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| | | Hey guys, I was just wondering if any of you castle-heads out there can recommend any good castle building music??? Listening to the radio doesn't do it for me when I'm building, and I don't care for silence. I'm looking for something that can get (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Jason Rowoldt
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| | | | | In lugnet.castle, Eric Brouwer writes: First of all, I'm not a huge castle builder, though I appreciate it. I just have to concentrate my money on one area, you know? :) My picks would be: * Robin Hood: Prince of Theives Soundtrack (Morgan Creek (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | (...) Mmmm... good question. Personally I like listening to music to get the ideas, and then do the building only to the music of rattling bricks. :-) I love listening to the Cranberries while getting ideas... their songs inspired some of my wildest (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | (...) Mmmm... good question. Personally I like listening to music to get the ideas, and then do the building only to the music of rattling bricks. :-) I love listening to the Cranberries while getting ideas... their songs inspired some of my wildest (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
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| | | | | (...) Interesting topic for discussion... I could recommend: * any of the instrumentals that employ harpsicord, harp, and violin/strings on your local classical station, but that's radio BUT also: Clannad was a great suggestion! Enigma has a nice (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | Eric, (...) Hey yourself! (...) any (...) something (...) Inspirational if (...) Well, I am not a castle builder per se, but I found that soundtracks, like movie soundtracks, without singing, video game music, classical, etc. are good for building. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Bruce Schlickbernd
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| | | | | | (...) I'd agree with that. If they are singing (at least in a language I can halfway follow) I get distracted. Virtually all the art courses I took in college used instrumentals. To answer your question, Eric, it depends on what you are looking for. (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
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| | | | | | (...) I agree that the lyrics can be distracting sometimes (especially Nine Inch Nails)...depends on my mood. (...) Flight of the valkyries?....oh my....lol (...) I couldn't remember the composer but I also pop the movie in whle I am sorting or (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Erik Olson
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| | | | | (...) I'm with Scott on the soundtracks. These work for me: Gladiator (Hans Zimmer w/ Lisa Gerrard) (have I seen this movie enough times?) Spartacus (Alex North) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum (Sondheim; new recording with Nathan (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | (...) My current picks include: - Clannad and Celtic in general; - Sarah McLachlan; - Loreena McKennitt; - Some Classical; - Various Final Fantasy CDs by Nobuo Uematsu, especially Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite, Pray, and Final Fantasy IV Celtic (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Craig Hamilton
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| | | | | (...) great topic, eric, and not "off" at all! music and lego castle building go hand in hand in my mind. i'll load specific cds in the stereo to build by. for my last castle, the wizard gregor's tower, i listened to loreena mc-kennit("the mask & (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Shiri Dori
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| | | | | | | In lugnet.castle, Craig Hamilton writes: <snip> (...) Hey, yo, whoa - don't let me take the credit here... that was totally your idea, I just had to use it because my stories were directly influenced by certain songs... (...) Definitely!! (...) (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Scott Edward Sanburn
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| | | | | | To All, Hmm.. well, I guess I should list some of my favorite tunes for LEGO (Building, sorting, filling orders, etc.) 1) Metal Gear Solid - I love this CD, excellent mood music 2) Starship Troopers - (I know, but Klendathu Drop is excellent for (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Karl Martinson
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| | | | | | | Sorry folks, gonna have to drift away from the popular building trend of listening to instrumental music, but I just put on some Metallica. I'm serious, Of Wolf And Man inspired me to create my entire group of evil wizards, and I Disappear helped me (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Karl Martinson
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| | | | | | Sorry folks, gonna have to drift away from the popular building trend of listening to instrumental music, but I just put on some Metallica. I'm serious, Of Wolf And Man inspired me to create my entire group of evil wizards, and I Disappear helped me (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Kevin Maynes
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| | | | | (...) Well... by the lengthening list of replies it looks like "inspirational" takes on many meanings dependent upon the listener. For subject-related tunes, looks like you've already got quite the list to choose from. But for pure broadband (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Andy Lynch
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| | | | | Ok. Let me try this again. I started to reply to this message, and then all the power in the building went out. The generator kicked in and the computer room stayed up, but I was out of luck. As I started to say, When I am concentrating, I try not (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Wesley Pauley
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| | | | | (...) Well ya know I find listening to good ol' punk rock helps me. though all to often it seems to lead to my forestmen/wolpack/peasants starting uprisings against the royalty. --:-) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | (...) Speaking of Yoko Kanno, she held a miniconcert at last year's Otakon. @anime recorded and digitized the four piano pieces she played. You can download them in MP3 format here: (URL) played the opening from Vision of Escaflowne, Voices from (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Jeff Stembel
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| | | | | | (crossposted and follow-ups to .o-t.fun) (...) Yup! There certainly are some great composers over there! (...) I don't follow... Jeff (24 years ago, 17-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Musical advice - kinda OT, kinda not —Matt Brooks
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| | | | (...) Hi! A day late and a dollar short, but... I'd read through all the rest of the posts here and was thinking about what I listen to when I'm building. Usually it's just the radio, so I have some white noise in the background to tune out and (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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