What music do you listen to in order to inspire your more creative side?

Question

For me, it's (in order)
1) Dashboard Confessional
2) Gomez
3) Mika

Answer 1

Hello.
I listen to pretty much anything that's "average" and music that are very unique, really really out there. So bizarre like elevator music that sounds like it's meant to hypnotize you. Make a fusion out of all and there's your creativity. Deep poetry rap, rock, jazz, smooth jazz, classical, r&b, alternative, instramentals. The radio. I would say more instrumentals or lite music very low while at work for the arts, not concentrating on it since your drawing/painting et cetera. It goes in your unconcious and manifest while you are working without realizing it. You should make sure you know what you are hearing though, especially if it's the radio where there are countless garbage ads these days in which you would not want to get in to your unconcious making you do certain things you have no idea why.

Some recommendation I have are:
-Moments in Love- By: Art of Noise
-Summer Madness- By: Kool and the Gang
-Songbird-Forever in Love- By: Kenny G
-Californication-Soul to squeeze- By: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
-Kiss from a rose- By: Seal
-Teenage Love- By: Slick Rick
-Who am I (What's my name)- By: Snoop Dog
-Runaway Train- By: Soul Asylum
-Black Hole Sun- By: Soundgarden
-Everybody want to rule the world- By: Tears for Fears
-Hail mary-krazy- By: Tupac
Critical beatdown album By: Ultramagnetic Mc's
-One Headlight- By: The Wallflowers
-Super soul sis- off Warren G's album: Regulate
-T.R.O.Y.- By: Pete Rock and CL Smooth
-Jeremy Spoken- By: Pearl Jam
-Nas is like-Memory Lane-One Love-It aint hard to tell-If I ruled the world-Rewind-2nd Childhood- By: NAS
Michael Jackson Classic Hits
-Fade to Black-Welcome Home (Sanitarium)-Nothing else matters-One-Until it sleeps-The Unforgiving II By: Metallica
-D'evils-Diamond is forever-Meet the parents-Some how some way- By: Jay-Z
-Lift me up- By: Jars of Clay
Green Day Dookie album
-After the smoke is clear- By: Ghostface Killah
-It's yours-Bells of war- By: Wu-tang Clan
-Saying goodbye (to hollywood)- By: Eminem
-Radio- By: Eazy-E
-Nuthin' but a g thang (instamental)-Let me ride (instramental) By: Dr. Dre

Hope This influences you. Take care and God bless.

Answer 2

What a fun question. I love Jazz. Jazz has a way of evoking a sentimental mood and tells a story even without words. I listen to classical when I'm cleaning; it has a way of motivating you to get things done. I listen to easy listening or soft rock when I'm driving or on the weekends for a more relaxed environment and I listened to R&B when I exercise or when I feel like dancing. I have never heard of the music you listed, I suppose I'll have to look into that.

Answer 3

Definately punk rock or anything like that. The bands The International Drive, Hit The Lights, and Love Arcade are defintaly the best for this and i totally recommend, if you want some more awesome bands or anything feel free to email me!

Answer 4

Nine Inch Nails
Hole
Jack off Jill
Stabbing Westward

Answer 5

The Postal Service.
They're simple and light enough for my mind to freethink,
but have a driving beat of electronic beeps to keep me moving

also,
Craig Armstrong - Ruthless Gravity

Answer 6

My Chemical Romance

Iron Maiden

Pink Floyd

Smashing Pumpkins

The Misfits

Anything metal and kind of mysterious

and sometimes classicals like Mozart and stuff.

Answer 7

Xarmywife and Bandit, I'm with you, I love Claude Debussy, what a genius, especially for making Golliwog's Cakewalk, which I know how to play!

But I also love jazz, so I listen to songs from Chicago, and I listen to Humoresque No. 7 by Dvorak.

Answer 8

Tool

Romeovoid

Peter Gabriel

Answer 9

Enya
Inigma
and anything on Audio Vision ♫ MX Radio 856

Answer 10

Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune