Background Music to Model by

Scotaidh · October 09, 2022, 03:33:49 AM

My CD collection is rapidly approaching, in numbers, my Strategic Styrene Reserve (model stash). I have run out of horizontal shelf space and am now obliged to stack my newest acquisitions on top of the 'older residents.' I'm a fan of albums, because usually the songs I like best are the ones that never got played on the air.

I like to cycle through them, skipping those I'm not really in the mood for, currently. I'm currently listening to "The Very Best of Hurricane Smith". I'm not even sure where I heard of him, but he's quite unique. I mean, where else will you hear play the "Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie" or "Grannie's Dixie Duo"? His eclectic and wide-ranging music styles are just what I need after almost ruining my current build (again).

PR19_Kit · October 09, 2022, 04:26:01 AM

I'm a big disco and soul fan (Look, I'm older than all the rest of you so I'll like what I like, OK?

) but I NEVER play disco tracks while I'm modelling because my feet will start going with the beat just when I'm trying to fix some fiddly little bit to the model, or worse, when I'm painting something REALLY tiny!

Steel Penguin · October 09, 2022, 05:49:37 AM

ELO and Jethro Tull are good but i normally stick on you tube and it goes though stuff!
the foot tapping thing can happen with any track though Kit, you arnt alone in that

NARSES2 · October 09, 2022, 05:53:15 AM

I'm a Motown, Soul, Reggae and Ska man myself, but whilst modelling I simply have Radio 2 on in the other room so it is simply background music.

Gondor · October 09, 2022, 06:41:23 AM

As my PC and modelling bench are in the same room I generally play a few albums while modelling haveing most of my Vynal collection transfered to MP.3.

Most of what I like is soft Prog Rock such as early Genesis, Alan Parsons Project, ELO, Yes, Jean Michel Jarre and Mike Oldfield being what I usually go for but at the moment I am increasing my CD collection at one Steve Hackett album a month and recently bought Spectral Mornings

Gondor

Scotaidh · October 09, 2022, 06:47:44 AM

Kit, I'm old enough that I never noticed when rock morphed into 'disco', whatever that is.

I'm with Billy Joel on that one ... Having a foot in Britain and another in the USA, I was listening to Boney M in the 70s whilst learning "Lili Marlene" from a 78 I found in the basement ...

SiaoMouse's girlfriend, Niki, introduced me to Korean Pop, and that led me to the epiphany that most of the music in the world is in languages I don't speak/understand/grok but I can still enjoy the tune!

So I have albums from India, Russia, Korea, Chinese, Norse, and even Glasgow (no, I don't understand Glaswegian).

When I expect to be building for a long time, I have some YouTube playlists that I'll put on - mostly classic rock and bag-pipery, but bluegrass, country, along with the odd running of old aircraft engines ...

Kind of adds focus, y'know?

Old Wombat · October 09, 2022, 07:02:21 AM

When I listen to music, which isn't that often (usually YouTube from Forgotten Weapons, The Chieftain (Nick Moran), a few of Simon Whistler's many "channels", Drachinifel, Bloke on the Range, scholagladiatoria & any number of history vid's (I really should subscribe to History Hit)), I have iTunes playing a random mix of my (1960's-2010's) music - mostly hard/heavy/Oz rock.

PR19_Kit · October 09, 2022, 08:02:18 AM

I never thought I'd say this, but I heard a Bruce Springsteen track y'day and I REALLY liked it!

But it was his version of the big Northern Soul hit, Frank Wilson's 'Do I love you (indeed I do) and Bruce has done a whole album of soul too, I might even buy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0jBwk71Qcw

Leading Observer · October 09, 2022, 08:45:29 AM

Quote from: Scotaidh on October 09, 2022, 03:33:49 AMMy CD collection is rapidly approaching, in numbers, my Strategic Styrene Reserve (model stash). I have run out of horizontal shelf space and am now obliged to stack my newest acquisitions on top of the 'older residents.' I'm a fan of albums, because usually the songs I like best are the ones that never got played on the air.

I like to cycle through them, skipping those I'm not really in the mood for, currently. I'm currently listening to "The Very Best of Hurricane Smith". I'm not even sure where I heard of him, but he's quite unique. I mean, where else will you hear play the "Theme From an Unmade Silent Movie" or "Grannie's Dixie Duo"? His eclectic and wide-ranging music styles are just what I need after almost ruining my current build (again).

If your staircase is wide enough, it makes quite good CD storage space

frank2056 · October 09, 2022, 10:19:17 AM

I either watch old movies (noir, SF or Mystery Science Theater 3000) or music. Recently it's been Underworld (I can play "Pearl's Girl" over and over until it annoys my wife and cats), The Prodigy (some of their videos are great - like "Timebomb Zone"), Beastie Boys or old rock like Steely Dan.

scooter · October 09, 2022, 11:46:41 AM

It depends on what I'm working on, but usually something from the Tube of You.

When I was working on the render and writing up the narrative for the koon-ut-kal-if-fee for Half Contact, I had found (and put on repeat) an hour long loop of ST:TOS Fight Cue, which proceeded to have SWMBO tell me "I like it, but not an hour loop of it."

But usually, it'll be something off the Halidon Music, sometimes the Scott Brothers, or something completely random, like The Mummy (1999) soundtrack

NARSES2 · October 10, 2022, 05:52:28 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on October 09, 2022, 08:02:18 AMI never thought I'd say this, but I heard a Bruce Springsteen track y'day and I REALLY liked it!

I wasn't a Springsteen fan until I saw him live at Wembley Stadium a good few years ago and I was hooked. He did 3 1/2 hours on stage with him and the E Street Band (other then Edwin Starr on WAR to kick off the show) and by the end of the night if he'd have said "the revolution starts here" he'd have had 75,000 followers, brilliant.

perttime · October 10, 2022, 08:51:29 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on October 10, 2022, 05:52:28 AMI wasn't a Springsteen fan until I saw him live at Wembley Stadium a good few years ago and I was hooked. He did 3 1/2 hours on stage with him and the E Street Band (other then Edwin Starr on WAR to kick off the show) and by the end of the night if he'd have said "the revolution starts here" he'd have had 75,000 followers, brilliant.

I heard of a Springsteen concert where he went onstage with an acoustic guitar, for an hour before the concert started. And then he did the 3 1/2 hours with the band.

I can barely walk while listening to music. I remember having a sort of a cheap "walkman" kind of a player. I stopped taking it out after almost falling over when there was a song with some interesting drum and bass stuff.

Rheged · October 10, 2022, 09:09:39 AM

When modelling, I prefer either complete silence (apart from normal background noise) but if I'm trying to put a backstory together.......thinking........researching....typing.... I have been known to use light classical music; anything by Vaughn Williams for instance; to aid concentration.

AeroplaneDriver · October 10, 2022, 10:10:54 AM

I have several playlists on my phone that are specifically labeled as "Modeling" playlists. One is very 80s heavy, one if almost entirely movie soundtracks, one that is hard to describe that includes a lot of Enya and showtimes, and one is a very eclectic mix that includes everything from Mozart to Patsy Cline to Sia and Eminem. I tend towards the soundtrack one usually. I find the music makes it easy to lose myself in the build.