Music While Smoking?

[voorhees]

Depends on my mood. I will scan the stations on Sirius and its usually 1940's hits/80's Hair Nation. It can vary.

 

[crazypipe]

Most of the time when i smoke my pipe ,I'm watching TV.

 

[sparrowhawk]

You can smoke while watching TV? Boy, do I envy you! I'd love to watch my DVDs while smoking.

 

[erichbaumer]

Metal is my favorite music by far. I listen almost every subgenre but particularly Scandanavian melodic death metal (Insomnium, Dark Tranquility, Swallow the Sun). I'll listen to this vein while smoking, but it's usually one of the following.

1. Ambient or Folk metal. My favorites are Agalloch, Alcest, Les Discrets and Antimatter.

2. Soft indie rock- Jars of Clay, Anchor and Braille, The Kin.

I have very eclectic tastes, though. It could just as easily be Panic at the Disco, The Heavy, Anberlin, Vivaldi, Coheed and Cambria (easily my favorite artist).

 

[gtclark]

I prefer listening to relaxing music that doesn't require too much attention. Usually pipe smoking, music and reading are happening simultaneously
Jazz: Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Guaraldi, piano-forward trios and quartets
Classical: Bach's "Goldberg Variations" or similar solo or chamber music. Mozart is ok, don't care for Beethoven as much.
I enjoy "New-Grass" too, specifically "Crooked Still" and their ilk.

 

[blueeyedogre]

I often have Canadian folk legend Stan Rodgers.

 

[troutface]

Listening to Tom Waits "Small Change" right now as I puff away. A perfect pipe disc.

 

[sablebrush52]

If I'm having a smoke while driving the choices range from Bach to Vampire Weekend. I don't smoke indoors (unless you count the car and then the windows are all rolled down) so I'm playing music in my head, or whistling something. Then it's anything that I've committed to memory, which could be Bach, Mozart, Scarlatti, Verdi, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, or any of dozens of other classical composers, Ellington, Miller, Goodman, Brubeck, The Beatles, The Doors, Lady Gaga, or any of dozens of other jazz or rock performers and composers. I'm familiar with thousands of pieces of music, which is both a blessing and a curse. Which Beethoven 9th should I listen to in my head, Toscanini, Mengelberg, Von Karajan, Walter? And which performance by any of these? Or maybe a Chopin Barcaroll! Hoffman, Rubenstein, Rosenthal, Horowitz? Crazy, but at least I don't run out of choices...

But then, which pipe or tobacco to pair with the music?

 

[pipestud]

ABBA baby!
Pipestud

 

[tarak]

You know, I did listen to folk, blues, and big band...but lately....silence is the sound I enjoy most.

 

[terrygoldman123]

Delta Blues, the Billy Price Band from Pittsburgh,and ALWAYS some Van Morrison.

 

[pipingruotsi]

This week I've had my Joe Bonamassa albums on random. If you like Les Paul wizardry, sparrow, check him out. Last week it was Mstislav Rostropovich. My tastes very greatly.
+1 for silence, too, tarak. I've enjoyed several hours of that recently too.

 

[shayde]

Yea I, like terry, do enjoy listening to some delta blues whilst smoking. I would say that Robert Johnson is definitely on my list of top artists to smoke too, absolutely love Crossroad blues.

 

[northernneil]

I am quite surprised to see all these pipe smokers who listen to heavy metal. I never thought that metal heads would be pipe smokers. To me, pipe smoking is relaxing, and metal music is not. Don't get me wrong, I love metal, but I kind of thought I would be the odd man out haha

 

[shayde]

Haha I like metal too. Well I'm more of a fan of metalcore/djent/hardcore type stuff I've actually been in a few metalcore bands, but I agree pipe smoking is for relaxing and metal music isn't very relaxing to me anymore haha. Definitely enjoy metal, but not while I'm smoking.

 

[barleynbaccy]

Black Label Society has been played on many a smokey night at my house. :twisted:

 

[erichbaumer]

Like I said, I listen to mostly metal, and I will listen to any of it while smoking because I do find it relaxing in its own way. However, some of it is truely objectively relaxing. Give Agalloch a listen.

 

[misterlowercase]

I'm all over the place with music, but when I really wanna settle in with an epic smoke, I pack a bowl of Odyssey, grab a good book and put on some Stars of the Lid.
This is one of their shorter tracks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm8KmrUJylM

 

[shayde]

Checking them out right now, I think the heaviest I could go and find relaxing would be like Monuments they're basically a djent band. If you've never heard them check out their song "97% static".

Agalloch was definitely different then I was expecting, in a good way though. I listened to the song 'falling Snow' I would have really liked to hear a sweep in the intro though, I was feelin it the whole time haha

 

[jbbaldwin]

It's been a long week (so long I forgot how to embed videos), as it's been Homecoming at my high school Few things are more loathsome to me. (Yes, I'm cranky.)
Anyway, this helps:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f1k14GQmNE