Face The Music

[Mr. Palmer]

This will sound a strange question, but I'm honestly interested to know what type of music a Vertigo reader listens to...

[will_butler]

Nothing too strange about that. I find that the right background music adds a lot to a good comic. My all-time favorites are:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Elliott Smith
David Bowie (70's era)
Johnny Cash
Marvin Gaye
Marilyn Manson
The Beatles
The Flaming Lips
The Cure
Outkast
Queen
The Pogues
Placebo

And a bunch of others. I recently subscribed to Napster to Go, so I've been discovering a lot of other stuff I'd been meaning to check out forever, like The Velvet Underground, Social Distortion, and The Dubliners. Good stuff.

Will

[Bazooka Tooth]

I listen to too much hiphop that it makes me feel retarded thinking over the fact that what other kind of music genres do i listen to.

But yeah..i dont really listen to commercial 50 cent type of rap. Not my cuppa tea. I usually listen to the likes of..

Aesop Rock
El-P
Sage Francis
Eyedea
Sandpeople crew
Apathy
Ill Bill

Yeah those are just some straight off the dome. I have 40 gig of hiphop in my folders..ouh god..it wont prolly end if i start listing em'.

[innocentboy]

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[MrPunch0]

A steady diet of Wilco, Beck and Elvis have been streaming through my iTunes lately ...

[azrapse]

My iPod playlists as of late have included:

Al DiMeola
Alex Scolnick Trio
Andy Timmons Band
Dream Theater
Evanescence
Joe Satriani
Liquid Tension Experimant
Neal Schon
MCR
NIN
Led Zeppelin
Opeth
Pain of Salvation
Porcupine Tree
Tool
Steve Vai

My taste in music, coffee, beer, ...and literature, inc. comics seems to be similar: dark, potent, and complex.

[Jack Zodiac]

Everything from The Stones and The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and The Blue Oyster Cult, to Gorillaz and Blind, The Wu-Tang Clan and A Tribe Called Quest.

[JLarson]

Lots of Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Early to Mid Floyd, Doors, Zepplin, Tribe Called Quest, Alan Parsons Project, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Ours, certain U2 albums, Ani Difranco, Timbuk 3, PJ Harvey, Bowie...

[dancj]

I turn music off for reading comics or doing message boards. Music messes with that part of my brain. Programming on the other hand (which I do for a living) I do with loud music pumping into my head (mostly indy, but a good dose of Nick Cave, Divine Comedy, Kinks, Madness etc...)

Dan

[LooksBetterDrawn]

I always have a pretty steady flow of zeppelin, modest mouse, and anything with danger mouse (danger doom, gorillaz, gnarls barkley)
lately its been alot of grateful dead, pink floyd, simon and garfunkle, mc chris, and beck
in my cd player(6 disk) i have the 8 zeppelin albums that i usually throw on random, and on my turn table i have dark harvest by neil young
looking forward to the new rapture album

[stealthwise]

Mostly rock/hard rock, indie rock, metal.

Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, The Shins, The Constantines, Sevendust, Machine Head, Black Sabbath, SoundGarden, Audioslave, etc.

[DubipR]

Everything from Mozart to Moby.
Currently playing some Motown....got some Sam & Dave, Marvin Gaye, Temptations, Smokey & the Miracles, and many more.

[pigkiller]

Decemberists have frequented my speakers lately. Of course the classics, Beatles, Clash, Kinks, Bowie, etc. Two Gallants. Jim Croce, John Prine and Roger Miller.

[TheDarkestHorse]

Wow, a lot of good music listed. Personally, I'm liking Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Tegan and Sara, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Shins, Lost Sounds, and Tool right now.

[MarkSullivan]

I don't listen to music while reading, either. Here's what I've listened to during the last week or so:

Lee Morgan - Take Twelve
Brian Eno - selections from Music For Films & On Land
Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue
Michael Shrieve & David Beal - The Big Picture
Brian Eno - 14 Video Paintings DVD
Andrew Hill - Andrew!!!
Brian Eno - selections from Ambient 2-4, Apollo, The Shutov Assembly, & The Drop
Bern Nix - Low Barometer
Soft Machine - most of Vol.1-2
Brian Eno - Nerve Net