So here I am in the garage in hot weather, later than usual but I don't want to go in just yet. The reason? I'm on a roll! I can't help but think its partially due to the music. I started with a local band called Dallas Alice. Good southern rock on their album "Social". Next was a mix from Soul Coughing. and now I have a best of CD from Filter.
What music gets you motivated?
Junkyard_Dog wrote: So here I am in the garage in hot weather, later than usual but I don't want to go in just yet. The reason? I'm on a roll! I can't help but think its partially due to the music. I started with a local band called Dallas Alice.
Name possibly taken from that Little Feat song?
I'm not sure about motivation, but I can't help but play country when working on a car.
I've been listening to a ton of dubstep in my shed, being played way too loudly through one of these:
That thing gets loud.
Talk radio. Does that mean I am lame?
Red Dragons!
I listen to a mix of dubstep, Kid Cudi, Rise Against, Paramore, Bruno Mars, and some other stuff. I like it mixed up so that it's not the same thing over and over again. I'm a very diverse kid 
Demon hunter. My tastes are pretty eclectic, but I've found that I wrench best to heavy metal. Or rockabilly, God bless the reverend horton heat.
Conservative talk radio or whatever is on the classic rock station does me just fine.
Some day when I am rich and famous I will have a full discotheque style stereo in my shop, with a wall of subs under the workbench and some big Peaveys hanging from the ceiling, expressly for cranking "Cowboys from Hell" while doing burnouts in my Mustang.
At the body shop everybody except RJ and I hates music, so we blast rock/metal as loud as we can.
At home, I listen to mostly alternative music. Dad has some klipsch speakers in the shop that rule!
In my room, I have a gigantic stereo system assembled, complete with massive subwoofer and 4-foot-tall loudspeakers. I play whatever the heck I want there (I listen to almost everything, from Billie Holiday to Busta Rhymes–My iTunes library is larger than any iPod.)
Soma FM Boot Liquor. Awesome country for those who hate radio country. Play a kickass variety.
http://somafm.com/bootliquor/
Junkyard_Dog wrote: So here I am in the garage in hot weather, later than usual but I don't want to go in just yet. The reason? I'm on a roll! I can't help but think its partially due to the music. I started with a local band called Dallas Alice. Good southern rock on their album "Social". Next was a mix from Soul Coughing. and now I have a best of CD from Filter. What music gets you motivated?
a best of cd from Filter? so it's just "Hey Man, Nice Shot" and "Take a Picture" on a continuous loop?
Last weekend I was playing this Taiko drumming DVD while I worked on the car.
In reply to novaderrik:
HA!!!
I listen to a tape on repeat that says "Breathe in. Breathe out." I forgot once. Almost died.
Normally, nothing. Don't have an enclosed work space while working on anything. But I do listen to the 90's alternative, talk radio, and the big band/swing station on Slacker.
I have ZZ top, demon hunter and the Swinging Love Hammers in the CD player. All fast enough.
I have a whole "garage" playlist on my ipod that I connect to the massive shop head unit & speakers. It has:
Rev Horton Heat, ZZ Top, JJ Gray, James McMurtry (a favorite), some old country (Don williams, Hank Jr,), Pink Floyd selections, Raconteurs, Stevie ray vaughn, Shooter Jennings, Skynyrd, Stray cats, BR549, and a bunch of one-off car songs. And a ton of other stuff to long to list.
Ya GOTTA have the right tunes.
ultraclyde wrote: I have a whole "garage" playlist on my ipod that I connect to the massive shop head unit & speakers. It has: Rev Horton Heat, ZZ Top, JJ Gray, James McMurtry (a favorite), some old country (Don williams, Hank Jr,), Pink Floyd selections, Raconteurs, Stevie ray vaughn, Shooter Jennings, Skynyrd, Stray cats, BR549, and a bunch of one-off car songs. And a ton of other stuff to long to list. Ya GOTTA have the right tunes.
That list is perfect.
You, sir, have the best taste in music that I've seen in GRM-land. You are hereby granted the right to control the radio in my garage!!!
wow. thanks!
When I first started working on cars, at my future FILs house, all he played was Counrty. This was in the late 80's and it still feels kind of strange to be working in the garage with something other than Country on. It is either that or our local NPR news station, man I am getting old.
BoostedBrandon wrote: God bless the reverend horton heat.
Hells Yes, that's some good music.
I've also found James Brown helps keep me moving and productive. Also gypsy punk (Gogol Bordello), dubstep, and Cartalk.
XM 100-101 Howard or if I heard it already I turn to Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcl0oikKFAY
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