This thread was such a hit at the NaNo forums I figured why not set it up here?

Hole--"Doll Parts"
Elvis Costello--"I Want You"
Damien Rice--"Lonelily"
The Rolling Stones--"Let It Bleed"
Patti Smith--"Pissing In A River"
The Velvet Underground--"Oh! Sweet Nuthin'"
Johnny Cash--"Personal Jesus"
Jeff Buckley--"Dream Brother"
Nirvana--"About A Girl"
The Smiths--"How Soon Is Now?"
Paul McCartney--"This One"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs--"Maps"
The Beatles--"Blackbird"
Red Hot Chili Peppers--"Scar Tissue"
The Replacements--"Answering Machine"
Lou Reed--"Perfect Day"
Elliott Smith--"Miss Misery"

This is a random selection of the *very* long playlist I'll be writing to, but wouldn't necessarily be the soundtrack:

Crystal Castle - "Alice Practice"
Radiohead - "Karma Police"
The Killers - "When You Were Young"
Bright Eyes - "Going for the Gold"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Strip My Mind"
The Killers - "Why Do I Keep Counting?"
Klaxons - "The Night"
Cold War Kids - "Hospital Beds"
Placebo - "Meds"
Klaxons - "It's Not Over Yet"
The Killers - "Shadowplay"
Athlete - "Twenty Four Hours"
Postal Service - "Such Great Heights"
The Killers - "On Top"
The Kooks - "Seaside"
Crystal Castles - "Insection"
Modest Mouse - "Little Motel"
The Killers - "Andy You're A Star"
Scissors For Lefty - "Honeybee"
Klaxons - "Magick"
The Strokes - "Whatever Happened"
The Killers - "Jenny Was A Friend of Mine"
Maps - "Stay Another Day"
Jamie T - "Rawhide"
Good Shoes - "Sophia"
The Wombats - "Let's Dance to Joy Division"
The Killers - "Sam's Town"
Kaiser Chiefs - "Modern Day"
Death Cab for Cutie - "I Will Follow You Into The Dark"
Stereophonics - "Maybe Tomorrow"
The Killers - "Desperate"
The Velvet Underground - "Stephanie Says"
The Wombats - "Kill the Director"
The Killers - "Exitlude"

Anything electronica, basically, especially if it's got a beat. Not just in the story, either (maybe the published comic should come with a pack-in soundtrack CD), but while I'm writing (and drawing) it too. Like I always have, ever since '93.

Otherwise, it depends entirely on my whim and what's available.

Two-Time Consecutive Come-From-Behind NaNoWriMo Winner
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2006: Black Science/The Jennifer Theory
2007: Bad Company (current NaNoEdMo project)

Ooh, electronica...are you a Daft Punk/Moby/Chemical Brothers person or more an indie-electronica person, like Crystal Castles/New Young Pony Club/Late of the Pier/CSS? Or random, unheard of electronica?

Definatly The Killers "When you were Young" because there is an ongoing joke about my MC being nothing like Jesus.

:D

Sigur Ros.

Seeing as I'm writing a musical, the soundtrack will be whatever I come up with in April.

I'm mainly using full albums with some specific songs smattered all of the place otherwise, so here's my list so far:
Vernian Process - Discovery
Vernian Process - The Forgotten Age
Abney Park - The Death of Tragedy
Abney Park - From Dreams or Angels
Within Temptation - Mother Earth
Clutch - "Mercury"
Clutch - "Regulator"
Clutch - "Subtle Hustle"
Clutch - "Eulogy for a Ghost"
Emilie Autumn - Opheliac
Emilie Autumn - Unlaced
Emilie Autumn - "Across the Sky"
Emilie Autumn - "Chambermaid"
Emilie Autumn - "Rapunzel"
Emilie Autumn - "Juliet"
Emilie Autumn - "What If?"
Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times
Dropkick Murphys - Sing Loud, Sing Proud!
Dropkick Murphys - "Black Velvet Band"
Dropkick Murphys - "Fields of Athenry"

I usually have no idea until I'm writing in the moment. It's so chamelionic, my playlists typically aren't a good representation of my music tastes... For now, I'm feeling a very wide range of pretty quiet stuff. These songs are floating in my mind...

Videotape - Radiohead
Moss Mountain Town - Album Leaf
Adaigio (Samuel Barber) - Kronos Quartet
Young Bride - Midlake
We Have a Map of the Piano - Mum
Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
And It Rained All Night - Thom Yorke
The Light - Album Leaf
The Tourist - Radiohead
Sea of Love - Cat Power
This Is Our Sound - Ladytron
Windsurfing Nation - Broken Social Scene
Feel Good Last Reprise - Broken Social Scene

Probably also some Black Heart Procession, Mates of State for happy scenes, and Scout Niblet. Maybe Nick Cave.

"The art of Illusion is the art of Love, and the art of Love is the blood-red heart of the World."
- Tony Kushner, The Illusion

i left...

Whatever gets my adrenaline going. ;-)

Two-Time Consecutive Come-From-Behind NaNoWriMo Winner
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2006: Black Science/The Jennifer Theory
2007: Bad Company (current NaNoEdMo project)

TaelGryphon: Clutch is awesome. Can't get enough of them.

Although personally, I can't write while listening to music with loud lyrics... but I can't write with complete silence. So I usually go for instrumental only, or something with more subdued lyrics. If I'm just popping in to write a little, I'll just fire up SmoothLounge and listen to that, but if it's a longer session, I'll cue up a smattering of blues, laid-back techno/electronica, and some Corinne Bailey Rae for good measure.