What do you listen to as you work?

[Mike Marandola]

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]

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

[3a11]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by weberr

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

All of this is punishment to our team... My original post is what the team much PREFERS to listen to...

[GeeTwo]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Tweedy399

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]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Chris Hibner

1) Metal (most often): Disturbed

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

[3a11]

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]

Originally Posted by Vladi03

Tyler, The Creator ... Earl Sweatshirt

Always good for getting in the groove

Tycho is good too, for focus, seriously.


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]

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...

[PikaDotus]

I get asked this question often enough that I've created a document here on Google Drive.

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)