Mick C. Wrote:Mostly when I read these days, it's while travelling (which I do too much). I have a walkman-type CD-player that also plays MP3s, so I can burn about 150-200 MP3 tracks on disc, hit random play, and not have to listen to the sound of the hotel staff, ice machine, plane engines, etc. Mostly instrumental atmospheric stuff.
I've got some "reading" MP3 discs. Here's the kind of stuff to which I was listening while reading "Criss-Cross" over the Hallowe'en weekend:
Brian Eno - In Dark Trees
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Charles Ives - Hallowe'en
Butch Thompson - Creepy Feeling
The Barrons' score for "Forbidden Planet"
Holst - "Mars, The Bringer of War"
Ennio Morricone's score for "Terminator 2"
Everclear - Halloween Americana
Magnificent Seventh's Brass Band "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" (from "New Orleans Jazz Funeral")
Ron Grainer's score for "The Omega Man"
Some of the instrumental pieces from The Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request". Always seemed very creepy to me.
Gerry Mulligan's tracks from "The Final Programme", also the "Gandharva" LP
The soundtrack to "Performance" - very creepy stuff by Jack Nitzche, Merri Clayton, Ry Cooder, etc.
Just unusual stuff that sets the mood.
dejo Wrote:Hmm, I was thinking Holst's "The Planets" might be a good choice.Brad Fiedel did the score for Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
But I have a question: Ennio Morricone did a score for Terminator 2?
dejo Wrote:But I have a question: Ennio Morricone did a score for Terminator 2?
dejo Wrote:Hmm, I was thinking Holst's "The Planets" might be a good choice.
But I have a question: Ennio Morricone did a score for Terminator 2?
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:When I'm at home, I have music on pretty much whenever I have my eyes open. If I'm not actively listening, I'll spin old rock favorites, baroque music, or ambient music. But if I've got a new Jack book in my mitts, I've made it a tradition, since CONSPIRACIES, to play the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" before I settle down to read. That, a 6 of Sam Adams, and the book...man, I'm in hog heaven.
Bastard Wrote:For me, it's hard to put a finger on just one type of music so let's see what I can remember per book (in no particular order):
The Tomb: Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat, an a royal shitload of Type O Negative
Legacies: Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and some Wagner
Conspiracies: Tool and A Perfect Circle
All the Rage: Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, Rev. Horton Heat
Hosts: Marilyn Manson the Lest We Forget album
The Haunted Air: A little of everything above
Gateways: Some Jimmy Buffet, and a lot of older Aerosmith, Rev. Horton Heat, and White Zombie
That's all that I can think of at the moment.
--Jake
ps. All of that music and reading is accompanied by a case of Lone Star, a bottle of Vampire Merlot and some kickass greek food from Mina and Dini's. It reminds me of Julio's, only Greek.
dejo Wrote:I was just wondering, if you do have music in the background, what you readers of RJ are listening to (whilst reading an RJ novel, of course)?
dejo Wrote:I was just wondering, if you do have music in the background, what you readers of RJ are listening to (whilst reading an RJ novel, of course)?
Biggles Wrote:When I read I typically don't have any music or TV playing in the background. When I post, on the other hand, I often have music playing on my computer. Right now, it's the "Excitable Boy" album (sorry, CD, guess I'm dating myself there) by warren Zevon. What a great album! I used "Lawyers, Guns and Money" as my intro theme when I was a DJ on the campus FM station back in law school.