Pool and Music

[fxskater]

I read in a book (can't remember which one) that the type of music you listen to can make you play better or worse. I was just wondering what type of music you listen to when playing pool. I listen to lots of classic rock (the doors, rolling stones, pink floyd, led zepplin). The local bar tourny i run is at a night club so all they play all night long is terrible dance music. I find that i can concentrate a little better when the right music is playing, what do you guys think and what do you listen to?

 

[Cardinal_Syn]

all kinds...just music i like to hear....from classic rock to hip-hop.

 

[sniper]

I pretty much always listen to music when I shoot, I listen to just about everything when I shoot (except country of course )
I don't think I shoot any better when good music is playing, but when a bad song comes on I know for a fact it distracts me because I have to go change the station or the song (when playing at home) when I return to the table I have to refocus on the shot at hand. There may be a physchological factor to shooting better with music as well, interesting topic though.

 

[fxskater]

Just bought a mp3 player for my weekly wednesday night tournament. Here is what I loaded up on there:
Rammstein - Du Hast
Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
Agnostic Front - Gotta Go
Minor Threat - Screaming At A Wall
Misfits - American Psycho
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rage Against The Machine - Know Your Enemy
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
Metallica - Sad But True
Misfits - Skulls
The Doors - Love Her Madly
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Minor Threat - Straight Edge
Led Zepplin - Stairway To Heaven
Jimmy Hendrix - Voodoo Child
George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
The Doors - Break On Through
Danzig - Mother
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Metallica - Enter Sandman
The Who - Baba O-Reilly
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Rage Against The Machine - Bombtrack
The Misfits - Night Of The Living Dead
The Doors - LA Woman
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Led Zepplin - Kashmir
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
The Doors - The End

Now I am guaranteed to have some music i like during the tournament.

 

[Zims Rack]

All that music and you don't have "Warewolves of London"? That's a classic pool theme song, you've got to have it. IMO I like basically what you just listed fxskater along with some Billy Joel, Eric Clapton, Eagles, music similar to that when I'm practicing. But when in tournament or league...your list is perfect! My favorite songs to pump me up are "Werewolves of London", Tom Sawyer (RUSH) and Thunderstruck Live (AC/DC)!

...Zim

 

[fxskater]

There is this song that i always wanted never knew what it was called or who sang it!!! ZIM'S RACK IS A LIFE SAVER!!! After he recommended werewolves of london i went and downloaded it. ITS THIS SONG!!! woohooo. adding it to my playa.

THANKS ZIMS RACK!!

 

[Jon]

Jimmy Hendrix - Voodoo Child
Now I am guaranteed to have some music i like during the tournament.

BTW... i believe the song title is... Voodoo Chile... Pronounced just like child... except with no d... it's sounds the same, but i just thought you might want to know, in case you mentioned it that way around some psycho hendrix fans that might cut ya...


Thanks

Jon