I just bought the new Perry Ferrell’s Satellite Party album Ultra Payloaded. Its awesome had me rocking out all afternoon.
Made me wonder what are you listening to? I am always looking for that next album that inspires.
A few bands/albums that do it for me right now:
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (classic)
Dave Matthews - Crash
Rusted Root - When I Woke
31 Knots - The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere
Recently I love everything from the swedish band “the knife”, I have heard three albums, “the knife” , “deep cuts” and “silent shout”, really good music. Reminds me when Bjork started and was new and exciting.
i saw pfsp on letterman a while back, and was totally surprised. i can’t beleive that guy’s still at it. good for him.
music for me:
we’re lucky in sea-town to have one of the best public radio stations anywhere KEXP… they stream online, check’m out… their programs are pretty cool too. http://www.kexp.org
latest cd’s i’ve bought
white stripes - icky thump
at the drive in - relationship of command
hiroglyphics - 3rd eye vision (lost my old copy)
donisaur jr - the new one… can’t remember what it’s called
blue scholars - bayani
I like stuff that stimulates my brain without distracting me with lyrics. Mostly electronica, nujazz, house, broken beat.
Some nice recent downloads:
Beanfield
Beat Pharmacy
Lemongrass
Mark Farina
I love the Broken Beat Radio podcast: http://www.brokenbeatradio.com/
Incredibly innovative stuff
Pretty all over the place:: on the playlist today:
Jel
Ladytron
The New P0rnographers
She Wants Revenge
Koop
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Massive Attack
Missy Eliot
Kelis
Nichodemus
American Analog Set
Thievery Corp
Tortoise
Ben Folds
Cake
Coldcut
Tosca
The Gossip
Zero 7
Raconteurs
Broken Social Scene
Stars of Track and Field
The Bad Plus
Madlib
RJD2
Shiny Toy Guns
Radiohead
Justin Timberlake (not going to lie)
King Missile
Rentals
and… some early Michael Jackson and Depeche Mode
Well i do like me some piano…
but sometimes i do need the extra boost that rock can give me…
i dont have any specifics, but lately ive been listening to:
Moonspell -Alma MAtter
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
White stripes.
i could go on forever man…
also i listen to moby, i like lounge music and bosanova, a little jazz never hurts… its all good…
thievery corporation.
agree with many already mentioned
here’s some more that get me in a groove or
out of a rut
Sharon Jone and the Dap-Kings
Amy Winehouse
Mark Ronson
Kid Sister
Mash Hall
Spinnerty
Brother Ali
Lonnie Liston Smith
Hi-Tek
Chrisette Michel
DJ Shadow
Vickie Anderson
The bands I listen to when I’m designing/coding.
Isis
Pelican
Russian Circles
Sigur Rós
Keelhaul
Cult Of Luna
Red Sparowes
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Tides
Most of the time I’m listening to the Beatles or John Lennon. Revolver, the White Album, and Imagine are most common. Some Tupac in there sometimes.
For those who listen to music while they sketch, do you listen on an MP3 player? I tried that but I found it’s much easier to concentrate if the music is coming out of speakers.
vivaldi
steely dan
bach
john lee hooker
steve windwood
debussy
I like soft music…
The White Stripes new album…Icky Thump…free stream of the whole album over facebook.com
free and good 
Rock and Design!!! or Design and Roll baby!!!
Rock, Roll and Design !!!
Sex, Drugs, and Design!!! …that would be a nice T shirt.
y’all are going to hate me but I have seriously tuned into Percy Faith.
If anyone has xmradio, escape is great; it is all old time chill out music.
I am talking about big band/classical/musak/instrumental versions of popular hits.
It is better than trance, down tempo and more.
this is pretty much my music collection, which i love each and every one of these albums and listen to them regularly :
downtempo
(global underground label) afterhours series, exposures, electric calm 1 2 3, departues sampler
afterlife - simplicity 2000
air - premier symptomes
another late night - fila brazillia, kid loco
back to mine - adam freland, fila brazilia, kid loco, morcheeba, mj cole, nick warren
ballistic brothers - rude system
boozoo bajou - dust my broom
cafe del mar series
caia - the magic dragon
cream live 2 - nick warren, paul oakenfold, james lavelle
depeche mode - 101
dzihan & kamien - gran riserva
euphoria - euphoria
freezone, vol. 1,2,3,4
gotan project - la revancha del tango
hôtel costes series
invocation
jean michel-jarre - revolutions, rendez-vous, oxygene, magnetic fields, equinoxe
jose padilla - souvenir
kid loco - a grand love story
koop - waltz for koop, islands, sons of koop
kruder & dorfmeister - k&d sessions, dj kicks
leftfield - leftism
massive attack - 100th window, blue lines, mezzanine, protection
moby - play,18
monkey mafia - shoot the boss
peace orchestra - peace orchestra
röyksopp - melody a.m.
saint-germain-de-prés series
soundtracks - bladerunner, blue crush, trainspotting, natural born killers
the blue bar 1 & 2
thievery corporation - dj kicks, sounds from the thievery hi-fi, the cosmic game, the mirror conspiracy
tosca - delhi9, j.a.c, suzuki
tricky - maxinquaye
william orbit - strange cargo 3
rock, jazz, pop
bassholes - bluesroots
beck - odelay
ben folds - rockin’ the suburbs
cinematic orchestra - motion
coldplay - a rush of blood to the head, parachutes
crowded house - temple of low men
david bowie - changesbowie
deadbolt - tiki man
deathcab for cutie - something about airplanes
dire straits - brothers in arms
faith no more - the real thing
foo fighters - the color and the shape
franz ferdinand - franz ferdinand
fun lovin’ criminals - come find yourself
live - throwing copper
marvin gaye - what’s goin on
michael jackson - thriller
ministry - the land of rape and honey
morphine - cure for pain
morissey - viva hate
nirvana - in utero
pink floyd - darkside of the moon, meddle, relics, piper at the gates of dawn, wall, wish you were here
pixies - dolittle, surfer rosa
primal scream - screamadelica, vanishing point
queens of the stoneage - r, queens of the stoneage
r.e.m. - automatic for the people, green, out of time
radiohead - the bends, pablo honey, ok computer
rebirth of cool vols 1-7
red hot chili peppers - blood sugar sex magik, californication
santana - supernatural
sly & the family stone - greatest hits
spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
st. germain - boulevard, tourist
sublime - sublime
talking heads - little creatures
the beatles - 1962-1966, 1967-1970, abbey road, rubber soul, white album
the beta band - the three ep’s
the dandy warhols - come down, dandys rule ok, thirteen tales from urban bohemia
the rolling stones - their satanic majesties request
the stone roses - the stone roses, turns into stone
the velvet underground - loaded
tlc - crazy, sexy, cool
tom waits - asylum years
traveller '00 & '99
u2 - achtung baby, all that you can’t leave behind, rattle & hum, the joshua tree
urban species - blanket
us3 - hand on the torch
zero seven - simple things
whatever i’m into at the time…
currently, idan raichel project
Bands that I like to listen to while coming up with ideas:
Pulp
Suicide
The Raveonettes
Book of Love
Bruce Springsteen
Cold War Kids…
beck
atmosphere
four tet
ice cube
led zeppelin
mozart
pink floyd
nirvana
postal service
xavier rudd
clapton
hendrix
weezer blue album
Anything on the Current is usually good 89.3 MPLS.
etc…
When I’m trying to conceptualise something, I prefer silence, or accoustics are most. I get easily distracted by lyrics, especially if it’s a song I like a lot, and before I know it I stop thinking about the project and just start singing along.
Some light music is good for mindless sketching/coding though.