So...whatcha listen to when you build Tamiya's?

Kenny G · August 23, 2011

Okay, i'll admit that this is a time wasting topic, but I wonder what everyone listens to while they enjoy building their Tamiya's.

Tonight while I am working on my my Shelf Scorcher project I thought I would venture back to the early '90's-'00's and get nostalgic with some Boards of Canada, DJ Shadow, and a little Portishead. I like the down-tempo genre...helps me relax. If I am feeling a little silly i'll watch some of the vintage Tamiya promotional videos on YouTube.

Shelf Scorcher WIP

taliesin · August 23, 2011

Fair warning, and no offense to your TC name, but if anyone says Kenny G I'm gonna hurl.

Kenny G · August 23, 2011

Fair warning, and no offense to your TC name, but if anyone says Kenny G I'm gonna hurl.

Yeah, it's an unfortunate nick-name, but since my last name starts with G it fits I guess. I have been called that for as long as I can remember.

It never fails, I introduce myself and people will say: "Like Kenny G, the guy who plays the sax?". Then they raise their hands to their mouth and they make the "playing the sax gestgure", followed by: "Can you play us a song?". In the past I somtimes had to fight the urge to punch them in the weinner.

Badboy · August 23, 2011

Everytime I'm in my hobbyroom I'm listening to Marillion Mistplaced, Cluthing and Fugazi.

That's mi working at home music!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuN2PyQYiTc

Badboy

tamiyoman · August 23, 2011

When im restoring Kyosho i tend to listen to Kings of Leon or Coldplay although when im driving i tend to get to destination quicker if i play some old skool house music lol, im also not ashamed to admit i dont mind listening to a bit of Take That, being of similar age and being from same location as 3 of them im kinda supporting the lads lol

KalEl63 · August 23, 2011

Kenny G..... Nah just kidding I have Bob the Builder on as that is what my 2 year old is in to at the moe.

but if that isn't on Queen, Foo Fighters, Def Leppard to name a few of a huge random playlist on the iPod

TWINSET · August 23, 2011

I usually end up listening to Radio 4 comedy like

, Bleak Expectations or Count Arthur Strong

The missus bought me a DAB radio for chrimbo last year so I can listen to 4 Extra too

Music-wise, usually AC/DC, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Whitesnake, older Iron Maiden (before they started exceeding 8 minutes per song) Turisas, Helloween, Airbourne, Bobnoxious (the Canadian one as opposed to Bob Noxious) etc. and a bit of Lordi

tonysmini · August 23, 2011

I've got wide ranging music tastes, Foo Fighters and Nirvana, Take That, Elton John, but my particular favourites are Queen and some old school late 80's house music. You can't beat Pump Up The Volume to get you jigging in the chair.

Origineelreclamebord · August 23, 2011

I don't listen any music in particular when building a kit... When building my TRF201 last week I listened to a good few albums of Frank Zappa But I could've listened Maybeshewill, Saxon Shore, Ayreon, Gogol Bordello, Infected Mushroom, Korpiklaani, The Long Winters, Rapalje, Wolfstone, De Raggende Manne, The Soviettes, Sonata Arctica, Celldweller, Atlas Plug or anything in between

Said in short: You won't hear me listening Hardcore, not a lot of Hiphop and similar stuff, no Top chart music and usually no classical music... So not when I'm building a Tamiya either.

tamiyoman · August 23, 2011

Forgot to add a Bit of classic MC Hammer always goes down well when weilding a Kyosho Box wrench.

barring the above, you will never hear me play rap / hip-hop / gangsta rubbish, it just aint my bag, too many refernces to "caps in bums" "Booty", "Biatches (female dogs)" "Negative Police references" (although i partially agree a lot of them are tools, and 2 of my mates are coppers and yes one of them is a tool!)

tamiyoman · August 23, 2011

I don't listen any music in particular when building a kit... When building my TRF201 last week I listened to a good few albums of Frank Zappa But I could've listened Maybeshewill, Saxon Shore, Ayreon, Gogol Bordello, Infected Mushroom, Korpiklaani, The Long Winters, Rapalje, Wolfstone, De Raggende Manne, The Soviettes, Sonata Arctica, Celldweller, Atlas Plug or anything in between
Said in short: You won't hear me listening Hardcore, not a lot of Hiphop and similar stuff, no Top chart music and usually no classical music... So not when I'm building a Tamiya either.

Yup can honestly state i never heard of any of those lol.

Sat at my computer working with a CD in the drive currently playing "the Kooks", next up is "The Verve" (its raining outside lol)

Max Power · August 23, 2011

I don't normally listen to any particular music when wrenching, but for one day a year for the last two years now, I have been able to sit down and indulge in a Tamiya build, while watching an endurance car race we have in Australia called The Bathurst 1000. It makes for a really pleasurable day

SteelRat · August 23, 2011

Nothing particular to building or tinkering, but I usually have a bit of loud rock on when I'm sat at my desk / work table: Airbourne, ACDC, Dragonforce, Dream Evil, Sonata Artica, Iron Fire, Rhapsody, Alice Cooper, Angra, Stratovarius, Hammerfall et al.

cobalt · August 23, 2011

BBC 4 EXTRA

The horror and crime series...

I'm a BBC junky

Origineelreclamebord · August 23, 2011

Yup can honestly state i never heard of any of those lol.
Sat at my computer working with a CD in the drive currently playing "the Kooks", next up is "The Verve" (its raining outside lol)

Nice Just a gamble here, but I think you might appreciate The Long Winters and Wolfstone if you like the Kooks - though I won't claim the artists are a lot alike Exactly what makes music so nice!

Nothing particular to building or tinkering, but I usually have a bit of loud rock on when I'm sat at my desk / work table: Airbourne, ACDC, Dragonforce, Dream Evil, Sonata Artica, Iron Fire, Rhapsody, Alice Cooper, Angra, Stratovarius, Hammerfall et al.

Nice list I didn't know Iron Fire and Angra yet, but it sounds really good! Perhaps you'll also appreciate a few of these artists: Labyrinth, Ayreon (and Arjen Lucassen's side projects: Star One, Ambeon and Guilt Machine), Stream of Passion, Equilibrium, The Grailknights, Korpiklaani, Turisas, Alestorm, Sabaton, Mustasch, Rishloo, Russell Allen, Svartsot, Threshold, Wintersun and Samavayo

baldmanrox · August 23, 2011

@Origineelreclamebord: Frank Zappa........NICE!!! To this day his was one of the best if not THE best concert I have been to in my life. Saw him in 1987. For those who have never heard him - he is one of the best guitar players and composers who EVER lived.

As for me, when I'm building you will usually find me listening to some sort of fusion album (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc.), or, more than likely as I have been a RABID Deadhead for 26 years - a random Grateful Dead concert. At last count I had over 1700 shows on 6 external hard drives. There was NOTHING like a Dead show ......

yellowscott · August 23, 2011

Rambling mutterings in my head.... oh and a radio station in Australia called tripple j.

TA-Mark · August 23, 2011

Usually I have the TV on in the background (TV card in the PC). Not paying much attention to what show is on, as long as there is some background noise.

If I have music on it's playing on random from a 500gb HDD full of mp3's with everything from pop to classical to rock to heavy metal. No real genre or theme to the collection. Again just background noise and not paying that much attention to it.

JeepnMike · August 23, 2011

Fair warning, and no offense to your TC name, but if anyone says Kenny G I'm gonna hurl.

lmao!!! Sometimes when I am getting frustrated and on the brink of throwing tools, it could help (Kenny G).. No, not really. haha. I never really thought about playing music while building. My only ritual when building (or fixing) buggies is that I like a good cold beer while I work.

Origineelreclamebord · August 23, 2011

@Origineelreclamebord: Frank Zappa........NICE!!! To this day his was one of the best if not THE best concert I have been to in my life. Saw him in 1987. For those who have never heard him - he is one of the best guitar players and composers who EVER lived.
As for me, when I'm building you will usually find me listening to some sort of fusion album (Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc.), or, more than likely as I have been a RABID Deadhead for 26 years - a random Grateful Dead concert. At last count I had over 1700 shows on 6 external hard drives. There was NOTHING like a Dead show ......

I'm jealous! I was too young to have been to any of his concerts... I was born in '91. However, I did get the opportunity to go to Zappa plays Zappa in 2009 (almost a once in a life time chance to do so in the Netherlands I think), and I was blown away by their performance! I also saw a local Zappa cover band play with Ike Willis a few days before, which was also very cool!

This is absolutely an awesome thread!

A little side-step of the original topic... Whereas I don't have special music for building my cars, it does often happen to me that I have a tune in my head in combination with some cool action pictures or movie shots of one of my cars