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Just thinking - don't know if this topic's been breached - but do you comic collectors have a fave CD or tracks to listen to in background whilst reading certain comics (or just in gereral).

And what kind of music do you listen to?

Do you play music from time comic you were reading was published?

Or certain types of music - be it pop or classical or specialist - just go with any comic or with certain types of comic.

Do some records make a good soundtrack to certain strips?

What to we comic collectors think?

The theme tunes from eastenders, corrie and emmerdale are good music to read comics by as means your not watching them . I do find that music has to be very much in the background when I am reading as I start to listen to it and stop reading, the music! A nice bit of 70s and 80s disco with a bit of the Nolans for luck

Music to read The Hulk by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSK4x5DJMTo

DavidKW wrote:Just thinking - don't know if this topic's been breached - but do you comic collectors have a fave CD or tracks to listen to in background whilst reading certain comics (or just in gereral).

And what kind of music do you listen to?

Do you play music from time comic you were reading was published?

Or certain types of music - be it pop or classical or specialist - just go with any comic or with certain types of comic.

Do some records make a good soundtrack to certain strips?

What to we comic collectors think?

While I sometimes listen to music while I'm inking a page, I never play music while I'm reading. Too distracting. I suppose it depends on the age of the reader. I was never of the "background music" generation. I put music on to listen to. Likewise, I never leave the TV on if I'm not watching a specific programme but I've known plenty who do.

It's funny - I like to listen to music or the radio when I'm drawing, but not when I'm reading or writing. It's as though words and sounds occupy similar parts of my brain while visual thinking takes place in a separate region.

- Phil R.

You can put me in the same category. If I am working, I like to have incidental music to listen to, but never when I am reading. Reading is far too important to have it spoiled by music.

philcom55 wrote:It's funny - I like to listen to music or the radio when I'm drawing,

- Phil R.

show us yer drawings, Phil! [you sure kept quiet on that one!]

I'm mostly with Lew on this one: you get more absorbed into comic fantasy Worlds by reading in silence---also penciling is usually best done without music on. Finishing drawings off by music is OK.


Music on is also good for:


cooking


Entertaining ladies


[so I hear]

Not really one for silence unless I'm sleeping (strange old building I live in and all that, plus it stops the cat from being too annoying).

If I'm reading, I generally have some prog-rock on, preferably of the long, mostly instrumental variety. Plenty of Pink Floyd or Caravan, or even Steely Dan. Gomez and Bongwater make good "reading music" as well.

When I am doing school work I tend to have music on or the TV in the background. However, when I read comics I like it to be quiet as I can't read with background distractions.

same here, no music while reading.

ambient music would be recommended, me thinks. I don't possess a tv and normally have radio 5 live on but, if I'm reading, I can find the radio too distracting and, therefore, slap a instrumental cd on which doesn't intrude too much. In the past, I have been so engrossed in reading that I couldn't believe that a 60 minute soundtrack of sea waves crashing against the shore had past by so quickly - ever present and yet so discreet with which to engage. Lovely, if you wish to sleep.

geoff42 wrote:In the past, I have been so engrossed in reading that I couldn't believe that a 60 minute soundtrack of sea waves crashing against the shore had past by so quickly - ever present and yet so discreet with which to engage. Lovely, if you wish to sleep.

I doubt whether the soundtrack of the waves crashing into Dawlish railway station would lull you to sleep any too quickly, Geoff. It was pretty placid this morning, though, when my train from Penzance passed through, but I stayed awake anyway just to be on the safe side.

On the subject of trains, on a journey last week, last week I was delighted to discover the train door windows could be wound down [just like in the old days] and I was able to stick my head out the window with the train careering at full throttle---a real exhillerating andrenalin rush, the first time I have been able to do this in decades, and other punters on the train also took this opportunity too.

The health and safety mob would have been tearing their hair out at this lapse in modern protocol, however I managed to arrive at my destination with head still intact.

A first-rate experience of feeling alive, worth the price of the rail ticket just for this thrill.

Lucky you! Something I've always wanted to do. Maybe even recreating this:
http://youtu.be/tQslnmcHOeM?t=1m8s

yes, indeed, that Young Ones clip did cross my mind regarding this recently, 2-headed!

I had my camera on me and considered getting a shot of the speeding background, directly out the window, but bottled out due to the G-force which could well have wrenched the camera out of my hands, even with a strap.

It's a bit un-nerving when you first poke your head out the window, in case another train passes abruptly, but once that hurdle is passed , and you get the exhillerating view, I was in 7th Heaven.