Dark or what?

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I've just realised that Apocalyptica suits my writing very well--the infamous Seph-Satinvalkyrie introduced me to them when I was writing Transgression, and I've just been replaying some of it. It really fits the dark mood of the book I'm writing, even though the time-frame is completely wrong. I think it's the combination of the tooth-grating edge of the strings together with the depressing riffs. (And yes, that's the sort of thing I really like!)

I get very writing-inspired by pieces of music and remember having to stop the car one day when I heard Sospiri op.70 by Elgar. It struck such an immediate chord with me and I thought "Yes! That's EXACTLY how Edward feels in Junction X when...."

I tend to have Musicovery on while I write which is such a great online radio station--I pick "classical" and generally "dark" or "calm" or somewhere around the middle. I'm rarely "positive" or "energetic"! That pumps out some great mood pieces.

I don't think I could ever do a "Soundtrack" to Standish, or anything like that though. Amusingly, one of the most played albums I was listening to when I was writing that was Billie Holiday's greatest Hits. Hardly the write time era, but perhaps it was the blues that helped with the tone.

I must compile a list of my inspirational pieces, perhaps with downloads, and do a list on The Macaronis.

What about you? What music inspires you? (I'll not have heard of it, of course, because I don't really know anything about music after 1989....) Do you have music playing when you write? Do you ever hear a piece of music that EXACTLY describes a scene in your books?