Soundtrack your Books

I associate Gene Wolfe's New Sun series with Stereolab's Transient Random Noise Bursts...

this thread not dumb.

i pretty much read ONLY silver-age science fiction for most of 1994-1996 and i think i spent the whole of it listening to black sabbath's "planet caravan".

I can't really put music on when I read anymore since they distract me from each other, but music while writing = classic. When I wrote my last short story it was all Billy Martin & Calvin Weston percussion duets.

'American Psycho' I tend to associate with Morphine's Cure For Pain. 'The Name Of The Rose' goes, oddly enough, equally well with Neil Young's Harvest or Jethro Tull's Aqualung. Those are the only two books I've got soundtracked, really, from a long time ago. Now whenever I'm reading I tend to listen to some good classical, a bit of "alte musik", maybe even Dead Can Dance or Godspeed You Black Emperor, perhaps a movie soundtrack or two ('Thin Red Line', 'Amelie', 'Remains Of The Day', 'Heat', 'Alien'), whatever goes nicely in the background and complements the material. Yes I read 'Remains Of The Day' while listening to the album, but I dunno if that counts.