What do you listen to as you work?

[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.

[Sperkowsky]

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

[Clem1640]

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]

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 . Personally I listen to Up and Away on repeat

[Vladi03]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

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!

[Koko Ed]

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]

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 that's been stuck in my head lately.

[Chris Hibner]

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]

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.

[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.