Chess.com and your favourite music

Do you listen to music while you play? If so, what music puts you into a winning frame of mind?

Personally, I'm listening to Coldplay right now...

schism by Tool!

the lyrics are great for chess.. although its not really about chess

I know the pieces fit
cause I watched them fall away
mildewed and smouldering
fundamental differing

like poetry that comes from the squaring off between
...finding beauty in the disonnance

and the build up in the song is great for battling it out over the board with the final woords being repeated I know the pieces fit

I like to listen to music while I'm playing chess, but I find words/lyrics to be distracting; I prefer instrumental music while I play. It can be classical, folk, or something jazzy. Of course I prefer instrumental GUITAR music .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcji2gYJkI

Phil Keaggy, County Down, from the album Beyond Nature

For chess, I like ZZ Top, AC/DC, etc. Jazz and classical on the other hand deserves your full attention so I generally don't listen to it while playing chess.

snob!

Indie bands: Beirut, Tallest man on earth, fleet foxes

Classical: Franz liszt, Claude Debussy, Mozart 

I like to listen to music without lyrics when playing chess, so classical usually fits the bill.

See, Ivan!

The typical conclusion people draw is that I am an idiot unable to pay attention to two things at once, so I guess that's a step up...

Hey that's not even a country, it's a cafe!...

Looks like they play classical music there.

I used to have a digereedoo cd around to do puzzles to..thats also kinda cool.

I'm listening to Titanium by David Guetta right now.... if that counts....

The Regulator by Clutch. They sound like what Monster Magnet might have sounded like had they let their b***s drop.

REALLY nice! Here, I'll make a trade:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=putK7sQ5nag

Beautiful... just beautiful.

My new favourite song is Fall, Goliath, Fall by Project 86

Lyrics:

Take up arms
Are you fallen, oppressed?
This is insurrection rising, hold the lines in defense
It's time, my brothers
Beat your shovels for swords
It's time, my friends
Sound the siren for war

With our backs to the wall
We'll respond to the call
Fall, Goliath, fall fall Goliath
With the head of the giant
Celebrate our defiance
Fall, Goliath, fall fall Goliath

Can you smell it in the air
My brethren
It's the beautiful stench of reinvention
Sharpen your axes
Resurrect your hatches
As we raise our chalices to fallen combatants
It's time, my brothers
Earn your stripes and your lashes
It's time, my friends
Light your hearts into action

With our backs to the wall
We'll respond to the call
Fall, Goliath, fall fall Goliath
With the head of the giant
Celebrate our defiance
Fall, Goliath, fall fall Goliath

Unite
Hold the line and
Strike
Raise the claymores high
We fight, for reason to die

The ghosts of our fathers
Beat drums by our sides
The trophies of the day
Scalps and hides
We fight, not for the hand of the tyrant
We fight, because of love for one that's behind us

With our backs to the wall
We'll respond to the call
Fall, Goliath, fall fall Goliath
With the head of the giant
Celebrate our defiance
Fall, Goliath, fall fall Goliath

beethoven

LOL perfect my 13 yo niece, if she cared about chess.

I can't listen to music while playing chess