Do you listen to music while playing PSO?

[CajunSamurai]

Hmm, maybe this isn't so offtopic.

Anyway, after about 500 hours of listening to PSO's somewhat repetitive (but moody!) tunes, I started muting the volume and listening to my own music, or the radio, usually Art Bell. It actually made for a much more enjoyable experience, especially when me and two other friends were all listening and commenting on Art Bell's radio show at the same time, while playing.

For a while I was keeping the PSO music on in the GCN version (much better sound over the DC version!), but now I'm beginning to pump music from my PC while playing PSO, once again listening to my own music.

So, do you turn off the PSO music, opting for your own choice of beats/grooves/phatness/schlock, or suffer through another 400 hours stick with the original score?
And if you go with your own music, what do you usually listen to? Just your normal ol' favorite music, or something that fits the mood of PSO?
Happy hardcore has been serving me well lately, personally. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_nerd.gif

[ABDUR101]

I usually turn off the music in PSO via the options menu and turn on some j-pop, j-rock, anime music or my radio shows (http://www.ruptbot.com/cornpisser).

Yeah, the PSO music can be tolerable..but sometimes you just don't want to hear that one track X_X

I've heard worse though =x

[CajunSamurai]

Well, it's Sonic Team, the music can't be THAT bad, afterall. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif (Now, let's just forget about Big the Cat's theme song, shall we?) It's just that... after a few hundred hours of the same song, you start getting a wee bit tired of it. o_O

[TedEdFred]

I almost always listen to other music while I play. I think it helps me stay awake and not get bored as fast. Just whatever I happen to be listening to at the time. Lately Radiohead over and over and over and over. Right now I have the bends and a live show from 06-23-01 in the player I think.

[ITO]

Of course, I can't stand that damn PSO music >_<

I just turn the volume on my tv down, and put some Rap/Hip hop on my radio, and I am all set to kill some rappys. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

[Rhein917]

I usually listen to the PSO music. But lately I've been listening to other music, probably since I know the other songs by heart XD

[rena-ko]

i always mute pso since a year or so -
got my cd-player busy most of the time:
mostly actual random j-rock (judy & mary, l'arc en ciel, x-japan, glay, kana,...), j-pop (pizzicato 5, towa tei,...), anime-soundtracks (berserk,...) or some 'classics' like... um... system of a down, radiohead, r.e.m, ...
yesterday i had my old cds from herbert groenemeyer in (german singer who actually sings german ^_^; that got pretty rare lately), for a change...
but then also, sometimes i listen to tv or a video (mixed signals from dc and vcr via some little multi-scart-signal-merge...thingy) while playing...

[Ness]

No. The music of PSO is good enough, but I do listyen to music while I post here at PSOW. I'm listening to "Spicy Marmalade".

[fahdiz]

I stick with the regular old PSO music.

[DarkDragon0]

Its not just listening to the same music over and over again its that theres no words. I like to hear people singing. So whenever I play I turn on my own music.

[Siegfried]

If I forget to turn on KaZaA, then I use the PSO music. But normally I use my music. Die Aezte(damn, no umlauted letters), Linkin Park, System of a Down, Alkaline Trio, and Weezer. Ah, how my music differs blends. heh



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[ABDUR101]

Yeah, Alkaline Trio, Rammstein, aye..so many good songs to listen to. X_X

Some of the songs just make it easier to play sometimes. It doesn't feel so repetive when a song has you spazzing out in your seat =X

[Siegfried]

Speaking of A3 and songs spazzing you in your seat, I love to listen to their cover of Berlin's "Metro". I just really like the gitterness (guitar work) and vocals, being a vocalist myself. (Yeah, laugh it up. Say there's no real work there. It's hard to maintain pitch and tempo while battling hormones and puberty, along with a struggling budget ad a lack of a bassist and drummer...)

[ChronoTrigga_Lost]

I remember I'd always listen to Linkin Park Music for different areas of the game, for instance, I'd listen to Mr. Han when I was in the lobby. Or when I was in a boss battle I'd listen to Papercut. But the ending sequence, I'd listen to In the end...cuz it didn't matter if I beat it cuz I didn't get jack shit from falz

[Eum]

I prefer the PSO music. ^^

[pixelate]

I usually put my playlist (http://www.pixeldissonance.org/stuff/itunes.gif) on random

[Siegfried]

If KaZaA 2.0 weren't such a stiffy for playlists then I would have all kinds of different playlists. I liked the secon to last version of KaZaA 1.0 . It got the job done and never ticked me off, cept for m lagging 56k modem that always acts ike its a 36.6.

Oh well, that's a vent and still slighty on-topic in our off-topic world. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

[CajunSamurai]

I never liked Kazaa as an MP3 player... That what Winamp is for. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
Pretty cool playlist from what I can see, Pixel. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif Massive Attack and Roni Size are always good.
And you can find my current playlist here (http://www.cox-internet.com/ghiltz/playlist.txt). Usually on random, but lately I've been playing various happy hardcore mixes, mostly Sy & Demo.

[pixelate]

On 2002-12-24 14:22, CajunSamurai wrote:
Pretty cool playlist from what I can see, Pixel. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif Massive Attack and Roni Size are always good.



Yuuup. Mezzanine is one sexy album. Very relaxing music to play PSO with.

[Spektrum]

I still play the DC version and the disc reader is kinda out of date its making this enoying sound eeeeeeee sounds like a cat that gone crazy or something and sometimes it wont load and the screen will freeze but when I turn the music off from the options menu its all good and then I usually listen to some music.

[Subliminalgroove]

ah... so much music so litte time... Well, the discerning PSO musician's list. OR atleast the discerning musician with my taste http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Charlie Parker, Jeff Buckley, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Cee-Lo, Cowboy Bebop Soundtracks (can't go wrong there), Carol King, David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Bjork, Bari Koral Band, Jaco Pastorious, Ashley Macisaac, America (I know, I'm a dork, but I've always loved the soundtrack to The Last Unicorn), Ruby (from Silverfish), Bis, Return to Forever (late seventies fusion WOO HOO!), Rush, Souxsie and the Banshees, Sade, Squarepusher, Tangerine Dream, Sun Ra, Fishbone, Sunnyday Service, Ua, Stevie Wonder, Karen Krog, Jane Monheit, King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment (aka Dream Theatre without that pesky vocalist!), Joni Mitchell, John Scofield, The Beatles, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Greyboy Allstars, George Clinton & The Parliament Funkadelic!!!, George Benson, Outkast, Frank Sinatra, Maceo Parker, eX-Girl, Evelyn Glennie (she is AMAZING!), Victor Wooton, Erin Mckeown, The Dead Milkmen, Black Tape For Blue Girl, Blondie, Blood, Sweat, & Tears . . .

Edit: How could I forget Massive Attack! Thx, Pixelate!
http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

the list goes on and on...



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[Whatley]

Sometimes I turn off the music in pso to listen to other music. I mostly listen to alternative and rock. I also listen to soundtracks like End Of Days, Matrix, Queen of the Damned, Scorpion King and a few others.

[Pso_Juggalo]

When im not trading i listen to insane clown posse

[Kid_Icarus]

I listen to the Samurai Pizza Cats theme song :3

[jello44]

I always mute the PSO music (unless in battle), I generally listen to the radio or my CD collection.

oh and Weezer pwnz kthxbye.

[Vantamiath]

During the day I usually leave the music on, but when NIGHTIME rolls around...

-If I know I'm in for an all nighter, I listen to my Radiohead Greatest Hits CD on repeat.

-Battle mode I crank the old System of a Down CD, it honestly improves my performance.

Or I listen to some burned CD's with...

-Thursday
-Weezer
-Tool
-Incubus
-Queens of the Stone Age
-Rage Against the Machine
-Nirvana
-Tenacious D
-The Roots
-Good Charlette
-Jimmi Hendrix
-Eric Clapton
-The Smashing Pumpkins
-Mudvayne
-Sublime
Much Much More...

[SnAPPUrU-nyan-ko]

I was listening to Rose Confession while doing VR temple runs. PSO music while playing PSO, unF0r.

[dude3282]

With me, I usually listen to the game music, but after a while I switch to something else unless the game music totally blows me away *coughMETROID*. For example, I personally don't like the music for the James Bond games I play a lot (Nightfire, Agent under Fire), so I will often play my music instead. Much more fun blasting people to my rock instead of the "sneaky sexy" Bond music.

I like two basic types of music:
(Hard) Rock (Incubus, Linkin Park, 3 Doors Down, whatever's on my favorite radio station as long as it isn't too demonic)
Humor/Parody (Weird Al, The Aquabats)

[Ninpo_Tamashii]

Various progressive trance is written all over PSO. Especially Paul Okenfold ^_^

[Phobos-X]

usually i play my CD's when playin PSO, but other games i can tolerate the music. If not CD's i lissen to RapAttack on saturday nites

[Davion]

I like the PSO music for the most part, but sometimes it gets old. I like to listen to my lotr soundtracks, Creed CDs, and some remixes I found at Overclocked remixes.

[Ninpo_Tamashii]

some of the titest music to listen to with pso are oc mixes of other video games. ^_^ especially the rpg music

[Guntz348]

Wow someone else likes Jpop? thought i was the only one. its usually that or dream theater and other progressive bands that or family guys and simpsons eps playin on the computer, and yes i can watch both screens at once

[Auracom]

I pump up some other tunes and rock out to em while killen monsters. It does make PSO "THAT" much more enjoyable.