Rock to paint by ...

[Keeper]

Stu's topic on music he likes to paint by (stuart's tune of the week) has got me thinking about the music I listen to when I'm painting.  And I don't think I've ever painted whilst listening to either of the songs he posted, or anything like it.  Then again - my painting isn't as good as his, so maybe he has the better ideas! Still ...

Let me say that there is nothing wrong with the music that Stu has posted - there is nothing bad or wrong with it, this isn't a thread for bashing other music styles - its just that if you cut me in half like a stick of Blackpool Rock, I would read:

Metal
:thrasher:    :headbang:

So, as an example of the music I listen to whilst painting, a lesser known classic of the genre that is a masterpiece of guitarwork and vocal aggression, although lacking a little is vocal skill. Also from the 80's (one of the only things it has in common with Stu's selections), I present for you aural pleasure:

South of Heaven by Slayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwLtTa2trRs

[Perv]

lol I am gonna prepare myself b4 I listen to that !!!!!  The name Slayer is vaguely familiar.  Not really into Metal, I like the Old Metal Licker stuff like Enter Sandman and Sad But True.  Have a couple of Stained songs but they are mellow.

[Keeper]

Yeah, mellow is not really the adjective I would use for Slayer :)  I'm listening to their Best-Of double CD right now, which is entitled "Decade of Aggression" :icon_lol:

[Keeper]

Attention: Mike:

Is the swear filter a little over-tuned at the moment, seems a bit daft I can't use the word:

enBreast*led
:icon_lol:

[Medved]

or attitude!

[Perv]

Yeah, mellow is not really the adjective I would use for Slayer :)  I'm listening to their Best-Of double CD right now, which is enBreast*led "Decade of Aggression" :icon_lol:

Thats why I said I'd prepare myself first  :icon_w00t:  I have a feeling some long haired maniac will be screaming out the speakers  :icon_eek:

[Keeper]

Actually, there is quite a long guitar intro before the "singing" starts on this one.

[Custom_Hobby]

Attention: Mike:

Is the swear filter a little over-tuned at the moment, seems a bit daft I can't use the word:

enBreast*led
:icon_lol:

Not ovetuned just set to stop daft members from being offensive. I will fix it though since that one is causing other problems with perfectly acceptable English.

[Keeper]

I thank you :)

[Keeper]

A little classic metal to start the week, here.  A icon of the Black Sabbath back catalogue: Iron Man

The classic version from 1970 from the Prince of Darkness himself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MII3ns2KTBc

And one of my favourite covers of this song, Trevor Smith Jr (Brooklyn, NY) and John Michael Osbourne (Birmingham, UK) coming together to combine Hardcore East Coast Hip Hop and Black Country Industrial Metal.  Better known as Busta Rhymes and Ozzy Osbourne, this track contains very strong and racially contentious language, right from the start (as you might expect from Mr Rhymes).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehXW3ORp-fk

[Keeper]

Next example for my little monologue is from the eternally popular, Manowar.  A popular touring band with seventeen albums to their name, yet they are virtually unknown outside of the rock and metal fraternity.

Actually, I like them so much I couldn't restrict myself to just one track.  First, a very mellow balland for a metal band, then a track from the new album with a Warhammer AMV and finally a cheesy 80s glam-rock style track.

You'll probably either love them, or hate them, or perhaps you'll just be not bothered ;)

Master of the Wind
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nkv-XGD2cQQ&mode=related&search=

Sons of Odin with a Warhammer Alternate Music Video!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VBmVndzNIkI

Blow Your Speakers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Mo52aalF2H8

[Bodhi]

I tried sculpting with the radio on once. It got to be so disturbing I now have a busted radio.

SILENCE

That is what I prefer to sculpt by.

[Keeper]

I envy that you're able to do that, Bodhi (work in silence - not bust radios!).

I can't stand silence when I'm painting, because its not acutal proper silence - I get distracted by the external noise - the road on the other side of the valley, people passing outside the house, birds, the steelworks further up the valley, etc. and I just can't concentrate properly.  I like to have something I can control to mask this low level noise, so that I can concentrate properly :)

[Custom_Hobby]

For me it depends on my mood, I go from total silence to classical music.

[Bodhi]

I envy that you're able to do that, Bodhi (work in silence - not bust radios!).

but... I can bust phones to. Last time I did was when I worked for a marketing survey telephone service (I HATE phones don't know why I applied the job in the first place...). Two hours. That's how long I made it... Then I smashed the phone and left  :icon_wink:
Worlds shortest workperiod that was...

And the time before that it was my own phone that went... from the fifth floor... after a conversation with the employment agency  ::)

I've calmed down considerably since...