Inspiring music...

[Iliya]

What is the music or songs that inspires you to create your stories. One of the tunes that inspires me most is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEM59KwBqmQ&feature=related

PS: Sorry if there is another thread for this.

[Dualnames]

I may add

Two Suns in the Sunset - Pink Floyd

[Oliwerko]

When I write anything I usually play my big collection of carefully selected 80s tracks.

[Phemar]

All That Remains, All Shall Perish, In Flames and As I Lay Dying.

Or Pink Floyd, Streetlight Manifesto, Bob Dylan, Dire Straits and the Chili Peppers!

[Igor Hardy]

Nothing in particular inspires me, especially not songs.

However, I find running to put the mind to a state that makes it easily inspired.

[Oliwerko]

I forgot to mention that even more important than music is the light, time of the day, etc.

The best inspiration comes to me when the sun is shining at a low angle in the early morning, I'm home alone and drink water, listening to the music I mentioned. The combination of these things is what inspires me, not the single things in particular.

[Wonkyth]

Appasionata!
I play this over and over till my fingers hurt while I'm thinking.
This and the Alla Turca.

[Nikolas]

YAY for Beethoven and Mozart! (mentioned above).

I really can't work and listen to music, for rather obvious reasons, but when I'm copying scores to Finale, I always get some music running, which ranges for about anything.

and I also don't think with music playing, that would be giving me a split personality in my case! LOL

[Pinback]

I almost never work without some music on, (or at least some sci-fi show on the telly).
Cannibal Ox's album The Cold Vein, hugely inspirational for me. Probably moreso than any other thing I've listened to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pADgllloQg4&feature=related

[Bulbapuck]

Anaal nakrath And Blur. mostly.

[Tuomas]

Oh, Chroma Key, nice!

I usually listen to jazz an something like Ozric Tentacles when I'm translating. As long as it's instrumental, I can't really have unrelated word messing me up when I'm working with texts. But when I do something like homework, I usually listen to Renaissance (the band). They're really inspiring, great compositions, I recommend!

[Iliya]

Oh, Chroma Key, nice!
I usually listen to jazz an something like Ozric Tentacles when I'm translating. As long as it's instrumental, I can't really have unrelated word messing me up when I'm working with texts. But when I do something like homework, I usually listen to Renaissance (the band). They're really inspiring, great compositions, I recommend!

Ozric Tentacles are great! Super rhythm sections!

[GarageGothic]

It depends very much on the project - I rarely draw core story or gameplay concepts from music (happened in one case with a Bowie song and an unfinished MAGS game), but once I have some idea of the setting, themes and feel, I'll often listen to related music. For instance, if I'm making a game about computer hackers in 1980's Berlin (which incidentally I am), I'm bound to end up listening to Kraftwerk, or 'Heroes'-era Bowie.

For my game Shadowplay, I've often listened to Arcade Fire's 'The Well and the Lighthouse', and the Lou Reed album 'Magic and Loss', in particular the song 'Magician' (not album version). Also a recent favorite listen while writing is the Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse album 'Dark Night of the Soul' with a ton of guest artists including The Flaming Lips and David Lynch.

Edit: Music videos is a whole other matter though, they're like little seedpods of inspiration that explode in your mind and grow into beautiful forests. A few weeks ago I watched the video for OK Go's 'WTF' - right off the bat it inspired a very cool visual effect for one of my game projects, but then I started building on that idea and it grew into an entirely new kind of approach to adventure game GUIs! How awesome is it to get all that from watching a 3 minute video clip?

[Emperor Justin]

Yeah, depends on the project for me too.  for the supernatural horror/mystery I'm working on now, it's the Necks "Hanging Gardens" which is a great song (and at an hour long, perfect for those long sessions of work if you hit the repeat button in iTunes!)

[Dualnames]

I'm writing a depressing game. I used Final Cut on Disquiet and some of the Wall.

The themes of the game are mostly :
-loneliness
-depression
-insanity
-division

No idea what album can fit those. I've been searching like a maniac with King Crimson's debut to be kind of close.

[Wonkyth]

Piano Man.

[Al_Ninio]

Usually post rock or dark ambient/dark jazz when I'm drawing.

[Bror_Jon]

Attention.
Death Metal.
That's all...

[R4L]

Any Alice in Chains album, but mostly their newest. It bleeds emotion.

[Disco]

This makes me pumped for adventure, aloft in an airship!

and

This makes me want to get some action! (starting at 0:59)