The music you listen to while playing

I didn't know where to put this, so I hope General Chess Discussion is okay.

I was just wanted to hear if other players have noticed if the music they listen while playing has an impact on their style?

I find that when I listen to power metal such as Amon Amarth I make hasty and aggressive moves, while if I listen to something more relaxed such as A Perfect Circles cover of What's Going On, I play more cautiously.

Usually I listen to Psy-Trance which makes me very focused (I also listen to this when I study), or Dave Matthews Band, which makes me indecisive..

Listening to a bach fugue allows you to calculate accurately, while listening to a Shostakovich String quartet makes you play something crazy like g4 or g5.

Hehe.. I could imagine about the Shostakovich.. I've never heard much Bach though.. I read somewhere that studying to Bach has similarities to doing so while listening to psy-trance, as long as the trance doesn't have too many weird sounds and sub-themes .. Both facilitate memory and calculation..

I lisen to monk - hense my games having random blunders here and there!  Monk or Scofield. Anything I havnt heard before, or with a voice just doesnt work for me.

What I need to lisen to is something alittle 'mechanical', maybe something like Kraftwerk ... - but good! Any ideas? I like Bach, but I would feel too pretentious while playing chess

Clint Mansell's music or crazy things. It all depends on my mood.

pop-rock makes you play aggresive and forceful but romantic at the same time

I listen mostly to Vietnamese and Chinese music. For example 12 Girls Band, Dadawa, Nhu Quynh, Phi Nhung, Tam Doan, My Tam

@super12345: LOL! .. =) ..

@RainbowRising: Well aren't they sort of in the same playing field? Though Black Sabbath is a little slower than the others.. I think Iron Maiden would make me play the same way as Amon Amarth, maybe I should give it a try!

No not a lot, I think I have heard one track.. Can you suggest anything?

I prefer Robert Plant when he is in Led Zeppelin =) ..

Hehe.. Well maybe just type out one or two that would be a nice introduction to the music...

HAHA.. thanks!!

I listen to mostly rap when I play, its the same music that I listen oter times. I like to listen to music while playing because it makes the game more enjoyable, it's like listening to stuff while driving or studying.

I've played chess to Shostakovich, though usually his more approachable symphonies and concertos -- I don't think my opponents (friends) would care for the quartets. Nothing against Bach, but I've grown tired of Baroque music in general. Most of my listening is Mozart and later: Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn up through Bruckner, Mahler, and Shostakovich. Throw in a lot of lesser known composers such as Wetz, Magnard, Miaskovsky, etc., as well as 20th Century Americans like Piston and Creston.

I don't know that music helps or hurts my game. If the game gets intense, I tend not to notice the music so much. Jazz would bother me. Rap would inspire physical harm to my opponent with possible subsequent incarceration for me. (Of course, the same might be true for Bartok, though it could take a few seconds longer.)

Schubert, Bing Crosby, Electrelene, Scout Niblet, Monade, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You-Black Emperor, Dirty Three, NWA, Dave Brubeck, Brazillian Girls, Asobi Seksu, and Beethoven, the last few days I have played

The Classics are nice.  I also like 'quiet' music.

Bach and Shostakovich, the 2 greatest composers ever.

Bach fugues improve your calculation skills!

Shostakovich improves your thinking in sharp, messy positions