Music: Stirring of emotions

Have a piece of music which stirs your emotions and puts you in perfect mood to write?

Let us know here.

I find when i'm writing a very emotional tragic scene that songs like Blackout and soldier poem by Muse help me.

Recently i've been listening to the bande 'Halves' which is really mad mix of classical and retro sound.

I just listened to some of Halves stuff, and it's really good! I like it!

When I'm writing I love to listen to instrumental music. Especially piano instrumentals.
One of my favorite bands to listen to while I'm writing is Evanescence. Their music is so inspirational and lyrical.

I listen to extremely varied things while writing. Like I said in my introduction, everything from movie soundtracks to Enya to Slayer. I wrote a very very very super intense scene last night involving my main character's brother being tortured in Hell (dude, my mind comes up with very disturbing things sometimes) and I went through file after file after file on my computer until I found songs that fit. There was a lot of Slayer for that scene, some Static X and a Nightwish song or two. It was so intense.
I find that I am very influenced by what I'm listening to when I am in the middle of an intense scene -- or even a not-so-intense scene -- and it's almost a requirement that I have the perfect soundtrack.

I'm the same nove, its amazing how influential the right piece of music is. I actually have my playlists sorted by 'emotions' now with sad songs like snowpatrol, coldplay, halves grouped together and 'action' songs like MUSE and Linkin park or Radiohead together.

Man, I tell you. This story is so intense that it warranted the longest playlist I've EVER made:

The Enigma Playlist

Push it -- Static X
Dead Skin Mask -- Slayer
Slaying the Dreamer -- Nightwish
Skeleton Christ -- Slayer
Perversions of Pain -- Slayer
Hell Awaits -- Slayer
Angel of Death -- Slayer
Call of the Ktulu -- Metallica
Armaturam dei -- The Messenger Soundtrack
Burying our Children -- The Messenger Soundtrack
Chinon -- The Messenger Soundtrack
My Heart Calling -- The Messenger Soundtrack
No Amen -- The Messenger Soundtrack
The Messenger of God -- The Messenger Soundtrack
Vampire Hunters -- Wojciech Kilar
Love Remembered -- Wojciech Kilar
Born to Darkness -- Interview With the Vampire Soundtrack
Desati -- Kingdom Hearts Soundtrack
Pirate's Gigue -- Kingdom Hearts Soundtrack
Hollow Bastion -- Kingdom Hearts Soundtrack
Scherzo di Notte -- Kingdom Hearts Soundtrack
An Intense Situation -- Kingdom Hearts Soundtrack
Walk the Plank -- Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack
Barbossa is Hungry -- PotC Soundtrack
The Council of Elrond -- Enya
Lothlorien -- TLOTR Soundtrack
May it Be -- Enya
Helm's Deep -- TLOTR Soundtrack
Evanstar -- TLOTR Soundtrack
Policy of Truth -- Depeche Mode
Restless -- Evanescence
Where'd Ya Go? -- Fort Minor
Falling Inside the Black -- Skillet
Imperfection -- Skillet
Memories -- Within Temptation
Angels -- Within Temptation
My Immortal -- Evanescence
I'm With You -- Avril Lavigne
One Step Closer -- Linkin Park
Crawling -- Linkin Park
Runaway -- Linkin Park
Somewhere I Belong -- Linkin Park
Flat on the Floor -- Nickelback
Away -- Nightwish
Deep Silence Complete -- Nightwish
Terrible Lie -- Nine Inch Nails
Ghost of the Sun -- Katatonia
Criminals -- Katatonia
Burn the Remembrance -- Katatonia
Walking by a Wire -- Katatonia
Falling Again -- Lacuna Coil
Swamped -- Lacuna Coil
Heaven's a Lie -- Lacuna Coil
Daylight Dancer -- Lacuna Coil
Self Deception -- Lacuna Coil
Angel's Punishment -- Lacuna Coil

Innit awesome?

Novel-Goddess, what song is Restless by Evanescence? I haven't heard of that one.

Here's a Link!

I do quite like this song.

Novel-Goddess wrote:

Here's a Link!

I do quite like this song.

Oh thank you! I do like that song! Within Temptation is pretty good!

Yeah, WT and Ev are amazing. Especially when they work together! Nightwish and Lacuna Coil are another amazing pairing. It's that kind of music, plus coffee and sheer insanity, that fuel my work.

Novel-Goddess wrote:

Yeah, WT and Ev are amazing. Especially when they work together! Nightwish and Lacuna Coil are another amazing pairing. It's that kind of music, plus coffee and sheer insanity, that fuel my work.

Yeah, I've ben a huge fan of Evanescence forever! They are so good! I like some stuff by Lacuna Coil but I've never heard of Nightwish. What's your favorite song by them, so I could look it up?

I'd have to say that my absolute favorite Nightwish song is Slaying the Dreamer. I also LOVE Amaranth.

Novel-Goddess wrote:

I'd have to say that my absolute favorite Nightwish song is Slaying the Dreamer. I also LOVE Amaranth.

Hmm, they're pretty good. I like the guitar in Slaying the Dreamer. And they have some interesting music videos.

Nightwish does have some pretty interesting music vids...They're AWESOME.

Hm. I was talking to my friend Josh yesterday, and I mentioned that I had been listening to the song Angels by Within Temptation. I made a comment about just how relevant it was to The Enigma and how I didn't realize just how relevant it was when I put it on the playlist.

I said, "Take, for example, the lyric 'the smile when you tore me apart.' That is just so...fitting. You know?"

"I don't think it means literally, though," he told me.

"Yeah, but in this case it IS!"

"People get torn apart in your book! Oh my God, you *have* to let me read it! Right now!"

Hahaha. I think that if I hadn't had my notebook in my bag he would have stolen it right there.

Please pardon the double post...I have a new playlist.

For the novel that still needs a name:

Better Life – 3 Doors Down
By My Side – 3 Doors Down
The Red – Chevelle
Are You Ready – Creed
What If? – Creed
Seventeen Seconds – The Cure
I've Been Waiting for You – David Bowie
Everyone Says 'Hi' – David Bowie
But Not Tonight – Depeche Mode
Strangelove – Depeche Mode
Breathe – Disturbed
Devour – Disturbed
Darkness – Disturbed
Hear it in the Rain – Enya
Bring Me to Life – Evanescence
My Immortal – Evanescence
Haunted – Evanescence
My Last Breath – Evanescence
Cold – Lacuna Coil
Veins of Glass – Lacuna Coil
Falling Again – Lacuna Coil
Heir of a Dying Day – Lacuna Coil
When a Dead Man Walks – Lacuna Coil
Breaking the Habit – Linkin Park
From the Inside – Linkin Park
Shadow of the Day – Linkin Park
What I've Done – Linkin Park
Hysteria – Muse
Windowpane – Opeth
In My Time of Need – Opeth
Cuts You Up – Peter Murphy
I Trust You – Skillet
Rebirthing – Skillet
There is a Light that Never Goes Out – The Smiths
Here's Where the Story Ends – The Sundays

Recently i listened to johnny cash's black veil song and can i just say that that man is a poet!! the lyrics of his songs are amazing and so inspirational

There are a few groups I listen to while writing, mostly because it helps me think later while I'm driving in the car or working around the house. I can have the music on in the background and immediately be thinking of where I am in the story. It helps a ton!

As for actually writing music...I'm originally a musician (a flutist) and have actually written quite a few pieces and arranged some as well. All are instrumental. But my favorite was an orchestral piece that I wrote after having a dream about it when I was about 13. I still have it and hope to one day fine tune it and get it published.

I wrote a piece for piano inspired by The Surface of the Deep. It's nothing amazing, but still. I'm working on another one, too.

Oh thats brilliant Novel, don't suppose you would maybe record it for us and let us have a listen?

I love muse, dying wish of an atheist is an amazing 'book song'

Perhaps I shall. I'll finish the song I'm working on and tweak the other one (I played it in piano class today and it sounded a little off) and then see if I can get them up on YouTube.

I like Matt Nathanson, especially for romantic scenes. I change music for changing moods in the story, you know?

sdficklin wrote:

I like Matt Nathanson, especially for romantic scenes. I change music for changing moods in the story, you know?

I do the same thing SD...I get Josh Groban on for romantic or sad scenes, Within Temptation, Muse, and Skillet for fight scenes and Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra for fun happy scenes. I love how music can really just change your mood that you're writing with.

I've been listening to a lot of heavier stuff while writing lately, even for low-intensity scenes. I think it's been helping me keep an edge of tension in everything, downtime included.

I was listening to "Nobody's Listening" by Linkin Park yesterday and it helped spark a random idea that I'm working on now. That happens a lot with songs. I'll just start listening to something and I'll start writing.

Double post, but I think it's been long enough.

So, get this. My dad says that he'll write a song or two for tSotD if I let him read it so he can have something to work with. He'll write it, play it for me, record it, everything. I just have to...let him read the book.

But I think it's worth it, yeah?

Or its a ploy to read your work

hahah, seriously though novel, thats great!! you could make such a cool book trailer with your own music !!!