What kind of music do you listen to while working?
 

What kind of music do you listen to while working?

I don't know about some of you guys, but I have to listen to music at work. It helps to keep me sane. I listen to basically about every kind of music minus a few genres. What do you guys listen to?

I like:
Blues
Rock N Roll
Punk
Reggae
Country (only old school Hank, Cash, Coe, Waylan, etc - I HATE NEW COUNTRY!)
some Indie
Hip Hop (not gansta rap)
Soul
Jazz
Classical
Some electronic if its done well (not big into techno)
Metal (Iron Maiden rules!)
Then there are those bands you really can't put into a genre, I like some of those as well.

Trance and electronic type stuff (Chicane, Chemical Brothers, Lemon Jelly, the Orb, Air, Cocteau Twins, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Vangelis, William Orbit, Brian Eno, ... and so on) or Classical (string quartets, piano concertos - nothing too busy) ... anything else and I can't concentrate at all. If I'm writing I don't listen to anything as I find it too distracting.

Cool..

yeah there are a few songs I can't listen because I will sing along with them and not really work, so I understand where you are coming from.

I like the electronic stuff like aphex twin, the stuff radio head does, and bjork. I know there are a few more but I don't know the artists names off hand.

That's why I particularly like the Cocteau Twins - their lyrics don't make any sense anyway ;)

Classical
 

Believe it or not, I've started listening to classical music at work. I use Windows Media Player (groan--yes, I know, I'm on a PC at work) and listen to streams from various FM stations around the country. It's quite relaxing.

(When I'm not listening to classical music my tastes range anywhere from James Taylor to Rush--the band, not the political commentator...).

The classical music is nice--I feel a lot less hectic and distracted now. Of course, I made some other changes recently to cut down on my overall stress level as well. :D

G.--

KCRW--
 

the NPR station out of Santa Monica, CA. Mon-Fri from 9.00-12.00 (noon) I listen to the simulcast (internet broadcast) of "Morning Becomes Eclectic". Elsewise, I listen to their internet broadcast music.

I can't recommend enough KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic".

darin

Either the stream, Drone Zone or the simulcast of my local (Boston) NPR station, WBUR...when neither of those do the trick it's:

• XTC
  Lloyd Cole
  The Orb
  Orbital
  Steve Reich
  Thelonius Monk
  Sugar
  Chopin mazurkas and nocturnes

I often find that when I'm working, the only kind of music that I can really listen to without getting distracted is instrumental music, like Classical or Trance/Techno. Otherwise, I end up singing along with the lyrics. :p

I like to listen to stations on the radio tuner in iTunes. Particulary Virgin Radio, it's alternative rock stuff, and RCN 9412 which is Classic Rock. They are both really good stations. Otherwise, I like to play Green Day, Save Ferris and Squirrel Nut Zippers at work a lot.

Swiss Yodeling

Yodleyheehooo!

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Actually, I listen to the whir of fans and hard drives.

In the work environment, I enjoy listening to silence in the background - does that make sense? :)

Modest Mouse
 

The kind of music I like is Modest Mouse. Of course, I admit that I'm a little obsessed, but the point still remains that it's just about entirely what I listen to. :D

isn't modest mouse emo?

Blues
Guitar Driven Rock
There is nothing else.

Today I am listening to the dirtbombs. If you like rock n roll, and if you like soul, then you will love the dirt bombs. Check out their album ultra glide in black. It rules!

bassdrive works good, though drumnbass isn't something for everybody :)

music
 

I listen to rock. Stuff like Creed, Queen, Jeff Scott Soto, Godsmack; that sort of music.
Teri

No, Modest Mouse isn't emo.

uh, according to allmusic.com, and my sensibilities, Modest Mouse is/has been of the Emo genre.

I used to date a girl who was into emo thats how I know all the emo bands. Not my prefered choice but to each their own.

Ack! EMO? I didn't know all the DC Hardcore I listened to when I was 16 and 17 was in some genre called emo.

yellow's dial
 

WONK 99.5, Nawf Kakalak's all Shoegazing, all the time, radio

Re: yellow's dial
 

LOL.. thankfully I haven't lived here all my life. I'm a Yankee lost in the South. And even more thankfully I've always been Shoegazing free! Give me the sound of a jug with XXX painted (badly) on it anytime..

Yup its all recycled, and will be for a while.

You can get even more specific nowadays though with genres such as:

surf punk
garage
grind core
tribal metal
emo
screamo (apparently this is hardcore emo??)
tech metal
thrash


etc. etc.

Re: Re: yellow's dial
 

how's your Chickasaw Mudd Puppies collection coming along?

Right now I'm a huge fan of Toothless Jedadiah's Jug and Twangy Thangy Band.. Man, they rock.. err.. toot.. err.. twang. It's infectious.

Hmm your link goes to the sobig/w32 worm info on mcafee's webpage.....WTF? Am I missing something here?

como?

he did say it is infectious.

hey, tom, didja hear they removed the word "gullible" from the dictionary?!

I didn't follow all the posts seemed you guys went a bit astray. Alas however the joke is on me.

Next thing you know I will be going snipe hunting with yellow and merv.

Oh well, I got whisky at home and thats all that matters today.....

I have a large cd collection, but I listen to Queens Of The Stoneage, Rancid, The Who. Pearl Jam and Dropkick Murphys alot. Alot of the music I listen to the most I load into a playlist on ITunes.

Cool I just picked up the newest queens of the stonage on vinyl, it rules.