Hawkwind, Gong, Triumvirat, Van Der Graaf Generator, Faust...
Faun, Ego Falls, Mountain Man,
All manner of stuff actually
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Here's whats on cue of late:
Jazz: Return to Forever, Rick Braun
Blue Grass: Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss & Union Station
Movie soundtrack: Tower Heist, Tron Legacy
Classic Rock: Jethro Tull, Rush, Firefall, Kansas
Electronica: Dead Mau5, Tangerine Dream, Nero
Female Vocal Lead Rock/Electronica: The Birthday Massacre, Delain, Nightwish
Could be anything from Glen Miller to Avenged Sevenfold. But if I don't feel like messin with the CD player, then it's Meatloaf Radio on Pandora.
Of course nothing loud enough to drown out the Tsunami's. That would be sacrilege!
Karl
NCE über alles!
NP2626 Just something about Lightfoot, he can capture the essence of any subject in a song! Great video, Batman! If I'm not listening to silence, I love to listen to Public Radio and especially Prairie Home Companion and Click & Clack.
Just something about Lightfoot, he can capture the essence of any subject in a song! Great video, Batman!
If I'm not listening to silence, I love to listen to Public Radio and especially Prairie Home Companion and Click & Clack.
I'm with you on Gordon's great contributions to our railroad musical heritage.
BTW, one thing I learned listening to SAT radio is that Waylon Jennings was a big Gordon Lightfoot fan, also. Waylong covered at least one GL song, but can't remember which one.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I usually don´t listen to any kind of music while working on my layout. I do listen to some of the sounds my layout has - the occasional cry of sea gulls, subtle harbor "noises", the chuff of my little steamer switching the fish processing plant...
The only thing missing is that smell of salt water and dead fish ...
I don't like a lot of clutter so I do a lot of "silence" but when I had space for a layout I used to enjoy listening to smooth jazz or new age music.
I grew up as a teen in the 70's so classic rock of the 70's and 80's is also a favorite, love Pink Floyd too.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Just a little bit of everything, actually (except rap...)
My current favorite soundtrack is that from Railroad Tycoon II. Good Stuff!
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
Just the clickity-clack of the metal wheels crossing over the metal rail joints...
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
BATMAN This Guy! watch?v=tGiYI3ercf8
This Guy!
watch?v=tGiYI3ercf8
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
Blues, classic rock, bluegrass, or I'll start one of my steam locos with sound doing a slow chuff around the layout if I'm working at the bench.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
I'm usually listening to the South Carolina Electric & Gas Company suck my money away via the air conditioner.
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
THose in the Diner thread would not be surprised to hear I listen to Hawaiian music..most notably the Chants...such as :
Kamahiwa, Collection One, by Keali'i Reichel,
Kamalei, Collection Two, by Keali'i Reichel,
Po'okela Chants, by Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu,
Call It What You Will, Chants by Mark Keali'i Ho'omalu
I also enjoy listening to the Chants of the Kane Hula {Men's Hula} from the Anual Merrie Monarch Festival Competitions.
I find it interesting, relaxing and enCHANTing, and I absorb the songs/chants via osmosis almost as I intend to learn them {the ones that are my favorites}.
E pili mau na pomaika`i ia `oe {May blessing be ever with you}
Aloha,
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Her-in-doors generally has the "goggle box" on.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Oddly enough, now that I'm retired from the music profession, I don't listen to anything--well, my under-table steam sound system, but not even that so much, anymore. When I was teaching and performing music, my companion for running the trains was usually classical music--Aaron Copland worked really well, as did Beethoven (Beethoven works for almost ANYTHING!) and some Mahler.
But now it's bretty much just the clackity-clack of HO wheels on HO rail joints.
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
WFMU
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
I can't hear anything when i'm working on the railway as my wife is nagging me too much while i do.
Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!
K1a - all the way
I hate silence when I'm working. My workshop and trainroom are both wired for 5.1 surround sound (and video). I usually run a train video when I'm running trains, the rest of the time it's often CNN or MSNBC or HGTV. When I'm in the mood for music I'll set my HGTV (computer) for random play, it's got 75k songs from the big band era to jazz to classic rock to today's rock.
Jay
C-415 Build: https://imageshack.com/a/tShC/1
Other builds: https://imageshack.com/my/albums
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
IRONROOSTER Silence, it's wonderful. Enjoy Paul
Silence, it's wonderful.
Enjoy
Paul
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
jhoff310When Im not listening to music Im usually trying to tune out my wife...."Jeff are you playing trains again....this needs fixed that needs fixed the lawn need mowing...blah blah blah...: LOL
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Some times I work in silence and others I have the 5 disc cd player playing quietly in the background.
In the player are the following discs set for full random play.
The Country Gentlemen (Blue Grass)
From Old Rocky Top to Muddy Bottom (Blue Grass)
Country Classics
The Rockin 50's
The Best of the 50's.
Nothing too serious while I'm creating art.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
How about Cage the Elephant,Disturbed, or Oysterhead? No I'm not in my twenties.
Wayne
Usually silence, especially when working on small details. Easier to hear the part ping against something and figure out where it went. lol
If I'm doing something that doesn't involve small stuff I may turn on some music, Like making my coal loads or weathering. Then I turn on my mix of classic rock, modern rock, and some metal.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
a little bit of everything from frank sinatra to metallica to country to 90s alternative . When Im not listening to music Im usually trying to tune out my wife...."Jeff are you playing trains again....this needs fixed that needs fixed the lawn need mowing...blah blah blah...: LOL
soilworkJust curious what everyone listens to when working on their layout. I usually listen to blues, jazz and some metal. Artist range from bands like In Flames to Diane Krall.
I like classic rock, and prog rock, however, I listen to Old Time Radio Shows Like Jean Shepard, Dragnet, and Johnny Dollar, I also like to listen to audio books and podcasts when I am working on the railroad, and working on my other hobbies.
Most of the time it's my Wife complaining from upstairs that I should be up there with her.
Just kidding, although she mentions it from time to time.
Really, if I can get some "Blue Grass " going, I'm a pretty happy camper.
Johnboy out...................................................
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
Sirius "Outlaw Country" and "Deep Tracks" -- from Steve Earle to Blue Oyster Cult to Shooter Jennings.
Steve (8th) and I (7th) actually attended the same junior high for one year. I think I knew who he was, in retrospect, but doubt he knew me. But there we are in the same yearbook. Wanting to listen to his show was the reason I signed up fro SAT radio. Then I discovered Shooter Jennings' show connected me to a lot of the new music I like and couldn't find on terrestrial radio anymore. Another friend told me about Deep Tracks, which is the oldies channel for those of us who cared about good, cool music back in the 60s to 80s on the rock side of things.
Lots of train songs on both channels, compared to 98% of the other channels
Once in awhile, I throw on a CD.
I generally don't play music when operating with anyone else, but do indulge myself from time to time.