Music recommendations????

[ladymanson]

 So I've been WAY into listening to instrumental stuff and opera when I've been writing lately.  It inspires me more.  For some reason, anything else distracts me.  So I'm looking for some recommendations.  I've been enjoying the following, just for an idea of the type of things I'm looking for

Comments

[quiet_rebel]

Some of my favorite scores I listen to while I write: Inception sdtk., Underworld score, The Village movie score, 300 sdtk, and anything by Bear McCreary who did the music for Battlestar Galactica.

[ladymanson]

Sounds good and thanks for the Bear McCreary rec too. Then I can look up a bunch of stuff by that artist. :)

[failegaidin]

Black Swan soundtrack (Clint Mansell), Shutter Island soundtrack, and anything by Harry Gregson-Williams (Gone Baby Gone, Narnia, Man on Fire...)

[ladymanson]

Thank you!

[realdetective]

I definitely agree with the Bear McCreary suggestion. A lot of great listening stuff there.

I have a few playlists I turn to when I'm coding or working, just depending on what I want to accomplish, so I'm just going to list the stuff from my instrumental/soundtrack playlists that I think gets the most plays.

+ The Amélie soundtrack (Yann Tiersen). I usually go for:
"la dispute"
"les jour tristes"
"la valse d'amelie" (piano version, not orchestra)
"le moulin"

But sometimes it gets distracting, so the "Goodbye Lenin" soundtrack (also Yann Tiersen) might be more listenable.

+ Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"

+ The more classical (or insert more accurate descriptor) playlist
saint-saens: danse macabre
chopin: nocturne no.20 in c sharp minor
grieg: piano concerto in a minor
saint-saens: samson et dalila - bacchanale
tchaikovsky: romeo and juliet fantasy overture (i also have the nino rota love theme from the movie, but don't use it as often

[realdetective]

omg i'm so tl;dr.

Anyway, I some of what I added doesn't exactly fit in with what you listed, but I did stray away from some of the more Generic Female Ballad-y pieces that are pretty, and floaty and twinkly, because really most of it is the same and not very dynamic or interesting (but I have them because they're good background music. and pretty.)

[ladymanson]

Thank you VERY much!!! :)

[octoberland]

28 Days Later soundtrack
Silent Hill game soundtracks
Sigur Ros (not quite instrumental but very atmospheric)
Moon soundtrack
The Hunger soundtrack

[ladymanson]

The Hunger soundtrack is GORGEOUS! Thank you so much for pointing that out. It may become one of my staples I end up listening to in the car now too. :) Love the Silent Hill ones as well, so eerie.

[haumea]

If you're enjoying the soundtrack to The Social Network, you'll enjoy Nine Inch Nail's 4-Disk "Ghosts".

[ladymanson]

Oh, yeah, I got that as soon as it came out. I love anything that Trent composes. The Lost Highway soundtrack lives in my player as well. :)