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 🌻
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Nothing. I have this weird thing where I can’t listen to music and do my work at the same time. Listening to music is an active experience for me, I have to focus my whole attention on it and enjoy it. Putting music on as background noise doesn’t work, it gets super irritating because I can’t focus on my work or on the music.
The other issue is that the instant I put my headphones on at work to listen to music, someone comes to my desk to talk to me, without exception. And I hate talking to people, so I avoid wearing headphones at work these days.
At my current job I can’t really listen to anything. At my previous job I mostly listened to NPR.
When I’m at home doing chores, I tend to like sea shanties, most of them were literally made for doing monotonous bullshit, so it’s fitting.
Doing stuff outside of my normal chores, I tend to listen to a lot of folk metal.
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.
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I’ve been going through a long Final Fantasy piano YouTube track for a month so far as background music when I’m thinking. Otherwise it’s whatever the group wants. Today it was Pickers Americana Banjo playlist. Sometimes it’s Marley or his son.
- Johann Johansson
- Tangerine Dream
- Gregorian chant
- medieval religious music in Latin
- surf rock
Shuffle my entire library of course.
Satie after Lorna Shore? Of course kind sir
Depends how much I need to concentrate. Heavy concentration requires music without lyrics so that is classical with some concentration in classical guitar for me.
If I just want some music, then heavy metal and/or rock of most flavors. Sometimes that will be www.hardradio.com .
I have a percentage of my CDs ripped and on my PC so often I’ll just randomize everything in VLC. I do still spin my discs sometimes too in the 2 portable CDs players I have near my desk.
In summary: It’s complicated.
ETA: I recently discovered these videos with no lyrics heavy metal. Held my interest for a little while. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hours+of+no+lyrics+metal+music&pn=1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dl4fnaKBmt9k
with all the meetings and such I don’t bother.
When I’m not on the phone or with a client, I typically listen to jazz. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, etc. Something about it just helps me focus.
I’ll also occasionally listen to movie and game soundtracks to mix things up. It’s very rare that I ever listen to anything with lyrics while working.
Im a mail carrier and I rock audiobooks all day.
Usually Trance or Drum n Bass. Rhythmic with few lyrics.
I listen to classical, WETA or WFMT or WCPE by default. Sometimes I listen to college radio to hear stuff I don’t know about. Today I listened to a concert by Tom Waits in 1977.
“Elevated Jam Tracks” from youtube, can’t have distracting vocals.
