, a few with different moods of video game and movie music, and then one with all of my favorite lyrical songs.

I LOVE the new song that's circulating as the "unofficial lullaby" in Twilight: The River Flows Through You by Yiruma. It's the perfect piano song. I'll probably just have it on repeat all November.

Rammstein, Rammstein, Nusrat Fateh Ali-Khan, and more Rammstein.

OMG! No way. I'd never get any writing done. I need total silence, with the exception of football. I find that I'm productive when a football game is playing in the background. Hmm... Maybe I should record one and play it while I'm writing. For me it's like white noise.

I'm working on it. I have The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades was Out to Get Us by Sufjan Stevens (which inspired it) and I'm sort of going from there, finding songs with a similar feel.

I figured out that the big fight scene at the end will use Back In Black by AC/DC as the theme song...

IdiotsRUs said:

I was with ya right up to Bon Jovi

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You have to remember that I was just hitting the teen years when all this stuff began getting popular...well, somewhere around there, anyway. It all gets fuzzy after so long...