:lol: oh internet

I like rock music :toot:
if I'm feeling really punchy I'll download Jaxon's local shots podcast from WMMR in philly to hear what bands I'm missing out on this week to slay internet dragons. Most of the time I sleep soundly, content in the knowledge that they are terrible, but occasionally I miss a good one and am sad.

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http://www.gmppodcast.com/WMMR/Jaxon...6/Default.aspx
check out volume 12, skip to about 5minutes in -damn :(

Give me a break, I threw that together at 4am on a weeknight. The video was 7:10 long and I saw a 7:06 Tiesto track on my playlist and gave up on bothering with anything creative.

I live in Seattle, so I'm able to tune in KEXP on the air. For streaming stations, I go for KCRW (kcrw.com), easily the one thing I miss the most from the 3 years I lived in southern California.

Also off-topic, but yeah, I have the original Ony video too. Were those the first real raiding videos that put any effort into production values? I think Conquest's videos were the true "first" raiding videos, but they were just unedited fraps posted to prove a point rather than to entertain. I really enjoyed the first Ony video, which gave a sense of the epic feel for the encounter without really giving anything away in terms of strats. Anyway, back to music.

From one Phily boy to another: YRock on XPN. It's on all the time.

Off topic again, is this video available to the general public?

Hmm, I'll try to get something out there this weekend since I'll have plenty of spare time.

Personally, instrumental trance, jazz, and classical music are my "things to listen to while doing something else" music, whether studying, working, grinding away in an MMO, or whatever. I listen to plenty of rock, but usually not while I'm trying to pay attention to a different activity entirely.

That's pretty funny that you can't bring in MP3 files on a USB stick or store them on your work computer, but using gigs of bandwidth streaming music to you is ok.

Hot. Thanks for the link. May I suggest The Minibosses and Metroid Metal if you have not yet basked in their glory?

I got in the habit of playing DJ on our farming raids a while back. I'm sort of a rock-centric music whore with a 2nd hard drive full of crap, so I can't really say there's just one or a few musicians focused on. Instrumentals are enjoyable stuff when trucking along through a dungeon.

I'm really a new yorker who's just here until his fiancee gets her masters so we can blow this town :ssh: actually I really like WMMR to be honest. I felt kinda lost after losing my upstate NY stations due to distance, and then WXRK changed formats to sucktastic talk radio.

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I'd argue that the people who immediately respond to a thread posted at 3-4pm on a Friday probably do not constitute any "majority of raiders" at all, unless you mean a majority of the people who are trolling the EJ message board at 3-4pm on a Friday, and also are of the self-centered prerogative to share their horrendous tastes in music. I include myself!

Fear Factory - Zero Signal

There are a couple highly produced CQ videos now, but I still like our older ones.

The most recent video is kind of a collection of all the raids in 1.0. http://www.teamgbu.com/wow/Conquest2006.wmv

Frank Zappa in the "Hot Rats" style or anything else Jazzy, also Square Pusher/Digitonal/Snares/Gong, electronica, funk, ragga etc.

Also, isn't this much more of a "post what music you like so someone else can go 'yeah man, i listen to that too!' to make you feel good about yourself" thread? :P

More or less. With a little bit of chatroom flavor.

But hey, it's a Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend, so why not?

I've been a nigh exclusively industrial music guy for years but something about WoW SCREAMS for awful techno music.

So yeah, I'll fucking say it... I listen to Scooter when I play WoW. Not just listen but REALLY LOUDLY.

And Delta 9. But that's not cheesy. That will eat your souls and your eyes. Together.

Well acquainted with the former but not the latter which I shall check out posthaste. If you dig the NESkimos stuff I have a horrible-yet-endearing quality rip of one of their live shows, it might still be in their forums but PM me if you can't find it. I also have a huge chunk of my music section from ocremix.org which might be the greatest site ever for someone who both loves music and grew up in the 8/16 bit heyday.

For raiding I prefer WoW and vent. Grinding asks for Rammstein or Motörhead.

I used to hate all that Trance / Techno crap, until I saw that Discordia MC video. Comforting to know that I'm not the only one who still has that on my hard drive!

Typically when soloing I'd listen to various classic rock bands (Cream, Hendrix, Zeppelin etc), or stuff from Fura's videos. Didn't really listen to much music on raids since it made it really hard to lead them.

Exactly. I listen to electronic stuff when I want some structured sound to stimulate my thoughts without distracting me from what I'm doing - raiding, programming, etc. On the opposite end of the spectrum, I listen to Sinatra while levelling to keep myself from focusing on the tedium.

Non-lyrical (or non-lyrically focused) music demands less conscious attention so you can commit your focus elsewhere. I actually wrote a thesis on rave culture and spirituality in college (my degree is in philosophy and religion) that examined the properties of electronica as compared to meditation and other contempative traditions. :-P or more straightforwardly - as gurg said - it's music you can listen to while doing something else. and the pac man quote is "music doesn't affect kids. if music affected us as kids, we'd be wandering around in darkened rooms munching magic pills while listening to repetitive electronic music". i have it on a t shirt. :-P

As for your music list - i'm curious what nelly furtado you consider as lending to epic encounters :-P i'm a nelly furtado fan, but i can't see it :)

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, and Wynton Marsellis (sp?) are on my jazz list.