Personally work in IT, mostly fixing server and infrastructure. Big fan of listening to ambiance music while working: the kind of music and sounds that make you forget that you’re listening to it, to me, that’s the perfect kind of working music. Otherwise I will listen to game and movie soundtracks from Lotr, Star Wars, Ghilbi, Harry Potter etc… I used to be all into lofi, but need a break from it now.
Anyways, please share your favorite music to listen to while working, and let us know what you work as too! More fun to see how the profession match with music taste.
Have a nice rest of your day 🌻
Depends on my mood.
Happy: Necroticgorebeast Sad: Necroticgorebeast Tired: Necroticgorebeast Bored: Necroticgorebeast
Also, in a meeting: Necroticgorebeast
Lots of synthwave and electronica. But mostly without lyrics (I hesitate to say instrumental, since y’know, it’s all electronic). I’m a software developer, and I find words too distracting.
I have a hard time listening to that music when I’m not working, since it tends to be painfully repetitive.
Hey, synths are instruments so they definitely fall under instrumental music.
shows what I know
About 90 seconds of alt rock, then someone will get my attention to ask a question, I’ll take my headphones off, then sit for three hours with them on my neck until I remember to put them on again.
Metal. Mostly death metal, melodeath and deathcore.
Gotta be loud, fast and angry. Gotta get shit done, can’t be listening to anything relaxing.
Exactly!
I think Spotify called it “indie electro hacker Thursday”.
Programmer here.
Infected Mushroom or Eskimo for when I’m in the zone and pumping out code.
For debugging: Boards of Canada, Plaid, Lone, Ciaran Byrne
Ah, beautiful Plaid
Plaid is one of my all time favorites! Got to see them a few years back. If you like them, check out an artist called IDGlitch on SoundCloud. Super underrated and the closest thing I’ve heard to plaid:
Saved it for my code pumping sessions!
If I need to do any thinking at all - complete silence
If I do not need to do any thinking - edutainment podcasts, mostly space stuff (Universe Today, Astronomy Cast, etc.)If I need to do any thinking at all - complete silence
This is me. My brain just goes to mush if I have anything playing. Not sure if you have ADHD, but…
I cycle through genres every month or so. For a while it had been ska, now I’m in a funk mood. March is all Irish music, then maybe some death metal before I switch to deep classic rock cuts and live shows.
Shuffle my entire library of course.
Satie after Lorna Shore? Of course kind sir
I listen to live sets from a bunch of different genres usually. The recommendations on my music-only YouTube account at work are incredible.
Dijon - Absolutely has been a frequent play lately
The sound of silence. Not the song, but the actual sound.
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Unrelated, but…
Australia, you were this close to winning Eurovision. (Context: their entry into the 2016 contest was called “Sound of Silence”)
Maybe try some post-rock. It’s usually just instrumental and often crosses almost to ambient. Bands like God is an astronaut, Mogwai, Hammock, Sigur Ros, Mono, Red Sparowes, etc.
J-pop/Mando-pop. I’m trying to pick up Canto-pop too but not being able to read the script makes it super hard.
My brain thought Mando-pop was some sort of weird take on the music from the Mandalorian (often referred to as Mando).
Recently started listening to Classical on Apple Music. If not, just Pink Floyd
The soothing music of Robert Evans’s nasally voice saying the word Raytheon