What do you listen to as you work? [Archive]

Vladi03

30-07-2015, 17:19

I'm wondering what you guys/girls listen to as you CAD or code. So I guess I'll start.

Hip-Hop - Drake, Tyler, The Creator, Childish Gambino, Chance The Rapper, Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean

Alternative - The Front Bottoms(on all the time this past build), Modern Baseball, Best Coast, Death Cab For Cutie, Miniature Tigers, Matt & Kim

I'm interested to see what you guys listen to and want to hear some good music!

BenGuy

30-07-2015, 17:29

pro·gram·mer
ˈprōˌɡramər/
noun

a person who intakes pizza, pop, and electronic music and outputs computer programs. :D :D :D

I'm no exception :D

What music? Monstercat and Proximity are my favorite on youtube. 24/7 MonsterCat 'FM' radio: http://www.twitch.tv/monstercat

thatprogrammer

30-07-2015, 17:37

I don't like music; I listen to nothing as I work.

Vladi03

30-07-2015, 17:43

I don't like music; I listen to nothing as I work.

How is this a thing? Music is what gets me into those long CADing and coding sessions.

thatprogrammer

30-07-2015, 17:44

How is this a thing? Music is what gets me into those long CADing and coding sessions.

Yeah, I get that a lot...
I seriously just don't enjoy any music. I get through coding sessions by... coding.

evanperryg

30-07-2015, 17:51

Music in our shop is usually provided by whatever student wants to connect their phone to the amp. I've heard everything in our shop from Kanye to Flogging Molly. Always... interesting,

Vladi03

30-07-2015, 17:55

Music in our shop is usually provided by whatever student wants to connect their phone to the amp. I've heard everything in our shop from Kanye to Flogging Molly. Always... interesting,

Yeah same here, I guess it was just different for me because I was usually that student that hogged the AUX. In turn, that influenced the other members music taste, and we ended listening to the same artist the entire build.

Abhishek R

30-07-2015, 17:58

What music? Monstercat and Proximity are my favorite on youtube. 24/7 MonsterCat 'FM' radio: http://www.twitch.tv/monstercat

Basically this, and whatever else is on the radio from the top hits.

In our shop though we don't listen to music, but at home I pretty much always have my headphones on when I'm working at my computer.

Jacob Bendicksen

30-07-2015, 19:04

We've got a team Pandora account that's usually playing in the lab. Favorites include '80s Pop, Journey, Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, High School Musical (only after 9:30)...

FlamingSpork

30-07-2015, 19:33

We've got a team Pandora account that's usually playing in the lab.

My team does that as well, but in the lair of programming we listen to 60s-80s rock. (i.e, Queen, CCR, AC/DC, Jethro Tull.....)

carpedav000

30-07-2015, 19:49

I listen to almost everything, so heres a small selection of what I listen to:

Rock: Fall Out Boy, Black Veil Brides, Styx

Hip Hop/Rap: Macklemore, 'Lil Jon, Eminem

Dubstep: Prostecutioner, Winside, Spag Heddy

Akash Rastogi

30-07-2015, 19:54

Exclusively Jay Z, Kanye, Drake, J Cole, and Fetty Wap radio on Spotify or Pandora. All good rap and hip hop gets you pumped for work.

MikLast

30-07-2015, 21:01

while i like hard rock (seether, 3 days grace, Sevendust, etc.) we also just let anyone really choose a song, and it can go anywhere. (and usually results nyan cat or pirates.)

asid61

30-07-2015, 21:26

Our Electrical team likes to play polka... I don't like it.
I just put in filler noise, like rain.

cadandcookies

30-07-2015, 22:46

Back on 2220, CAD time was counted in musicals. On a long saturday, I might get through 7 Les Miserables of work. On a regular night I could get through one or two Wickeds.

The mechanical (manipulator) guys were very classic rock, the electronics guys loved their electronic music, drive train liked alt and indie rock, and media listened to either very funky indie/underground stuff or total bubblegum pop.

Vladi03

30-07-2015, 22:49

Exclusively Jay Z, Kanye, Drake, J Cole, and Fetty Wap radio on Spotify or Pandora. All good rap and hip hop gets you pumped for work.

Yes another Hip Hop lover!

Gregor

30-07-2015, 23:09

Back on 2220, CAD time was counted in musicals. On a long saturday, I might get through 7 Les Miserables of work. On a regular night I could get through one or two Wickeds.

This is fantastic.

Basel A

30-07-2015, 23:14

I tend to listen to music as a buffer from the outside world (at work, in a library at school, etc.). So, it's usually something minimally distracting: soft electronica (soma.fm is great), spanish and french pop, music I've heard thousands of times (which is pretty random stuff.. FIFA Soundtracks, Daft Punk, Train, more recently a few musical soundtracks).

Isaac Ash

30-07-2015, 23:21

Team 4536 has the one and only "Build Team Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw7amu-g1KtMHndDTlwWx4j7pK8gK-gSr)" on Youtube.

artK

30-07-2015, 23:28

I have a random collection of songs, though a lot of rock and electronic. One thing that comes in really nice when trying to focus is Infinite Jukebox (http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html), simply because the volume and timbre usually stays consistent for a long period of time. It generally is best with non-vocal music, allowing you to listen to the same song for something on the order of hours rather than minutes. My favorite track is http://labs.echonest.com/Uploader/index.html?trid=TRNYXCK14EA3F29F4B

CTbiker105

30-07-2015, 23:39

The louder and more chaotic/less coherent sounding it is, the better. Thus, death metal is the way to go for me. Deicide, Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Obituary, Morbid Angel, and Fleshgod Apocalypse, to name a few.

jajabinx124

30-07-2015, 23:39

Team 4536 has the one and only "Build Team Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw7amu-g1KtMHndDTlwWx4j7pK8gK-gSr)" on Youtube.

Nice! Artic Monkeys is pretty good.. I love listening to some of their songs.

David Brinza

30-07-2015, 23:58

I listen to the voices in my head, if not the voices of others in meetings. :p

Tweedy399

31-07-2015, 00:11

I listen to 50's music. It is very lame but it works for me. If not that than the front bottoms.

TheBoulderite

31-07-2015, 00:14

Our team forbids the playing of Europe's "The Final Countdown" on bag and tag day.

Shrub

31-07-2015, 00:48

I have the best taste and nobody else does. The end.*

That said, 3883 really likes El Sonidito, or any synthpop.

*I have the worst taste. Number one worst taste. I will willingly listen to mid-80s central american boy bands.

edit ~
I listen to 50's music. It is very lame but it works for me. If not that than the front bottoms.

50's music is the best. It's not lame at all! Front Bottoms are also awesome.

Tweedy399

31-07-2015, 01:10

50's music is the best. It's not lame at all! Front Bottoms are also awesome.

Thanks! But you just said you have the worst taste.

Koko Ed

31-07-2015, 03:28

When it's an official meeting I don't listen to anything because as a mentor we have to be available to the kids in case something comes up but if I'm working at doing something after hours (especially making pins) I listen to Garbage, Foo Fighters, Knife Party, Pendulum, Fall Out Boy and Paramore mostly.

Billfred

31-07-2015, 08:14

With 4901, it's usually whoever plugs into the boombox in the shop (with a crowd veto, and then a mentor veto if we had to).

Personally, I'm all over the map. Everything from Above & Beyond to Wu-Tang to classic jazz to Beatles to the music from Serial (http://nickdiamonds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-serial) that's been stuck in my head lately.

Chris Hibner

31-07-2015, 08:27

95% of the time, I prefer to work in silence. However, if what I'm doing is somewhat menial or I need to stay awake, I may crank something up.

While at work, what I listen to usually falls into three categories:

1) Metal (most often): Disturbed, Mastodon, Iron Maiden, and Anthrax are the usuals

2) Light and/or folky-type stuff (2nd most often): Indigo Girls and Sarah McLachlan are the usuals

3) Prog: The Mars Volta, Rush, and Yes are the usuals

Oh yeah, if I'm angry I'll throw on Richard Cheese. It's impossible not to be in a good mood after listening to Richard Cheese.

Mike Marandola

31-07-2015, 09:19

In my shop at home I listen to podcasts. Monday Morning Podcast, Radiolab, TWiT, Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project, old Diggnation, and Call Chelsea Peretti are all great. Also music wise, hip hop, death metal, and electronic.

Connor McBride

31-07-2015, 09:33

I would listen to The Reign Of Kindo. Great Alternative jazz/rock that really gets you in the zone.

3a11

31-07-2015, 10:02

We generally have a mentor hooked up playing some classic rock. Unfortunately our build site is a floor above an actual workplace so we have to keep loud music to a minimum.

For me personally its gotta be Front Bottoms though.

weberr

31-07-2015, 10:11

We put on movie on the tele: Star Trek & Johny Sakko movies this year. For next year, I have acquired all 80 episodes of the original generation of Star Trek, plus Gozilla and monster movies in black and white from Japan.

If needed, punishment is playing old country music. You know if you play country music backwards you get your dog back, your truck back, your job back, and your girl back....lol

BenGuy

31-07-2015, 12:12

GeeTwo

31-07-2015, 12:34

Personally, silence is usually OK, though I occasionally get earworms. If I'm selecting the music, it's usually classic rock (broad range, 50s-90s plus some more recent), occasionally country, classical or show tunes.

At the team builds, we discourage headphones (it is a team event, after all). We usually have at least one boom box going (sometimes a second one outside) with someone's MP3 or Pandora plugged in. We get a bit of a lot of stuff - classic rock, modern, techno, alternative, alternative alternative (mostly from Jesse, Isaac, and a few of the students), and a bit of jazz. One of the students brought in his "fifties mix" a couple of sessions ago. There were some fifties tunes there, but most were older. It was a mix of rock & roll, western (from before it merged into country), big band swing, jazz, and more. At one of our "programmers sessions" late last build season, the students took turns picking songs. It eventually turned into a game of "find a song that five of the six of us like, but the sixth does not"; that one was all over the map.

CaptainKirby

31-07-2015, 12:48

Our cad computers are in the same room as our machine shop, so we end up listening to the beautiful sound of milling aluminum.

Shrub

31-07-2015, 14:03

Thanks! But you just said you have the worst taste.

Oh. I didn't mean to insult your music taste! It's just the good that I listen to doesn't outweigh the bad. At all.

The other Gabe

31-07-2015, 15:17

my team's shop has a sound system with a radio and an aux cord, so we've heard just about everything (a lot of classic and modern rock, though)

I will personally listen to just about anything, depending on mood, what I'm doing, etc. Favorites include The Red Hot Chili Peppers, B-52's, Benny Goodman, R.E.M, Franz Ferdinand, Earth Wind & Fire, The Clash, Dvorak, Mozart, and a CD of native Andean Music that I have

Whippet

31-07-2015, 16:05

We have the speaker jack open while building, so anything goes as long as it isn't inappropriate for school. We usually end up listening to Daft Punk or some of the cleaner Fall Out Boy songs. We occasionally have someone play the Portal 2 soundtrack or some smooth jazz. We do, of course, have an informal majority veto or mentor veto to prevent the ever-present "Spooky Scary Skeletons" remix and excessive Rick Astley usage.

MikLast

31-07-2015, 16:07

1) Metal (most often): Disturbed

Disturbed isint really metal, more borderline hard rock. Still a really good band though

3a11

31-07-2015, 16:24

Forgot to mention that we also have this monstrosity at the site. Unfortunately it doesn't get much use anymore.

https://imgur.com/7RX14jc

Sean Raia

31-07-2015, 17:29

Tyler, The Creator ... Earl Sweatshirt

Always good for getting in the groove

Tycho is good too, for focus, seriously. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6ih1aKeETk)

Other than that it's Zeppelin, The Beatles, Modest Mouse, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Blink-182, all the goodies.
I was never a big techno guy, but many of the students on my team at the time were.

Rachel Lim

31-07-2015, 18:16

At the lab, usually someone else chooses the music, and I almost never recognize what it is.

At home, I generally don't play music if I actually need to concentrate. When I do play something, I generally don't really care what it is, and most of the type it's just anything repetitive. (I used to leave flash games running for their music.)

I have created a playlist with music from robot reveal videos, which at one point I played through a lot. My sister got very annoyed of hearing Roy G Biv (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyLxYwkazM)...

PikaDotus

31-07-2015, 18:41

I get asked this question often enough that I've created a document here on Google Drive (https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Z87TC0_E9_fxRvbTs1JLTG3RTLaQFKYYzQ1q2x3qS4/edit?usp=sharing).

Quick summary:

http://somafm.com/
Nujabes (nontraditional hiphop)
Video game / movie soundtracks
"Trip hop" eg. Massive Attack, Portishead, Zero 7, etc
Occasionally extremely explicit rap / hiphop for fun (not great for focus)

rebelreyek

31-07-2015, 19:32

In the lab, our team usually listens to our build playlist on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/user/rebelreyek/playlist/4MljCByiRlT70nXScQRs0R

That is, we listen until our mentors get sick of it, and plug in their own music, which is usually classical. (which can be a welcome change after 4 weeks of the Spotify monstrosity)

EricH

31-07-2015, 20:20

At work... I've got a bit of an eclectic mix. I'll just leave it at that. (Also used in the car on occasion.) Background noise comes from all the air tools!

In the robot shop, it's whoever plugs into the sound system. Unless the mentors start making comments about it not being music...

carpedav000

31-07-2015, 20:49

We dont have speakers, so our sound system usually involves placing a phone in the FTC sizing cube (works great btw)

The other Gabe

31-07-2015, 22:24

something I thought I should add: if you need to be focused, video game music (like Halo- something with a campaign mode) can help you do so

phantomace

31-07-2015, 23:23

techhelpbb

01-08-2015, 00:14

Just a few in my daily playlist (please note - I have no idea if there's anything unacceptable for various audiences in these selections please vet them).

Nightwish "Imaginaerum"
Birthday Massacre "Pins and Needles" + "Walking With Strangers"
Sound track to: "Sucker Punch"
Lindsey Stirling "Shatter Me"
A bunch of tracks from VNV Nation
Blind Guardian "Wheel of Time"
Imagine Dragons "Night Visions"
A bunch of tracks from Apoptygma Berzerk
...

I used to listen to: Mozart, Nine Inch Nails and then Sesame St. "C is for Cookie". That mix definitely got some looks at the transitions. ;)

Vladi03

01-08-2015, 03:12

Bruh we must be related cause you listen to all the same rap artist as myself. But the difference is when I go to play my music my team say "Turn that craps off," considering everyone was raised on different music. But it's all good. I still play it anyways so I make them deal with it 😂. Keep it trill b.

Yup! Good to know man. We hip-hop lovers got to stick together, I have a feeling we are a minority in the robotics community! So yes, keep it trill b.

theSTEMphenom

01-08-2015, 17:55

I usually listen to Spotify Rock and Simon Garfunkle radio although I often listen to Techno to get started

Short Stuff

01-08-2015, 20:49

I would bring my portable speaker and hook my mp3 up and I have 1200 songs consisting of everything from Hank Williams Sr. To Brad Paisley, Blake Shelton, Rascal Flatts to Fall Out Boy. I have music from every decade since the 1940s

Sperkowsky

01-08-2015, 21:46

Our Team listened to Monstercat Album Mixes through the whole season albums 1 through 21.

Kingland093

01-08-2015, 21:49

Build team listens to whatever is on the phone of a student who plugs it into the speaker. The business team has their own Pandora thing.

Drive team also listens to music during driving practice and we enjoy classical music as well as video game soundtracks. Strangely, no one else on the team enjoys this very much and I can't figure out why...

The other Gabe

02-08-2015, 01:35

artK

02-08-2015, 01:46

dude, Roy G. Biv was like, the best song on any of the reveal videos. how did they even find something that was that perfect to their theme?

I don't know, 1986 and 118 also generally have good tunes in their videos.

Clem1640

02-08-2015, 11:26

Alas, nothing.

I love music, but I love it too much. Rock, Jazz, Classical, Folk & World Music are my key weaknesses. But when I listen to music, I really listen. I don't need background noise. When I work, I need to think, and the two don't mix well.

If I did mindless work, I could pull this off. But I really avoid mindless work.

MaestroRoboto

02-08-2015, 12:25

Depending on the day, when I program I listen to Daft Punk, Adhesive Wombat, Swedish House Mafia, Glitch Mob, Justice, Coldplay, and Hans Zimmer.

During drive practices before IRI the drivers listened to a playlist of reveal video songs and eventually listened to the Holiday remix 179 used this year on repeat :D. Personally I listen to Up and Away on repeat :D

The other Gabe

02-08-2015, 21:14

I don't know, 1986 and 118 also generally have good tunes in their videos.

agreed, I just love how Roy G. Biv worked so well with the theme... for whatever reason, the one that 1986 used this year really bugged me. No logical reason for it, just hate that song. 624 has good reveal music as well