Do you listen to your MP3 player? If so, do you leave it on the whole time, just when you're bowling bad, only while you're sitting and not while you're up?

What music do you listen to (specific songs/bands)?

Finally, how do you choose this music? Is it your favorite bands, do you choose based on tempo, something that will get your adrenaline pumping, something that keeps your mind off of things, something to keep you calm?

Personally - I like something that can get my adrenaline pumping without being just noise. Something that allows me to think without taking my mind off of bowling. Example: Way Away, Fighting, Lights and Sounds, by Yellowcard...Any Rise Against songs...Avenged Sevenfold

(Just trying to get an idea of maybe some new songs for my IPod.)
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The only time I listened to my MP3 player at bowling was before I started bowling or if I'm having a bad night I'll listen to a few songs to get me going in between games. Here's a few of the songs that gets my adrenaline pumping for bowling

Indestructible- Disturbed
Hell Yeah- Rev Theory
Not Listening- Papa Roach
Sacrifice- Trik Turner
Momentum- Toby Mac
Big Thang Poppin'- T.I.
Talkin' Ain't Walkin'- Lil Wyte
Comatose- Skillet

I do also see bowlers in my league that has it on almost the entire time bowling and out of respect for my team, I don't like to do that. Sometimes, I'll listen to songs on the way to the bowling alley and glue that song or two in my mind for the night.

One of my teammates on Mondays occasionally brings his MP3 player, mainly when he needs to tune out the extraneous noise from kids that scream in the walkway while we bowl during our league (as some parents don't care at this center how much we pay to bowl). Myself, I would be much like Charlest and consider it rude to my teammates to have one on so I've learned to channel outside noise out.

Matt
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