What do you like to listen to.

[dmkerr]

Any music is fair game! If there's anything I'm more obsessive about than pipes and tobaccos, it's music.

Jazz - Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Evan Parker, Sun Ra, et al

Dark Ambient - Lustmord, Hafler Trio, Nurse With Wound, Maurizio Bianchi, et al

Punk - Sex Pistols, Ramones, Flipper, Adicts, et al

Rock - Velvet Underground, Beatles, Stooges, Nirvana, et al

Blues - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Son House et al

Modern Classical - Xenakis, Penderecki, Tod Dockstader, Gordon Mumma et al

Just no rap, hip-hop, or country.

[tzilt]

I like to have a pipe while I am working on my own weirdo electronic music, but maybe that doesn't count.

Otherwise, recently...
Frank Zappa's instrumental stuff
Harry Partch
Steve Reich
Sun Ra
DEVO (best line(s): God made man, but he used a monkey to do it. Apes in the plan, and we're all here to prove it! I can walk like an ape, talk like an ape, do what a monkey-man do. God made man but a monkey supplied the glue!)

[morefifemusicanyone]

Originally Posted by tzilt

Frank Zappa's instrumental stuff

I have his guitar dual album, it is good pipe smoking music.

For more of an electronic thing I also enjoy Massive Attack and Portishead.

-Tyler

[Mad Hatter]

This morning I'm listening to The Kinks - Lola versus Powerman and the Monkeygoround, Part One

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by tzilt

I like to have a pipe while I am working on my own weirdo electronic music, but maybe that doesn't count.

Otherwise, recently...
Frank Zappa's instrumental stuff
Harry Partch
Steve Reich
Sun Ra
DEVO (best line(s): God made man, but he used a monkey to do it. Apes in the plan, and we're all here to prove it! I can walk like an ape, talk like an ape, do what a monkey-man do. God made man but a monkey supplied the glue!)

Hell yeah, it counts! I'm doing the same but with guitar loops. Sort of a poor man's Frippertronics. Fun as hell and occasionally an interesting piece or fragment comes through and takes me in a different direction. I don't normally smoke a pipe when I do this but I do when I listen to the artists you mentioned. All good choices!

[Architeuthis]

Harry Partch? Heh... Thought I was the only one who ever listened to his stuff...

[Kayak_Rat]

Ussually prefer the banter of the fellas I am smoking a pipe with(dont you agree Andrew). I rarely set down, just to smoke a pipe. I am usually doing something: tying flies, wood working, cleaning, reading. It all just depends on the surroundings. I do lean toward things that are a bit relaxing(ie no Pantera or GWAR).

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by Architeuthis

Harry Partch? Heh... Thought I was the only one who ever listened to his stuff...

Nah, there's about 8 others.

[Architeuthis]

Originally Posted by dmkerr

Nah, there's about 8 others.

I found "Delusion of the Fury" in 1971 at a public library. (Also discovered Sandy Bull that same day) The hair on my arms stood up the first time I listened to it...

[Emjaysmash]

Originally Posted by Lord Wigglybottom

The Blood of Cu Chulainn (also known as the Boondock Saints song).

Mostly I listen to the sounds of the outdoors. Birds, the river, the squirrels running through the trees...

Mostly listen to nature, but that song kicks major @$$!

[karmazon]

I like lounge music and spanish guitar. Classical music is good too.

Thievery Corporation, Quantic, Dimitri from Paris, Harry Belafonte, Badi Assad, Paco de Lucia, Vincente Amigo, Asian Dub Foundation, Misty in Roots, Moby...Just some examples.

[IrishCamel81]

Originally Posted by g8trbone

If you have access to a computer while you are smoking, one of the best sites out there for legal free streaming music is Pandora. Type in an artist and it selects music based off of characteristics of the artist you chose. Then you can yay or nay tracks and it will fine tune its selection from there.

+1 on the Pandora. The great thing about it is that it introduces you to similar artists. I have found at least 7 great artists while listening to people I already knew.

[letsgomountaineers]

audiobooks. music can get too fast. audiobook are a good way to slow down.

[andrew]

Originally Posted by Kayak_Rat

Ussually prefer the banter of the fellas I am smoking a pipe with(dont you agree Andrew). I rarely set down, just to smoke a pipe. I am usually doing something: tying flies, wood working, cleaning, reading. It all just depends on the surroundings. I do lean toward things that are a bit relaxing(ie no Pantera or GWAR).

Yeah, I could listen to banter all day, although I have little to add myself.

[cruisin66stang]

I'm a blues nut and I listen to Bellyup4Blues | The Internet's Only Ass Kicking Blues Rocker. Great music.

The link added the A$$ kicking line. I'm not sure how to delete this but a mod can fix it if it is offensive.