Background noise when you play?

[Inzombiac]

I dig any music that isn't annoying. As long as I'm smiling, the music usually puts me in the right frame of mind to shoot lights out. Probably my all time "bar song" is The Joker - Steve Miller, because everyone sings and I love to sing the "really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree" line to the waitresses as they pass by.

I should've been born a decade earlier cus that's where my music taste usually lies.

 

[Tommy-D]

> I'm not a real big fan of country,making me odd-man-out living in Tennessee. I can live with it,and give people I think can handle it a good-natured hard time about their selections,but grow really tired of Save a Horsesh*t,or Redneck Woman 5 times in a 2 hour period. As long as something is playing,I'm fine,but excessive quiet to me,is worse than bumpin' rap music all night. Tommy D.

 

[9 ball]

I take my i-pod with me and listen to a varied selection of tunes from stevie ray vaughn to eric bibb but if i'm there for some serious shooting I listen to my pool related music to get me in the groove.

 

[Icon of Sin]

I usually throw a movie in the DVD player while I am at home. Usually something I have seen before so when I hear the movie I can picture the scene in my head. If I put a new movie in I end up paying more attention to the movie then my game.

If not a movie then its usally my ipod which consists of Rock mostly when home or at the pool hall. Other then that I like nothing.

 

[Dead Money]

I like Rap, particularly the older stuff. Boyz-N-The-Hood always gets me pumped up to run some balls.

 

[ShootingArts]

I like all kinds of music

I like all kinds of music, Country and Western!

Hu

 

[trustyrusty]

I voted other....I'm not a huge fan of music (any). But I'd rather have something on than nothing at all....so, my vote would be for whatever music my opponent dislikes, and is annoyed by!

As for the music thing....I did have the 2nd best round of golf in my life after being in a buddies car and hearing Higher Ground (Chilli Peppers remake). It was stuck in my head the whole round, and it helped my tempo somehow I guess (1 under 70 at a local course ).

 

[lewdo26]

Whatever it is, don't let me hear the top 40 crap-shit! That shit makes me want to shoot myself in the head after a while. If it wasn't for the concentration pool requires of me, I would never set foot in a poolhall ever, because of the top 40 bullshit alone. It is the most gruelling freakin' auditive experience known to man!!!

 

[SILVER__WOMBAT]

i listen to heavy metal, like mudvayne, to get the blood flowing before i play

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WrBONyFBePc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gm5NZnPcSrA

while im playing i listen to softer stuff to just keep me focused like Panic! at the disco

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uBtH2YlNiNc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NMYs6t4tTOI

i really only listen to music when i practice, when i play a game im usually talking to my opponent

 

[despotic931]

I put current stuff, and I mean Alternative/Indie rock are my favorites, that or Techno/electronica

 

[Slider]

I like Rap, particularly the older stuff. Boyz-N-The-Hood always gets me pumped up to run some balls.

The rooms I play in have a pretty wide range of music, and I haven't noticed any of it having an effect on my game.

Pre-game is different. I have noticed that I am more likely to be "in stroke" if I listen to "Aggro" or "Power" music on the way to the pool hall. I think it gets my adrenaline up and stimulates that killer instinct. I compare it to the "Bruce Lee" or "Rocky" invincibility effect that moviegoers experience as they are leaving the theater.

For this, gangsta rap - if it's put together well - can work wonders. Wu-Tang's "Windpipe" and Bomb the Bass's version of "Bug Powder Dust" (from the City of Industry movie soundtrack)are two of my favorites in this regard.

Take this mindset, pour in one or two cans of Nestle's Lemon Iced tea, and look out.

And I'm no kid, either.
Ken

 

[Rasta]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Bob Marley, or reggae. Jimmy Buffett is also good, though he is really his own genre. I can listen to just about anything (no Howard or Rush L., please), including rap, country and electronica, but I prefer no music.

Good Rolls,
Rasta

 

[matcase]

Generally I like music playing, I voted my favorite types but like others too. When I'm shooting I don't really hear it but when I'm evaluating the table or watching an opponent, I enjoy it. I think it helps my mood.

 

[SirBanksALot]

Background Noise

That little hum in my head from being slight over-medicated does it for me

If you can duplicate or come close to whatever music or noise is happening in the room where you play is probably good. I would think that creating a situation that simulates competitive play would be an asset while practicing.

 

[BoSoxFanatic21]

BK,
Are you sure it's not "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd???? It definitely starts that way; but most would call it southern rock rather than country. DEFINITELY a kick-a$$ pool-playing song.

Youre talking about Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk by Trace Adkins

Turn it up some...Alright boys, this is her favorite song alright? So If we play it good and loud....she might get up and dance again...

 

[berlowmj]

Why music?

I have never understood why people must have music in the weight room much less a pool hall. What happened to the concept of concentration, of focussing one's kee energy? However, I am stuck in my little town of 3000 people where there is great competition & comradship at a local bar on Friday night where a band with HUGE! speakers & dancing is in the next room with no wall between. I am adapting. Perhaps some day I will be able to play pool between rounds at the combat pistol competition.

 

[DelaWho???]

Youre talking about Honky-Tonk Badonkadonk by Trace Adkins

Turn it up some...Alright boys, this is her favorite song alright? So If we play it good and loud....she might get up and dance again...

What kind of a person advocates "slap your grandma"??? over and over in a song. Who would want to slap a kind little old ladies who makes you cookies, and always has a smile and is happy you stopped by?

I miss my grandma.....and that song gets played 3 or 4 times an hour in some of the places I frequent...

McCue Banger McCue

 

[CaptainJR]

I said other.

I made a CD for my family and some of my friends a few years ago. Somehow it ended up on the Juke Box at the Bar I captain my team and play league at. LOL

You have to understand that this CD has no business being on a 'beer joint' bar's Juke Box. It is full of what I like to call 'elevator music'. Mostly piano, no vocals. 'Feelings, Bridge Over Troubled Waters', 'Autumn Leaves', 'Alfie', even one Christmas song, 'Oh Holy Night'.

I will confess though, when someone plays a piece off of it (as a joke) while I'm playing, it does help me relax.




When a new 'looker' plays the Juke Box and gives me 'In my hat' a second look, thinking that I look like the guy on the CD. I give her a little wink.

 

[CaptainJR]

Old picture of my daughter and I.

 

[JoeyA]

I like the quite moaning and whimpering of my opponent.





Oh, oops, that is usually me, not them!

YOu made me laugh after a day of debauchery.
JoeyA