So I was listening to my itunes when,(this is going to sound gay) Alicia key's song "If I Ain't Got You" came on and I realized that it was my favorite song to read HP Fanfiction to. I don't know why exactly its my favorite but it is.
So I was wondering what eveyrone else listens too?


Don't flame me because of my song. Lol

 

Can I say queer queef eater?

I like to listen to "Don't Fear the Reaper" because it makes me think of Cokehigh!Jenny.

 

First, you didnt need to quote me due to the fact that your the first reply and queer queef eater? Isn't that contradictory?
Can I say your an idiot?

 

You can be queer and still eat queef, as queer only really means odd or wierd, and you can call me an idiot if you want.

And I like quoting, so bite me.

 

Didn't queer originally mean Happy or something similar (much like gay, hence the synonymous nature of its "social definition")?

Edit: I see...fair enough.

 

Main Entry: queer
Pronunciation: \ˈkwir\
Function: adjective
Etymology: origin unknown
Date: 1508
1 a: worthless counterfeit <queer money> b: questionable suspicious
2 a: differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal b (1): eccentric unconventional (2): mildly insane : touched c: absorbed or interested to an extreme or unreasonable degree : obsessed d (1)often disparaging : homosexual (2)sometimes offensive : gay 4b
3: not quite well
— queer·ish \-ish\ adjective
— queer·ly adverb
— queer·ness noun
usage Over the past two decades, an important change has occurred in the use of queer in sense 2d. The older, strongly pejorative use has certainly not vanished, but a use by some gay people and some academics as a neutral or even positive term has established itself. This development is most noticeable in the adjective but is reflected in the corresponding noun as well. The newer use is sometimes taken to be offensive, especially by older gay men who fostered the acceptance of gay in these uses and still have a strong preference for it.

 

Queer originally meant 'strange', or 'out of the ordinary'.

As to the main discussion, I hold no musical preferences when reading HP fanfics. Usually it's whatever's on, be it an old 60s song that happens to be in my head, or more modern band.

Somehow, the song "Runaround Sue" reminds me of Ginny Weasley. Hm.

 

Usually its something techno like Eiffel 65 or Dirty Vegas' Days Go By or The Cure.

 

I listen to the Techno tag on www.last.fm

 

I basically listen to the group of tracks I use when I'm studying, but my favorite is: "Aunt Hagar's Blues" by Jim Cox

 

Chopin's Nocturnes.

 

Select Voltaire (so shoot me), Efterklang, Apparat, LCD Soundsystem, random New Age, random Avant Garde, random Trance (esp. DJ Adrian Eftimie, Earthbound). More or less what I usually listen to.

 

A small list from me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGkxcY7YFU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRmqZRPgK1w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twQlpFrm5iM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlOEk_1_UWQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN5ExwsXUiQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R795KiMD4zs

Arcade Guile
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCBjOcI1rdU

Band playing guile theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hRILDboWR0&feature=related

This for a particular violent scene...haven't listened to this while for a while
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NmH6Q4Iaew

Beethoven > Mozart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhcR1ZS2hVo

Favorite would be Dark Tranquility atm though.

 

Pearl Jam. Brooding sounding songs like Immortality, Nothingman, Black, Yellow Ledbetter, I Am Mine, Jeremy, and others like that give me a mellow feel for writing.

Fight scenes really fit well with certain AC/DC or Metallica tracks, and even the song Uninvited by Alanis Morrissette works for me. Which I'd readily agree is odd.

Shape of Things to Come by Audioslave is an excellent song for any writing, though. It's mellow and evokes clear mental images in the listener. Gives you something to go on, so to speak.

So there are a few things that my ears like while my mind works. And that's just me.

 

Don't listen to music when reading, I perfer complete silence.

 

Listen to pretty much anything - been playing this track more often than not of late:

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


It's pretty mellow, cool rhythm - and written by an Australian band, The Panics, that actually have quite a following down here.

~~Joe

 

DAM....I just listened to that song by the panics...It's actually pretty dam good man!

I like to listen to

Diary Of Jane Piano version by Breaking Benjamin.....It's a pretty sad and emotional song... It's quite beautiful

 

Ive no idea bout the sad and emotional stuff, but YUS! Awesome song. The original version of the song, or pretty much anything from Breaking Benjamin I love. Awesome band. Phobia and Saturate rock.

 

***GASP*** Geeze whenever I ask someone online or even in real life "Have you heard of Breaking Benjamin?" there like who? Aggravates me to no end man.....

I guess when I listen to it I think it's a pretty emotional song,least the way he sings it in the piano version, go check it out if you have never heard it. Oh and it just reminds me of things in my life.

 

If it's humor, nothing beats The Mountain Goats. In particular, "No Children" off their Tallahassee album.

Dark stories work well with Shostakovich: Symphony 5 or cello concertos (Yo-yo ma, preferably, for the latter).