What is the soundtrack to your book/manuscript?

Jack says:

Your music doesn't even exist in the same world as my music. You listen to music that wins VMAs. I listen to music that wins Pulitzer Prizes.

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Either Love to Love You Baby by Donna Summer, or Love and Affection by Joan Armatrading

Currently working on an after-death-comes-the-darkness thing. Soundtrack is acoustic bottleneck blues (which I'm composing myself as I go along)

Oh wow. I thought I was unique in trying to find a soundtrack to write to.

My current project.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEob28Dxag


I find it to be ridiculously epic; it's absurd. I hope it comes through in the words though.

Edit (10.09.2014)

I've just introduced another character (anti-antagonist/chaotic neutral) in my WIP. He's a mute. I'm experimenting with using his body language and actions to portray him. No dialogue is interesting. Anyhow, when I write him, I find myself gravitating towards a song my Oliver Messiaen, the Apparition of the Eternal Church. This performance is done by a personal hero of mine, Oliver Latry on the Grand Organ of Notre Dame, Paris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgm1Pp_l9Y

HeavyAirship said:

Your story wouldn't happen to have anything to do with short people and powerful rings now would it?

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No powerful rings but a lot of the other standard tropes...

A lot of Florence + the Machine.

Muse, Black holes and revelations,

I listen to music all the time while I'm writing––rock, rap, pop, R&B––almost every contemporary genre. But the soundtrack to my MS would have to be NIN [Nine Inch Nails]. The Day The World Went Away, The Good Solider, In This Twilight, Just Like You Imagined, to name a few. Hopeless/desolate type songs as that's the general atmosphere for my world that I've created for my characters.

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

Soundtracks for now, but especially stuff by Clint Mansell.

I need a soundtrack for my latest WIP but haven't come across anything quite right yet. It's a military space focused scifi. Any suggestions?

Edit: Oh I found a perfect one (or my lovely husband did). Velvet Acid Christ - Ghost in the Circuit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL7xU6T7VyI

Now i need more.

I love threads like these

So far I have:

Muse - Hyper Chondriac Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok4z1-IGIo0

Muse - Showbiz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZlwe4bwEE

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcawnRIyeok

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk

Stereophonics - Violins and Tambourines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lYNXsW0hM

Muse - Isolated System (Instrumental)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDkcgbIZ6EE

Stereophonics - Jayne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOuMBE_H-4A

Also hoping to have a bit of 90's Grunge - Soundgarden/Pearl Jam in there as my character is a teenager of the 90's of course, and also some Led Zeppelin possibly When the Levee Breaks or Kasmir. Also I quite like writing to Robert Plant - Embrace Another Fall (If I can find a scene it would fit) and also Bright Lights by Gary Clark Jr. as I think it would fit a stylish/cool/kick ass scene!

Music is such a huge aid for my writing. Let's see....

My favorite song for writing tense love scenes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB6S3c7f8XA

I love this for writing a moving, magical scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdFHGFkyew4

This has been great for setting a tense mood:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny7NZPfl0l4

I wrote some of my best fight scenes to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaI2qTpsgu0

This is good for a less serious fight scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tpIMDy9BE&list=PLETuopLfmKSPXx-DAdq8fXA00WRb6rh1A

Honestly, almost anything Lindsey Stirling. I love her music and will often just put her youtube channel or Spotify profile on random play.

Wow. Love seeing some familiar faces in the lists here. David Arkenstone was part of a list I wrote to often in high school. Lindsey Stirling is a playlist I go through almost everyday, whether I'm writing or not.

I have a supernatural-themed WIP that I work on listening to "Cry Little Sister" from the Lost Boys soundtrack as well as thematic music from the Legacy of Kain video game series.

My primary WIP has a playlist on youtube that looks something like this:
Black Veil Brides - In The End
Heather Dale - Hero
Linkin Park - Final Masquerade
Daughtry - Battleships
Lorde - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Black Veil Brides - Saviour
Breaking Benjamin - Had Enough
Linkin Park - What I've Done
Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
Starset - My Demons
Devour the Day - Good Man
Otherwise - Soldiers
Halestorm - Daughters of Darkness
Rev Theory - You're the One
Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side of Heaven

I have a feeling I am going to be way out of the realm of everyone in this thread's music but I figured I'd throw it out there anyway. I tend to pull a lot of the inspiration for my stories from songs, usually a lyric or lyrics spawns a scene in my mind and I go forth from there. So for the current WIP:
17 Again - Brantley Gilbert
Small Town Throwdown - Brantley Gilbert
Close Your Eyes - Parmalee
Ready, Set, Roll - Chase Rice

I HAVE to have music playing, and it has to have no lyrics or underscored lyrics. I have a whole playlist of excellent mixes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcUQxSXqpc3faoXa8n-Wxv23b4iLNTqOZ

Altogether it's 34 hours of music, really great inspiring stuff, with almost no repeats. Baxylz mix does have a pair of songs I skip for voiceovers though.

I have certain bands for different characters and scenes of what I am trying to write. Currently for what I am writing now I listen to:

Linkin Park
The Used
Motionless in White
Evanesence
The Queen of the Damned Soundtrack

I like anything with hard rock edges and ethereal voices because it suits my characters and themes.

I listen purely to Linkin Park when I write. It fits with what I write, which is actually odd because I don't really like Linkin Park when I'm not writing.

The Weepies - World Spins Madly On
Tiny Animals - Answer Me
Taking Back Sunday - Make Damn Sure
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly, from the "Once" soundtrack
Coldplay - Fix You
El Cerrito Place - Charlie Robison
Mumford and Sons - White Blank Page
The Fray - How to Save a Life
Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent

For some reason, I've become quite enamoured with London Grammar's debut album. It's not quite right for the setting of my WIP but it evokes the right sort of atmosphere and seems to be a productive soundtrack!

I always seem to write with some kind of music attached to the project, even if just associations rather than writing to the actual pieces.

My latest soundtrack includes Muse, Metric, and Arcade Fire.

My more general writing playlist includes Iron & Wine, Coldplay, Damien Rice, Florence + the Machine, Foreign Beggars, Shiny Toy Guns, Sohn, the XX, Bat for Lashes, Clint Mansell, es posthumus, Banks, FKA Twigs, globus/Immediate, Alan Silvestri, Hans Zimmer, David G. Arnold, Craig Armstrong, Murray Gold, and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals.

I know I'm so mainstream it's boring...

I'm not a music geek and I don't know tons of unique music, but SO many songs that I hear have themes that fit somewhere with my writing...I'll just imagine the corresponding scene while I'm driving or walking (or whatever I'm doing) while listening to the music...

That said, current WIP has the following at one point or another...
Missing Persons 1&2- One Republic
Hold my Hand- The Fray
Clarity -Zedd
The Scientist- Coldplay
plus many more...

But most of all (the song I imagine playing as the end credits roll in my head because it seems to tie things all together):
Daniel in the Den-Bastille

A later book in the series is definitely set to:
Oblivion-Bastille

I also listen a lot to Above and Beyond's podcasts while writing because they're energizing without (very many) lyrics.

The last significant chunk I wrote was backgrounded mostly by Hocico's Blood on the Red Square.

...we got lost, like the ghosts inside your walls...

A 1960s novel I was working on a few months back I was listening to pretty much the Beatles and Fleetwood Mac. It meshed perfectly with the essence of the book.

Great thread...

I like listening to New Age (synths rock) and Industrial (Gary Numan's latest album is definitely a fav). Whatever gets the words on the page.