What is your chess music?

At tournaments, some people like listening to music on their ipods.  Do you listen to music while playing? Do you find it helps you or distracts you?  If you do, what is your playlist?

Today, Bob Seger..."Knight Moves."

The Script?

Are you sure you're ChessGUY?

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"Louie Louie" the Kingsmen

Mostly, I listen to different eras of Classical Music while playing (Prokofiev, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Liszt etc).  However, I have also played to metal, classic and folk rock, and Gaellic-Celtic Music as well at one point or another.

haha very funny but nah i listen to any type of music, im not picky ;)

Yeah you seem to have pretty eclectic taste from what you listed.

Just couldn't resist the cheap shot!

:) 

Cows, you might get a kick out of this if you haven't seen it already:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/song-titles-in-a-chess-world?page=1

One of my favourite threads!

On another note, the spell-checker red-underlined "favourite"!

When will you Americans learn?

:)

Today, while playing chess, I'm listening to "Cornelius", "Beirut", and "Asobi Seksu"

The thread is amazing

I don't listen to music during tournament play -- I think I'd find it distracting.  I kind of wonder how others aren't distracted as well, especially if the style of music is so varied.  If that's what you're used to though, I guess it could work, but songs I know I tend to sing along with or follow the beat and it isn't white noise anymore. 

If I want to push my calculations just a few more moves or stop at a certain visualized position and look really hard for tactics this would distract me and I'd likely have to start over.  Maybe this is because I sometimes speak the moves in my head as a way of holding a line in short term memory for a bit.  Anything that isn't white noise to me would disrupt that (eg when the songs change).

I listed to about anything while playing online.

Today I have mostly been listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Today, Billie Holiday..... "all I do is pray, the Lord above will let me walk in the sun once more..." So depressing I cant whipe this smile off my face, to quote Garfield Cat

Good choice Rooperi.

Slavko Avsenik - Großglocknerblick!

I totally love Mr. Avsenik's life work! THis is not for everyone but I set up more than a hundred of his pieces to play and spend the evening playing either poker or chess.

i listen to electronic (trance) music and it doesn't distract me at all because there are no lyrics in this music genre. my playlist includes popular tracks from paul van dyk, tiesto, armin van buuren, etc.

I have found that Chess and the music of the classical guitar are a well matched pair.

ratatat, slagsmalsklubben, crystal castles, shinichi osawa;
easy electric listening

Whatever calms down the massive overdose of caffeine I took to make it through my drive last night, currently.

Otherwise I'll randomly click on something in itunes and suffer through it.(therefore, many genres)

Today, I am listening to Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", ten times in a row!