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 🌻
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.
Software Engineer here. I listen to a lot of Explosions In The Sky to work.
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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.
Usually Trance or Drum n Bass. Rhythmic with few lyrics.
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!
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.
Chill stuff at work
Podcast during commute
(primarily) EDM at homeI used to work at Lowe’s, so it was either football announcers or their Worst Pop of 2002 mix tape. One time the music went out, and I was meeting with customers, I played some jazz from my phone and that was nice. Got fired that afternoon, but not for the jazz I don’t think. Timing was a little suspect though.
Haha that would have been crazy indeed, me on the either hand would have hired a person if they mentioned they liked jazz 😅
What if they said they liked jazz, then you hired them, then they revealed their understanding of “jazz” was messed up.
I like to cycle through game OSTs when I need to concentrate.
Final Fantasy (X and X-2 especially)
Nier and Nier Automata
Guardians Crusade
Spyro
When I’m less focused I tend to listen to my usual artists like Brand New, Coheed and Cambria, Smashing Pumpkins and The Republic Of Wolves.
Hell yeah! Spyro is such a classic too - ahh the good old days eh
Spyro aged brilliantly. I loved the Reignited Trilogy but sometimes it’s fun to break out the originals!
I work from home a lot so I can use my record player, and I’ve got all kinds of stuff ranging from Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey to Electric Wizard and Monolord. I write for a gaming website on the side and often get sent soundtracks to review, so I can spend ages on that as well. It’s mostly what I’m in the mood for, although if I need to concentrate it has to be something without lyrics or I lose focus.
Depends on my mood.
Happy: Necroticgorebeast Sad: Necroticgorebeast Tired: Necroticgorebeast Bored: Necroticgorebeast
Also, in a meeting: Necroticgorebeast
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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.
