What are your favorite darkroom hits?

[David Brown]

Could someone please compile a list of songs that are recorded in 60 or 120 bpm or perhaps some bebop at 240? Darkroom music (at least for printing) need to go well with my metronome set to 120bpm.

John Philip Sousa and other military marches move at around 120. But, somehow, I doubt that's what you had in mind ...

Cheers,

David
Marching Band Alumnus

 

[sionnac]

There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs (compilation)
Charley Patton
Irma Thomas

 

[Michael L. Dunlap]

Just two words: Jimmy Buffett

 

[psvensson]

I've stopped listening to music in the darkroom. I listen to lectures from the Teaching Company instead. Makes me feel smart.

 

[Loose Gravel]

I've stopped listening to music in the darkroom. I listen to lectures from the Teaching Company instead. Makes me feel smart.

This sounds interesting. Which ones? What's this about? Do tell.

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

For the electro types, I recommend "Zeiss Contarex" by Autechre on their 1999 EP7. Musically, it has absolutely nothing to do with photo, but who could dismiss a pedantic reference?

 

[bobfowler]

Since this old thread has resurfaced...

Processed some film this evening listening to K T Tunstall's "Eye to the Telescope" and Susan Tedeschi's "Hope and Desire". Great CDs...

 

[Kino]

Until I get this darned darkroom working, it will be Cabaret Voltaire's "Arm of the Lord" at 150 db.

After that, I will probably revert to Holst's, "The Planets" at 120 db!

 

[vet173]

Tom Waits, Ray Willie Hubbard, Sky crys mary, The Subdudes, Sonia Dada, at the moment.

 

[photo8x10]

Like Ole my music is tick, tick, tick, of my metronome
but sometimes I listen to the radio a music program of rock music 70th and 80th(genesis, led zeppelin, jettro tull, and others)

but in my ears I always hear tick,tick,tick tick......tick.......

Best


Stefano

 

[Andy K]

Pink Floyd: Meddle, Animals, Dark Side, Momentary Lapse Of Reason, or Wish You Were Here... sometimes some Led Zep or Black Sabbath, other times the radio either BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service or Classic FM.

 

[Gerald Koch]

Music is certainly needed to mask out any outside sounds. I personally don't listen to anything with lyrics since that would be too distracting.

 

[Flotsam]

I just got the Lothar and the Hand People album that I haven't heard since I had it on vinyl a few decades ago.
The darkroom will be a good place to listen to it.

 

[Lachlan Young]

I have a fairly varied collection of music I like listening to in the darkroom - apart from one or two. Those exceptions would be tracks by people like Tom Lehrer or Ivor Cutler - simply because if you are laughing like a drain it is kind of impossible to concentrate!

Lachlan

 

[Wade D]

I ripped all of my favorite music onto my computer which is in the darkroom. I listen to everyhing from classical to hard rock depending on my mood. I program what I want to hear then shut off the monitor so I don't have fog problems. Works great.

 

[Richard Wasserman]

I listen to Classical, mainly Vivaldi and Bach a lot. Although I always make room for Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris, Astor Piazzolla, and Marianne Faithfull (if I'm feeling too good).

Richard Wasserman