Writing Soundtrack

Dark Blue by Jack's Mannequin - or anything by Jack's Mannequin in that matter - is a charm to me for writing.
But anything by 30 Seconds To Mars can get me into really heavy thinking - especially on my iPod =)

I've been writing Default to the 30 Seconds To Mars album A Beautiful Lie, and Smashing Pumpkin's American Gothic EP, mostly. The former gives that wide-open space feel that i need for it, and the latter has a light-hearted wryness that i try to get across. Because i think about these things in so much detail, y'know. Chyeah.

Lucille was inspired by Bryan Ferry - Your Painted Smile (I listen to my Dad's music... it's mostly wonderful stuff, to be honest :XD), and was written to the album that that song is from, Mamouna.

"Gone" was clearly written whilst listening to Tears In Heaven by Eric Clapton.

I also have another short story in the process, which was inspired by listening to Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Eva Cassidy. Although, I'm not quite sure how I came about to listening to it in the first place.

In general though, anything quite soft and melodic helps and inspires me to write. I find that anything too quick, upbeat or "heavy" just seems to distract me.

"Schüsse" most of those were written along to Lacuna Coil

"StripperKlok" I write that along to The Berzerker and Carcass

"Beg My Broken Heart" along to Beethoven

"Ascension" So far has been written along to Slayer

The idea for Sounds was inspired by Quiet by the Smashing Pumpkins.
I also wrote the basic outline of it to that song.

Sometimes I'll listen to Better Off Alone by Grinspoon if I'm writing anything particularly sad.
But more often than not, music distracts me from what I'm writing.

If I Die Before I Wake
...And We All Have A Hell - From First To Last

Heres To Playing Tug Of War With My Vocal Chords
Featuring Some Of Your Favorite Words - From First To Last

Odium
On My Own - The Used
Miserable At Best - Mayday Parade

Not posted
Just Keep Breathing
One Man's Drinking Game - Mayday Parade
Remembering Sunday - All Time Low

The Boys You Left Are The Men You Didn't Raise
The Day I Left The Womb - Escape The Fate

For Your Guardian Angel, I actually have a soundtrack. Haha.

For that one, it depends on the chapter. For example, if I'm writing the current chapter, entitled Saturday Night, I'm listening to The Misfits' song a million times until I finish writing it.

It's kind of like that for me. If there's a certain song that either inspired a chapter name or an entire story/one-shot, I'm listening to it while I write it.

I don't have a song in particular, but I'm usually listening to Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses by Slipknot for everything I write. I'm not sure why, but whenever I'm going through writer's block, their music gives me an extra incentive to think of ideas.

For Nothing Could Come Between Us, I listened to the song of the same name by Theory of A Deadman, which was only natural, considering the song was the basis of the story.

Usually Bright Eyes or The Dear Hunter. Now Jack's Mannequin, most of the time.
Earlier on I did a bunch of My Chem music when writing.
At the moment, I'm listening to the four Death Note themes often.

I basically listen to anything except the band I'm writing about.
It's a quirk of mine.

When I'm writing original fiction, I'm usually listening to the song that inspired it, or Don't Fear The Reaper by the Blue Oyster cult, because it reminds me of Stephen King.

Blur. has a huge soundtrack :cheese:
My Chem songs:
Vampires Will Never Hurt You
Drowning Lessons
Desert Song
Cemetery Drive
Sleep
Demilotion Lovers
Cancer

The Used songs:
Hard To Say [but there was little inspiration from this song]
Yesterday's Feelings
All That I've Got
Earthquake
Find A Way
Smother Me [same as Hard To Say]
On My Own
Blue and Yellow
Greener With The Scenery [This song was... pretty much behind the "...uoy evol I" deal... you took it back ]

Funeral For A Friend songs:
Juno
Junae [Acoustic]
Your Revolution Is A Joke
History
Roses For The Dead
Red Is The New Black

A Fine Frenzy - Almost Lover

And some more :shifty but honestly without these songs I wouldn't be able to make it through this one-shot :cheese:

I'm writing my new OF oneshot Porcelina to Panic At The Disco 'Pretty.Odd'. The reasons for this are probably a mixture of the fact that it has a certain... innocence? and colour to it that I always had in mind for this (it's been in the pipeline for a while now, wavering between chaptered and one shot in my mind), and that since putting it on my iPod I have gained a temporary addiction to all the songs, up until Behind The Sea, after which it kind of loses me.
I will most probably also be listening to some of the more pretty songs off Smashing Pumpkins 'Mellon Collie...' (including Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans).

Ups-A-Daisy:
(For the new story I've been writing basically all day long.)
It's set in the 1920s so my playlist consists of:
George Gershwin
Bettie Smith
Duke Ellington

But there's also a bit of later jazz:
Etta James
Billie Holliday
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Glen Miller
Frank Sinatra
+ Me and Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin

I kind of do this new thing where I just put my Ipod on shuffle and start writing, not really paying attention to what music is playing. Sometimes, though, to get in the mood for writing, I listen to songs that have a connection to a story or the character. For example: Requiem for a Dream- Ochestra version- is the official theme for Nanashi I and Nanashi II.

Normally I listen to classical music. I find it hard to write to things with words, and I really love this one piece of music.
But right now, I'm listening to Where's My Mind? by The Pixies on repeat and it's making writing this chapter much easier.

Usually anything slow(er), and soft rock. (Coldplay, etc.)
Sometimes Beethoven - given my mood.
Or I just put it on shuffel and completely tune music out.
And then there are the times I get inspired by a song, (Most recently, 'Rise Above This' - Seether) And I keep that song on repeat.
Right now, my writing soundtrack is,

'My Hero' - Foo Fighters
'Rise Above This' - Seether.
'Monster' - Meg & Dia
'Clocks' - Coldplay
'Find A Way' - The Used
'Earthquake' - The Used
'Northern Downpour' - P!ATD.

My mind works in strange ways. :cute:

A lot of times when I write, I'll put on Say Anything, In Defense of the Genre. It gets me thinking, and I feel a lot more...I don't know...creative, I suppose, when I listen to it. I also like that it's two discs, because I take a long time to write, and this way I don't end up listening to the same eleven songs over and over again...

Pretty. Odd. is also a good album to listen to, IMO, because it's rather mellow, but still pretty much awesome.

I also listen to a bit of Senses Fail, Thursday, Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo, Jimmy Eat World, and Dashboard Confessional. I made a bunch of playlists with their songs for when I'm writing.

I wrote James to My Chemical Romace's first album. The rawness, the darkness, the love stories buried in bizarre, horrific situations (or just an office block), it's all relevant. I think the state of mind of one of the people writing that album, or his experiences with certain states of mind, dug thier way in thier as well. It started off as a story about a murderer. It ended up as a story about depression and trying to find your place in the scheme of things. And murder.

for 1000 Souls In This Gun, I listen to MCR's I Never Told You What I Do For A Living & Demolition Lovers
for This Is Hell On Earth, I listen to MCR's Early Sunsets Over Monroeville.

(I got my plot from those songs)

For I Found The Cure To Growing Older I listen to Panic at the disco music.

My Brendon updates I listen to Avril Lavigne (which is a really weird choice for me)

and for So This Is It, This Is The Silence, I have a playlist which consists of :
Karma police - Radiohead
Slow Motion - Third Eye Blind
She's a handsome woman - Panic at the Disco
The Phrase That Pays - The Academy Is...
I'm so sick - Flyleaf
I've got a dark alley.... - Fall Out Boy

Those songs on repeat really help me.