The Music You Smoke One Off To

[Robusto]

So what do you like in your ears in the background as you munch a fat one?

Specific artist
Genre

I'll start.

If I'm in the house on my own, I've often smoked a fine one off to Massive Attack.

If I'm down in my shack, I'm usually toking to Radio 4 and not to music.

Other preferred sounds to smoke to are:

Vaughan Williams
Penderecki - cigar and Penders is great if you're close to a nervous breakdown
Rolling Stones
The Deftones
Pavarotti
Joni Mitchell
Bruce Hornsby's mid 80s albums - mellow US rock-ish stuff. Top piano
Haydn
Mozart Requiem - for a very dramatic smoke-out
I think Country music is fantastic to cigar-out to, especially if you have a choice of appropriate headgear
Queen is quite good cigar music, too

And you?

[ChrisMClark]

Depends on my mood. If I'm chilled when I start smoking then it's a playlist of chilled out Incubus tracks. If I'm wired I'll start with Dream Theater and probably finish off with Incubus. I also have an old Maynard Ferguson CD that takes a hammering while I smoke lol. I recently downloaded the Cadbury's big swap songs album that I'm saving for the weekend.

And of course there's the occasional military band CD...always my own band though!

And an edit: Not sure how I forgot, but I have a fair few pieces by Rachmaninov that I love smoking to.

[Son of Cigarsmoke]

After watching a film and having a few drinks, i like to top off the night in the freezing consevatory (if you can call it that) with a smoke and my mp3 player pluged into speakers on random shuffle, so it could be anything from RUN D.M.C. to Frank Sinatra realy, ive got quite a varying taste in music lol

[jibjob79]

If i'm out walking the dog at night, if i'm listening to anything, it would have to be a good audio book, it is amazing how carried away you can get walking for miles, not really thinking too much and enjoying a cigar. That is until you realise you had better turn round and head back to time the finish off the walk and cigar at the same time.

If i'm smoking in the garden i'm generally chilling out so i'll echo massive attack, particularly Teardrop. Otherwise Zero 7 on a random playlist or some movie soundtrack music by Hans Zimmer.

Although if i'm experimenting with a new cigar i like to mix things up with a little radio 1. I like a stronger cigar with something with a bit of a beat to it and a milder cigar with chill out music.

[moppy]

I only smoke at night, so exclusively night time music when smoking for me. Which is a mix of:

- Leonard Cohen
- Sigur Ros
- Rodrigo y Gabriela
- Tom Waits
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

All good bands to check out if youve never heard anything by them. PM me if you would like an idea of what albums to listen to etc.

[shuckins]

i like southern rock!

lynyrd skynyrd
allman brothers
marshall tucker

also dig willie nelson,merle haggard and johnny cash when i have whiskey with my cigar...

[eggopp]

Im a fan of Partagas and Romeo sticks, i like to toke away listening to motown or soul, just relax and maybe a glass of Brandy, wine or beer.

[jdawg]

i like southern rock!

lynyrd skynyrd
allman brothers
marshall tucker

also dig willie nelson,merle haggard and johnny cash when i have whiskey with my cigar...

nice selection there shuckins! I listen to all of these guys regularly too!!!
love southern rock

[tippexx]

Oh God .....

Dan Fogelburg
JS Bach
Beethoven
Jesse Colin Young
Nina Simone
Oscar Brown Jnr
Thomas Tallis
Miles Davis
Michel Legrand
Stones
Edith Piaf
Nat King Cole

.... this list could go on forever!

[Seriesteve]

PlanetRock Radio seems to fit the bill with me most of the time, when I cant be bothered putting on a CD, that is
Ss

[SteveGriff]

I've smoked plenty of Cigars singing away to Warren Zevon

[nicwing]

I have a playlist set up on the Woolfgang's vault web site. It's set on shuffle which means I can listen to desk recordings from gigs from everyone from

- Graham Parker & the rumour
- The Clash
- The Byrds
- The Grateful dead
- Led Zep
- Tom Petty
- The Stones

The list goes on and on, keeps me happy for ages!!

[daverave999]

I smoke mostly in the car or the porch, so no accompaniment or Radio 4 when the radio still worked.

[goose165]

stevie ray vaughn.
bb king
maybe to some placido domingo,luciano pavarotti,jose carreras

[celsis]

Neil Young
CSN&Y
Warren Zevon
Rammstein
Einst?rzende Neubauten
10cc
Beatles
Stones
Faces
Ute Lemper
Christy Moore
Die toten Hosen
Skynyrd
Ozark Mountain Daredevils

to name but a few......